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Congress quits for 'B4 as Baker retires

WASHINGTON (AP) Congress has quit for the year, but before the final gavel could fall, more than a dozen senators interrupted their plans to fly back to the nation’s capital so they could vote to restore the government’s borrowing authority. The House and Senate adjourned Friday until next January after the Senate voted 37-30 to pass an emergency bill on federal authority to borrow money. That bill had been rejected late the night before, 46 to 14, in a vote that caught Senate GOP leaders by surprise, with many members already gone for the long adjournment recess. Democrats stayed behind to deliver a solid bloc of votes against the debt-limit increase. Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. summoned Republican colleagues back, and took another vote Friday afternoon,

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allowing the bill, which raises the nation’s debt limit by $231 billion, to go to President Reagan. “There will be no more votes today, there will be no more votes in this session, there will be no more votes in my career,” Baker declared. The Tennessee Republican, retiring after 18 years, the last four of them as majority leader, won a standing ovation from colleagues as the 98th Congress came to a formal close. The debt-limit bill was one that congressional leaders said had to be passed before Congress could quit for the year. Reagan was prepared to call Congress back into session next week if lawmakers recessed without passing the measure, GOP leaders said. The controversy represented the latest in a string of stalemates on federal spending and borrowing that plagued the elec-

Weinberger urges additions

STRESA, Italy (AP) American assertions that the Soviet Union has aimed more nuclear missiles at Western Europe increases pressure on the Dutch government to install the U.S.-made rockets strongly opposed by many Dutch citizens. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said Friday at the close of a two-day NATO nuclear strategy meeting in this resort village in the Italian Alps that the Soviets have added to their contingent of SS-20 medium-range missiles capable of striking most of Western Europe. He declined to say how many more SS20s have been built or to pinpoint their location, but stressed that U.S. intelligence

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'Fear/ 'shame'join political ranks

WASHINGTON (AP) After denouncing Walter F. Mondale in strong terms on an eight-hour train trip through Ohio, President Reagan is spending a relaxing weekend at Camp David until he sets out on the campaign trail again Monday. On the tour through 200 miles of Ohio countryside Friday, the president used U.S. Car One, the same armored car used by President Truman 36 years ago as he barnstormed the nation attacking Republicans. “Franklin Roosevelt warned us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” Reagan declared. “Well, sadly and tragically, the only thing my opponent has to offer is fear itself.” Meanwhile, Mondale demanded that Reagan running mate George Bush apologize immediately for saying the Democratic ticket had suggested that Marines “died in shame” in Lebanon. “That’s unpardonable,” Mondale said of the vice president’s statement in his nationally broadcast debate Thursday night with Mondale’s running mate, Geraldine A. Ferraro. In the debate, Bush said, “For somebody to suggest, as our opponents have, that these young men died in shame, they had

Four dead, six injured

L. A. party sprayed with bullets

LOS ANGELES (AP) Four people were killed and six others injured when an argument between teen-agers leaving a party and occupants of two cars ended with shots being fired from one or both cars, authorities said today. The gunfire erupted Friday night as partiers milled in the front yard of the house in a low-income area of south-central Los Angeles, city Fire Department spokesman Ed Reed said. Two cars pulled up, the cars’ occupants began arguing with the revelers, and then shotgun and pistol bullets were fired from one or both of the cars, said Reed. “Words were exchanged,” Reed said. “The mother of the house tried to get the

tion-year Congress. Congress is regularly asked to raise the debt ceiling, but it is a vote few members relish, particularly in a time of such high federal deficits. Democrats, blaming current deficits on Reagan, said they opposed the measure to force Senate Republicans to take responsibility for the action. Most returning members hastily made commercial plane reservations to get back to Washington to vote, but the Air Force sent three planes to bring back four Republican senators John Tower of Texas, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Jeremiah Denton of Alabama and Charles Percy of Illinois. However, Percy, locked in a tight reelection battle, stayed in Chicago when it appeared that Baker had the support needed to pass the debt-limit extension

data showed the missiles were “ready and able to be fired.” In Moscow, a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, Vladimir Lomeiko, denied Weinberger’s statement and said it was made to pressure Washington’s European allies. American diplomatic sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said the additional Soviet missiles are not yet at the bases being built to store them. As a result, they said, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was not yet officially counting these missiles as part of the Soviet arsenal. Weinberger said NATO would update its

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better not tell the parents of these young Marines.” Ms. Ferraro denied Bush’s charge. Mondale did the same and issued this challenge to Bush: “Apologize and do it today. Mr. Bush, if you don’t apologize, in my debate with the president on the 21st, I am going to bring it up and demand that he take responsibility.” Bush refused. Reagan accused Mondale of purposely misrepresenting his position on Social Security and of doing a good job of “slipping, sliding and ducking away from his record.” The president said Mondale’s philosophy could be summed up in four sentences: “If

people back inside. It started to get hot and heavy” and then the occupants of the cars began shooting. Someone in one of the cars shouted a gang slogan before the shooting began, said police Sgt. Bert Crosbie, who said four people were killed by the gunfire. “Usually they shout a slogan and the name of their gang, but we don’t know yet just what was shouted,” Crosbie said. The gunfire, “was enough to put 10 people down, so it was very close (range) or it was a number of shots,” Crosbie said. At California Hospital, one girl was in critical condition with a gunshot wound in the head, nursing supervisor Marlene Delp said this morning.

without him. As it quit for the year, the 98th Congress left behind a number of major controversial items, some of which are sure to crop up again in the new Congress which convenes Jan. 3. These included a major immigration law revision, civil rights legislation and a bill to repair many of the nation’s deteriorating bridges and highways. Also put off until next year were decisions on whether to continue U.S. military aid to anti-government forces in Nicaragua, as the Reagan adminstration wants, and a decision on whether to authorize production of additional MX missiles. Other Reagan-backed measures that died this year included proposed constitutional amendments to permit prayer in public schools and to balance the budget,

January 1984 estimate of 378 SS-20s in the Soviet Union “shortly.” He declined to be more specific. The U.S. diplomatic sources said the first of about 11 new Soviet missile bases are expected to be completed by the end of this year. Job de Ruiter, the Dutch defense minister, said Friday that Weinberger’s assertion had no immediate effect on his government since NATO’s official count of SS-20s has not changed. But Weinberger’s statement clearly was intended to underscore the American contentions that the Soviets pose a growing threat to Western security, and NATO

Virginia electrocutes man convicted of 7 murders

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Linwood Briley, whose seven-murder “reign of terror” included smashing a woman’s skull with a baseball bat, went to his death in the electric chair shaking but calm and still proclaiming his innocence. Briley, leader of the nation’s largest escape from death row, was executed Friday night, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to issue a stay. “He said he was innocent, he was not guilty,” Corrections Director Robert Landon said just minutes after Briley was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m. Briley’s execution for the 1979 murder and robbery of a Richmond disc jockey came after a plea for clemency went unheeded by Gov. Charles S. Robb, who was in his Capitol office with an open phone line to the State Penitentiary a mile away.

it’s income, tax it. If it’s revenue, spend it. If it’s a budget, break it. And if it’s a promise, make it.” Reagan drew laughs when he said he hadbeen tempted in his debate with the Democratic candidate to tell him: “Mr. Mondale, you’re taxing my patience. “And then I caught myself why should I give him another idea?” Reagan said in speeches in the Ohio communities of Sidney, Lima, Ottwaw, Deshler and Perrysburg. “That’s the only tax he hasn’t thought of,” Reagan added. On Friday, Bush said of his performance in the debate with Ms. Ferraro, “We tried to kick a little ass last night.” He

The bodies of the four dead youths lay on the sidewalk under white sheets as dozens of police cordoned off the area. Weeping people wandered the shotgun shell-littered street as a police helicopter hovered overhead, shining a spotlight on bystanders and ordering them back into their homes. “There’s been in the past a couple of killings here and there, but nothing as serious as this before,” said neighborhood resident Carmen Ramos, 23. Many of the neighborhood youths are gang-members, she said. Another neighbor, Esperanza Trejo, 34, said the area has a “real drug problem” and is a frequent site of rowdy parties.

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must stick to its decision to deploy 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles. The governments of the 13 NATO nations agreed in 1979 to begin deploying the American-built missiles in Western Europe by the end of last year to counter the increased threat from the Soviet SS-20 rockets. In addition to the Netherlands, the missiles are slated for West Germany, Britain, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands. Thousands of Dutch marched in peaceful protest in July 1983 when the Woensdrecht air force base was picked as the site for the 48 new American missiles.

Briley “made it a little easier for everybody by being exceedingly brave,” said his attorney, Deborah Wyatt, who reluctantly witnessed the execution as “a lawyer’s obligation.” Two chaplains accompanied Briley to the death chamber at 11 p.m., read to him the 23rd Psalm beginning “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want,” and stayed with him until the execution was complete. “He had his eyes closed and he was shaking when he came in,” said B. Randloph Wellford, a Richmond lawyer who was one of the eight volunteer citizen witnesses. “He was very unsteady on his feet and he was shaking quite a bit.” Briley, 30, spent three weeks at large after leading five other condemned prisoners including his brother James out of the Mecklenburg Correctional Center on May 31.

laughingly acknowledged later that he had made the remark in a private conversation with a longshoremen’s union official. He said he would not apologize. As he left the docks, he whispered a locker-room vulgarity to a union official When he realized a microphone was picking up his words, he exclaimed, “Whoops! Oh God, he heard me!” “Turn that thing off,” he ordered the crew from WNEW-TV in New York. The remark was broadcast by WNEW later At a news conference in Birmingham, Bush defended his choice of words as “an old Texas football expression” that he had not intended to be heard publicly, and described it as a way of asserting victory. He declined to apologize to Ms. Ferraro for his remark or for the characterization of her as “too bitchy” earlier in the week by his press secretary, Peter Teeley. “She would understand this,” the vice president said of his own words. “She’s a good competitor.” On Monday, while bantering with reporters, Bush’s wife, Barbara, characterized Ms. Ferraro as a “four million dollar I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.” Mrs. Bush later apologized.

Mr. Whipple would be proud of him c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service ANN ARBOR, Mich. The world is full of cause-pushers. They are obsessed. They want to dismantle nuclear weapons, or save the whales, or ban Astroturf from major-league ballparks. William Jarrett’s cause is simpler. He thinks all Americans should hang their toilet paper the same way. Jarrett is organizing a national referendum to decide whether it’s better to hang toilet paper so the loose end dangles away from the wall or next to the wall. “There has always been this debate about how to hang toilet paper,” says Jarrett. “I know of one man who’s so fanatic that when he goes into someone’s house and doesn’t like the way it’s hung, he’ll change it.” It’s a tough issue. Comedians joke about it all the time. Archie Bunker once yelled at Edith for hanging the roll the “wrong” way. Ann Landers recently wrote about the subject, and her mailbox was stuffed with opinions for months. Jarrett, 59, a freelance commercial artist from Grand Rapids, Mich., sees himself as a diplomat the Henry Kissinger of toilet paper. “Wouldn’t it be something if the whole nation would hang toilet paper the same way?” says Jarrett. “It would give the country some unity.” Jarrett hopes to make some money from the referendum. To participate in the “debate,” he asks people to send him $2 and a slip of paper with their preference written on it. In return, they’ll get a pin with a moving TP roll, a certificate of participation and a toilet paper fact booklet. The booklet informs us that, among other things, the Chinese probably invented toilet paper centuries ago. Modern toilet paper reportedly was developed in 1857 in New York by Joseph Gayetty, who sold it in England for 30 years before it caught on big here. (Jarrett wants Congress to establish a “Joseph Gayetty Day.”). Even if Jarrett succeeds in establishing a national hanging standard, it would still be entirely symbolic. “There’s no way you can enforce it,” he concedes. “Those who want to be patriotic, why, they can change the way thpy hang their toilet paper (to conform).” And Jarrett believes people would be less uptight if there were a national ruling on the proper storage of toilet paper in the bathroom. Shrinks would probably lose business. “It would take away some of the frustration we have now, from not knowing if we hang the toilet paper the right way.”. Someday Jarrett would like to write the definitive book on toilet paper. Because he admires the beauty of toilet paper strung through the branches of skeletal trees, he says he’d probably include a section on the proper way to do a “TP,” the classic prank. He’s already interviewed some young practitioners of the art. “It’s best when the tree’s a little bit damp,” says Jarrett. “It’s best when the toilet paper sticks to the tree a little bit.” Those interested in joining the referendum should send $2 to the Great American Toilet Paper Debate, Box 7152-A, Grand Rapids, Mich. 49501. Jarrett refuses to say how he voted. I “That’s my little secret,” he says.