14—The Daily Collegian Monday, Oct. 15,1979
Bill kill blamed on absenteeism
By LINDA CAMPBELL
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Rep. Gregg Cunningham, R-
Centre, attributes the defeat of his
unilateral divorce amendment to the
divorce reform bill to low attendance
in the House.
The amendment proposed by
Cunningham was approved by the
House Wednesday morning by a two
vote margin, but it was reconsidered
by the House Wednesday afternoon
and defeated by the same margin.
“Largely because of absenteeism
late in the day, the amendment was
reconsidered and then defeated,”
Cunningham said.
The unilateral amendment
proposed by Cunningham revamped
the original amendment taken out by
the House. This amendment allowed
one spouse to dissolve a marriage one
year after the couple had filed for
separation.
Cunningham’s amendment ex
tended the separation requirement to
three years.
Cunningham proposed this
amendment in an attempt to
reconcile the opponents and
proponents of unilateal divorce who
have threatened to recommit the bill
to the House Judiciary Committee.
Cunningham said his amendment
will be reconsidered again by the
House Tuesday and following this
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“The side that will prevail will
probably be the side that is most
effectively able to muster its forces
and get its people to the floor for the
vote,” Cunningham said.
Cunningham said he feels the op
ponents of unilateral divorce may not
be able to gather enough support to
defeat his amendment again.
Cunningham said the bill is still not
safe from recommittal, and he is
encouraging Rep. Anthony Scirica,
R-Montgomery, and the major
proponents of unilateral divorce not
to recommit the bill.
“I am predicting that Scirica will
not recommit the bill,” Cunningham
said.
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No injuries In local crash-iandinM
A twin-engine plane piloted by state Rep. Benjamin H..
Wilson, R-Bucks County, crash-landed at 12:35 p.m. Saturday
at University Park Airport when the landing gear collapsed,
said Art Ciervo, University director of Public Information.
Wilson and his three passengers were not hurt.
Wilson, his two daughters and a friend were on the plane, a
Piper Twin Comanche, when its left and then right wheels
collapsed on. touchdown. The plane slid 100 feet down the
runway before coming to a stop, Ciervo said.
Wilson and his three passengers needed no assistance
leaving the plane, Ciervd said. .
USG cuts branch campus department
The Undergraduate Student Govern
ment department of Commonwealth
campuses was terminated at the
beginning of this month, former director
Tony Filippello has said.
Filippello said he and USG President
Hal Shaffer decided to end the depart
ment because the Council of Branch
Campuses Student Governments
Palestinian urges pressure on U.S.
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) A top official of the Palestine
Liberation Organization yesterday urged Arabs to use their
money and oil to. “exert pressure” on the upcoming U.S.
presidential elections. * ,
Farouk Kaddoumi, chief of the PLO’s political department,
singled out as “a good sign” Republican Party candidate John
Connally’s speech last week in which he called for an- in
depe'ndent Palestinian state.
In an interview with the Beirut Magazine Monday Morning,
released yesterday, Kaddoumi said the PLO itself has “very
limited means,” but that Arab states “can do a great deal
where U.S. presidential candidates are concerned.
(COBCSG) does the same job the
department was doing.
The purpose of the department was to
maintain communications between the
University’s branch campuses and the
main campus. '
COBCSG includes representatives
from the branch campuses who meet in
University Park about once every term
Registered Student Organizations :
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The Associated Student Activities Budget *
Committee is accepting funding requests for : |
1979-1980 :
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The runway was closed until 4 p.m. while a crane hoisted the
plane high enough for the faulty landing gear to be pulled do\yrr*
into place, Ciervo said. ‘
Damage to the plane was estimated as minimal, arid thi»
cause of the crash is under investigation, Ciervo said, ’
Ciervo said Wilson, a 1949 graduate of the University , and His
passengers had flown to State College for the Homecoming
football game, but returned home to Warminster Township by
car following the crash. .'•;!• .
—by
and Mary Panzeeh
“They can exert pressure through their oil and the
enormous amounts of money they have in American banks j?
he said. Kaddoumi did not detail what he meant by pressure.
Asked whether Connally’s stand on a separate Palestinian?
state makes him the presidential favorite in the eyes of the
PLO over President Carter and Massachusetts Sen. Edward
Kennedy, Kaddoumi said: ' '•-£
“We would, of course, want anyone who calls for an ijf
dependent Palestinian state to win and act on his call.”
The problem* he said, is that once a candidate is elected; the
promises he made are often broken. - vf
to discuss student issues. This group now
has a seat on the Executive Council,
a liaison from the organization reports
news and progress to the USG. , /
USG Vice President Vicki Sandoe said
the department of Commonwealth
campuses was very limited in what it
could do
—by Terry Spangler
elections