Tuesday, October 1, 1985
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Le&ctars dififer on prospect
of Arab-Israeli peace talis
WASHINGTON President Reagan
expressed optimism Monday about over
coming obstacles to the opening of
Arab-Israeli peace talks this year, while
Jordan's King Hussein stressed that
negotiations must take place at an
international conference attended by
the Soviet Union. .
Reagan and Hussein met for nearly
an hour in their second round of talks
this year. The meeting came against
the backdrop of Reagan's announce
ment Friday of a controversial, $1.55
billion weapons package for Jordan.
The United States and Israel have
objected to holding peace talks at an
international conference because that
would give the Soviet Union a role in
shaping the future of the Middle East.
Israel does not have diplomatic rela
tions with Moscow, and the Soviets
have provided arms to Syria and other
Arab countries that are hostile to
Israel.
A senior adminstration official said
Reagan and Hussein focused their talks
"very intensively" on the organization
and structure of an international con
ference. "I think headway has been made.
This is not the moment, this is not the
place to get into the details of that
headway," said the official, briefing
reporters under rules granting him
anonymity.
Reagan and Hussein both have talked
about holding negotiations under
"appropriate auspices" but have dif
fered on what that should be.
"We're not excluding anything," said
a White House official, speaking privately.
"We are exploring what appropriate
'international auspices' might contain.
We don't want to geMnvolved in some
thing where Israel is made a spectator."
Reagan and Hussein made joint state
ments outside the White House diplo
matic entrance. Expressing hopes for
talks before the end of the year, the
president said, "There are complex
and sensitive issues which must be
resolved before actual negotiations can
begin, but I believe these issues can be
resolved.
He said negotiations should be con
ducted under United Nations resolu
tions calling on Israel to withdraw from
occupied Arab territories in return for
Arab peace with Israel.
Hussein, condemning violence and
terrorism, pledged that Jordan "is com
mitted to a peaceful resolution of the
Arab-Israeli conflict."
"We are prepared to join all parties .
in pursuing a negotiated settlement in
an environment free of belligerent and
hostile acts," Hussein added.
In Hussein's view, the "appropriate
auspices" for talks is a U.N.-sponsored
conference attended by Middle East
delegates and the five permanent mem
bers of the U.N. Security Council: the
United States, the Soviet Union, Bri
tain, France and China.
Another roadblock posed by the king
has been his proposal that Palestinians
tied to the Palestine Liberation Organ
ization participate in pre-negotiations
talks with U.S. officials.
Battle over pay equity heats up
By Gene Grabowski
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Congressional
Democrats thought they were waltzing
toward passage of a law this year that
would lead to equal pay for women.
Then House conservatives stopped the
music.
Angry women's groups and labor
unions say the few Republicans who
have stalled the legislation with scores
of amendments are fighting a losing
battle against one of the most signifi
cant women's issues of the decade.
But opponents backed by Presi
dent Reagan and major corporations
believe they are buying time to
inform Americans that the proposal to
raise pay for certain jobs traditionally
held by women could destroy the
economy.
At issue is a House bill scheduled for
action this week proposing to study
whether women and minorities in the
federal workforce are victims of pay
discrimination.
If it becomes law, it could be used to
establish a system of comparable worth
under which men and women would
receive the same salaries for different
jobs judged to be of similar value. If the
bill fails, the women's movement and
labor unions will have lost an impor
tant test of strength.
"If they make this a big national
issue, they're going to get a black eye,"
predicts the bill's sponsor, Rep. Mary
Rose Oakar, D-Ohio.
"Women and minorities have a stake
in the bill. If conservatives want to
fight it, good. Let them alienate the
blacks, women and Hispanics in their
districts."
Oakar's pay equity bill passed the
House by a 413-6 vote last year, but it
never came up for a vote in the
Republican-controlled Senate. To in
crease the chance of passage this year,
the measure was broadened to include
minority groups. In addition, an identi
cal bill was introduced in the Senate by
Sens. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., and Daniel
Evans, R-Wash.
This year, Oakar said, Senate appro
val is more likely because Evans is a
co-sponsor and because 22 Senate seats
held by Republicans are up for re
election next year.
The president has ridiculed com
parable worth as "harebrained" and
Clarence Pendleton, Civil Rights Com'
mission chairman, called it "the looni
est idea since Looney Tunes came on
the screen."
But supporters of the proposal say it
is uncertain whether Reagan would be
bold enough to veto the bill with the 22
Senate seats on the ballot next year.
'The Republicans cannot afford to
be known as the party that opposed
fairness for women," said Eleanor
Smeal, president of the National
Organization for Women.
Opponents say including blacks and
Hispanics in the proposal is a political
trick designed to pass legislation that
would hold down the pay of men who
hold blue-collar jobs and increase pay
for women who work mostly in offices.
"How can you tell a steelworker that
his job is less valuable than a secre
tary's? Free enterprise should decide
that, not some government panel," said
Rep. Richard Armey, R-Texas, a former
economics professor leading the House
fight against pay equity.
Rep. Dan Burton, D-Ind., says com
parable worth is an "attempt to find
discrimination where it does not really
exist."
"Equal pay for equal work is already
the law of the land," said Burton,
author of most of the amendments that
have bogged down the bill. "Setting up
a new standard is uncalled for and
costly."
Backing the bill along with NOW are
the National Education Association,
the League of Women Voters, the AFL
CIO, and B'nai B'rith Women.
Turbulence not repprtedflight study shows
WASHINGTON The crew of a
Delta Airlines jet taxiing at Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airport noticed
turbulence so severe it looked "like a
tornado" at the end of the runway min
utes before another Delta jet crashed,
documents on the investigation revealed
Monday.
But the documents indicated that
the taxiing crew did not relay the sight
ing of the severe weather and the
information was never relayed to Delta
Flight 191, which crashed on its
approach.
Investigators have speculated that
Flight 191 encountered a severe wind
shear when it attempted to land Aug. 2
and crashed just short of the runway,
killing 1 36 people. The flight, from Fort
Lauderdale, Fla., was bound for Los
Angeles. There were 163 passengers
and a crew of 11 on board.
Documents released by the National
Transporation Safety Board supported
the theory that the plane encountered
a wind shear.
At one point, the pilot of Flight 191,
apparently recognizing he had encoun
tered a sudden, severe shift of wind,
desperately attempted to increase
power.
"Push it up, push it way up, way up,"
pilot Edward Conners declared.
"Way up," co-pilot Rudolph Price Jr.
responded as the sounds of engines
revving to maximum power could be
heard in the cockpit.
Seconds later "push it way up" again
could be heard from the aircraft.
Then, "oh," followed by what the
NTSB called a non-printable word.
During the approach, the transcript
made clear that the crew of Flight 191
was aware of the severe weather in the
area, and at one time received permis
sion to go around a particularly severe
storm.
"We're going to get our airplane
washed," the pilot said at one point.
As Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011
jumbo jet, was making its approach,
another Delta jetliner, a Boeing 737,
had just landed and was taxiing away
from the runway.
"Is that a waterspout out there on
the end (of the runway)?" the pilot of
the Boeing 737 remarked.
"I don't know. Sure looks like it,
doesn't it? Looks like a tornado or
something. I've never seen anything
like it," the co-pilot replied.
But, according to sources close to
the investigation, there is no indica
tion that the sighting of a possible tor
nado on the approach being used by
Flight 191 about 24 minutes before the
crash was ever relayed to the airport
tower.
NewsmakGrs
A roundup of the day's happenings
A nationwide six-day poll conducted by the Los
Angeles Times indicates that more Americans (four out of
five) are concerned about reducing the federal budget
deficit than reform of the nation's tax reform.
Mansfield, Ohio, police are looking for two women
who tried to con an elderly woman out of more than $700
but wound up giving her $1,300 by mistake. Officials said
the case was just another one of thousands of "pigeon
drop" con tricks that happens across the nation each year
only this one backfired.
Dr. Benjamin Spock, noted child specialist, says a
society that is trying to prevent child-snatching should be
spending more money on better child care instead of on
fingerprinting.
Sixnone Signoret, 64, whose long career as an
actress, political activist and writer made her one of
France's most admired women, died of cancer at her home
near Paris.
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refects shrtcemio the state should be sohir.
"We tc. J not to have a r?d fctrcr L-.vcsLr.ent activity in general, and so
a let cf our money gets slumped cut of state," Eerr.i cr s,zl 1 "business can't
start operating in Nebraska unless it can make a return that competes
with v.hat it makes in New York City or any other mcry center.
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marl.as," he said. "Nothing has convinced m? tk;t Nelraskans are
knatdy less entrepreneurial than anybody cLe. Eut .Nebraska has not
developed all of the things that it needs to attract tkat mcr.ey.
$4 million raised for quake victims
L03 ANGELES Stars including Hicardo Mcria::va and Vikki Carr
joined by satellite Sundry with celebrities from Lr.ru. :u' ricain a 12-hour
telethon and raised alacst $4 mil'ibn for cu"i: m: .va-.'ated Mexico.
The show started si 1 1 a.ra. CDT and by 8X3 p.n. LIS million had been
leered in the United States alone, tclcti.cn & c.;:r .a Stoi 2 Moya said.
Organizers lad hoped to raise $4 million daring the telethon. Totals from
the other countries where tie program was btinj $hr,n vmli not be
Powerful earthquakes en r-t. 13 ar.d CO K-rtatl-v 1 1,500 people dead
tad much cf central Merxlco City La ruins. I-Iery ra: ly Sunday's show
vili be sent to the Mexican Hod Cress to eci up cd'Jcs and to buy
medicine and food, American Had Cross spoken llitzi Rodriquez
said.
Reagan says Hecldor v;on?(; be fired
WASHINGTON rrc:idcr.t Hssan sa! d lis-1 . y 1 . r t ping to fire
Market Heckler as secretary cf hcrJlh ?rJ h- r m c . :i ices, but hinted
that a job change may be in the cf.".r.
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denied ha vas cdr.i fa r.r. n-i!- v- -- ? sHlitv and
loyalty to conservative idca!s have been c;: ::A I .:: Uyt Av !:..ir.istration
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