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Rational and international news
from the Reuters News Report
Senate approvca bill
expanding .capital crimes
WASHINGTON The Senate Wednesday
approved a Bill that would restore the death
penalty for major federal crimes such as trea
son or espionage and authorize it as punish
ment for attempted ssssssin&tion of the presi
dent. Existing federal law provides for the
death penalty for treason, espionage, first
degree murder, felony murder, rape and kid
napping. The new bill would add attempted
presidential assassination and murders be
hind bars by prisoners serving life sentences.
The bill was approved 63-32 by the Republican-dominated
Senate. It now goes to the
House, where the Democrats have a majority
and its fate there is unclear.
Reagan: Deficit at top of list
WASHINGTON President Reagan said
Wednesday night that reducing the federal
budget deficit is one of three items at the top of
the domestic policy agenda He told a news
conference that Democrats in Congress have
been dragging their feet on his proposal for
negotiations to make a "down payment" on
reducing the deficit. Some Democrats have
agreed to meet his representative today and
the White House is prepared to discuss cuts in
defense spending, he said. Reagan said that in
addition to the deficit, crime legislation and an
amendment allowing prayer in the public
schools also deserved priority attention from
Congress.
Gemayel, mediator discuss plan
BEIRUT, Lebanon Artillery fire hit Mos
lem and Christian areas in and around Beirut
Wednesday as a Saudi Arabian mediator and
President Amin Gemayel discussed a new
peace plan. Hospital sources reported at least
seven people killed and 30 injured in the
exchanges. The U.S. Marines, meanwhile, con
tinued withdrawing from their base at Beirut
airport to warships off the coast. The Marines'
spokesman would not say, for reasons of secur
ity, how many men had gone today. About
1,100 Marines were believed still at the base
early Wednesday.
Vietnam to step up cooperation
- BANGKOK, Thailand Vietnam has agreed
to step up cooperation with the United States
on the problem of U.S. servicemen missing in
action during the Vietnam War, the U.S. Em
bassy here said in a statement Wednesday. The
brief statement was issued after the arrival
here from Hanoi of the highest-level U.S. dele
gation to visit Vietnam since the end of the war
in 1 975. The delegation, led by Assistant Secre
tary of Defense Richard Armitage, discussed
the MIA issue with a Vietnamese Foreign Min
istry team Monday and met Foreign Minister
Nguyen Co Thach Tuesday, the statement said.
Canada: U.S. shirks treaty '
OTTAWA, Canada A Canadian official
Wednesday accused the United States of shirk
ing its treaty obligations by refusing to act now
to combat acid rain. Ottawa says a cleanup
campaign should start immediately but Wash
ington argues that more scientific research
needs to be done. "The continued delay in
adopting effective abatement measures is not
acceptable to Canada," External Affairs Minis
ter Allan MacEachen said in a statement.
Swearing raven brings bedlam
PORT COLBORNE, Canada A foul-mouthed
raven who flew around a local shopping
center swearing at Canadians has now brought
bedlam to a schoolyard in nearby Barker, NX
The bird spent three weeks in the small Cana
dian town of Port Colborne greeting afternoon
shoppers with what was coyly described as "a
common two-word directive." After his depar
ture, the local newspaper received a call Tues
day from Dan Dune, working at a school in
Barker, just across the border. "We haw your
talking bird here. He showed up about 8:30 this
morning and has certainly become the rage
around school. ?To one is getting their work
done," Dune said. The mystery of who owns the
bird has not been solved. One Port Colborne
woman said she had given the bird, named
Henry, to a local game farm because its lan
guage was an embarrassment, but it had flown
away. Another woman claimed the bird, nam
ed Cheeko, had learned its blunt language
from neighborhood boys and escaped when
"uwauu angrily nit it.