Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, September 16, 1986
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WASHINGTON President Reagan,
unveiling his plan to attack drug abuse
in America, ordered the executive
branch Monday to set up mandatory
tests for federal workers in sensitive
jobs.
But Reagan's program drew imme
diate resistance from the American
Civil Liberties Union and labor organi
zat ons representing federal employees.
Reagan's move came one day after he
and his wife, Nancy, made a nationally
televised broadcast, appealing to peo
ple's consciences and their sense of
patriotism, for help in waging war on
drug abuse.
With the formal announcement of
his anti-drug abuse plan, including
Reagan's endorsement of capital pun
ishment for certain drugrelated of
fenses, the president joined members
of Congress who have been scrambling
to enact new measures of their own.
But beyond the consensus in Wash
ington officials said, that something
must be done about the drug abuse
problem, there were indications that
some suggested solutions face heavy
obstacles:
Leaders of federal employee unions,
and the American Civil Liberties Union,
challenged the administration to define
"sensitive" jobs.
Said Alan Adler, legislative counsel
of the ACLU: "The president's proposal
is a blatant violation of the rights of
American workers to be free of search
and seizure without probable cause."
Secretary of Defense Caspar W.
Weinberger spoke out vehemently
against a proposal, included in legisla
tion passed overwhelmingly by the
House last Thursday, to require the
president to dispatch U.S. military for
ces within 45 days to the nation's
borders to interdict drug traffic.
House Majority Leader Jim Wright,
D-Texas, questioned the administra
tion's commitment to putting enough
money into the new anti-drug abuse
campaign.
"The president said last night (Sun
day) that you can't just throw money at
the problem," Wright said. "That's
true. You can't just throw words at the
problem, either. You've got to have
some money to do it right."
Reagan's executive order, requiring
mandatory tests for rederal workers in
sensitive jobs and voluntary screening
for the rest of the civilian federal work
force, took effect upon his signature.
"We're getting tough on drugs, and
we mean business," Reagan said as
Vice President George Bush looked
over his shoulder.
All employees found using drugs will
be referred for counseling, treatment
or rehabilitation, the order says.
Daniloff release top item
at iU)Fe-iiiiniiMiit negotiation
WASHINGTON Showing increased
impatience with the Kremlin, the Rea
gan administration Monday revamped
the agenda for a meeting to plan a new
U.S.-Soviet summit, pushing to the top
of the list its demand for the outright
release of American journalist. Nicholas
Daniloff.
White House chief of staff Donald
Regan suggested that chances for a
summit this year could be endangered
unless Daniloff is allowed to come
home.
Secretary of State George Shultz and
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard She
vardnadze are to confer in Washington
on Friday and Saturday at what was to
have been a meeting to fix t he date and
agenda for a summit.
Spokesman Larry Speakes said Shultz
"will raise the issue as the first item on
the agenda."
He left open the possibility the
meeting would get bogged down on
Daniloff and not make progress on a
summit. "We'll start with Daniloff and
see where it goes from there," he said.
Pressure is building in Congress for
the administration to take tough mea
sures against Moscow until Daniloff is
returned. .
In a deal announced Friday, Daniloff
was released to the custody of the
American embassy in Moscow while a
Soviet U.N. employee held in New York,
Gennadiy Zakharov, was released to
the Soviet mission in Manhattan. Both
men remain charged with espionage.
Declaring anew that there will be no
Zakharov-Daniloff trade, Reagan said
he agreed to the prisoner transfers
because "it was absolutely essential
that, we get Daniloff out of their hands
and out of that cell which he occupied
with what was obviously a Soviet aide
and four-hours-a-day interrogation.
Speakes said he was not aware of any
progress in U.S.-Soviet negotiations on
Daniloff.
He said the matter would be raised
in every possible forum with the Soviets,
including the nuclear arms control
talks which resume Thursday in Gen
eva and a cultural gathering in Latvia.
Regan, appearing on the ABC-TV
show, "Good Morning America," said
that "if Daniloff isn't settled, it may
put the summit in jeopardy."
Daniloff and others have suggested
he was arrested in retaliation for Zak
harov's apprehension. Speakes origi
nally had said that Reagan himself had
approved of Zakharov's arrest, but he
said Monday he was in error and that
Reagan and Shultz had not known about
it in advance.
Aquino arrives for first U.S. visit
SAN FRANCISCO - Philippine
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the United States on Monday for a nine
day visit to seek polit ical and economic
support for her faction-ridden govern
ment. Aquino was greeted by Gov. George
Deukmejian, U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston
and a crowd of cheering supporters as
she reached San Francisco on a regu-
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larly scheduled Philippine Airline flight.
Air Force Two waited to take her to
Washington.
In her homeland, military leaders
pledged to keep the nation "stable and
safe" in her absence.
Aquino, who will meet President
Reagan and address a joint session of
Congress this week, said before depar
ture she would try to convince U.S.
polit ical and business leaders that Phi
lippine problems are "as much their
concern as ours."
Her visit includes meetings with
officials of the International Monetary
Fund and the World Bank to try to
obtain more lenient terms on repaying
the Philippines' $26 billion foreign
debt.
She also planned to meet New York
business leaders to try to persuade
them to invest more in the Philippines.
She said last Wednesday on state
television: "I am appealing to the cred
itor banks on the matter of giving us
more liberal terms, and I would like to
emphasize to them that in the past,
where we had to pay 50 percent of our
export earnings in servicing of these
debts alone, there is no chance for the
country to grow."
Aquino, who was installed in a Feb
ruary revolt that ousted President Fer
dinand E. Marcos, dismissed fears of a
possible coup during her absence. Some
advisers and editorial writers have
urged the president not to go abroad,
lest Marcos loyalists attempt to take
over the government.
In a nationally televised departure
ceremony, Aquino remarked, "Those
who are afraid that my absence will
endanger the democracy are those on
whom we cannot depend to protect it.
For democracy here is not held up by
me alone, but by the power of the peo
ple who won it."
Paris police station bombed
PARIS A bomb exploded Monday in a crowded waiting room at
police headquarters, killing one person and injuring 51 others less than 24
hours after Premier Jacques Chirac announced a crackdown on terrorism.
It was the fourth bombing in Paris in a week, a total of three persons
have been killed and more than 100 wounded.
The latest explosion, which demolished the hall where drivers' licenses
are issued, happened about 1:50 p.m. in the ground floor of the police
headquarters building on the He de la Cite, close to Notre Dame
Cathedral.
Police said two of the wounded were in serious condition.
The bomb was planted despite strict security precautions, which are
supposed to include a search by police of every handbag and briefcase
brought into the building.
In Beirut, a French-speaking telephone caller took responsibility for
the bombing on behalf of a group called the Committee of Solidarity for
Arab and Middle East Political Prisoners. That name also was used in
claims for last week's bombings.
Monday's caller told a Western new agency: "We will be thankful if you
inform (French President Francois) Mitterand and Chirac that the next
operation will be at the Elysee," the presidential palace.
Police said the police headquarters bomb appears to have been similar
to those used in three other attacks since Sept. 8.
Ursine rescue cITorta llo;::;dcrir
YAKUTAT, Alaska The effort to rescue marine mammals trapped
when a fast-moving glacier plugged a fiord's outlet to the sea s teetering
under lack of money and expectations that Alaska's harsh autumn will
soon arrive,
The volunteers will keep trying for at least another week or until bad
weather sets in, but there is a good chance they will not be able to got the
stranded seals and porpoises out of Russell Lake, said Joy MtCriJge,
spokeswoman for the California Marine Mammal Center.
"A storm could blow in tomorrow," McBride said at the group's Yakutat
base C.mp,
So far, clear weather has held over Yakutat and the lake 25 miSss away
on the Alaska Panhandle.
The animals are expected to starve as their food supply dies Leccuse
fresh water flowing Into the dammed fiord is diluting salt water.
Rescuers at the lake reported seeing fewer animals than they spotted a
few days earlier. Veterinarian Laurie Gage said she believes they are being
scattered and scared by airplanes.
The lakenvas cut off from the Pacific Ocean in the spring when the
surging Hubbard Glacier pushed a dam of ice, mud and rubble across the
entrance to Ftussell Fiord,
Poll: Scat belt law supported
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majority cf thc:;e surveyed szy Nebraska's seat belt L;v should fc retained
when ztzie residents vote on a proposed rtped cf ths rcn.:urc in
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That works cut to at tesst 3,CC0tccn pregnancies a day and the cost in
state and federal welfare outlays was an estimated $ 16.7 billion last year,
the magazine saifc in its October issue.
It estimated that half a million teen-agers will-fcear and keep their
babies, 450,000 will have abortions, and the rest, somewhat less than
100,000, will give the babies up for adoption.
. Only oyne in three sexually active teen-agers uses contraceptives, the
magazine said in an article using statistics of the Alan Guttmacher
institute, a non-profit research foundation affiliated with Planned Par
enthood, and other researchers. t
"Other countries have a far more realistic approach," said Su Yates, a
former Guttmacher researcher. "They say, 'Our kids are having sex. Let's
make sure they don't get pregnant.' In our country, we're still trying to
pretend our kids aren't having sex."
Cuban political prisoners
reunited with relatives
MIAMI Cuban political prisoners,
some free for the first time since Fidel
Castro took power in 1959, shouted
"Long live the United States!as they
arrived Monday for joyous reunions
with relatives and friends.
"I'm happy. But I'll be happier when
all the prisoners are liberated," said
Domingo Suarez Espinosa, 72, as he
carried a granddaughter in one arm. He
was imprisoned four months short of 28
years.
Some of the 111 prisoners and rela
tives who arrived from Havana aboard a
charter flight flew on to other U.S. des
tinations, but 54 were bused to Miami's
Tropical Park for a Roman Catholic
Church-sponsored reunion with friends
and families.
An estimated 3,000 cheering, crying,
flag-waving Cuban-Americans crowded
into a pavilion at the park to greet the
prisoners, shouting "Welcome to free
soil!"
A carefully programmed reunion
turned to happy chaos as families
separated nearly 28 years in some cases
tearfully embraced across police barri
ers and the crowd pushed forward to
welcome the exiles.
Many embraced silently, tears stream
ing down their cheeks, but shouts of joy
and recognition drowned out Archbi
shop Edward A. McCarthy's short wel
coming speech.
Former anti-Castro rebels in the
crowd saw their old commanders and
shouted to them by their military code
names.
The best-known arriving prisoner
was Ramon Pedro Grau Alsinas, 62,
nephew of former Cuban President
Ramon Grau San Martin, who held
office for two terms during the 1930s
and '40s.
Grau was stooped but animated
despite 26 years in prison. He said he
survived one last confrontation with
the Castro government in Havana early
Monday when an army captain ordered
him to surrender a wooden crucifix he
wore around his neck.
"What is this popery you have on
your neck?" he quoted the captain as
saying. Grau said he grasped the cru
cifix tightly in his palm and swore he
would not surrender it, and when other
angry prisoners crowded around, the
captain desisted.
Grau's sister Polita, Cuba's unoffi
cial first lady during the presidential
terms of her unmarried uncle, was
stunned when she saw him.
"He looks so bad," she said. "He
looks so much older. He was always
taller than I, but now he's smaller."
She said she had spent 14 years in
prison before her release to the United
States in 197a
The Graus headed an organization
that helped bring 14,000 children out
of Cuba in the first years of the Castro
government. Miami Mayor Xavier Sua
rez was one of those children, and he
was at the airport to meet Grau.
One family's reunion plans turned to
tragedy when relatives of Juan Gomez
Blanco heard he had died of a heart
attack Sunday night in Havana. Gomez
had survived 24 years in prison.
