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Friday, September 19, 1936 Page 2 Daily Nebraskan Digest By the Associated Press R eagan pledges aid to Philippines WASHINGTON - President Reagan, praising Philippine leader Corazon Aquino's economic revival plan, is handing over more U.S. aid while cau tioning her against trusting communist guerrillas at the bargaining table. Aquino, the U.S.educated widow of former opposition leader Benigno Aqui no, is trying to hold together a faction ridden, impoverished government. She was heading to Capitol Hill today to address a joint meeting of Congress and seek more U.S. financial support. Aquino's counsel, Teodoro Locsin, told reporters that Reagan appeared to accept Aquino's plan for dealing with the insurgent New People's Army, which has picked up wide support in the poverty-stricken rural regions of the Philippines. Her strategy calls for a good-faith government effort to settle the war by negotiations, economic reforms that might dissolve peasant grievances and ultimately but only if necessary tough military action. Locsin said both leaders "have the same cynicism about the hard-core guerrillas coming down from the hills," but that Aquino feels a need to exhaust peaceful means before invoking mil itary options. Talks between representatives of the government and the guerrillas began this summer, but no progress has been reported. A U.S. official, eager to dispel any suggestions that the administration is dissatisfied with Aquino's performance, said the United States is solidly behind the strategy. "We are completely in accord," said the official, who spoke only on condition he not be identified. At a black-tie dinner at the State Department Wednesday evening, Sec retary of State George Shultz told the Philippine leader, "We are on your side. Our partnership makes an irre placeable contribution to stability in the Pacific." In response, Aquino cautioned Shultz that in the "new, mature relationship" between the two countries, the Philip pines would sometimes be difficult to deal with, but she said, for the United States, a democracy, "this should be a virtue, not a vice in your eyes." Aquino's visit with Reagan for 45 minutes in the Oval Office and at a White House luncheon was the first official meeting of a nine-day trip to the United States and it was the first time they have met. The president heaped unqualified praise on Aquino's economic program which is designed to nibble away at the country's $26 billion foreign debt through economic reforms and increased incentives for private industry. "I'm bullish on the Philippines," Reagan declared. "I would hope Amer ican as well as foreign investors take notice of this incredible opportunity to help build a country." Following through on a pledge to give the Philippines as much financial assistance as possible, Reagan turned over a $100 million installment on the multi-million dollar aid package prom ised for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. U.S. payments to the Philippines now total more than $500 million in the current fiscal year, and Reagan said he would "continue to ask Congress for appropriate levels of economic and military assistance beyond existing U.S. base-related commitments." Terrorist acts continue French military attache assassinated BEIRUT, Lebanon A lone assassin using a silencer equipped pistol killed the French military attache outside the French Embassy Thursday. It was the latest of a series of terrorist attacks on French targets here and in Paris. Anonymous telephone callers in Lebanon and France cliamed responsibility for the assassination in the name of two obscure groups and threatened further blows. One demanded release of an alleged terrorist jailed in France. Police said Col. Christian Goutierre, 60, had parked his car near the French Embassy in Christian east Beirut at 8:30 a.m. and was about to get out when the gunman approached him. They said the attacker shot Goutierre three times in the head with a silencer-equipped pistol and escaped in a waiting green BMW. Police described the gunman as a tall, dark-complexioned man wearing a white shirt and beige trousers and believed to be in his late 20s. Goutierre had been stationed in Beirut since October 1984. France, like most Western countries, moved its embassy to Christian east Beirut from the Moslem western sector two years ago because of frequent kidnappings and bombings. Switzerland and Greece are the only Western countries that still have embassies in west Beirut. The first claim of responsibility came from an anonymous telephone caller to a Western news agency in Beirut. He said the assassination was carried out on behalf of the Revenge and Justice Front, previously unknown. "Let (French Prime Minister Jacques) Chirac know our next blow will be more crippling," said the caller, who did not say what the group wanted. Later, a caller to a Western news agency office in Paris claimed the attache had been killed by Anti-Imperialist International Brigades "revolutionaries." That group name was used previously in rocket and bombing attacks last May on the U.S., Japanese and Cana dian embassies in Indonesia. The second caller threatened all French diplomats, French Preisident Francois Mitterrand and Chirac, and demanded release of three comrades jailed in France, including George Ibrahim Abdallah, reputed leader of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions. Abdallah, a Chris tian from northern Lebanon, is serving a four-year sentence for possessing illegal weapons and false documents. Rehnquist looks forward to new appointment; seeks to set aside promotion controversy WASHINGTON William H. Ren quist, saying he is looking forward to his new job as chief justice, sought 1 Dailv CDicisKcin 34 NEBRASKA UNION 1400 R STREET T T IN Editor Managing Editor Assoc. News Editors Graphics Editor Editorial Page Editor Editorial Page Asst. 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The public also as access to the Publications Board. For information, contact Harrison Schultz, 474 7660. Subscription price is $35 for one year. Postmaster: Send address changes to the Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Urrion 34, 1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb. 68588-0448. Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT I9S6 DAILY NEBRASKAN Thursday to set aside the bitter con troversy sparked by his promotion. "I'm not going to address myself to the past. I'm glad the confirmation process has finally run its course," Rehnquist told reporters the morning after his 65-33 victory in the Senate. "I'm looking forward to the future and trying to be a good chief justice." Antonin Scalia, the federal appeals court judge who won unanimous Senate approval to become the newest Supreme Court justice, refused comment Thurs day. His secretary said he would not respond to press inquiries. Both men are to be sworn in officially on Sept. 26, just three days before the Supreme Court begins a weeklong con ference to prepare for the start of its 1986-87 term on Oct. 6. While Scalia's nomination sailed through the Senate on its way to 98-0 approval, Rehnquist's was subjected to prolonged scrutiny. Democrats as saulted his integrity and commitment to equal justice. He drew the most negative votes in history of any Supreme Court nominee to win confirmation. Asked to compare this confirmation process to that of 1971, when he was named to the high court, Rehnquist said, "I know it was longer this time. Being longer, it was probably more arduous." Rehnquist, 61, has been the court's most politically conservative member but Scalia, 50, generally is regarded as just as fervent a conservative. Both men win high marks from those who know them best for their convivial ity and intellect. But whether President Reagan's ele vation of Rehnquist and appointment of Scalia will have any substantive effect on the Supreme Court's decision making is far from clear. Rehnquist is replacing retiring chief Justice Warren E. Burger, generally considered to be among the court's most conservative members. Asked if he foresees any changes in life at the Supreme Court, Rehnquist said, "I believe you don't fix anything that's not broken. As far as I know, there's nothing broken." Reagan was quoted by senate Major ity Leader Bob Dole as calling Rehn quist's opponents "a lynch mob," and in a statement released by the White House the president added: "The attacks came from those whose ideology runs contrary to his profound and unshake able belief in the proper constitutional role of the judiciary." Reagan said he has "no doubt Wil liam Rehnquist will prove to be a chief justice of historic stature." Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Democrats had "done everything they can to destroy this man's reputation" but had failed. He said the Democrats had conducted "a Rehnquisition" marked by "distortions and misre presentations. But Democrats noted that Scalia and Reagan's only other Supreme Court nominee, Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981, won unanimous confirmation. As chief justice, Rehnquist will serve as the nation's top judge and the "first among equals" in the Supreme Court. When voting in the majority, he will control who writes the court's opinions. The chief justice also heads the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making body for all federal courts. He chairs the board of the Federal Jucicial Center, involved in the training of federal judges. Aquino applauded, cheered by Congress WASHINGTON Philippine President Corazon Aquino, in a speech that brought a shower of affection from a joint session of Congress, pledged Thursday to take up "the sword of war" if peacemaking with communist rebels fails. Aquino, in the seventh month of her leadership of a major U.S. ally which was led for more than 20 years by Ferdinand Marcos, offered thanks for the role Congress played in changing U.S. policy toward her country. At the same time, Aquino, widow of the assassinated Benigno Aquino, an opposition leader in the last years of Marcos, appealed for help to build "a new home for democracy, another haven for the oppressed." House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., D-Mass., said afterwards, "That's the finest speech I've heard in my 34 years in Congress." Members of the House and Senate, many wearing yellow roses symbolizing the color Aquino chose for her presidential campaign, crowded the chamber. Scores of Filipino Americans were in the gallery crowd. Within hours of her speech, the House passed 203-197 a bill giving the Philippines a $200 million cash infusion to help deal with economic distress. The measure was sent to the Senate, where prospects for appro val were uncertain. Some opponents suggested the money be spent instead on improving U.S. military facilities at Subic Bay Naval Station and Clark Air Base. Aquino underscored her policy of negotiating with the Communist New People's Army guerrilla movement but said, "I will not stand by and allow an insurgent leadership to spurn our offer of peace and kill our young soldiers and threaten our new freedom." "We face a communist insurgency that feeds on economic deteriora tion, even as we carry a great share of the free world defenses in the Pacific," she said in her only reference to U.S. military' bases in the Philippines. Invoking the name of President Abraham Lincoln, Aquino said, "I understand that force may be necessary before mercy. Like Lincoln. I don't relish it, yet I will do whatever it takes to defend the integrity and freedom of my country. Aquino is on a nine-day official visit to the country where she lived for 10 years, first as a student and later in exile until her husband was assassinated on his return to Manila. She is to address the United Nations in New York on Monday. I .. I 1 ... . . . '"J" DWTs rise for Nebraska women LINCOLN The number of women arrested for drunken driving in Nebraska almost doubled from 1980 to 1985 and increased more than 800 percent since 1971, according to Nebraska Crime Commission statistics, There were 830 women arrested in Nebraska for driving while under the influence of alcohol in 1980, compared to 1.560 in 19S5, the statistics said. In 1971, 185 women were arrested for DW1 in the state. Although tougher laws and increased social pressures against drunken driving also have resulted in more arrests of men for DWI the percentage of women among the total arrested has risen steadily. The 185 women arrested for drunken driving in 1971 accounted for 5.9 percent of Nebraska's 3,089 DWI arrests, the statistics said. The 1,560 women arrested last year represented almost 14 percent of all DWI arrests in the state. While the number of men arrested for DWI from 1971 to 1985 also increased, the percentage of men among all DWI arrests declined from 94 percent in 1971 to 86 percent in 1985, the commission said. MX test successful VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif, An unarmed MX missile made a successful test flight of more than 4,100 milgs Thursday, hitting targets in the Pacific Ocean near Kwajalein Atoll, the Air Force said. The missile blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:30 a.m. and its six "unarmed re-entry vehicles" splashed into the sea in the Pacific Missile Test range about 30 minutes later, said M4 Barry Glickman. In time of war, the re-entry vehicles would carry nuclear warheads. The MX, dubbed the "Peacekeeper" by President Eeasan, is the nation's latest intercontinental ballistic missUe, dashed to deliver several independently targeted bombs to locations hundreds of miles The Air Force expects to have 10 cf the rcfcsl'.rs Ir.sti": J m under Bill jtB:ltff'EiaMl,6ri llli II WpSfc:l:tSe the year, Glickman said. Depress has authorized deployment of 50 of the : rflsliies.: Todays launch was the 1 4th in a series cf 3 test h:..ts. llllasM lcSrjrii'ior thei; case Thursday the newsman is a spy. He suited the ca?3 is bclrj! exploited in the United States to try trt J spoil sper r - .. : r r : !.:' ! :u:-. uiiu iieon marine, as ine sry y,:.o v. and said Ar.rricrr.s were trjir J to Uie it "to . 'A t l u; hatred.' National Guard jcto collide ' WELLS, NX - Two National Guard jets carrying a collided and crashed Wednesday in the K?::-v J ;k one pilct iffid-irjuring the ether, etch's i?M, iha tv.in-endr.s A-IO r-tn pr- r.I:nt for US. trcJ-hmded" . . , cr.dtofan Instilling; support, crashed at 2:43 p.m. about 50 r;,ik-s n ciiusctts Air N2tior.il Girrd v 4 t r ,A V- i Ui's tt?V. , cf Al M Ire 3 sir assa-J One of the pibts walked away frcra the crash sit? cr.i v:.s taen to a hospital by emergency workers, ssi.i lla-i'.tnn Cr.--r.iv Sheriff Dou-las Parker. " ' ' The pilot of the cither was killed, said Whittofcer. L szii the mans identity was being withheld white f ;iv Pi-: .