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    ' Page 12 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1981
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Maureen’s support list faulty
f United Press International daughter, has Started her U.S.
] LOS ANGELES — Maureen Senate campaign with an embar-
, Reagan, the president’s elder rassrnent — her campaign staff
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was forced to retract a long list of
purported supporters.
Hours after Monday’s
announcement that she was offi
cially seeking the Republican
nomination for the Senate seat
now held by S.I. Hayakawa,
Reagan’s campaign withdrew the
supporters list, admitting it con
tained numerous errors.
Four people listed — including
the head of a drive to recall the
chief justice of the California Sup
reme Court — told United Press
International they were not back
ing Reagan’s candidacy.
Campaign manager Lee Stit-
zenberger said the names were
collected by volunteers at cam
paign events and some of the peo
ple signing these lists probably
had not intended to make en
dorsements. He conceded the
best course would have been not
to have handed out the list.
“We can speak to some of the
big names that are there, but I
have no idea which names are true
endorsers on here or which people
were just signing up (for informa
tion),’’ he said.
Reagan, 40, a businesswoman
and former radio talk show host
who is the daughter of Reagan and
actress Jane Wyman, is the only
woman in the crowded race for the
GOP nomination in next June’s
primary.
Reagan pledged to run a per
sonal and aggressive campaign.
She said her family name would
be a liability because she would
have to overcome “the idea I am
not an independent person” and
an asset in terms of instant name
identification among the state’s
voters.
“But being independent has
never been a problem for me, ’ she
said. “How many people do you
know that can publicly disagree
with the president and still be in
vited to dinner?”
Reagan has publicly disagreed
with her father on a number of
issues. She supports the Equal
Rights Amendment, which the
president opposes, and last month
came out against the sale of
AWACs to Saudi Arabia.
She said she personally opposed
abortion but would not vote for a
constitutional amendment ban
ning it.
“I would be against anything
the government would do to inter
fere with our own personal lives,’’
she said.
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Ex-CIA agent aids Libya $
in war effort, pilot says
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A British
pilot said Tuesday manpower
and supplies secured by an ex-
CIA agent are arming Libya’s
military and sustaining its war
effort in Chad. These supplies
include vital spare parts from
America, the pilot said.
John Anthony Stubbs, who
was deported by the Libyan
government after refusing to fly
to a war-torn area of Chad with
supplies for Libyari forces, also
said the former agent, Edwin P.
Wilson, has talked with the
Soviets and may be involved in
training the Palestine Libera
tion Organization.
Wilson, who is living in Tri
poli, is the central figure in an
evolving series of revelations
and allegations concerning the
involvement of U.S. personnel
in training and supplying
Libya’s armed forces.
The State Department con
firmed Monday that Americans
have been servicing Libyan
planes and flying missions for
Col. Moammar Khadafy, and
termed that involvement “rep
rehensible.”
Ten days earlier, the depart
ment said it had no evidence of
American involvement.
“We can now say Libya has
been successful in recruiting ex
patriates, including a number of
American citizens,” Depart
ment Spokesman Dean Fischer
said.
“It is reprehensible, and
against the interest of peace and
stability of the region, for any
American citizen to help Col
onel Khadafy carry out his poli
cies of intervention and terror
ism,” he said.
Stubbs is the first person to
go public with detailed fir
sthand knowledge of Wilson’s
operations in Libya, where the
ex-agent has been living while
under indictment in the United
States on charges of plotting to
smuggle explosives to Libya.
In an interview on ABC’s
“Good Morning Amelia'
Stubbs said the ex-CIA aget
plays a key role in maintain-:
Khadafy’s military. The Ns
York Times reported Stal)l»
was paid $4,000 a month will,
working in Libyaforacompa
controlled by Wilson.
“Mr. Wilson is contraetedh
Khadafy to supply as much
formation and wherewithal tk
he possibly can, ” Stubbs said
"We re talking in terms j
pilots, engineers, material
technicians and so forth, fat
he’s contracted to prmiiB
these.”
Stubbs said Wilson oversee
the preparation of “cleai
rooms” for producing weapon
including warheads for rodels
and missiles.
In addition to acquiringart
and expertise for Khadi
Stubbs said, Wilson b
obtained spare parts for UA
made C-130 transports by rent
ing them through Britain ani
Italy.
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Interest rates
on the way dowi
United Press International
High interest rates, the bane of
ordinary borrowers and would-be
federal budget balancers alike, are
getting a kick downward with
most major banks lowering their
prime rate to ITVa percent.
The lowering of the prime rate,
the rate banks charge their best
corporate customers, means con
sumer interest rates could dip as
well.
Financial analysts said Monday
the banks’ decision to lower the
prime reflected last week’s Feder
al Reserve Board reduction in the
discount rate, the rate at which it
lends money to banks, to 13 per
cent from 14 percent.
“This was a clear and public
signal to banks that the Fed would
like to see lower shortterm rates,”
said William Sullivan, senior vice
president at Bank of New York,
one of the banks that lowered its
M
to
prime.
At the White House, a spokes
man said high interest rates make
it increasingly difficult for Presi
dent Reagan to reach his goal of a
balanced budget by 1984.
Deputy press secretary Larry
Speakes told reporters Reagan is
expected to sit down with Repub
lican leaders later this week to re
view his proposals for $13 billion
in budget cuts and $3 billion in
&
idiive
Yrieqdly^
Texas Office of Traffic safety
revenue-raising proposals ini
COP leaders are expected
ask that the proposed cuts
slashed in half, with the defrj
budget taking a greater shait;
the reduction.
In line with the softenini
short-term interest rates, Ira
ury bill yields fell at the g«i
ment’s auction Monday for!
third time in the past fourwett
The government sold $4.1 it
lion of three-month billsatau
erage discount of 12.695pema By FI
down from 13.352 percent li
week. The government alsoso! I ^ w a:
$4.7 billion of six-month billsali 0 ' sn *
average discount of 12.721 pt ^ ran<
cent, down from 13.619 perct , ers *fr
last week. I™ ^ 0I
The new six-month moneyie Rd-1
ket certificate rate is 13.659p( ou ^ w
cent, the highest rate banka ' ea S ue
thrift institutions may payoniW’g'es,
month money market certift
issued in denominations
$ 10,000 or more effectiveimt
ately..
In Findlay, Ohio, a ft
judge Monday blocked
Corp., the nation’s second li
oil company, from proca
with its $5.1 billion
attempt of Marathon Oil Co.
The restraining order
issued shortly after Marathon,
nation’s 16th largest oil com|
announced its directors
unanimously rejected Moll
$85-a-share bid as “grossly ii
quate, is not in the bestintei
of the company or its shareholi
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