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Gulf clash renews
War Powers debate
WASHINGTON — Recent U.S.
k Iranian clashes are miring Congress
in renewed debate about its role in
making foreign policy and, as before,
the fight centers on the 1973 War
Powers Act.
“There are so many complexities
involved here,” said Sen. William
Cohen, R-Maine, discussing the cur
rent fight. “I think this is just the sort
of situation the War Powers Act was
designed to deal with.”
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., for
mer chairman of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee, halfway agreed
with Cohen.
“It’s a situation where there are a
lot of strong opinions on a complex
issue,” Lugar said. “I also think it’s a
case where the War Powers Act is not
applicable.”
The differing views are a micro
cosm of the dispute in the Demo
cratic-con trolled Senate over Presi
dent Reagan’s policy of reflagging 11
Kuwaiti tankers and protecting them
with U.S. Navy convoys in the war
tom Persian Gulf.
Reagan has refused to invoke the
War Powers Act, enacted by Con
gress over President Nixon’s veto
after presidential decisions greatly
expanded the U.S. role in the Vietnam
War.
Both Lugar and Cohen agreed that
that if the question actually comes to
a vote on whether to simply support
Reagan’s policy, Congress would be
closely divided.
49 die in Burma plane crash
RANGOON, Burma — A Burma
Airways plane caught fire and
crashed about 20 miles short of a
popular tourist town in central Burma
Sunday, killing all 49 people aboard,
including 14 Americans, the govern
ment said.
The official News Agency of
Burma said 36 foreigners, nine Bur
mese passengers and four crewmen
were aboard. The brief announce
ment did not give the cause of the
crash.
It was the airline’s second disaster
in less then four months; a Burma
Airways crash on June 21 killed 45
Burmese.
Columbus ’ landing still debatable
BOSTON — A new reading of
the Atlantic ocean’s winds and
currents argues that Christopher
Columbus’ first landing in the New
World really was on a small island
that was long the favorite of histo
rians.
For decades, historians be
lieved Columbus first landed in
1492 on Walling Island, later for
mally renamed San Salvador, in
the Bahamas. Last year, however,
the National Geographic Society
analyzed ocean conditions that
would have pushed his ships
slightly sideways and concluded
that Columbus really set foot first
on Samana Cay, an obscure isle 64
miles to the southeast.
Now, oceanographer Philip
Richardson and computer pro
grammer Roger Goldsmith from
the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution have recharted the trip,
estimating Columbus’ position for
each half hour of the voyage. They
said Columbus probably landed
where experts had believed all
along.
“On the face of it, our data leans
pretty strongly toward San Salva
dor,” Richardson said.
But Joseph Judge, a National
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Geographic editor who led his
magazine’s effort to find Colum
bus’ true landing place, stands by
his calculations and said Samana
still looks like the right spot
“The short answer is that we
took the matter up with the experts,
and they say Richardson is not
really correct,” Judge said.
Richardson and the National
Geographic team both tried to re
trace Columbus’ course by figur
ing the currents and winds that
would have pushed his ships side
ways. But they used different
methods.
The National Geographic’s cal
culations relied on Navy pilot
charts that show the directions and
speed of prevailing currents.
Richardson, however, used the
average of prevailing currents in a
spot rather than relying on the
charts.
He said those calculations hit
San Salvador almost on the nose.
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The right choice.
1 Reagan calls
Bork’s decision
gratifying
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan indicated Saturday he would
have acceded to a request by appeals
court Judge Robert H. Bork to with
draw as a Supreme Court nom incc, but
said he was gratified by Bork’s an- (
nouncmcnt Friday that he would carry
on.
In his weekly radio address to the
nation, broadcast from Camp David,
Md., Reagan said, “I won’t easily
forget” how Bork described the agony
of deciding whether to remain in the
fight. But Reagan also said he shared
Bork’s feeling that there should be “no
illusions” about his prospects for
confirmation.
In ihe Democratic Party’s re
sponse, Sen. George Mitchell of
Maine said that “when the United
States Senate votes on the nomination
of Judge Bork, nearly 60 senators,
including several Republicans, will
vote no.”
“Judge Bork’s views are inconsis
tent with two centuries of American
constitutional law and the common
understanding of the American
people,” Mitchell said, adding that
Bork has little appreciation for Ameri
cans’ right to privacy.
Reagan said Bork’s record had
been “subjected to distortions and
misrepresentations.” and said that
“while I refused to withdraw his name,
1 understood why Judge Bork himscli
might choose to do so.”
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