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Reagan signs access
bill for religious groups
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Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -
President Reagan yesterday signed the
so-called "equal access bill" which will
allow student religious groups to meet
in public high schools during non-school
hours.
At the same time, Reagan accused
the House Democratic leaders of failing
the test of "new realism" set for the
Democrts by Walter Mondale, the par-
ty's car-.lidate for president.
REAGAN SAID in his weekly radio
address that the Democrats had ap-
proved only the equal access bill out of
six pieces of legislation he thought were
vital for the future of America.
The House, Reagan said, failed to act
on legislation to mandate a balanced
federal budget, create economic enter-
prise zones in depressed areas, allow
spouses to have investment retirement
accounts, authorize tuition tax credits
and undertake a comprehensive anti-
crime program.
By passing only one of the six pieces
of legislation, the House should receive
"a failing grade, a red-letter F" he
said.
"When the Democratic leadership
keeps saying 'No to America,' they
showed how far they are from 'new
realism' and how far they have drifted
from mainstream thinking," Reagan
said.
Mondale had declared at the
Democratic convention that the party
would get behind a program of 'new
realism,' but Reagan said Mondale
should have asked House Speaker
O'Neill (D-Mass.) to "give democracy
a chance."
Reagan said the equal access
legislation will give student religious
groups the same rights to hold meetings
in public high schools that other student
groups have. This was a "right they
have too long been denied," he said.
But critics contend the legislation
would compromise a constitutional
separation of church and state, and also
could open the schools to use by fringe
groups which claim a religious orien-
tation.
Legislature may launch
Midland investigation
Polish ship strikes mine
in southern Red Sea
A Polish cargo ship struck a mine
near the southern end of the Red Sea
yesterday and the explosion stopped
the ship dead in the water, the of-
ficial Polish news agency PAP
reported. It said the strong blast ex-
tensively damaged engine room
pipes, but caused no injuries.
The Jozef Wybicki hit a mine-
about 1 a.m. EDT, shortly after
passing from the gulf into the Red
Sea on its way to the Saudi Arabian
port of Jeddah, the official Polish
news agency PAP said.
Fuel tank explodes in
Fla.
MARATHON, Fla. - A fuel tank
exploded at a dock on this island in
the Florida Keys yesterday, setting
fire to nearby houses, cars, and a
boat and injuring four people, of-
ficials said.
The fire at the Pinellas Oil Dock.
was reported at 1:40 p.m., said Raye
Liu, a dispatcher at the Monroe
County Sheriff's Office. She said it'
was not immediately known how the
fire started.
Witnesses said the blaze occured
as a truck was pumping fuel into the
docks' tanks.
Mass. town to-continue
curfew
LAWRENCE, Mass. - An overnight
curfew brought peace yesterday to a
neighborhood shattered by two
nights of violent skirmishes between
Hispanics and whites, and officials
of this old mill city voted to continue
the curfew another night.
About 70 police officers patrolled
the four-block-area when Friday
night's curfew began at 8 p.m., and
community leaders drove around
with loudspeakers, urging residents
to remain indoors.
By the curfew's end at 6 a.m.
yesterday, "very, very few officers"
were still on the scene, said Alder-
man Raymond Johnson, city direc-
tor of public safety.
Twenty-eight people were
arrested overnight for violating the
curfew and related charges, and one
man was taken into protective
custody, but police said there were
no major disturbances.
Khadafy regime
executes four
LONDON' - Col. Moammar
Khadafy's regime has executed four
men expelled from Britain after a
policewoman was killed by gunfire
from the Libyan Embassy, setting
off a siege of the mission and prom-
pting London to break diplomatic
relations with Tripoli, a newspaper
reported yesterday.
The Daily Express, citing an in-
telligence report, said the four men
were executed in Tripoli following a
secret trial "for crimes against the
state."
Poland releases 7th
Solidarity official
WARSAW, Poland - Jan
Rulewski, the last of seven senior of-
ficials of Solidarity held by
authorities since the December 1981
military crackdown, said yesterday
he had been freed from prison under
the government's general amnesty.
"I simply left a prison with bars,
and right now I'm staying in a.prison
without bars," said Rulewski.
He complained during a telephone
interview with The Associated Press
that he has been under close police
surveillance since his release
Friday from Warsaw's main
Rakowiacka Prison.
Rulewski spoke from his home in
the northern city of Bydgoszcz. He
formerly was chairman of the now
outlawed trade union movement's
Bydgoszcz chapter.
Beirut officials consider
more troop deployments
BEIRUT, Lebanon - President
Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister
Rashid Karami yesterday discussed
deploying government troops in the
tense Shouf mountains, where
Christian and Moslem militiamen
fought briefly in the latest of a week
of clashes.
"The decision for salvation is
marching forward and there is no
turning back," Karami said after
the weekly private meeting between
the two Lebanese leaders.
Divisions among militia leaders in
the Cabinet have stalled the
deployment in the mountains.
LANSING (UPI) - House Speaker
Gary Owen says it's time for a
legislative investigation into Con-
sumers Power Co. and many of its ac-
tivities, including the cancelation of its
Midland nuclear plant.
Owen said Friday he planned to in-
troduce a measure when the
Legislature reconvenes next month
calling for an investigative committee
to look into the scrapping of the project
last month.
THE YPSILANTI Township
Democrat said he wanted to assure that
the "Public is protected" in the future,.
He said the probe would be part of a
larger investigation into the role and
structure of the State Public Service
Commission and Michigan utility laws.
Rep Alma. Stallwort (D-Detroit)
would head the panel, he said.
"WE WANT to look at the entire Con-
sumers Power operation: the Algerian
gas purchase, the operation of the
board, Marysville and Midland," Owen
said. "We want to determine the level
of competence that went into those
decisions." -
'If Midland taught us anything, it's
that the overseer responsibility of the
state did not function in that case."
Owen denied the committee was
launching a "witch hunt" against Con-
sumers.
"Anytime you're talking about in-
creasing rates.I by 60 to 70 percent;
anytime:-yop're talking about the PSC
chief of staff calling for resignations,
and anytiie,you're talking about a
major utility talking about bankruptcy,
there is a legislative responsibility to
look into this," he said.
The Midland plant - about 85 percent
complete - was shut down last month
after the Jackson-based utility failed to
reach a rate-increase agreement to
finance the $5.63 billion project.
The utility has asked the PSC to ap-
prove an annual $472 million rate hike
over 15 years to recover its investment
in the project.
After the plant was scrapped, PSC
chief of staff Roger Fisher called for
the resignation of Consumers Chair-
man John Selby.
Another subject of the probe would be
the mothballing in 1979 of Consumers'
Marysville gas reforming plant.
Israeli gov t faces crisis
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THAT WAS in 1967 when Israel faced HEDGING their bets in case the
impending war with neighboring Arab Labor-Likud talks broke down, both
states and lasted until August 1970, Peres and Shamir counted key centrist
when Likud bolted to protest a U.N. and religious parties in hopes of
resolution prposing a land-for-peace forming a narrow, go-it-alone coalition.
trade that was accepted by the late The arithmetic favored Shamir in
Labor Prime Minister Golda Meir. such a battle because the four main
Yehezekel Dror, a political science religious parties were more
professor at Hebrew University, said on ideologically attuned to the Likud
Israel Radio it was difficult to arouse "Greater Israel" policy of keeping
the same sense of unified purpose to occupied territories.
deal with the threats of 400 percent But to get a majority in parliament,
inflation and a mounting foreign debt of Shamir would have to compromise with
$22 billion. Ezer Weisman's centrist Yahad
"Israelis have always been better at Together party, which controls three
uniting when there is an internal seats and opposes broadscale
threat," he said. settlement building.
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