state/nation/world Ruder: By DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press Writer CHICAGO David Sturtevant Ruder, President Reagan's choice for chairman of the Securities and Ex change Commission, is a respected legal scholar who will bring strong administrative skills to his new job, associates said yesterday. And the professor and former dean of Northwestern University's law school "can be tough, too," said Ar thur H. Laun Jr., a longtime friend and managing partner at Quarles & Brady, the Milwaukee law firm where Ruder began his career. "I don't think they have to worry about his watchdog image," Laun said in a telephone interview. After meeting with Reagan in Washington, Ruder said he would continue the SEC's strong enforce ment policy against insider trading if the Sendte confirms his appointment. "I think the commission's on the right track," he said of recent SEC involvement in the insider-trading scandal on Wall Street. Ruder, 58, proved himself a skilled administrator from 1977 to 1985 as dean of Northwestern's law school, which he "revitalized" while helping organize two annual institutes for corporate and securities lawyers, Laun said. Countries selling arms to Iran, Iraq By ARTHUR MAX Associated Press Writer STOCKHOLM, Sweden Business es or governments in at least 26 countries have sold weapons to both sides in the Iran-Iraq war, the Stock holm International Peace Research Institute said in its annual report yesterday. Policy-makers are losing control of the arms trade to businessmen, and many of the sales took place without the knowledge or support of the gov ernments named, the institute said in its 500-page 1986 yearbook. The report said that since the last Iran-Iraq war survey two years ago, 17 countries had joined the list of those selling weapons to both sides, -including Sweden, Britain, South Af rica and the Netherlands. The United States and the Soviet Union were among those on the 1984 list. It called the 6 1 / 2 -year-old Persian Gulf war "one of the most significant wars of.the century" and the blood- Beer-price advertising amendment approved By ROD SNYDER Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG Advertising beer prices would be prohibited under an amendment the Senate added yester day to a bill that would continue state controlled sale of liquor. On an initial vote, the ban on price advertising was defeated 25-24, but the Senate reconsidered the amend ment and passed it 26-23. The prohibi tion was included in a version of the bill passed by the House, but was removed during a Senate committee meeting last week. ' Sen. William Moore, R-Perry, said he chdnged his vote for the ban be cause of arguments that allowing price ads might lead to increased consumption of alcoholic beverages. Goetz verdict: State failed to meet its burden Bernhard Goetz a respected scholar "I'm delighted" with the nomi nation, said Robert Bennett, who became dean after Ruder returned to research and teachiPg. "I would say David has been per fectly schooled for this job and I think he will do a tremendous job," Bennett said. Ruder, described by associates as a moderately liberal Republican, has never held a government position, said Northwestern spokesman Chuck Loebbaka. However, he has taught courses in SEC enforcement, insider training and tender offers, and has written more than 40 articles on corporate securities matters, Loebbaka said. He also practiced law for four years at Quarles & Brady and five years at Schiff, Hardin & Waite, a large, pres tigious Chicago firm with a Washing ton branch. "He's a super person and he'll be great for the job," said Stuart Good man, a senior partner at Schiff, Har din, where Ruder worked part time from 1971 to 1974 and then full time for two years after taking a leave of absence from Northwestern. "He's written extensively, he's spo ken at seminars across the country, so he's very well known and very respected by securities lawyers," Goodman said. Test of 36 conflicts involving 5 million soldiers and 41 countries last year. • The institute, an independent group funded mostly by the Swedish Parlia ment, monitors worldwide devel opments in armaments and arms control. Its report also said: • Nuclear testing in 1986 was at its lowest level in 25 years, with only 23 explosions recorded, but it is rising again now that the Soviet Union has ended its 19-month moratorium. • New technology has made arms control verification so certain that this "cannot be an excuse for not pursuing or achieving accords." • Real military spending fell in 40 percent of the 86 countries for which figures were available. U.S. alloca tions fell for the first time in 10 years, by 3.5 percent. The institute said the Soviet military budget was "impene trable" and declined to publish esti mates for Soviet or Chinese spending. a China has emerged as a major arms exporter, controlling 4.3 per cent of the Third World market. Supporters of the ban, which also applies to liquor and wine, argued the' ads could tempt more teen-agers to buy and drink beer. Opponents of the ban say consumers should be able to shop for the best prices. Sen. Robert Mellow, D-Lackawan na, said the provision is "directly dealing with the people's right to know." The amendment doesn't include a section, in earlier versions, that would hold newspapers liable for violations of the price prohibition, an aide to Senate Republicans said. Only those who place the ads would be fined, according to the aide. The Senate also approved an amendment that would set the sala ries of LCB members at $40,000 a year. AP Laserphoto Reagan said in a statement yester- By RICK HAMPSON Associated Press Writer NEW YORK A jury made a specific finding: The state failed to prove Bernhard Goetz guilty of attempted murder or assault in the subway shooting of four young men 2 1 / 2 years ago. But the broader issues raised by the case remained unsettled yesterday. As Goetz's partisans proclaimed his vindica tion, legal experts insisted Tuesday's verdict in no way expanded a citizen's right to self-de fense, sanctioned vigilantism or endorsed a right to carry handguns. "New York"law is no different today that it was the day before the verdict," said Thomas Reppetto, director of the Citizens' Crime Com mission. "All a verdict of 'not guilty' means is that, in the opinion of 12 jurors,•the prosecution failed to meet its evidentiary burden," said Joseph Jaffe, chairman of the state bar association's criminal justice committee. "It doesn't make law or break law, or set any precedent." Public opinion was something else. Each of the four young men Goetz shot had a criminal record, and each was black. Goetz's defenders claimed the verdict sent criminals a message, but some blacks insisted that message was President Reagan and David Ruder day that Ruder is the best choice "to Born in Wausau, Wis., Ruder grad continue the fine work of Chairman uated with honors from Williams John Shad in the area of insider College in Williamstown, Mass., in trading enforcement." 1951; and received his law degree Shad is leaving the SEC to become with honors from the University of ambassador to the Netherlands. Wisconsin in 1957. • ,• • ,‘ • ;', l c= ;,<" • , 1 •.;;t• • The chicken pox kids By the time Blake Radcliffe's chicken pox were' clearing up, his identical twin brother Brooks, left, got hit with the spots and fever even harder really a threat to them. "This jury has sent a message to all decent people that it's OK to fight back," said Curtis Sliwa, head of the Guardian Angels, a civilian patrol group largely composed of blacks and Hispanics. "The correct signal has been sent to the criminals that they can't hide under the crimi nal justice system," said Roy Innis, director of the Congress of Racial Equality. But Major Owens, a black congressman from Brooklyn, described a different result: "The hysteria in the white community will be, 'Yeah, we were right, let's go get 'em.' " "We will continue to see open season on the killing of young black men," agreed Hazel Dukes, president of the state NAACP. "We fear that the judgment sends dangerous messages to those who might be motivated by racism, vigilantism or urban survivalist men talities," state Assemblyman Roger Green; chairman of the Black and Puerto Rican Legis lative Caucus, said in Albany. About 25 people under the auspices of the Revolutionary Communist Party demon strated outside Goetz's apartment building yesterday, chanting: "Goetz is Archie Bunker with a gun; the long hot summer has just begun!" f.` , 7;l,:i',' - ii:v:'..;•1:::; -,,;:is.s';'*'"'''- '' S . 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