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Show I I M .. National Wednesday, September 26. 1)9) The Daily Herald, Prove. I'tah House nears compromise on obsenify arts measure - near WASHINGTON (AP) Allies have new aues Wt. 91 S efore they'll commit ai i WASHINGTON House Walking and talking President Bush walks with Defense Secretary Dick Che- ney Tuesday in the White House Rose Garden where the two spent more than 10 ing. The Senate bill would require the NEA to recoup grant money from artists who are convicted of using federal funds to produce works that violate obscenity laws. The guilty artists would be barred from receiving further NEA grants for at least three years. Lawmakers readied no fewer than two dozen amendments, most of them seeking to prohibit NEA support for works that might be considered obscene or sacrilegious. One proposal would abolish the arts endowment altogether. curbs imStrict on the last fall at endowment posed the urging of Sen. Jesse Helms, also will lapse next week' when the current fiscal year ends, unless Congress renews them in some form. ty In a related development, the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday rebuffed an attempt by its chairman, Rep. Jamie Whitten, to recommend forbidding the NEA to finance "any indecent, or obscene picture, play or writing." anti-religio- mi AP Lascrphoto Re- ar )l .!. .1 sources Committee approved last week with strong bipartisan back- On Thursday, the House tentatively plans to begin what promises to be a bruising floor battle over a extension of the proposed five-yearts endowment, whose statutory authority expires Sunday. allies fund-raisin- agreement on legislation to extend the life of the National Endowment for the Arts and let the courts decide whether its grant recipients have violated obscenity laws. "I think we're going to get a deal," said Rep. Pat Williams, a central figure in House bargaining over the fate of the embattled federal arts agency. In an interview Tuesday, Williams predicted that lengthy talks with Rep. E. Thomas Coleman, will yield a compromise on the "obscene art" issue that will attract the support of a solid majority of House members. He said the compromise is likely to be patterned after a formula the Senate Labor and Human - (AP) Ameri- raised new questions today concerning a can are reported negotiators A:, minutes in discussion. Bush had just ended a meeting with Turkish President Tur- gut Ozal when the two got together. De Klerk says S. Africa will be sharing power - WASHINGTON (AP) South African President F. W. de Klerk says the new system he envisions for his country will ensure that no black or white racial group will ever be able to achieve political domination again. Speaking to reporters hours ending his official visit Tuesday, de Klerk ruled out a "winner-take-all- " electoral approach in which broad powers are granted to one person. Never again, he said, should there be a situation in which a powerful executive, regardless of color, is "in a strong position to suppress" South Africans of different races. De Klerk said he foresees a new system in which there will be a sharing of power within the executive branch, thus guarding against any concentration of authority. visit, the During his three-da- y first by a South African head of state since 1945, de Klerk relentlessly sought to convince doubters be-fo- ie in the United States that his counis embarking on a new era of try democracy and racial equality. "I want to say here today that the time has come to realize that apartheid is really something of the past," he said at a National Press Club luncheon. As proof, he said more than 100 discriminatory laws and regulations have been removed from the statute books. He promised that the remaining impediments will be erased by the time a new constitution takes effect. De Klerk also said he was determined to avoid the chaos that has prevailed in many other African countries in the era. "We intend to ensure that our plan will absolutely and effectively prevent South Africa from becoming just another typical African y state, sliding down the scale of poverty into oblivion," he said. one-part- g campaign launched by President Bush to collect the billions of dollars needed in the Persian Gulf crisis. As officials representing more than 20 nations prepared to hold an organizational meeting of the Gulf Financial Coordination Crisis Group, it was clear that the allies who were expected to put up the cash had a number of objections to the outline of the effort unveiled by Bush on Tuesday. The disputes ranged from such basic issues as how much money should be contributed to which countries should receive the assistance. There were also debates over what mechanisms to use to dis burse the funds. Officials said that while the United States was pushing for more than $14 billion in assistance for the frontline states of Turkey, F.gypt ami Jordan and other hard-h- it countries, some European countries were insisting that a much smaller amount of around $9 billion was all that was needed. Saudi Arabia reportedly was objecting to including Jordan as a beneficiary country until Jordan moved more forcefully to close its borders to trade with iraq. President Bush put forward his proposal for the crisis coordination group during an address Tuesday to the opening sessions of the International Monetary Fund and its sister organization. the World Bank. While officials of the large donor countries indicated general support for a coordinating group, they let it be known that many of the details remained to bo worked out. British Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major told reporters that it was possible that a working group session today would be unable to resolve all the outstanding issues and would end up bucking the dispute to a later meeting. of finance ministers. 'it is clearly sensible for the world to get together and determine what should be the elements of assistance, how much it should be and how that should be divided among the donor nations," Major said. Senate OKs two nu ke treaties - WASHINGTON lAPi More than a decade after they were treaties signed, two Cold War-er- a that limit the size of nuclear tests by the United States and the Soviet Union have won approval from the Senate. The two agreements now seem less significant than they did when they were negotiated by Presidents Nixon and Ford, but the means of verifying them recently worked out by President Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev have implications. 0 The Senate voted on Tuesday to consent to ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty. Lawmakers used the occasion to call for the eventual elimination of nuclear testing. The treaties, which limit underground explosions to 150 kilotons or less, were delayed for years, first because of efforts to seek a test ban, then by misgivings over whether they could be adequately verified. The latter doubt's were largely erased by a new ?et of verification rules agreed to by Bush and Gorbachev on June 1 during their Washington summit. Those rules, a sign of the new trust between the two former adversaries, provide for intrusive verification. Each side may establish three seismic monitoring !)8-- on-si- stations in the other's territory. Soviet monitoring sites are in Newport, Wash.; Tulsa, Okla.; and in the Black Hills of South Dakota. U.S. monitoring sites are in the Ural Mountains, near Moscow and in Siberia. Sen. William Cohen, the senior GOP member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, cautioned that the Soviets could use their monitoring teams for spying. He urged that no inspections be permitted until security procedures are tightened. Other than the verification measures, the two modest treaties lag far beyond current arms control reality, which contemplates massive reductions in the U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals and sharp cuts in conventional forces. Supporters said the new verification measures are likely to become important precedents for the more ambitious arms control treaties to come. The treaties are a followup to the 1963 Limited Test Ban treaty, which barred nuclear tests in the M. ROCKY trnc V1IU CARPET CLEAN OS MOM CALL: chairman the Armed Services Committee, noted that President Keagan pledged to begin work on eliminating testing once the two treaties were ratified. "That was a ery important pledge, and it now comes into play," Nunn said. mi IDT 2 CLEH. SCOTCH- 6UIRD. DEODORIZE stum 5 339t 2 COUCHES Sen. Sam Nunn, of REPAIR & OR Mil. CUt I 3 ROOM DRY atmosphere, underwater and in space. They were intended as a first step toward slowing the race to nuclear bombs. develop ever-largSeveral senators said their approval should be the occasion to launch a new effort toward elimination of testing. "I urge the administration to take seriously the call for further Steps" toward a phased elimination of nuclear test blasts, said Majority Leader George Mitchell, ROOMS 224-026- S2895 9 days "fly high school cheerleader are hack since I lost 50 lbs. with NutriSystem " COWABUNGA, DUDES! 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