Friday, March 21, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
By The Associated Press
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WASHINGTON - A sharply divided House, on
a 222-210 vote Thursday, defeated president
Reagan's plan to send $100 million in military
aid to Nicaraguan rebels. The dramatic setback
followed two weeks of intense personal lobbying
by the president.
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said
the administration will not abandon the fight.
"We're gaining converts, and the next battle will
bring us victory," he said. House Speaker Tho
mas P. O'Neill, D-Mass., who led the opposition,
promised an April 15 vote in the House.
The setback for Reagan might be temporary
since the Senate is scheduled to take up the
issue next week. But the vote, nonetheless,
represented Reagan's most serious foreign pol
icy reversal in Congress.
The Congresg initially rejected his aid request
last year, but later after Nicaraguan leader
Daniel Ortega paid a visit to Moscow approved
$27 million in non-lethal aid.
Speakes said Reagan will press "again and
again until this battle is won, until freedom is
given the chance that it deserves in Nicaragua."
The vote followed two days of often bitter
debate that ended with O'Neill saying Reagan's
plan "takes us further down the road to a situa
tion where our troops will be involved."
HniiP Minority Leader Bob Michel, R-Ill.,
responded to O'Neill: "Today, you're wrong,
you're wrong, you're wrong A month from now
will be too late because the communists are
already mobilizing for an offensive."
Although the House vote represented a defeat
for Reagan's Nicaraguan policy, O'Neill appar
ently won some last-minute votes by promising a
new round of votes on alternative aid proposals
on April 15. Reagan is considered likely to win
some aid for the rebels at that time.
Sixteen Republicans joined 206 Democrats in
opposing Reagan's proposal. Forty-six Demo
crats, many from southern states, and 164
Republicans voted for the aid.
House Majority Whip Thomas Foley, D -Wash.,
said Reagan's defeat "shows Congress resented
attempts by the administration to question the
patriotism (of aid opponents). That was scan
dalous. That was unfortunate and classically
ineffective."
But Rep. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo., said he could
not "find a single vote that we lost" because of
the sharp attacks on opponents from White
House communications director Patrick Bucha
nan and other backers.
All three Nebraska Republicans voted on the
losing side of a 222-210 roll call.
Philippine constitution
would abolish Assembly
MANILA, Philippines The draft of a new, interim Philippine constitu
tion would abolish the National Assembly and vest all law-making powers in
President Corazon Aquino in a democratic revolutionary government, it was
disclosed Thursday.
A Cabinet official gave The Associated Press and other reporters copies of
the draft constitution Thursday.
The official, who dealt with reporters on condition of anonymity, said
Aquino wants to "soften some provisions" of the draft so she does not have to
call her government "revolutionary."
The official said Aquino planned to announce the new constitution Mon
day. He did not say why he was releasing the draft Thursday.
It would give Aquino the law-making powers of the National Assembly and
would prohibit any court from questioning her authority or the validity of any
law she decrees.
The draft constitution would provide for a commission that would write a
new permanent constitution that would be put to a popular vote.
The Philippine News Agency quoted Solicitor General Sedfrey Ordonez as
saying Aquino had consulted with him on the draft constitution and that her
final proclamation would not use the word "revolutionary," which is con
tained in the draft.
Aquino's official spokesman had said earlier that the president would
announce Monday or Tuesday whether she would proclaim a revolutionary
government.
Aquino took office Feb. 25, the day President Ferdinand Marcos fled the
presidential palace under pressure from a civilian-military rebellion. Since
then, she has been considering declaration of a "revolutionary government"
to enable her government to remove some of the bureaucracy and government
institutions set up by Marcos during his 20-year rule.
The current National Assembly is controlled by the former president's pol
itical party.
The draft constitution says civilian authority "shall at all times be
supreme over the military" and includes a "bill of rights" from the 1973 con
stitution currently in effect.
Ever wonder what happens
when the rabbit gets caught?
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa Human error apparently allowed greyhounds
running at Bluffs Run to catch the rabbit in Wednesday's first race.
Track officials said the rabbit accidentally was stopped in mid-race and
the dogs attacked it. All money wagered on the first race was refunded and
track patrons were treated to a bonus consolation double in the second race.
In Brief
Women's Commission
LINCOLN The Commission on
the Status of Women would receive
more than $98,000 in state tax funds
if the Legislature stands by a deci
sion it made Thursday.
Funding for the commission was
eliminated by the Legislature in
1985 during a round of budget cuts
that also saw funds discontinued for
commissions dealing with Indians
and Mexican-Americans.
On a 25-16 vote, lawmakers
amended LB1251, the main appro
priations bill that contained more
than $822.6 million to fund state
government operations and aid programs.
Janovy honored
OMAHA, Neb. John Janovy Jr.,
48, author, scientist and professor
of life sciences at UNL was named
as the first recipient of he Loren
Eiseley Memorial Award presented
in conjunction with a forum at
Clarkson Hospital on balancing
human values in higher education.
Janovy was selected because he
exemplified the ability to work both
in science and the humanities, as
did the late Loren Eiseley, the
announcement said.
lacocca's 'Vice'
MIAMI Don Johnson's sock
less feet and 5 o'clock shadow may
seem fashionable to his fans, but
Lee Iacocca, 61, who is to join the
"Miami Vice" star in an episode of
the series, has other ideas.
The Chrysler Corp. chairman will
appear as a police officer on a
"Miami Vice" episode to be broad
cast in May.
He joked that "Vice" stars ought
to switch to Chrysler luxury sports
cars, but said, "The first thing I'm
going to do is to tell Don Johnson to
get a shave and put on some socks."
Paris bombing
PARIS An explosion ripped
through a crowded shopping arcade
on the Champs Elysees in central
Paris on Thursday, and fire officials
said one person died and 21 others
were injured.
The blast was reportedly caused
by a bomb.
No arrests were made in Mon
day's bombing, and police said there
was no claim of responsibility. The
bombing came one day after voters
narrowly gave a centrist-conservative
coalition control of the National
Assembly.
Booster study
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -Rocket
specialists Thursday began
examining a 500-pound piece of
debris from one of Challenger's
booster rockets to determine if it is
the key section with the joint
believed to have caused the shuttle
explosion.
The broken 4-by-5-foot part was
brought into port along with two
larger booster pieces Wednesday
night by the salvage ship Stena
Workhorse.
Engineers of the National Aero
nautics and Space Administration
believe the Jan. 28 explosion was
triggered by a rupture in a joint
between the bottom two segments
of the right rocket.
Spy charge
s
MOSCOW A Foreign Ministry
spokesman on Thursday accused
the United States of trying to spy on
the Soviet Union when it sent two
Navy ships into Soviet waters in the
Black Sea last week.
The U.S. Defense Department
acknowledged Tuesday that the
cruiser USS Yorktown and destroyer
USS Caron entered Soviet waters off
the Crimean coast on March 13 but
said it was "simply an exericse of
the right of innocent passage."
Sikh acquitted
NEW YORK A federal jury
Thursday acquitted a Sikh compu
ter expert of plotting to assassinate
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi,
but found him guilty of two lesser
charges.
Following 15 hours of delibera
tions over three days, the jury found
Gurpartap Singh Birk innocent of
plotting to assassinate Gandhi dur
ing a U.S. visit and trying to hire a
hitman to kill him.
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