Republicans back off
from new Contra Aid
By JIM DRINKARD
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. House Re
publicans backed away yesterday
from an effort to seek new U.S. aid
for Nicaragua’s Contra rebels in the
face of strong opposition from Demo
crats who argued that more aid would
jeopardize delicate Central American
peace negotiations, congressional
sources said.
The Reagan administration has
been looking for ways to continue aid
to the U.S.-backed rebels, saying
their existence as a fighting force is
keeping pressure on Nicaragua’s
Marxist government to make demo
cratic reforms called for in a regional
peace accord.
Council:
election
illegal
By PIERRE-YVES GLASS
Associated Press Writer
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The
independent Provisional Electoral
Council said yesterday the military
led junta’s decree dissolving it is
unconstitutional and any elections
held without its supervision will be
illegal.
Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy, the junta
leader, says he wants to hold elec
tions and hand power to a civilian
president and National Assembly on
Feb. 7, the second anniversary of the
flight of dictator Jean-Claude Duva
lier.
He issued a decree Sunday remov
ing the nine members of the electoral
council after it canceled the national
election then in progress because of
violence. Bands of men with guns and
machetes killed at least 34 people,
many of them at voting stations.
According to the new constitution,
approved overwhelmingly in a refer
endum March 29, Namphy and his
three-man provisional junta must
abide by the council's decisions on
elections.
“The members (of the council)
declare null any election that is not
organized by the Electoral Council as
it was composed before the unconsti
tutional decree of Nov. 29,1987,” said
a statement from the council mem
bers broadcast by Radio Metropole.
“The mission of the Provisional
Electoral Council cannot be inter
rupted under any circumstances ...
before the newly elected president
takes office, according to the consti
tution in article 289-3.”
According to that article, “the mis
sion of the Provisional Electoral
Council ends when the newly elected
president takes office.”
Under the constitution, the Electo
ral Council has full power to organize
elections and write electoral law, and
is the ultimate authority on all electo
ral matters. No appeals of its deci
sions are permitted.
Namphy’s attempt to usurp the
council’s power last June led to vio
lent protests in which at least 33 were
killed and 200 wounded.
He capitulated and decreed a new
election law written by the council,
whose nine members were chosen by
church groups, journalists associa
tions, human rights groups, agricul
tural cooperatives, the Supreme
Court, the government’s Council of
Advisers, universities and the junta.
Members of the electoral council
remained in hiding yesterday.
U.S. observers blamed the army
for the terror campaign that th
warted Sunday’s elections, and there
were calls for multinational interven
tion to oversee a new vote.
At a meeting in Miami on Caribbe
an trade, two prime ministers who
sent police or military units to aid
U.S. troops who invaded Grenada in
1983 said a peaceful solution must
first be sought in Haiti.
“There is much room for dialogue
yet,” said Prime Minister Edward
Seaga of Jamaica. Prime Minister
John Compton of St. Lucia agreed.
the
daily
Backers of Contra aid had planned
to seek an additional $3O million to
support the rebels from Dec. 16, when
the current aid allocation runs out,
into next year.
The proposal was to have been
offered as an amendment when a
catch-all spending bill to keep the
government running for the rest of
the fiscal year comes to the House
floor on Thursday.
National security adviser
Lt. Gen. Colin Powell has been meet
ing with House members, pressing
for a two-month aid package that
includes not only the so-called “hu
manitarian” aid that has been flow
ing to the rebels since Oct. l, but also
supply planes, helicopters and mili
tary training.
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Allies aim for smaller Soviet force
By BARRY SCHWEIO
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Secretary of State George P.
Shultz said yesterday the Western allies would use the
impending treaty to ban intermediate-range nuclear
missiles as a pattern for negotiating reductions in Soviet
bloc tanks and artillery pieces in Europe.
“Obviously, the present deployments are sharply
asymmetric, and the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear
Forces) principle applies," Shultz said in an interview
with news agencies.
The new approach is still under discussion within the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. “There's been a lot
of work going on,” Shultz said.
The goal is to have a position ready for talks next years
on conventional arms from the Atlantic to the Urals.
Shultz will hold discussions with NATO ministers in
Brussels Dec. 11-12.
“We’ll have a negotiation, and I think we're pretty well
along on that,” Shultz said.
Collegian
Ronald Reagan
But he emphasized the United States would insist, at the
same time, on the Soviets' improving their human rights
record. "We don't want to lose that linkage.” he said.
The weapons treaty to be signed next week during the
Washington superpower summit will require the Soviets
to dismantle more missiles than the United States be
cause they have more deployed in Europe.
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in an interview
Monday with NBC-TV, repeated earlier assertions that
there is a "certain asymmetry, both in forces and
armaments" between the NATO and Warsaw Pact con
ventional forces.
Shultz said that since Gorbachev recognizes the prin
ciple "we have some things to work with."
Soviet-bloc tanks, anti-tank weapons, artillery and
other “physical pieces represent a way of going about this
that I think has a lot of attractions to everybody,” Shultz
said.
The Warsaw Pact would have to reduce its force of
tanks from about 40,000 to about 20,000, and artillery
pieces from about 36.000 to about 15,000.
INF treaty center of debate
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Republi
can presidential contenders clashed
over arms control yesterday in a
spirited prime-time debate, while
Democrats taunted most of the GOP
field for opposing President Reagan’s
agreement with the Soviets to elimi
nate shorter range nuclear missiles.
The Democratic and Republican
candidates six of each quarreled
over the budget deficit, Social Securi
ty and possible pardons for Oliver
North in the highest-profile campaign
event of the year.
"It is nothing short of appalling
that five of the six Republican candi
dates refuse to support the new arms
control agreement,” said Sen. Albert
Gore Jr., D-Tenn., in the opening
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moments of the forum televised over
NBC.
Said Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-
Mo., “Every Democrat here is for the
INF treaty. I hope you will ask (the
Republicans) why only one of them is
supporting their president."
Alone among the Republicans. Vice
President George Bush embraced the
treaty, which would eliminate inter
mediate range nuclear weapons, and
that earned him fire from other Re
publicans.
Senate Republican Leader Bob
Dole of Kansas said he wanted to read
the treaty before taking a position.
“I’ve never let the president down
yet,” he said. “But I have a right to
read and study."
The other Republican contenders,
former Secretary of State Alexander
Haig, Rep. Jack Kemp of New York,
former Delaware Gov. Pete du Pont
Student-run
proposed at
By KERRY GILDEA
Collegian Staff Writer
The Undergraduate Student Gov
ernment Senate last night heard a
proposal to start a student-run store
in the downtown area and discussed
an event that will help students get
the best deals at book buy-back time.
USG Treasurer Marcia Strack
house said the store, which is ex
pected to be opened next semester,
will sell used books, furniture and
carpets as well as students’ original
music or artwork.
“Right now the University controls
the students too much and there is a
real monopoly on books,” she said.
Strackhouse said the store would
buy a book back for $2O while other
bookstores would give a student $lB
and sell the same book for $22 com
pared to other stores’ $3O. The store
will be a non-profit business operat
ing on support from students, she
added.
USG Vice President Bonnie Miller
said although the store will not be
connected with USG it will be a good
idea because students often find
themselves in a bind when it comes to
buying furniture and textbooks.
“It will be a good saving device for
students,” Miller said.
Also at last night’s meeting, the
Senate passed a resolution supporting
the USG/Association of Residence
Hall Students Book Co-Op to be held
Jan. 10-12,1988.
Students can put prices on their old
books and sell them at the co-op for
more money, Miller said.
Kennedy: judges
not policymakers
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Supreme
Court nominee Anthony M. Kennedy
complained to the Senate Judiciary
Committee yesterday about judges
who become active policymakers and
open the way to rulings reflecting
personal biases.
But Kennedy, in written responses
to a committee questionnaire, also
said that while courts should not
overstep, judges should exhibit
“compassion, warmth, sensitivity.”
in their rulings.
The appellate judge from Sacra
mento, Calif., also said “real harm”
can result from private clubs that
discriminate.
Kennedy said he resigned in Octo
ber from the Del Paso Country Club
of Sacramento and the Olympic Club
of San Francisco because they lacked
significant numbers of women and
blacks and he didn't want his mem
bership to be an issue in Senate
consideration of his nomination.
He said he has employed 35 law
clerks while on the 9th U S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, including five wom
en but no blacks.
Kennedy, 51, is President Reagan's
third nominee to fill the vacancy
created by the retirement of Justice
Lewis F. Powell last June. The first,
Robert H. Bork, was defeated after a
majority of senators said his views on
constitutional protections were too
ideologically narrow. The second
nominee, Douglas H. Ginsburg, with
drew from consideration after admit
ting he smoked marijuana in the
1960 s and 19705.
The committee's questionnaire
gave Kennedy a chance to paint a
self-portrait prior to the beginning of
his confirmation hearings Dec. 14.
He told how, as a private attorney,
he represented the poor at times but
and former television evangelist Pat
Robertson, all expressed their opposi
tion.
"We should not rush into signing an
agreement with the Soviet Union until
we force them to comply with pre
vious agreements." said Kemp.
“Simonomics is really Reaganom
ics with a bow tie," Gephardt said in
a barb at Sen. Paul Simon, D-111.
Simon, who has surged in recent
public opinion polls, defended his
economic policy, which calls for a
balanced budget as well as federal
spending on new programs.
That prompted former Arizona
Gov. Bruce Babbitt to say, “I've just
heard a lot of flimflam."
Babbitt dramatically rose from his
seat and said, “It's time to stand up
and say . . . that we must raise
taxes.”
bookstore
meeting
Steve Black, Center Halls presi
dent, said 364 books were sold at the
co-op last year. The event provides a
great opportunity for USG senators
and members of ARHS to work to
gether, he added.
The resolution approving the co-op
was revised at the meeting so that it
would display the Senate’s support
yet not make it mandatory for sen
ators to work specific amounts of
time.
Nancy Koroly, Pollock Halls sen
ator, said getting students to work at
the co-op might be a problem because
the co-op begins before the end of
Christmas break.
In other business, Town Senator
Ken Houk and Fraternity Senator
Dave Kershner were appointed to
new USG positions.
Houk will start a new position on
the USG business board.
The Senate elected Kershner chair
man of the Senate Appointment Re
view Board. SARB is responsible for
reviewing applicants for vacant exec
utive USG positions such as the issue
of empty town seats which will be
discussed next week.
Also last night, Town Senator Mi
chael Pietrucha encouraged Senate
members to join in a cleanup effort of
St. Paul’s United Methodist Church,
250 E. College Ave. The church’s
sanctuary was destroyed by fire on
Nov. 13.
Pietrucha said all students can
volunteer to help in the cleanup by
leaving their name at the USG office,
203 HUB, or at the church.
concentrated on representing cor
porate clients as their lawyer and
lobbyist.
Kennedy's financial disclosure
statement listed assets of $690,250,
including the $400,000 value of his
Sacramento home.
Before his elevation to the bench in
1975, Kennedy's clients included a
well-known liquor distiller, Schenley
Industries Inc.: a large independent
gas producer, Capitol Oil Corp; the
California Association of Dispensing
Opticians, and Capitol Records Inc.
Kennedy said he never played a
formal role in any election campaign,
although in 1973 he was involved in a
statewide campaign in California for
a proposed constitutional amendment
to limit state spending authority.
In writing about his judicial philos
ophy, Kennedy said, “It is a fact ...
not a perception, that courts have
become more active in the public
dialogue and in policymaking than at
any other time in our constitutional
historv “
“This expanded role of the courts
tends to erode the boundaries of judi
cial power and also threatens to per
mit the individual biases of the judge
to operate.” Kennedy said.
“Life tenure is in part a constitu
tional mandate to the federal judicia
ry to proceed with caution, to avoid
reaching issues not necessary to the
resolution of the suit at hand, and to
defer to the political process. "
Kennedy also told the committee:
“Compassion, warmth, sensitivity
and an unyielding insistence on jus
tice are the attributes of every good
judge.”
Writing on the sensitive issue of
private club membership, Kennedy
said he recognizes that even if no ill
will is intended, “real harm can re
sult from membership exclusion re
gardless of its purportred
justification.”