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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 3-21-1986 The BG News March 21, 1986 Bowling Green State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news Recommended Citation Bowling Green State University, "The BG News March 21, 1986" (1986). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4507. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4507 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in BG News (Student Newspaper) by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Tumblers to defend MAC title, see page 4 THE BG NEWS Vol. 68 Issue 100 Bowling Green, Ohio Friday, March 21,1986 House defeats contra aid, 222-210 WASHINGTON (AP) - A sharply di- us victory," he said. House Speaker request last year, but later - after Ni- their doorstep." he said. "And one day O'Neill: "Today, you're wrong, you're vided House, on a 222-210 vote yester- Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., who ted the caraguan leader Daniel Ortega paid a in the not too distant future that aware- wrong, you're wrong... A month from day, defeated President Reagan's plan opposition, promised an April 15 vote in visit to Moscow - approved $27 million ness will come home to the House of now will be too late because the com- to send $100 million in military aid to the House. in non-lethal aid. Representatives.'' munists are already mobilizing for an Nicaraguan rebels. The dramatic set- The setback for Reagan might be The vote followed two days of often offensive." back followed two weeks of intense temporary since the Senate is sched- SPEAKES SAID Reagan will press bitter debate that ended with O'Neill Although the House vote represented personal lobbying by the president. uler to take up the issue next week. But "again and again until this battle is saying Reagan's plan "takes us further a defeat for Reagan's Nicaraguan pol- Presidential spokesman Larry the vote, nonetheless, represented Rea- won, until freedom is given the chance down the road to a situation where our icy, O'Neill apparently won some last- Speakes said the administration will gan's most serious foreign policy re- that it deserves in Nicaragua ... troops will be involved." minute votes by promising a new round not abandon the fight. 'We're gaining versal in Congress. "The American people have begun to House Minority Leader Bob Michel, of votes on alternative aid proposals on converts, and the next battle will bring Congress initially rejected his aid awaken to the danger emerging on R-Ill., responded to D See AM, page 3. Student Vote praised chapter recognized by committee Group raises awareness on Cental America by Ron Coulter by Jared O. Wadley "Nicaragua: Sandinistas, Con- staff reporter staff reporter tras and U.S." "He gave a personal overview The national Council of Learn- The Social Justice Committee of his trip to Nicaragua in 1964 ing Disabilities has officially received some unexpected news during the elections," Szittai recognized the University's stu- during the national Central said. dent chapter, making it the first American Week. He said Tierney's program nationally sanctioned student The House of Representatives also included a debate about CLD chapter in the nation. voted 222 to 210 yesterday why the United States should Sarah Harnden, chapter presi- against President Reagan's re- stop aiding the contras. dent and senior special educa- quest for $100 million aid for the Central America: Who is tion major, said the group was contras in Nicaragua. that knocking on our back granted national recognition Brian Szittai, a member of the door?" was the title of the pro- earlier this month at a meeting Social Justice Committee, said gram given Tuesday by Mar- of the CLD in Columbus. he was glad to hear about the cena Kudlinskia, a vote. representative of the Project Harnden said some of the "I'm glad to see Congress Deliverance. ?oals of the student CLD chapter stand up in the name of justice," Szittai said Deliverance is an SCLD) are to get involved with he said. "The battle isn't over organization in central Ohio learning disabled children, es- yet because there will be an- working to help refugees find tablish a liaison with educatio- other vote on April IS. It does, political asylum in Canada. nal organizations outside the however, buy the opposition Political asylum is giving a CLD and talk to teachers who more time." refugee the legal rights of a work in the field of special edu- Szittai said in order to raise citizen in a host country, he said. cation. the consciousness of the Univer- The refugee has the permission Harnden said the SCLD is also sity students, the Social Justice to reside there until the host trying to increase underclass Committee sponsored several country feels that it's safe to membership, raise funds and programs this week celebrating return to his homeland. establish a community out- Central America. "Canada will grant refugees reach. from Central America political The chapter, which was orga- FREE LITERATURE, peti- asylum as well as permanent nized in September, has brought tions and buttons for sale were residence to stay indefinitely," in special education teachers to on display at an information Szittai said. speak to the group, she said. table in the Union Oval through- The Social Justice Committee Harnden said the SCLD will BG News/Jacqule Pearson out the week. set up the "crosses of sorrow benefit the University's special Crosses of hope Szittai said Paul Tierney, and nope" Wednesday in the education program. To demonstrate sorrow toward violence in Central America, Rita Norton, freshman radio/television/film chairman of the Toledo Area Union Oval to commemorate the "The information we gain by major, with the help of three others, hung a banner in the Union Oval yesterday. The banner, surrounded by Committee on Central America, deaths of thousands of Central asking special education teach- one large and several small crosses, read, "We mourn the thousands of lives lost to political violence in started Central American Week Americans who perished as the ers about new teaching methods Central America since 1980 ... We hope for peaceful solutions to the unrest in Central America, a stop to Monday with a presention on result of political violence. O See SCLD, page 3. the killing and respect for human rights." Experts examine Nuclear war called not winnable by Ron Coulter a "nuclear winter," he said. Challenger debris staff reporter Myers said scientists esti- mate that temperatures A nuclear war on even a would decrease 25 to 30 de- 500-pound piece possibly key section small scale would cause se- grees Celsius, freezing fresh vere climatic disturbances water supplies and killing that would plunge the Earth even the heartiest plants. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. the seven crew members. into a "nuclear winter." "Agriculture would come to (AP)-Rocket specialists yes- The USS Preserver continued Thus, there is no such thing as a swift and complete stands- terday began examining a 500- the search yesterday for more a "winnable" nuclear war. till," Myers said. pound piece of debris from one cabin debris and crew remains. according to environmental "Imagine yourself getting of Challenger's booster rockets The shattered cabin was located consultant, Norman Myers. into a refrigerator, closing to determine if it is the key two weeks ago 18 miles north- Myers, who spoke in the the door behind you and stay- section with the joint believed to east of here. 100 feet below the University planetarium this ing in there for three months. have caused the shuttle explo- Atlantic surface. week, has served as a consul- Then, when you get hungry, sion. tant to the U.S. State Depart- you look around and find you Out of deference to the fami- ment and Department of have no food. That's what The broken 4-by-Moot part lies, NASA officials have re- Energy, the World Bank and nuclear winter would be was brought into port along with fused to acknowledge that the Smithsonian Institution. like." two larger booster pieces astronaut remains have been He has written several MYERS SAID some South- Wednesday night by the salvage recovered, but sources close to books, as well as articles for ern hemisphere countries ship Stena Workhorse. the investigation said most of The New York Times, Na- might be able to maintain Even before the wreckage was the remains are ashore and are tional Geographic, Life mag- enough agriculture to sur- unloaded, experts began study- being examined and identified azine and various vive. ing the smaller piece to try to by pathologists. professional journals. Myers said that world nu- learn if it was part of the left or Myers, a native of England, clear arsenals total 18,000 me- right booster rocket. Officials Five other surface ships and said the conclusion of a panel gatons. One megaton, he said. said that probably could not be two small manned submarines that he attended, which in- equals one million tons of determined until a more thor- continued to hunt for and re- cluded Carl Sagan and Paul TNT, and is equal to 80 Hiro- ough examination was made in a trieve more wreckage in the Erlich, was that "a sizeable shima-sized bombs. hangar. search area which extends from nuclear exchange could elim- Putting the issue in per- about 15 miles to 50 miles north- inate all life in the northern spective, he said that even a Engineers of the National east of here.