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Salvadorian aid gets Senate support
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON The Senate rejected ef
forts yesterday to withhold all or part of
President Reagan's $61.7-million military aid
package for El Salvador until courts in that
country obtain verdicts in the murders of four
churchwomen and two labor advisers from
the United States.
The lawmakers rejected by a 69-24 vote an
amendment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., to hold back 15 percent of the funds
until there is a verdict in the slaying of two
AFL-CIO representatives gunned down as
they dined in a San Salvador hotel in 1981.
The labor officials were advisers to the
Salvadorans on land refprm.
The Senate then shelved by a vote of 54-39 an
amendment by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., to
hold back 30 percent of the funds pending a
verdict in the murders of the four churchwom
en in December, 1980. This vote also killed an
alternative by Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and
Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., to withhold all the
money until there was a verdict.
Specter, a former federal prosecutor, voted
to shelve the Kennedy amendment, saying the
labor advisers' case was "a very complicated
'Raggedy Ann' brings
cheer to the forgotten
By• The Associated Press
FOLSOM, Pa. Betty Brack
ney says she needs. only a mirror,
a toy telephone and her hand
made Raggedy Ann costume to
cheer up elderly people who feel
forgotten.
"I've been there. I've been
through such dreadful loneliness
that I didn't want to live," she
says. "I don't want anyone else to
go through that."
Brackney, 75, says she is a sur
vivor of partial deafness as a
child, two bad marriages , and
painful separation from her chil
dren, all of whom live far away. A
retired nurse who lives alone on
Social Security benefits, she first
turned to volunteer work to help
take her mind off her own sorrows.
Now, she is consumed. She
works partly through a Delaware
County volunteer agency called
RSVP (Retired Senior Volunteer
Program), but mostly on her own,
spontaneously. She visits, the
homebound to cook and clean,
drives the sick to the hospital in
Snow whips across Plains as winter refuses to yiel•
By DAVID L. LANGFORD
Associated Press Writer
A blizzard buried the buds of spring under
as much as 2 feet of snow from Colorado to
South Dakota yesterday and trapped thou
sands of travelers in the Plains.
Rescuers on snowmobiles fought head
high snowdrifts on the lonely highways of
eastern Colorado, looking for marooned
motorists and some local residents were
were reported missing, including the super-
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matter" but the case of the churchwomen was
clear-cut.
Kennedy supported Specter's amendment,
saying a similar provision was adopted last
fall when Congress approved $65 million in
military aid for El Salvador in the current
fiscal year.
By rejecting Specter's amendment, Kenne
dy said, Congress would be declaring that
although it withheld the funds last year "we
are going to add more money this year to
make up for it."
Kennedy's defeat on the issue of the labor
advisors was his second in two days in the El
Salvador debate. On Monday, the Senate re
jeCted 63-25 his bid to slash the aid to $2l
million.
The Senate also tabled by a vote of 63-26 an
amendment by Kennedy that would have
conditioned the aid on an agreement by El
Salvador to engage in negotiations with the
rebels. The Salvadoran government and the
Reagan administration have refused to accept
that condition so far.
Kennedy also offered an amendment calling
for an investigation by the Senate Intelligence
Committee of the death squads, but withdrew
the amendment .after the committee's chair
man, Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., agreed
her Volkswagon Rabbit, and
spreads a simple message of car
ing.
She also has lent her special
talents in sewing to the cause. She
teaches handicrafts and donates
hand-made dolls to RSVP's fund
raising events.
Betty Brackney is in her prime,
though, as Raggedy Ann, wearing
a costume she designed and made.
It begins as a simple ddnce and
a pantomime with a mirror, she
explains. When visiting the wards
of convalescent hospitals
,she be
comes Raggedy Ann, the forgotten
old doll in the attic. She gazes into
a glass and coaxes Raggedy Ann's
despondent mirror-image out into
a happier world of friends.
Or she uses a toy telephone to
talk with Charlie the Hobby Horse,
an old playmate who consoles
Raggedy Ann, saying she's loved
and hasn't been forgotten after all.
The message, Brackney says, is
that "there are troubles in the
wqrld, but you can work them out.
You can find happiness through
love."
intendent of Elizabeth public schools and a
woman who left her home in Last Chance at
noon Monday and hadn't been seen since.
The snowstorm was blamed for two
deaths on Wyoming highways earlier in the
week.
Five tornadoes touched down in Kansas
Monday night, causing minor damage, and
thunderstorms in the Southeast had dumped
almost 4 inches of rain since Monday in the
Louisiana towns of Alexandria and Fort
Polk. Up to 3 inches of rain fell yesterday
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Dressed in her Raggedy Ann costume, 75-year-old Betty Brackney brings a smile to Clara Baehr, 89, a suburban
Philadelphia nursing home resident. Brackney visits hospitals, nursing homes, and the homebound to spread her own
love of life to others.
along the flooding Suwannee River in North
Florida.
Schools were closed yesterday in much of
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado and South Da
kota, where up to a foot and a half of snow
had fallen. Many interstate highways in the
region were barricaded.
In Mullen, Neb., 2 foot of snow had col
lected by yesterday morning, with 14 inches
coming down in the 12 hours ending at 7 a.m.
In Kimball, Neb., in the southwestern cor
ner of the state, 18 inches was on the ground,
to hold hearings on the subject before the
Independence Day congressional recess.
"Yesterday, the Senate voted to send more
guns and more bullets to El Salvador," Kenne
dy told his colleagues. "Today, we can vote to
send more justice."
But Sen. Albert Kasten, R-Wis., chairman of
the Appropriations subcommittee that over
sees foreign aid, said, "Any effort to withhold
aid today is simply a vote against the level
that we have agreed to."
At the White House, President Reagan told
Republican congressional leaders that "some
members of, the El Salvadoran army may
have to go on missions . . . with only one clip of
ammunition," said presidential spokesman
Larry Speakes.
Assistant Republican Leader Ted Stevens
said the legislators were told that one of the
reasons for the high death rate among Salva
doran wounded, reported to be about two out
of three, is that "they don't have enough
ammunition to undertake a mission to save a
buddy."
Michel accused Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill
Jr. of planning to delay House action on the
measure until after Congress returns from its
Easter recess April 23.
O'Neill's spokesman, - Christopher Mat-
thews, said the speaker was still reviewing the
options and had made no decision.
Rep. Mickey Edwards, R-Okla., a member
of the House Appropriations subcommittee on
foreign operations, said he and other Republi
cans would press for action before the recess
begins April 13. •
Edwards, who recently returned from a trip
to El Salvador and Honduras, said the Salva
doran, army is going to run out of ammunition
if the aid package is not approved.
Stevens raised the possibility that the Sen
ate might skip.its scheduled Easter recess if it
cannot complete work on the Salvadoran aid
bill in time to deal also with a plan to reduce
the federal budget deficit.
Stevens said the GOP leadership hopes to
pass the El Salvador package by tomorrow.
He said 30 to 40 amendments awaited action
but that he thought the situation would "settle
down some" after yekerday's New York
presidential primary.
When asked to elaborate on this, Stevens
noted Sen. Gary Hart's opposition to Salvado
ran military aid and said, "I don't think the
people on the other. side want to see the issue
decided definitely in the Senate until after
today."
all highways were closed, and 600 travelers
were waiting out the storm, including many
who were taken into private homes.
"Some folks might find that hard to be
lieve," said Dan Jenson, a regional Civil
Defense coordinator in Kimball. "But you
get out here in the western part of the state,
and you get some pretty good hospitality."
Winds gusted to 67 mph at 'Burlington,
Colo., where 15 inches of snow was mea
sured. However, only about 3 inches col
lected in Denver.
Pa. voters
to decide
on bonds
By DAN BIERS
Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG Pennsylvania
voters will decide on April 10
whether the state should borrow
$l9O million to fund an economic
development package.
The proposed bond ' issue was
hammered out in February by
lawmakers from both parties and
Gov. Thornburgh as a way to
improve the state's economy. Both
houses of the General Assembly
then voted to place the question on
the primary ballot.
Thornburgh has said the bond
issue "promises benefits to all of
our citizens."
The bond question only names
the broad categories for which the'
money is to be used: But leaders
from both houses have agreed how
much money should be spent on
each segment of the three-year
program.
Still, the General Assembly has
yet 'to pass legislation needed to
specify how the money will be
used.
The leadership agreement calls
for:
• $p million in loans or grants
to local agencies to help improve
roads, railsidings and other facili
ties needed by business. ,
• $3O million to upgrade recre
ational facilities.
• $3O million for updating voca
tional and technical equipment at
vo-tech schools, community col
leges and engineering schools.
• $2O million to help small busi
nesses by helping them share cer
tain resources, such as legal and
technical assistance.
• $l5 million to set up a Conser
vation Corps Program to employ
young'people in public projects.
• $l5 million to help employees :
trying to prevent plant shutdowns.
• $l5 million to expand the
Pennsylvania Capital Loan Fund.
• $lO million for farming loans. '
• $5 million for minority eco
nomic development.
The Pennsylvania AFL-CIO and
the Pennsylvania Chamber of
Commerce back the proposal, al
though labor prefers the governor
fund the program by abandoning
his proposed corporate net income
tax cut.
Travel in the eastern plains of Colorado
came to a virtual standstill as winds clogged
roads with snowdrifts higher than cars. The
Colorado State Patrol closed nearly every
major highway in a 15,000-square-mile area
bounded by Nebraska, Kansas, Denver and
Colorado Springs.
Included in the shutdown were parts of
Interstate 70, 1-25 and 1-76. Limon on 1-70 in
east-central Colorado was isolated after
drifting snow closed all roads in and out of
town for the seventh time this snow season.
state news briefs
Proposal may eliminate some taxes
HARRISBURG (AP) A group of mayors announced yesterday
that Gov. Thornburgh supports a tax reform proposal aimed at
giving'school districts and municipalities more tax flexibility.
The legiilation, which has been endorsed by 14 major groups and
is currently on the House floor, would eliminate local nuisance
taxes and attempt to reduce property taxes by allowing school
districts and municipalities to raise their earned income taxes.
The bill would: •
• Allow school districts to eliminate the per capita, occupatio
nal privilege; occupational assessment, business privilege and
mercantile taxes in return for a one-half percent increase in the
earned income tax.
• Put a limit on the total tax revenue's the districts and
municipalities could collect after the reform bill is enacted to
prevent them from gaining a windfall.
• Allow municipalities to levy a municipal services tax of one
quarter percent on earned income or a flat tax of $5O on people who
work in the municipality.
Voters may decide on litter deposit
HARRISBURG (AP) A House member today proposed hairing
a non-binding referendum to see whether voters want . to pay a
deposit on beverage containers to fund a litter cleanup by local
governments.
. Rep. Benjamin Wilson, R-Bucks County, said , he will introduce
the referendum bill when the Legislature reconvenes April 24. He
said the referendum question would, be:
"Shall the General Assembly enact legislation to be entitled the
Beverage Container and Litter Control Act, which will place a
nominal charge on every beverage container of 16 ounces or less
sold in the Commonwealth, with the revenues utilized for compen
sating local governments and citizens for cleaning up litter?"
Wilson said he favors a proposal that would have the store collect
the returned beverage containers to destroy them and reimburse
people for the deposit with money received from the state.
Wilson said labor unions, supermarkets and manufacturers all
have opposed earlier proposals to have people pay a deposit and
then have to returuthe container to the store to recover the deposit.
nation news briefs
Crew readies for 11th shuttle. flight
CAPE CANAVERAL,-Fla. (AP) Five astronauts who will fly
the 11th space shuttle flight arrived at Cape. Canaveral yesterday
as the launch team prepared for a countdown that will send
Challenger on a bold satellite rescue , and repair mission.
Commander Robert Crippen said, "Everything is going well and
we believe we will get off on time."
He will guide Challenger into an orbit 305 miles up, highest yet for
a shuttle, so he can track down a wobbly, slowly spinning science
satellite named Solar Max, which failed 10 'months after it was
launched in 1980.
Astronaut George Nelson will fly free of the orbiting shuttle,
maneuvering with a jet-poitered back pack to capture the disabled
payload.
The countdown begins this morning, aiming for a liftoff at 8:59
a.m. Friday. s
Attorney general to postpone leave
WASHINGTON (AP) William French Smith, bowing to Presi
dent Reagan's request, will continue to serve as attorney general
until a successor is confirmed, the White House said yesterday.
Larky Speakes, chief White House spokesman, said Smith agreed
to Reagan's request during a brief meeting in the Oval Office.
The attorney general was known to be anxious to return to his
California law practice, as well as to take an active role in the
president's re-election campaign. However, he has been blocked
from leaving by the problems White House counselor Edwin Meese
111 has run into in winning Senate confirmation as Smith's replace
ment.
In.a written statement, Reagan expressed.pleasure that a special
prosecutor had been named to look into the allegations against
Meese, his top policy adviser and longtime friend. A three-judge
panel on Monday chose Jacob A, Stein, a 59-year-old Washington
lawyer, for the job.
Mass. voters defeat school prayer
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) Voters narrowly defeated a
referendum to permit prayer in the schools and backers of the
measure said yesterday they will accept the majority's wish and
give up their campaign.
"I'm disappointed that school prayer lost, but the democratic
system worked and we have to listen to - it," said School Committee
member Joseph P. Conlon, a vocal advocate of school prayer in this
eastern Massachusetts town of 68,000 people.
"We have to listen to the voters. But I only hope this makes
people in other cities and states work for school prayer."
The non-binding referendum was defeated Monday by 174 votes.
With all 19 precincts reporting, 3,733 people voted against it and 3,-
559 voted •for it.
'lf it had been approved and then implemented by the School
Committee, Farmingham students would have had the choice to
recite each day a prayer based on language in the Declaration of
Independence that acknowledges "the laws of nature and the
nature of God."
About 24 percent of Framingham's 35,000 registered voters
participated in the election, and about 1,000 cast blank ballots on
the school prayer issue. Also on the ballot were several political
offices.
world news briefs •
India riots leave 13 dead, 250 hurt
,CHANDIGARH, India (AP) Authorities in Punjab state told
Security foi•ces yesterday to shoot rioters on sight as a means of
quelliiig violence in which at least 13 people have been killed and
250 wounded.
The order was issued after troops used machine gun fire to
scatter 20,000 rioting Hindus at the funeral of an assassinated
politician in the Sikh holy city of Amritsar and killed eight people,
according to a police report. The report said mourners had
attacked 'police, gasoline stations and shops in the city' 140 miles
northewest of here.
The crowd lynched two police sergeants, reports from, the area
•said. A police official
. said the situation was "very bad, with mobs
fighting running battles with police."
A general strike called by Hindu organizations closed most
shops, businesses, factories, movie theaters and restaurants across
Punjab, where 52 percent of the 17 million people are Sikhs.
Indian spaceman to practice yoga
MOSCOW (AP) India's first spaceman soared into orbit
yesterday aboard a Soviet rocket, ,carrying an Indian flag and a
handful of his native soil for an eight-day mission in which he will
attempt to use the ancient art of yoga to combat space sickness.
Rakesh Sharma and two Soviet cosmonauts, mission commander
Yuii V. Malyshev and flight engineer Gennadi M. Strekalov blasted
off aboard the Soyuz T:11 spacecraft toward a rendezvous today
• with the orbiting Soviet space laboratory Salyut 7.
Before the launch, Sharma said it was a great honor to be the first
Indian in space.
• A report by, the official Tass new agency said the ship was on
course, with all systems functioning normally, and headed for
Salyut 7, where three Soviets have been working since a Feb. 8
launch.
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