Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 52, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 November 1987 — Page 2

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THE BANNERGRAPHIC Novembers, 1987

Giant iceberg could supply water needs of L.A. for 675 years

WASHINGTON (AP) - An iceberg twice as big as Rhode Island has broken away from Antarctica and is drifting in the Ross Sea, the National Science Foundation reported. “The size of the iceberg in human terms is staggering. If you could somehow transport it to California and melt it, it would supply all the water needs of Los Angeles for the next 675 years,” Guy G. Guthridge of the foundation said Thursday. Icebergs often break away from the massive Antarctic ice shelf in the Ross Sea, where they are affected by weather and tidal forces. However, the new iceberg equals two to three times the normal amount of ice that breaks free in a year. Despite its size, the iceberg represents no threat to shipping in the region, the foundation said. The drifting iceberg is about 25 miles wide and 98 miles long, for an area of 2,450 square miles, the foundation said. Rhode Island, by comparison, has an area of about 1,200 square miles. The iceberg is estimated to be 750 feet thick.

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Despite its size, the floating block represents only three onehundredths of one percent of the total area of Antarctica. It broke from an ice shelf, a region of freshwater ice formed from snow. That ice has flowed, glacierlike, over time onto the sea surface from the Antarctic land mass. The floating ice near the coastline has many weak areas and large crevasses, scientists report. The movement of the iceberg was reported by scientists at McMurdo Station, about 450 miles away, and was confirmed by satellite photos, officials said. “The major significance this has for us, besides the historical aspects, is that it will alter all our maps of the continent,” said Terry R. Cooke, a Navy aerographer’s mate stationed at McMurdo Station. Unless the iceberg halts close by, its departure will alter the coastline to effectively eliminate the Bay of Whales as a geographic feature, scientists said.

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Won't withdraw Ginsburg's name, president assures

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan said today he will not withdraw the Supreme Court nomination of Douglas H. Ginsburg, who admitted he had smoked marijuana, and said his candidate will survive “if there’s any justice in Washington.” Reagan said, “He was not an addict... nothing of that kind.” On Capitol Hill, however, Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, DW.Va., said Ginsburg “should give very, very serious consideration” to withdrawing his nomination. Byrd said Ginsburg’s revelation was “one more drop, cumulative drop, on the stone,” referring to con-flict-of-interest allegations already raised. “I’m concerned about the image this presents to our young people. I know it must be very embarrassing to the Reagans in view of the campaign they have carried on against drugs.” Reagan, during a picture-taking session with Republican members of Congress at the White House, refused to back off Ginsburg’s nomination. The president said “I’m old enough to have seen that era in which his generation and generations earlier” had regarded drugs. “How many of us would like to have everything we did when we were younger put on the books.” Asked if Ginsburg should have “Just Said No,” the theme of Nancy Reagan’s anti-drug campaign, Reagan chuckled but did not answer. He said Ginsburg’s drug use was limited to “a few experimentations I’m sure there were a great many people who did that, at that particular period.” Contrary to Byrd’s assertion that it sends a negative message to young people, Reagan said, “I think it’s a helpful message.” He said, “I think the message it sends is that he regrets and shouldn’t have done it.” Asked if the nomination could survive, Reagan replied, “If there’s any justice in Washington he can.” He said that “converts (against drugs) are sometimes the most devoted.”

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Ginsburg, 41, revealed Thursday that he used the drug once in the 1960 s and on a few occasions in the 19705. adding, “It was a mistake and I regret it.” The statement followed National Public Radio’s request for his comment on NPR interviews in which a half-dozen people indicated Ginsburg used marijuana while teaching at Harvard Law School. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr., DDel., said earlier in the day that he hoped to begin confirmation hearings the week of Dec. 7 and finish well before the Senate adjourned for the year. A source close to Ginsburg, speaking on condition he not be named, said the nominee told senators he “didn’t buy it ( marijuana), didn’t sell it and used it just a few times.” But comments from conservative Republican senators made clear that only two weeks ’ after the embarrassing defeat of Supreme Court nominee Robert H Bork, the successor candidate was in trouble. “If it was known before he was nominated he would not have been nominated,” Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho, said of the drug revelation. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-lowa, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the admission might not make a difference in and of itself, “except that you like to think people who are appointed to the Supreme Court respect the law.” Grassley, asked if the disclosure would hurt Ginsburg among conservatives, said, “Yes, without a doubt.” Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt.. said “it’s been an embarrassment to a number of the conservative senators who were announcing their support of him minutes after he was nominated.” Attorney General Edwin Meese 111 also applauded Ginsburg, commenting. “As he states, his action, taken during his younger days, was a mistake. It certainly does not affect his qualifications to sit on the Supreme Court, and he should be confirmed expeditiously.”

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ALBERT GORE JR. Democrat hopeful

Mrs. Gore singing new tune nowadays

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Sen. Albert Gore Jr., a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, and his wife, Tipper, appeared privately before entertainment industry leaders in Los Angeles last week to discuss Mrs. Gore’s campaign against pornographic rock lyrics. The Gores said through a spokesman Thursday that the meeting was not political and that they did not retreat from their opposition to sexually explicit rock songs. Some other participants agreed, and one noted that Gore’s presidential candidacy was not mentioned. Another participant, however, said he thought the meeting was a politically motivated effort to “assuage concerns” of potential campaign donors in the entertainment industry. Democrats in the entertainment business have assisted favored candidates with both contributions and personal appearances. The meeting on Oct. 28 was closed to the press, but Daily Variety printed accounts of it Tuesday and participants reached today said the accounts were accurate. At the meeting, according to Variety, Mrs. Gore expressed regret about participating in a highly publicized 1985 Senate hearing on rock music. At the hearing, Mrs. Gore suggested that record companies should include warning labels to alert parents to the presence of suggestive lyrics. The pop singer John Denver and the rock singers Frank Zappa and Dee Snider also testified, asserting that efforts to control such lyrics approached the line separating criticism from censorship. Mrs. Gore, Variety said, called “the sesh ‘a mistake’” that ‘“sent

Panel calling for CIA, White House changes

WASHINGTON (AP) - The congressional Iran-Contra committees will recommend tighter controls on the CIA and changes at the White House in a report due out in two weeks, according to panel members. The recommendations for legislative action include more rigorous requirements for CIA notification to Congress on covert action plans and a restructured National Security Council staff to keep it under civilian control, lawmakers familiar with the 600page report said Thursday. Members of the House and Senate committees voted Thursday to approve the final report, with all but three Republicans voting against it and saying they would come out with their own dissenting version. Both versions are to be unveiled Nov. 17. Leaders of the two panels called

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the wrong message’ to the entertainment biz.” Reached Thursday night in Chattanooga, where she was campaigning for her husband, Mrs. Gore said she had stressed in Los Angeles that she opposed any kind of censorship. But she said she now feels that she inadvertently gave encouragement to advocates of censorship at the Senate hearing. “In hindsight, I think that’s true,” she said. According to Daily Variety. Senator Gore agreed with his wife, saying that the hearing “was not a good idea.” The campaign’s press secretary, Arlie Schardt, said the Gores did not‘meet with the entertainment figures to “to change their position or back down.” “Tipper knew she was not going to change the mind of anybody in the room but that it was better to have a dialogue,” Schardtsaid. Mickey Kantor, a Los Angeles lawyer active in the entertainment business who attended the meeting asserted Thursday that “the presidential campaign never came up.” He said Gore, a freshman senator from Tennessee, joined his wife at the last minute because he happened to be in Los Angeles. “Everyone was there for the continuing discussion about providing consumer information about record lyrics,” Kantor said. But Danny Goldberg, president of Gold Mountain Records and a longtime critic of Mrs. Gore’s. positions Senator Gore, “I think, he made a political calculation that a meeting could make a, cosmetic change in their per-, ceived position, because the entertainment business is important for both money and at-, tention.”

the majority-written document fair and balanced, tough in laying blame for the Iran-Contra affair at the feet of President Reagan and as thorough as could be achieved within time limits imposed on the committees. But GOP members were quick to brand the report biased, saying it was too harsh on Reagan and used critical rhetoric unsupported by evidence brought out during the summer’s public hearings on the secret sale of U.S. weapons to Iran and the diversion of proceeds to the Nicaraguan Contras. Rep. Jim Courier, R-N.J., quoted the report as saying Reagan’s “unabashed zeal for the Contras” set a climate at the White House that led staff members to circumvent normal controls in aiding the rebels. “It implies that the president was less than candid and less than honest - to Congress and the American; people.” Courier said. But a Republican who sided with the majority, Sen. Warren Rudman; of New Hampshire, said the report; was “tough but fair” and called; Courier’s criticism “prattle.”

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