Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 75, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 December 1983 — Page 2
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RITA LAVELLE 'Very disappointed'
Congressmen vow to re-enact vetoed El Salvador aid bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats say they will oppose further military aid to El Salvador, perhaps by a Senate filibuster, until they have re-enacted a bill vetoed by President Reagan that would tie assistance to progress on human rights. Sen. Charles H. Percy, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also criticized the veto Thursday and predicted that the measure would be revived in the session of Congress that starts Jan. 23. Percy stopped short of saying what position he would take on the bill in light of the veto, although he noted that he has supported it in the past and said he was disappointed at the president’s action. Most of the reaction to the veto, however, came from Democrats, who said it would
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Jury convicts ex-EPA official
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rita Lavelle, who insisted all along that she had told the truth and never tried to obstruct a congressional inquiry, says she is “very, very disappointed” that a jury believed otherwise. The former Environmental Protection Agency official was convicted Thursday night on four of five felony counts lodged against her. She will be sentenced Jan. 9 and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $19,000. After an eight-day trial, the federal court jury convicted Ms. Lavelle on all of the counts
encourage right-wing terror squads in the Central American country and cripple diplomatic efforts to bring about more humane treatment of dissidents. “I would presume that this is going to be perceived as a green light by those involved in the death squads and the security forces who support the death squads,” said Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the original author of the vetoed measure. Dodd said the administration was telling the Salvadoran regime, ‘lt doesn’t matter what you do. You can count on the U.S. for all the military aid that we can convince Congress it should support.” House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. called the veto a “tragic error” and said the human rights measure “will be at the top of the House leadership’s legislative priorities” when Congress reconvenes. Dodd said he would block any additional military aid for El Salvador using a filibuster if needed until the vetoed bill is
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alleging she lied about her dealings at the EPA with her former employer, AerojetGeneral Corp. She was found innocent on one count of lying when she denied playing politics with the $1.6 billion hazardous waste cleanup fund she managed. Ms. Lavelle, 36, remained composed while each guilty verdict was read but began crying after the jury had left and she was alone in the courtroom with her lawyers. “I am very, very disappointed,” she told reporters outside the courthouse. “Un-
law. He noted that with Congress in session another presidential veto would be subject to being overridden by a two-thirds vote. The bill passed both houses by unanimous vote this year. The vetoed measure, a reenactment of a bill first passed in 1981, would have required for military aid a semi-annual report by the president certifying that the Salvadoran regime was making progress on human rights and other reforms. Reagan has made four such reports and the next would have been due Jan. 16. El Salvador is slated to receive $64 million in military aid this year. Sen. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass. said he would not support any more military aid to help the Salvadoran government put down a guerrilla insurrection unless the aid is firmly tied to “real human rights progress.” Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, DMo., called the veto “a disgraceful blemish on our own traditions of human justice’.’
Not at odds over budget, he says
Feldstein won't quit unless asked
c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK - Martin S. Feldstein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, under heavy pressure at the White House to end his public campaign for higher taxes to reduce prospective budget deficits or resign, said Thursday, “If at any time the president wants me to leave, I would of course do so. ” His statement, made in a telephone interview in New York Thursday, indicated his refusal to accept the view of critics inside and outside the White House that he was in conflict with administration policy unless that judgment came from President Reagan himself. “People who are suggesting that I disagree with the administration’s budget and tax program are wrong,” Feldstein said. “I support the program and have always done so. I agree with the president and the budget program he proposed earlier this year, calling for sharp reductions in budget deficits by a combination of spending cuts and standby tax
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fortunately, that is about all I can say at this point.” Asked if she would appeal, her attorney, James Bierbower, said, “Who knows?” Defense attorneys had called Ms. Lavelle a “scapegoat.” Out of all the accusations of political favoritism and conflict of interest swirling around the agency earlier this year, she was the only EPA official to face criminal charges. The Justice Department investigated others but said it had found insufficient evidence to support prosecution of former EPA Administrator Anne Bur-
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Gemayel,U.S. still talking
WASHINGTON (AP) - Reagan administration officials, in a race to prevent Lebanon from plunging once again into chaos, say they need to show progress toward a troop withdrawal within a month. Going into today’s second round of meetings here with Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, officials said the two sides were trying to find “mechanisms” to make the May 17 Israeli-Lebanese troop withdrawal agreement work. Both President Reagan and Gemayel reaffirmed their support for the agreement at meeting here Thursday. Gemayel planned to meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz and other senior officials
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MARTIN FELDSTEIN Would obey president
increases. I intend to stay in Washington to help the president pursue his program. ’ ’ At that point, he added that he would leave if the president asked him to go. Feldstein said he was offended by the remarks Wednesday of Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, who took the unusual step of openly ridiculing Feldstein and suggesting that he was on his way out. The president’s chief
ford and seven other topranking EPA officials. Asked if Ms. Lavelle was a scapegoat, government prosecutor William Hendricks said, “not at all.” Asked if there might be other indictments, Hendricks said there would be “no further actions.” However, Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., one of a halfdozen congressional committee chairmen who led investigations into the agency, said the EPA case should not be closed. The four counts for which Ms.
today. U.S. and Lebanese negotiators avoided saying they were seeking to modify the agreement in order to make it more attractive to Syria, which has rejected it. Syria won’t withdraw, and Israel says it won’t pull out until the Syrians do. Israel also has said it won’t agree to change a word in the accord. One official said the administration is planning a series of diplomatic and political moves aimed at encouraging Syria to withdraw while also maintaining a sbong military posture by the multinational peacekeeping force and the Israeli occupation forces.
economic adviser appeared to hold the view that Speakes was talking for other members of the White House staff but not for the president. Asked at his Wednesday briefing whether Feldstein had been asked to resign by presidential aides, Speakes said, “I don’t really think they will ask him face to face.” Feldstein is evidently appealing to the president over the heads of the aides and means to go on with his campaign as a member of the administration only unless he is stopped at the highest level. Feldstein, in defending his position, is sticking strictly to Reagan’s fiscal year 1984 budget plan, proposed to Congress in January 1983, for reducing the deficits that may lie ahead through 1988. That plan was projected to bring down a deficit of $2lO billion in 1988 to SB2 billion. Assuming a 6.5 percent unemployment rate, that reduction would have shrunk the projected structural deficit to 1.6 percent of gross national product, which is considered a
Could stay 10 days in orbit
Space mission extension possible
SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Spacelab’s astronauts focused cameras on the heavens and Earth and ran through a mixed bag of experiments today while awaiting NASA’s decision on whether they will stay in orbit an extra day. The six orbiters were in agreement they’d like their journey extended from 9 to 10 days. That would bring the space shuttle Columbia and its Spacelab cargo back to a landing in California on Dec. 8. “That sounds good to me,” mission specialist Owen Garriott said. Mission Control told the crew Thursday that no decision on the extension would be made for a day or two until experts review the supplies on board and study weather forecasts for the new landing date. But “everything looks good” for
Lavelle was convicted involved the date she first learned that her former employer, Aerojet, had dumped wastes at the Stringfellow Acid Pits in California. The jury acquitted Ms. Lavelle on a charge connected to most of the accusations against her last winter that the national program to clean up hundreds of hazardous waste dumps had been placed on an “election track” with spending decisions based on helping Republican candidates and hurting others.
Another official told reporters at the White House that one aim of the conversations is to agree on “a series of steps” that the Lebanese government can undertake, with U.S. help, to build confidence and extend its authority in Lebanon, first in unoccupied territories and later in occupied territories. Both officials insisted on anonymity. The officials said Gemayel brought some ideas with him to Washington to discuss and that U.S. officials have ideas of their own. Gemayel is being encouraged to work more closely with the Israelis, who U.S. officials now believe can play a positive role in helping build a strong Lebanon.
reasonably safe level of deficit that would not put intense pressure on interest rates or inflation. The president’s proposals for cutting the budget deficits included further major reductions in non-military spending, small tax increases in 1984 and 1985 and a contingency tax plan for the years 1986 through 1988. Of the estimated 1988 revenue increase of s6l billion, some SSO billion would have come through the contingency plan, including a surtax of 5 percent on individual and corporate tax liabilities and a petroleum excise tax of $5 per barrel. Under the contingency plan, the tax increases would come into effect only if Congress accepted the president’s proposed nonmilitary spending cuts. While the White House appeared in recent months to have walked away from the deficitslimming tax plan, Feldstein has clung to it as a basis for his campaign to bring down the budget deficits. The president, he points out, has never withdrawn his support for the plan or the contingency tax increase.
another day in space, officials said. One factor will be a large number of Columbia maneuvers planned in the next two days as commander John Young and pilot Brewster Shaw twist and turn the shuttle to permit Spacelab’s four scientists to aim their instruments at Earth and outer space. These maneuvers burn fuel, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants to to be sure there is an adequate margin for an additional day. Round-the-clock experiments were continued today by mission specialists Garriott and Bob Parker and payload specialists Byron Lichtenberg and West German Ulf Merbold. Spacelab carries the largest and heaviest astronomy instruments ever taken into space, and the astronauts were using their unique platform
If you can't find Cabbage Patch Kids or Care Bears... c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Cabbage Patch Kids are not the only shortages Santa is reporting this year. There’s also a Care Bears crisis, a dearth of GI Joes, hardly any Hasbro s Gloworms and not enough Stomper cars to fill America s stockings. “There are nationwide shortages of some of the most popular items,” said Ann Brown, chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action Consumer Affairs Committee, which released the results of its 12th annual toy survey Thursday. Not surprisingly, Coleco’s Cabbage Patch Kids, a massproduced version of Georgian Xavier Roberts’ handsewn Little People, are on the top 10 list of best toys rated by the ADA committee. Good toys are defined by the committee as safe, durable and with good play value. While the ugly, huggable Cabbage Patch dolls don’t do anything, Brown said, they give the message “you don’t have to be beautiful to be loved. The dolls were rated Most Creative along with Tomy’s Lights Alive, a lap-sized toy that is a cross between Lite-Brite and Etch-A-Sketch. A child from three up can make designs on the screen by depressing it with six differently shaped tools. The committee primarily surveys the ‘hot’ new toys most heavily advertised on television. Heading the 10 ‘worst’ list this year toys that are dangerous, poorly-constructed and frustrating are Ideal’s Manglors, Kenner’s Baby Alive and Mattel’s Baby Skates. Baby Alive eats five different kinds of “real” doll cereal in flavors from Cheery Cherry to Yummy Banana. Then it makes “real” messes in its diapers. Manglor Mountain features a Manglor monster which emerges from a plastic volcano covered with gelatin-like goo. The two tied for Messiest Toy. Other worst toys are Ideal’s Happi Returns, a doll which emits a “gruesome, extremely irritating laugh,” said Brown, and Knickerbocker’s E.T. Finger Light, a piece of fleshcolored rubber that quickly uses up its irreplaceable battery. Happily, a number of toys on the ‘best’ list are still readily available. In addition to Lights Alive, these include Fisher Price’s Sky Talkers, sturdy walkie-talkers that really work, and Construx, a flexible building system. ...There's always 'boudoir photos' LOS ANGELES (AP) After a glass of wine, they may curl up on a velvet ottoman, soothed by soft music and clad in negligees or even less. They’re professional women with money to spend and this Christmas they’re spending it on “boudoir photos” for their men. “It’s not what you’d consider dirty in the ’Bos,” says portrait photographer Stuart Naideth. “The most risque one was of a very attractive lady who took off all her clothes, but it was more like a Playboy centerfold than anything else.” He says his customers mostly professional women from 30 to 45 are flocking to his studio in increasing numbers as Christmas approaches. On average, each pays S6OO for a series of soft-lighted, seductive shots, usually one large wall photo and several small prints. His soft-focus lens is adapted from the kind used for movie studio portraits of such classic stars as Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich. Negligees are provided by the house. So is the soft music and the wine that most customers accept before the photo session. Naideth and his wife Joan, who helps run the business, said that most of the women relax quickly. Then they recline on such props as a velvet ottoman, perhaps posed in front of an ornate mirror on a wall with flocked paper or an Oriental screen. Naideth, 32, was shooting mostly weddings when, four years ago, a woman walked into his studio in the Orange County community of Costa Mesa and proposed to shed most of her clothes for a portrait to be given to her husband. “Then I spent a day or two with a guy up in Las Vegas who’d been shooting similar things,” he said. Word of mouth produced a steady stream of women seeking what he calls “boudoir photos.” Business really soared six months ago when he began to advertise in an Orange County magazine and newspapers. Since then, he says, four or five women a week pay the $75 fee for a session, plus the cost of prints and other extras. “Our makeup artists will do a glamour makeover on them, and that costs $35,” Naideth says. “It’s something that almost everybody will be flattered with. “We make them look good. Almost all of them leave feeling great about themselves. ’ ’
above the obscuring veil of Earth’s atmosphere to observe the sun, stars and mysterious energy and radio sources such as quasars and pulsars. Sophisticated telescopes and cameras were gathering information about vast regions of the sky not observable from Earth, recording stars of differing brightnesses, solar activity and radiation as scientists seek more knowledge about the universe. Early targets were Cygnus, a star, and a cluster of galaxies. With Spacelab’s window pointing toward Earth, a camera capable of capturing amazing detail was directed at large areas of the globe. It can show details as small as 32 feet as the shuttle passes 155 miles overhead. The first pictures were taken late Thursday over western China. In the next week the
camera will be focused on parts of Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas to determine whether it can be used to draw maps for the 70 percent of the world that is not adequately charted. Merbold, a metals expert, concentrated on Spacelab’s furnaces, melting and mixing materials under extreme heat in tests aimed at producing in weightlessness exotic alloys, plastics and composites that can’t be formed in Earth’s gravity. Thirty of the 73 experiments on the research facility involve processing that could lead to commercial manufacturing in orbit. A computer conked out early today, threatening to ruin three of the materials experiments. But ground experts figured out what was wrong and radioed corrective instructions. “It’s working," Merbold reported after a few minutes.