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Majority leader calls for Meese to quit
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd on
Wednesday called Attorney General Edwin Meese III “the crown jewel
i of... sleaze” and urged him to quit, but President Reagan reiterated his
support for his old friend, the focus of an 11-month-old criminal
investigation.
Meanwhile, Solicitor General Charles Fried, who ranks fourth in the
l Justice Department hierarchy, refused to give an immediate answer
when Meese personally urged him not to join two other senior depart
ment figures who resigned Tuesday, department sources said.
Congressional reaction against Meese was strong the day atter the
resignations of the No.2 Justice Department officials, Deputy Attorney
j General Arnold Bums’ and the head of the department’s criminal
division, Assistant Attorney General William Weld.
Anti-Noriega strike crumbles as stores open
PANAMA CITY, Panama — Supermarkets, pharmacies and small
shops opened for the first time in 10 days Wednesday as a nationwide
strike aimed at toppling Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega began to fall
apart
* Despite the defections, Alberto Boyd, president of the National
; Council of Private Enterprise, said he and other suike leaders were not
ending their effort to get rid of Noriega.
In Washington, the Reagan administration said it was considering
new sanctions to force out Noriega, but it appeared no action was
imminent
i i ne reopening or me capital s uago, Key ana super yy supermarkets
signaled the first crack in a work stoppage that closed an estimated 90
J percent of the nation’s business and industry.
Later, the city’s leading pharmacies reopened, as did some small
clothing and other dry goods stores in the central business district.
Traffic, extremely light for days, began to build again on Panama
\ City’s streets, with the usual jams of buses, taxis and private autos
; developing at major intersections.
Richard Nixon to appear on ‘Meet the Press’
NEW YORK—Ex-President Richard Nixon will appear April 10 on
the NBC-TV show “Meet The Press” for an hour-long interview — his
first extended television appearance in eight years, the network said
Wednesday.
“There are no set conditions for the interview,” said NBC News Vice '
President Tim Russert, who had tried to get Nixon on the weekly
program for three years.
j Following the appearance on “Meet The Press,” Nixon wiH appear
in a three* part interview with Bryant Gumbcl on NBC’s “Today” show.
Nixon’s last long television interview was in 1980 on the ABC-TV j
program “2020.
“Meet The Press" moderator Chris Wallace will be joined by i
anchorman Tom Brokaw and commentator John Chancellor in quizzing
r Nixon, who resigned under threat of impeachment in August 1974.
Wire service announces plans for its future
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — United Press International will continue as j
, a 24-hour-a-day world wide wire service and will reduce its staff and I
seek joint ventures with other companies, the firm’s new owners said
Wednesday.
UPI Chairman Earl W. Brian and President Paul Steinle said they
were committed to seeing the 81-year-old wire service, which is losing
S2 million a month, survive into the 21st century.
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House leaders agree on Contra aid
WASHINGTON—House leaders
agreed Wednesday on a $48 million
package of humanitarian aid for the
Contra rebels in Nicaragua and for
children injured in seven yearsofeivil
war, and they predicted easy passage
on the House floor.
Authors of the compromise pack
age portrayed it as a gesture of U.S.
support for a temporary truce reached
last week between the rebels and the
Sandinista government, and for talks
aimed at achieving a long-term end to
hostilities.
“The hope is that this will lead to
political instead of military processes
now taking over” in Nicaragua, said
House Majority Leader Thomas
Foley, D-Wash.
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Byrd, D-W.Va., promised speedy
consideration on the other side of the
Capitol, although it was unclear
whether the matter could come to a
vote on Thursday. GOP lawmakers
said President Reagan had indicated
strong support for the measure.
The legislation would renew aid to
the rebels, whose last U.S. support ran
out Feb. 29, and keep them together as
a fighting force while they wait in
cease-fire zones inside Nicaragua for
a long-term truce to be worked out
with the Sandinista government.
“It sends a message to the Contras
that they are not abandoned, that we ;
do care about them and want to keep I,
them healthy and a viable force,” said
Rep. Mickey Edwards, R-Okla., who •'
participated in negotiations to draft
the compromise.
“And it lets the Sandinistas know
that it’s important to the United States I'
Congress that the talks that take place
down there take place with good faith,
and that they move toward democra
tization,” Edwards added.
The agreement, made possible by
a 60-day cease-fire reached by the
two warring sides last week, broke a
weeks-long deadlock in Congress
over whether to keep up the flow of
U.S. aid.
Committee recommends treaty passage
WASHINGTON — The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee recom
mended overwhelmingly Wednesday
that the Senate ratify a historic treaty
to eliminate all U.S. and Soviet me
dium-range nuclear weapons.
“This is a small step away from the
nuclear brink,” said Sen. Alan Cran
ston, D-Calif., said following the
committee’s 17-2 vote.
“It means the elevator of nuclear
escalation will finally stop and hope
fully descend,” said committee chair
man Claiborne Pell, D-R.I.
Cranston said his head count
shows no more than live senators will
vote against the Intermediate-range
Nuclear Forces Treaty when the full
Senate takes up the treaty, probably
late next month. Ratification requires
a two-thirds Senate majority, 67 votes
if all 100 senators are present and
voting.
The only dissenting votes inside
the committee were cast by Sens.
Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and Larry
Pressler, R-S.D. Helms has worked
vigorously to derail the treaty.
The resounding committee vote
papered over a bitter partisan dispute
over an amendment added to the
treaty on Tuesday with the aim of
assuring that the meaning of the pact
cannot be reinterpreted by a future
president without the consent of
Congress.
Many moderate Republicans said
the amendment represented a partisan
jab at President Reagan and his
administration’s reinterpretation of
the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile
Treaty to permit the deployment of a
Star Wars missile defense system.
Several GOP lawmakers said the
controversy may cause them to rcas
sess their support of the treaty and
Cranston said he may be willing to
search for a compromise when the
Senate debates the issue.
The treaty, signed Dec. 8 by Presi
dent Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, requires both
sides to destroy, w i th in th rec years, al 1
nuclear-armed missiles with a range
of 300 miles to 3,400 miles.
These include all Soviet SS-20 and
other medium- and shorter-range
missiles aimed at targets in Western
Europe and all of the smaller force of
U.S. Pershing 2 and ground-launched
cruise missiles stationed in Europe
and aimed at the Soviet Union.
The treaty is the first accord in the
history of arms control to require the
actual destruction of the missiles that
carry nuclear warheads. And it is the
first to require on-site inspection to •
verify compliance with its terms.
Swaggart returning to pulpit
against church suspension
BATON ROUGE, La. — Evan
gelist Jimmy Swaggart will return to
the pulpit on May 22, with or without
the blessing of national Assemblies of
God church officials who suspended
him for a year, his lawyer said
Wednesday.
The date coincides with a more
lenient three-month suspension given
Swaggart by the church’s Louisiana
council after his tearful confession on
Feb. 21 that he committed sins against
his church and family.
The national Executive Presbytery
had decided that the state council’s
penalty was not severe enough and
announced Tuesday that Swaggart
must stop preaching for at least one
year and undergo two years of reha
bilitation.
“We have an issue involving the
constitution and bylaws of this or
ganization,” said Bill Trecby, a law
yer for Swaggart. He said there was a
conflict over whether the national
presbytery or the Louisiana district
council had the right to discipline
ministers.
AI ihoug h S waggart d id not spec i f y
the sins he confessed to, a prostitute
has said Swaggart paid her to pose
nude for him.
Trccby said the National Presby
tery might dismiss Swaggart from the
denomination if he resumed preach
ing on May 22, but that Swaggart
would have the right to appeal that
move.
Rev. G. Raymond Carlson, the
Assemblies’ general superintendent,
had earlier said that if bwaggart did
not accept its ruling, “the Executive
Presbytery would no doubt take ac
tion to dismiss him.”
Asked if Swaggart had considered
leaving the Assemblies, Trccby said,
“he is considering the possibility of an
appeal. He has not thought beyond
that.”
The national group has not offi
cially been informed of the decision,
since Swaggart is still deciding what
to do about an appeal. Trccby con
ceded, however, that Swaggart’s
leaving the ministry is a possibility.
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