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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
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"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.
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