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Eastern Illinois University The Keep December 1986 12-5-1986 Daily Eastern News: December 05, 1986 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1986_dec Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: December 05, 1986" (1986). December. 5. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_1986_dec/5 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 1986 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in December by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ally Friday, December 5, 1986 ... will be mostly sunny with a high in the middle or up er 30s. Friday night _ . wrll be mosMy fair� with a low in the upper 20s. Eastern Illinois Unversity Charleston, Ill. 61920 Vol. 72, No. /Three Sections, Pages I rnNewI 64 24 Speakes says he will resign from position WASHINGTON (AP)-Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, who faced the daily gridiron of White House breifings longer than any of his recent predecessors, announced Thursday he is resigning to take an executive post with Merrill Lynch Co., the & Wall Street investment firm. Speakes, 47, had been negotiating for the senior vice presidency, which sources have said pays about $250,000 a year in salary and benefits, for two months. He plans to begin his new job Feb. 1. - President Reagan, when asked how he felt about his chief spokesman leaving in the midst of the furor over his secret arms sales to Iran and the diversion of profits to Nicaraguan rebels, smiled and told reporters: ''Congratulate him on getting a fine job." Speakes, announcing his decision at his daily mid day briefing, said the new job "comes as close to matching this as anything could.'' "Nothing could ever match this," he said of the ROBB MONTGOMERY I Staffphotographer $75,000-a-year job he has unabashedly adored, despite the constant grilling of the White House press ior speech communications major Dan Subway. Backstreet, a jazz/rock band, also corps, with which he has maintained a relationship performed an original comedy routine at performed at the show sponsored by the marked both by rancor and rapport. Yuletide Brouhaha Thursday night in the University Board. 'first Administration sources, asking to remain anonymous, have said Interior Undersecretary Ann Dore McLaughlin is Speakes' most likely successor if Band and comedians bring White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan keeps his job in the face of congressional pressure for his resignation over the handling of the secret weapons deal. rouhaha to Subway crowd McLaughlin worked for Regan when he was Larry May, base guitar; graduate assistant John treasury secretary and sources say she has been Schwabe, electric guitar; sophomore Kevin Hart, advising him on how deal with the present crisis . She a Ha Ha" could be heard in the Subway drums; and sophomore Kim Peterson, vocals, would be the first woman to run the White House day nig as senior Paul Martinsen, the first started playing together in the middle of Sep press office. t rmer wonh the Yuletide Brouhaha . tember but this was the band's first performance, Marlin Fitzwater, Vice President George Bush's artinsen jokingly said he got his start in the Wunder said. press secretary and another former Regan associate nd grade at a Catholic school by making wise After starting with some melodies, Peterson at Treasury, also has been mentioned as a prime sin the back of class. inspired the comedians by singing "My Funny candidate for Speakes' job. Some of the nuns were so old they had Valentine." Asked about his leaving in the midst of the current ographed pictures of Christ," Martinsen said. After Martinsen performed, senior Bill furor, Speakes said he considered that but decided e also commented on reruns of old sitcoms. Heilenbach got up and joked about relationships staying on for two months "would be quite a fair e professor on Gilligan's Island was so in and !onliness, but found no happy medium. time to let the president choose my successor" and 'gent that he could build anything but a boat." Heilenbach was followed by senior Pat Snyder "enough time to serve the president in the current Martinsen said he had thought about who sang a parody titled "I'm the Fetus" and situation." orminglthough for a couple of years, this was his first gave a Karl Malden commercial for "Trojan He added he had been discussing the position with ranee in fr ont of a microphone. Express." the brokerage house since early October, before the 'Back Street," a newly formed jazz/rock band More impressions were given by junior Dan current crisis arose. prised of Eastern students, opened for the Peters who featured a Jack Daniels employee, Speakes has been President Reagan's principal edians and played between acts. Sammy Davis Jr., The Three Stooges and Star spokesman since press secretary James S. Brady was Senior Steve Wunder, saxaphone; freshman Trek. critically wounded in the assassination attempt against Reagan on March 30, 1981. udent Senate and faculty argue oral proficiency bill Illinois Board of Higher Education in Earlier this week, the Faculty Senate students should be able to understand Springfield, said in a telephone in voted 12-1 for a resolution opposing instructors," she said, but she resentatives of the Student terview Thursday, "Each system the oral proficiency bill. questioned how Eastern would ad and Faculty Senate are in sharp (governing boards of each Illinois Senate Chair Mary Wohlrabe said, minister and fund the program. eeement over the newly passed university) would begin to set up a "That (passage of the oral proficiency ''I would like to see how they are roficiency bill. program" to administer the oral bill) is terrible-I can't think of the going to administer the test,'' bill, approved by the Illinois proficiency law. words to say anything," when she Wohlrabe said. "The costly nature of Wednesday over Gov. James Hodel would not speculate when the learned of oral proficiency becoming this so incenses me. Eastern is so pson's veto, calls on the governing university boards would law. under-funded. How will they pay for ing boards of Illinois univer begin to implement oral proficiency Recently, Wohlrabe said the faculty th1s?" to create programs that ensure programs. senate sent a letter to State Rep. Mike Wohlrabe also questioned the oom instructors are proficient in Hodel said the IBHE had previously Weaver urging him to support the terminology in the bill. "I don't know ing English. submitted a report to both Illinois goyernor's veto because the oral what 'fluent' means. What about House voted 86-25 to override houses supporting the bill "to proficiency bill was "potentially someone who has a foreign accent?" pson's veto of the bill, making it strengthen undergraduate education discriminatory, costly" and the However, Student Body President The lllinois Senate overrode the through better teaching.'' method of implementation was not Mike Madigan said he was extremely last month. However, Eastern's faculty senate clear enough. pleased with the oral proficiency bill ss Hodel , deputy director of the does not share that view. "In spirit, the faculty senate believes (See STUDENT, page SA) Inside Readers' Poll Football Playoff EIU faces Kentucky. See page Your chance to speak. See page 3C. E. 18. l\sso4ciated Press Reagan says Cabinet members Sta.te/Natlon/World can plead fifth in Iran arms probe Honeywrell leaves South Africa WASHINGTON· (AP)-Senate investigators run the country. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa-Honeywell Inc. will quizzed the CIA's No. 2 man for four hours and Reagan, embroiled in the most serious sell its small operation here to a local firm and join the subpoenaed documents around the country his presidency, has defended his decision' exodus of American companies from South Africa, a Thursday in an expanding probe into the secret arms to Iran as part of a secret initiati company executive said Thursday. sale of arms to Iran and transfer of profits to establish ties with the strategically-placed · The sale to South African owners follows a,pattern set by Nicarauguan rebels. President Reagan said Gulf nation. But he says he was unaware General Motors Corp., IBM and dozens of other U.S. Cabinet officers are free to decide whether to money in connection with the sales w companies which bowed to disinvestment pressure from the invoke the Fifth Amendment when their turn funneled through a Swiss bank ace anti-apartheid movement and to poor economic conditions. comes to testify. Contra rebels battling the Nicaraguan A major S9>uth African industrial group, Murray and A long-distance disagreement surfaced ment. Roberts, is t6 purchase the Honeywell operation for an within the administration over the roots of the The money was made available at ti a undisclosed amount and all 175 employees probably will controversial Iranian arms policy. Whi1e House direct and indirect goverment milit ry as a keep their jobs, said Markos Tambakeras, Honeywell's spokesman Larry Speakes said "we don't agree to the Contras was prohibited by law, local managing director. with" Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's was evidence that the Justice Departm At Honeywiell's Minneapolis headquarters, spokeswoman contention that Reagan acted on bad advice looking into the operations of a p Susan Eich said: "I think it's generally acknowledged that when he decided there were responsible officials financed support program for Contra the business environment in South Africa is volatile." to deal with Iran other than the "lunatics" who Nicaragua. Ice on wings caused plane crash WASHINGTON-Investigators believe the crash of a AIDS military charter that killed 248 U.S.