Revival effort fails:
Seat belt bill is dead
SALEM (AP) — A bill on
mandatory seat belt use ap
peared dead in this year’s ses
sion of the Oregon Legislature,
after House backers couldn’t
muster enough votes to revive it
Thursday.
The House defeated the bill
30-28 Wednesday.
Sen. Rod Monroe, D
Portland, chief sponsor of the
measure, said he would give up
on it if the House didn’t salvage
the measure Thursday.
The Senate-passed version of
Senate Bill 355 would have re
quired motorists to use seat
belts starting next Jan. 1 or face
fines of up to $50.
A House committee watered
down the bill to merely put the
proposal on the ballot, but even
that version couldn’t make it
through the House. Lawmakers
reported a flood of mail from
opponents of the bill.
Two states, New York and
New Jersey, have mandatory
seat belt use laws in effect.
Foes of the Oregon proposal
to require belt use by all
motorists said the public is tired
of government mandates and
that such a law would be dif
ficult to enforce.
Some lawmakers said the
public outcry against the
measure has been so great that it
would be foolish even to put the
proposal on the ballot.
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‘Nuclear winter’ issue debated
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon officials
agreed with critics Thursday that an atomic
war would cause a “nuclear winter” which
might wipe out all life on Earth, but told Con
gress that’s all the more reason to continue
President Ronald Reagan’s weapons build-up
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“The administration accepts that a nuclear
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be a terrible thing,” Perle said, “but we
believe that what we are doing with respect to
strategic nuclear modernization and arms con
trol is sound and we believe it is made no less
sound" by the nuclear winter phenonenon.
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authors of the nuclear winter theory, said the
concept “has policy implications at variance
with current nuclear doctrine” of planning to
respond to attack with nuclear weapons.
The nuclear winter concept holds that even
a small-scale nuclear war would cause such
tremendous firestorms and clouds of dust and
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light and warmth from the sun would be block
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argue that the only way to avoid nuclear
winter is to eliminate atomic weapons.
Sagan testified that a recent Pentagon study
of nuclear winter had caused “no agonizing
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plans to use nuclear weapons to retaliate
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