state/nation/world Senate OKs emergency aid for Central America By W. DALE NELSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Republican-con trolled Senate approved $61.7 million in emergency military aid for El Salvador and $2l million to assist anti-leftist guerrillas in Nicaragua yesterday after beating back a week-long series of Democratic attacks on President Reagan's Central American poli cies. The vote was 76-19. The measure now goes to the Democrat controlled House, which plans to take a long weekend and return next Tuesday, leaving only three days in which to try to complete congressional action on the bill before a 10- day Easter recess that begins April 13. In one of its last actions before the final vote, the Senate rejected 50-44 an amend ment by Sen. James Sasser, D-Tenn., that would ha`ve required congressional action before temporary U.S. military installations Looking for a break An unidentified picket found one way to relieve aching feet as the bitter strike by four unions against Las Vegas hotels entered its fourth day yesterday. The picket was among those walking at the Union Plaza in downtown Las Vegas. Also yesterday, a woman carrying a sign was hit by a car driven by a worker who was trying to get through a picket line outside the MGM Grand Hotel. Executed: By The Associated Press A Florida child-killer apologized to his parents and a Louisiana dou ble murderer begged forgiveness from the father of one victim as they went to their own deaths in the electric chair yesterday, the first execution of two men in one day since the death penalty was re stored. "I bet a tot of those people on death row right now are beginning to sweat," said Walt Verdow, father of one of the Florida convict's vic tims. Arthur F. Goode 111, who once vowed that if freed "I would kill as many children as I could get my hands on," was pronounced dead at 7:08 a.m at the prison in Starke, Fla. Just before he died, he apol ogized to his parents and said he was sorry to have killed two boys. Elmo Patrick Sonnier, still in sisting that his brother was the killer of a teen-age couple, was prounced dead at 1:15 a.m. at the state prison at Angola, La. The fathers of the victims looked on, their arms folded, as four jolts of 2,- 000 and 500 volts passed through his body. Sonnier, 35, was convicted of ab ducting sweethearts Loretta Bour que, 18, and David Leßlanc, 16, from an isolated lovers' lane in New Iberia and methodically shooting them in the head three times each after raping the young woman. His brother, Eddie, was also con victed of the killings and was sen tenced to life in prison. Each insisted at first that the other pulled the trigger under Louisiana law, only the actual killer in Honduras could be made permanent. The amendment would also have barred use of the installations for anything but training exercises. Four Republicans joined 40 Democrats in supporting Sasser's amendment. Sasser said several GOP senators "indicated they ' wanted to vote for my amendment or were seriously considering it and changed their minds at the last minute." "There were, I judge, a number of phone calls going back and forth," Sasser said. The Senate also rejected amendments to delete or curtail the $2l million for the anti- Nicaragua rebels and to cut the amount for El Salvador or tie it up with 'restrictions. The mainly Democratic supporters of the amendments charged that Reagan is trig ger-happy and leading the United States closer to war in Central America. "The Senate has voted for wider war in El Salvador, secret war in Nicaragua and the brink of war in Honduras," Sen. Edward M. Two convicts meet early morning deaths in electric chairs can be sentenced to death. But after a court commuted Eddie's death sentence to life, ruling he only held a flashlight for Elmo, Eddie insisted that he had been the killer and begged Gov. Edwin Edwards not to allow the execution of the wrong man. ' Eddie's claim, backed by a for mer cellmate who said he had heard Eddie confess to the killings, were at the center of appeals seeking to block Elmo's execution. But the appeals were turned down by the courts, and Edwards called Elmo to tell him he would not intervene. Elmo Sonnier was led to the exe An unidentified couple speed past Florida State Prison In Starke, Fla., yesterday morning, sounding their car horn in celebration of the early morning execution of Arthur Frederick Goode. By MIKE FEINSILBER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Reflecting on Watergate nearly a decade after the scandal drove him from the presi dency, Richard Nixon says the break-in was illegal and a "very, very stupid thing to do," the at tempted cover-up "was stupidity at its very highest," and his failure to destroy the incriminating White House tapes also was "stupid, (they) should have been burned." But, in a new, paid retelling of his memories, Nixon still said he would not apologize to the American peo ple. Asked why during the two-year ordeal he never • simply went , on television and said he had made a mistake and was sorry, Nixon said he will not utter those words. "There's no way that you could apologize that is more eloquent, more decisive, more finite, or to say that you are sorry which would exceed resigning the presidency of the United States," he told inter viewer Frank Gannon. "That said it all. And I don't intend to say any more." The former president, 71, was interviewed for 38 hours last year by Gannon; a former White House Fellow who helped Nixon write his books. - What resulted was Nixon's long est public re-explanation since the David Frost interviews on tele vision in 1977, for which he reported ly was paid about $1 million. He was paid an undisclosed sum for the new interviews plus a share of the prof its from worldwide sales. cution chamber by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun who shared his last hours. As he was strapped into the pol ished oak chair, he told her he loved her, turned and looked directly at Leßlanc's father, Lloyd. "I ask to have your forgiveness," Sonnier said. Leßlanc nodded and said, "Yes." Bourque's father turned to Leß lanc and said softly, "He didn't ask me." "He was ready (to die)," Sister Helen said after the execution. "He told me today how it all happened. Kennedy, D-Mass., said in a closing speech. Administration suppollers said the amendments would make it more difficult to stem a rising communist tide in a region only a few hundred miles from the United States border. "We are niggling and nitpicking and nip ping 'at the heels of anything that would seem to offer serious resistance to the expansion of Soviet power in our own hemi sphere," said Sen. John East, R-N.C. The Senate rejected by a vote of 51-44 an amendment by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., saying that none of the $2l million for the rebels fighting Nicaragua's leftist govern ment could be spent to support those whose avowed purpose is to overthrow that govern ment. It was the third time in two days that amendments to eliminate or curtail the funds for the rebels had been defeated. Critics oppose the aid to the rebels on grounds that the United States should not be Nixon recalls Watergate scandal Former president says break-in was 'stupid;' interviews to air on TV CBS reportedly paid $500,000 for broadcast rights to 1 1 / 2 hours of the Gannon interviews. A 30-minute segment will be aired Sunday on "60 Minutes," another 30 minutes Tues day on "The American Parade" and the remaining segment April 15 on "60 Minutes." The network made two of the three transcripts available to re porters yesterday. Nixon, occasionally using coarse language, reveals little new about the 'Watergate episode break-in at Democratic headquarters, cover up, recommended impeachment and finally resignation and presi dential pardon but he gives some insights into his personal life during those tormented months. He recalled his last night in the White House, the night he made the resignation speech on television. He went upstairs to the family quar ters, was embraced silently by his wife, daughters and sons-in-law, "saying nothing and saying every thing." He found that his suit was soaked with prespiration but he was suffering a chill. "Soon the chill went away," he said, "and I went down to the Lin coln room and made a few calls to people. Heard the chanting outside. Reminded me of the Vietnam days, except that this time the chant was, 'Jail to the Chief! Jail to the Chief!' "Didn't bother me, however," Nixon continued. "You know, after all, I'd been heckled by experts." Nixon described the break-in as illegal and a "very, very stupid thing to do." "But whatever the stupidity of Watergate," Nixon added, ". . . was He had inadequate counsel. Eddie did it." The body was taken to the prison morgue. The execution was the third in Louisiana since December and the 17th in the United States since the U.S. Supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. Goode, the man executed in Flor ida, was condemned to death for the 1976 homosexual slaying of a 9-year old Cape Coral boy, Jason Verdow, and had been sentenced to life in prison for killing an 11-year-old Vir ginia boy. seeking to overthrow another government -- one that is recognized by the United States. The Reagan administation, howev er, maintains the purpole of the aid is to stop the Nicaraguans. from funneling Soviet and Cuban arms to leftist insurgents else where in Central America. The Republican-controlled Senate also beat back efforts to cut the funds for El Salvador or place restrictions on their ex penditure. The Senate debated the Honduras issue with a map of Central America and pictures of U.S. airstrips there in the back of the chamber. They were placed there by Repub lican supporters of the administration who maintain the facilities are temporary. Sasser, opening the debate, said Army engineers are currently building two air fields in Honduras, one a few miles from El Salvador and one near the Nicaraguan bor der, about 20 miles from fighting between Nicaraguan troops and guerrillas. • Former President Richard Nixon, left, and Henry A. Kissinger, chairman of President Reagan's advisory commission on Central America, are shown attending a meeting of the panel in this September 1983 file photo. exceeded by our reaction to it. It was stupidity at its very highest." While there was no excuse for the break-in, Nixon said, he was occu- pied on important foreign policy issues and let others run his re-, election campaign. "That was a mistake," he said. "I should have watched it. If I had been watching it, believe me, we wouldn't have ever bugged that. But if we had done it, it would have been more successful. But we would nev er have done it." Asked why he did not destroy the tapes, which contained the criminal evidence that caused him to resign to avoid impeachment, Nixon said, O'Neill blasts Reagan for policy in Lebanon By JANET STAIHAR Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON House Speak er Thomas P. O'Neill accused President Reagan yesterday 'of trying to make Congress a scape goat for failure of U.S. policy in Lebanon, and said Reagan alone was responsible for the death of U.S. Marines there. "It's the qualms of a guilty conscience," O'Neill said of Rea gan's comments at a news confer ence Wednesday night that congressional debate had ren dered the U.S. role in Beirut "inef fective'' and may have encouraged terrorist attacks. Reagan said Congress "must take a responsibility" for any loss of U.S. credibility in the Middle East after withdrawal of Ameri can troops from' Lebanon. When Congress debates with drawing U.S. forces, Reagan added, "all this can do is stimulate the terrorists and urge them on to further attacks because they see a possiblity of success in getting the force out which is keeping them from having their way." O'Neill, the leading Democratic spokesman in Congress, de nounced that notion. He said Rea gan's policy in Lebanon "failed because he tried to work with might and toughness rather than diplomatic smartness." Senate Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., told reporters that it was the "administration's flawed foreign policy that failed. It wasn't the nerve of Congress." Said Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Cal if., a member of the Foreign Rela The Daily Collegian Friday, April 6, 1984 "I submit there is danger that U.S. troops could be drawn. into the fighting if it spreads," Sasser said. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., supporting Sasser's amendment, said the military con struction "does intensify the likelihood that we will be pulled into a larger military conflict in Latin America." Reagan said at his news conference Wednesday night that he saw no danger of a wider war in Central America in connection with the U.S. joint exercises with Honduran troops. Sasser's amendment would require con gressional approval before any military facilities in Honduras could be made perma-, ' nent. It would also, prohibit the use of the facilitie's for any purpose other than the exercises. Sasser said that by the end of the urrent exercises the United States "will have built or have access to 14 separate military installations in Honduras." "I must have had several thousand letters on that since leaving office. Stupid, should have been burned He said they were not for several reasons. He was sick with pneumo nia when• their existence was first disclosed and he couldn't make a ,tough decision like that, he said. Later, he had "bad advice from well-intentioned lawyers" who thought "that I would be destroying evidence" even though they had not yet been subpoenaed. Finally, he said, he thought the tapes could be used to clear him; he wanted them as insurance against, "shall we say, misrepresentation." tions Committee and former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination: "We have a president who is trigger happy and who commits troops for impossible missions. To suggest we should' not debate policy is to suggest a dictatorship." O'Neill said Reagan was trying to make Congtess a scapegoat for a foreign policy that didn't work. "The truth of the matter is his policy failed. The ineptitudeness on their (administration) part. They miscalculated deaths of the U.S. Marines are the responsibility of the president of the United States. He acted against the wishes of our top mili tary in this country, and now he is looking for a scapegoat." "And now it's qualms of con science. The deaths lie on him and the defeat in Lebanon lies on him, and him alone . . . and he can't put it on the shoulders of anybody else," O'Neill said. Reagan was asked about O'N eill's charge during a tour of a New York day care center Thurs day. Gesturing toward the chil dren playing around him, the president said, "Everything in here is making more sense than that." O'Neill called the Lebanon poli cy "the biggest blunder, the big gest mistake" that Reagan has made as president. O'Neill also said it was "very despicable" for the president to take the blame initially for securi ty lapses at the Marine compound where 241 U.S. servicemen were killed in a terrorist bombing last October. state news briefs Court asked to withhold TMI info HARRISBURG (AP) Attorneys for people whose secret testimony led to the indictment of the former operator of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant have asked federal court to deny the Nuclear Regulatory Commission access to the records. The NRC doesn't need the grand jury testimony for its decision on the restart of TMI Unit 1 and if the records were turned over witnesses' names and testimony would be made public, the attorneys argued. Attorneys Barton Gephart of Harrisburg and Harry Voight of Washington filed the petition Wednesday with U.S. Middle District Court here. Gephart and Voight represent unnamed people em ployed at TMI Unit 2 prior to and at the time of the March 1979 accident. Parking violators to get the boot PHILADELPHIA (AP) The boot is making a comeback in Philadelphia. • Mayor W. Wilson Goode said Wednesday the Philadelphia Parking Authority will resume use of the steel boot July 16, locking it onto wheels to immob,ilize cars belonging to chronic parking violators. The boot was suspended in October after four months, in the wake of a public outcry. Critics charged they were booted unfairly, after they had paid their tickets, while true scofflaws were ignored. That led former Mayor William J. Green's administration to stop using the boot while officials tried to find a more acceptable way of applying it. The city hopes its reinstatement will help collect more than $2 million in overdue fines. As of Jan. 2, Goode said, 1,700 vehicles had accumulated more than 20 parking tickets while 6,455 had 10 or more unpaid tickets. The mayor promised that Parking Authority crews will lock up only cars belonging to drivers with five or more tickets, instead of the three-ticket limit used last year. nation news briefs Exxon heads Fortune 500 top ten NEW YORK (AP) Exxon Corp. led the 1983 Fortune 500 for the second year in a row and four other oil companies made the top ten on the list of industrial rankings released yesterday by Fortune magazine. Exxon topped the list, even though its sales dropped by $8.6 billion to $88.6 billion. Not far behind was General Motors Corp. whose sales soared by $14.6 billion to $74.6 billion, widening its lead over Mobil Corp., No. 3, by $2O billion. Ford's sales jumped $7.4 billion and the company replaced Texaco Inc. in the No. 4 slot. Texaco fell out of the top five for the first time since 1974, as International Business Machines Corp. moved up a notch from No. 6. Here are the Top 10 in order, followed by sales, and position in 1982: Exxon, $88.56 billion (1) ; GM, $74.58 billion (2) ; Mobil, $54.61 billion (3) ; Ford, $44.45 billion (5) ; IBM, $40.18 billion (6) ; Texaco, $40.68 billion (4) ; Du Pont, 05.38 billion (8).; Standard Oil (India na), $27.63 billion (10) ; Standard Oil of California, $27.34 billion (7) ; GE, $26.8 billion (11). Company foresees oil price increase NEW YORK (AP). Oil prices, unusually stable for the past year, could nearly double in the next 10 years and increase more than sixfold in 20 years, one big oil company estimates. _,,Analysts said yesterday that the projections by Shell Oil Co. were realistic, at least through 1993, adding that for the most part oil prices would rise only as fast as the projected inflation rate for the next decade. Meanwhile, Conoco Inc., another large oil company, predicted that the non-communist world would become more dependent upon oil produced by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in the years ahead. Shell projected the price of Saudi Arabian Light, a grade of crude oil that is the benchmark for world prices, would remain at $29 a barrel through 1986, then rise to $52 a barrel in 1993 and $192 a barrel by 2005. world news briefs Portugese father sells 23 children LISBON, Portugal (AP) A woman who gave birth this week to her 25th child says her.ljusband sold 23 of their children to other families, the state-run news agency ANOP reported yesterday. The report quoted Corina da Costa Braz, 38, as saying two of her children are in West Germany and that one, a 6-year-old boy, lives with her and her husband at their home in Sao Bartolomeu de Messines. She does not know where the other children are, ANOP said. The woman said hir farm laborer husband, Jose Coelho da Silva, sold their children for about $7,500 each, ANOP said. The telephone switchboard operator at the district hospital at Portimao, where ANOP reported the 'woman gave birth to a daughter on Wednesday, confirmed that she was a patient there. Police find link in Greece shootings . ATHENS, Greece (AP) Greek police said yesterday the gun that wounded a U.S. Army sergeant earlier this week was the same weapon used to assassinate two American officials serving in Greece. The chief of Athens suburban police, Gregory Kartsonakis, said bullets fired at Master Sgt. Robert Judd Jr. on Tuesday came from the same .45-caliber pistol that killed CIA station chief Richard Welch in December 1975 and U.S. Navy Capt. George Tsantes last November. Judd, 36, was transporting official documents and mail to the Air Force base when two gunmen on motorcycles fired through the rear window of his car, wounding him in the shoulder and wrist. He was recovering yesterday in the hospital at the U.S. Air Force base in Athens. A left-wing anti-American terrorist group called November 17 claimed the killings of Welch and Tsantes. The group said Wednes day it singled out Judd to protest the . presence of four U.S. military bases in Greece. stock report Market suffers steep decline NEW YORK (AP) An afternoon sell-off sent the stock market tumbling to its lowest level in almost a year yesterday as the specter of rising interest rates continued to haunt Wall Street. Auto issues showed some of the biggest declines in a busy session. The Dow Jones average tumbled to 1,130.55, its lowest close since it stood at 1,124.71 last April 8. Over the past six trading days, the average has fallen 44.07 points. Volume Shares 121,984,510 Issues Traded • NYSE Index 89.33 - 1.38 • • Dow Jones Industrials cry 1,130.55 - 18.01 • WANTED! JUNIORS AND SENIORS for research study on mass communications PAY S5/he information and registration HUD Basement 9-4:30 Mon. & Tues. April 9-10 1) . that your the future Enjoy yourself and be considerate of others. copyright 1984 A great way of life 7•',4 4 We s ' t4- . STEPHEN FURST • JEFF EAST • SANDY HELBERG • BLAINE NOVAK • JAMES B. SIKKING Introducing JENNIFER RUNYON Special Appearance by JOHN HILLERMAN Muiic Score by WILLIAM GOLDSTEIN Screenplay by JIM KOUF Story by JIM KOUF arid JEFF SHERMAN & DOUGLAS GROSSMAN Executive Producers LOUIS S. ARKOFF • SAMUEL Z. ARKOFF Produced by MICHAEL L. MELTZER Directed by ROBERT BUTLER r7 1 ,9f 1 Color by DeLuxe Saturday with conduct Saturday of the Phi Psi 500. A SAMUEL Z. ARKOFF/LOUIS S. ARKOFF Production "UP THE CREEK" TIM MATHESON • DAN MONAHAN Soundtrack available on Pasha/CBS Records Produced by SPENCER PROFFER OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 6 AT A THEATRE NEAR YOU. Domino's Pizza encourages you the annual. Phi Get set to get wet... at the funniest, raciest, wildest white-water raft race ever! ..~~ . ~~, 3'" r w ,. r~ti ^' ,' a ~` AX• AX• AX• AX• AX• X. AX • AX• AX• AX• X It's Here! The 10th Annual Delta Chi Marathon April 13, 14, 15th • Registration ends April 11th Sign-up in dorm areas or at the HUB • For more information call IXX• AX• Me LIX• LOC • /IX • AX.