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Daily Nebraskan Thursday, January 15, 1987 N Digest By The Associated Press 2U- Page 2 Armas detate comtaes Vance: Iranian arms sale strategy expensive mistake WASHINGTON - Former Secretary of Slate Cyrus Vance said Wednesday the Reagan administration's decision to secretly sell arms to Iran was an expensive blunder that cost the United States the trust of its allies. While sources in and out of govern ment said the State Department's chief official on Central America had worked closely with then-White House aide Oliver L. North in controlling what the administration says was private military aid for Nicaraguan rebels, Vance ques tioned the rationale for the arms sales. "To be blunt, this great nation if it is lo remain worthy of global leader ship cannot again manage its foreign relations as an amateur," said Vance, leadoff witness for a series of Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on the policies behind the clandestine Iran arms deal and the diversion of some proceeds to the rebels, known as Contras. Vance questioned the stated rationale behind the arms initiative a concern about possible Soviet encroachment into the strategically vital Persian Gulf area Such a possibility has always existed, he said. Vance also said that such a move is unlikely at a time when the Soviet Union's chief priorities are modernizing its economy and solving domestic social problems. In another development, a private American source in the Contra aid network, declining to be named publicly, told The Associated Press that Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, along with North and the CIA officer in charge of the Nicaraguan rebels, comprised a "triad" who made all key decision on the Contras, including American distri bution of weapons from an allegedly private aid network during a congress ional ban on direct and indirect U.S. government miliary assistance. Besides North, who was fired Nov. 25 for his role in allegedly diverting Iranian arms sales profits to aid the Contras, the officials are Abrams and the CIA officer now directing the Contra operation, according to the sources who insisted on anonymity. The CIA officer belongs to the spy agency's clandestine services, and The Associated Press decided to withhold his name. Sources said this trio oversaw the air-resupply operation that included the arms-laden cargo plane that was flown by Eugene Hasenfus and shot down over Nicaragua Oct. 5. can Editoi Managing Editoi Assoc News Editors Editoi ial Page Editor Wne Editoi Copy Desk Chief Spoits Editoi Ails & Entertain ment Editoi Photo Chief Diversions Editoi Geneial M.magei Pioduction Manager Advertising Manager Student Advertising Manager Creative Director Publications Board Chairman Professional Adviser Jeff Korbelik 472-1766 Gene Gentrup Tammy Kaup Linda Hartmann Lise Olsen James Rogers Scott Thien Joan Rezac Chuck Green Scott Harrah Andrea Hoy Chris McCubbin Daniel Shattil Katherine Policky Lesley Larson Bryan Peterson Kelly Wirges Harrison Schullz. 474-7660 Don Walton. 473-7301 The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is published by the UNL Publications Boaid Monday through Friday in the fall and spiing semesteis and Tuesdays and Fridays in the summer sessions, except duiing vacations Readeis are encouraged to submit stoiy ideas and comments to the Daily Nebraskan by phoning 472-1763 between 9 a m. and 5 p m. 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The total CIA budget is not revealed. Of the $312 billion President Reagan is seeking in defense spending, the Air Force has at least $12.5 billion worth of classified programs, according to the sources and analyses. Many of them are identified in public budget documents only by code names such as "Project Leo," "Bernie" or 'Tacit Rainbow." The disproportionate amount given the Air Force reflects the reliance on that service upon high technology such as Stealth and its involvement in surveillance systems. The Stealth program uses exotic involvement in surveillance systems. The Stealth program uses exotic materials and unusual designs to make planes and missiles difficult to detect by radar. The Air Force is developing a Stealth bomber with deployment tentatively scheduled in the early 1990s, but the service is also developing a Stealth fighter and the Navy is working on carrier-based planes with similar capabilities, the sources said. Study: Taxes favor rich, hurt poor WASHINGTON - Most state and local taxes have become so unfair that families making over $500,000 a year pay a smaller share of their income to the tax collector than those living below the poverty line, a study con cluded Wednesday. In two states Wyoming and South Dakota the poor pay a percentage of their income that is four times as large as paid by the rich, the study found. Fifteen states tax the poor at a rate more than double that applied to the rich. In 10 states, the burden on middle-income families is at least twice what the rich pay. "With very few exceptions, state tax systems are shocking in their inequity," Citizens for Tax Justice said in releasing the study. Citizens for Tax Justice used the study to kick off a campaign to rewrite state and local taxes in the wake of federal overhaul. The study listed three causes for inequity: loopholes permitted under the old federal law; states inaction to periodically raise personal exemptions, which are of major benefit to lower-income groups; and increasing reliance on sales taxes, whose impact falls most heavily on the poor. Police arrest second employee for New Year's hotel fire SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico A Dupont Plaza Hotel busboy was charged Wed nesday with helping a maintenance worker start the New Year's Eve fire that killed 96 people at the luxury hoteJ. - ; Both longtime hotel employees were in custody on arson charges as investi gators of the fire indicated more arrests could follow. Armando Jimenez Rivera, a 28-year-old bar busboy, was arrested Tuesday and arraigned Wednesday on a charge of arson in U.S. District Court. He was accused of helping Hector Escudero Aponte, 35, set fire to the hotel. Jimenez Rivera provided Sterno-type fuel that Escudero Aponte placed on a pile of new furniture stacked along a wall of the hotel's south ballroom, a federal complaint alleged. Escudero Aponte was charged in federal court Tuesday with arson and in Puerto Rico District Court with arson, destruction of property and 96 counts of murder. In Brief Train crewmen test positive for drugs WASHINGTON Both crewmen of the Conrail locomotive that ran a stop signal and slid into the path of a speeding Amtrak passenger train were found to have maryuana in their system at the time of the accident, federal investigators said Wednesday. One source close to the investigation said the amounts of marijuana on blood and urine samples taken from the two men within hours of the Jan. 4 accident near Baltimore were "substantial" and indicated possible chronic or recent use of the drug. Test on Conrail engineer Richard Gates and the brakeman, Edward Cromwell, showed no evidence of alcohol in either of the men. In addition to the 16 fatalities, 1 75 people were injured in the collision. Don't Put Your Decision to Buy Health Insurance on Ice. Are you willing to gamble that you won't have any medical bills during the school year? Why not buy Student Health Insurance and decrease your odds from financial disaster or illness or accident. After February 28, 1987 all enrollments are FINAL! Visit the Student Health Insurance Office at the Health Center by Saturday, February 28. A Student Insurance Representative is available to answer your questions Monday through Friday. For more information call 472-7437. P.O Box 809027 Dallas, Texas 75380 1-800-527-0519 ct TUDcm inuaance company Red M&Ms-make 11-year comeback NEWARK, N.J. Red M&Ms, banished 11 years ago because of misplaced concern over food dyes, are once again taking their rightful place among the tan, brown, yellow, orange and green. The return of the red candies was prompted by a national outcry that included thousands of letters to the manu facturer and the formation of college campus societies, a spokesman for the Hackettstown-based M&M-Mars said Wednesday. A few stores already have the red ones in stock now, but most won't carry them until February. About 20 percent of the 100 million M&Ms made each day will be red, the company said. "It's great fun and it's part of America," said M&Ms spokesman Hans Fiuczynski. "That's our best explanation" for the popularity of red M&Ms, he said. The company has received letters from World War II veterans wnorememnerenren m&ms in i; rfltinnsanHfrmri Man vnttmnm ne i - ? - - " " gunman vi uaiuiey muiugomery ocoii int. m people who learned how to count in grammar school with PhilartoinVii-j "Ac o - - yj - ....uv.jim, iw c iujai mixmo catci, i wciuuiuc iu the candies, he said. cc.or. It cheers me up to eat a red M&M. 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