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WASHINGTON (UPI) - President
Reagan haS suspended anti-leak orders
that would have subjected government
employees who see classified infor-
mation to lie detector tests and lifetime
censorship, a White House spokesman
said yesterday.
The unpopular secrecy provisions,
designed to stop leaks of classified in-
formation, are part of a national
security directive issued by Reagan
last March 11 but 'postponed by
Congress from taking effect until this
April 15.
"THE PRESIDENT has not with-
drawn or canceled the order," deputy
press secretary Larry Speakes told
reporters. "However, we're working
with Congress to develop .a bipartisan
solution."
"While the conversations are taking
place," Speakes said, "the president
has agreed not to implement" the por-
tions of the order that would have sub-
jected 128,000 government workers to
possible lie detector tests and a life-long
requirement that they submit any
writings or speech for prepublication
review.
"The president is convinced that
there are insufficient safeguards and
national security is jeopardized,"
Speaks said about Reagan's reasons for
ordering the tight controls.
Sen. Charles Mathias, (R-Md.), who
sponsored legislation blocking the pre-
publication provisions, had scheduled
hearings Feb. 23 before a Judiciary
subcommittee on Reagan's censorshin
order. But it is now unclear whether the
hearing will take place.
An aide said Mathias hopes the ad-
ministration will "lay (the entire
proposal) to rest, give it a decent
burial."
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Ethel Merman, famous for her loud, brassy musical style, starred in many
Broadway productions including 'Something for the Boys' in 1943. She died
yesterday at 75.
Musical star Ethel
Merman dies at 75
Va. draft dodgers may be
barred from state schools
NEW YORI (AP) - Ethel Merman,
who parlayed her brassy, booming
voice into half a century of Broadway
stardom, belting out such classics as
"There's No Business Like Show
Business" and "I Got Rhythm," was
found dead at her home yesterday. She
was 75.
Merman died of natural causes in her
home at 2 East 76th St., according to
Dr. Elliot Gross, the city's medical
examiner.
Harvey Sabinson, a spokesman for
the League of New York Theaters, said
the marquees of all 36 Broadway
theaters would be darkened forone
minute at 8 p.m. yesterday - show
time = in honor of the star.
Gross said Merman's body would'be
cremated by the Frank Campbell
Funeral Home. A spokeswoman for
Caripbell said no information would be
released about the singer's death or
possible memorial services because
her son, Robert Levitt Jr., "wants
strictly private."
Merman had undergone brai
surgery April 15 at Roosevelt Hospita
an institution she had regularly visite
once a week to cheer up the bedridden.
Merman first took command of th
musical stage in 1930. As a 21-year-ol
neophyte in the Gershwin brothers' Gi
Crazy whose star was Ginger Roger
Merman had one song and made th
most of it - the show-stopping "I Gi
Rhythm."
Whatever the song, Merma
delivered ever ynote bell clear to ever
corner of any theater, unamplified an
with apparent effortlessness.
"I never took a singing, dancingo
acting lesson in my life," she once sai
"George Gershwin told me, 'Don't eve
take a music lesson, Ethel.' All I hav
done since is belt out the songs."
Her favorite role was Mama Rose i
Gypsy a character as unsympathetic a
musical comedy allows a star to play.
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rl "This is not only an act of irrespon-
s, sibility," Cohen said, "but a breach of
7e your oath to protect the Constitution to
ot pass this bill."
Delegate Kenneth Plum of Fairfax
n said that "even this non-lawyer can
y figure out that this bill would not stand
d a due process test."
The U.S. Supreme Court has a Min-
) nesota case before it that challenges the
federal law denying financial aid to
r men who fail to register.
e Opponents also argued that it was not
the state's job to try to enforce federal
n laws and suggested it would be more ef-
s fective to deny driver's licenses to those
who fail to register. But supporters in-
sisted the bill was asking little.
"I don't think this bill has anything to
do with patriotism unless you think
patriotism has to do with obeying the
law," said Delegate Clint Miller of
Shenandoah.
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lab on Feb. 2, contends that his work can
be directly used to locate Soviet sub-
marines.
In a report on his projects, she said
"the Navy.'s capability to monitor
Soviet submarines has been steadily in-
creasing. ". . . Professor Birdsall's
research will allow the Navy to con-
tinue, and probably increase its advan-
tage."
THE REPORT said that "one of the
objectives (of Birdsall's projects) is to
develop a theory of signal processing
that can more accurately 'detect,
localize, and classify' a specific signal
source."
"He's been doing tiis work since 1960.
These projects aren't really all that dif-
ferent," Freedman said. "He's trying
to figure out how to detect certain
things underwater," such as a sub-
marine.
Birdsall said getting approval for the
projects is crucial for his research, as
funds for his current projects runs out
Wsoon.
"Everthing depends on this. I am
primarily a researcher. I only teach a
third of the time," Birdsall said.
He said he has committed his life to
this research and he "won't just quit,"
if the Research Policies Committee
rejects the projects.
Although Birdsall, as a tenured
faculty member, would not have to,
leave the University if he lost his
research funding, he mentioned that he
has had offers from several other
universities, including the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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