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Reagan calls for continued aid to Contra rebels
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NEW YORK President Reagan, staking out
a tough position on the eve of the Iran-Contra
hearings, said Sunday that cutting off aid to
rebels in Nicaragua would give the Soviet Union
a free hand in Central America and "one of their
greatest foreign policy victories since World War
II."
Reagan said that when members of Congress
vote lat-r this year on aid to the rebels, it may
well be the most important vote of 1987 and
"possibly one of the most important cast in their
careers in public office."
Reagan's remarks came in an address pre
pared for delivery on Ellis Island during the
opening ceremonies of the American Newspaper
Publisher's Association annual convention.
In his remarks, Reagan made no mention of
the televised hearings opening on Capitol Hill
Tuesday on .the secret sale of the arms to Iran
and the possible diversion of profits to the Con
tras. He said nothing about the purported
transfer of funds a subject about which he has
pleaded ignorance and he was silent about
the division within the Contra leadership.
Arguing that America has maintained a bipar
tisan consensus on foreign policy for 50 years,
Reagan declared, "This is no time for either
party to turn its back on that tradition or on the
cause of freedom, especially when the threat to
both is so close to home.
"I do not think there is anyone in Congress
who wants to see another base for Soviet subver
sion, another Cuba established on American
shores yet that is what is happening right
now," Reagan said.
"If we cut off the freedom fighters, we will be
giving the Soviets a free hand in Central Amer
ica handing them one of their greatest foreign
policy victories since World War II," the presi
dent added.
Reagan said, "Make no mistakes: the Soviets
are challenging the United States to a test of
wills over the future of this hemisphere."
"For as long as I am president, I have no
intention of withdrawing our support of these
efforts by the Nicaraguan people to gain their
freedom and the right to choose their own
national future," Reagan said.
Tax increase talk raises concern,
makes some Democrats uneasy
SANTA FE, N.M. All the talk by congres
sional Democrats of the need for a tax increase
to help reduce the federal budget deficit is mak
ing many party officials uneasy as they look
ahead to the 1988 election.
"It's playing Russian roulette again," said
Charles Whitehead, Florida Democratic Party
chairman.
"It will absolutely kill us in the state of Flor
ida," he added.
Whitehead is one of the party leaders who
believe the Democrats paid a heavy price in 1984
when Walter F. Mondale told the nation as he
accepted the presidential nomination that a tax
increase would be needed to reduce the record
budget deficits.
"The politics of saying you're going to raise
taxes is bad, no question about it," said Donald
Fowler of South Carolina, a member of the
Democratic National Committee.
But, Fowler added, advocating new revenues
when they are needed is "a matter of political
leadership."
Many of the Democrats said the party is in the
uncomfortable position of taking the lead in
calling for new revenues to deal with the budget
deficits run up during the Reagan presidency.
"We're advocating taxes to bail out eight
years of Reagan," Whitehead complained.
Back in Washington, the Senate was moving
ahead with a budget proposal drafted by the
Democratic majority that would freeze spending
for the Pentagon and most domestic programs
and also call for $1 1.5 billion in new revenue.
Soviet wheat sale pleases farmers
despite continued surplus, low prices
WICHITA, Kan. Farmers and others cheered
the sale of 147 million bushels of wheat to the
Soviet Union, but they say it can't do much to
solve the industry's low prices and 2 billion
bushel surplus.
"The reason it's excellent news is it's the first
significant wheat transaction with them in a
long period of time," said Del Wiedeman, a
Wakeeney area farmer who is president of the
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers.
The sale announced Thursday amounts to
about 7 percent of the 2 billion bushels of sur
plus wheat on hand. It is less than half the
amount expected to be harvested this summer in
Kansas, the nation's No. 1 wheat-producing
state.
The sale was subsidized by the federal govern
ment under the Export Enhancement Program.
Grain exporting companies will receive wheat
from the government-controlled surplus to reim
burse them for lowering their prices to an esti
mated $2.18 a bushel, about 60 cents less than
current national wheat prices on the spot
market.
"I think this might spur additional sales,"
said Doyle Rahjes, president of the state's larg
est agricultural organization, the Kansas Farm
Bureau.
Bill Tierney, a Kansas State University agri
cultural economist, said the sale did have a
slight psychological effect on the wheat futures
market, which moved up six cents a bushel
Friday to close at $2,745. Wheat prices have been
at a seven year low since the 1986 harvest.
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Investigators look into Bush's role
in Contra weapons shipments
. ' WASHINGTON Iran Contra investigators are looking
into Vice President George Bush's connections to the
supply of weapons to the Nicaraguan Contras, including a
record of involvement from start to finish by a former CIA
agent who is a top aide to the vice president.
Reporting to Congress on the progress of his investiga
tion, independent counsel Lawrence Walsh specifically
listed the office of the vice president as among the objects
of his ongoing criminal investigation. He said those inquir
ies were "proving fruitful" and none has been abandoned.
While there have been questions about the vice presi
dent's role since last winter, only recently has the focus
sharpened on Bush and his aides. The Tower commission's
report released in February made scant mention of Bush's
role despite signs of involvement in the affair by him and his
staff. But the Tower panel interviewed only Bush and none of
his staff.
Wary that Bush's 1988 presidential chances could be
wrecked on the shoals of the Irari-Contra affair, the vice
president's political advisers insist that they do not have a
problem as congressional hearings open Tuesday.
In addition, Bush, himself a former CIA director, has had
meetings with key figures in both the arms sales to Iran and
the private aid network for supplying the Contras.
Moreover, Bush attended the daily intelligence briefings
for President Reagan where a number of key decisions in
the case were made, including the one at which the Iran
initiative was formally approved.
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Correction
In the April 30 issue of the
Daily Nebraskan, Barb Meister,
chairperson of Farm Action Con
cerns Tomorrow's Society, was
misquoted in a page 3 story
about her speech on the Harkin
Gephardt bill for the ag crisis
series. The quote should have
read: "Consumers might oppose
the bill because it could increase
the food prices by up to five
percent." The incorrect quote
said the bill might increase food
price by up to 10 percent.
The article also defined parity
incorrectly as the price the
government guarantees to pay
the farmer for products. Parity
should be defined as a price
concept in which the production
price is covered and the product
makes a reasonable profit, based
on 1914 prices. The Daily Nebra
skan regrets the errors.
Pope criticizes Nazism
Pontiff beautifies priest,
warns of 4de-Christianization'
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MUNICH, West Germany Pope
John Paul II on Sunday beatified a
German priest who defiantly preached
the gospel of peace to the Nazis, and
the pontiff called for greater religious
fervor to counter today's "de-Christ-ianization."
"Where God and his laws are not
respected, man's rights, too, will not be
respected," John Paul said. "This was
clear from the conduct of the Nazi
rulers."
A cheering crowd of more than
85,000 gathered in Munich's Olympic
stadium Sunday morning for the beati
fication of Rev. Rupert Mayer. Many
wore traditional green Bavarian cos
tumes with plumed hats.
The pope, wearing a gold robe and
miter, said of Mayer: "As an incorrupti
ble witness to the truth, he openly
opposed the false prophets of those
(Nazi) years, always prepared to fight
for the gospel of peace."
"Equipped with the shield of a deep,
unwavering faith, he brandished in his
famous sermons the sword of the spirit,
the word of God."
Mayer, a German Jesuit, was jailed
thre'e times for his sermons against
Nazism, and was sent to a concentra
tion camp. He died in 1945, after World
War II ended, while working in Munich.
Beatification is a step toward possible
sainthood.
Mayer protested against Adolf Hitler's
government in dozens of sermons deli
vered at Masses he celebrated in
Munich's train station. The Nazis mur
dered 6 million Jews and hundreds of
thousands of Gypsies, homosexuals and
others from 1933-45.
During his homily, the pontiff also
denounced divorce and increasing
secularism, saying: "Do not allow the
process of de-Christianization to con
tinue." The pontiff did not spell out what he
meant by de-Christianization, but he
frequently has warned of what he sees
as a growing abandonment of Christian
principles, especially in industrialized
countries.
Late Sunday, the Vatican announced
that steady downpours forced cancel
lation of an outdoor Mass in Augsburg,
55 miles north of Munich. It was the
first weather-related cancellation of an
outdoor Mass in the 34 foreign trips
John Paul has taken since he became
pope in 1978. The Mass was moved to
the Augsburg cathedral.
Since his arrival Thursday, the pon-1
tiff has used his five-day trip to West
Germany to deliver what Vatican ana-.
lysts call the toughest papal condem- j
nation of Nazi atrocities to date. j
Sunday's ceremony came two days
after the pope beatified Jewish-born j
Carmelite nun Edith Stein, who was!
gassed in Auschwitz death camp in
1942.
Dozens of yellow-and-white Vatican
flags fluttered atop the stadium, along
side blue-and-white Bavarian banners.
Bavaria, the country's largest state, is
70 percent Catholic, The national aver
age is 43,6 percent.
The stadium where Sunday's cerem
ony took place was site of the 1972 f
bummer Olympic Games, which were f
overshadowed by the killing of 11
Israeli athletes and trainers by Arab J
terrorists. . I
John Paul made no reference to the
massacre during his 3 12-hour Mass.
The pope is scheduled to return to j
Rome on Monday. !
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