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News Digest Army commander to head Lebanese government BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s army commander will be the prime minister of a six-man military gov ernment, President Amm Gcmayel said in a decree issued in the last minutes of his presidency Thursday. Gemayefs stunning choice of a military Cabinet, led by army com mander Gen. Michel Aoun, came after civilian Moslem figures refused to take part in an interim Cabinet headed by a Maronite Catholic pre mier. Gemayel, 45, had to name a tran sition government because the deeply divided Parliament failed to choose a new president Thursday. The constituion bars Gemayel from seeking another presidential term. Earlier Gemayel was trying to form a civilian government under business tycoon Pierre Helou, 60, a Maronite Catholic who is a Parlia ment deputy. The shift to a military Cabinet appeared aimed at heading off the formation of two governments, one Christian and one Moslem, that would have further cemented the sectarian cantons that have formed during a 13-year civil war that has left more that! 150,000 dead. The decrees appointing the Cabi net members, who represent die six main sects in Lebanon, came five minutes before Gemayel’s presi dency expired at midnight (5 p.m. EDT). Also Thursday, Moslems and Christians clashed around the divid ing Green Line, and three top com manders of Amal, the main Shiite Moslem militia, were assassinated. Aoun, the Maronite army com mander, and his five ministers will continue serving as the army's Su preme Defense Council, which con trols Lebanon’s military. The de crees, effective immediately, also named Aoun as defense and informa tion minister. He remains the army commander. ■ “I leave the presidency today worried and filled with anxiety,” Gemayel told the nation in a five minute farewell address televised nationwide before issuing the de crees. “Today should have been a festival in which we rejoice over the election of a new president that would lake the helm and the oath of office as I and m y predecessors did,” Gemayel said “But the people of war were stronger than peace.” —.. , Wright denies information classified WASHINGTON — House Speaker Jim Wright denied Thursday that he revealed anything classified when he criticized a covert CIA op eration in Nicaragua, while Republi cans pressed for formal ethics and intelligence investigations of the speaker’s remarks. Wright, who has become a light ning rod for Democrats on Central America policy, found himself again embroiled in controversy for his reve lation two days earlier that the Central Intelligence Agency had instigated demonstrations aimed at provoking the leftist Managua government and sabotaging peace talks with the Con tra rebels. The speaker repeated that asser tion to reporters, but contended such CIA activity was already well known through news reports. “I didn’t say anything that was revealed to me as classified informa tion,” said Wnght, D-Texas. While he denied breaking rules against disclosing secrets. Wright did not specify how he had learned of the coven operation in Nicaragua. He and other Democrats sought to focus attention on the administration’s ac lion rather lhan the propriety of Wright’s disclosure. “In laie August of last year I be came aware that elements ol the U.S. government were seeking to disturb the domestic tranquility in Central America, to foment disturbances with a view to seeing if they could pro voke" the Sandinistas into a crack down that would derail peace talks, Wright said. “That seems to me just intolerably two-faced,” he said. Wright added that he had been given “indirectassur ancc” that the practice has now been halted. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois and Rep. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo., chairman of the House Republican Conference, for mally requested investigations in both the Intelligence Committee and the ethics committee, which has re sponsibility for enforcing non-disclo sure rules. The ethics panel, formally known as the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, already is investi gating Wright on unrelated allega tions. And a primary sponsor of legisla lion to lighten Congress control over covert CIA activities. Sen. William Cohen. R-Maine. said the speaker’s comments had apparently violated non disclosure rules and jeopardized the bill. Cohen, the vice chairman ol the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the disclosure also could doom oppo sition members who arc jailed for anti-government protests to longer prison terms or “a harsher fate,” and would give the Sandinistas an enormous propaganda boost. House Majority Leader Thomas Foley, D-Wash., said the legislation to require notice to Congress of covert actions within 48 hours, which had been due to come before the House next week, might be put off until the following week because of the press of other legislation. t The controversy over Wright’s statements began Tuesday when he said he had received “clear testi mony” from the CIA that the agency had fomented opposition demonstra tions in Nicaragua. He told a reporter later that CIA officials had made the admission under congressional ques tioning. House passes drug bill WASHING I ON — I he House on Thursday passed election year anti drug legislation that would severely punish recreational users and murderers alike, but it could lace constitutional tests if enacted into law. The 375-30 vote is not the final word on Congress’ latest effort to respond to Americans’ fears over drug abuse. The Senate still must consider its own anti-drug legisla tion, and a conference will likely be needed to reconcile competing versions. Despite constitutional con cerns, even by sponsors, the lug of election-year politics was so strong that House members appeared willing to enact the toughest pos sible bill and let the courts decide the legal questions later. The bill received support from 207 Democrats and 168 Republi cans, while all 30 votes against the legislation came from Democrats, virtually all of them liberals. The legislation pursues many At <4 * avenues of comnaiung illegal drugs, and would authorize the addition of more than $2 billion in spending to the nation's current $3.9 billion anti-drug effort. The amount could be a factor if overall spending levels force across-the board, automatic budget cuts. Drug users would be subject to $10,000 civil penalties per viola tion for mere possession; would be ineligible for student loans, public housing and other federal benefits; and would face loss of their right to drive, if states enforce license sus pension programs to obtain more federal highway money. For those who kiil during a drug-related crime, the legislation contains legal procedures designed to permit use of the federal death penalty. But the legislation does not ignore education, treatment, and rehabilitation for drug abusers, authorizing more money to the states for such programs. Federal and local law enforcement agen cies would receive more money. • i TTTTT77 k,“”’ .. Airlines tola to equip planes with wind sheer detectors WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration on Thurs day ordered airlines to equip all their aircraft with devices that will help pilots detect and escape from deadly wind shears. Powerful shears called micro bursts have been called the No. 1 killer of airline passengers and have been responsible for at least five fatal airline crashes and 500 deaths in the last decade, according to aviation safely experts. The FAA regulation was an nounced by the Transportation De partment, which said the devices, to be phased into operation in all aircraft of 30 or more seals over the next four years, will cost $40,(XX) to $50,000 per airplane. About 3,600 commercial jet trans port planes also will be required to nave the devices, department offi cials said. A microburst is a powerful downburst of air caused by a sudden change in wind direction. Such a downburst struck a Delta Air Lines L 1011 as it was attempting to land at Dallas-Fort Worth in 1985 and liter ally forced the plane into the ground, killing 134 people. The accident focused increased attention on developing and installing sophisticated ground radar that would provide advanced warning of shears along departure and approach lanes, but the radar is not expected to be available until the early 1990s. At the same time, the FAA and industry began taking a closer look at devices for the cockpit that would provide pilots with a clear indication when their plane is facing wind shear conditions. Piedmont Airlines two years ago began installing the equipment being required by thcFAA and today has the devices in 112 of its 191 aircraft, according to Piedmont spokesman Mike Clark. Under the FAA regulation the air lines will be allowed to phase in in stallation of the equipment over about four years. Half of an airline’s fleet must have the devices within 27 months, three-fourths of the fleet within 39 months and the rest of the fleet within 51 months. 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