ibyan oil imports banned, assassination plot cite • WASHINGTON (AP) The United States banned all oil imports from Libya yesterday and accused Col. Moammar Khadafy's militant Arab regime of an "outrageous plan" to assassinate American officials and their families in Sudan. A senior U.S. official said the plot was broken up last November before two stereo speakers packed with plastic explosives were to be flown from an unidentified neighboring country to Khartoum, Su dan, where they would have been placed in the American social club. - - _ The official, who asked not to be identified, said the devices were prepared by Libyan intelligence officers and could have killed or maimed hundreds of U.S. Embassy workers and their families at a state/nation/world Hang on Bob Marshall of Glen Rock, Pa., waits in the cab of his truck for rescuers Tuesday after he lost control of his rig on the Fort Henry Bridge in Wheeling, W. Va. Adviser: Student aid may be cut in half WASHINGTON (AP) Federal aid to college students would be slashed nearly in half by 1984 under cutbacks already enacted or sought by Presi dent Reagan, Congress' top economic adviser said yesterday. Alice M. Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office, also told a House subcommittee on postsecon dary education that Reagan's cuts in student loans were "drastic" and like ly to make it impossible for graduate students to borrow. "We are doubtful they would be served by the alternative program" Reagan has proposed, she said. "That program doesn't exist in most states and it has very high in-school interest costs." Meanwhile, Education Secretary T.H. Bell was put on the defensive by a House appropriations subcommittee about the proposed cuts in his overall budget from $l3 billion to less than $lO billion in fiscal 1983. Bell said some people charge "the president doesn't care about educa tion." "That's unfair and that's not true," Bell said. "His record in eight years as governor of California indicates his commitment to education. It's just this horrendous fiscal dilemma that we find ourselves in right now." Rep. Silvio 0. Conte, R-Mass., the ranking Republican on the Appropria tions Committee, said the education cuts amount to $4 billion over two years. "That may be only ashtrays and notepads and stars for those generals down there in the Pentagon, but in education that represents aid to the handicapped . . . for the disadvan taged, vocational training for the unskilled, library services for our children and our colleges, and new opportunities for adults pursuing continuing education," Conte said. "Doesn't it bother you a little bit?" weekend dance The "particularly horrible mission" was cited as one reason for ending oil imports from Libya and blocking sale of American oil and gas technology to that country. The senior oficial, who briefed reporters after State Department spokesman Dean Fischer read the announcement, said current contracts would not be interrupted. The United States imports about 150,000 barrels of oil a day from Libya. This represents a tiny fraction of U.S. oil imports. Libya's principal European customers are Greece, Turkey and Italy. The boycott steps up the Reagan administration's campaign against Khadafy, the volatile Islamic ; ' tA AP Laserphoto Bell repeatedly pointed to the feder al deficit to justify the cuts. "It is a lean budget and it is a bit austere, but we think the times call for it," he said. However, Conte asked, "Wouldn't it be a lot better to slap a five cents tax on a package of cigarettes and a couple of dollars on a gallon of booze and jewelry and fur coats and pay for these programs?" "It isn't hard to persuade a Mormon to tax booze and cigarettes," replied Bell, referring to his religious affilia tion. Rep. Neal Smith, D-lowa, asked, "Do you believe in all these (cuts) or are you just being a good soldier?" "Of course I'm biased about educa tion," said Bell. "If you reach over and take money away from another department I certainly can use it." But he added: "I am (not) some reluctant good soldier martyr that isn't supporting this budget." Rivlin testified that federal loans, grants and other aid pay one-third of all college tuition, room and board bills. She said five million to six mil lion students —1 in 2 got help amounting to $14.7 billion in fiscal 1981. Almost half the aid was in the form of loans, and roughly 20 percent "went to students from families with in comes over $30,000," she said. Congress voted last year to restrict the loans, phase out the $2 billion Social Security benefits for college students and make other cuts that will reduce the total aid to $14.3 billion this year and $12.4 billion by 1984,.5he said. Reagan's proposed new cuts would lower the aid to $7.7 billion by 1984, including only $4.6 billion in loans, she said. Bell, in an interview before he testi fied before the appropriations sub committee, disputed the CBO figures. "I can't imagine the total volume of loans being cut that much," he said. No, the world didn't end as Jupiter Effect passed By The Associated Press The Jupiter Effect debunked by serious scientists after publication of a book in 1974 approached the day of reckoning, as a few anxious skywatchers checked with astronomers and worried over rumblings in the California desert. However, on the day before the presumed end of the world, scientists expressed serious doubts: "There are always soothsayers," sighed seismologist Leroy Irby. "If the planets want to line up, fine, but I surely don't see the end of the world coming . . . " Two moderate earthquakes rumbled across the Mohave Desert near China Lake in Southern California on Sunday, prompting "a few" worried calls to the National Earth quake Information Center in Golden, Colo., Irby said. Callers were told the tremors have nothing to do with the bunching up of all nine known planets on one side of the sun. . "I'd say forget it," said Irby, who has been tracking temblors for 15 years at Golden. "There's something about earthquakes that excites people, but there's no scientific way to predict these things." He echoed what other serious scientists have been saying since the authors of "The Jupiter Effect" predicted an overdose of lopsided celestial gravity would trigger worldwide earthquakes, tidal waves and other- natural disasters. The book contended that the combined forces of the planets which gather in a 90-degree quadrant on one side of the sun about every 179 years would spark extraordi nary solar activity, sending a flood of charged particles toward Earth that would throw off its rotation and agitate unstable geologic regions. Even one of its authors has abandoned the book: British astrophysicist John Gribbin admitted the work was wrong in the June 1980 issue of Omni magazine. • "The Jupiter Effect" triggered higher attendance and many calls to switchboards at the nation's planetariums. Boston's Charles Hayden Planetarium has been innun dated with calls, assistant director Walter Webb said. "People are curious, wanting to find out more about it. Some of those people are staying on the phone asking about our shows and courses. It's having a definite spinoff effect," Webb said. In Los Angeles, where people tend to pay close attention when talk turns to earthquakes, long lines formed Tuesday at Griffith Observatory for the featured slideshow, "The Jupiter Effect and the Great California Earthquake." revolutiOnary whose erratic methods have gained him few friends even in the Arab world. However, even U.S. allies privately question the wisdom of singling Khadafy out as a special menace. Some of the skepticism is based on the view that Khadafy is ineffective and that the Reagan adminis tration's pressure on him could strengthen Libya's ties with the Soviet Union, its prime military supplier. The boycott decision was made Feb. 26 by the National Security Council after months of consider ation. The Associated Press and other news media reported that even though administration spokesmen denied it publicly a decision had been reached. Nicaragua protests U.S. involvement By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Nicaragua protested yesterday American over flights of its territory as a flagrant violation of international law and ac cused the United States of trying to convert. Nicaragua into "another Chile." Sandinista commander Jaime Whee lock, speaking at a news conference, denied U.S. allegations that Nicara guan pilots are being trained in Bul garia but was vague on whether Nicaragua plans to acquire MiG jet fighters from the Soviet Union. Those allegations were made Tues day by two top U.S. intelligence offi cials, who released aeriel reconnassaince photographs depictipg a massive military buildup the Reagan administration claims poses a threat to other Central American nations. The briefing was given by Adm. Bobby Inman, deputy director of the CIA, and . James Hughes, a deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Wheelock,whose official title is agri culture minister and minister of agrar ian reform, said his government has lodged an "energetic protest" with the United States over the flights. Nicaraguan officials said the protest was made to the American embassy in Managua yesterday morning. Wheelock, who is here as part of a Nicaraguan "diplomatic offensive" to counter U.S. claims about Nicaraguan policy, was imprecise in his discussion on possible ptirchases of Soviet equip ment. At Tuesday's State Department briefing, the two intelligence officials cited the lengthening of several run ways in Nicaragua as evidence that the country plans to buy either Soviet MiG 17s or 21s. Wheelock said Nicaragua does not renounce the right to purchase mili tary equipment from any country. He then said "there are no plans" to The show "is about the claim that a rare aligninent of the planets will trigger a chain of earthquakes that will destroy Southern California," said a cheerful tape-record ed voice. The show outlines planetary gravitation, solar effects on Earth and the physiology of earthquakes. "We conclude that planetary alignments will not trigger earthquakes," the reassuring voice adds. Science magazines are publishing articles with head lines like "The Jupiter Effect Never Mind," which appeared in. Science .'B2. It explains the planets won't really form what some call "the ultimate syzygy" the configuration of the sun, Earth and moon or planets in a straight line. Instead, the planets are becoming grouped within a 90- degree angle. They'll be even closer around the year 2,000, but they still won't be in a straight line. Under yesterday's alignment, if the sun were at the center of a giant clock, Neptune would be at about 11:30 and the Earth at about 3:15, with the others in between. Early risers in southern states could have spotted five planets with the naked eye: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Further north, only four were visible because Mercury set before daybreak. Neptune, Uranus and Pluto were visible only with a telescope. 4 doomsday celebrators stabbed on Miami beach MIAMI (AP) A slightly built, knife-wielding youth wandered among 3,000 people at a "Doomsday Dawn" beach party early yesterday and stabbed four people, police said. The four were reported in satisfactory condition, said Ormondo Gregorisch of the Metropolitan Dade County police. They were stabbed at a Key Biscayne party organized to observe the day described in a debunked book, "The Jupiter Effect," which predicted catastrophe March 10, 1982 because all nine known planets are within about a 90- degree angle on one side of the sun. The Key Biscayne party was tagged the "Doomsday Dawn party" by Miami newspaper columnist John Keasl er, one of its sponsors. In a series of humor columns, he invited End-Of-The-Worlders to attend and reported the chances of the world ending were "50-50." Major Military Base — Armored Battalion *Fighter Airfield *Under Construction Under Construction *German Pomares Military Headquarters HONDURAS EL i\%/ 3ALVADORsomotof NICARAGUA •Condega \ fl o yilla •Matagalpar \~~ purchase MiG fighters. Wheelock said the airport modern ization plan dates back to 1977, when the late President Anastasio Somoza was still in power. He said the plan is being financed by a $6 million loan from the Central American Bank for Integration and has the support of all five Central American countries. He added that Nicaragua has re ceived technical advice on the project from U.S. firms. He then accused the United States of embarking on a campaign to oust the Nicaraguan government. During the two-week delay, the administration asked for support among U.S. allies, but was rebuffed. Last year, President Reagan questioned the value of sanctions imposed unilaterally by the United States. But the senior official who briefed reporters yesterday said Khadafy's moves against a number of countries justified the American boycott. He accused Libya of "trying to destabilize Carib bean countries," fueling conflict in Yemen, and working to subvert the governments of Oman and Somalia. The official did not name the countries in the Caribbean. Speaking through an interpreter, Wheelock said, "We are accused of converting Nicaragua into another Cuba but what they really want is to convert Nicaragua into another Chile." In drawing a parallel to Chile, Whee lock was referring to the ouster of the leftist government of President Salva dor Allende in a 1973 military coup. Leftist groups often allege the CIA was responsible for Allende's downfall. Wheelock also ridiculed the U.S. allegations that new military garri sons in Nicaragua are being built along N.J. senator will resign, sources say By SKIP WOLLENBERG Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Harrison A. Williams has made a tentative decision to resign from the Senate and quit fighting a recommendation that he be expelled for Abscam crimes, congressional sources said yesterday. The sources, who asked not to be identified, said there is still a slight possibility that Williams might change his mind before the Senate takes a vote on a resolution to expel the New Jersey Democrat. One . source described Williams as being in a "highly emotional state of mind," and cited that reason for the hesitation about his intentions. But as of late last night, the sources said, Williams had told at least one Senate colleague that he would resign after 23 years in the Senate. It was not clear if Williams would yield before the Senate votes on a proposal that he receive a lesser penalty, censure, urged by those who believe he was the victim of FBland prosecutorial abuse. The censure vote would be followed by a vote on the expulsion resolution recommended unanimously by the Senate ethics committee. Sources who asked not to be identified said a number of Democrats, including Williams' chief defender, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, and Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd were urging Williams to give up. Publicly Williams and his aides continued to insist that he would fight to the end to resist expulsion. "Right now, I'm not thinking resignation," said the 62- year-old Williams as the Senate spent a fifth day debating his fitness to serve in light of his bribery and conspiracy conviction. "I'm going . . . to fight," he declared. But even Williams' New Jersey colleague, Bill Bradley, declared yesterday he would vote to expel the state's senior senator. Other Democrats, including the venerable John Stennis of Mississippi, along with Patrick Leahy of Vermont and David Pryor of Arkansas, said they would do the same. The critical voting is expected to take place, first on Assistant Democratic Leader Alan Cranston's attempt to level the lesser disgrace of censure. Failing that and the attempt appears doomed the roll call will begin on whether the Senate will carry out its first expulsion since the Civil War. 4464 Pue Cabe El Bluff Pa Bluefi-s; COSTA RICA Col. Moammar Khadafy The Daily Collegian Thursday, March 11 Nicaraguan Military Installations kSource State Soviet and Cuban lines. "I didn't realize until yesterday that architecture had an ideological compo nent," he said. Rebutting U.S. allegations that Nica ragua has engaged in massive human rights violations against its Indian population, Wheelock ackowledged that some 8,000 Indians have been relocated from villages along the Hon duran border to a new site away from the border. But he said the action was taken to protect the Indians against border raids. netts briefs/state Court rules no sex bias for insurance rates HARRISBURG (AP) All insurance the company involved in the case, Hart companies in Pennsylvania would have ford Accident and Indemnity Co., would to eliminate sex classifications as a basis pursue an appeal. for automobile insurance rates under a The case arose when Phillip Mattes, a Commonwealth Court decision issued 26-year-old policyholder, complained yesterday. that he had to pay a $360 premium The ruling, which could be appealed to compared to $212 for a female the same the state Supreme Court, has the poten- age. tial of affecting 224 companies and some On a 4-1 vote, the court upheld a former $1.7 billion in premiums. ruling. It was not immediately clear what Former Insurance Commissioner Har impact the ruling could have on individu- vey Bartle had declared Hartford's rates al auto insurance premiums or whether discriminatory. Fetal operation baby released from hospital PHILADELPHIA (AP) —An infant brain growth and can cause mental im -1 operated on while still in the womb is pairment, doctors said. expected to be released from Thomas The operation was one of the first Jefferson Hospital tomorrow, a performed on a fetus, doctors said. spokeswoman said. / - The child, Daniel Rowe, was born Feb. Daniel was first scheduled to leave the ) 15, about two months after doctors used a hospital March 3. But doctors were con , needle inserted in his mother's womb to cerned about swelling in the youngster's implant a shunt. The tube-like device head and a drop in the pressure in the was needed to combat hydrocephalus, a tube and scheduled an operation for the buildup of fluids in the brain that stunts following day. news bi•iefs/ricttioxi Committee approves abortion amendment WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate million abortions performed annually in Judiciary Committee yesterday ap- the United States. proved a proposed constitutional amend- Never before have anti-abortion forces ment that would allow Congress and the succeeded in pushing legislation through state legislatures to prohibit or regulate the full judiciary panel. abortion. But the measures, sponsored by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, face a tough battle The 10-7 vote marked a major victory on the Senate floor, where liberals have 'for foes of legalized abortion who have said they will use all parliamentary ~'been sharply divided over how Congress tactics, including a filibuster, to block should act to halt or reduce the 1.5 'passage. Economic cuts discussed by urban leaders WASHINGTON (AP) The country's federalism' is enacted into law," urban leaders told Congress yesterday "Nothing could help cities over their that President Reagan's prescription immediate financial problems and en may be worse than the economic ills it is able them to provide needed public serv supposed to cure and some cities may be ices more than an end to our current unable to survive the treatment. economic problems and the beginning of "I'm grateful for the efforts being a sound recovery," said Mayor Charles made for the long-term cure of our eco- Royer of Seattle. "Yet it is clear that nomic ills," said Mayor H. Edward Knox current and forseeable developments pf Charlotte, N.C. "But I really have to promise just the opposite." •S:vonder whether we will be able to sur- Several city officials testified before ,vivo the pain that this effort is causing the House Budget Committee about Rea now 1 1 "I have a further concern that the pain federalism" program to shift more than ray not be short-lived, but may be 40 federal programs to state and local ntinued and compounded if the !new governments. • I ' i iClosing arguments heard in Von Bulow trial :I NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Claus C. von diculous" a defense suggestion that the , ißulow cleverly "painted a picture of hypodermic needle and insulin allegedly himself as a loving husband" while try- used in the case were falsely planted. ing to murder his wife, a prosecutor said yesterday, but the defense insisted he The 55-year-old Danish-born financial would have suffered "all the wrath of consultant is accused of trying to kill I hell" rather than hurt her. heiress Martha "Sunny" von Bulow by Prosecutor Stephen R. Famiglietti, injecting her with insulin during visits to ;delivering closing arguments in the at- their Newport mansion during Christmas :tempted murder trial, dismissed as "ri- 1979 and 1980. Classified document proposal criticized WASHINGTON (AP) President English said at a subcommittee hearing. Reagan's proposal to broaden the gov- "Now the administration won't even ap ernment's power to classify documents pear before the Congress to explain why as secret met with criticism yesterday it wants even more secrecy." when opponents charged that the plan The draft executive order, which needs amounts to giving federal officials a only Reagan's signature to take effect, "blank check" to hide their mistakes and would allow government officials to in manage the news. yoke national security more easily and Rep., Glenn English, D-Okla., chair- more often in keeping information from man of a House Government Operations the public. subcommittee on information, also chas- .tised the Reagan administration for re- The draft would drop a number of fusing to send officials to Congress to restrictions imposed by President Carter explain the proposal. in 1978 on classifying documents, and "Virtually, every change in (the ad- would reverse a 30-year trend dating to ministration's) information policy has the Eisenhower administration toward been in the direction of more secrecy," increased government openness. news briefs/world Xidnapped general returns to work in Italy VERONA, Italy (AP) U.S. Brig. Dozier, the highest-ranking U.S. offi 'Gen. James L. Dozier returned to work cer at the North Atlantic Treaty Organi i l at the NATO base in Verona yesterday zation base here, was kidnapped from his , ::and said it was the moment he and his home Dec. 17. He was released after 42 i Avife had hoped and prayed for.since he days when Italian police stormed the . ; was kidnapped by Red. Brigades terror- "People's Prison" where he was being lists last December. held in the nearby city of Padua. But he said his term of office expires in ~a few months and plans for his new Dozier was welcomed back to work assignment are being made in Washing- with flags and toasts from his military :ton. colleagues and local authorities. i .. .4Thatcher unveils portrait in Carlton Club I LONDON (AP) When Margaret fighting the 1832 Reform Bill to extend .Thatcher became Britain's first woman the voting franchise. prime minister she also breached that Thatcher, the Carlton's first, only, and lall-male bastion of exclusivity the 150- maybe last female member, gained the , 1 I year-old Carlton Club. fortress of male Toryism through a j Last night, things went a bit further. strenuous merit test all Conservative 1 She unveiled her portrait at the head of prime ministers are automatically mem- I the club's great staircase, temporarily bers of the Carlton. replacing a dour study of the Carlton's The Carlton, like most of the two dozen founding chairman, the Marquess of Sa- major London clubs founded by leaders lisbury, which has dominated the scene in politics, arts and the sciences, does not ii for as long as anyone can remember. admit women. So when she came to The occasion was the anniversary of power in May 1979, something had to 13 the club's foundation by diehard Tories bend. ETEEM Orient Express awaits return to luxury run PARIS (AP) Five years after it London's Victoria Station. chugged out of service with only a shad- "This is not a train for your average ow of its past glory, the Orient Express is traveler," said Joelle Pierrard, a back in Paris in preparation for a nostal- spokeswoman for a private company gic and luxurious return to the railroad restoring the service for well-off travel tracks of Europe. ers. "It is designed for people who want to return to the days when train travel ":1 Four renovated cars of the train are at could be a luxurious event." ' { Austerlitz station until today for a pre- It is also designed for people who are ; view of the services that will be offered willing to forgo cheaper and faster air i when the Venice Simplon Orient Express travel for a voyage that attempts to t)egins its maiden voyage May 25 from recapture a part of the past. gan's proposed 1983 budget and his "new :+4%*******************4 9o l , The brothers of Delta Tau Delta :110 . 4 1 extend our warmest welcome to our newest initiates * to 4: Ile The Little Sisters of the Iris 113 41 Heidi Gerhold Stacey Schatz 4, Carol McCartney Beth Wetzel Carrie Schuhwerk d a AI U-103 Ile RESUM WRITING LEARN HOW 4DIIERrisE YOURSEIf! THURS. MARCH I I A good resume or vita can 7:00-8:30 PM • be an important tool in your job search. 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