2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, October 23, 1987
Reagan criticises Ibedget process
By CARRIE DOVE
Staff Writer
In the wake of Monday's stock
panic, reducing the federal deficit will
take top priority in the corning
months, President Reagan said
Thursday night at the White House.
But Reagan vowed not to institute
taxes that would hurt the economy.
MI have not changed my views on
a tax that will have a deleterious effect
on the economy," Reagan said during
his first news conference since March.
Reagan said he will ask Treasury
Secretary James Baker, Chief of Staff
Howard Baker and Office of Man
agement and Budget Director Jim
Miller to work with Congress to
reduce the deficit.
The president criticized the budget
process for placing too much respon
sibility with Congress, and not
enough with the agencies who receive
money from the budget.
"This is a stupid setup," he said.
Reagan, blaming 50 years of
Democratic domination in Congress
for the size of the deficit, said the
deficit would be much smaller if they
had approved the administration's
budget.
Reagan chided Democrats for
fiscal irresponsibility, saying, "The
President is not responsible for this."
Addressing questions about his
Supreme Court nominee Robert
Bork, the president attacked Bork's
opponents and said if Bork is defeated
he will try to find another nominee
who is equally conservative.
"This (attack on Bork) was totally
out of line," he said.
Witnesses who testified for Bork
were more qualified than witnesses
who testified against him, Reagan
said.
Reagan also answered questions
about Monday's stock market crash
and said he plans to appoint a task
force to study the impact of the crash.
"There are no signs of a deterio
rating economy," he said.
The president said the stock
exchange is closing two hours early
to catch up on overdue paperwork.
Reagan expressed confidence in
the control of events in the Persian
Gulf.
"We're not there to start a war, and
I don't see it as leading to a war,"
he said.
The president spoke about the
irrationality of the Iranians, but
sidestepped questions about the War
Powers Act's relationship to the Gulf
conflict.
late Depairtmeel to dose PL office
By AMY WINSLOW
Staff Writer
In an effort to emphasize American
concern over PLO terrorist acts, State
Department officials said the depart
ment will close the doors of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization's
office in Washington, D.C., on Dec.
1.
On Sept. 15, the State Department
first ordered the office, which is run
by American citizens, to close within
30 days, but then gave them an
extension so practical problems, such
as leases, could be corrected, said a
state department official who was not
permitted to reveal his name.
"We are closing the office not for
what the office has done, but to show
our concern over the negative actions
that the PLO has taken," the official
said.
But closing the office may violate
the First Amendment of the U.S.
Constitution, American Civil Liber
ties Union representatives said.
Since the office exists only to
distribute information about the
PLO's viewpoint, the government
doesnt have the right to close down
an organization just because it doesn't
agree with those views, said Colleen
O'Connor, . spokeswoman for the
ACLU's national headquarters in
New York.
"There is a dangerous precedent
here beyond the PLO case," O'Con
nor said. "If the government can
decide whose message can be heard,
then they have the right to close down
anything that's unpopular or
unorthodox."
Not only does the PLO closing
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Bouhafa, public relations director for
the Arab American Anti
Discrimination Committee, but it
also sends a signal from the American
government to parties in conflict in
the Middle EasU
"The shutdown of the PLO office
has already had a negative impact,"
said Bouhafa, referring to Secretary
of State George Schultz's recent visit
to Israel where he was met with
animosity from Palestinians. A meet
ing that had been scheduled between
Schultz and 10 Palestinians was
cancelled in protest of the shutdown,
Bouhafa said.
The State Department maintained
that the closing was not an intent to
stifle the rights of any Americans.
"We have no objection to Amer
ican citizens opening their own office
as long as it's not substantially
controlled by the PLO," the state
department official said. "And the
PIO (Palestinian Information Office)
is owned and controlled by the PLO."
Representatives from the BTai
B'Rith Anti-Defamation League, a
national Jewish and human rights
organization located in Washington,
D.C., said closing the office repres
ents U.S. concern over terrorism.
"We don't think it's a violation (of
the first amendment)," said Jess
Hordes, the league's associate direc
tor. "The closing deals with the fact
that the office is run by the PLO,
a terrorist organization."
Advocating the PLO's point of
view is different from acting as its
agent, Hordes said.
The State Department's concern
about Palestinian terrorism around
the world probably would, not be
considered a legitimate reason in
court for closing the office since the
PLO has not done anything unlawful
in the United States, said Arnold
Loewy, UNC professor of law.
"The Communist Party couldn't be
closed down because Communists
have done something wrong some
where else in the world," Loewy said.
"It was appallingly bad policy to close
the PLO's office."
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Poet Joseph Brodsky, who calls
his Russian heritage and the
freedom he found in America "the
best possible combination," won
the Nobel Prize in literature
Thursday.
Brodsky was exiled from the
Soviet Union as a "parasite" in
1972 and is now a U.S. citizen.
He was cited by the Swedish
Academy for creating poems
"imbued with clarity of thought
and poetic intensity."
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Greenwich Village and has taught
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Iran bombs oil terminal
KUWAIT An Iranian Silk
worm missile hit Kuwait's offshore
supertanker oil terminal Thurs
day, setting it afire and wounding
several people, officials reported.
None of the U.S.-flagged tankers
that the Navy protects were in the
area.
It was the third Iranian missile
attack in a week on the sheikdom
nestled between Iraq and Saudi
Arabia at the head of the Persian
Gulf.
The Kuwait News Agency
quoted officials as saying five
people were wounded and one
remained hospitalized. Shipping
and diplomatic sources said cas
ualties were low because no ships
were loading at the Sea Island
terminal nine miles offshore, and
fewer than the usual 20 men were
on duty.
Iranian leaders have threatened
retaliation for a U.S. Navy
artillery attack Monday that
destroyed two of Iran's offshore
oil platforms. The shelling
responded to an Iranian missile
attack last week that hit one of
the reflagged Kuwaiti tankers near
the sheikdom's coastal oil
facilities.
In Lebanon the pro-Iranian
group Islamic Jihad, which holds
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American and French hostages,
said "thousands" of suicide
bombers were ready for attacks on
U.S. and European naval forces
in the gulf.
The missile strike came hours
after Iraq reported its second
attack in 24 hours on a tanker in
Iranian waters.
Arms treaty a step closer
MOSCOW Secretary of
State George Shultz and Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard She
vardnadze "basically resolved" a
dispute over West German nuclear
missiles Thursday in talks both
sides described as productive.
. The two, holding their third
round of negotiations this year,
were trying to settle the last
sticking points in a treaty to scrap
intermediate-range nuclear
missiles.
But no date was set for a third
summit meeting between Presi
dent Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev, at which such
a treaty could be signed. Soviet
spokesman Gennady Gerasimov
said the subject never came up.
Shultz is to meet with Gorba
chev on Friday and review the
finding of eight U.S.-Soviet work
ing groups that have tackled such
diverse issues as human rights and
chemical warfare.
CIA's 25-year coverup unfolds
WASHINGTON As the
Cuban missile crisis unfolded 25
years ago, a Soviet military officer
spying for the West sent a signal
that the Kremlin planned to
attack. But a mid-level CIA agent
decided not to pass the informa
tion up to the White House,
according to a memoir released
Thursday.
Soviet Col. Oleg Penkovsky,
often described as the most effec
tive Western agent ever against the
Kremlin, sent the signal by tele
phone just before he was arrested
by the KGB, former State Depart
ment official Raymond Garthoff
disclosed in a new book, "Reflec
tions on the Cuban Missile Crisis."
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