4 IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Senate rejects bill extending I federal unemployment benefits WASHINGTON-The Senate yesterday rejected 58-34 legislation that would have extended federal jobless benefits for six months as it prepared to consider a bill to phase out the program for 339,000 unemployed Americans. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-Kan.) said he was "fairly cer- tain" President Reagan would sign the $160 million phase-out bill as long as it contained no amendments to extend the program. The phase-out bill approved in the House on Tuesday, was to go im- mediately to the White House for Reagan's signature pending Senate ap- proval. The defeated legislation was in the form of an amendment proposed by Sen. Arlen Specter, (R-Pa). He said the bill was necessary to "protect unemployed workers throughout the country who through no fault of their own cannot find jobs." But Senate Finance Committee Chairman Robert Packwood, (R-Ore.), urged defeat of the amendment, saying it would only "ensure that the president would veto the phase-out plan." Before taking up the phase-out bill, the Senate was to consider another amendment that would make it easier for states with high unemployment to offer jobless benefits for longer than 26 weeks. Disputes prompt Japanese envoy TOKYO-Alarmed by moves on Capitol Hill to enact protectionist legislation, Japan said yesterday it will send a special envoy to Washington in a bid to defuse a mounting trade dispute with the United States. A Foreign Ministry official said Reishi Teshima, deputy foreign minister for economic affairs, will leave today for Washington "to expalin the Japanese position" to U.S. officials "in view of recent moves in the Congress." Masayuki Rujio," chairman of the policy board of the ruling 'Liberal- Democratic Party, also said Japanese officials. would likely invite U.S. senators and congressmen to Tokyo in mid-April to discuss trade issues. Japan has recently taken new steps to liberalize some of its markets and promote the sale of foreign goods. But the Reagan administration insists that Japan has not gone far enough to open up to American goods its markets in telecommunications, elec- tronics, forestry products, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals. Khartoum doctor strike prompts SSR BEI LSA student Call764-0558 govt protests dean 's rehiring Sudan communications cut CAIRO, Egypt-Police broke up an anti-government protest led by doctors yesterday in Khartoum, Sudan, and foreign diplomats said a general strike had begun. Public communications with Sudan were cut, and reports from the scene were not available. Sudan's official news agency said riot police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrating doctors, lawyers and other professionals. Diplomats in London, quoting diplomatic cables, said as many as 4,000 people were involved and police fired "some shots into the air." They also reported the general strike. Doctors have led agitation against President Gaafar Nimeiri's gover- nment since, last Thursday, the third day of rioting that followed demon- strations against large price, increases for essential commodities. The government says five people died in the rioting, including a 1-year-old girl. Israelis release Shifte prisoners ANSAR, Lebanon-The Israeli army released more than 750 prisoners in southern Lebanon yesterday, and many of the released men chanted "Khomeini, Khomeini" andshouted defiance of the Israeli occupiers. With its withdrawal from Lebanon only weeks away, the Israelis closed the Ansar prison camp, freed the prisoners and sent a fleet of trucks to dismantle other military positions. The prisoners-many of them Shiite Moslems who espouse the teachings of Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini-chanted "God is great. War until victory. Khomeini, Khomeini" as they sat in Israeli army trucks that took them from Ansar to the Lebanese villages where they were released. On Tuesday, the Israelis took 1,100 other Ansar prisoners to a new deten- tion center in Israel. The release of about a third of the prisoners was designed to ease tensions with southern Lebanon's increasingly hostile Shiite Moslems. Kirkpatrick switches to GOP WASHINGTON-Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, saying she is "tired of swimming against the current of my own party," changed her voter registration yesterday from Democrat to Republican. Hours after her new voter registration card was delivered to Kirkpatrick election# officials in suburban Montgomery County, Md., told a news conference that she still admires her Democratic heroes of the past. "If Harry Truman were running for president today, I would vote for him," she said, adding that her first vote was cast for Truman in 1948. She said her next vote was for Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. 4 : FAMOUS LAST WORDS FROM FRIENDS TO FRIENDS. "Are you OK to drive?" What afew beers?" "Did you have too much to drink?" "I'm perfectly fine." "Are you in any shape to drive?" "I've never felt better" "I think you've had afew too many." "You kiddin, I can drive with my eyes closed." "You've had too much to drink, (Continued from Page 1) students make time. That's assinine." MSA Vice President Steve Kaplan agreed. "I happen to think students are capable of setting aside priorities," he said. He added that Steiner's experien- ced argument is not a valid excuse for keeping students off the committee. "I DON'T think (Steiner's) giving students enough credit. (They) pick up skills to be good students at the Univer- sity, I don't see why they can't be good committee members.' Student participation solely on the departmental level isn't enough, Page said. "I think practice shows," he said, "that you lose something as soon as you have to start working through the bureaucracy and students don't have a direct line." A defense against cancer can be cooked up in your kitchen. Call us. AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY PUT US TO THE TEST! Current executive committee mem-. bers may be out of touch with college students and their needs, said Rajeev Samantrai, former LSA-SG president. "Just because you were a student 20 years ago doesn't mean you understand students today," he said. "Students are involved firsthand - students give a more current perspec- tive," Brown agreed. "(students) offer another opinion from a concerned point of view." Student input is important because they know what the college is not giving to students, Page said. "Students have a better idea how the college is meeting their individual needs than the faculty member does." Kaplan said he hopes that Steiner's opposition to having students on the committee will no kill the issue. "I still think it's important that he know that students are concerned about not having students on the LSA Executive Committee." Democrats prop ose :registration (Continued from Page 1) spokesman, however, said there are nearly 5.9 million registered voters listed on four-year "active files," out of a voting age population of 6.5 million people. The elections specialist, Brad Wit- tman, however, said it is believed those figures may be "somewhat inflated" because of people relocating. But he said it is thought that the true figure is still well over 80 percent. 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