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2The Daily Tar HeelMonday. February 3. 1986 j-. - :::--,---U - ; UJ r (lodmj cooofe By JEANNiE FARIS Staff Writer U.S. Sen. Paul Simon, D-IH., told Democrats and reporters at Meredith College in Raleigh Saturday that he planned to enlist North Carolina's Democrats in a drive to change the system of campaign financing. Simon spoke at the College Democrats Winter Seminar about the bill he and Sen. Charles Mathias Jr., R-Md., have introduced to limit congressional campaign financing for general elections. The bill would not provide money to primary candidates, but party nominees would get $1.5 million. Also, no private contributions would be permitted in the general elections, he said. The new system . of financing would put the Republican and Democratic parties on equal standing, he said. Republicans always get more campaign contributions and can spend more on elections than the Democratic Party, said Simon, a first-term senator. He said campaign spending should not be allowed to reach past levels. As an example, he cited the 1984 North Carolina U.S. Senate race, when Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C, spent $16.2 million and former Democraitic Gov. Jim Hunt, spent $9.1 million. Simon held a press conference after his address and discussed his views on the Democratic Party and key Senate issues. When asked about the federal budget, Simon said he supported the Gramm-Rudman Act, which would balance the budget in five years by putting a ceiling on the deficit every year. Althought it is a necessary step to combat President Reagan's "worst ever" budget policy, Gramm-Rudman would make cuts in financial aid to students, said Simon, a long-time advocate of higher education. "If Gramm-Rudman works, if we restrain ourselves, well be in good shape, he said. He said he was "sympathetic to bills that would exchange a chance for higher education in return for public service. Work in the military, the Peace Corps, or state mental hospitals could be exchanged for educational benefits, he said. When asked about foreign aid, Simon said communism appealed to people for what it is against, not what it is for. "The best way we (the United States) could combat communism is not by sen ding . . . artillery but by seeing to it that people are not hungry or desperate," he said. The United States is playing into the hands of governmental opposition by sending military aid to other nations, he said. "If we decide we want to overthrow governments we don't like, that's about two-thirds of the govern ments in the world," he said. Military spending is too high because there is no point in building up missiles because one would destroy the world if activated, he said. "We must ask ourselves what we really want," he said. "Do we really want to be able to fight five wars in five different countries?" When asked how the United States should handle terrorism, Simon said economic sanctions should be implemented. Sending troops only makes the nation's leader a hero to his people, he said. ' The United States hais enough economic power to bring about major changes in world governments. Bishop Desmond Tutu has said U.S. economic power is the only one strong enough to stop the apartheid system of government in South Africa, Simon said. . mi TA2 IdOS EAT ' FOUR COHNEEI3 RESTAURANT MONDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Purchase any dinner entree or burger and get the second (of equal or lesser value) at half price. TUESDAY All You Con Eat Spaghetti Night $4.95 r K A A 1 four 1 .corners 175 E. Franklin 929-4416 Lunch & Dinner 1 1:30 Till 7 Days All major credit cards accepted Present this coupon when ordering U-desk meeting today at 5 All University writers must attend a meeting at 5 p.m. today at U-Lush headquarters. All those who don't attend will be drowned in pumpkin juice. 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It has provided examinations, glasses, surgery, treatment, glaucoma-detecting services, and education for more than. 125,000 of North Carolina's visually impaired over the past five years. Gruber said that the center's newest edition was a technical lab containing several braille devices and a voice simulated computer. For intensive therapy, the center can accommodate 39 persons for a period ; of three to five months, he said. Blind college students can be spon sored through a state-funded rehabil itation program and over 100 are presently participating, he said. The center recently moved from Butner to Raleigh because Butner was a rural area, without the complications of city life that blind individuals would have to face. , There are 158 blind individuals in Orange County, said Jim Irvin, chief of planning, program evaluation and statistics for the division. Mishap. rAthslmMe hoosltev m November Waced to plant news in brief From Associated Press reports CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A NASA investigation of a November accident that slightly damaged Challenger's left rocket booster blamed workers for not . handling it properly and for using faulty equipment. The board of inquiry also said it found inexperienced and unmoti vated workers at the solid rocket assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center. Two boosters provide most of the thrust for the shuttle on liftoff, pushing it nearly 30 miles into the sky before dropping away. A theory under study regarding Challenger's explosion Tuesday is that the right booster ruptured and shot flame , toward the main tank. Navy finds sailor guilty . NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) A navy sailor was found guilty Thursday of premeditated murder in the fatal stabbing of a white lieutenant at sea, a verdict which could result in the Navy's first use of the death penalty since 1849. ' An eight-member military jury deliberated for almost four hours before finding Petty Officer Mitchell T. Garraway Jr. guilty in the June -16, 1985, slaying of Lt. James K. Sterner aboard the USS Miller. Garraway, 21, pleaded guilty to unpremeditated murder in the slay ing while in waters off the Bermuda coast. His plea virtually guaranteed he would be sentenced to life imprison- ment. But the Navy sought a con viction on a premeditated-murder charge, which is punishable by either a life or death sentence. Reagan aims high this week WASHINGTON (AP) Presi dent Reagan hits Congress with both barrels this week his State of the Union address Tuesday night and his fiscal 1987 budget on Wednesday. White House officials said the speech would focus on broad themes rather than specific proposals and aim more toward the public than Congress. However, the president is expected to ask Congress to revise the nation's welfare system to put more pressure on recipients to find jobs. The president has long contended that many people receiving assistance do not want to work. Reagan is also expected to seek more control over the budget pro cess. The pending plan is the first submitted by the president since the enactment of the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction law. Curfew imposed in Haiti PORT AU PRINCE, , Haiti (AP) The government Sunday ordered a partial curfew in Cape Haitien, a flashpoint of demonstra tions against President-for-Life Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti, and restricted foreign reporters to Port-au-Prince. Government-owned Radio National said Cape Haitien's 80,000 residents have been ordered to keep indoors between the hours of 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Eleven people have been killed since demonstrations began a week ago in the nation's second-largest city. Three people were shot to death there last Monday, and three people were trampled to death Wednesday when demonstrators mobbed a CARE warehouse. 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