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Show Military Aid Approved By Senate ONeill Feels Reagan Just Passing Buck Guilty Conscience For Loss in Beirut - WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Thomas P. ONeill accused President Reagan on Thursday of trying to make Congress a scapegoat for failure of U.S. policy in Lebanon, and said Reagan alone was responsible fot the death of U.S. Marines there. Its the qualms of a guilty conscience, ONeill said of Reagans comments at a news conference Wednesday night that congressional debate had rendered the U.S. role in Beirut ineffective and may have encouraged terrorist attacks. Reagan said Congress must take a responsibility for any loss of U.S. credibility in the Middle East after withdrawal of American troops from Lebanon. When Congress debates withdrawing U.S. forces, Reagan added, all this can do is stimulate the terrorists and urge them on to further attacks because they see a possiblity of success in getting the force out which is keeping them from having their way. ONeill, the leading Democratic spokesman in Congress, denounced that notion. He said Reagans policy in Lebanon failed because he tried to work with might and toughness rather than diplomatic smartness. Senate Minority Leader Robert C. told reporters that it Byrd, was the administrations flawed foreign policy that failed. It wasnt the nerve of Congress. Said Sen. Alan Cranston, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee and former contender for the Democratic presidential nomination: We have a president who is trigger-happ- y and who commits troops for impossible missions. To suggest we should not debate policy is to suggest a dictatorship. ONeill said Reagan was trying to make Congress a scapegoat for a foreign policy that didnt work. The truth of the matter is his policy failed. The ineptitudeness on their administration part. They miscalculated. . ,. . The deaths of the U.S. Marines are the responsibility of the president of the United States. He acted against the wishes of our top military in this country, and now he is looking for a scapegoat. And now its qualms of conscience. The deaths lie on him and the defeat in Lebanon lies on him, and him alone . . . and he cant put it on the shoulders of anybody else, ONeill said. Reagan was asked about ONeills charge during a tour of a New York day care center Thursday. Gesturing toward the children playing around him, the president said, Everything in here is making more sense than that. ONeill called the Lebanon policy the biggest blunder, the biggest mistake that Reagan has made as president. ONeill also said it was very despicable for the president to take the blame initially for security lapses at the Marine compound where 241 U.S. servicemen were killed in a terrorist bombing last October, and now that its all over, to try to blame Congress. a Rep. Robert Matsui, member of ONeills House monitoring task force on Lebanon, said he finds it outrageous that the president would try to blame Congress for the administrations miserably failed policy in the Middle East. Quite frankly, I dont think he is fooling anybody, Matsui said. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan, said the administrations use of military force in Lebanon reflected a lack of respect for international law. We have heard President Reagan announce that the battleship New Jersey could shell Lebanon because our embassy there had been shelled. 'Now thats United States territory, said the president. Which, of course, it is not. $6 1 Million for Salvador; $21 Million for Rebels more difficult to stem a rising communist tide in a region only a few hundred miles from the United States border. We are niggling and nitpicking and nipping at the heels of anything that would seem to offer serious resistance to the expansion of Soviet power in our own hemisphere, said Sen. John East, The Senate rejected by a vote of 4 an amendment by Sen. Carl Levin, saying that none of See Page 2, Column 1 By W. Dale Nelson Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Republican-co- - Senate approved emergency military ntrolled These astronauts are Challengers crew, From left, Commander Robert Crippen, i Terry J. Hart, James van Hoften, George Nelson and the pilot, Francis R. Scobee. Ace Trucking Astronauts Set For First Repair Job in Space Service Chicago The CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Ace Trucking Co. was poised here e Thursday night for its first a rendezvous in space to call catch and repair a satellite in flight high above the Earth. Ace Trucking is what astronauts jokingly call the space shuttle prothe worlds first fleet of regram rocketships. usable, airplane-lik- e Five astronauts, all men and four of them previously untried in space, make up the crew of the shuttle Sun-Tim- - bled up a bird in one of its engine intakes during a takeoff roll Thursday morning. Big bucks were at stake in the Ace e Trucking Co.s first satellite called call. A Solar Max is to be captured on the third day of the flight, repaired and relaunched into orbit on the fifth. D. Van Hoften turned in early for a 4:30 a.m. EST wakeup. They passed their last preflight James road-servic- The launch will be broadcast in Salt Lake City by KUTV, channel 2, at 6:50 a.m.; KTVX, channel 4, at 6:55 a.m.; and at 6:58 a.m. KSL-T- channel 5, Challenger on this 11th mission in the space shuttle series. Liftoff was scheduled for 8:58 a.m. EST under local weather conditions that were predicted to be near-ideexcept for possible winds above the Cape area. Doubt about the weather at two remote but crucial sites cast something of a pall over launch preparations. These were Dakar, in the African nation of Senegal, and Edwards Air Force Base in the California desert. Dakar is the place where Challenger will have to land if serious problems materialize early in the spaceships climb to orbit. Edwards is where a landing would have to take place if similar trouble occurred later in the climb. Shuttle veteran Robert L. Crippen Franand his rookie crew cis R. Scobee and mission specialists George D. Nelson, Terry J. Hart and al high-veloci- ty co-pil-ot road-servic- Shuttle Phone, A-- 2 day uneventfully except for Van Hoften, whose 8 jet trainer gob T-3- Cocos Isles Voters To Decide on Rule 1 70 Australia (AP) -The 170 voters of the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean will decide Friday whether to become but coconuts, copra and fish, the Cocos Islands have acquired a strategic importance as the superpower rivalry moved into the Indian Ocean in recent years. The remote islands are among the few staging areas in the region and Australian and U.S. military planes regularly use its airstrip to refuel. SYDNEY, an independent nation after years of rule by the descendants of a Scottish sea captain under a grant from Queen Victoria. Australian and United Nations officials were to supervise the vote on the horseshoe-shape- d group of 27 coral atolls 1,670 miles to the west of Australia. The islands, with a combined land surface of 5.5 square miles and a population of about 300, would be the smallest nation on Earth if the 170 adult voters opt for independence. Officials did not know Thursday when the results would be announced. The islands population has been swollen by dozens of Australian officials and reporters for the referendum. The Australian government refused to allow foreign journalists on the plane taking the election group. Although it produces nothing The election has been opposed Clunies-Rosthe former ruler of the islands, who lost control of the group in 1978 when Australia forced him to sell all the land except his family estate for about $6 million. by John ' s, The islands were settled in 1827 by his ancestor Capt. John Clunies-Ros- s who planted coconuts and imported indentured workers from Malaysia and Indonesia to work the plantations. Britain later took possession of the islands and Queen Victoria ceded control to the Clunies-Ros- s family. The latest Clunies-Ros- s totally See Page 2, Column 1 million in aid for El Salvador and $21 million to assist guerrillas in $61.7 anti-lefti- st Nicaragua Thursday after beating back a weeklong series of Democratic attacks on President Reagans Central American policies. The vote was The measure now goes to the Democrat-controlle- d House, which plans to take a long weekend and return next Tuesday, leaving only three days in which to try to complete congressional action on the bill before a Easter recess that begins April 13. In one of its last actions before the 4 final vote, the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. James Sas- 50-4- Utahs Republican senators voted with the majority. that would have reser, quired congressional action before temporary U.S. military installations in Honduras could be made permanent. The amendment would also have barred use of the installations for anything but training exer- 250-16- social-progra- Todays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Mostly cloudy. Lows in the mid-30- s with highs near 60. Details, C-4. defense spending by 7.5 percent was rejected House Republican leader Robert Michel of Illinois said the Democrats budget should have been 311-10- 7. Republican gressmen voted no. con- - because if called we adopt this our only defense will be the power of prayer. He said the budget would cut defense so much that military bases would have to be closed and weapons cut. But Budget Committee chairman James Jones of Oklahoma said it was only fair to ask the Pentagon - Four Republicans joined 40 Dem- ocrats in supporting Sassers amendment. Sasser said several GOP senators indicated they wanted to vote for my amendment or were seriously considering it and changed their minds at the last minute." There were, I judge, a number of phone calls going back and forth, Sasser said. The Senate also rejected amendments to delete or curtail the $21 remillion for the bels and to cut the amount for El Salvador or tie it up with restrict- ions. The mainly Democratic supporters of the amendments charged that and leading Reagan is trigger-happ- y the United States closer to war in Central America. The Senate has voted for wider war in El Salvador, secret war in Nicaragua and the brink of war in Honduras, Sen. Edward M. Kennesaid in a closing speech. dy, Administration supporters said the amendments would make it to tighten its belt the way were asking the American people to tighten their belts. Another Democratic alternative that would have used the entire $50 n billion in tax hikes for and reduce deficits by $234 billion in three years got a lot of attention but was rejected deficit-reductio- Utahs three By Donald M. Rothberg Associated Press Writer PITTSBURGH The Democratic presidential candidates accused President Reagan of sacrificing human rights in the name of national security as the three debated without intraparty rancor Thursday five days before the Pennnight sylvania primary. From arms control to Social Security, from ethics in government to taxes, Walter F. Mondale, Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson went after the Republican incumbent in the hour-lon- g session. This president frightens me to death, said Hart in remarks on the nuclear arms race. cises. Pay-as-You-- Go - Demos Take A Stand For Rights 10-d- House Backs Budget That Cuts Deficit by $182 Billion WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Thursday approved a budget that trims the federal deficit by $182 billion over three years, beating back Republican arguments that the spending plan will cripple defense. 8 The plan, approved on a vote, would allow defense spending and some spending to increase 3.5 percent over the rate of inflation but only if about $50 billion is raised in taxes to cover the spending hikes. That provision gave lathe measure the bel. A Republican alternative that would have trimmed the deficit by $205 billion in three years and raised 51-4- 76-1- 301-10- 8. Also rejected, 333-7was a budget proposal from the Congressional Black Caucus that would have slashed $324 billion from the deficit over three years by eliminating major weapons programs such as the MX missile and by eliminating tax cuts for the rich. It also expanded some social programs. Mondale said he watched , gans Wednesday night news Rea- confer- ence and I thought I saw something happening that weve seen happen too often before: That president is getting detached from whats really happening in this country. Jackson took on Reagans policies toward the Phillipines and its president, Ferdinand Marcos. We need our in the Phillipines. If that government remains in a state of tyranny, it does not deserve our support. ... We cannot maintain our by emJackson said bracing dictators, when questioned by moderator Elizabeth Drew of The New Yorker magazine. The candidates aimed their appeals at the Pennsylvania Democrats who will allocate the next big 172 block of delegates in next Tuesdays primary. They didnt attack each other, they didnt interrupt each other and they often found themselves saying me, too to a previous answer. But they hammered away at Reaself-respe- ct self-respe- gan. Mondale said Reagan has low ethical standards for his appointees, particularly for Edwin Meese III, whose nomination for attorney general is stalled pending a special investigation. Every day now another rotten apple falls out of the tree in Washington and the president isnt looking, Mondale said. Last night the president seemed to be saying the standard is you can stay in government, you can be attorney general, if See Page 2, Column 5 rs Prehistoric Jawbone Find Sheds New Light on Man's Evolution By Daniel Q. Haney Associated Press Writer The disCAMBRIDGE, Mass. covery in Africa of a jawbone fragment has pushed the history of mankind 1 million years closer to the misty era when human ancestors broke away from the apes, researchers say. The fossil from a creature that lived 5 million years ago is described as the oldest remains yet unearthed of a direct human forebear, or hominld. Until now, the oldest such bones found were 4 million years old. Scientists generally agree that more than 3.5 million years ago, the ancestors of the modern apes split with humanitys ancient grandparents and went their separate evolu - tionary way. This period is anthropologys "black hole as there was no clearly acceptable evidence to fill in the human family tree. Researchers announced Thursday that they had found in Kenya a piece of a lower jaw, complete with two molars, of a hominid from this period. Previous Finds "Until the discovery of this specimen, the oldest fossils where everyhom-inid- s body would agree that they are were 4 million years old," said David Pilbeam, a Harvard anthropology professor. Thats Australopithecus afarensis, the species to which Lucy belongs, but she herself is a million years younger than that." The partial skeleton of Lucy, un covered in Ethiopia in 1977, is probably the most famous fossil find of recent times. Pilbeam said that the newest discovery, though far older than Lucy, a may be of the same species d but upright beshort, ing who roamed Africa a very long time ago. What is important about this jaw piece is that it is both clearly a hominid and it seems to be reasonably dated at 5 million years, Pilbeam said. "That pushes the oldest undoubted hominids back another million years not very much, but its 25 percent more." Found Feb. 23 The fossil, called the Tabarin hominid, was found Feb. 23 on an expedition sponsored by Harvard small-braine- and the National Museums of Kenya. It was picked up near Lake Baringo about 140 miles from Nairobi in northern Kenya by Kiptalam Chepboi, a fossil prospector on the staff of the Kenya museums. Pilbeam was director of the Kenyan research and a similar project in Pakistan. Several species of hominids have been found that help trace human evolution from the emergence of modern Homo sapiens 40,000 years ago to Australopithecus afarensis Chuckle Todays us all with our The IRS is helping errands this year . . . by taking us to the cleaners. 4 million years ago. But beyond that, the fossil record is confusing and skimpy. One of the more interesting questions, Pilbeam said, is just when the about humanids split with the apes. There are a range of possible estimates derived from a variety of theoretical perspectives, he said. "The reasonable range would be anywhere from Stk million (years agn) to about 14 or 15 million, but most people agree that its somemillion and 8 where between 3 million. Genetic Analysis One exotic way of estimating the time of this split is genetic analysis. By comparing the blood and genes of people and the apes, some scientists have concluded that the divi sion occurred as recently as 4 million years ago. The latest discovery, Pilbeam said, "would show that the last common ancestor of hominids and chimps is at least 5 million years old. It could be 5 million and 1 years old, or it could be 10 million. We dont know. which is still in KeThe fossil was dated by looking at nearnya by animal bones and rocks. Pilbeam said the rocks are close to 5 million years old, and that fossils of ancient pigs and elephants in the area are more than 4.5 million years old. Attempts are still going on to make a more precise estimate. We are reasonably confident that it's about 5 million," he said, maybe a little bit more, maybe a little bit less." |