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World news Supreme Court to review pocket veto ruling WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court Mon day agreed to referee a major confrontation between President Reagan and Congress over the use of the so called pocket veto. The court said it will review a ruling that Reagan il legally used a pocket veto in 1983 to kill a bill linking military aid to El Salvador with human rights progress by that country. The court’s action sets the stage for a decision, pro bably sometime in 1987. on far-reaching questions of presidential and congressional powers. On Aug. 29, 1984. the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap peals here ruled, by a 2-1 vote and in a one-page opi nion, that Reagan's use of the pocket veto was illegal. But the bill conditioning aid to El Salvador on human rights progress expired a month later anyway, and it was not until April 12, 1985, that the appeals court issued a 46-page opinion in the case. In the appeal acted on Monday. Justice Department lawyers said the appeals court should have thrown out its own opinion last year because the case had become moot. The challenge to Reagan’s use of the pocket veto was made by 33 House Democrats ted by Rep. Michael Barnes of Maryland, leaders of both parties in Congress joined in asking the Supreme Court to allow the appeals court ruling to remain intact. The case poses not only the issue of the pocket veto but also whether individual members of Congress have legal standing to sue in federal court to challenge ac tions by the president. A similar issue involving legal standing, with potential far-reaching impact, also has arisen in a pen ding constitutional challenge to the Cramm-Rudman Act mandating a balanced federal budget by Hht l. In the pocket veto case, the appeals court barred the president from using the device to kill a hill while Congress is in recess. The ruling allowed the president to pocket veto a measure only at the conclusion of a two-veer congressional term when all I louse seats and a third of the Senate seats are up i»». election. A president pocket vetoes a hill by taking no action on the measure, figuratively keeping it “in his pocket” rather than sending it Iwick to Congress with a veto message or signing it into law . In the case of the Kl Salvador measure. Congress had recessed for t*t«:t when Keegan sought to nullity the measure on Nov, :tt) that year. The hill would have required him to certify that the Salvadoran government had improved human rights before more U.S. aid could ' " lie sent to the country in the fiscal year ending Sept it). IHH4 • . ' , •• /« ’ • The .appeals court ruling had do olipct on the aid . Iiocause the money already had been spent. . 7 • South African police kill seven blacks JOHANNESBURG. South Africa JAP) — Police stopped a van Monday that they said was carrying seven black guerrillas and killed all seven In the resulting shootout in (vuguletu. township near Cape Town. Official reports said the men were sent by the mitlawed African National Congress to at tack policemen. l-'our.bodies lay in the street and three more in the surroun ding bush. where-they were shot by pursuing police.. The official - reports said police lav in wail for mom than four hours after lining informed that the.ANC was planning an attack. ‘ They stopped the van near the township police station soon . after 7 a.m.. the blacks started shooting and threw a grenade, and the police returned fire, said a statement by (Jan.' |ohan Coetzee, the police commissioner. Seven "ANC terrorists" were killed, and one policeman was slightly wounded. (!6el/.et?’s ' statement said. Guguletu is on the southeast outskirts of the country’s legislative capital. It has seen some of- the fiercest black •rioting in the 18 months of. violence against apartheid, the official race policy through. . which South Africa's 5.million whites maintain supremacy over the 24 million blacks. ESPRESSO BAR Serving fine coffee, teas.and a full service menu aH day to LIVEN UP YOUR MORNINGS AND RELAX YOUR AFTERNOONS BOOK and TEA . ' open 10« daily • 10-5 Sunday . on the southeast cornet of campus 1648 E. 19th • 344-3422 In reply .to a question, Louis lo (Grange, the law and. order minister, told Parliament on Monday that 502 adults and.301 juveniles were'killed by police iii race-related unrest in and • 2,(HH) adults and 571 . juveniles were wounded. He said most of the dead were black. 47 were of-mixed race, v and three were white. • Recent estimates have put the total number of dead during the 18 months at well oyer, t, 1(H), nearly all of them black. 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Army engineers will, arrive. *, : , later,to Join Hohduran soldiers in-building a 4,70()-fuutgravei runway capable of handling heavy .transpoH aircraft- •• When the airatrip is finished; it wilTbe.the.base for evier cises in May and |une;involving sortit* 1 .80J)U:S„ airborne . and Special Forces troopers. '■ . U.S/ Ambassador John Kerch and- Honduran" President .Jose.Azcona Hoyo sat' in metal chairs beside a iliH .rtv.ad.wat ching the paratroopers, bulldmrers and'.equipment-drift to eaHh after a threerhou'r flight fnvm i't; ;Hr'agg;.N;,('..°*• .Kerch Said Nicaragua’s Sandinista rulers HljduUl n'ali/^'. . that the United States is able to.sOnd troops .ami heavy equip' ment into Honduras within hours-*-*if-1he-need,arfab$.-?V-?‘ ’ ’Tactically ,1 think it demonstrates to the Sandihfstas (or at least they should take note of it , we aril quite Capable of coming to the aid of Honduras, if need be. in remote areas,*■’•. ' he said.- . •* y ‘".V'-T- ’ ’ '■ V "We don't have to rely upon sea-borne transportation Wecan bring heavy'equipment in right.yvhere it’s heeded ’’ The paratrojipers <if the 27th Airborne Hngineiering-Bat talion arrived shortly after daviri attlie airstrip site. .4^ mi his noHli of.the.Nicafaguah border; It,is.seven miles southeast of the village of-Mocorbn and i|bout- 2(H) miles east northeast of the Hondiiran capital of Tegucigalpa.' From nvid-May through June, the US.airlvorne and Special 'Forces units wiil conduct maneuvers wiihin seven • miles of the Nicaraguah border, said Alaska Air Guard May (Jarl Gid lurid He is.the public affairs officer for. the 1.1(H) U.S. military*perSonne| in Honduras, with most stationed at the Falnienjla Air Base , ,-y • / \ There'hayti beeh sporadic borderxlashes involvingHon duran and Nicaraguan troops and U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels who have camps along'the border. - • ' ; ,°U-,S officials said tlie airstripwas not intended for use by the rebels', who have used-another airstrip improved by U.S. forces to resupply their fighters inside Nicaragua. . Aaxona Hoyo said the new airstrip would haye .both cjvilian and military uses .but the main purpose would be to supply Honduran troops -. HA ve YOU H€fcRD ? AC C€SSORI€S' 20% OH AT« OLD fH0W 11-5 30 1128 fclD€R *MCHS AMD WOMEN S VIMTAOC AMD COM TO* POM AMY SHOES HATS GLOVES SLITS SCAMVCS TIES PUSSES ends r u n