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National/World THE BATTALION Page 13 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1980 Anti-gun feeling high United Press International WASHINGTON — Handgun control advocates say the shooting death of John Lennon may aid the congressional drive for gun control legislation, but fear progress could be cut short when Republicans take over the Senate. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a state ment Tuesday the shooting deaths of Dr. Michael Halberstam in Washington, D.C., Friday night and Lennon in New York Monday night were “senseless acts of violence that once again emphasize the urgen cy of reasonable handgun control. ” The Washington Post, in an editorial Tuesday, called on Congress to enact “sensible firearms con trols.” “We’ve been swamped with calls since 4 a.m. this morning,” Michael Beard, executive director of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, said Tuesday. Tve never seen anything like this.” Beard said support for handgun control legislation “ebbs and flows with events in the news.” He said there is a bill in Congress that would make the cur rent handgun situation worse. The bill, supporters said, is aimed at allowing hunters to transport guns through states with restric tive gun laws without violating those laws. “Up until yesterday (Tuesday), I would have said it had a good chance of passage. Now, I don’t know,” Beard said, citing reaction to the Lennon slaying. A spokesman for Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho, the leading Senate sponsor of the bill, said Lennon’s shooting would have “no effect whatsoever” on the legislation. Beard said the chances of McClure’s bill being approved will improve dramatically when Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., a co-sponsor, takes over Kennedy’s chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee next month. “There’s a good chance that rather than a step forward, we could take a step back,” Beard said. President-elect Ronald Reagan described the Len non slaying as a “great tragedy,” but said he con tinues to oppose gun control legislation. “I believe in the kind of handgun legislation we have in California. If somebody commits a crime and carries a gun while doing it, add five to 15 years to the sentence,” Reagan said. The law in California provides that anyone who uses a gun during the commission of a felony has three years added to his or her prison sentence. Muskie doesn t rule out military action United Press International BRUSSELS, Belgium —U.S. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie Wednesday refused to rule out a Western military response to a potential Soviet invasion of Poland. Muskie, arriving for a NATO ministerial council meeting as the possibility of Soviet intervention in Poland hung over the alliance, told reporters aboard his plane: “Poland is 200 miles from NATO territory. NATO is created to defend the territory and there is the possi bility of the use of force. ” He said he was not predicting the use of Western military action, but he was not ruling it out. Although NATO was facing the use of Soviet military force in East ern Europe, he made it clear that the United States was not proposing the use of force as an immediate reac tion. But, he repeated, “It is not the kind of operation that NATO can prudently ignore.” The American secretary of state, on his last scheduled trip abroad in the office, said the first question for NATO to face concerns Soviet inten tions. He answered his own question by framing the Soviet motives in terms of Poland, alone. He said he did not believe that the Soviets intended to use a Polish intervention as a prelude to a larger military operation. But he added, “We don’t think it’s wider. But we can’t assume any thing. We have to be prepared.” Make This Weekend SOMETHING SPEQAL! w Battalion Classified 845-2611 dies in Cubans ’escape try United Press International J MEXICO CITY—Armed Cubans stormed the Vatican mission in Hwana and seized four nuns and another hostage in a bid to leave the Communist island, but the attackers Were flushed from the building in a gunfight with security forces in ich a hostage was killed, reports m Havana said. I The reports said the four nuns, Ibelieved to be Canadians, were un harmed. The fifth hostage, a Cuban office employee, died when Cuban forces, lobhing tear gas bombs, stormed the building to end the brief siege, the reports said. In a four-paragraph dispatch from Havana monitored in Mexico City, the official Prensa Latina news agen cy said armed “anti-social delin quents” hoping to get out of Cuba Seized the Vatican’s mission Tues day, taking the five hostages. A Havana-datelined dispatch from Mexico’s government-owned Notimex news service said 14 gun men, all Cubans, were involved. The Prensa Latina report did not say how many gunmen seized the building. Security forces from the Ministry of Interior charged into the mission and rescued the four nuns, but the office worker died in the gunfire, Prensa Latina said. The dispatch said the gunmen Cancer trea tmen t question Women leery of surgery United Press International (WASHINGTON — A national purvey indicates that many women would want a more active role in de- ttennining their treatment for breast Cancer, possibly because they be- CUBIC ZIRICONIA Hand-cut Hand-polished Russian Man-made DIAMONDS $25/1 Kt. $20/2 Kt. or more $30/Kt. for fancy cuts 846-0636 822-1693 after 6:00 p.m. lieve doctors sometimes perform un necessary breast surgery. 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