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iMOSCOW (AP) — Soviet Foreign
Minister Eduard A. Shevard
nadze on Sunday staked out an
]tive role for his government in
[the U.S. drive to set up Arab-Is-
|eli peace talks.
Secretary of State George P.
Shultz has questioned whether
|he Soviets are eligible, given
eir record on human rights,
nday, he took time after his
Erstday of an official visit in Mos-
to talk with dissidents.
But Shevardnadze, as he
opened two days of talks with
Shultz, said the Soviets already in
tended to be more of a factor.
The issue of Soviet partici
pation is one of the key items on
Shultz’s agenda during his Mos
cow talks.
Another subject is the progress
of arms control talks in Geneva
aimed at producing a treaty to cut
in half the superpowers’ strategic
nuclear arsenals.
Pan Am, workers resume strike talks
NEW YORK (AP) — Talks be-
Been Pan Am Corp. and rep-
Isentatives of 4,500 Teamsters
lurkers continued past a 12:01
iRuddeiTju a | m , Sunday strike deadline after
I irkers overwhelmingly autho-
ed a strike, officials said.
Pan Am said that in case of a
ike, it would maintain service
using replacement workers for
: union members, who are ern-
>yed as reservation clerks, cus-
■mer service agents and in va-
|ous clerical positions.
William Genoese, director of
airline division of Teamsters
ical 732, said that despite the
Isumption of talks, there was a
lod chance of a strike. “They
[aited too long. They dragged
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said of the workers. Genoese said
the negotiations over Pan Am’s
demands for wage cuts and work-
rule changes could go on indefi
nitely.
The Teamsters union contends
it has made sufficient concessions
to aid the airline.
Early Sunday, the counting of
strike authorization ballots was
completed and Genoese an
nounced that the workers had
overwhelmingly authorized a
strike, although he refused to re
lease figures on the vote.
The 12:01 a.m. deadline
marked the end of a 30-day cool
ing-off period mandated by the
government.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) —
lelevision evangelist Jimmy
Ivaggart, who reportedly was
liotographed with a prostitute,
Confessed Sunday that he had
aimed and said he would stop
preaching until church officials
Complete an investigation.
|“I do not plan in any way to
Ihitewash mv sin or call it a mis-
Ike,” he told his tearful but ap
parently forgiving congregation,
[call it a sin.”
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nomination has been investigat-
|g Swaggart, reportedly for alle-
Itions of sexual misconduct. A
liurch official said the evangelist
had shown “true humility,” and
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in the ministry.
Swaggart, who a year ago had
scathingly denounced fellow As
semblies of God evangelist Jim
Bakker for committing adultery,
did not describe his misconduct.
Forest H. Hall, secretary-trea
surer of the Louisiana District of
the Assemblies of God, told the
7,500 people at Swaggart’s family
worship center that the evangelist
had confessed to “specific inci
dents of moral failure” to church
officials and to his family.
Officials of Swaggart’s ministry
asked reporters to check their
tape recorders and cameras at the
door.
Search for U.S. Marine turns violent
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)mr-Ira-
jian-backed Hezbollah extrem-
|ts clashed Sunday with Shiite
militia searching for a kidnapped
I S. Marine and declared sup-
pit for his abductors.
A Hezbollah leader said he be-
levedLt. Col. William R. Higgins
pd been smuggled out of south
ebanon.
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claimed responsibility for Hig
gins’ kidnapping, charging he
was a CIA spy.
U.S. and U.N. officials denied
the charge.
Higgins, a decorated Vietnam
veteran and a one-time military
assistant to former U.S. Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger,
heads a 76-man observer group
attached to a U.N. peacekeeping
force in south Lebanon.
He was kidnapped on Wednes
day near the ancient port city of
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atesquat lldiers killed two Arabs Sunday
‘nollx 1 clashes in the West Bank. Pal-
Tstinian organizers called for
that»'( ^pped up protests to coincide
hiiiiiji fith the visit of U.S. Secretary of
yhatut |tate George Shultz this week.
The army said soldiers shot
|nd killed the Arabs in separate
bnfrontations in the West Bank
ity of Nablus and the Deir Am-
lar refugee camp. Nablus hospi-
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cials said the man, Ahmed Abu
Salhiye, in his 50s, died of a heart
attack after being overcome by
tear gas.
The latest deaths brought the
number of Palestinians killed by
Israelis since the protests began
Dec. 8 to 61, according to United
Nations figures.
Officials in the Economy Min
istry said the government had
spent $330 million to finance the
crackdown on the protests.
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cent opposed it and 17 percent were
uncertain.
Students showed a lack of faith in
the Social Security system, with 62
percent of those polled saying they
did not think the system would be
around when it came time for them
to retire. On a related topic, 54 per
cent of the resondents favored a na
tional health-care insurance plan,
while 41 percent opposed such a
program.
Fifty percent of the college stu
dents polled supported further de
velopment of SDI, commonly called
“star wars,” while 32 percent op
posed it. And an overwhelming 79
percent of those surveyed said the
minimum wage should be increased.
Political Forum conducted a poll
of its own in a mock election in the
MSG Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day. A total of 267 A&M students
cast ballots for their favorites in the
presidential election, with 122 of the
participants voting for Democrats
and 145 voting Republican.
According to the A&M poll, Gov.
Michael Dukakis was the clear win
ner in the Democratic party with 50
percent of the vote, while Republi
can Vice President George Bush re
ceived 49.6 percent of his party’s
vote.
The rest of the Democratic vote
by the A&M respondants was split
fairly evenly between the other can
didates, with Richard Gephardt re
ceiving 14.8 percent of the vote, Al
bert Gore receiving 12.3 percent,
Jesse Jackson with 10.7 percent, Paul
Simon with 7.4 percent and Gary
Hart with 3.3 percent.
Sen. Robert Dole posed a little
more threat to Bush as he garnered
24.1 percent of the A&M poll’s Re
publican vote. The Rev. Pat Rob
ertson followed with 13.7 percent
and Jack Kemp received 10.3 per
cent.
Democrat Bruce Babbitt and Re
publican Pete DuPont, who have
withdrawn from the race, received
1.6 percent and 2.1 percent of the
A&M poll vote, respectively.
After Thursday’s Democratic de
bates, four of the Democratic candi
dates — Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson,
Michael Dukakis and Albert Gore —
appeared on the College Satellite
Network’s Election ’88 program to
answer questions from college stu
dents in the audience andi over
phone lines.
Student posed questions on a wide
spectrum of issues including do
mestic and foreign problems.
Hart was asked about the recent
Supreme Court Hazelwood decision.
He said he considered it a bad deci
sion, and that it points out the im
portance of Supreme Court ideol
ogy. He said no president should
stack a court ideologically and ac
cused President Reagan of doing
just that with his nomination of Rob
ert Bork for the Supreme Court.
Jackson responded to a question
on human rights, saying they are vi
tal in U.S. relations with foreign
countries.
“If you don’t support human
rights, you support inhuman rights,”
he said, “and that’s tyranny.”
Jackson also blasted recent efforts
to make English the national lan
guage in the United States, calling it
“a mean-spirited proposition” that
would weaken the United States.
When questioned about the recent
Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces
Treaty, Dukakis said he is “cau
tiously optimistic” about Soviet-U.S.
relations, but added that the presi
dent’s Star Wars program is the big
gest obstacle to the advancement of
those relations.
“I think Star Wars is a fantasy,” he
said. “I think it’s a fraud. I don’t
think it’s in our best interest.”
Dukakis also blasted Reagan’s eco
nomic policy, charging that the na
tion has been “living on a credit card
for the last seven years.”
Gore addressed the issue of equal
ity in education. He said the prob
lem used to be worse, but is still bad.
One of the next president’s top prio
rities, he said, must be to work to
ward eliminating prejudice in the
United States.
“Prejudice is an old way of thin
king,” he said.
Republicans Robert Dole and Pat
Robertson didn’t show up at Friday’s
debates, leveling charges that the au
dience was stacked with Bush sup
porters and that questions had been
leaked to the vice president.
Neither Bush nor Kemp an
swered questions from college stu
dents, although Bush did appear
briefly on the Election ’88 program
to ask for support.
Editor’s Note: Battalion reporter
Tom Eikel contributed to this story.
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Governors ask for relief
from federal red tape
at association meeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — The na
tion’s governors appealed to the
White House on Sunday for relief
from 163 federal rules and regula
tions and heard a former governor
call for a constitutional conventioh
to restore states’ rights.
New Hampshire Gov. John H.
Sununu, opening the National Gov
ernors’ Association’s winter meeting,
said that the time had come to press
for a new division of authority be
tween the states and Washington.
“There has been an erosion of the
fundamental balance struck 200
years ago in Philadelphia,” Sununu,
the NGA chairman, said at a news
conference before calling the first
plenary session to order.
James C. Miller III, director of
the Office of Management and Bud
get, told the governors the Reagan
administration had carried out
nearly 50 of 80 recommendations
the NGA made 16 months ago to re
duce red tape and administrative
burdens on state and local govern
ments.
Eyeing the new stack of 163 rec
ommendations, Miller said, “There’s
a lot more out there that needs to be
done. It’s hard to do.” But he added,
“There is no question that our fed
eral system of shared power between
the federal and state governments . .
. is healthier today than it has been
in years.”
The governors heard just the op
posite from former Georgia Gov.
George Busbee, who warned, “We
are about one recession away from a
complete breakdown of domestic
government in this country.”
Busbee, an Atlanta lawyer who
governed Georgia from 1975 to
1983, urged the governors to press
for a constitutional convention “to
break the gridlock, sift through the
blue smoke and mirrors and restore
a sense of order and accountability
in American government.”
The federal government is raid
ing state and local revenue sources
and dumping unfunded mandates
on the states, Busbee said, and most
of the presidential candidates are
talking of new federal initiatives in
such areas of traditional state control
as education, welfare, economic de
velopment and criminal justice.
“Begging Congress or the admin
istration to pay attention to federal
ism is, in my opinion, a waste of
time,” said Busbee, a Democrat.
“Governors and legislators are not
treated much differently from the
‘National Association of Ball Peen
Hammer Producers’ — except that
(they) have a PAG (political action
committee) and you don’t.”
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