Thursday, February 19, 1987
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Senate committee: Cut Nicaragua's aid
WASHINGTON The Senate For
eign Relations Committee voted 11-9
Wednesday to halt U.S. aid to Nicara
gua's anti-government guerrillas in the
first major test of sentiment in the new
Congress toward the Contras.
Z However, even supporters of the
iieaure passed. -by the Democratic
controlled committee conceded it will
hi' vetoed by President Reagan if .it
eventually passes the Senate and the
House.
"1 think we have the votes on the
floor to pass it, but of course the presi
dent will veto it and I doubt that we
can override the veto," said Sen. Clai
borne Pell, D-R.I., chairman of the
panel and an opponent of Contra aid.
No action by the full Senate is likely for
several weeks, he said.
The vote came after more than three
, hours of debate in which both sides
' repeated their arguments favoring or
opposing the program.
The program has been highly contro
versial ever since the Contras, with
secret U.S. help, began fighting Nica
ragua's leftist government six years
ago. Congress banned U.S. military aid
for two years but narrowly reversed
itself last fall and voted for $100 mil
lion worth of aid, including $70 million
in military help, for the current fiscal
year.
The bill sent to the floor Wednesday
would not specifically block the $40
million. It has no cut-off figure or date
in it. The measure would simply ban
U.S. help for the Contras, and Sen.
Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., one of the
sponsors, said il it eveniuany Decomes
law, it would halt whatever part of the
$100 million package had not been
spent.
Dodd's bill also includes $300 mil
lion worth of economic aid to other
Central American nations, including El
Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and
Guatemala. But Sen. Nancy Kassebaum,
R-Kan., called the cut-off of Contra aid
the "emotional lightning rod of this
issue."
SMites and Drase battle m west Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon Druse gunmen' '
Hurling grenades stormed the Commo
dore Hotel and drove out Shiite militia
wi Wednesday in one of the fiercest
fights of four-day battle for control of
Moslem west Beirut
Both sides ignored threats by Syria
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orders unless Shiite and leftist gunmen
stop their struggle for domination of
the city's Moslem sector. Syria sup
ports all the factions involved.
Pools of blood splattered the lobby
of the seven-story Commodore, once
the headquarters of foreign correspon
dents. Rockets punched huge holes in
its walls before the assault, and many
air conditioners were blown away.
Police said at least 25 fighters were
killed and 80 wounded in street battles
around the Commodore and the Ameri
can University of Beirut just off Hamra,
the Moslem sector's main commercial
street. That raised the toll since fight
ing began Sunday to at least 65 killed
and 280 wounded.
The fight for west Beirut pits the
Shiite militia Amal, led by Nabin Berri,
against an alliance of Walid Jumblatt's
Druse fighters and gunmen of the
Moscow-oriented Lebanese Communist
Party.
Wednesday's fighting broke a cease
fire arranged by Syria that was called at
6:30 p.m. Tuesday but did not take hold
until midnight.
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Soviets sign
pardon for
Jewish activist
GENEVA Soviet authorities
have signed an unconditional
pardon for imprisoned Jewish
activist Josef Begun, a Soviet
official said Wednesday.
Samuel Zivs, head of the Soviet
Anti-Zionist Committee and Vice
President of the Soviet -American
Friendship Association, said Sov
iet President Andrei Gromyko or
one of his deputies signed the
pardon Tuesday night.
Zivs was in Geneva for the cur
rent session of the U.N. Human
Rights Commission.
Earlier Wednesday Yelena Bon
ner, wife of Nobel Peace Prize
laureate Andrei Sakharov, said
in Moscow there were no news of
the 55-year-old Begun.
Georgy Arbatov, head of the
Soviet Union's U.S A-Canada In
stitute, said in a televised inter
view last weekend that Begun
already had been freed But on
Tuesday, Soviet Foreign Ministry
spokesman Gennady Gerasimov
said authorities would "most
likely" free Begun.
Begun's family has said offi
cials at Chistopol Prison, about
500 miles east of Moscow, told
them Begun still was imprisoned
there.
Correction
In the story "Committee kills
vote for UNL students," Daily
Nebraskan, February 18, Chris
Scudder was incorrectly identi
fied as a former UNL student
regent. Scudder is the current
UNL student regent. The Daily
Nebraskan regrets the error.
A cutline under the front page
photo, Daily Nebraskan, Febru
ary 18, incorrectly spelled a stu
dent's name as Phillip Wall. The
correct spelling is Phillip Woll.
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