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State groups challenge
death penalty petition
LANSING (UPI)- Foes of the death
penalty said yesterday they have found
enough faulty signatures on capital
punishment petitions to keep the issue
off the fall ballot.
The Michigan Committee Against
Capital Punishment and the Michigan
Coalition Against the Death Penalty
said they plan to file formal challenges
with the secretary of state's office
today.
MEANWHILE, attorneys represen-
ting Zolton Ferency were filing an ap-
peal with the Michigan Court of Ap-
peals yesterday seeking to overturn a
Wayne County Circuit Court decision
which favored the death penalty
proposal.
"Based upon sampling of petition
signatures and the number of
signatures actually filed, it's very clear
to us that there were an insufficient
number' of valid signatures filed" to
place the issue on the fall ballot, said
Eugene Wanger, an attorney for the an-
ti-death penalty groups and author of
the current constitutional ban on
capital punishment.
Oakland County Prosecutor L.
Brooks Patterson spearheaded a
petition drive to place on the fall ballot
a constitutional amendment imposing
the death penalty for the first time in
more than,100 years in cases involving
premeditated murder and killings
which occur during robberies and other
felonies.
PATTERSON, an unsuccessful can-
didate for the Republican gubernatorial
nomination, said about 309,000
signatures were collected, with 286,000
valid ones required.
State elections officials also have
been checking petition signatures but
have not yet completed their in-
vestigation.
Wanger said his organizations
checked the same random sample of
400 signatures being used bythe state.
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United Press International reports
House-Senate conunittee breaks
deadlock on tax bill
WASHINGTON - Negotiators from the Senate and House broke a deadlock
over welfare cuts last night and cleared the way for final action on a $98.9-
billion package of tax and revenue increases.
Members of a Senate-House conference committee that is writing the tax
bill agreed to a package of cuts n medical care for the elderly and poor and in
aid to the needy that would save the government about $15.2 billin over the
next three years.
The panel then began considering unresolved tax issues, which Sen. Bob
Dole (R-Kan.), the chairman, said totaled more than 100.
An effort by the House members of the committee to restore some of the
welfare money that was cut last year had tied up the conference for two
days. The Senate refused to accept the changes on grounds such spending
increases had no place ina spending-cut bill.
In the end, the House backed down, and the package of spending cuts was
approved without dissent.
Poland braces for more unrest
WARSAW, Poland- The martial law regime braced yesterday for a new
wave of unrest, announcing raids on two underground Solidarity offices and
threatening an "unequivocal, tough and determined" response to "enemies
of socialism."
A Polish newspaper indicated that unrest has already begun. About 1,000
people demonstrated in the Baltic port of Szczecin Tuesday after the funeral
of the son and daughter-in-law of the city's Solidarity leader, Marian Jur-
czyk, according to the local communist party daily, Glos Szczecinski.
More demonstrations are likely because today marks the ninth month sin-
ce martial law was declared last Dec. 13. Major protests and riots against
martial law have occurred on May 13 and June 13.
Senate debates inmiigration bill
WASHINGTON- The Senate, taking up the first comprehensive overhaul
of the nation's immigration law in 30 years, began debate yesterday on a bill
that would establish jail penalties for people who persist in hiring illegal
aliens.
Sponsors said the measure would reduce the incentive for illegal im-
migrants to seek jobs here.
The bill would set a ceiling of 425,000 new legal immigrants each year. In
1980, the United States admitted more than 800,000 immigrants, including
the extraordinary admission of 135,000 Cuban and Haitian refugee "boat
people."
The proposed legal ceiling would not include such refugees admitted under
special circumstances.
U.S. accuses-Russia of blocking
global ban on chemical weapons
GENEVA, Switzerland- The United States accused the Soviet Union
yesterday of blocking a global ban on chemical weapons and the "heinous"
use of such arms in Afghanistan.
U.S. chief delegate Louis Fields told the 40-nation disarmament conferen-
ce that Moscow is holding up a treaty by resisting on-site inspections to
prevent cheating.
Fields said the negotiations are taking place "under the long and dark
shadow of the use of chemical weapons in current conflicts."
"I wish I could today report that this heinous practice had ceased but un-
fortunately this is not the case," he said.
"The use of prohibited toxin weapons and lethal chemical agents in
Southeast Asia and chemical warfare in Afghanistan continues."
Fields cited the Soviet Union, Laos and Vietnam as engaging in chemical
warfare.
Early humans may have been
cannibals, skull evidence shows
ATLANTA- A new examination of a human skull several hundred
thousand years old shows it belonged to someone whose head was beaten, cut
and possibly scalped, an anthropologist said yesterday.
The cut makrs all over the skull of the so-called Bodo Man could mean that
humans of that period were cannibals, but such speculation is difficult to
prove, several researchers said.
"It's very clear that this individual was intentionally defleshed," said Tim
White, one of the anthropologists who discovered the cuts. "It wasn't just
scalped-much of its face was removed. This hadn't been seen in such an
early hominid (human-like creature) before."
The finding of cuts and several indentations suggesting beating or club-
bing was discussed Wednesday night by Donald Johanson, an anthropologist
from the University of California at Berkeley, in a lecture before a meeting
of the International Primatological Society here.
In a telephone interview, White, also from the University of California at
Berkeley, speculated about the meaning of the cuts.
"If you use modern groups (of primitive people) as an analogy, people of-
ten take skulls as trophies," White said.
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