ouse OKs Nicaraguan mining resolution, delays ai •
By W. DALE NELSON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON The House joined the
Senate last night in condemning the ClA
directed mining of Nicaraguan ports, and
leaders of Congress abandoned efforts to
funnel an emergency appropriation to the
Salvadoran government which the Reagan
administration says is desperately needed
to battle leftist revolutionaries.
By a vote of 281-111, the House, controlled
by Democrats, passed a non-bindipg
, resolution expressing "the sense of
Congress that no additional funds be used to
mine the ports or territorial waters of
Nicaragua."
Meanwhile, sources said Senate Majority
Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., and
Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.,
D-Mass., decided there was not time for a
House-Senate conference committee to
decide Central American aid issues before a
10-day Easter recess beginning today.
A senior State Department official,
speaking on condition that he not be,
identified, said earlier that congressional
failure to approve funds for El Salvador
before the recess would "create major
difficulties for the Salvadoran military."
Study in spring
Michael Glassman (junior•general arts and sciences) takes advantage of the warm weather while flowers to pop out of the ground and buds to burst open. Students have been able to enjoy almost a
studying in front of Pattee Library. The recent spring temperatures and clear blue skies have caused week of fair sunny weather. Today's weather forecast calls for rain.
Commission bangs out noise changes
By MICHAEL J. VAND
Collegian Staff Writer
The State College Planning
Commission at a public work
session last night began
hammering out proposed changes
to the borough noise ordinance.
Planning Commission Chairman
Roger Downs told the meeting that
contrary to an article in The Daily
Collegian on Tuesday, no decisions
have been made about
recommendations that will go to
the State College Municipal
Council.
He said planning commission
members are ready to hear
comments before making a
recommendation, and a public
hearing will be held in May.
Twin success:
By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The space shuttle
astronauts got ready yesterday to come home
with an empty cargo bay a symbol of their twin
successes in delivering one satellite to space and
repairing another.
Solar Max, the first satellite to undergo •
surgery in space, was speeding along at 17,400
mph in an orbit all its own, apparently fully
recovered. Challenger released it at 4:26 a.m.,
then flew nearby for eight hours, ready to grab it
back just in case.
"As things look now, the repairs were
successful," said Jim Elliott, a spokesman at
Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, which
is controlling the sun-study satellite and reading
its data.
The shuttle is to land at Kennedy Space Center
at 7:07 a.m. today, on its 106th revolution of the
the
daily
A source close to the Senate GOP
leadership said O'Neill and Baker offered to
allow the diversion to El Salvador of $32
million in funds appropriated for other
purposes as a stopgap until the conferees
could meet after the recess to consider the
administration's request for $61.7 million.
Marc Weinberg, a White House
spokesman, said the administration was
"continuing private discussions with
members of Congress" on the issue. .
Some administration supporters in
Congress condemned the delay.
Meanwhile leaders of Congress charted a
collision course over whether to continue
U.S. aid to Nicaraguan guerrillas, with the
GOP leadership of the House vowing to
support continued aid and Democratic
leaders of the House saying they would fight
it.
Opening debate on the resolution
condemning mining of Nicaraguan ports,
Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., said, "This
administration has engaged in international
terrorism and the world awaits to see if the
American people will stand up for
international law."
House Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-
M., responded by describing the resolution
as "a partisan sideshow affecting
"This is only the beginning of the
process," Downs said.
Horough Health Officer Mark
Henry outlined changes in the
ordinance suggested by the Noise
Task Force. The task force,
including University acoustics
experts, has been investigating
noise problems in State College.
Most of the changes suggested by
the task force are in terminology,
but some are substantive, Henry
said. The decibel levels based on
federal guidelines have not
changed. The task force
recommends 55 decibels for.
residential neighborhoods and 62
decibels for commercial districts,
the same as the present ordinance,
he said.
The recommendation expands a
Two satellites trek through the stars as astronauts head home
Earth since launch April 5. The shuttle's course
will take it across the Gulf of California in
Mexico, coming over the United States north of
Brownsville, Texa's, and across the Gulf of
Mexico and central Florida to the three-mile-long
KSC runway.
There was a second opportunity for landing in
Florida after one more orbit, at 8:47 a.m., in case
of early-morning ground fog. That possibility was
a concern, but Maj. Donald Greene, an Air Force
weather officer, said "it looks like it's going to be
really nice." A shift in the wind canceled an
earlier forecast of unacceptable clouds.
"Satellite servicing is something that's here to
stay," said commander Robert L. Crippen, who
will guide Challenger down to its second landing
here. "We pick up, repair and deliver."
The delivery part came Saturday, when
mission specialist Terry Hart guided the shuttle
arm to a bus-size satellite in the cargo bay and
put it overboard for retrieval in 10 months by
olle • lan
international politics."
"You are aiming at the president but you
are going to hit the people of El Salvador,"
Michel told the House, making the
argument that the mining is needed to halt
Soviet and Cuban arms shipments to
Marxist-led Salvadoran rebels.
In emotion-charged debate, supporters of
the measure charged that Reagan
administration policies were drawing the
United States nearer to war, and opponents
of the resolution said strong steps were
needed to stem the spread of communism in
the Western Hemisphere.
Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., told the
House, "What worries me most about the
mining of Nicaragua is not that it is illegal,
an act of war and bound to fail. What
worries me most, as the mother of a 21-year
old son, is that it will not mark the end of
U.S. involvement in the war that rages
throughout Central America."
But Rep. Henry J. Hyde, R-111., asked, "If
covert war is wrong, how would you suggest
we defend freedom?" And Rep. Jack Kemp,
R-N.Y., told his colleagues, "If you think
you are condemning President Reagan you
are wrong. If you take this vote today, you
are condemning the United States of
list of exemptions and removes a
section pertaining to motor
vehicles. Motor vehicle noise limits
are regulated by state law, Henry
said. The recommendation also
removes a list of decibel limits for
specific equipment.
Undergraduate Student
Government President-elect Adam
Levinson presented a report
prepared by USG, the
Interfraternity Council and the
Organization for Town
Independent Students.
Levinson said the student groups
are concerned that the ordinance
will not take varying activity levels
during the day and week into
consideration. They suggest that
different decibel levels be allowed
during daytime and evening hours
and on weekends
The report suggests that a 62
decibel limit be allowed in
residential districts on Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
between 10 a.m. and 11:30 p.m. A 55
decibel limit could be in effect the
rest of the night. However, on
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
the 62 decibel limit could run to 1
a.m.
In the commercial district the
report suggests a 62 decibel limit
between 7 a.m. and 2 a.m. every
day with 55 decibels the rest of the
time.
Steve Mizel, 454 E. Prospect
Ave., said the underlying problem
in the noise debate is social
responsibility.
"The social contract has broken
another crew. The 11-ton cylinder holds 57
experiments that will be exposed to
micrometeorites, cosmic rays and atomic
oxygen in studies vital to building space stations.
On Tuesday, Crippen guided Challenger close
to Solar Max and Hart, with one stab of the arm,
locked on and took it into the cargo bay.
Repair day was Wednesday. Nelson and James
van Hoften replaced the system that accurately
points the satellite's instruments at the sun. They
also swapped an electronics unit.
After more than three years of circling the
globe as a barely functioning satellite, Solar Max
was then ready to provide valuable information
on giant solar flares that pour torrents of
radiation into interplanetary space. What
scientists learn from the satellite may help them
better understand the sun and how it affects
weather, radio communications and other
conditions on Earth.
`You are aiming at the
president but you are
going to hit the people of
El Salvador.'
Robert Michel, House
minority leader
America and our fight for democracy and
freedom."
Virtually the same resolution was
approved 84-12 by the Republican-controlled
Senate on Tuesday. The House version was
approved 32-3 Wednesday by the Foreign
Affairs Committee.
Baker supported the anti-mining
resolution, but said yesterday he favors
continued U.S. assistance to the Nicaraguan
insurgents and believes a majority of the
Senate agrees with him.
O'Neill said, however, that he and other
Democratic leaders in the House were
determined to eliminate further aid to the
Nicaraguan guerrillas and sharply reduce
emergency military aid to El Salvador..
When reporters in Dallas, where
down, common sense doesn't
work," he said.
And he said the only thing that
seemed to help was calling police
But often elderly residents do not
complain to police because of a
fear of harassment.
Rita Foderaro, president of the
Holmes Foster Neighborhood
Association, said her organization
was concerned that a special
waivers section in the proposed
ordinance might enable people to
bypass its intent.
IFC President Maury Billig said
after the meeting that he believes
fraternities are being blamed for a
lot of problems caused by others.
Noisy people in the streets late at
night are not necessarily always
fraternity members, he said.
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President Reagan spoke yesterday, shouted
that the Senate was against him, he replied,
"What else is new?"
In other developments
• Thirteen Democratic members of the
House Judiciary Committee, including the
chairman, Rep. Peter Rodino of New
Jersey, wrote Attorney General William
French Smith asked for appointment of a
special prosecutor to investigate whether
high Reagan administration officials had
violated the Neutrality Act of 1794 by aiding
a rebellion against Nicaragua's leftist
government.
The law forbids U.S. citizens from
supporting or taking part in a military
action against a foreign country with whom
the United States is not at war.
• U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick,
in a speech in Washington, branded•
Nicaragua an aggressor nation in Central
America and said its complaint to the World
Court about the mining of its harbors was
"blatantly propagandistic."
• • Civilian and military sources in
Nicaragua said insurgent forces had placed
land mines on roads leading from the
Atlantic port of Puerto Cabezas to the
Honduran border 60 miles away
Israeli troops
storm bus,
free hostages
Editor's note: The following story
was submitted to the Israeli
military censor, who ordered
significant material deleted.
By DAVID NORDELL
Associated Press Writer
ISRAELI-OCCUPIED GAZA
STRIP Arab guerrillas armed
with greades hijacked a bus
carrying about 40 Israelis and
sped toward the Egyptian border,
but Israeli soldiers shot out the
tires, stormed aboard early today
and rescued the hostages, a
military spokesman reported.
A military communique said six
of the bus passengers were
wounded, but made no mention of
casualties among the hijackers or
soldiers. Sources said earlier that
two hijackers were killed.
The communique said bomb
experts were searching the bus for
explosives.
Sources and witnesses reported
that Israeli soldiers pursuing the
bus shot out the tires and
punctured the fuel tank, then
surrounded the immobilized
vehicle.
The hijackers seized the bus at
about 7:30 p.m. after it had left
Ashdod on its run from Tel Aviv to
the Mediterranean port of
Ashkelon.
Fire from the troops stopped the
bus, which seats 42 people and left
Tel Aviv nearly full, near the
Palestinian refugee camp of Dir el
Balah, 10 miles north of the
Egyptian border, Israeli sources
said.
Some passengers fled through
an open door when the bus was
halted, the sources said, and two
others including a pregnant
woman were freed later.
Military sources said the Arabs
apparently boarded the bus as
paying passengers, then pulled
weapons and forced the driver to
take it to the border.
The daily newspaper Haaretz
reported that the driver and eight
of more than 40 passengers
escaped and a pregnant woman
was freed by the terrorists.