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A-0 The Post-Crescent, Aopleton-Neenoh-Menosho. Wis. Thursday, Feb. 18,1988 Contra plan keeps aid at same level WASHINGTON (AP) A new package of purely 'humanitarian" aid being drafted by House Democrats for Nicaragua's Contra rebels will continue supplying the resistance at the current rate of about $1.8 million a month. But House Speaker Jim Wright said Wednesday that other crucial questions about the aid package, which is scheduled to come to the House floor next week, remain unanswered.

Unresolved are such difficult issues as how the aid will be delivered, its duration and what kinds of incentives might be offered to Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista government to encourage compliance with a regional peace accord. "It is taking shape," Wright, D-Texas, said of the proposal. A group of House members, primarily Democrats, has been meeting daily to work year civil war. Wright said under consideration as well is a possible lifting of trade sanctions against Nicaragua and economic aid to other countries in the region, contingent on fulfillment of promises of democratization made in the five-nation peace agreement. But he emphasized that such moves could be made only with the "enthusiastic" backing of the administration, which would be charged with carrying them out.

So far, the administration and Re-publican congressional leaders have declined to participate in drafting the legislation. Wright said the bill will seek to provide "balanced incentives" to encourage both the Contras and the Sandinistas to work out a cease-fire and live up to the peace agreement signed last Aug. 7. out details of the bill, which was promised as an alternative to the administration's $36.2 million aid package rejected Feb. 4.

In contrast with the administration's package, which included $3.6 million for ammunition and anti-aircraft missiles and millions more for non-lethal military supplies, Wright's proposal would be limited to food, clothing and medical supplies and assistance. The $1.8 million monthly figuredoes not include transportation costs, which currently are costing a like amount each month but could be lower if the aid were delivered by an international, neutral organization such as the Red Cross. Rep. David Bonior, who is leading the drafting sessions, said the bill also will include a program to aid children injured during the six- Inventor in potent bottle over 'energy machine' WASHINGTON (AP) An inventor who claims he has devised a machine that produces more energy than it uses says he will appeal a judge's refusal to force the government to give him a patent for his invention. "Iam pleased the judge has finally ruled because I am counting on getting up to the higher court," Joseph W.

Newman said Wednesday after U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson rejected his lawsuit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. "I was very certain he was going to be consistent and rule against me," said Newman, 51, of Lucedale, Miss. Jackson upheld the Patent Office's refusal to grant a patent for the device, saying there was insufficient scientific evidence to support Newman's claim the machine converted matter into energy.

Patent exam iners rejected Newman's application after ruling that such a machine would violate the second law of thermodynamics. That la of phys ics holds that energy is inevitably consumed by any mechanical process so that a machine cannot produce more energy than is used to power it. The same law rules out the existence of similar, so-called "perpetual motion" machines that some inventors have claimed at various times to have produced. Newman and his attorney, John Flannery, contended that Jackson had improperly rejected the findings of court-appointed expert William Schuyler, himself a former patent commissioner, that the machine worked as Newman claimed it did. "Wehave an expert who agrees with our view and we have a district court judge's opinion that differs with that," Flannery said.

"So I think we will have to go the Court of Appeals for a tie-breaker." Sedition trial's star witness a liar: defense i tt to i 'A; CCD ''Jr My family and I would like to thank all of you who prayed for me, worked for me, and supported me in Tuesday's Primary. Your support is greatly appreciated. Beam is among 10 men charged with conspiring to overthrow the government by force starting at a 1983 meeting attended by Beam, Ellison and others. Beam said he never met Ellison until that meeting and knows nothing of any conspiracy. "It's a good story, but that's all it is," Beam said.

Conspiracy to overthrow the government has a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Miller and four others are charged with conspiring to murder a judge and an FBI agent who played a part in the prosecution of people who harbored a man wanted in North Dakota for the slayings of two U.S. marshals. The maximum penalty for that charge is life imprisonment. One man, Richard Wayne Snell, is charged in both incidents.

The government and five of the defendants made their opening statements Wednesday, the second day of a trial expected to last three months. Assistant U.S. Atty. Steve Snyder said in his statement that Ellison talked about the poisoning scheme in 1983 at an Aryan Nations convocation in Hayden Lake, Idaho, with Richard G. Butler and Robert Miles, Snyder said.

Butler, 69, is the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations), while Miles, 63, is a former Ku Klux Klan official convicted in 1973 in the bombing of empty school buses in Pontiac, Mich. FORT SMITH. Ark. (AP) The defense in the sedition trial of 14 men linked with white supremacist groups told a federal jury that a key witness for the government's case is a liar who had himself crowned king of the Ozarks. The charge came during opening statements Wednesday in which the prosecutor said that leaders of white supremacist groups gathered in 1983 to discuss poisoning the water supplies of New York and Washington, D.C., and establishing an Aryan nation.

Louis Ray Beam 41, of Houston, a defendant, who is representing himself, told the U.S. District Court jury to expect "a fairy tale of lies" from the man he called the prosecution's star witness, James B. Ellison. Ellison, who is serving a 20-year prison term for racketeering and weapons offenses, was leader of an Arkansas-based group named The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord. Wayland Parker, attorney for de-! fendant Lambert Miller, said Ellison once went off into the woods, fasted and came out declaring that God had told him he was king of the Ozarks.

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