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Page 2 ? February 6, 1985 Dateline THE GAMECOCK
Senate Judici
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON ? The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee, on a 12-6 vote, approved the nomination of Edwii
Meese 111 to be attorney general today and sent it
recommendation to the lull Senate.
"Not only is Mr. Meese qualified to be attorne;
general, but he is a man of honesty, competency an<
dedication," said committee Chariman Strom Thur
mond, R-S.C., moments before the roll call 01
Mcese's nomination.
Meesc's nomination was approved largely alon;
party lines with all 10 of the panel's Republican
voting for him and all but two of its Democrats votin
against.
"THE DEGREE of Mr. Meese's commitment t
fair and impartial enforcement of laws is in question,'
Ice rests on a branch yesterday morning
on campus. Students awoke to
find that the temperature had sunk
below freezing, causing minor icing
problems in the Columbia area. ^ME..
However, temperatures quickly rose
above freezing as the morning woro flbyjjpfl
on and prevented Columbia from hav- RpTO1*;
ing the same weather problems other
parts of the Deep South have been experiencing.
And the weather won't get
any better. Hain will continue to hit
the Midlands today with highs in the
mid 40s. Tonight, the rain will begin
to taper off with lows in the upper
JOE RICKER / The Gamecock | J ' Deep
freeze contim
By Associated Press
A rippling wave of storms dumped snow
today from Arizona to the Ohio Valley
while a huge chunk of the nation remained
locked in an arctic icebox that sent the mercury
skidding below zero from the Rockies
to the Appalachians.
At least 41 deaths have been blamed on
the latest cold snap.
Bitter colu and ice-slicked roads kept
schools and businesses closed today in
Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia and
Louisiana, officials said.
Snt^y was falling today from Arizona
and Vhh to the Ohio Valley in w^t fete
, Reynolds of the National Severe Storms
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$600 toilet seats bowl sen
Government flusl
By Associated Press THE PRIIV
WASHINGTON ? The lid has the plane, th
been lifted off another expensive said it charj
parts purchase by the Pentagon, $640.09 each
which has acknowledged paying the company
more than $600 for a plastic and ed that the co
fiberglass cover for toilets on its each. The cc
P-1 Qiihmarinf-hunfina airnlani*<; Navv that it h
One senator said the discovery the differe
"gives new meaning to the word $4,606.74, L
'throne.'" Jim Ragsdale
The Pentagon, acknowledging But a Defi
the purchases on Monday, said it ficial, who s]
wasn't sure how much the covers tion of anon
should cost, "but we obviously tagon ha<
feel this is too much," spokesman Lockheed's r
William Caldwell said. what they'v
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Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-mass., said before castinj
his vote against Meese. "Mr. meese is associated wit I
i this administration's policies that undermine the prin
s ciples of fairness and justice and with an administra
tion which has hung out a sign saying 'white met
y only.'"
j Democrats voting for Meese were I lowell Hefling o
Alabama and Denniz DeConcini of Arizona.
ii "Mr. Meese has been through a great ordeal, but h<
has not responded to the committee as I would hav<
u liked him to. nor has he been as forthcoming as
s would have liked him to have been," DeConeini said
g The Arizona senator said a report of an independen
ethics council which found no illegalities but question
cd some of Meese's conduct and said the report wa
o akin to a medical report saying "you have some wart
" and some skin cancer but nothing terminal."
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ues to assault the Unit
waves of storms" that swept out of the the uppei
Northwest from Canada. the north
Flagstaff, Ariz., has 28 inches of snow The w
on the ground after 7 inches fell Sunday, early toe
Reynolds said. Up to 3 inches of snow was across IV
likely today across parts of Kansas, North D
Missourit, Oklahoma and Nebraska. ck, N.D
"It's really going to be quite a shattered
widespread snow from northern Utah nciow. it
across the Plains to the Ohio Valley," lie zero in I
said. Mo., an
In Huntsvillc, Ala., ice and sTftnv broke N.J.
power lines serving 60,0(X) homes Friday, Recon
and 5,000 to 7,(XX) were still without elcc- Illinois,
tricity Sunday, utiles reported. Arl^sa
Bitter cold chilled much of the North ing. M
early today, with sub-zero readings across 'brcutffttf
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ators over
hes out more exorbiti
IARY contractor of haven't determined they're offe
e Lockheed Corp., ing enough."
jed an average of Questions about expensive toil
for the covers. But seats on the P-3 were raised durir
says it has determin- a Senate Armed Services Commi
rrect price is $554.78 tee hearing by Sen. William !
>mpany notified the Cohen, R-Maine, who said tl
as prepared to refund pricetag "gives new meaning to tl
nee, a total of word, 'throne.'"
ockheed spokesman
said. In a statement Monday, the Pe
jnse Department of- tagon said the senator was wroi
poke only on condi- in referring to a "toilet seat." Tl
ymity, said the Pen- statement said, however, Coh
J not accepted was probably referring to '
efund offer. "That's lavatory cover which we ha
e offered, but we recently learned has been priced
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i THE PRESIDENTIAL counselor was first
1 nominated as the nation's 75th attorney general in
January 1984, but since then has been through two
rounds of committee appearances ? last March and
i last week.
There also was a six-month investigation by inf
dependent counsel Jacob A. Stein, who found no basis
to prosecutc Meese but left decisions about his ethical
c conduct to the Senate.
e Meese was questioned extensively at the hearing
I about his role in approving federal jobs for his financial
benefactors; his promotion to colonel in the Army 1
t Reserve; and his acceptance of a S 10,000 payment I
from a presidential transition organization. 1
s The nominee said he did nothing wrong, but promiss
ed to be more careful in the future about creating appearances
of conflict of interest. ]
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instrument appr
weather, killing all
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On \t QtPQ Rebels in the h
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weapons and conv<
r Ohio and Mississippi valleys and reconciliation a
icrn Appalachians. The pope visit<
eather service reported readings controlled city of
iay in the 20 below zero range thplace of the Lei
fontana, northern Colorado and known as the Sli
akota. It was 25 below in Bismar- Sunday and plead<
and an 86-year-old record was
I in Boise, Idaho, where it was 10 Annnumnnc
was 4 below in Columbus, Ohio, AnOnymOUS
Pittsburgh, 4 above in Columbia,
d a record-setting 8 in Neward, ATHENS, G
anonymous callei
Is were tied or broken Sunday in United States for
Ohio, Colorado, Michigan, cupation of Cyni
s, Indiana, Kentucky and ^Pom- group planted a 1
eanwhile Miami had ai record-..., ,, ed t/ivewi .Lhafcinj
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ant costs ,he Amcricans wc
Reagan ask:
r- more than $600 by the contractor,
^ L ockheed Corp." WASHINGTOl
ig "AS SOON as the high cost of Reagan yesterday
t- this item was brought to our atten- to exhibit politic
S. tion, we issued a stop order to pre- adopt a low-grow
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ic vent lurtner purcnases ana ouugei ior nexi
ic directed that the item go out for freeze, trim or eli
competitive bid," the Pentagon familiar domestic
added. At the same tii
n- The Defense Department has Reagan portrayed
:ig been under fire for expensive parts fai, to meet his c
he purchases, prompted by stories , h . j the f
en about such things as a $7,600 cof- L g
la feemaker for the C:5 transport and 7*
ve a plastic cap for an airplane stool The budget |
at 'listed at more than SI ,000. . billion increase in
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IN ADDITION to Thurmond, DeConcini and
Heflin, Republican senators voting for Meese were
Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland, Paul Laxalt of
Nevada, Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, Majority Keader
Robert Dole of Kansas, Assistant Majority Leader
Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, John P. East of North
Carolina, Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, Arlen :
Specter of Pennsylvania and charles Grassley of Iowa.
Mathias is in the Soviet Union and voted by proxy.
Democrats voting against the Meese nomination
,vere Joseph Biden of Delaware, Edward Kennedy of
Vlassachusetts, Robert Byrd of West Virginia,
Howard M. Metzenbaum of Ohio, Patrick Leahy of
Vermont and Max Baucus of Montana.
Leahy was absent from the hearing and voted by
Proxy.
d today
n Alaska airplane crash
laska ? A com- the Kenai Peninsula, according to
hed into a thick Paul Steuke, Federal Aviation Adsintegrated
and ministration public affairs officer
vhile making an for Alaska.
oach in bad
nine people on Flight 1809 carried seven
said. passengers and two crew members
on a flight from Anchorage, about
ne Beechcraft 60 miles to the Northeast, accor>wn
at 8:20 p.m. ding to James Michelangelo,
ic mile east of Alaska director for the National
onal Airport on Transportation Safety Board.
rebels to lay down weapon: j
Peru ? Pope fighting in the Andes Mountain m\
s urged Leftist region that has claimed 4,000 dead pj
eart of Peru's in four years.
o lay down their The army, buttressed by 5,000
ert "to the cause extra soldiers, banned the wearing ?
nd peace." of ponchosor mats, used by people [ j
;d the military- in the region to ward off the moun- H
Ayacucho, bir- tain cold. Security authorities j i
ftist rebel group claimed terrorists might try to pj
lining Path, on smuggle arms and explosives under H
ed for an end to their garments or mats. F j]
caller takes bombing blame I
reece ? An bomb exploded Satureday night, Hr]
r, blaming the were airlifted Sunday to a U.S. pJ
the Turkish cc- base in West Germany for treat- Hj
^s, claimed his ment, and Greek officials I:
Imb in a crowd- said. rH
i>U?<i:1!6-p<9n>Wi 6r?*k.noiitt aold acrcn Oiccks.
xicans, and said a West^terman and an Ethiopian Wtitep
up attacks also werelrcported injured when a p j
"powerful time bomb" went off H
red U.S. ser- under one of the tables at Bobby's,
endents, among a bar in the seaside Athens suburb E;J
)unded when the of Glyfada. H
s Congress to show courage | j
N ? President ? guaranteed to provoke congres- 5
asked Congress sional criticism ? while chopping j
:al courage" and domestic spending by nearly $40 fl
th $973.7 billion billion. jH
year that would It recommended sharp reduc- j
iminate scores of tions in mass transit, housing and I
programs. student aid; an end to the revenue- 9
me, the program snaring program tnai turns ieaerai
I as austere would lax dollars back to stte and local
iwn earlier target governments without strings; terederal
deficit by mination of the federal subsidy of
the Amtrak rail-passenger system,
proposes a $30 and a 5 percent pay cut for all
defense spending federal civilian workers.
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