Daily Nebraskan
Friday, March 6, 1987
By The Associated Press
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House Democrats plan vote to cut Contra aM
WASHINGTON House Dem
ocrats said Thursday they plan a
vote next week on legislation that
would shut off further aid to Nicara
gua's Contra rebels until previous
aid is accounted for, including any
money diverted from Iranian arms
sales or solicited from private
sources.
The Democrats' move was seen as
primarily an effort to focus atten
tion on the administration's inabil
ity to account for tens of millions of
dollars in previous aid money, an
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issue already raised by last week's
Tower commission report on the
Iran-Contra affair as well as by con
gressional investigators.
President Reagan said Thursday
that investigations of the Iran-Contra
affair must continue but that he
planned to turn his attention to
other matters such as arms control.
Congress, after a two-year ban on
direct or indirect military aid to the
Contras, last year approved a $100
million package for fiscal 1987.
Reagan is expected to formally
request the final $40 millon of that
package in the next few days, and
opponents could then press for a
vote to disapprove the money.
While such a move could succeed
in the House, its outcome in the
Senate is far less clear particularly
since Reagan hired Howard Baker,
the former Senate Republican leader,
as White House chief of staff.
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Byrd, D-W. Va., has said he supports
the idea of holding up the last $40
million but Senate Democrats have
not yet united behind it.
House Speaker Jim Wright, D
Texas, said a vote on the morato
rium was scheduled for next Wed
nesday, and aides said while the
vote could be close, the legislation
was expected to pass.
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Correction
The article "NU officials request aid
for campus library" (March 5) incor
rectly stated that NU Medical Center
Chancellor Charles Andrews recom
mended closing Lincoln's nursing div
ision. He recommended it two years ago
when the programs had to compete
against other medical-center campus
programs. In addition, the DN neg
lected to say that Andrews paraph
rased a legislator's comment to use the
Lincoln division's resources to finance
its nursing program in Scottsblulf. He
also did not say he would try to bring
Lincoln faculty to Omaha. The Daily
Nebraskan regrets the error.
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In Brief
India bans export of frog legs
NEW DELHI, India India banned the export of frog legs Thursday,
saying the amphibians were more valuable as live predators of mosquitoes
in India than as gourmet dinners elsewhere.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests said the
export ban, effective immediately, was to protect India's dwindling frog
population.
It said that rising demand for frog legs had led to the killing "Of a very
large number of frogs . . .and a marked depletion of the population of
frogs."
To help enforce the export ban, the ministry said it was giving frogs "a
special status of protection" under the nation's 1972 Wildlife Act.
Knife-wielding pirates attack Soviet merchant ship
MOSCOW Knife-wielding pirates boarded a Soviet merchant ship as
it left Singapore but one sailor managed to force all three intruders
overboard, a newspaper reported Wednesday. .
Sovietskaya Rossiya said the attack on the Vietnam-bound freighter,
Slutsk, took place Tuesday night when three men pulled alongside in a
motorboat and slipped aboard. .
The pirates surprised chief engineer Vasily Makarov, 48, in his cabin
and demanded money and valuables, the daily said.
It said the ship returned to Singapore, where Makarov was taken to a
hospital for surgery after being slashed on the forearm by one of the
attackers. '
Israeli official
apologizes to U.S.
for spy affair
TEL AVIV, Israel - Defense Minis
ter Yitzhak Rabin on Thursday apolog
ized to the American government and
people for the Pollard spy affair.
"The government of Israel apolog
ized in the past, apologizes today, to
the United States, its people, its govern
ment for what happened," Rabin said
in a prepared statement he read in
English.
The minister refused to answer report
ers' questions.
Johnathan J. Pollard, 32, a former
U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, pleaded
guilty to spying for Israel, and Wednes
day was sentenced to life imprison
ment by a Washington court. His wife,
Anne Henderson-Pollard, was given five
years for helping him.
Pollard, who said he spied for ideo
logical reasons, said his government
officials in Israel knew of his spying.
But Israeli officials have said Pollard's
activities were not known to Israeli
leaders.
He said Israel had cooperated in "an
unprecedented way" to uncover the
details of the matter, had disbanded
the spy unit that supervised Pollard
and reiterated its "longstanding pol
icy" of no espionage by Israel against
the United States.
Rabin said he hoped the "basic
understanding, the long-standing friend
ship and the common interests of our
two countries will make it possible not
to forget, but to overcome, this unfor
tunate incident."
Earlier Thursday, other Israeli lead
ers admitted Israel had made serious
errors in the affair.
Even so, Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres insisted the episode was an iso
lated incident, and Israeli leaders bore
no collective responsibility for it.
U.S. arms negotiator gives NATO allies
upbeat assessment of superpower weapons deal
BRUSSELS, Belgium The chief U.S. arms negotiator
gave the NATO allies an upbeat assessment Thursday of
prospects for a superpower agreement to scrap medium
range nuclear missiles in Europe, sources said.
Max M. Kampelman and the two other delegates to the
U.S.-Soviet arms talks in Genva, Maynard W. Gliman and
Ron Lehman, briefed the 16 NATO ambassadors at a closed
door, two-hour meeting before flying to consultations in
Washington.
The Geneva negotiations got new life last weekend when
Sovilt leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced willingness
to sign a treaty on medium-range missiles separately from a
package accord covering long-range missiles and "Star
Warst" the U.S. plan for a space-based defense system.
The United States agreed in principle and submitted a
proposed treaty to Soviet negotiators on Wednesday that
would eliminate U.S. cruise and Pershing 2 and Soviet SS-20
nuclear forces from Europe.
European countries have generally welcomed the pro
gress but have urged that the deal include big cuts in
shorter-range Soviet missiles capable of striking Western
Europe.
In Moscow, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the
government's initial reaction to the U.S. treaty proposal was
"very positive" and that the Kremlin wanted a final agree
ment "as soon as possible."
In his address to the North Atlantic Council, NATO's
highest political body, Kampelman stressed that important
obstacles to a formal accord remained, said the NATO
sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Kampelman said much bargaining remained on the ques
tions of verifying compliance with an agreement and linking
the withdrawal of mid-range missiles to reductions in
shorter-range Soviet nuclear rockets.
The seventh round of Geneva arms talks originally was to
end Wednesday, but after the Soviet initiative both sides
agreed Monday to extend talks on medium-range missiles
indefinitely.
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