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Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, March 25, 1987
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Contra-aid opponents unable
to stop filibuster, will try again
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate
opponents of aid to the Nicaraguan
Contras failed again Tuesday to shut
down a filibuster and move toward a
vote on a six-month halt in military
assistance to the rebels.
The vote was an evenly divided
50-50, or 10 votes short of the 60
needed to end a filibuster.
Senate Majority Leader Robert C.
Byrd, D-W.Va., said another at
tempt would be made today and pos
sibly yet another on Thursday. “It
depends on how much gain we
make,” he said.
A first at tempt to choke off the fil
ibuster failed on Monday, with 46
senators favoring it and 45 voting
against it. Texas senators Lloyd
Bentsen and Phil Gramm voted
against shutting off the filibuster.
However. Byrd said the real goal
now is merely to rally a “constitu
tional majority” of 51 votes, all that
would be required to kill President
Reagan’s request for an additional
$105 million in aid to the Contras
when that request reaches the Senate
floor later this year.
The filibuster by Contra-aid sup
porters is aimed at blocking action
on a proposed six-month freeze in
the flow of aid to the rebels. During
those six months, according to the
legislation, the Reagan administra
tion would be required to account
for millions of dollars in private and
public assistance provided earlier to
the Contras.
Contra-aid opponents lost a bid
last week to kill outright a $40 mil
lion aid installment originally ap
proved last year.
In another development, the Jus
tice Department repeated denials
that Attorney General Edwin Meese
III intervened at the request of then
National Security Adviser John
Poindexter to block indictments
against smugglers shipping guns to
Nicaraguan rebels.
Forty-three Democrats were
joined by seven Republicans in vot
ing to end the filibuster. Thirty-nine
Republicans were joined by 11 Dem
ocrats in voting to permit it to con
tinue.
The latest denial came after the
Village Voice said Tuesday in a story
that Meese blocked the indictments
after responding to a request from
Poindexter that the investigation
could imperil the Contras’ efforts
against the leftist government of Ni
caragua.
Patrick Korten, a Justice Depart
ment spokesman, said the story “in
sofar as it purports to make any
resentation of Meese’s action!
utterly, completely false.”
Senate Democratic leaderssaid
Tuesday that the Contra-aid
this spring are just the openings^
of a legislative oattle thatwillread
climax this fall in a strugglebmtt
the White House and Congreatm
the president’s $105 million retpis
Those votes will be taken inai
different legislative climate,!
Democrats said.
“At that time it will only taktj
votes in this body and a majontti
one in the other body andwewlj
off the money to the Contras,cuti
backing a terrorist war and si
steps that could lead to Atnetii
military involvement and Amenoi
fighting in N icaragua,” said Se
Alan Cranston, D-Calif, thedepl
Democratic leader.
Retired general enters bid
for presidential nomination
NEW YORK (AP) — Alexander
M. Haig Jr. entered elective politics
Tuesday with a bid for the presi
dency, refusing to rule out a tax in
crease and warning against “arms
control for arms control’s sake.”
Declaring his candidacy for the
1988 Republican presidential nomi
nation at a news conference in the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Haig em
phasized his experience as a former
secretary of state, NATO command
ing general and White House chief
of staff.
nation for president and welcomes
all candidates as being healthy and
constructive for the party.”
Haig and former Gov. Pete du
Pont of Delaware are declared can
didates for the GOP presidential
nomination. Rep. Jack Kemp of New
York plans to join them April 6.
Also considered certain to enter
the race are Sen. Robert Dole, Vice
President George Bush, the Rev. Pat
Robertson and former Defense Sec
retary Donald Rumsfeld.
marked by clashes between the
strong-willed retired general and
White House aides.
He made leadership the theme of
his campaign but offered few specif
ics of how he would deal with na
tional problems or where he would
differ with the Reagan policies.
He cited the federal budget deficit
as the biggest domestic problem and,
when pressed on whether he would
rule out a tax increase to help lower
it, replied:
But he conceded he is a longshot
in the political battle to succeed his
former boss, Ronald Reagan.
Marlin Fitzwater, Reagan’s chief
spokesman, reiterated that “the
president is neutral in the primary
contests for the Republican nomi-
Following his announcement,
Haig flew to New Hampshire to
campaign in the state that will hold
the first presidential primary next
year.
Haig’s 18-month career as Rea
gan’s first secretary of state was
“No, I would not rule out a tax in
crease. 1 would rule out going imme
diately to a tax increase so that the
heavy-spending ways of the Con
gress — the Democratically con
trolled Congress now — can con
tinue.”
Former Marine embassy guard
arrested on espionage charges
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Ma
rine Corps has arrested a second for
mer embassy guard on suspicion of
espionage as a result of a continuing
investigation of Sgt. Clayton J. Lone-
tree, the service disclosed late Tues
day.
The former guard was trans
ferred from the Marine base at
Twentynine Palms, Calif., to Quan-
tico, Va., Tuesday night and will be
held in confinement pending an ap
pearance before a military magis
trate.
Lt. Col. John Shotwell, a Marine
spokesman, identified the man as
Arnold Bracy of Woodside Queens,
New York City, a 21-year-old cor
poral “whose tour of duty over-
)ed Sgt. Lonetree’s at the U.S.
Embassy in Moscow.”
Shotwell had said earlier Tuesday
the Marine Corps would not release
the man’s identity before today be
cause it wanted to make sure his
next-of-kin had been notified of his
arrest and transfer.
Bracy “has been apprehended for
possible involvement in espionage-
related activities (as a result of) the
continuing investigation of the Lo-
netree case by the Naval Investiga
tive Service,” Shotwell added.
The 25-year-old Lonetree was ar
rested in December and transported
to Quantico, where he has been held
in detention ever since. Lonetree
served as an embassy guard in Mos
cow and Vienna, Austria, before his
arrest.
On Jan. 30, the Marine Corps an
nounced it would ask a military law
yer to approve the start of court-
martial proceedings against Lone
tree on 19 different charges, includ
ing a single count of espionage.
The corps has charged that Lone
tree, from September 1985 to De
cember 1986, provided the Soviet
Union the names and photographs
of American intelligence agents at
tached to the embassy staff. It also
has alleged he provided the Soviets
with descriptions of the floor plans
and office assignments for the U.S.
embassies in Moscow and Vienna.
Witnesses say
corporations
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ployee pension plans of nea; |
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1980 while making $145billiori:|
empty promises of retiremenicl
come and health care to wortaj
without setting aside monevi:j
pay for them. Congress wastoJ
Tuesday.
A growing corporate piackUi
of terminating retirement pk
— often using surplus asseu.
takeover wars and sticking lk
f government with unfundedlk
ities — is putting at risk mfc
of Americans who look to ik
fined-benefit pensions to uk
care of them in their old age,w
nesses said.
I he Labor Department, ini
1984 study, concluded that wort
ci s in terminated plans losealxc
45 percent of benefits theyotta
wise could anticipate.
The dimensions of the prck
lem and proposed solutionsm
outlined Tuesday in a day-tot
joint hearing before the SeiffiJ
labor and House labor-manajf
merit relations subcommittees
While the Reagan administri
lion was applauded for come
up with a set of proposals c
tended to make pension proms
more secure, business, laboraii
retirement groups all found fa-
with various aspects
Even I.abor Secretary Wife
Brock, chief architect of the*i|
ministration proposal, was hft
tant to say its emphasis on (k
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Pentagon: Soviets building weapons supply
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviet Union
continues to deploy new models of nuclear mis
siles with an eye toward achieving military supe
riority while conducting laser experiments
against U.S. airplanes, the Pentagon said Tues
day.
Russia is also devoting almost three times as
much of its gross national product to weapons
purchases compared to the United States. And it
shows no signs of slowing that build-up, “no mat
ter who is general secretary; no matter what pro
posals are made, no matter what public relations
activities are undertaken,” said Defense Secre
tary Caspar W. Weinberger.
The Soviet weapons drive also extends to its
conventional arsenal, with dozens of new MiG-29
Fulcrum jet fighters along with tanks, artillery
pieces and ships having been produced over the
past year.
This grim assessment of Moscow’s military
might was released by Weinberger in the form of
the Pentagon’s annual publication, “Soviet Mili
tary Power.” Now in its sixth edition, the mag
azine-size, glossy booklet has become the Reagan
administration’s primary vehicle for releasing in
formation about Russian force developments
and, in turn, buttressing calls for higher Penta
gon spending.
percent and 17 percent of Russia’s gross nation
product. By comparison, Pentagon spenditj
consumes about 6 percent of America’s GNP.
The report was released hours before Wf-
berger went to Capitol Hill to push for the J 5 !
ministration’s request for a 3 percent increase
ter inflation in
fiscal year.
le defense budget for the no
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“We must realize that we are competing with a
dynamic, and an expanding, Soviet military
threat,” Weinberger said.
Overall, the booklet concludes that Soviet mili
tary expenditures are consuming between 15
Weinberger referred to the booklet on sevtf
occasions, telling the House Armed Sen# Alio,., I 7^~
Committee that it outlined the “very realtliio |?urecoupioi
the growing threat” presented by the Soviet®- |[i| l < l ( 1 ) f, lp ' vitl1
tary machine. That threat, rather than domfr
considerations, should be used as the basis^
the Pentagon’s budget, Weinberger
panel.
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