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WASHiNG iON President Reagan
has "approved in principle" a plan to
resume military aid to rebels fighting
the Marxist-led Sandinista government
of Nicaragua, a White House official
said Wednesday.
The official, revealing the military
aid offensive on condition he not be
identified, said the plan calls for a $90
million to $100 million and would do
away with a congressional ban on pay
ing for ammunition or weapons.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said only, "The president has
sought ways to support the anti-Sandi-nista
movement there. We are working
with Congress for a package, and that's
the extent of it."
Reagan recently has stepped up his
campaign for public support for efforts
to cut off trade with Nicaragua and to
isolate the Managua regime. The presi
dent &( uses Nicaragua of fomenting
terrorism nd revolution in Central
America.
The president met Wednesday with
47 of the 53 Republicans who control
the senate, but Speakes said he did not
detail his program of aid to the rebels.
The senior official who spoke anony
mously Wednesday said the president
has not officially endorsed the specific
dollar amount, but has approved the
main outlines of the aid proposal.
The Central Intelligence Agency gave
the rebels undercover military aid and
advice during Reagan's first term. But
Congress last year turned down the
president's request for continued clan
destine assistance. It approved instead
a compromise program to give the reb
els $37 million in non-lethal assist
ance, such as clothing, medical supplies
and food.
The senior official said the plan
approved in principle by the president
calls for about two-thirds of the total
aid package to be spent for weapons,
ammunition and other military aid.
Mexico and some other nations in
the region have disagreed with Rea
gan's approach, pressing instead for
further diplomatic efforts to win a
regional peace treaty.
Congressional sentiment has been
divided.
Meanwhile, a U.S.-sponsored Nicar
aguan rebel unity group central to
Reagan's plan to resume military aid to
the insurgents has failed to heal the
deep divisions that have plagued the
war against that nation's leftist
government, prominent Nicaraguan
exiles say.
Many of the exiles, longtime oppo
nents of Nicaragua's Sandinista govern
ment, also expressed doubt that even
renewed American military aid can
avert the rebels' ultimate defeat as
long as the movement is run by leaders
the exiles contend are hand-picked by
the U.S. government.
The grim assessment by leading
Nicaraguans in Miami, Washington and
California comes as Reagan prepares to
ask Congress for as much as $100 mil
lion in military and non-lethal aid for
the Contra rebels a proposal expected
to reignite bitter debate over Central
America.
Administration and congressional
officials say the success of Reagan's
expected request hinges on persuad
ing moderate House members that the
United Nicaraguan Opposition, UNO,
the rebels' principal umbrella group,
poses a unified and effective demo
cratic alternative to the Sandinistas.
But Nicaraguan exiles, interviewed
by The Associated Press, questioned
UNO's success in unifying and control
ling rebel ranks after it was created at
the administration's urging last June.
Sikhs convicted
in Gandhi death
NEW DELHI, India - A judge
seated behind bulletproof glass con
victed three Sikhs on Wednesday
and sentenced them to death for the
murder of Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi in 1984.
More than 200 riot police guarded
the jail to prevent a possible attack
by Sikh militants and to enforce a
48-hour ban on public assembly that
authorities imposed Tuesday in sur
rounding neighborhoods.
One of those convicted, a member
of Mrs. Gandhi's personal guard,
was accused of firing the shots in
the garden of the prime minister's
residential compound, along with
another guard who was killed at the
scene. The other two defendants
were found guilty of conspiracy.
No date was set for the execu
tions, which in India usually are by
hanging.
Obesity linked to genes, study shows
BOSTON Whether people grow up
to be fat or skinny depends in large
part on their genes and seems to have
nothing to do with the eating habits
they learn as children, a new study
concludes.
The research helps explain why some
people remain chubby even when they
diet constantly, while others stay trim
no matter what they eat: Fatness and
thinness are in their genes.
The findings were based on a study
of adopted children. They often grew
up to have the body builds of their
biologic parents. Slim offspring fre
quently had slender natural parents
and overweight children had fat ones.
There was no evidence that they mir
rored the shape of the adoptive parents
who raised them.
"The real surprise is that the adop
tive family has no impact at all, as far
as we can tell," said the study's direc
tor, Dr. Albert J. Stunkard of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. "I had cer
tainly thought that early childhood
eating habits have a lot to do with
becoming fat. They may not."
Authorities have long argued over
whether nature or nurture is the key to
obesity that runs in families. Dr. Theo
dore B. Van Itallie of St. Luke's-Roosevelt
Hospital Center in New York concludes
that the new research "appears to
resolve that controversy."
"What has been shown here is that
there is a strong genetic factor," said
Dr. Jules Hirsch of Rockefeller University.
Statehouse Roundup
LINCOLN The Legislature's Judiciary Committee heard testimony Wednesday from two opposing lawyers on whether
two bills decriminalizing extra-marital sex should be enacted. Sen. John DeCamp of Neligh introduced LB874, which
would abolish civil laws pertaining to alienation of affection and criminal conversation between a spouse and someone
outside the marriage. His bill would also eliminate adultery as a criminal offense. Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha
sponsored LB877, which also would erase civil statutes pertaining to alienation of affection and criminal conversation.
Criminal conversation is the violation of a spouse's right to the exclusive privilege of sexual intercourse, according to a
1954 ruling by the Nebraska Supreme Court. Both senators contended that current law treats women as "pieces of
property."
Q Local governments could allow operation of video lotteries whose proceeds would help boister state financing of
education. In the latest attempt to legalize the controversial machines, which were banned a couple of years ago, Sens.
Paul Hartnett of Bellevue, Tom Vickers of Farnam and Gerald Conway of Wayne introduced LB1185.
Nebraska's financially strapped farmers and ranchers could gain a reprieve from foreclosure actions. LB1218,
introduced by Sen. Loran Schmit of Bellwood, would permit district judges and trustees to order a moratorium on certain
farm and ranch foreclosure proceedings until Jan. 1, 1988.
D Sen. Tom Vickers of Farnam introduced LB1 171, designed to help protect Nebraska's interests in Washington by
dispatching a liaison officer to the nation's capital.
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