Wisconsin State Journal

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Wednesday night killed all U.S. assistance to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua, dramatically rejecting both Republican and Demo.cratic compromises and handing President Reagan a major foreign policy defeat. Three separate votes on the House floor culminated in a congressional decision to halt the president's three-year campaign to undermine the leftist Sandinista government in Managua. Reagan said he was "deeply disappointed" by the House vote, adding, "This kind of action damages national security and foreign policy goals." Vowing not to give up, Reagan said, "I intend to return to the Congress again and again to seek a policy that supports peace and democracy in Nicaragua. The United States will continue to work for these goals." A Democratic alternative providing aid for NicaragUan refugees and financial support for a peacekeeping force during a future cease-fire was passed once, then defeated in the final House vote. Reagan had made significant concessions in his original plan to give the Contras direct military assistance to be funnelled through the CIA. The Senate on Tuesday had gone along with a Republican proposal to give the Contras $14 million after Reagan pledged to use the money for non-lethal assistance only and to negotiate directly with the Sandinistas. Nonetheless, he fell two votes short on a Republican House proposal and thus lost the toughest congressional battle of his second term. That killed any prospect of renewing U.S. aid for the rightist rebels, which was suspended by Congress last year, unless the lawmakers change their mind in the future. While the final vote on the Nicaraguan issue was decided by a wide margin, 303-123, the critical vote on the Republican alternative was decided by only two votes, 215-213. House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., said Reagan called him before one of the three House votes to discuss his Nicaraguan policy. The speaker said he told the president, "I sincerely believe you're not going to be happy until you get into Nicaragua. . . . There is a Vietnam syndrome around here. People don't like your policy." O'Neill provided nothing on Reagan's side about the conversation. The final rejection of the two House alternatives came by such a wide margin be-

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House kills aid to Contras

cause Republicans decided they would rather support no bill than allow Democrats to push an alternative to the Senate for further debate. And many Democrats decided they were content to block the president's campaign for aid to the Contras, even if he pledged to keep it non-military. "They were concerned that if it went to the Senate, it would come back with something that might include military assistance," said Rep. Michael Barnes, D-Md,, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.

Reagan asks support for his budget

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan implored Americans on,. Wednesday night to deluge Congress "by phone, wire or mailgram" on behalf a Republican budget that would trim Social Security increases and kill popular programs. "Our future is too precious to permit this crucial effort to be picked apart, piece by piece, by the special interest groups," he said, reflecting White House fears the budget plan will unravel if some of its controversial features are removed. The GOP budget plan, which would eliminate such popular programs as Amtrak and small business grants, has drawn fire from lawmakers who say it goes too far in cutting domestic spending and not far enough in trimming military funds. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole said Reagan's speech "raises the odds for victory" when the Senate begins debating the plan today. "We don't have the votes yet," he had conceded earlier in the day. . In a nationally broadcast address from the Oval Office, Reagan quoted John F. Kennedy's famous inaugural appeal: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." "We stand at a crossroads," the president said. "The hour is late. The task is large. The stakes are momentous. I ask you to join us in making your voices heard in the Senate this week and later in the House." The speech came as the Senate postponed until today the beginning of debate on the budget package that both Reagan and Senate Republican leaders have endorsed. It would slash nearly $300 billion from expected deficits over three years without raising taxes. The goal is to bring the deficit below $100 billion by 1988 without raising taxes..

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The Republican program would eliminate, freeze or reduce dozens of domestic programs. Aside from Amtrak and the Small Business Administration, the GOP proposal would sharply cut farm subsidies and end general revenue sharing. Reagan said the federal government cannot afford to sustain these programs. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Jack Senate Minority Leader Robert Burcham, the fifth and oldest person Byrd of West Virginia, delivering a to receive a permanent artificial broadcast Democratic response, heart, died Wednesday night, 10 days claimed Reagan "has not offered a after the mechanical pump was im- solid financial plan for America's future." planted in his chest. "His program shortchanges the fuBurcham, 62, of Le Roy, 111., whose by kidneys had been failing since his ture, andseriously undermining education medical and scientific reoperation, died at 9:48 p.m. at search. . . . And the president breaks Humana Hospital Audubon, said Bob Irvine, spokesman for Humana Inc. his own promises to our nation's eldBurcham's 10 days of life with the erly," Byrd said, referring to ReaJarvik-7 was the shortest span of any gan's campaign statements opposing of the five recipients of the pump. Social Security benefit cuts. Reagan insisted the solution to Barney Clark, the first recipient, lived for 112 days before dying on America's economic problems is to March 23, 1983, while William cut away at government spending. He Schroeder, the second and longest-liv- said: ing recipient, on Wednesday spent his 151st day with the device. 'Endless appetite* Irvine refused to give the cause of "All the progress, all the good death for Burcham or any other details, saying no further information we've accomplished so far and all our would be released until this morning. dreams for the future could be ' The retired railroad engineer was wrecked if we do not overcome our beset by problems even before the ar- one giant obstacle. The simple truth tificial heart surgery was completed is, no matter how hard you work, no matter how strong this economy on April 14 by Dr. William DeVries. Doctors said Burcham's chest was grows, no matter how much more tax

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About 1,000 people protesting apartheid in South Africa march up State Street to the Capitol Wednesday.
State Journal photo by Carolyn Pflasterer

Apartheid protesters stay in Capitol

By Roger A. Gribble Education reporter Nearly 200 persons occupied the rotunda of the state Capitol overnight Wednesday to protest apartheid policies in South Africa and to call for Wisconsin's divestiture of holdings in all companies doing business with South Africa. Many of those who stayed overnight earlier participated in a demonstration in which more than 1,000 people, chanting, shouting and cheering, marched from the University of Wisconsin-Madison up State Street to the Capitol to call for state divestiture. - The' group inside the Capitol was well-behaved and orderly, Capitol security police said late Wednesday night. How long the group will stay in the Capitol has not been resolved. Wednesday's demonstration coincided with a national movement on college campuses to protest investments in firms doing business in South Africa. UW-Madison was not a target of the protest because regents dropped UW holdings in such firms several years ago. The effort here was to have included a boycott of classes. Arthur Hove, an aide to the chancellor, said of the boycott: "We saw no reason to monitor it, but we got no reports of greater than usual absences." About 450 demonstrators gathered for a "teach-in" on Bascom Hill Wednesday morning before the larger group marched eight to 10 abreast up State Street starting about 12:30 p.m., filling the roadway and at times occupying more than a city block. Jamming into the rotunda, the group shouted "divest now" as they clapped their hands, the sound roaring through the marble halls. Later in the afternoon, 60 or 70 of the group occupied the governor's conference room in the Capitol, next to the governor's office, until they were told they could spend the night in the rotunda. The conference room is normally closed at 5 p.m., the Capitol building at 8 p.m. Seizure of the room by the group had forced postponement of a State Building Commission meeting Gov. Anthony Earl was to have chaired. The decision of the demonstrators not to force a confrontration with Cap'itol police came after State Rep. Marcia Coggs, D-Milwaukee, read a statement from Earl saying he supports policies putting the state on record against apartheid (racial segregation) in South Africa. When several demonstrators said they wanted to remain in the conference room to hold it as a "bargaining chip," Ms. Coggs, who is black, told them, "If you want tb help the cause, you'd better leave." Ms. Coggs, who had met earlier with Earl, is a primary author of a bill (AB 54) calling for divestiture. It was sent back.to committee last month and its fate is uncertain. In his statement, Earl said he would sign that bill. "I view any break with the status quo to be desirable at this time," he added. Earl met with Steve Swift, a Madison Area Technical College student representing the demonstrators, but refused to meet with the group. When the demonstrators gathered in the rotunda, one speaker said Wisconsin has invested about $2 billion in firms doing business in South Africa. "We demand Wisconsin divest itself immediately of all funds invested in South Africa," he declared, to thuriTurn to Page 2, Col. 1

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After serving, surviving, vet strives

slightly faded "Miller"' across the front, and the art studio dominate much of the property. "Our house looks friendly," says MERRIMAC - At dusk the hills Miller, dressed in jeans and blue sport along Highway 78 are a reminder of shirt with a Vietnam Veterans of the central highlands of Vietnam, America patch across his heart. where Americans fought some of the Miller, who looks more like a fiercest battles of the war. strapping labor leader than point man On these 18 acres of gentle terrain for the Madison Chapter of the Vietin Columbia County, Thomas F. nam Veterans of America, one of WisMiller seems to have made his peace consin's more active veterans' with himself and his country after groups, is neither hero nor malconthe tragic loss of a fellow Marine, his tent. own right eye and the youthful idealHe considers himself among that ism that drew him to Vietnam in 1965. fortunate lot of men who perservered The tired, unkempt farmhouse, through one of America's most unpurchased by Miller and his wife, popular wars and is able to analyze Elizabeth, in September 1974, has its searing consequences. been transformed into a comfortable, He served, he survived, he marspacious and functional home for adventure for the Miller children, ried and he fathered a string of their family of four and dog Misty. Seth, 5, and Samantha, 2. Ten Arabian horses, the family achievements not shared by thouThe sloping front lawn and orchard out back are an invitation to trailer, a big brown barn with a sands of dthers sent thousands of By Paul A. Rix Of The State Journal

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miles to a mysterious land. "I came back as one to save the world from communism, but I changed." For Thomas Miller, 44, Milwaukee native and graphic artist, the inner hurt remains from a war that disrupted his world at such a young age while killing many of his comrades. There is a lingering, almost selfimposed guilt over the inexplicable death of Jack Swender, a fellow Marine from Kansas City, Kan., in a small market town south of Chu Lai the week before Christmas 1965. There are no visible signs of the post-war trauma of other combatscarred veterans whose existence depends on constant medical or psychiatric care. And there is pride in knowing that he has provided for himself and his
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