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Page 10/The BattalionThursday, March 11,1987 45* msc Wiley Lecture Series Tf Pre-Program Lecture Interpreting the Constitution" Speaker: Professor Paul Warr (Texas A&M Political Science Department) Date: March 12 Time: 7:30 p.m. Place: Rm 302 Rudder Pre-program lecture presented in conjunction with: "Constitution and Foreign Policy: A Question of Control' Date: April 1 Time: 8:00 p.m. Place: Rudder Auditorium @r pt Officially recognized by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution <3. \ : : / AND 111 SENIO LAST WEEK FOR MAKEUP PICTURES FOR THE 1986-87 AGGIELAND MARCH 9 UNTIL MARCH 13 AJAR PHOTOGRAPHY 707 TEXAS AVE. SUITE 120B 8:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. AND 1:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M. MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY World and Nation $40 million in Contra aid frozen by House resol utioit WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to freeze $40 million in aid for the Nicara guan Contras for six months and to order the Reagan administration to use the time to account for millions of dollars in allegedly missing pre vious aid. The 230-to-196 vote marked the first in a series of expected congres sional battles over Contra aid this year. The resolution was supported by 213 Democrats and 17 Republicans and opposed by 156 Republicans and 40 Democrats. Democrats said Wednesday’s ac tion was justified by alleged corrup tion in the ranks of Nicaragua’s anti leftist insurgents. But Republicans said the vote was a bid to break a promise made by Congress last year and could “hand Central America over to the Soviet Union.” The House vote, heralded in ad vance by Democratic leaders as a sig nal that congressional support for the Contra program is at an end, sends the issue to the Senate. A Senate vote is expected next week on a resolution disapproving the $40 million outright. Final congressional action to block the money would draw a certain veto from President Reagan, and leaders of both parties say such a veto would stand up. But House Speaker Jim Wright of Texas made clear that the real target is not the $40 million — the last in stallment of a $100 million aid pack age voted last year — but the $105 million Reagan has requested for the Contras for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1. “I think the exercise is very useful ... in awakening the administration to the reality that they must focus on other ways to find peace and secure our interests in Central America,” Wright said Wednesday. As the debate began, Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., leader of the House Democratic task Contra aid, said a moratory essential because, ol thentOM viously provided the Cental of millions and perhaps I millions of dollars canno: 1 counted for.” But Contra aid supporii the moratorium proposaU.,Hf% at embarrassing Reagan a:I I’ the Soviet Union a victonM mainland of the WesterrH sphere. HALS 1 Hriculti “1 do not want to be recii:!^B )l| M contributing to handing | il tw" 1 America over to the ' Rep. I rent Lott. R-.Miss.,so^^J n< J an ' theme repeated by manyRefi,^B * ^’’ s speakers. 4 , Has Many Republicans ad l p> 11 that the disclosures of the 1® A tiro tia affair have soured iht sphere in Congress anden port f or Contra aid. Equador asks nations for aid after quakes QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ec uador on Tuesday canceled foreign debt payments for the rest of the year and appealed for international aid because of a series of earth quakes that destroyed villages and crippled the nation’s oil industry. In Geneva, the International Red Cross said the provisional toll from last week’s quakes was 300 dead and 4,000 missing. Dams break In Peru city, flood kills 11 LIMA, Peru (AP) — Several earthen dams collapsed, unleashing a torrent of water, mud and boul ders that killed at least 11 people near Lima and disrupted water sup plies for the capital’s 6 million resi dents, a civil defense spokesman said Tuesday. The flooding, which occurred Monday evening, caused the swollen Rimac River to overflow in parts of Lima. A civil defense spokesman told the Associated Press that four natu ral dams gave way after rains in the barren highlands about 25 miles east of Lima. The water raced down the mountain, picking up dirt and rocks as it headed for the town of Chosica. The spokesman said 11 residents of Chosica were killed. The government said it could not afford to continue making payments on its $8.2 billion foreign debt due to revenue losses caused by the quakes. “We are not going to receive an emormous quantity of foreign ex change, and we cannot fulfill the accord this year,” Finance Minister Domingo Cordovez told reporters. The tremors destroyed a key sec tion of the country’s main oil pipe line, forcing a halt to production and export of Ecuador’s main product. The International Red Cross, in a statement appealing for aid for quake victims, said the disaster af fected 9(),()()0 people. It said the fig ures were based on information from the Ecuadoran Red Cross. The quakes, which began Thurs day night and continued Friday, caused landslides and mudslides that entombed entire hamlets, covered roads, destroyed bridges and rup tured a 25-mile stretch of the coun try’s main oil pipeline. President Leon Febres Cordero asked Ecuador’s 12 fellow members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and other oil- producing nations to assume Ec uador’s sales commitments. He said Ecuador would pay them back in oil when it was able to resume exports. Febres Cordero, in a broadcast address to the nation Monday night, said Ecuador may lose nearly $600 million in sales revenue, or about one-third of the national budget. Energy Minister Javier Espinosa said he was talking with other oil producers in an effort to arrange temporary export exchange agreements. Bodies from ferry disaste shipped hor ■ ^de loai ture-i via ZEEBRUGGF, Belgium — ()f finals sent bodies of? the 134 people killed in if* ish ferry disaster back tot Tuesday and discoumed r that toxic chemicals fronu' sel might contaminate the Sea. ;ow I The f< Bnstimt hel[> Te> of crops _ Seven Hoc-' vital to 1 lecum ■ Rep. 1 Salvage teams hauled: surface a tractor-trailertn* had washed out ol the Her Free Enterprise when the Its 1II1| Bottom ■Ik abo on’t lot “I tin Ire lot Intonio ave a 1 impast id. apsized Fridas night. B: Ufouiag dim ■ truck’s cargo, a solvent dicWiat wo in drums, fell back intothtK Bmps. The government said Bon fe (b ums of various chemkakH • Re ke\ p * Esi lun> been fished from waters a: the ship. It denied report highly toxic dioxin had be the ferry and could contan the sea. While salvage boats ie vered around the 7,951-tot ferry, of ficials on shore sen; fins home to Britain andrept that relatives identified < more victims. 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