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Bowling Green State University ScholarWorks@BGSU BG News (Student Newspaper) University Publications 4-15-1983 The BG News April 15, 1983 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 April 15, 1983" (1983). BG News (Student Newspaper). 4128. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/4128 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. THE FRIDAY BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY APRIL 15,1983 Bffl! iii — Arms director elected WASHINGTON (AP) - Kenneth Ad- possibly assemble. Unless we put Critics charged that the nominee, elman was confirmed 57-42, as the forward our best effort, our best who was apolitical scientist with the nation's arms control director yester- team, this may be our last hope for Stanford Research Institute before day after a long Senate fight over mankind." joining the Reagan administration, President Reagan's strategic policies would be the least qualified director as well as the young ambassador's SEN. GARY HART, D-Colo., Adel- in the 21-year history of the anna competence and credibility. man said "appears to be more ded- control agency. Reagan pronounced himself icated to an arms buildup than to At his second hearing on Feb. 3, he "deeply gratified" and declared "It's reducing the hazards of unrestricted Bve more definitive answers, saying my earnest hope that this positive competition.'' His nomination by Rea- had been "overly cautious" the step will mark the beginning of a new gan, Hart said, "signifies a serious first time around. bipartisan consensus on the vital is- lack of concern for the efficacy of The critics were not mollified. On sue of nuclear arms reductions." arms control negotiation." Feb. 24, after a third hearing in which The president said Adelman would Sen. Charles Percy, R-Dl., chair- Adelman denied any recollection of a head a "reinvigorated" Arms Control man of the Senate Foreign Relations newspaper interview quoting him as and Disarmament Agency. And "If Committee who led the fight for the calling arms control talks a sham, the we are met with reciprocal serious- nomination, said Adelman's confir- Republican-controlled committee re- ness of purpose from the Soviet mation would "vigorously move the fused on a 9-8 vote to endorse him. Union, 1983 can be a year of historic Reagan administration toward arms To give the Senate a chance to vote, importance in securing a more solid control agreements that can win the opponents and supporters of Adelman and stable peace through arms reduc- approval of the Senate." joined in a motion to send the nomi- tions," Reagan said. Vice President George Bush, who nation to the floor with a recommen- Forty-nine Republicans and 8 Dem- as president of the Senate was em- dation that it be rejected. ocrats supported Adelman and 38 powered to cast a tie-breaking vote, Democrats and four Republicans presided over the climactic roll call THE CONTROVERSY increased voted against him. but his vote was not needed to assure when it was disclosed that Edward confirmation. Rowny, chief U.S. negotiator in strat- FOUR DEMOCRATIC senators Adelman, 36, deputy U.S. ambassa- egic arms reduction talks, had given with presidential ambitions spoke dor to the United Nations since 1981, Adelman a memo on Jan. 14 suggest- against Adelman in the. closing hours was nominated by Reagan on Jan. 12 ing personnel changes in the agency. of a three-day debate over the nomi- to succeed the ousted Eugene Rostow Adelman said be took no action on nation. as director of the Arms Control and tile memo and Rowny said it was a Senate Democratic Whip Alan Disarmament Agency. staff-written paper be did not agree Cranston of California argued that with. Adelman, however, sent the Adelman's confirmation "would be a AT HIS first hearing before the memo to J. Robinson West, Assistant betrayal of the hopes of tens of mil- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Secretary of the Interior, with a note lions of Americans for swift progress on Jan. 27, Adelman testified he did saying it represented Rownys's "real toward a mutual, balanced, verifiable not know whether nuclear war could views." Greek games BQ Mews Photo/Patrick Sandor end to the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms be limited, whether the Soviet Union Opponents of the nomination said race.' was violating the unratified SALT U this conflicted with Adelman's testi- Jim Dam (left), junior computer science major, and Gayle Blickle. freshman liberal arts major, Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, said, "We arms control treaty or what his re- mony that he had not discussed try to pass each other a life saver on a toothpick as a judge looks on, yesterday while competing should be putting forward... not sponse would be if the Soviets pro- agency personnel. His supporters said in the greek games competitions held at Anderson Arena. someone who can just get by, but the posed eliminating all nuclear it bore out his claims, since he had the very finest negotiating team we can weapons. memo filed away. Death awaits five sentenced men in southern Ohio COLUMBUS (AP) - The prisoners The five share the distinction of County, and April 4,1984, for 28-year- have been there since 1973," Stebbins eligible for post-conviction reviews at a tape player," Marshall said. in ceUblock J-4 at the Southern Ohio being the first men sentenced to die old Donald Lee Maurer of MassUlon. said. the state level and a federal habeas Correctional Facility pass their days under Ohio's death penalty law, which Like Jenkins, 21-year-old John For death row Inmates willing to corpus review. He said lawyers can But death row inmates are confined eating the same food and listening to became affective October 1981. Jen- Glenn of Portage County also has fight their convictions, the appeals ask for multiple reviews, depending to their cells more than other in- the same music as every other in- kins the first sentenced to death, this been granted an indefinite stay. process is lengthy, Stebbins said. on whether new issues surface that mates, leaving only for three showers mate. But for a few of them, those week was granted an indefinite stay David Stebbins, a lawyer with the Attorneys for all of Ohio's death row might help their clients. and two one-hour exercise periods days are numbered. of execution pending a court appeal. Ohio Public Defenders Commission, inmates have filed appeals at the each week and to receive visitors. Four men, ranging in age from 19 to The earliest execution date is Sept. said it actually could be years before local level, but none has gone beyond Ron Marshall, Lucasville superin- 42, occupy the death row cells in 12, when 19-year-old Bill Wayne Penix any Ohioan is put to death. He said no the initial stages, he said. If local tendent, said prisoners on death row Marshall said death row inmates ceUblock J-4 at Ohio's maximum-se- of Springfield is scheduled to be elec- one has been executed under Ken- appeals are lost, lawyers can pursue are housed in a ceUblock with inmates can receive visits by the prison chap- curity prison at LucaavUle. A fifth trocuted for the bludgeoning death of tucky's capital punishment law, the cases through the Ohio Supreme deemed unable to adjust to the rest of lain if they ask, but he said they inmate who faces a death sentence, a Pennsylvania man. which became effective in 1976. Court and the U.S. Supreme Court. the prison population. Their treat- haven't used that privilege much. "It Leonard Jenkins of Cleveland, is kept EVEN IF the U.S. Supreme Court ment is not significantly different hasn't been noticeable... at this in the prison infirmary because be is a EXECUTIONS are scheduled Oct. "And there are people on death row upholds the convictions and the death than that for other inmates, he said. point because none of them are very paraplegic. 29 for Billy Rogers, 42, of Lucas in some of the Southern states who sentence, Stebbins said, inmates are "They have a radio. They can have close to being executed," he said. NEWS IN BRIEF -r—mw^-itmimf^ Musicians return Best-selling author, humorist to speak at commencement The singing duo known to many by Mark 61 Vlaceaso essarily have a political message to as their commencement speaker. subject matter from the hassles of mencement speech - will address the University students as Ken and staff reporter give," he added. There are sometimes problems daily life in New York City, her books largest graduating class in the Uni- Stacey will return to campus Satur- According to Edwards there is no with government officials, Edwards and magazine articles focus a cynical versity's history at Doyt L. Perry day, April 16, in the Falcon's Nest A regular viewer of the television selection committee to choose com- said, because, depending on the fast- eye on universal gripes. Stadium. of the University Union. show Late Night With David Utter- mencement speakers because it gets changing developments in the world Ken Cowden. a former lead man may tune In to see best-selling to be too complicated. "We have no today, they may not show up. When LEBOVITZ, who has been de- As of Feb.