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Kickers win, lose. 15 See interview p. 8 Castles in the sand. 20 Vol. 28, No. 9 October 4, 1983 Lebanon compromise Did Congress bargain awayus war powers? by Kevin Liner sets limits on president's war- East history became a secondary An interpretive report making powers by: issue for American observers of — setting a 60-day limit on the war. On that day, two Marines Who emerged the winner last keeping U.S. troops in an over were killed in a mortar barrage. week when Congress and Presi seas war zone without specific According to the terms of the War dent Reagan compromised on the congressional authorization; Powers Act, Reagan should have War Powers Act? — setting an additional 30-day them started the 60-day clock Was it President Reagan, who deadline for withdrawing all ticking. Subsequently, he should now has congressional approval to troops if Congress has not ap have sought congressional ap keep U.S. forces in Lebanon for up proved their presence; proval for any troop involvement to 18 months? — requiring the president to there beyond the end of October. Was it Congress, which finally start the clock on the time limits Reagan did not invoke the War got a president to recognize the as soon as U.S. personnel become Powers Act on Aug. 29, nor has he validity of the 1973 War Powers involved in hostilities. done so since. Under the com legislation, and in doing so, This starting of the clock also promise worked out last week A request was demonstrated in a "Walkathon For Survival" maintained some control over his represents the actual invocation of between Congress and the White Saturday to reduce military spending through a ten mile walk in authority to declare the wage the act, which is only words until House, it was Congress who downtown Milwaukee. (See related story, page 11.) war? action is taken. actually invoked the act. What's Post photo by Kim Bakke Even if the nature of this latest These are the basic conditions more, under the compromise the struggle between the executive of the law; but what has actually clock starts when Reagan signs it, and legislative branches was happened in regard to the law's not when the Marines died in Late-term abortion bill purely political, the answer would application to the Lebanon situa battle. be hard to find. tion? So who won the political bat However, the greater conflict — U.S. Marines have been in tle—Reagan or Congress? debated at public hearing the one being fought in Lebanon Lebanon for over a year. Reagan That depends. If Reagan really by Phyllis Krueser tee, said she opposed the bill. by more than a dozen nations and said they were there as part of his only wants the troops there to act "I am not supporting legislation numerous sub-factions—must be overall Middle East peace plan. in a U.N. capacity as a peacekeep The controversial issue of abor that is telling women what to do taken into account to put last Only now, he says, has Lebanon ing force (and there is very little tion is once again being debated wfth their own bodies," Coggs week's events in Washington in become a major battleground in 'peace' to 'keep' there these days, in Wisconsin. said. true perspective. its own right. even under the current cease Pro-choice and anti-abortion ad Adding that some anti-abortion This is where the issues sur While it's true that the latest fire) , then Congress is the clear vocates expressed their views on a legislators wanted to conduct rounding the War Powers Act round of the civil war resumed winner. It will have done what bill prohibiting abortion in public hearings throughout the state, become clouded, for it is here that only weeks ago, the same deep- congresses since 1973 have not hospitals at a hearing in Madison Coggs said doing so would be a personal motives and foreign in rooted social and religious differ been able to do: obtain a presi Sept. 27 costly expenditure to the tax terests come into the picture. ences which are now causing dent's signature on an applied use Under Assembly Bill 148, pre payers. bloodshed and international ten of the War Powers Act, thereby sented to the Family and Econ Michael Bowen, legal adviser to Act limits president sions have been present in Leban validating it. omic Assistance Committee, abor Wisconsin Citizens Concerned for The War Powers Act was on for many centuries. tions to save the life of the mother Life, supports the bill because it Reagan hesitant, desperate would still be permitted. passed in 1973 at the height of limits abortion permissibility. congressional opposition to the Deaths started conflict The White House says Reagan State Rep. Marcia Coggs (D- U.S. presence in Vietnam. The act On Aug. 29, though, Middle jTurn to p. 10| Milwaukee), chair of the commit- Bowen said the Supreme Court has ruled that abortions can be prohibited in public hospitals if they are available in the private sector. Tots offer 'kids-eye' view of university life "The bill would also halt the aggressive, pro-abortion policy at Madison public hospitals," bv Dana Kader Bowen said, claiming the policy has resulted in live births from Never let it be said that children don't have definite opinions on late-term abortions. nearly every topic in the world. The 4 to 6-year-olds in Leann Turner's room at the UWM Day Care Center are no exception. A spokesperson from Planned Whether they plan to take Comp. 101 or they think the average Parenthood who opposed the bill college student is "13, 14 or maybe 27," the kids know exactly what testified that it would virtually goes on in "that big building across the street." eliminate the availability of And what does go on? second trimester hospital abor According to Nicole, five, we "study in the halls and eat lunch." tions in Wisconsin. the others all agreed that the students take classes and tests. The spokesperson said that "I think they go to class but first they drink beer and play video abortions performed late in the games," one youngster said. second trimester are those that It was a general consensus that you had to be smart to get into are the most problematic and are UWM. However, it is not necessary to be rich. usually performed due to the Sarah, five and one-half, thought that most students had to have a diagnosis of a genetically car of else they couldn't go to school. But Makenzie, six, figured defective fetus or in order to they'd let anyone in who knew their numbers. prevent the severe impairment of Most of the kids guessed that college students are about 20 years a woman's health. old. Lutherans for Life issued a "I think they're about 20 but maybe one's 30," Luke, five and statement that said taxpayers are one-half, said. appalled at the number of abor Makenzie thought the girls were about 32 and the boys were tions being performed at publicly- probably 33. funded hospitals. The group said Out of the six youngsters interviewed, two knew the name of the that people were shocked by the college. One of the remaining four suggested that it was called live births that occurred at two "U.S.A." Madison public hospitals within All of the children plan to attend the University when they're the past 17 months. older. Kate, four, said she is going to study Comp. 101 because that Although the abortions are paid is what her mother teaches. However, her goal is to be a tap-dancer. for by insurance or private Other future occupations include a waitress, teacher, nurse, police monies, Wisconsin citizens should lady, an acrobat ("cause I'm good on the monkey bars"), a crossing not be required to have such guard and a combination nurse/ballet dancer. It was agreed that "absurdities" performed in a people go to college to get smart but Dria, five, summed it up best public facility which they are when she said, "they're not smart enough so they go to school 'til helping to support, the group A rare siqhton the UWM campus—a vehicle of transportation that they're smart enough," said hasn't beei t'.rketed or towed away for this student. Smart enough for what, Dria? Committee action on this bill is Post photo b Annie Belke "I don't know," she said.