Reagan asks Americans to leave Libya
By GEORGE GEDDA
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan asked
Americans working in Libya to come'home
yesterday to keep them from becoming pawns in
any showdown with the radical Arab state. The
government said 1,500 U.S. citizens many of them
oil technicians stand in "imminent ddnger."
The State Departthent banned travel to Libya by
U.S. citizens in another move which, according to
congressional leaders briefed by intelligence
officials, is intended to ward off an Iran-like seizure
of Americans as hostages. •
With border guards alerted to be on the lookout
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U.S. House approves 4% domestic budget cuts
By JOHN SCHLANDER
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a 4
percent across-the-board cut in domestic programs
including student aid representing a $4 billion dollar cut
in the federal budget. The vote was 218-197.
The Republican-backed "Conte Amendment" was passed
shortly after the House rejected 222-194 a Democratic
proposal effecting $3 billion in cuts.
Mark Heuer, news secretary for Rep. William F. Clinger,
R-central Pa., said the Senate has not passed the bill yet, but
inside
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for alleged Libyan assassin squads trying to
infiltrate this country, officials implied that
yesterday's decisions were only first moves in a
cold war with the Libyan strongman Moammar
Khadafy. •
The government still is considering an embargo
against oil from Libya, which supplies about 4
percent of U.S. imports, according to officials who
spoke privately.
"The steps taken early today by President
-Reagan are in response to the problem of Libyan
lawlessness," Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig
Jr. told reporters in Brussels, where he conferred
with European allies.
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it hopes to begin consideration tonight or tomorrow.
Passage is expected in the Republican-dominated Senate,
he said.
Clinger voted in favor of the 4 percent cut, Heuer said.
"It was the only feasible plan," Heuer said. "This was
generally accepted as being the bill that was going to get
through."
House Republicans earlier warned that President Reagan
possibly might use his second veto if the $4 billion cut was
not made.
U.S. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., right, and Greek Prime Minister
Andreas Papandreou descend a staircase at the Greek embassy in Brussels
after NATO talks. NATO allies responded coolly to U.S. actions against Libya
yesterday.
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"This was worked out in advance, and this is what the
"I don't rule out potential further steps, but the
actions taken are justified by the prevailing
circumstances," he said.
Deputy Secretary of State William Clark
announced the moves, but refused to link them to
the administration's belief that Khadafy has sent an
assassination squad to i thig continent to kill Reagan
or other top government officials in retaliation for
the American downing of two Libyan MiGs Aug. 19.
Reagan said Monday he had evidence of the
assassination plot, but none has been made public.
Clark said the steps were taken in view of the
overall pattern of Libyan behavior over the past six
months.
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president said he would take," Heuer said
Before the vote, The Associated Press quoted U.S. Rep.
Silvio Conte, R-Mass., the top-ranking Republican on the
House Appropriations Committee, as saying "The president
means what he says."
If the House did not pass his amendment, he said, "We
will be here on. Christmas Eve, angry and frustrated."
In contrast, U.S. Rep. William Natcher, D-Ky., said to
U.S. Rep. Robert Walker, R-Pa., who supported the heavier
cut: "I want you to go back to the state of Pennsylvania and
tell them you're against the children of this country . .
NATO cool to U.S. acts
Haig:
By R. GREGORY NOKES
Associated Press Writer
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)
Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig
Jr. said yesterday that new U.S.
actions against Libya were in
response to "Libyan terrorist
activity" but that most of America's
European allies probably will
'maintain normal relations with the
government of Libyan leader
Moammar Khadafy.
Haig apparently encountered a cool
response from America's NATO allies
here to the possibility of U.S.
sanctions against Libya. In recent
weeks, 'U.S. officials speaking
privately, had spoken in terms of
punitive actions against Libya, such
as banning imports of Libyan oil to the
United States. The Reagan
administration alleges Khadafy is
plotting to kill the president or other
high U.S. officials.
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French Foreign Minister Claude
Cheysson told reporters before the
American announcement that France
opposes such sanctions.
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Libyan-European relations to stay normal
Presidential counselor Edwin Meese 111
emphasized in a San Francisco speech that
"steadily increasing" terrorism backed by Libya,
not reports of actual "hit teams," ought to get U.S
officials, prompted the president's action.
"We reached the conclusion we cannot ignore Col
Khadafy," Meese said. Khadafy heads the Libyan
government.
Meese said U.S. allies had been consulted about
the need to act against Libya and had given a
"favorable" informal response. He did not say who
was consulted.''
Government stops
draft prosecution
Indictments on hold temporarily
By MIKE FEINSILBER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) The
government put a hold yesterday on
plans to seek indictments against
some of the more than 800,000 young
men who are violating that nation's
laws by failing to register for the
draft.
The Justice Department decision
to temporarily suspend prosecutions
came just a day before U.S.
attorneys in one or two cities were
preparing to, go before grand juries
and seek indictments in some of 161
cases being prepared for
prosecution.
Young men are required to
register within 30 days of their 18th
birthday. Failure to comply could
carry a $lO,OOO fine and five years'
imprisonment.
Leaders of the National Inter-
Religious Service Board for
Conscientious Objectors said Justice
Department officials told them
Wednesday that Scott Aaseng, a
student at St. Olaf College in
Northfield, Minn., would be indicted
Friday. Aaseng, son of a Lutheran
minister, is a conscientious objector.
"With all the attention that's been
focused on Scott's case, they might
have feared not winning their first
case; maybe that's why they pulled
back," said Warren Hoover, the
organization's executive director.
"We urge President Reagan to
take this burden totally from the
shoulders of young Americans,"
Hoover said.
Cheysson also warned that it might
be a.mistake to try to isolate Libya in
the world community, a strategy the
Reagan administration has pursued
for the past several months.
But Haig told reporters at a brief
news conference, "We neither sought
nor anticipated support. We merely
informed our NATO partners today
that such a statement would be
forthcoming," referring to the
announcement of the U.S. actions
yesterday
"I think it is clear that some of our
European partners will pursue, as
they have in the past, their own
independent policies with respect to
Libya. That means that basically
some, probably most, will make no
change whatsoever."
Asked if the administration took
into account the possibility it might
enhance Khadafy's popUlarity in
some countries by acting against him,
Haig said, "For every step of this
significance, there is a very careful
judgment made with respect to not
only the impact on our allies, but on
You're voting against the handicapped, you're voting
against aid to education . . ."
If the Senate passes the bill, the federal government will
finally have its official budget for this fiscal year, now more
than two months old, Heuer said. The government is now
operating with a stop-gap budget bill that runs out Dec. 15.
If Senate passage occurs', domestic programs could still
be subject to recisions, or further cuts, during this fiscal
year, which ends Sept. 30, Heuer said.
It is too early to predict what recisions might be made, he
said.
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President Reagan
Aaseng said of the government's
action: "It's just a temporary delay.
It takes off the extreme pressure
and takes us back
,to the normal,
everyday, too much pressure."
Lawyer David Landau of the
American Civil Liberties Union said
the Justice Department decision
removes "an external factor"
pressing President Reagan to
continue registration.
"We interpret this to mean there's
a chance he's going to end
registration," Landau said.
Selective Service headquarters
said 6.5 million young men from age
18 from 21 have registered and
800,000 have not registered since
registration resumed in July 1980
after a five-year,hiatus.
Draft inductions ended in
December 1972, but registration was
resumed by former President
Carter in July 1980 to provide a list of
eligible men in the event a national
emergency Tequired reinstatement
of the draft.
Justice Department spokesman
John Russell said U.S. attorneys
were told not to seek any
indictments while Reagan considers
whether to end registration, a step
he advocated during the presidential
election campaign.
Reagan is to receive by the end of
this month a recommendation from
the Defense Military Manpower
Task Force, chaired by Defense
Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger.
the moderate and less than moderate
Arab world."
He also said, "It is a responsible act
in light of the current situation and
continued support by the Libyan
government of terrorist activity and a
level of anti-American polemics by
that government."
In answer to a question, he said the
request for Americans to leave Libya
was not the result of concern they
could be taken hostage by the
Khadafy government.
Earlier in the day, the chief U.S.
arms negotiator told the NATO allies
that although progress in U.S.-Soviet
arms talks is being made, it was too
early to predict there will be an
agreement in time to head off planned
deployment of American missiles in
Europe.
Paul H. Nitze told foreign ministers
from 15 NATO countries that "both
sides were getting down to real issues
in the negotiations" that opened Nov.
30 in Geneva, a senior U.S. official
said.
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