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Leaders seek ways to soothe market
By JIM LUTHER
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. Pledging to leave poli
tics at the door, negotiators for Congress and the
Reagan administration began searching yester
day for a mixture of tax increases and spending
cuts that would reduce the federal budget deficit
enough to pacify world financial markets.
The opening session produced little more than
an agreement to resume negotiations today. Par
ticipants spent two hours discussing how they
would proceed but were not asked to consider any
specifics, according to several lawmakers.
"We talked for awhile and we all left happy,"
said Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn.
"Everybody had the right spirit," said
Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., chairman of the Sen
ate Budget Committee. "I considered it progress."
The initial goal for the negotiators is the $23
billion deficit reduction required by the Gramm-
Rudman balanced-budget law. House Speaker Jim
Wright, D-Texas, described that figure as a rock
New Court nominee
GOP, Democrats object to
White House's suggestions
By LARRY MARGASAK
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Senate
Republicans who would be expected
to lead the charge for President Rea
gan's next Supreme Court nominee
have objected to about half the poten
tial candidates listed by the White
House, GOP sources said yesterday.
Meanwhile, a senior administration
official said the announcement of a
new nominee was likely to come
Thursday.
White House chief of staff Howard
H. Baker Jr. submitted a list of 13 or
14 names to five key Republican
senators on Monday, then discussed
the same list yesterday with Demo
cratic Leader Robert C. Byrd of West
Virginia and Judiciary Committee
Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., D-
Del.
The Democrats also were said to
have raised objections to some of the
names.
GOP sources, speaking only on
condition they not be named, said just
six names on Baker's list drew no
objections from the Republican Sen
ate group. At least seven others were
objected to by at least one of the GOP
senators, the sources said.
Those said to have received no
objections were:
Judge Pasco M. Bowman II of Kan
sas City, Mo., on the Bth U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals; Judge J. Clifford
Wallace of San Diego, on the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals; Judge Wil
liam W. Wilkins of Greenville, S.C.,
on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals; Judge Anthony M. Kennedy of
Sacramento, Calif., on the 9th Cir
cuit; Ralph K. Winter Jr. of New
Haven, Conn., on the 2nd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, and New Hamp
shire State Supreme Court Justice
David H. Souter. Souter's name had
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Lee Shapiro, right, and North Bergen, in an undated file photo
American filmmakers
killed in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP)
Soviet-Afghan forces ambushed
and killed two Americans as they
returned with rebel escorts from
making a documentary film on
Afghanistan's civil war, U.S. and
guerrilla spokesmen said yester
day.
Lee Shapiro of New Jersey
based Shapiro Media Productions
and cameraman Jim Lindeloff
were killed earlier this month in
Paghman, just west of Kabul, the
Afghan capital, said American
diplomats in Pakistan.
Officials said their film was
financed partly by an arm of the
Unification Church of the
Rev. Sun Myung Moon. An official
for the organization said Shapiro
had strong anti-communist views
and earlier had filmed an anti-
Sandinista documentary in Nica
ragua.
Qaribar Rehman Saeed, spokes
man of the Hezb-i-Islami Moslem
insurgents, said word of the Amer
icans' death came in a rare radio
report .
bottom minimum but some negotiators cautioned
against raising expectations of a significantly
larger deficit reduction.
President Reagan said the volatile financial
markets are signals of potential dangers for the
economy. "Anyone who doubted that these threats
to our future growth were serious should have
been set straight in the last couple of weeks," he
said in a written statement.
"We owe it to the nation to get the job done," the
president added.
Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-
W.Va., said successful deficit-reduction negotia
tions would "show that the two parties can work
together and that the government can respond to
the need."
"I just hope the action is bold enough and soon
enough to reassure the markets and the American
people," added Senate Republican Leader Bob
Dole of Kansas. But he agreed that political
differences among negotiators would be put aside;
"we'll leave politics at the door," he said.
Democratic and Republican leaders in the Sen-
not been previously disclosed pub
licly.
Those who encountered at least
some opposition were:
Judge Roger J. Miner 11, of Albany,
N.Y., on the 2nd Circuit; Judge Lau
rence H. Silberman, on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the District of Colum
bia; Judge Pamela Ann Rymer, a
U.S. district judge in Los Angeles;
Edith H. Jones of Houston, on the sth
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Judge
Douglas H. Ginsburg on the District
of Columbia circuit court; Judge Pat
rick E. Higginbotham of Dallas, on
the sth Circuit, and Cynthia H. Hall of
Pasadena, Calif., on the 9th Circuit.
At least one senator requested that
Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat of Jackson
ville, Fla., on the 11th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals, be added to the list.
Bowman, Wallace and Silberman
have Democratic opposition, accord
ing to sources who spoke prior to the
Democrats' meeting with Baker.
As for the official White House
announcement, the Thursday esti
mate was given by a senior adminis
tration official aboard Air Force One
as Reagan flew back to Washington
from Phoenix, Arizona, where he and
Mrs. Reagan had gone to make fune
ral arrangements for her mother,
Edith Luckett Davis.
At the Capitol, after yesterday's
session with Baker ended, Biden
spokesman Peter Smith said the
Democrats "offered their opinions, to
the degree that they know" about
particular potential nominees.
It was not immediately known
whom the Democrats might have
objected to at the meeting.
Baker said, "The president has not
yet made a decision" and is not bound
to choose someone from the current
list. He added that he had briefed
President Reagan on the comments
Republicans made on Monday.
Ellen Hori, an employee at Sha
piro's North Bergen, N.J., compa
ny, said Shapiro was in his late 30s
and lived in New York. Ms. Hori
said Lindeloff was a 27-year-old
Californian.
She said she received a call from
the American consulate in Afghan
istan early Tuesday with the news
of their deaths. U.S. officials said
the two had registered with the
consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan,
last December and March.
Saeed said the Hezti-Islami
party, one of seven fighting to oust
the communists and drive out the
Soviets, agreed to escort the team
on foot and by donkey to the north
ern provinces of Kunduz, Takhar
and Badakhshan.
The attack came on their return
southeast to Pakistan, Saeed said.
A Hezb guide and interpreter,
Abdul Malik, was wounded but has
not yet reached the Pakistan bor
der, he said. He said the radio
report placed the attack around
Oct. 11.
Tearful birthday
Peggy Say, sister of Terry Anderson, kisses a participant in a 40th birthday ceremony for Anderson Tuesday at the
Jefferson Memorial in Washington. Anderson is the Associated Press Beirut bureau chief who has been held
hostage in Lebanon for the last 956 days.
Bill would
HARRISBURG (AP) A couple
whose daughter was raped and mur
dered in her dormitory room at Le
high University are turning to the
Pennsylvania Legislature to lift what
they call "a curtain of silence" about
campus crime.
With the help of Howard and Connie
Clery of Rosemont, Pa., a bill was
prepared and introduced yesterday
that would require universities and
colleges to spell out the number of
serious crimes and the extent of secu
rity. The Clerys said they knew of no
other similar legislation in the coun
try.
The legislation, introduced by Re
p. Richard A. McClatchy Jr., R-
Montgomery, would require school.,
to publish a brochure updated annual
ly with figures on homicide, assault,
rape, robbery and burglary; a list of
the number of campus police and
security personnel; and answers to 15
security-related questions about dor
mitory. alcohol and drug policies.
"The vast majority of private and
state colleges and universities will
not divulge their crime statistics to
House approves minimum wage hike
By ROD SNYDER
Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG The House approved legis
lation yesterday that would increase the minimum
hourly wage in Pennsylvania from $3.35 to $4.65 by
1990.
The 113-80 vote came after about two hours of
debate between supporters who said the wage is
too low to provide a decent living and opponents
who argued the higher minimum would send a
negative message to the business community.
"We pay our babysitter more than $3.35,"
Rep. Kevin Blaum, D-Luzerne, said during the
floor debate.
ate and House named 14 members to negotiate on
behalf of Congress. Treasury Secretary James
A. Baker HI heads the administration team that
includes White House Staff Chief Howard Baker
and James C. Miller 111, director of the Office of
Management and Budget.
Whatever the negotiators come up with will be
subject to approval by both houses of Congress and
the president.
Byrd said the starting point for the talks should
be a deficit-reduction bill awaiting final action in
the House on Thursday. The biggest share of the
reduction would come from a $l2 billion revenue
increase, including several relatively minor tax
increases whose biggest impact would be on cor
porations and upper-income individuals.
Wright said the initial $23 billion in deficit cuts
for the 12 months that began Oct. i should be
divided about evenly between spending reductions
and revenue increases. But if negotiators can go
beyond that, the extra reduction could rely more
heavily on spending reductions or tax increases,
he added.
end silence on campus crime
prospective students and parents
when asked," Clery said at a news
conference, later adding, "What are
they hiding?"
The new bill is based on a brochure
the Clerys have developed and dis
tributed nationwide. The brochure
lists security-related questions par
ents should ask when they submit
their children's admission applica
tions.
The Clerys started their drive after
their daughter Jeanne, a 19-year-old,
nationally ranked amateur tennis
player, was murdered on April 5,
1986.
Police said another student, Josoph
Henry of Newark, N.J., angry at
being rejected by a woman and upset
over the loss of a campus political
office, went to the Stoughton House
dormitory at about 5 a.m. that morn
ing and looked for an open room. He
found Miss Clery's door unlocked.
She was beaten and raped; her
throat was slashed with a piece of
broken glass and she was strangled,
police said.
The bill would increase the minimum hourly
wage to $3.85 in January. One year later, the wage
would increase to $4.25. In January 1990. the level
would increase again to 84.65.
The House also approved an amendment to the
bill that would raise the minimum wage every
year beginning in 1991. That increase would be
based on the same percentage increase as the
unemployment compensation's maximum weekly
benefit rate.
The minimum wage last increased in January
1981, when it went from $3.10 to $3.35 an hour, said
Rep. Mark Cohen, a Philadelphia Democrat who
proposed the new increase.
Cohen said that amount was being "repealed by
Man who shot brokers
was relocated witness
MIAMI ( AP) A distraught inves
tor who shot two stockbrokers and
then killed himself was a disbarred
Missouri attorney relocated here
through the federal witness protec
tion program, a U.S. Justice Depart
ment spokesman said yesterday.
Arthur Kane, 53, who died of a
bullet wound to his head in a Merrill
Lynch brokerage Monday after losing
as much as $lO-15 million in the last
two weeks as the market plummeted,
was actually a man who turned gov
ernment witness after he was con
victed in Kansas of insurance fraud in
1978.
"He testified in at least one trial
and we think he rendered a great
service to his country," said John
Russell, a spokesman for the Justice
Department in Washington.
Penn stabbings prompt
students to demonstrate
PHILADELPHIA (AP) Students
demonstrated at the University of
Pennsylvania yesterday to demand
better security after three football
players were stabbed a block from
campus.
The most seriously injured, Robert
O'Brien, a 20-year-old junior from
Shrewsbury, Mass., was listed in
stable condition at Presbyterian-Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Medical Cen
ter, where he was recovering from a
stab wound in his heart, a hospital
spokeswoman said.
Police said O'Brien. the quar
terback of Penn's lightweight football
team, was stabbed while walking
near a fight between two local youths
and two other Penn students, who
were treated for knife wounds to the
back, shoulder and ankles after the
attacks early Saturday.
The stabbings provoked angry re
The Daily Collegian
Wedesday, Oct. 28, 1987
Before killing himself Monday
while the market plunged 156.8
points, Kane fatally shot the manager
of the brokerage. Jose Argilagos, and
critically wounded his broker, Lloyd
Kolokoff.
Russell said Kane had never been
violent, and that the Justice Depart
ment believes all the money he in
vested was earned legitimately.
"We have been in contact with him
and as far as we know, he has led an
excellent life" since joining the pro
gram, said Russell.
Neither Merrill Lynch nor Kane's
family would release details on how
much wealth he had amassed by
playing the market or where the
money for his original investment
came from.
China, Iran
close to new
missile deal
WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP )
China and Iran may be close to seal
ing another deal for Silkworm mis
siles that could threaten shipping in
the Persian Gulf, Reagan administra
tion officials said yesterday.
The officials, who requested ano-
nymity, also disclosed U.S. intelli
gence agencies had tracked a
shipload of Chinese-built artillery
shells to Iran within the past week,
further undercutting China's denials
that it is dealing arms to Iran.
The shells were delivered "within
the last few days" and "definitely
came from China; no question about
it," said one official.
The sources added, without elab
oration, that there were "some indi
cations" China was preparing to sell
additional Silkworm missiles to Iran,
possibly through a Hong Kong trad
ing front.
"It's all very sketchy at the mo
ment," said one official. "But there
could and I emphasize could be
another deal in the works."
In a related development, a spokes
man for the Iranian resistance group
People's Mujaheddin said yesterday
that Iranian military forces had
moved a Silkworm missile last Satur
day from Sirik on the east side of the
Strait of Hormuz to the Faw penin
sula at the northern end of the Per
sian Gulf.
"It is said that the Khomeini re
gime intends to use this missile in the
coming days," added Ali Safavi, the
Mujaheddin spokesman.
The Faw region is part of Iraq but
is now occupied by Iranian troops
According to U.S. sources, Silkworm
missiles fired by Iran at ships in
Kuwaiti waters have been launched
from Faw.
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The United States has pressed
China for more than a year to stop
supplying arms to the Tehran govern
ment.
action from students at the Ivy
League school and promises by the
university to hire more security per
sonnel to patrol the area around cam
pus, which is near low-income
neighborhoods in west Philadelphia.
"People are afraid to walk around
at night. even if they have a compan
ion." said Sander Gerber. 20. of Ann
Arbor, Mich., vice chairman of the
student council. "It's just not safe."
About 200 students held a protest
rally in the rain on the steps of the
university administration building to
press demands for more police pa
trols, better lighting and upgraded
late-night escort service on and off
campus.
Muggings and assaults traditional
ly have been a problem at Penn, an
inner-city university with a under
graduate and graduate enrollment of
more than 16.000 students.
time" because inflation has shrunk the value of the
wage.
During the floor debate, Rep. Robert Freeman
said a large percentage of minimum wage earners
are heads of households and the current rate isn't
enough to live on.
"It's time we stepped up and did something for
the average citizen," Freeman, D-Northampton,
said.
Business groups, including the Pennsylvania
Chamber of Business and Industry, said the in
crease is potentially damaging to the state's
economy.
Rep. Joseph Pitts, R-Chester, argued the legis
lation would fuel inflation.