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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1981
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)f the indiiii ■ WASHINGTON — President Reagan decided
over Israeli protests to sell five sophisticated
radar planes to Saudi Arabia because of the “se
rious deterioration” of Middle East security
caused largely by the Soviet Union,
ide the util® That reasoning was at the heart of the adminis-
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tration s explanation of the sale announced Tues
day. Reagan is well aware of the opposition, but
does not agree the deal poses a threat to Israel, his
spokesman said.
r The sale is necessary because of “the serious
deterioration of security conditions in the Middle
East and the Persian Gulf region and the growing
threat to our friends there from the Soviets and
other pressures, ” acting White House press sec-
"V retary Larry Speakes said.
Ill Opposition was quick in developing.
“It’s a serious mistake which will enflame the
Middle East, rather than stabilize it, and I will do
all that I can to defeat it, ” said Rep. Barney Frank,
D-Mass.
; Chairman Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn., of the
ay consumersi Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on the
^Middle East called the sale “a mistake” and pre
dicted it faces “certain defeat” in the Senate.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., a longtime
supporter of Israel, said the planes “do not meet
legitimate Saudi defensive needs. They are offen
sive weapons that can easily be used to threaten
the security of Israel, our closest ally in the Mid-
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Foreign Relations Committee, said the adminis-
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tration “consulted closely” with the Senate on the
question and added his panel will “try to develop
a consensus in support of an arms package for
Saudi Arabia which will help secure Western de
fense interests in the Persian Gulf.”
The administration did not say when the prop
osal would be sent to Capitol Hill. Opponents
would need majorities in both houses to kill the
deal.
Officials indicated one reason for delaying the
official notification is the administration does not
want to distract attention from its much-
ballyhooed economic program. There also is work
to be done to muster the required support for the
arms package.
Along with five advanced warning radar aircraft
known as AW ACS, the deal includes conformal
fuel tanks, AIM-9L air-to-air missiles and air re
fueling capability for 62 F-15 jet fighters ticketed
for Saudi Arabia next year.
The sale of the enhanced F-15 equipment for
defensive uses was announced March 6.
The AW ACS — the world’s most expensive
aircraft at nearly $127 million each — would not
be in Saudi hands until 1985 “at the earliest,”
Speakes said.
The thrust of Israeli opposition to the AW ACS
deal centers on the aircraft’s ability to chart milit
ary traffic in the air space over Israel. This theore
tically would negate a pre-emptive strike by the
Israelis if they feel threatened by their Arab
neighbors.
That contention is disputed by the administra
tion.
‘Filthy Five’ businesses named
United Press International
WASHINGTON — An en
vironmental group today
observed Earth Day by naming
five corporations to its “Filthy
Five” list, citing both allegedly
poor environmental records and
political contributions.
Environmental Action also
listed 16 congressmen as charter
members of its “Filthy $5,000
Club” for accepting contributions
over that amount from political ac
tion committees set Up by the five
companies.
“The Filthy Five is attempting
to buy political power with their
contributions. They have made a
mockery of our nation’s pollution
control effort by seeking to substi
tute campaign contributions for
clean-up expenditures,” said
Matthew MacWilliams, who is in
charge of the project.
The group, which helped en
gineer the original Earth Day 11
years ago, listed the five firms as
Weyerhauser Corp., Dow Che
mical Co., Occidental Petroleum,
Republic Steel and Standard Oil
Co. of Indiana.
The congressmen, who will be
sent framed certificates stating
they accepted contributions from
the firms, “rank polluters all,”
were:
Sens. Charles Grassley, R-
lowa; Dan Quayle, R-Ind.; Steve
Symms, R-Idaho; James Abdnor,
R-S.D.; Russell Long, D-La.;Bob
Kasten, R-Wis.; Arlen Specter, R-
Pa.; John East, R-N.C.; Robert
Dole, R-Kan.; Alfonse D’Amato,
R-N. Y.; and Charles Percy, R-Ill.;
and Reps. John Porter, R-Ill.;
Donald Albosta, D-Mich.; Jack
Fields, R-Texas; Paul Findley, R-
111., and Frank Wolf, R-Va.
The five companies contributed
more than $1 million through poli
tical action committees in 1980,
the group said.
MacWilliams said an analysis of
the firms’ contributions indicates
“they gave predominantly to in
cumbents with poor environmen
tal voting records.”
He said all five companies have
a history of “significant environ
mental violations” such as oil
spills, water pollution, air pollu
tion and illegal dumping.
“Despite an almost unending
list of offenses these companies
and their congressional friends
continue to operate in a business-
as-usual atmosphere on Capitol
Hill, ” he told a news conference.
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Young Catholics disagree
with pope on moral issues
United Press International
NEW YORK — Three-fourths
bf young Catholics do not believe
structionstoirjthe pope is infallible and more
irove condifeBan 90 percent reject the
■urch’s anti-birth control stand, a
ses in the L#S survey shows,
isons. | The sampling of4,000 U.S. and
it I will noth': Canadian Catholics between the
ages of 14 and 30 also found only
> of the court a 17 percent feel premarital sexual
■lations are wrong, Dr. William
prisons, loohjC. McCready reported Tuesday at
ials, employee, the 78th annual meeting of the Na-
formationaMtkmal Catholic Education Associa
tion.
:ase “is theffiSj And only II percent agreed
stemwide with the church’s position that di
vorced people may not remarry
with the church’s sanction.
Although 44 percent felt it is a
sin to miss mass, only 37 percent
attend on a weekly basis. One in
four attends once a year or less.
The majority, however,
; prison refers accepted the church’s view on the
[“wrongfulness” of homosexual re
lations.
Most also agreed with the
church’s teaching abortion on de
mand is wrong, although 90 per
cent objected to the Catholic view
birth control is wrong.
Sixty-four percent said they be
lieved in life after death, but 75
rcent of the respondents did not
ee the pope is infallible when
he speaks on matters of faith and
p, morals.
3 “One can characterize this re
jection of doctrinal and moral
teaching in tyvo different ways,”
;McCready said of the survey
A IV'J Ju n( l e d by the Knights of Col
umbus.
“The first is young people do
not feel compelled to leave the
church when* they disagree with
it, since they are perfectly able to
(unction within a church which
takes a different stand from their
own,” he said.
“However, the second is moral
ivalues of the laity seem to be veer
ing further and further from those
Ivocated by the church — which
might be an unhealthy situation. ”
McCready is an associate pro
fessor at the University of Chica-
, and director of the Center for
Ihe Study of American Pluralism,
National Opinion Research Cen
ter, Chicago.
I Describing the religious status
of American Catholic young peo-
ile as a mixed picture, he said
“The great majority of those
born Catholic remain Catholic and
the church is speaking to them at
some level,” he said.
Some open-ended remarks re
spondents wrote on the question
naires returned in the survey
“capture the flavor of people’s
feelings for where we are going
and what is needed in the future, ”
McCready reported.
He said one of the students
wrote:
“I think the pope has been great
for the masses. He seems very
open and not as strict abotlf silly
traditions, but I was very dis
appointed in his views on priests
marrying, birth control and abor
tion.
“I think it would be nice to see a
young pope.”
McCready said one possible re
sponse to that student is — “You
should have seen the popes we
used to have!”
Another respondent, Mc
Cready said, “perhaps summed
up the reaction that we all have in
these current tumultuous times
when she said simply ‘God
h£lp us all.’”
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have exceeded the bounds of cor
porate decency, and their contri
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He said the firms were picked
from among the 100 biggest in the
country and the final choice was
determined by a combination of
their environmental record and
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