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Administration attacks abortion laws
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Renewing an attack on legalized who perform them.
abortion, the administration asked the Supreme Court THAT STATE law requires a 24-hour waiting period for a
yesterday to reconsider and overturn its landmark 1973 woman seeking an abortion and mandates the presence of a
decision giving women the right to an abortion. doctor when abortions are performed in a hospital to help
Moving to intervene in cases involving Illinois and Pen- save an aborted fetus if it is alive.
nylvania abortion laws, the Justice Department said the The court also agreed to take up an Illinois law requiring
highcourt's historic Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion doctors to make efforts to save viable fetuses even though
blocks even modest attempts by states to control the they were aborted.
procedure. Both laws or portions of them were struck down by appeals
"THE TEXTUAL, historical and doctrinal basis of that courts in decisions appealed to the Supreme Court. While
(abortion) decision is so far flawed that this court should neither law denied a woman's right to end a pregnancy,
overrule it and return the law to the condition in which it was critics argue both make it more difficult to obtain an abor-
before that case was decided," the Justice Department said. tion.
Judy Goldsmith, president of the National Organization for The Justice Department said the 1973 Supreme Court
Women, said the administration is working to outlaw abor- decision divided pregnancy into three trimesters, with
tion. Its position at the Supreme Court, she said, is "in- radically different consequences for state regulatory power
credible, unconscionable and it's what we said was going to in each.
happen," "This analytical framework has proved inherently un-
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court agreed to consider workable," the department said. "Subsequent developmen-
Pennsylvania abortion control law that places a variety of ts, both technological and medical, have demonstrated the
obstacles in the path of women seeking abortions and doctors arbitrariness of these lines."
Tanter project doesn't meet I'guidelines
s CntinuedfroemPage proposal because "it could have been
system. used to promote peace."
HOWEVER, unlike the unanimous
vote against Tanter's proposal, the Tanter's project would have looked
vote against Birdsall was 6-6. The at alternate ways of reaching an arms
RPC needs a majority vote to approve control agreement without formal
a project. treaties. For example, he said that the
Sussman rejected the RPC's Salt II agreement - which was never
recommendation and approved Bir- passed by Congress - has acted as an
dsall's project. The move spurred sit- informal arms agreement.
ins of Birdsall's lab by Progressive
Student Network members. Goldenberg said that the RPC made
The Birdsall project was the only its decision reluctantly. "Have you
other proposal ever rejected by the read the proposal?" Goldenberg
RPC. asked. "It's really a wonderful idea.
researcher and an opponent of It's a very imaginative and excellent
military research on campus, agreed --proposal."
with Sussman's decision. Sussman George Carignan, a research
But Kock said that Sussman - by ...rejects proposal engineer in the College of Engineering
making his decision 1 months after and chairman of the committee, was
the RPC rejected Tanter's proposal unanimously rejects a research unavailable for comment, but he said
- showed a defect in the University's proposal, "There should be no after the RPC announced its decision,
system of rejecting or approving question about rejecting it. The final "It was the feeling of the committee
research proposals, decision shouldn't be left in the hands that it was too bad the research did
Shersaid that if the RPC, which con- of one man." not conform to the guidelines...that
sists of student, faculty, and ad- SUSSMAN SAID that there's an limit open publication of the results of
ministration representatives, irony in the council's rejecting the research."
But Carignan said the particular
guideline which ensures open
publication of research is important
to the committee. "Limiting of
publications is not consistant with the
S TUniversity's environment," he said.
Sussman said that he had contacted
the U.S. Arms Control and Disar-
P I AEDeparmentAgency - a wing of the
Department ofrDefense - to try to
change the proposal's requirement
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Air India 'black
boxes' to be unsealed
BOMBAY, India - A special in-
vestigatory panel headed yester-
day for Bombay to listen to flight
and voice recorders retrieved from
an Air-India jet that crashed last
month off the Irish coast, killing all
329 people on board.
Investigators are expected today
to unseal the flight and cockpit
voice recorders recovered from
the jumbo jet. They hope the
"black boxes" - actually painted
orange for visibility - will provide
clues to the cause of the disaster,
which some experts have
speculated was the result of a
bomb.
The Air-India Booing 747, on a
flight from Canada to India,
vanished from radar screens 31,000
feet in the air and crashed June 23
off the coast of Ireland.
Congress strives for
budget compromise
WASHINGTON - Senate
Republican leader Robert Dole
and the White House pressured
House Democratsuyesterday to
make more spending cuts asa way
to get a budget agreement, but
House leaders said it was up to the
Senate.
"We're going to try as best we
can . . . but if we don't get it (a
budget agreement) right now it
isn't fatal," House Democratic
leader Jim Wright told reporters.
Congressional negotiators and
President Reagan agreed more
than a week ago on a new
"framework" for a compromise
budget that calls for preserving
Social Security payments, in-
creasing future military spending
with inflation, and finding more
places to cut spending to make up
for the money spent on Social
Security.
Former dictator leads
in Bolivian election
LA PAZ, Bolivia - Retired
right-wing army General Hugo
Banzer appeared headed for vic-
tory yesterday in Bolivia's
presidential election, and the coun-
try's powerful leftist labor unions
were already vowing to oppose the
former dictator.
Unofficial tallies from Sunday's
vote showed Banzer, 59,hwith as
much as 41 percent of the vote,
giving him a commanding lead
over his nearest rival, former con-
servative president Victor Paz
Estenssoro.
Ruling party prevails
in Mexican elections
MEXICO CITY - Official
results yesterday showed the
ruling Institutional Revolutionary
Party won an overwhelming
majority of seats in the new
Congress in Mexico's recent elec-
tion, which sparked protests in
several border cities.
The federal Electoral Com-
mission said the almost completed
vote tally showed the ruling party,
known as PRI, has so far won 230 of
the 300 seats in the Chamber of
Deputies. The opposition won just
four seats, the commission said.
Results of the races for the other
66 seats contested in the July 7
election will be released within a
day. An additional 100 Chamber
seats will be distributed later to
opposition parties based on their
percentage of the vote.
Shultz lobbies for
Australian support
CANBERRA, Australia -
Secretary of State George Shultz
lobbied yesterday for Australian
support of President Reagan's
Strategic Defense Initiative,
arguing that the Soviets are
moving ahead with their own "Star
Wars" program.
Shultz strongly defended the SDI
program at a news conference in
Parliament House, following six
hours of talks with Australian
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill
Hayden in which the two men reaf-
firmed bilateral defense
arrangements.
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