Show Yol 233 No M3 Reagan Sets Stage for By Norman D Sandler United Press International — President Reagan pura foreign-polictop suing priority in the shadow of the Iran arms scandal moved Thursday to release a final installment of $40 million in aid to the Nicaraguan Contras But Democratic leaders of the House said they plan a vote next week on a bill to impose a moratorium on aid to the Contras The moratorium would last until the current probe determines if any of the money from the Iranian arms sales was diverted to the Contras Reagan met congressional conditions for WASHINGTON y freeing the remainder of $100 million in assistance approved last year Despite plans to block release of the money White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater predicted Reagan seen by his aides as having been strengthened by a Wednesday night speech on the Iran affair will prevail "We think the prospects for approval are pretty good" Fitzwater said "Progress has been made by the Contras and the Congress has made a commitment that we think they'll honor" Under terms of the Contra-aiappropriation last year the last installment of aid was d Contra-A- conditioned on a presidential certification that efforts to resolve the turmoil in Nicaragua through negotiations and other peaceful means had failed Reagan in a memorandum that accompareport to Congress on the situation in Central America over the last two months asserted "there is no reasonable prospect of achieving” a settlement without continued military pressure from the Contras nied a After a protracted fight and compromise by Reagan Congress approved $70 million in military aid and $30 million in other assis i tance for the Contras Congress had halted all previous military aid in late 1984 Under terms set at the time the latest aid package was approved Congress has 15 calendar days from receipt of the certification from Reagan to pass a resolution of disapproval which would be a certain candidate for veto Reagan was nearing a deadline for submitting the certification The White House also was under pressure from House GOP leader Robert Michel who sensed growing opposition within Congress to the Contra aid Contra-aisupporters on Capitol Hill feared the $40 million might be jeopardized by arguments that a new peace initiative by Costa Rica could bear fruit m the event of a moratorium on support for the Contras Administration officials said the timing also was dictated by the plight of the Contras themselves who are expected to run out of money sometime next month without fresh US aid "It was a simple recognition of what we had to do by a specific date" an official said "This way even if we went through the business of a turndown a veto and a " vote there would be no disruption in aid veto-overrid- e High Hopes for a Missile Treaty Let’s Move On Reagan Says By Terence Hunt AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON President Rea- - gan said Thursday the nation has spent enough time "on who's up and fia who's down" after the asco and attempted to switch attention to arms control hailing a “great breakthrough” and proclaiming himself more optimistic than ever about chances for a treaty Welcoming a new Soviet offer to missign a treaty on medium-rang- e siles apart from any restrictions on his Star Wars program Reagan said "This change in the Soviet position is a great breakthrough and shows that in working for the cause of peace preparedness pays patience pays and firmness pays" a affair Reagan On the said "We don’t hide from our mistakes” repeating a theme from Wednesday night's address to the naIran-Contr- Iran-Contr- ing on other subjects and stressing the need to keep government moving tion "We learn from them and then we go on and do things better than we did forward As part of the White House public relations strategy the president's point man on the Iran affair Ambassador David Abshire spent ll2 hours Thursday in radio interviews and before" he said addressing members of the National Newspaper Association For the first time Reagan acknowledged Wednesday night that he Summit No 3 Possible May Rescue Reagan By Miles Benson Newhouse News Service WASHINGTON — A suddenly improved climate for arms control courtesy of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has raised the possibility of a summit meeting that might allow an embattled President Reagan to revive his presidency and conclude his term on a note of triumph Reagan attempting to put the a scandal bedamaging hind him after a nationally broadcast clear-the-aspeech is moving to seize on the Kremlin boss's important and timely political assistance which has produced a dramatic upswing in the president’s mood White House advisers say The opening by Gorbachev following two fruitless summit meetings with Reagan in 1985 and '86 holds out the possibility of a third more successful encounter Iran-Contr- ir Reagan on Thursday proclaimed "a great breakthrough” in negotiations to eliminate intermediate-rang- e nuclear missiles in Europe following a decision by Gorbachev last Saturday to separate an agreement on that category of weapons from an overall arms package "I've never felt more optimistic" about the prospects for nuclear arms cuts Reagan told members of the National Newspaper Association Reagan said his own bargaining position has been vindicated by the Column 2 See A-- 2 Alabama - School workers began pulling books from shelves Thursday to comply with a MOBILE federal Ala (AP) texts from Alabama classon rooms 45 grounds promote they a god- less humanist religion Gov Guy Hunt gave no indication whether he wants to appeal Wednesday’s ruling by District U S Guy Hunt Judge W Bre- vard Hand However critics including an inattorney for a group of parents but all guaranvolved in the case teed they will seek to throw out the order which they called a frightening form of judicial censorship - since Pollard was arrested and charged with selling US military secrets to Israel the sentencing of Pollard to life imprisonment Wednesday triggered a fresh barrage of criticism of Israel for spying on its closest ally and greatest patron Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other flustered Israeli leaders under fire at home and in the United States tried to quiet the controversy and move toward restoring US faith in Israel by apologizing to the Reagan administration and the American people Israeli JERUSALEM (UPI) leaders publicly apologized to the United States Thursday for the "regretful mistake” of using American Jew Jonathan Pollard to spy on Israel's closest ally The apologies came as Israel's political hierarchy struggled to come to grips with US and domestic recriminations over the Pollard spy scandal which one official called "the most difficult moment” ever in Israeli foreign relations Even though it has been 16 months Rabin sounding contrite in remarks made in Tel Aviv said "These are very sad days for Israel” because of an incident that he admitted was initiated “on our part" “I hope that the basic understanding the longstanding friendship and the common interests of our two countries will make it possible not to forget but to overcome this unfortunate incident" said Rabin whose country receives an estimated $18 billion a year in US military aid "It was an exception a very unique Israel policy" exception said Rabin who has said that he and other government leaders were unaware of the spying "It was done without the knowledge of the political vis-a-v- is authority” Rabin also said he hoped Israel and the United States together “will be able to overcome this unfortunate event that we are sorry for and that we apologize for” Efforts to muffle the criticism of Israel came as skeptical US and Is- raeli officials expressed strong Meese Gives Walsh Parallel Job to Save Probe WASHINGTON (UPI) - Attorneyto General Edwin Meese seeking a prevent any disruption of the indeinvestigation appointed pendent counsel Lawrence Walsh to a parallel job Thursday to sidestep legal challenges to the probe "By my authority as attorney general I am appointing Judge Walsh to head a new office of ‘independent counsel’ ” Meese announced Meese also announced that the Justice Department had joined a move by Walsh to throw out Lt Col Oliver North's constitutional challenge of the independent counsel law North the fired White House aide trying to halt Walsh's criminal probe a aid scandal of the Iran had challenged the independent counsel clause of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act claiming it violated constitutional doctrine of separation of powers Iran-Contr- arms-Contr- Lawrence Walsh Question Mark Is Gone Column 3 Meese said the North suit had placed a question mark over Walsh’s investigation "By creating a parallel position securing to Judge Walsh the powers authority and independence that the Ethics in Government Act provides we remove that question mark” he said Meese noted that Walsh is not stepping down from his other post of independent counsel to which he was appointed by a special three-judg- e panel "This is in essence a parallel appointment to remove any doubts concerning the legitimacy of his activities that might arise now or in the future” he said Walsh said he welcomed the move Today’sis Chuckle a mental Depression having block and finding out it's your head "By his action the attorney general has conferred upon the independent counsel the same powers and guarantees of independence which were conferred by the court in its order of Walsh said in a statement “We believe the statute under d which the independent counsel is constitutional but the attorney general’s action will assure lack of interruption of the ongoing investigation” he said The department’s motion to dismiss North’s suit filed in US District Court in late afternoon asked Judge Barrington Parker to throw the case out in view of Meese’s appointment of Walsh and on the grounds that North’s claims are premature and not ready to be adjudicated US District Judge Barrington Parker has scheduled a hearing on the North suit for Monday doubts that the Pollard spy operation was carried off without the knowledge of senior Israeli government leaders as the political hierarchy maintains President Chaim Herzog a former military intelligence chief said he hoped Israel would learn a sobering lesson and make changes "to ensure that this does not occur again" But there was no official comment from Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir who has refused to comment publicly on the sentencing Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers on 4 A-- court-appointe- Today’s Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity -Cloudy with a chance of rain Highs in the 60s Lows in the 30s Details B-2 Plaster Torso House OKs $500 Million Tosses ‘Godless’ Books Prototype To Help the Homeless For 'David? Llah Has the Books: "With these books the state of Alabama has overstepped its B- -l mark and must withdraw to perfuncform its proper tions" Hand said Some of the books appear to be used by tens of thousands of students though textbook records showed that most would be replaced anyway by this fall William Bradford a lawyer for 12 parents who joined Alabama as defendants in the case said a motion for reversal would be filed next week with the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta Meanwhile at a news conference former US Rep John Buchanan chairman of the Washington-based People for the American Way said Hand "sadly erred" in ordering the books banished "We have now had a chance to talk to all of our 12 clients and we definitely have decided to appeal” Bradford said aimed at giving religious fundamentalists a foot inside the school-hous- e door Hunt a Primitive Baptist minister who is chairman of the State Board of Education the main defendant in the case refused to give an opinion on the matter Hand ruling that secular humanism is a religion said Wednesday the use of the textbooks in pub-L- c schools violates the Constitution's prohibition against the establishment of a religion by the state According to fundamentalists secular humanism is the elevation of transient human values over eternal spiritual values and secular humanists believe humans can handle their own affairs without divine intervention New York Times Service NEW YORK — An eight-incplash ter model believed to have been used by Michelangelo to make his sculpture of David the monumental statue in Florence that is among the world's most famous works of art has been discovered after having been lost for nearly 300 years a leading Renais- sance scholar said Thursday The model a torso was thought to have been destroyed in 1690 when a fire swept the Palazzo Vecchio the Florentine seat of government and the home of Duke Cosimo I de'Medici who owned the model The model's head and limbs were broken off during the two centuries when it was thought to have been lost The Renaissance scholar Frederick Hartt emeritus professor of art history at the University of Virginia announced the discovery When he first saw the model last year in a Ge- See 2 Column 1 A-- v t A-- 2 Israel Apologizes to US for Using Pollard to Spy judge's order banning See f excruciating experience having to spend a night on the cold ground with the wind and the noise and all of the other calamities that affect those poor people who have to do this night in and night out” Rep Esteban Tortold the House res House Republican leader Robert ed Michel of Illinois agreed the plight of The bill is a response to "a very the homeless was "intolerable” but real crisis that exists in all our communities today” said Rep Fernand urged that the aid be transferred St Germain D-chairman of the from other federal programs House Banking Finance and Urban Michel's amendment to bar new Affairs Committee spending authority for the program after Rep Barwas defeated Included in the $500 million authowon Frank shelfood approval of and rization are emergency ney ter programs outpatient health care an amendment allowing the funas to be taken only from foreign aid and services and govand mental-healt- h related programs ernment property that will be converted into homeless facilities The aid bill is likely to encounter administration resistance because of In a move to dramatize the plight the cost and the Senate Democratic of the homeless a group of congressmen and movie actors spent Tuesday leadership was expected to propose a night sleeping on sidewalks near the more modest aid bill Capitol Wright said Reagan probably would sign the bill "I have to tell you it was an WASHINGTON (UPI) The House moving to erase the “national shame” of widespread homelessness voted Thursday to authorize a $500 million emergency-ai- d program 1 vote sent the bill to the The Senate where early action is expect264-12- 207-20- 3 i |