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Page 6/The BattalionTuesday, December 17,1985
World and Nation
Soviets reveal new responses
Anti-Star Wars plan outlined
Associated Press
MOSCOW — A Soviet military
specialist outlined possible coun
tersteps Monday to render U.S.
space defense systems into “useless
junk.”
The outline — including dummy
missiles, “space mines” and specially
coated rockets — spelled out pub
licly for the first time what the
Kremlin has in mind in response to
“Star Wars” deployments. It was in
one of two lengthy commentaries
Monday on the Geneva nuclear arms
talks that resume in a month.
The articles constituted the open
ing salvo in what appears to be a new
round of Soviet arguments against
the Strategic Defense Initiative be
fore negotiations resume on Jan. 16.
On Wednesday, two top Soviet
space research scientists, Roald Sag-
deev and Yevgeny Velikhov, and
Georgy Arbatov, a top Kremlin ad
viser on the United States, are sched
uled to hold a news conference.
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorba
chev said after his Nov. 19-20 sum
mit meetings with President Reagan
that he told Reagan not to have any
2 killed in
illusions about Soviet capabilities to
respond to Star Wars, as the Strate
gic Defense Initiative is popularly
called.
Gorbachev said Soviet scientists
have come up with plans for coun
tersteps that would be cheaper and
more effective than any space-based
anti-missile systems, and they could
be implemented fairly rapidly. How
ever, he did not say what they were.
Retired army Col. Vasily Moro
zov, now a military writer for the
press agency Novosti, said Monday
that the Soviets could deploy space
mines and other objects in orbitu
destroy or interfere with U.S. sjv
terns.
Morozov also said the Sovidi
could launch dummy missiles todij
tract U.S. anti-missile satellites,an!
use special coatings on Soviet m
siles that would deflect laser beams
Morozov said the Soviets alreadi
have the technology for these com-
termeasures, and that they couU
cost “1 or 2 percent” of any SDI sys
tems. The Reagan administrations
proposing a $26-billion SD1 researcli
program.
gas tank
explosion
Associated Press
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. —
A propane gas tank exploded in a
gas company repair garage today,
and at least two people were killed
and 10 people were unaccounted
for, a company vice president said.
Only one wall of the two-story
building remained standing. “It’s all
the way to the ground,” said State
Patrol Trooper Gary Eshelman.
Les Sitter, vice president of Rocky
Mountain Natural Gas Co., said two
bodies had been recovered and fire
fighters were searching for 10 other
people who may have been trapped.
“We understand now it was a
small, 1,000-gallon propane tank
with just a small amount of propane
in it,” Sitter said. “It was on a flatbed
truck. Apparently it had just been
pulled into a mechanical mainte
nance area. We don’t know what the
ignition was, but that was the source
of the explosion.”
Sitter estimated 30 people were
working in the company’s billing and
repair departments at the time.
Thirteen people were taken to
Valley View Hospital for treatment,
said spokeswoman Catherine Evans.
She said most were treated in the
emergency room but did not discuss
their injuries.
Fire departments from through
out Garfield County were sent to the
site.
Congressional conferees
OK $370 billion in spending
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Congres
sional negotiators voted Monday
to allow senators to earn an extra
$7,510 a year in speaking fees
and opened the door to a 1987
pay raise for all lawmakers as they
agreed on a $370 billion bill to fi
nance many federal agencies
through the end of the fiscal year.
Critics immediately attacked
the increase in senators’ speaking
income, particularly at a time
when spending for many pro
grams is being cut to reduce fed
eral deficits. “For us to sneak it in
or for us to appear to have snuck
it in does us a disservice,” said
Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.
Negotiators worked out the fi
nal sticking points of the catchall
spending bill as Reagan adminis
tration officials claimed victory in
their drive to resuscitate the pres
ident’s tax overhaul plan.
“We’ve got 50 votes,” said
Treasury Secretary James Baker
a few hours after Reagan ap
pealed privately to House GOP
lawmakers to advance the legis
lation.
The 50 votes was the minimum
level of Republican support that
House Speaker Thomas P. O’N
eill Jr., D-Mass., said was nec
essary to force a second vote. The
measure was sidetracked last
week on a vote of 223-202, a de
feat engineered by disaffected
GOP lawmakers.
“I cannot believe that a presi
dent who won the votes of 54 mil
lion Americans cannot gain the
support of his own Republican
caucus for his No. 1 second-term
initiative,” O’Neill said earlier in a
statement. But other officials cau
tioned that Democratic support
for the measure may have ta
pered off since last week, further
threatening the measure.
The honoraria and pay provi
sions were attached to “must-
pass” year-end legislation that
would permit defense spending
to rise to at least $282.5 billion
next year while freezing or cut
ting many domestic programs.
lawmakers said they hoped
Reagan would sign the measure
and allow the House and Senate
to conclude their business for the
year without a nasty veto con
frontation. There was no imme
diate comment from administra
tion officials, who have
complained previously about sev
eral of the provisions in the bill,
including a ban on further fund
ing for anti-satellite weapons.
Work on the spending mea
sure proceeded against a theoret
ical deadline of 6 p.m. EST.when
an existing stopgap bill was to ex
pire.
Most of the details of the long
term spending bill were worked
out last week, but one last-minute
compromise would phase out the
Synthetic Fuels Corp. over four
months, and permanently block
expenditure of any of the agen
cy’s $6.6 billion in unobligated
funds.
In exchange, the two sides
agreed to provide $100 million
this year and $400 million over
three years for clean coal technol
ogy, money the administration
opposes.
Overall, the spending measure
would provide an estimated $370
billion for departments not yet
covered by regular appropria
tions bills, including Defense, Ag
riculture, Treasury, Transporta
tion and the Postal Service.
The Pentagon would receive
nearly $282.5 billion in new
spending authority, but negotia
tors also agreed to make another
$5 billion to $7 billion available in
transfers from previous years in
case it is needed.
U.S. relaxes restrictions on exports to China
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Reagan
administration announced Monday
it is relaxing restrictions on a wide
variety of goods exported to China.
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Bal-
drige said easier trade relations can
be had with the Soviet Union, too,
but that much still depends on Soviet
progress on human rights.
The secretary said licensing
changes would expand from seven
to 27 the number of categories of
products that can be shipped to
China without special review. He
called the action “a major step
ahead” in trade relations between
the two nations.
Up to 75 percent of all products
now awaiting Commerce Depart
ment approval for shipment to
China will benefit from the easing of
restrictions, Baldrige said. Items eli
gible for the speeded-up processing
include computers, machine tools,
semiconductors, robotics and elec
less than 30 days,” Baldrige said in
an interview with news service re-
tromc instruments.
“The backlog on China cases,
which now runs to as much as six
months to a year, will be reduced to
porters.
Two-way trade with China
amounted to roughly $6 billion this
year, according to Commerce De
partment figures. Baldrige said it
hadn’t been calculated yet what the
action would mean in terms of addi
tional trade with China.
He said that to qualify for the spe
cial speeded-up treatment, export
ers would have to get a certificate
from the Chinese government stat
ing what the product’s “end use” will
be, Baldrige said. He said China hai
already agreed to set up a program
for issuing the certificates.
The ban on export of strategit
materials to China that could havi
military applications will be contin
ued, Baldrige said.
Just back from a Moscow confer
ence on trade attended by U.S. busi
nessmen and Soviet trade officak
Baldrige also said he saw enhanced
prospects for increased trade wilt)
the Soviets — but to a lesser degree
than with China.
Jury finds Gov. Edwards’ brother innocent of fraud
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — A federal
jury found Marion Edwards,
brother of Gov. Edwin Edwards, in
nocent of 41 fraud charges Monday,
but deadlocked on whether the gov
ernor, his brother and three co-de
fendants were guilty of racketeering.
After the partial verdict was read,
U.S. District Judge Marcel Livaudais
noted the time and expense of the
13-week-old trial and told the jurors
to strive to reach a verdict.
The jury, in its fifth day of delib
erations, acquitted Marion Edwards
on 41 of the 49 fraud counts against
him.
were acquitted by the judge.
They each faced one count of vio
lating the conspiracy section of the
complicated federal Racketeer In
fluenced and Corrupt Organization
act.
All but Mijalis also faced 49 counts
of mail and wire fraud. He was
charged with three counts of mail
fraud.
wards took office he approved or
had a role in approving projects
owned by Wyllie and Falgout. De
fense attorneys said the facilities
were approved because they were
needed — not because of Edwards’
previous business relationship with
the two men.
Each RICO count carries a maxi
mum penalty of 20 years in prison,)
$25,000 fine and forfeiture of all
property acquired in the criminal
enterprise. Each mail and wire fraud
count carries a maximum punish
ment of five years in prison and a
$1,000 fine.
4
In a note to the judge, the panel
said it reached no verdict on the
racketeering charge or the other
fraud counts against him, or on any
of the charges against the governor
and the other defendants.
“After days of deliberating, we are
now at a point of deadlock, with no
foreseeable progress,” the note said.
John Volz, who promised a retrial
if the jury fails to reach a verdict
said, “This jury is very, very care
fully considering the whole case.
Very intelligently, because of the se
lection, the choice of counts.”
The governor’s lawyer, James
Neal, said he was neither encour
aged nor discouraged by the partial
verdict.
Earlier Monday, Livaudais re
fused to dismiss a juror who flashed
a thumbs-down sign several times at
a television camera Saturday during
deliberations in the trial. The de
fense suggested the juror could be a
lone holdout against complete ac
quittal.
The governor, his brother and
their business associates Ron Fal
gout, James Wyllie Jr. and Gus Mija
lis were charged in February in con
nection with a $10 million hospital
investment scheme. The trial began
Sept. 17, and three other defendants
The judge gave no specific rea
sons for rejecting a defense motion
to remove juror Clifford West, who
made the thumbs-down gesture as a
van carrying the jurors left the hotel
where they have been sequestered at
night.
William Jeffress, Falgout’s attor
ney, agreed but argued that West
was trying to communicate with the
public, a violation of the court’s or
der that jurors speak with no one
other than each other about the case.
Defense lawyers said they were
willing to accept a verdict from the
11 other jurors, and suggested Volz
was afraid the 11 want to acquit the
defendants.
Volz said it was idle speculation to
guess how the jury was voting. And
he said disrupting deliberations by
removing a juror would be “outra
geous.”
The jury was apparently unaware
of the controversy.
The indictment accused the de
fendants of scheming to illegally ob
tain state certification for hospital
and nursing home projects in which
they held interests. They sold five of
the projects for $10 million.
Edwards acknowledged that be
fore he took office in March 1984
for his third term he made almost $2
million on the deals. He said the
deals were legal and that he broke
ties with the venture when he took
office.
Prosecutors showed that after Ed-
returned to Ho\
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ting hack the dock — or at least
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and bronze Victorian extrava
ganza, stood over the main en
trance to the House for 92 years
— from 1858 to 1950 — before
falling victim to modem ideas of
interior decor.
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Capitol was extended, the House
and Senate chambers modern
ized, the Victorian age expelled
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niche in the Crypt of the Capitol.
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attention that a recall drive was
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thing ” Carroll said.
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