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‘Peace’ churches aid students
United Press International
If the federal government
starts cutting off education
funds to young men who refuse
to register for the draft, three
“peace churches” will be ready
with special funds to keep con
scientious objectors in college.
Spokesmen for the Church of
the Brethren, the Mennonite
Church and the Quakers said
Monday they have established
funds to replace federal aid lost
by students who refuse to regis
ter for religious reasons.
Those three denominations
have been called “peace chur
ches” because they have historic
ally opposed war and the draft.
Other denominations, in
cluding Presbyterians and Un
ited Methodists, have discussed
similar steps; but Shawn Perry,
assistant director of the National
Interreligious Service Board for
Conscientious Objectors in
Washington said, “We haven’t
heard of anything concrete out
side the peace churches.”
Congress last year passed a
law denying federal education
funds to young men who failed
to register with the selective ser
vice administration. A constitu
tional challenge delayed en
forcement of the law until Sept.
1, and the U.S. Supreme Court
is expected to hear arguments
this fall.
The threatened cutoff of stu
dent loans has raised the percen
tage of 18-year-olds complying
with the registration law from 85
percent last July to 92 percent
now, selective service figures
show.
The first of seven men to be
convicted in a nationwide crack
down on draft resisters, Enten
Eller, was the son of a Brethren
minister who said God did not
want him in the military. In
March, after Eller was sentenced
to two years of volunteer work
with an antipoverty agency, the
church set up a $10,000 annual
fund to provide educational
assistance to draft resisters.
“We have made very clear our
support of young men who
choose not to register,” said
Ruby Rhoades, world ministries
executive for the Church of the
Brethren in Elgin, Ill. “Some
special funds have also been set
up in a good many of the
church’s (six) colleges.”
Ivan Kauffmann, secretary of
the Mennonite Church in Lom
bard, Ill., said voluntary dona
tions have already been used to
help the families of nonregis
trant students. On Aug. 1,
church officials will vote on a
proposal to provide financial
support to draft resisters at the
five Mennonite colleges and
other schools across the country.
“The church agrees to stand
by those who are taking that
position for conscientious
reasons,” Kauffmann said.
Quakers do not have a nation
al fund to provide for non
registrants, but several regional
groups, called Yearly Meetings,
are responding with money on a
case-by-case basis.
Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-
N.Y., sponsored the bill to cut
off funding to non-registrants
— and recently introduced
another bill that would termin
ate federal grants or contracts to
schools attempting to circum
vent the law by providing special
funds to draft resisters.
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Covert aid bill delayed,
O’Neill predicts victory
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House
Speaker Thomas O’Neill de
layed action Tuesday on a bill to
force President Reagan to halt
covert aid to rebels fighting
Nicaragua’s Sandinista govern
ment but said the outlook for
passage is good.
The House had been sche
duled to resume work on the bill
Tuesday, but O’Neill said it
would be put off until Wednes
day with a final vote planned
Thursday.
O’Neill said Monday he
feared opponents would use
stalling tactics against the bill,
which Reagan opposes. To
counter that threat, the speaker
indicated the House would not
vote on a bill dealing with the
International Monetary Fund,
which the administration wants,
until the covert aid bill is
finished.
The IMF bill would authorize
an $8.4 billion increase in the
U.S. pledge to the financial aid
agency, and the administration
has been pressing for a quick
vote on it.
O’Neill, D-Mass., said about
103 amendments to the covert
aid bill have been filed, most by
opponents of the measure. But
he said the outlook is favorable.
O’Neill said he “hopes we can
send a strong message from the
House to help determine pres
idential policy.”
The speaker said Monday the
coalition of “ultra
conservatives” who delayed ac
tion on a nuclear freeze resolu
tion for several weeks may try to
stall action to force withdrawal
of the covert aid ban.
Reagan argues the publicly
acknowledged covert aid to the
rebels is needed to stop Nicar
agua from sending arms to lef
tist rebels in El Salvador.
Strike possible for union
machinists at Continental
United Press International
HOUSTON — An estimated
1,000 union members who work
as machinists may begin infor
mational pickets at Continental
Airlines’ Houston terminal dur
ing the next three weeks.
The International Associa
tion of Machinists and Aeros
pace Workers’ contract with
Continental expires Aug. 12,
and unless an agreement can be
reached on several key issues,
workers said they may strike.
wages, benefits and job security.
An estimated 2,000 workers
— including mechanics, ground
service, kitchen and stockroom
personnel and cabin cleaners —
are covered by the current pact.
Wilbur Spurlock, business
manager for the local union,
said the union members met
Monday to discuss the status of
the stalled negotiations. Union
officials said they key issues were
The negotiations have been
complicated since Continental
was purchased by Texas Air
Corp., which operated Texas
International Airlines.
Currently, Continental
machinists earn about $13.45 an
hour, compared to an industry
wide average of $ 17.40 an hour,
Spurlock said.
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Polish prisoners
granted amnesty
United Press International
WARSAW, Poland — More
than 100 political prisoners and
common offenders relished
freedom Tuesday under an
amnesty program introduced
with the Communist govern
ment’s end to martial law.
With authorities taking their
time reporting on the freeing of
men and women across Poland
Monday, it appeared likely the
total was higher than the more
than 100 whose release was con
firmed.
reduced sentencebutitil
were freed.
A spokesman at ad
center in the southernjj
cial city of Opole, situatl
the St. Anne Mountair The
visited by Pope John ticketing
month, said at least iMjsigns. P
ers were freed. Nonevfi tyednesd
tilled.
All the men releasedi|
either were awaiting 1
waiting to be charj
spokesman said. There
word on how many were
al offenders.
Justice Ministry spokesmen
said 57 political offenders re
ceived full or partial pardons at
nine jails around the country
Monday but were unable to con
firm whether they were freed
immediately.
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They said 57 people charged
with common crimes also pro
fited from the amnesty decree.
One man was kept in prison on a
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lifted last week. Thej
least 60 would be ruledU
for the amnesty prograj
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to 1,000 common
could be pardoned "fork;
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pardons were reported'
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law, officials said four!®* a ssifi<
offenders and one maa'li^al• •
with a criminal offense'WP™ 01
leased Monday and ai"’^P orts -
men were cleared forte 1 ' 1
the next few days.”
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prisoners are held
wiecka prison, in thee*
the capital, and Bia^
miles to the northeast
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fused to talk to reporte" 1
day. Other prison off' 1 *-
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lease of four men jailed i0 | jq t
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