IN BRIEF Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 10, 19b4 U.S. plans more Salvadoran aid WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration is planning to seek an additional $140 million in military assistance for El Salvador this year, the largest single weapons aid request yet for the beleaguered Salvadoran army, officials said yester- day. If approved by Congress, the new proposal would push total U.S. military aid totthe Salvadoran army to more than $200 million for 1984. By comparison, the United Staes provided $81.3 million in military aid last year. ADMINISTRATION officials, who spoke on the con- dition they not be identified, said the new aid package would include El Salvador's first large troop- carrying helicopters, to improve the army's mobility. Last week, leftist Salvadoran guerrillastdestroyed a -key bridge, limiting the army's ability to reach the eastern third of the country. "If you agree that they need more mobility, they can use itanow, not two years from now" said one - senior official, explaihing the proposed large jump in military aid. Meanwhile President Reagan plans to ignore a reported recommendation by the Kissinger Com- mission on Central America linking future military aid for El Salvador to improved human rights per- formance in that country, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said. UNTIL LAST summer, Congress had insisted that the administration certify improved human rights performance at six month intervals as a condition for continued military assistance. But last November, Reagan vetoed a congressional amendment to extend that requirement. When aid was tied to the certification, Speakes said, "We thought it didn't serve any purpose because each time one of these reports came due the right and the left rose up and tried to influence the report by intimidation." In a December visit to El Salvador, Vice President George Bush told Salvadoran leaders that the ad- ministration was prepared to seek a substantial in- crease in aid if army officers linked to rightist death squads were expelled from the country. Bush set Tuesday as a deadline for action. LAST WEEK, administration officials said they were pleased that three of the officers cited by Bush have been transferred to posts in other countries. Congress is considered likely to trim the new request amid growing concern that the Salvadoran army, plagued by poor morale and increasingly on the defensive, is less in need of equipment than better leadership. The proposed $140 million military aid increase must still receive formal approval from Reagan before it is sent to Congress, probably next month, the officials said. Congress has already approved $64.8 million in military aid for El Salvador this year, with 30 percent - or about $20 million - withheld pending a verdict in the case against five Salvadoran national guardsmen accused of slaying four American churchwomen in December 1980. The largest previous request for military aid to El Salvador was for $110 million a year ago. Congress approved half of that. U.S. issues revised 'Baby Doe' regulations WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration revised its "Baby Doe" regulations yesterday to give special hospital review committees primary responsibility for assuring medical at- tention for handicapped infants, and make the government "protector of last resort." Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler and Surgeon General Everett Koop, a pediatric surgeon for more than 30 years, announced the new version of the much-debated rules, which will go into effect 30 days after they are published. THE REVISED regulations are in- tended to strike a balance between the views of the medical community op- posing federal intervention and those of some advocates of the disabled and an- ti-abortion groups which support an ac- tivist federal role. "We have traveled a long and con- troversial road in order to translate this administration's commitment to serve as a protector of last resort for those children into public policy," Heckler told reporters. "We hope that the issuance of these new rules will foster a new process of cooperative efforts and sensible ap- proaches to advance the principle that life-and-death medical treatment decisions for infants be based on infor- med judgment of medical benefits and risks, and not on stereotypes and prejudices against handicapped per- sons," she said. THE NEW RULES accept a proposal advanced by the medical community under which hospitals voluntarily would establish infant care review committees to tackle tough decisions about the kind of treatment to be given handicapped newborn babies. The regulations suggest that the committees include medical personnel, an attorney, a member of the com- EVEN STRAIGHT A'S CAN'T HELP IF YOU FLUNK TUITION. munity and a representative of a disability group. The earlier version of the regulations, which three medical groups suc- cessfully challenged in court, called for posting placards prominently in hospitals with a warning against discriminatory denial of food or medical attention to handicapped in- fants. The placards also would carry a toll- free hotline number where anyone could report suspected cases. Koop said the hotline will remain in operation. But the government now wants hospitals to post notices 5 inches by 7 inches in places where hospital staffs congregate. These notices will carry the phone numbers of the infant care review committee in the hospital, state child protection officials and the government's hotline number. Koop said that wherever federal of- ficials feel the need to inquire about the treatment being given a handicapped infant, they will make requests for in- formation first through the hospital's infant care review committee. Koop said he expects most hospitals to establish such committees. Complied from Associated Press and United Press International reports Jordan's parliament approves amendments on elections AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's parliament yesterday approved constitution- al amendments permitting election of representatives for the occupied West Bank in a move that could lead to a breakthrough in Middle East peace negotiations. Meeting for the first time in nearly a decade, the lower house and senate voted unanimously to amend the constitution to allow elections of a new parliament with West Bank representation. The move could presage an attempt by King Hussein to represent the West Bank's.1 million Palestinians in a new peace initiative, with or without the. badly divided Palestine Liberation Organization, Western diplomats said. Under the amendments, elections would be held for 30 representatives from the East Bank, Jordan proper. They would elect 15 representatives from the West Bank, who in turn would elect another 15 from the occupied territory. Previously, Jordanian law required electioned in the East and West Banks to be held simultaneously out with the West Bank under Israeli control all elections in Jordan were barred. Court lets Detroit quotas stand WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court spurned a Reagan administration request yesterday- and refused to review racial quotas used to promote police officers in Detroit - a system white officers say is "reverse discrimination." The administration had urged the court to use Detroit's program for promoting police lieutenants as a vehicle for reviewing public employers' use of racial quotas. Giving absolute preferences in hiring or promotion to people who have not actually suffered bias is unconstitutional, the ad- ministration argued. The justices' response was to let stand, without comment, a ruling allowing the city to use the quota system. Detroit's affirmative action program, adopted in 1974, calls for promoting an equal number of black and white police lieutenants to ma e up for historic exclusion of blacks. Five white police lieutenants passed over for promotion. Navy wins antenna fac'iity land LANSING - Opponents of Project Elf yesterday said the U.S. Navy last month won a court-approved condemnation of state land for the antenna facility - a move that apparently squelches some attempts to stop the development. A Navy official later confirmed that the military had won U.S. District Court approval of the condemnation of state-owned land in the Upper Penin- sula, but said the action was a "fairly simple" move merely to protect the Navy's title. Commander Mark Baker, who called the action "a friendly condem- nation," said it does not affect private property. Stop Project ELF spokesman David Merritt accused the Navy of using "Gestapo-like tactics" regarding the 892 acres of land. Merritt said the Navy action would, if it remains unchallenged, thwart at least one suit against the state as well as pending anti-ELF legislation. Five Central American nations finalize modified pact for peace PANAMA CITY, Panama - Five Central American foreign ministers have agreed to a peace plan that seeks to end violence in the volatile region through free elections and reductions of arms and foreign military advisers. The agreement reached Sunday is a modification of a proposal submitted two weeks ago by the Contadora nations of Venezuela, Panama, Mexico and Colombia. It capped a year of mediation efforts by those countries, who first met in January 1983 on Contadora island off the Panamanian coast. The pact calls for an inventory of arms, bases and soldiers in each of the five Central American countries - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala - and the subsequent control and reduction of these to bring "a reasonable balance of power in the region." The military advisers issue requires a census in each country and adoption of a calendar for reduction "with a view towards elimination" of the ad- visers. Dropped from the Contadora proposal was, among other things, a call for a moratorium on new arms acquisitions after Feb 29. Commissions are to be set up by the end of January to prepare studies and recommendations. Rebels bomb Nicaraguan port U.S.-backed rebels claimed yesterday that their forces mined Nicaragua's main Pacific port and the Nicaraguan government radio charged that guerrillas planes and speedboats bombarded another Nicaraguan port for the fifth straight day. The government's Voz de Nicaragua charged warplanes "left the base of Amapala and El Tigre" in Honduras and rocketed the port of Potosi twice Sunday afternoon, causing damage but no injuries. The attack started with reconnaissance flights by two planes that fired flares. Later, an unidentified plane accompanied tgwo "Pirana" speedboats that fired on the port and the customs building, the Voz de Nicaragua said. Rebels of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the FDN, have taken respon- sibility for the daily attacks on Potosi and other small ports nearby since Wednesday. the +. fi higttn ttil 11 r A n ' .a d K Ti - '' -: . , f ~ -:. - TODAY, THE TOUGHEST THING ABOUT GOING TO COLLEGE IS FINDING THE MONEY TO PAY FOR IT. 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