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Lawyer can’t see client
MANAGUA. Nicaragua
(AP)— Officials barred former
U.S. Attorney General Griffin
Beil from meeting Tuesday with
Eugene Hasenfus, his American
client who faces 30 years in
prison if convicted of terrorism
and public security violations.
Bell, who served in the Carter
administration, called the
rebuff a “moral outrage. You’ve
got a person - charged with
serious crimes who cannot talk
to his lawyer.”
Hasenfus. 45, of Marinette.
VV'is., was in a C-123 cargo
plane that was shot down on
Oct. 5 in southern Nicaragua as
it was ferrying military supplies
to the U.S.-backed Contra
rebels.
Hasenfus, a former Marine be
r
ing held in a prison just outside
Managua, faces trial before a
revolutionary tribunal that is
made up of a lawyer, a truck
driver and a laborer
National
Reductions proposed
WASHINGTON (AP) Presi
dent Reagan has approved a
package of proposals for sharp
reductions in U S. and Soviet
strategic nuclear weapons and
the withdrawal of intermediate
range nuclear missiles from
Europe, administration officials
said Tuesday.
The package puts on the
negotiating table in Geneva the
key proposals Reagan made to
Soviet leader Mikhail Gor
bachev at their summit in
Iceland earlier this month It in
cludes a ban on all U S. anti
CampbclI continued *r°m paKe 6
In discussing higher education priorities, one area that is
overlooked is the prohibitive cost of textbooks, Campbell
said.
‘‘As a parent with three sons presently at the University,
I ain concerned about the extreme cost of textbooks. Why
couldn't professors use the textbooks for three years instead
of changing so often? Textbooks are a major expense in a col
lege education,” he said.
Campbell would like to see a 50 percent recovery on the
cost of textbooks, he said. At present, students recover about
30 percent.
Soviet ballistic missiles by
1006. said the officials, who
were willing to discuss the sub
ject only on the condition they
not bo named publicly.
Record deficit amassed
WASHINGTON (AP)— The
federal government amassed a
record $220.7 billion deficit in
the fiscal year that ended Sept.
30 despite enactment of major
deficit-reduction legislation,
the Reagan administration
reported Tuesday.
The government took in
$700.1 billion in receipts and
paid out $080 H billion in ex
penditures. the Treasury
Onpartment and the White
House Office of Management
and budget said in a joint
report.
That produced an $8 8 billion
increase in federal red ink over
the previous record deficit of
$211.*) billion in fiscal year
1985.
Thorn havo now boon deficits
in 25 of the past 2t> years, runn
ing up a total accumulated na
tional debt of $2.2 trillion
Regional
Medical team returns
PORTlakNl) |Al*| - An eight
member medical team from
Oregon and Washington is bat k
from tending to victims of tin*
recent earthquake in K1
Salvador.
"1 worked on some ;to
surgeries in a throo-day
period," said nurse Marie Davis
of Dallas. Davis was one of the
group of specialists assembled
bv Northwest Medical Teams.
The Oct. tl earthquake left
about 50.0(H) people homeless
and caused more than $2 billion
in damages, Salvadoran
authorities said. Officials also
said the event caused 400
deaths.
The team worked at a hospital
about 50 miles from San
Salvador and in a clinic in a bar
rio inside the city. Davis said.
The medical team sent $2,000
worth of supplies immediately
after the earthquake and took
another 60 hoses of equipment
with them
Senator euologized
SALEM (AP)- Tha late state
Sen L.B. Day of Salem was
cuologi/.ed as a giant among
Oregon political figures at a
memorial service Tuesday that
attracted close to 1,000 people.
The 54-year-old Republican
lawmaker, near the end of a re
election campaign, died of a
heart attack Friday night while
at a political fund-raising din
ner in Salem
Rasmussen
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people out of work, wn will have our unemploy
ment going up. we will have inferior schools,” he
said.
A modest homestead exemption, funder! by in
creasing the efficiency of government and tying
the state tax code Into the federal tax code, would
take a lot of fire out of the property tax revolt, he
said.
This would be a more moderate change than
ballot measures It and 12. Rasmussen said.
These two measures would mean Oregonians
would pay higher income taxos in exchange for
property tax relief.
Rasmussen also opposes iialiot Measure 1.1,
"hich would require voters to register at least 20
days la-lore an election to la- eligible to vote, he
s«iid. I he measure would he unfair towards peo
ple who move frequently, usually low-income
adults or students.
Rasmussen's opponent, l.arry Campbell,
refuses to delude or to defend his past voting
record. .Rasmussen said. If elected, Rasmussen
will remain a part of the University community
and will stand on his record, he said
Rasmussen, who lives in {unction City, is the
ASUO’s Legal Services Director.
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