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Show A National Wednesday, October 24, 1990 The Daily Herald, Provo, l iah senate systaims Bush's of civil rig Ms - veil i WASHINGTON The Sen(AP) ate today narrowly sustained President Bush's veto of a major civil rights bill the ad- . ministration said ould lead to hiring auotas. ! The vote on the 1 o 1 i t i c a 1 1 y - i issue v&s charged & Wt J as just one vote snort of the two-, thirds needed to override his veto. ' Orrin Hatch Sponsors of the bill said it was needed to give greater protection to victims of job discrimination, and it was the civil rights movement's top priority in Congress this year. H The action came amid intense lobbying on the part of civil rights leaders and grass-root- s groups to turn around enough votes to gain the needed for an override. White House a day earlier , The expressed confidence that the Senate would sustain the veto. And Sen. Orrin Hatch, arrived on the floor for the start of the two-thir- debate, saying he had just come from the Oval Office. "Pure and simple, take it from me, this is still a quota bill and it is still a litigation bonanza for lawyers," Hatch said. President Bush was discussing the civil rights veto in a meeting with his Cabinet this morning, where the only other item on the formal agenda was the federal budget. Six Supreme Court decisions in job discrimination cases last year would be overturned under the bill, which has been the civil rights movement's top priority on Capitol Hill over the last year. Two-thirmajorities in both the Senate and House are required to override a veto. Senate sponsors were believed to be at least two votes short of the 67 votes needed, but they refused to concede defeat. Failure to override the veto in the Senate would kill the bill for the remainder of th? year. Provisions in the legislation range from a ban on racial harassment in the workplace to punitive damages in the most extreme discrimination cases. The chief dispute, however, came il A - conduct allegation. "Effective for the good of the Con- gress and the integrity of the institution, I resign my seat in the U.S. House of 3 Representatives," letter to Ohio Gov. Richard Ce- leste. Lukens resigned two days after being accused of making sexual advances on a House elevator operator who said he fondled her. He was convicted earlier this year on a misdemeanor charge for having sex with a girl. The second allegation prompted SDI politically embarrassing ethics committee investigation two weeks before the national elections. On Monday: 4th graf On Monday, the ethics panel expanded its case against Lukens to include a fresh charge that he fondled a young woman elevator operator in the Capitol. The committee was already looking into whether Lukens violated House rules by having sex with a an incident that girl led to the congressman being convicted of a misdemeanor. Donald Lukens Lukens said in a House Republicans to urge Lukens to resign rather than trigger a Lukens is appealing his conviction of contributing to the unruli-nes- s of a minor, and one congressional source said members of the ethics committee have discussed providing the Ohio Supreme Court information about the new allegations. A resignation would end the eth Jacob the National of Urban League and other civil rights leaders spent Tuesday on the phone to key Senate offices. ics investigation and thwart any formal House action. The ethics committee had taken the unusual step of waiving its rules to take immediate action on the new complaint. Lukens, who is serving out the end of his term after losing in the May GOP primary, missed all votes on the House floor Tuesday and made no public statements. GOP sources said fellow Republicans were pressuring him to resign rather than force a politically embarrassing and widely publicized sex investigation two weeks before a national election. A source who spoke with the woman said Lukens approached her more than once on the same day. After fondling her, Lukens gave the woman his business card and asked her to call him, the source said. The elevator operator reported the incident to her superiors. due-proce- ss supporters cautiously optimistic - bers. The road from that announced agreement to today's expected approval has been rocky. Shortly after lawmakers agreed on the military package, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney said he would recommend a presidential veto in light of the bill's restrictive language on the SDI budget, provision on base closings and sharp reductions in troop strength. Congressional staffers and Pentagon officials worked throughout the weekend and Monday to reach a WASHINGTON (AP) Proponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative remain cautiously optimistic that changes in the 1991 defense bill will keep Congress from exerting more control over the program. "It's an improvement," Rep. Jon a member of the Kyi, House Armed Services Committee, said Tuesday. "A lot of it will depend on the spirit in which it's applied." The House planned today to consider the $288 billion authorization bill setting military spending ceilings for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. The legislation calls for a nearly $2 billion cut in President Bush's request for SDI, barely keeps alive the B-- 2 bomber program and slashes troop levels. Action on the defense blueprint comes a week after House and Senate bargainers worked out a compromise from differing bills passed earlier by the two cham last-minu- te anti-missi- le compromise, finally settling on changes that in some cases give Cheney greater authority and won his backing for the bill. The bill slashes $1.8 billion from Bush's proposal of $4.7 billion for SDI, commonly known as Star Wars. The cut represents $700 million less than Congress spent on Star Wars last year and reflects the increasing belief on Capitol Hill VJJ I 1 1 T slow troop cuts in Asia T'" f - over provisions making it easier to win lawsuits against employers, using statistics to show they discriminated. Lukens quits over sex allegation WASHINGTON (AP) Rep. reDonald E. Lukens, signed from Congress today rather than face a sec ond sexual mis- U.S. plans MB Bush expressed regret in disapproving the bill Monday but insisted the veto was necessary. He said the provisions were so stringent that "employers would be driven to adopt quotas in order to avoid liability." Chances of turning around the two or more senators needed for an override appeared remote Tuesday. But Ralph G. Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, said an effort was in full swing. "There's a lot of lobbying going on at the state and local level," he said. He pointed to a statement issued in Los Angeles by the California Black Republican Council, saying Sen. Pete Wilson, had "been sold a bill of goods" in the form of the quota argument. Neas said Benjamin Hooks of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, John that although the Pentagon envi- sions early deployment, SDI will largely exist as a research program. Initially, the bill divided spending on SDI into five separate programs and imposed limits on each category's budget. The language was modified to win Cheney's approval. "It's not as rigid" in terms of preventing the SDI office from transferring money from one category to another, Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams told reporters Tuesday. Only Congress' interpretation of the language will determine whether the program works, Kyi said. "Oversight must be in a spirit of cooperation, not finding fault but making it work," he said. changes in the legislation also provide Cheney with added flexibility on troop cuts. Negotiators agreed on a reduction of 100,000 from the 2.1 million troops worldwide. Last-minu- L u4 ir ; n - 'it , mm inriwrriiffniiniM iiimiimii' r Planning a party? Spider webs, cauldrons, pinatas, Halloween plates, napkins, toys, decorations A and much Jll lJ XW rfflW 1 J -H- III ifcllti sh comes true President Bush stops to chat of with Jimmy K2aEowski Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., as he leaves a fundraiser for gubernatorial candidate Rep. John Rowland in Stamford, Conn., Tuesday. The boy, who suffers from brain cancer, said his greatest wish was to shake Bush's hand. Senate panel delays probe of 'Keating 5' - WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Ethics Committee, unable to make a decision to dismiss or advance cases against the "Keating Five" senators, will instead hold a hearing that will keep the inquiry alive for all those under investigation. The committee decision ignored for the present its special counsel's recommendation that the investigation be dismissed against Sen. John and the only RepubGlenn, lican in the probe, John McCain of Arizona. McCain branded the decision to do nothing now and hold hearan "act of ings starting Nov. 15 political cowardice." Glenn pronounced himself "disappointed." Dropping McCain would have left only three Democrats under investigation among the five senators who assisted Charles H. Keating a major political donor and Jr. the S&L owner who presided over the nation's costliest thrift collapse. The delay cost Republicans a valuable campaign issue. The committee special counsel, Robert S. Bennett, also proposed that the investigation be continued against three Democrats: Alan Cranston of California, Donald W. Riegle of Michigan and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. The ranking committee Republican, Sen. Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, said the three Democrats and three Republicans on the panel voted without gaining a majority of four on "every possible combination and permutation" that would have advanced or dismissed the investigation. But the committee was unanimous, he said, in ordering the fact post-electio- n finding hearing that panel Chairman Howell Heflin, said could take 10 days. Heflin said the committee expected to complete its work and report to the Senate by Dec. 31. Cranston issued a statement saying, "The public is entitled to get beyond the malicious rumors and selective leaks, and to know all the facts. I see this as an opportunity to achieve the public vindication I know I deserve." McCain called the committee's refusal to act "an outrage" that will lead to allegations of a cover up of findings that proposed his exoneration. Riegle said he was bound by a committee requirement not to discuss the case, but said, "It's impossible to respond adequately to false charges and inaccurate and misleading characterizations." Glenn said he was '"disappointed by the ethics committee's decision not to make a decision." He said he has no hesitancy in appearing at the public session but added, "I don't see how that helps the committee make up its mind." All five senators have denied any connection between Keating's money and their help for the Irvine, Calif.-base- d thrift, which was seized by the U.S. government in April 1989 at a potential cost to taxpayers of more than $2 billion. ROCKY hlJ. CARPET A U.S. military spokesman in Hawaii, Lt. Col. Thomas Boyd, said very few soldiers actually have been removed from Asia to date. 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