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Daily Nebraskarv Wednesday, January 21, 197 News Wmesi By The Associated Press Page 2 Meagaiio panel studying bsm cosis WASHINGTON President Reagan was described Tuesday as helping to stitch together places and dates spell ing out the Iran Contra connection as his point-man on the furor declared "there is absolutely no stonewalling." White House deputy press secretary Albert R. Brashear said Reagan has met twice with Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan for lengthy discussions touching on the president's recollection of events chronicling the clandestine sales of U.S. arms to Iran. At the same time, retiring NATO ambassador David Abshire, brought to the White House from Brussels to help coordinate responses to an array of investigations, pledged that Reagan will meet "in the very near future" with a commission investigating National Security Council operations. A spokesman for the Tower Commis sion said late Tuesday that Reagan has a date to meet with the panel, which he named to investigate the workings of the National Security Council and its role in the Iran Contra crisis. Spokesman Herbert E. Hetu said the White House proposed a date for such a meeting on Tuesday and the three member panel accepted. ' Hetu said the three-member panel also decided to ask for an extension on their Jan. 29 deadline for completing their investigation and reporting to the president. Inmates: CIA knew of Contra arms-for-cocaine swap MIAMI Two federal inmates say the charge Tuesday, as have a DEA they flew arms to the Nicaraguan Contra spokesman and two top leaders of the rebels and drugs back to the United Contras fighting Nicaragua's leftist States with the knowledge of the CIA Sandinista government, and the Drug Enforcement Administra- Jorge "George" Morales Garcia is tion. "It was guns down, cocaine back," scheduled for trial Monday on charges one inmate said. of smuggling 461 kilograms or 1,014 A spokeswoman for the CIA denied pounds of cocaine from Costa Rica to the Bahamas. The second inmate, Gary Betzner, flew two missions for Morales and is serving a sentence for cocaine smuggling and facing attempted escape charges. Morales said he received some of his instructions on the guns-for-drugs trade from the CIA contact in Costa Rica. "The CIA was very, very aware of it," Morales told The Associated Press. He said his CIA-directed arms flights con tinued even after Congress banned such aid. CIA spokeswoman Kathy Pherson denied the accusation Tuesday. olOlv lujte) n ON YOUR FIRST DONATION (WITH COUPON) rj 9 rir?tTT'rrMT7 rn C7 0 " n a u SOOQODBDQOOOOnoO Associated Bioscience of Nebraska, Inc. 1 A A O n Croot r ""Nfl Lincoln, Nebraska 68508 Phone 475-8645 w-? ma!T mrm JTt"i ,i ht'.j jk-dh I In Brief Air Force destroys missile during test VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A Minuteman 1 missile with a secret, experimental re-entry vehicle was destroyed after launch Tuesday when it went out of control, the Air Force reported. In a statement limited to the barest details, Capt. John Sullivan of the Space Missile Test Organization at Vandenberg Air Force Base described the destroyed missile as a modified Minuteman 1, which was launched at 12:35 a.m. He did not disclose the trajectory, altitude or location of the Minuteman when it was destroyed. Two planes collide; five die INDEPENDENCE, Mo. A military plane and a private plane collided over the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant on Tuesday, killing all five people aboard, authorities said. The crash, which occurred about 12:30 p.m. over the plant east of Kansas City, involved a U21 fixed-wing military plane headed for Fort Leavenworth, Kan., said Lt. Col. John Garlinger, public affairs officer at Fort Leavenworth. The civilian plane was a Piper Navajo, he said. There were believed to be three people aboard the military plane and two aboard the private plane, Garlinger said. Each plane can seat up to six people. - : : . ' Panel says train sped up before crash WASHINGTON Senators called Tuesday for expanded drug testing of train operators and new authority for federal regula tors to deal with what an official described as widespread tamper ing with automatic safety devi ces on trains. Federal railroad officials, ap pearing at the first in a series of congressional hearings prompted by the Amtrak accident, said the government is severely limited in what it can do at present. Both drug use and equipment tampering have been implicated in the Jan. 4 collision of an Amtrak passenger train and three Conrail freight locomotives near Baltimore. Top Amtrak officials, in their first extensive public comments on the accident, put the blame directly on the Conrail crewmen. "The evidence is overwhelm ing that the sole cause of the accident . . . was the outrage ous conduct of the Conrail crew in violating not one but a whole series of important operating rules," declared W. Graham Clay tor, Amtrak chairman. Tests on the engineer and brakeman aboard the Conrail locomotive involved in the colli sion have shown marijuana in the blood and urine. Witnesses told the Senate tran sportation appropriations sub committee that a signal warned the Conrail engineer nearly a mile before the track intersec tion that he should slow to 20 miles an hour and stop. aa, r vtar - mar -4er - vs !P.' !l H 4- 1 jt... ... , .-f-- - .. - - - ... .1 - ( 1' (l 1 t y ArtCarved Siladium college rings are now more affordable than ever. Choose from an incredible variety of styles. See your ArtCarved representative now and save $40 on a great Siladium college ring. r a I I 1 1 u. . - T-..11 1 iti.: ki 1.. every nvarvtu ring is DatKeu vy a run uufiiine warranty. CLASS RINGS CLASS RINGS Jan. 19 East Campus Union Bookstore Jan. 20-22 City Campus North Union Lobby Deposit Required VMM If V i n( jrvcJ ( law Rings 1 V . 1 ... ,;" Only $20 Deposit Needed to Order! PUm UviI Otjr Cmpu Unioa 472-7300 Cartftn Ltvtl Eui Campus Union 472-1 741 No relief for dollar, economists say WASHINGTON Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III will meet on Wednesday with the v finance ministers of Canada and Japan to dis cuss monetary issues, but there was little indi-. cation that the Reagan administration is ready " to join in steps to ease the dollar's sharp fall. Administration officials, who spoke on the, condition of anonymity, said Tuesday that des pite the recent plunge in the dollar which this week brought the currency to a new post World War II low against the Japanese yen Baker seems content to allow the dollar to con tinue falling with market pressures. That's because a lower dollar should eventu ally begin to ease this nation's trade deficit, estimated at a record $173 billion last year. A lower dollar makes imports more expensive and U.S. goods cheaper overseas. However, the dollar has been decreasing in value steadily for nearly two years, while the trade deficit has actually worsened. Still, administration officials and private economists say that despite a miserable showing in November monthly trade figures . have been generally improving since last summer, : and that a further decline of the dollar against : major currencies could soon translate into a marked decrease in imports. Baker planned meetings with Canadian - Finance Minister Michael Wilson in Ottawa and Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in W'ashington. Japanese and West German officials have voiced concern that the plunge of the dollar and the accompanying rise of their currencies against it could trigger recessions in their countries. Miyazawa is expected to approach Baker with a request for a high-level meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the world's five major industrial powers the United States, West Germany, Britain, France and Japan to consider coordinated steps to prop up the dollar. can Editor Managing Editor Assoc. 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Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, NE. ALL UTim CCPYRICKT 1SS7 DAILY KBUSXAI Soviet scientist wants rules for nuclear plants WASHINGTON A top Soviet scientist, conceding his nation was too slow to tell the world about the "unthinka ble" disaster at Chernobyl, called Tuesday for global rules on the safety of nuclear power plants and to ensure that information about future accidents is shared quickly. In a rare congressional appearance by a Soviet official, ' Yevgeny Velikhov, the man assigned to bring the Chernobyl disaster under control and to investigate its causes, testi fied to the Senate Labor Committee about the April 26, 1986, accident and its aftermath. Velikhov, the vice president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, agreed with the complaint of committee Chair man Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., that the Soviet govern ment should have shared news of the tragedy immediately, rather than remaining quiet for days. "That is my personal view," said Velikhov, a top nuclear adviser to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. "At the time, I think most of our interest was connected with internal developments. But I agree with you, and, for the future, I think it is important to have informational agreements" regarding any serious incidents involving nuclear power plants. When Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., asked if he favored an "international regime of safety standards," Velikhov, in halting English, replied -Tes.-It is necessary to develop special standards. I think that is very important. .