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World beat International Barbie complains LYON, France (AP) — Former local Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie said Tuesday his trial on charges of crimes against humanity gives the impression he "acted like a madman" and ran around Lyon hunting lews. Barbie, an SS lieutenant in Lyon from 1942-44, listened without apparent emotion as two court clerks read descriptions of his purported crimes against lews and Resistance workers during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. "I had the impression after all those charges that I ran around Lyon with a rifle in my hand and hunted )ews." the 73-year old Barbie told the court. "When I heard all those accusa tions against me today and yesterday I felt like It was a revival of the Nuremberg trial." Soviet voices concerns MOSCOW (AP) Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennady Gerasimov said Tuesday the kremlin has five points of con cern about a new U.S. draft trea ty to reduce strategic weapons by 50 percent. He said the pro posal submitted by U.S. negotiators in Geneva on Friday "indeed reflects the Reykjavik accords in the context of reduc tion of strategic arms by 50 percent." Hut Gerasimov said other elements of the U.S. proposal are cause for concern, lie said the Soviet concerns were with a U.S. offer to make the cuts over seven years, the provision for sublimits on various types of missiles, lack of reference to long-range cruise missiles, failure to aim for total elimina tion of strategic weapons, and no commitment to ban weapons from space. National McFarlane admits fault WASHINGTON (AP) - Former National Security Ad viser Robert C. McFarlane. con ceding memory lapses and "some tortured language," said Tuesday that if anyone is at fault for misleading Congress about the Iran-Contra affair. "1 am." McFarlane. testifying under oath for the second full day at the House-Senate hear ings, was asked in various ways whether them had been a cover up after the outlines of the affair became public last Nov. 25. In a typical response. McFarlane answered u question from John Nields, counsel for the House committee, about whether he attended a meeting about foreign contributions to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, saying: "I am willing to accept that (1 was there) because I am told I should be as supplicatory as I can.... I can conceive that 1 might hava been a party to it but I doubt it ” House cuts SDI budget WASHINGTON (API - Thu House on Tuesday cul deeply into President Reagan's “Star Wars’’ budget request and re jected early deployment of the system, while Reagan criticized the chamber for approving nuclear arms control restric tions and threatened to veto the Pentagon bill to which they art? attached. After a series of voles, the Democratic-control led House approved $3.1 billion for the Strategic Defense Initative. The president had sought $5.8 billion for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. which would been have a large increase over the current $3.6 billion SDI budget. After setting the budget, the chainlter voted 301-122 to reject a proposal by Rep. Jack Kemp. R-N.Y.. pro posing that Reagan be ordered to develop a rudimentary SDI system by 1903. Honduras to get jets WASHINGTON (Al») - The Reagan administration, saying it is necessary to maintain the military balance in Central America, announced plans Tuesday to provide Honduras with 10 F-5E fighter planes over the next two years. The Nicaraguan Embassy said the decision will shift the power balance in the region in favor of Honduras and also will thwart efforts to reach a Central American peace settlement. Both the White House and the State Department denied that the transaction represents an escalation in the Central American conflict. They noted that the F-5Es will replace - and not supplement — Hon duras’ existing fleet of jet fighters. Presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the French Mystere Jet fighters currently used by Hon duras date back to the 1950s. Gene discovered CHICAGO ( A P ) - Remarkable physical similarities in a man and his nephew who both have schizophrenia have led resear chers to the approximate loca tion of one or more genes that could cause the disease, a researcher said Tuesday. The discovery of such a gene could be a major step toward better understanding and treat ment of schizophrenia, which afflicts an estimated 1.5 million Americans, researchers said The man and his nephew shared an extra copy of a seg ment of chromosome 5, one of the 2:t pairs of chromosomes that carry hereditary informa tion in humans. Regional Boy sentenced to life VANCOUVER (A I*) - A jury decided Tuesday to sentence 1«»-year-old Sean Stevenson to life in prison without parole for the triple slaying of his family on New Year's Day. Skamania County Prosecutor Robert Leick told the jury he was wrong in originally seeking the death penalty for the youth. Leick said hi* changed his mind after speaking with psychologists who indicated Stevenson suffered from severe emotional problems. Stevenson was convicted Thursday of one count of aggravated first-degree murder in the rape and slaying of his sister, Amy Stevenson, and first-degree murder in the death of his mother. Margaret tiutler. and stepfather. James Butler. The killings occurred New Year's Day in the tiny Col umbia River town of Skamania Committee endorses bill SALEM (Al’| An Oregon Senate committee endorsed a bill Tuesday that would require certain employers to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid parental leave to their workers The House earlier approved a ver sion of the hill that would apply only to new mothers or to fathers whose wives die or are incapacitated by the birth. Hut before sending the bill to the full Senate, the Senate 1 -abor Committee amended it to allow both women and men to request the 12 weeks of leave. One parent could claim the entire leave or the two could decide to split the period into parts totall ing 12 weeks, said Sen. Cruttan Kerens. IVKugene. who is a member of the committee. The labor panel raised the number of workers from 15 to 25 that a company would have to employ before it would fall under the proposed regulations. Panel approves increase SALEM (Al’| - A 65 percent increase in the general fund budget for Gov, Neil Goldschmidt's office to $5.2 million was approved Tuesday by a legislative budget panel. A joint Ways and Means subcom mittee endorsed the $2.t million increase that would add 10 staff jobs, increasing the governor’s staff to the equivalent of 59 full-time positions. The plan now will be taken up by the full committee. Among the suggested staff posi tions are a new executive assis tant for education and two education aides. Goldschmidt has said he needs the positions to exert more influence over higher education budgeting Officer cited for DUII JACKSONVILLE |AI'| - A Ja< ksonville police officer was cited on a charge of driving under the influence of intox icants after he lost control of his pickup truck and hit a tree, Jackson County deputies said. Richard 1. 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