Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012, November 09, 1983, Section A, Page 4, Image 4

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WASHINGTON — The Senate
approved the production of a new
generation of nerve gas weapons
with a vote of 47-46 Tuesday, as
Vice Pres. George Bush cast the
deciding vote on the issue for the
second time in four months.
The Senate went on to vote 86-6
for a record $253 billion military
spending bill, which includes
every major weapons program re
quested by President Ronald
Reagan, including nerve gas, the
MX nuclear missile and long
range B-1 bombers.
As approved by the Senate, the
measure is $9 billion below the
president's most recent spending
request.
The bill now goes to a congres
sional conference committee for
negotiations with House
members who earlier rejected the
$124 million nerve gas program.
Opponents of producing
"binary" nerve gas artillery shells
and bombs assail the weapons as
gruesome, immoral and a threat
more to civilians than to soldiers.
"There is no fiscal reason, no
negotiating reason and no military
reason, there is no reason of any
kind to produce this weapon,"
said Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore.
But 46 senators plus Bush ac
cepted arguments by Reagan and
others that the "binary” bombs
and artillery shells should be pro
duced to prod the Soviet Union
into a negotiated reduction of
chemical stockpiles.
In a rare and dramatic repeat of
his constitutional role as presi
dent of the Senate, Bush made the
difference, just as he did July 13 in
a 50-49 vote on a defense
authorization bill.
Each vote was watched carefully
by administration supporters and
when conservative Jesse Helms,
R-N.C., voted with nerve gas op
ponents, he was chased by several
Republicans as he left the floor.
Helms returned and changed his
vote.
The Republican-controlled
Senate Appropriations Committee
had sided with the House and
recommended blocking nerve gas
funding and continuing the
14-year freeze by the United
States on the production of
chemical weapons.
But John Tower, R-Tex., chair
man of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, successfully moved
to restore money for the nerve gas
weapons to a $252.5 billion
defense bill.
A congressional conference
committee will now have to
negotiate the differences between
the House and Senate.
Inside binary nerve gas shells
and bombs are chemicals which
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are harmless when by themselves,
but lethal even in tiny doses when
combined. After the artillery
shells or bombs are en route to
their targets, the chemicals are
joined and explode into the air
upon impact. Opponents say the
weapons could kill thousands of
innocent people downwind of the
battlefield.
Arafat vows
to end battle
TRIPOLI — PLO chairman Yasser
Arafat said Tuesday that "to avert
a bloodbath" he will stop fighting
Syrian-supported mutineers if the
rebels halt their push into Tripoli,
his last Middle East stronghold.
"I will fight only in self
defense," the Palestine Liberation
Organization leader told reporters
after meeting with Tripoli's
political and religious figures.
They appealed for a cease-fire be
tween Arafat loyalists and those
who want to topple him.
"I have agreed with those atten
ding the meeting to spare Tripoli
from clashes," said Arafat, who
earlier vowed to fight to the death
to defend his only remaining bas
tion of guerrilla support. "You
have my word that I will do
anything to avert a bloodbath in
Tripoli."
The port city of 500,000 is 50
miles north of Beirut.
Despite Arafat's overtures,
mutineers pressed their artillery
barrage, raining shells around the
remains of his Baddawi refugee
camp and on Tripoli itself.
Loyalists fired back with rockets.
Police said the PLO war has left
at least 1,000 dead and 3,000
wounded in and around Tripoli
since fighting began Thursday.
Official sources in Tripoli who
insisted on anonymity said Syrian
President Hafez Assad, whose
troops have been supporting the
mutineers, has refused to meet
with an Arab delegation pleading
for a truce. But Tunisian govern
ment sources said Assad had
agreed.
The mutineers claim Arafat has
abandoned the PLO's struggle to
reclaim a homeland from Israel.
Arafat claims Syria is manipulating
the mutiny and wants to dominate
the PLO. Syria denies it.
A source close to the committee
said the dissidents' military com
mander Col. Saeed Mousa re
jected calls for a truce until Arafat
surrenders and submits to a
''court-martial” or leaves the city.
In Beirut, U.S. Marines per
manently abandoned one of their
most vulnerable posts about two
miles from the airport. Marine
spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan
said "the position no longer serv
ed a useful purpose." Jordan said
the 150 to 200 leathernecks of
Alpha Company who had secured
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ships offshore in readiness for
their return home as part of a nor
mal rotation.
Poll shows
Evans ahead
SEATTLE — Republican Sen. Dan
Evans was the heavy favorite to
win a special Senate election in
Washington state Tuesday to suc
ceed one of the state's political
legends, the late Henry "Scoop"
Jackson.
A late-breaking statewide poll
showed the appointed senator
with an 18.5 percent lead over his
liberal Democratic opponent.
Congressman Mike Lowry of
Seattle.
As the nation's only Senate race
this fall, the contest was watched
as a possible early referendum on
Pres. Ronald Reagan and his
military policies, particularly in
light of recent developments in
Lebanon and Grenada.
The outcome also was seen as
possibly pivotal to control of the
Senate after the 1984 elections.
Lowry, 44, the most liberal con
gressman in the state, campaign
ed as a "peace candidate'' and
flailed the administration's
foreign policy, defense spending,
and its position on social
programs.
He is a leading opponent of U.S.
presence in Lebanon and Grenada.
'Strangler'
guilty — again
LOS ANGELES — Angelo Buono
Jr. was convicted Tuesday of kill
ing a prostitute and two
schoolgirls in the Hillside
Strangler case, bringing to five the
number of slayings in which he
has been found guilty.
Buono also has been acquitted
of one slaying.
As with the second conviction,
the jury in the latest three cases
also returned findings of special
circumstances of multiple
murder, allowing prosecutors to
seek the gas chamber for Buono.
Superior Court Judge Ronald
George ordered jurors to con
tinue deliberating on the remain
ing four counts against Buono, 50,
a Glendale auto upholsterer.
Buono was found guilty Tuesday
morning of killing Dolores
Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson,
14, whose bodies were found five
years ago near Dodger Stadium.
In the afternoon, he was con
victed of killing Kimberly Diane
Martin, 18, a prostitute who work
ed for a Hollywood out-call
service.
The trial, which began Nov. 16,
1981, is considered the longest
criminal trial in California history
and perhaps the nation. Buono
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was charged with 10 counts of
murder in the grisly sex slayings
that terrorized Los Angeles
women in late 1977 and early 1978.
In nearly all of the cases, the vic
tims' nude bodies were dumped
along Los Angeles-area hillsides.
Most were raped or sexually
assaulted before being strangled.
Flynt ousted
from hearing
WASHINGTON — The Supreme
Court, in hearings punctuated by
the obscene outburst and arrest of
Hustler magazine publisher Larry
Flynt, considered changes in libel
laws Tuesday that would make na
tional publications — and the peo
ple who work for them — more
tempting targets for lawsuits.
The justices had just finished
hearing arguments in the first of
three libel disputes when Flynt
screamed at them from the au
dience section of the majestic
courtroom.
" ..this court. You denied me
the counsel of my choice,” Flynt
shouted as policemen surrounded
him and rolled his gold-plated
wheelchair away.
Flynt was arrested and charged
with impeding the administration
of justice, a federal offense carry
ing a maximum penalty of one
year in prison and a $5,000 fine.
He was released by a U.S.
magistrate on his own
recognizance.
The high court had denied Flynt
permission Monday to represent
himself in a case pitting his sexual
ly explicit magazine against Kathy
Keeton, vice president of com
peting Penthouse magazine who
was described in court papers as
the common-law wife of Pen
thouse publisher Robert
Guccione.
The screaming occurred as
arguments ended in that case,
which concerned whether people
who sue a national publication
such as Hustler may shop around
for the state that offers the most
favorable laws and filing
deadlines.
Keeton, of New York City, says
she was libeled by a 1976 issue of
Hustler in which a cartoon sug
gested Cuccione had infected
Keeton with venereal disease.
She first sued Hustler and Flynt
for $80 million in 1977 in Ohio,
where Hustler is based, but was
told she had missed the filing
deadline for such a suit there, so
she sued in New Hampshire,
which then was the only state in
the country with a filing deadline
leisurely enough to allow the suit.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Ap
peals threw out the suit last year,
ruling that neither she nor Hustler
had sufficient contacts with New
Hampshire to justify federal court
jurisdiction there.
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