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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1980
Washington/World
Reagan supports anti-busing bill
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President-elect Ronald
Reagan said Tuesday he favored a controversial
anti-busing measure — legislation that President
Carter is considering vetoing.
Only hours after a top White House aide said
Carter is studying the possibilty of a veto, Reagan
said he favored the proposal to bar the Justice
Department from taking legal action to seek bus
ing of pupils to achieve integration.
“I am heart and soul in favor of the things that
have been done under the name of civil rights,
desegregation and so forth,” Reagan told repor
ters on Capitol Hill. “I happen to believe, howev
er, that busing has been a failure.”
Would he sign such a bill? Reagan was asked.
“Yes,” he said.
Earlier, Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s chief domes
tic policy adviser, said the White House was
studying a possible veto of the anti-busing mea
sure attached to an appropriations bill.
“We are looking at this right now,” Eizenstat
said. “We’ll have something more definitive with
in a day or two. ”
Black leaders and Attorney General Benjamin
Civiletti want Carter to veto the measure, which
“I am heart and soul in favor
of the things that have been
done under the name of civil
rights, desegregation and so
forth, ”President-elect Reagan
told reporters on Capitol Hill.
“Ihappen to believe, however,
that busing has been a failure. ”
received final approval from the Senate Monday.
The vote to pass the otherwise routine $9 billion
appropriation for the State, Commerce and Jus
tice departments was 51-35.
But black leaders, including Urban League
President Vernon Jordan and NAACP Executive
Director Benjamin Hooks, sent Carter a telegram
asking him to veto the “intolerable” proposal.
They said the anti-busing provision “would tot
ally undermine enforcement of civil rights protec
tions against school discrimination.”
Civiletti said, “I’m going to recommend that he
(Carter) veto it. I understand the State Depart
ment is going to recommend that he veto it, too”
because the bill prohibits the Commerce Depart
ment from spending money to carry out the admi
nistration’s Soviet grain embargo.
The bill now goes to a House-Senate confer
ence committee where wording differences with
legislation already approved by the House will
have to be worked out.
Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., a strong oppo
nent of the anti-busing language, had put off final
action until Monday in hopes Carter would have
threatened to veto the bill.
If the bill is vetoed, funding for the depart
ments and assorted other agencies covered by the
bill could be continued until the 97th Congress
acts next year. The new political composition of
both houses would indicate even more anti
busing sentiment.
The anti-busing language was pushed by two
old-line Southern conservatives, Republicans
Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thur
mond of South Carolina. Thurmond becomes
chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in
January.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Rep. John
Jenrette, D-S.C., said Tuesday he
will not resign from Congress and
plans to fight efforts in the House
Ethics Committee to expel him for
his role in the Abscam bribery
scandal.
“I don’t plan to resign,” said Jen
rette, who earlier said he was consid
ering quitting.
“I hope to use the (ethics commit
tee) hearing to further inform the
American people and the Congress
about some very outrageous things I
think took place in the Abscam mat
ter,” he said in an interview on NBC-
TV’s “Today” program.
Jenrette, the second congressman
convicted on Abscam charges and
defeated for re-election last month,
criticized the FBI’s tactics in the
bribery investigation.
“It’s reminiscent of Hitler’s Nazi
Germany. They first went after Jews
and no one seemed to matter,” he
said. “They’re (the FBI) going after
Congress.”
Jenrette was convicted Oct. 7 of
taking a $50,000 bribe from under
cover agents seeking congressional
favors as representatives of rich
Arabs. He denied accepting any
money and is appealing the convic
tion.
The House Ethics Committee
voted unanimously last Thursday to
begin a preliminary inquiry into Jen
rette’s case.
Penn Central suit settled
for $2.1 billion — a record
United Press International
WASHINGTON — It took 18 months of negotia
tions, dozens of lawyers and thousands of docu
ments. The result; the largest settlement of a corpo
rate lawsuit in U.S. history.
The government announced Monday it will pay
$2.1 billion to Penn Central Corp., ending a 4-year-
old dispute over the value of assets turned over by
the Penn Central railroad to Conrail, a private, for-
profit corporation created by Congress in 1976 to
consolidate seven bankrupt railroads.
The settlement puts a value of $1.46 billion on the
Penn Central properties, plus 8 percent interest paid
since Conrad's creation, for a total of $2.1 billion. If it
stands, it will be the largest settlement in U.S. his
tory, including all Indian claims, a government
spokesman said.
Announcement of the settlement produced an
almost audible sigh of relief from the U.S. Railway
Association, which administers the investment of
public funds in Conrail and monitors the carrier’s
performance.
“There was enough paperwork in this suit to kill a
forest of healthy trees,” said USRA President
Stephen Berger, who estimated litigation in the
Penn Central and related Conrail cases has cost his
agency alone about $20 million annually.
“This finally clears the books,” he said.
Berger said attorneys involved in the case — about
150 — estimated the suit could have continued
another three years at least.
The Penn Central had estimated its i
worth as much as $6 billion, while the 3 '' 0 ^'^
contended it was worth only $500 mintonT'' 011
million.
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The settlement still must be approved byasne
three-judge federal court set up to oversee Htfi
resulting from the creation of Conrail. The * ’
expected to act by mid-December, with fmaLtll
ment expected around Jan. 15.
Penn Central’s properties comprise approximate!,
80 percent of those turned over to Conrail bv
seven railroads in 1976. Suits are still pendim, !
garding the properties of the other railroads *
The settlement also requires Penn Central to k
over its stock in Conrail to the U.S.
government,
move officials expect will ease efforts to restructo
the private corporation to make it more financial
independent. Pulling the stock out of the p u |
market will prevent speculation based on how C*
gress might act.
Congress is expected to tackle that task
sion.
next S6
Conrail has received approximately $3.2billiona
far from the federal government, with another $32i
million approved but not appropriated. Last sui
mer, Conrail told Congress it expects to need
much as $2 billion to keep operating during the
five years.
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Brezhnev talks of election
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MOSCOW — Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, in
his first public comment on the U.S. elections, has
offered Ronald Reagan a chance to back off from his
hard-line campaign statements and mend strained rela
tions with the Soviet Union.
At a dinner Monday night for visiting Mozambique
President Samora Machel, Brezhnev emphasized the
Soviet Union was looking for ways to cool down the
world’s many political hot spots and improve overall
relations with the West.
“Now a new president has been elected there, I
would not dwell on what was said by him, his supporters
and his opponents in the heat of the election campaign,”
Brezhnev said.
“I can only state with a full sense of responsibility that
any constructive statement by the U.S. administration
in the sphere of Soviet-American relations and pressing
world problems will be met with a positive reaction on
our part.”
Aside from a congratulatory telegram to Reagan that
also called for bettering relations with Washing!
Brezhnev’s comments at the banquet were hisfintpi
lie reaction to the upcoming change at the White Hot
His remarks bear out the initial reactions oftheKi!
lin’s top America-watchers, who said shortly
Reagan’s election they were not worried by hisharii
comments on the campaign trail.
As one Soviet souree said, “We expect to see
difference between the statements of Reagan thei
date and Reagan the president.”
Most alarming to the Soviets was the
Party campaign platform that called for making thel
ited States the unquestioned military master oj
world. Less shocking, but equally distasteful
Kremlin, is Reagan’s seemingly implacable opposii
to the SALT II treaty as it now stands.
Taken in that context, Brezhnev’s remarks could
seen as an opportunity for Reagan to back off from
of his sharper positions and to start negotiations will
Russians.
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LONDON — Two U.S. Air Force Thunderbolt jets collidedov,
England’s North Sea coast Tuesday and one of the pilots drownedi
the frigid sea along with a British airman who tried to rescue hi
The other American pilot parachuted over land and was injured,
not seriously, a U.S. Air Force spokesman said.
The two U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt-II jets collided during a trainifi
flight from the Royal Air Force base in Bentwater, Suffolk, to
Wainfleet Range 100 miles north in Lincolnshire.
The second pilot parachuted from the stricken plane and landed
the wind-swept North Sea but was soon spotted by a RAF Sea Kill
rescue helicopter.
With the helicopter fighting stiff winds, a British airman was
wered by cable to the pilot, but became entamgled in the straps o
American’s parachute, an RAF spokesman said.
When they were being winched aboard, the wind spun both
around and they got further entangled in the helicopter s cable,
crew were forced to cut the cable and both men fell back into the set
the spokesman said.
Within minutes a U.S. Air Force “Jolly Green Giant”helicopter^
on the scene and hoisted the American and Briton aboard
were dead, the RAF spokesman said. .
We believe the American was still alive when our man read
him, but he may have been unconscious. We re still trying to piece
together,” he said.
We do not have details on what exactly happened up there, ;
Air Force spokesman Capt. Stephen Manning said. “A board ofmqu
will be formed to investigate and it may be some weeks before"
officially know what caused the collision. s
The planes collided over the village of Itteringham and one i
said a villager was hit by falling debris and taken to a hospite 5
treatment, though the extent of his injuries were not disclose •
The A-10 is a low-altitude, ground-support warplane first ®
duced in 1978 and brought to Britain only last year. The aerial co ®
was the second accident involving the A-10 in Britain. On July 7
an A-10 crashed during a demonstration at an air show in Bedfords i
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