News Digest— By The Associated Press
Reagan nominates woman
for labor secretary post
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan on Tuesday nominated
former Interior Undersecretary
Ann Dore McLaughlin to succeed
William E. Brock as secretary of
labor and bring a woman back into
his Cabinet.
Reagan called McLaughlin,
who also has held senior roles in the
Treasury Department and the En
vironmental Protection Agency, a
woman of “uncommon experience
and competence. . . who has won
my full confidence and support.”
With only 15 months remaining
in the administration, there ap
peared to be little sentiment among
Democrats and labor unions for
opposing the nomination.
“We’re going to take a pretty
good look at her, but it doesn’t
seem like she’s drawing any seri
ous opposition,” said Paul Dono
van, a spokesman for the Senate
Labor and Human Resources
Committee, lead by Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy, D-Mass. He added
the panel has not yet decided when
it will hold hearingson the nomina
tion.
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah,
senior Republican on the Labor
and Human Resources Committee,
called the choice of McLaughlin
“an inspired one. Ann has the abil
ity and background to run the de
partment.” He added that “she is
well-respected and her experience
in government will bring a special
expertise to the Labor Depart
ment.”
McLaughlin gave up the No. 2
post in the Interior Department, a
job she had held for three years, last
March following several clashes
with Interior Secretary Donald P.
Hodel.
Neither Reagan nor McLaugh
lin addressed any issues facing the
department, including a large
backlog of pending regulations in
the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration.
But, if confirmed by the Senate,
she can be expected to lead the
administration’s fight against a
broad agenda of legislation being
pushed in Congress by labor un
ions.
|
THIS OFFER IS SO GOOD
AND THIS OFFER IS SO FINE
A COMPLETE WELL BALANCED
SPAGHETTI LUNCH - FOR ONLY
PRICE INCLUDES
SALAD. GARLIC BREAD.
BASIC SAUCE AND ALL
THE SPAGHETTI YOU
CAN EAT
• SPECIAL SERVED DAILY FROM 11:30 A M. TO 2:00 P.V
TTI
228 N 12th—Lincoln • 11th & Howard—Old Market • 84th & Park Drive—Ralston
Defense secretary to resign
Carlucci likely to be approved as Weinberger s replacement
WASHINGTON — Senators of
both parties predicted Tuesday that
Frank C. Carlucci, President
Reagan’s national security adviser,
would be easily confirmed as secre
tary of defense if nominated as ex
pected to replace Caspar Weinberger.
Weinberger’s resignation and
Carlucci’s selection are likely to be
announced later this week, according
to administration and congressional
sources speaking on condition of
anonymity.
Officially, neither the White
House nor the Pentagon confirmed the
reports, and both Weinberger and
Carlucci declined comment.
Sources said Carlucci would be
replaced as director of the National
Security Council staff by Army Lt.
Gen. Colin Powell, who is currently
Carlucci’s deputy. Powell would be
the first black to hold that position and
would be the sixth national security
adviser in Reagan’s presidency.
Weinberger, 70, plans to leave
because his wife, Jane, is in poor
health, suffering from cancer and
from severe arthritis, the sources said.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole,
R-Kan., predicted that Carlucci, a
former deputy defense secretary un
der Weinberger and veteran of other
top government posts, “will be well
received” by the Senate.
Asked to compare the views of the
two men, Dole said, “I don’t see much
difference.”
Carlucci took over as national se
curity adviser after the resignation of
Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter last
year because of the Iran-Contra affair.
Court examines
law regulating
teens' abortions
WASHINGTON — States seeking
to impose regulations for young girls
who want abortions should be allowed
to protect the rights of parents “to
properly control the upbringing of
their children,” the Supreme Court
was told Tuesday.
“The state has a significant interest
in promoting parental involvement...
for the good of the child,” Illinois
Deputy Attorney General Michael J.
Hayes argued.
At issue in the 60-minute argument
session was the constitutionality of a
1983 Illinois law lower courts never
have allowed to take effect.
The law, enacted by the state’s
General Assembly over Gov. James
R. Thompson’s veto, required that
unmarried girls under 18 and still fi
nancially dependent on their parents
notify their parents 24 hours before
they abort their pregnanc ies.
Failure to comply with the require
ments was made a crime.
Hayes, under heavy questioning
from the justices, called the 24-hour
waiting period a “justified consulta
tion time” to allow minors to hear the
advice of their parents. He called the
waiting period “a time for meaningful
consultation.”
“The law protects the constitu
tional light of the parents to properly
control the upbringing of their chil
dren,” Hayes said.
Christina Oaigar/Daily Nebraskan
Snake hunter likes wild life
EL PORVENIR, Bolivia — Vesty
Pakos pinned down the writhing jopo
rojobobo snake as it wriggled through
the grass, then lifted its head to expose
inch-long fangs ripe with poison.
“This one is very dangerous,” he
observed calmly. “It could kill you in
minutes.”
Encounter with deadly serpents is
all in a day’s work for Pakos, 47, who
gave up the big city life to become a
kind of “Snake Dundee” of Bolivia’s
semitropical lowlands.
Hired to work on a project F nanced
by the Organization of American
States, he spends his days hunting
down poisonous snakes and extract
ing venom so that antidotes can be
developed.
Pakos was bom in Linz, Austria,
and emigrated at the age of 4 to the
Bolivian capital city of La Paz.
Ambition took him to Washington
D.C. as an adult. There he worked as
a car mechanic before a dissatisfac
tion with urban life drove him back to
the wilder land of his childhood.
“1 hate civilization. That’s why 1
left the U.S., “ he said in an interview.
“Washington is too much of a rat
race.”
For the next several years, he eked
out a living as an adventurer, taking on
unusual commercial assignments or
leading groups of tourists into the
wilderness.
“I used to go on expeditions to find
rubber or Brazil nut trees in the jungles
of northern La Paz province,” he said.
“I would hunt jaguars, mountain pigs,
alligators and other animals.”
His hunting days ended in 1985,
when the OAS approached him to
work on the snake anti-venom project.
He said he had quickly become an
avowed conservationist, opposed to
the indiscriminate killing of those
same creatures he used to hun*
Nebraskan
Editor Mike Railley
472 1766
Managing Editor Jen Deselms
Editorial
Page Editor Jeanne Bourne
Wire Editor Linda Hartmann
Copy Desk Chief Joan Rezac
Sports Editor Jolt Apel
Arts & Entertain
ment Editor Oiana Johnson
Photo Chief Doug Carroll
Night News Editors Curt Wagner
Scott Harrah
Art Director Brian Barber
Graphics Editor Mark Davis
General Manager Daniel Shattil
Production Manager Katharine Pollcky
Advertising
Manager Marcia Millar
Asst Advertising
Manager Bob Bates
Publications Board
Chairman Don Johnson.
472 3611
Professional Adviser Don Walton. 473-7301
The Daily Nebraskan (USPS 144-080) is
published 6y the UNL Publications Board,
Nebraska Union 34,1400 R St., Lincoln, Neb
68588-0448, weekdays during academic year
(except holidays): weekly during the summer
sessions
Subscription price is 535 for one year.
Postmaster: Send address changes to the
Daily Nebraskan, Nebraska Union 34,1400 R
St., Lincoln, Neb. 68586-0448 Second-class
postage paid at Lincoln. NE
ALL MATERIAL COPYRIGHT 1087 DAILY NEBRASKAN
In Brief
Officials seek motive in murder-suicide case
FAIRBURY — Authorities were searching Tuesday for a motive in
the apparent murder-suicide of a Kansas couple who recently stopped
living together when the woman moved to Fairbury.
Jefferson County Attorney Joseph Casson said authorities suspected
the motive in the deaths was related to the move from Hiawatha, Kan.,
by Sherry Watson, 20, to Fairbury about one month ago, leaving behind
George Bruce Epeling, 24. The bodies of Epeling and Watson were
found in her apartment Monday.
Falwell quits as leader of Moral Majority
WASHINGTON — The Rev. Jeri^ Falwell said Tuesday he is
resigning as president of the Moral Majority and no longer will play an
active role in slumping for political candidates or lobbying for causes
of the religious right
“I am now rcdedicating my life to the preaching of the gospel,” he
said at a news conference. He said, however, his views on issues will
remain well known through his television ministry.
Navy is reported to have hit fishing boat
MANAMA, Bahrain — Persian Gulf shipping sources said Tuesday
a U.S. Navy frigate fired on a fishing boat last weekend, not a hostile
Iranian craft as the Pentagon believed, and killed an Indian member of
its crew.
They quoted another crewman as saying the warship fired machine
guns Sunday night even though the fishing boat and two others with it
showed lights and were making way for the frigate and a refueling tanker
it was escorting out of the gull. The Pentagon identified the Navy ship
as the USS Carr.
Man arrested for alleged threat against Shultz
WASHINGTON — An unemployed chemist armed with three guns
and at least 600 bullets was arrested Tuesday after allegedly telling his
mother he was going to kill Secretary of State George P. Shultz,
authorities said.
Edward Lewis Gallo, 41, of Worcester, Mass., was taken into
custody at a local hotel and charged with making a threat against a public
official.
V_-J