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March 3, 1982
Senate passes bill,
anti-busing at issue
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Sen
ate Tuesday gave its approval to
the most far-reaching anti
busing legislation ever to move
through Congress, climaxing
months of stall tactics by liberals
and hours of emotional debate.
But even as backers of the
stringent curbs on the powers of
the Justice Department and fed
eral courts hailed their victory,
chances for House passage of
the legislation appeared slim.
The Senate approved the bill
on a 57-37 vote. Sen. Lowell
Weicker Jr., R-Conn., had kept
the legislation tied up for more
than a year, and he insisted it
would not clear Congress this
year.
The anti-busing provisions
were attached to an otherwise
routine $2.45-billion Justice De
partment authorization for
1982. They would:
—Prohibit federal courts
from ordering busing for deseg
regation purposes of more than
five miles or 15 minutes each
way daily.
—Prohibit the Justice Depart
ment from inititiating court suits
designed to seek busing for de
segregation.
—Permit the Justice Depart
ment to seek to remove or re
duce busing orders already in
effect, a proposal sponsored by
Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala., and
approved 73-21 shortly before
the final vote on the bill.
Opponents argued the re
strictions on the Justice Depart
ment and the courts would be
unconstitutional.
“Busing is not the issue!” he
shouted. “The issue is whether
we are going to remain a free
nation, devoted to the sanctity of
the Constitution.”
Under an agreement worked
out in negotiations with both
sides in the busing fight, the bill
returns to the House, where its
anti-busing provisions are likely
to be stripped off.
“This legislation will not be
enacted into law in this session of
Congress,” Weicker said in the
“Busing is not the issue!
The issue is whether we
are going to remain a
free nation, devoted to
the sanctity of the Con
stitution.” — Sen.
Howell Heflin, D-Ala.
final moments of debate. “The
fight is not over.”
He said many senators voted
for the legislation to avoid being
labeled “pro-busing” back
home, and privately hope it will
now die.
During a Senate subcommit
tee hearing today, Weicker tried
to pin down Attorney General
William French Smith on the
constitutionality of the legisla
tion.
Weicker noted President Car
ter wrote his Justice Department
appropriations subcommittee in
1980 to say anti-busing legisla
tion then under consideration
would be an “unconstitutional
encroachment” on the executive
branch.
Smith said it would not be
proper for him to take a position
before the current measure
completes its journey through
the legislative process and is
placed before the president.
On Monday, with the Senate
poised to pass its legislation, bus
ing foe Rep. Henson Moore, R-
La., predicted the stringent lan
guage will die in the House. He
rated the chances of House pas
sage at “25 percent at best.”
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.,
sponsored the language to pro
hibit the Justice Department
from filing suits to force busing.
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La.,
wrote a stronger provision to bar
federal courts from ordering
busing of more than 10 miles or
30 minutes each day for deseg-
regatipn purposes.
Weicker agreed to Tuesday’s
vote last Thursday, breaking
stall tactics he began last year.
The House-passed bill carries
the Helms rider in an amend
ment by Rep. James Collins, D-
Texas. Moore is House sponsor
of the Johnston rider but it was
declared non-germane under
the much stricter House rules.
Often a Senate bill goes dire
ctly to a Senate-House confer
ence committee to work out the
differences.
But Moore said Weicker ex
tracted assurances the bill would
go to House Speaker Thomas P.
O’Neill, D-Mass. O’Neill then
would assign it to the House
Judiciary Committee’s civil and
constitutional rights subcommit
tee, whose liberal chairman,
Rep. Don Edwards, D-Calif., is
certain to keep the bill stripped
of anti-busing language.
According to Moore, Senate
Republican leader Howard Bak
er and Johnston said if any
attempt was made in the Senate
today to circumvent Edwards’
panel and send the bill to confer
ence committee, Weicker would
resume his stall tactics.
Gunmen shoot at NBC
in El Salvador, 5 hurt
United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salva
dor— A grenade and gun attack
injured two NBC newsmen and
their Salvadoran driver when
their van sped into a battle zone
in eastern El Salvador, a net
work spokesman in San Salva
dor says.
The spokesman said an NBC
van carrying five people was
ambushed Monday by unidenti
fied gunmen as it rushed to the
scene of a guerrilla raid on a
military post in the town of Tres
Calles, 55 miles east of the
capital.
A hand-grenade blast blew
out the windshield and back
window of the van, the spokes
man said. The driver, Adon
Garcia, threw the van into re
verse and backed away as bullets
tore through the vehicle.
Producer Douglas Daven
port, of New York City, re
portedly suffered a mild concus
sion and either glass or shrapnel
wounds to the face and neck.
Cameraman Allen Sleeker, of
Atlanta, suffered a minor cut on
the right hand and the Salvador
an driver was cut on the face and
neck by glass or shrapnel, the
spokesman said.
No one was struck by the bul
lets, the spokesman said, adding
the three men were taken to the
Policlinica Hospital in San Salva
dor for treatment.
But in New York City, NBC
spokesman Ron Najman said
only the producer, cameraman,
driver and soundman were in
the vehicle at the time of the
attack, confirming all except the
soundman were slightly injured.
He expected them all to be back
to work Tuesday.
In the attack at Tres Calles, 50
to 100 guerrillas raided a milit
ary post, prompting troops to
call in reinforcements and an air
strike. No casualties were re
ported in the attack.
In a separate incident, two or
three shots were fired near the
motorcade of U.S. Ambassador
Deane R. Hinton, reporters fol
lowing the convoy reported. No
one was hurt and it did not
appear to be an assassination
attempt, they said.
Reporters said shots rang out
as the two cars and station
wagon in the Hinton convoy
were returning from the first
anniversary celebration of the
U.S.-trained Atlacatl Brigade in
Santa Tecla, 7 miles west of the
capital.
The motorcade raced away
from the scene, they said,
adding the ambassador’s own
bodyguards may have fired the
shots to clear traffic from the
road.
Defense Minister Jose Guil
lermo Garcia said 2,000 soldiers
have surrounded 400 to 600
guerrillas in the 8-day-old offen
sive on the slopes of Guazapa
Volcano, 19 miles north of tne
capital.
Dart playing: tavern
extols virtues of sport
United Press International
TRENTON, N.J. — Set into
the floor tiles in the men’s room
of the Veteran’s Tavern is this
advice: “Play Darts.”
Darts is one of the chief
reasons a person would go into
the Vet. The tavern is owned by
Conrad Daniels, who is presi
dent of the North American
Darting Association and one of
the best darts players around.
Daniels, in his mid 30s, is
even built a little like a human
sized dart: about 6 feet tall, slim,
short curly hair, glasses and a
slight bulge in the middle.
In 1975, he won the U.S.
Open and was a finalist in the
News of the World tournament
— the Super Bowl of darts spon
sored by the British newspaper
of the same name. It is played in
the Alexandra Palace in North
London before a crowd of more
than 12,000 and a national Brit
ish television audience of mil
lions. He was only the second
American to play in the tourna-
nient.
A visitor to Veteran’s, in a
forking class neighborhood,
will first notice the television
over the bar by the front door,
the pool table and the jukebox.
Behind the jukebox is the idle
pinball machine and on the far
wall are a row of five well-lit
dartboards, backed by red floor-
to-ceiling carpeting.
There is drinking by the dart
boards. Some say it helps the
concentration. There also is a
quiet intensity broken by low
voices and the “thk” of darts hit
ting boards.
The game they play at the Vet
is as much like the basement kid
die variety of darts as tourna
ment table tennis is like Ping
Pong played with sandpaper-
covered paddles. The rules are
the same, but the game is played
on a different level.
At a far board, the second
from the back, Daniels stands
with three other men, quietly
tossing darts with a deceptive
ease and uncanny accuracy.
“OK, Jimmy, the 7,” Daniels
tells his partner.
Thk. The 7.
“Now the double 9.”
Thk. Double 9.
“Double 16.”
Thk. Double 16. Game’s over.
A standard British dartboard
— used by the vast majority of
players — is a circular target 18
inches in diameter divided into
20 wedges with a bullseye in the
center. A dart landing in the 11
wedge scores 11 points. Around
the rim of the target area is a
three-eighths inch wide “dou
bles ring,” where darts score
double. Halfway to the bull is a
similar “triples ring," where they
score triple.
This night, Daniels is com
plaining that he is tired. As a
result, the other team stacks up a
fairly substantial lead.
“Yeah, you left too early,”
Daniels remarks the next even
ing. “I finally found the board
and we won seven games run
ning.” Some might call that hust
ling, but while Daniels conceded
that some cash changed hands,
he claimed he didn’t make any
money off of it.
The game is not for men only.
Women often are as good shoo
ters and fully as astute money
players as the men.
The history of darts is fuzzy,
at best. One of the earliest refer
ences — repeated so often that it
has become accepted, if not true
— is believed to be that Anne
Boleyn gave her husband, Hen
ry VIII, a set in 1532. It is not
known whether the gift spurred
the king to spare her life for a
while or hasten her execution.
Anyone who has ever picked
up a dart and thrown it at a
board would understand both
impulses.
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