Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 1

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Wednesday November 91983 VCU tabbed to capture Sun Belt title El Someone pays for couponing D1 IUs- Uane Byrne not soft Cl TV E6 Amuse B3 Final Edition 25 Cents Post-Herald Demos lose 7 legislative seats Unofficial returns showed: Biddle 1924 Earl Cheatwood 1AM Ken Trucks 1471 Republican Billy Gray a lieutenant in the Birmingham Fire Department apparently won in a traditionally Democratic area House District 45 in eastern Birmingham' defeating freshman Rep George Layton former president of Jefferson State Junior College in the past although the area has become more Republican in recent years The results: White 7771 Paul Carlisle 824 Gilbert Mobley 801 Republican Sen Spencer Bach us of Vesta-via was successful in his move from the Senate to the House defeating Democrat David Melton of Vestavia a newcomer to area politics in District 46 traditionally a Republican area SEtfATErWlNNERS S- By Ted Bryant Psat-HanMKaportir The Democratic Party lost Mg in Jefferson County in legislative election losing seven of 14 contested seats to Republicans or independent candidates unofficial return showed last night Among those apparently defeated was Democratic Rep JT Waggoner of Vesta via a 17-year veteran of the House chairman of the Jefferson County delega-1 tin and member of the House Ways and Means Committee Waggoner was defeated by Greg Beers of Hoover a Republican and member of the fundamentalist Shades Mountain Independent Church the seat of the Moral Majority of Alabama Unofficial returns showed: Beers Darden defeats Mrs McDonald Story page A9 Other election stories page B2 In the hottest contested race Democratic Sen Mac Parsons prevailed defeating independent Ton Gloor former legislator and chairman of the Jefferson County Commission Unofficial returns showed: Parsons 7274 Gloor Veteran Rep Jack Biddle of Gardendale rejected by the State Democratic Executive Committee when be sought the nomination won as an independent candidate over Democratic and Republican Son Earl HUIlard 8onato20 Son Mm Paraona Sonata 17 i The results: Gray 3524 The unofficial results: Backus Melton 1722 1118 836 651 George Laytou Fred Hughes hOUSElWINNERSj In addition to Biddle two independent candidates won in the county See LEGISLATURE page AS Gary White Republican Homewood City Council member won House District 55 which has been represented by Democrats 2427 Waggoner Demo hold on state retained Son Spancor Baehua Houm48 Grog Boors Hoino 41 Rap Jack Biddle I Houao 43 fvr' Hop Pat Davis HoumU v' BHty Gray Hoiim45 Rep Arthur Payno Homo 44 Goorgo Perdue Homo 54 Jack Pratt -Homo 49 -s'' Lowia Spratt I -v 1 -V" Houao 59 Rap HoytTrmmme 4- 7 Gary WhKo Houao 55 Republicans and independent candidates scored some major victories in special legislative election although not enough to threaten the Democratic hold on the Alabama Legislature Blacks also were increasing their legislative strength with the apparent addition of a senator from the Black Belt area of west-central Alabama in addition to a new black senator from Montgomery who did not have opposition Democrats easily maintained a superiority in both chambers of the Legislature and succeeded in electing the second woman ever to the Senate Frances Strong of Demopolis won over a Republican opponent and will Join GOP Sen Ann Bedsole of Mobile as the only women in the upper chamber Rap Jbn WrigM I Homo 50 'v ri These are the whiners of contested legislative races In Jefferson County yMMKlIlcMania Sen Mac Parsons See ELECTION page A8 Toni Gloor who lost in Senate District 17 watches TV vote tallies showing victory totals of his opponent Sjr Mt Moatgaairjr Bush breaks Senate tie funding for nerve gas OK'd A congressional conference committee will now have to negotiate the difference between the House and Sen-ate on the chemical warfare question The defense appropriations MU includes $7669 million in other funds for defensive measures against chemical warfare storage of older types of nerve gas and for continued research into binary weapons The debate on some of the deadliest weapons in the arsenal took place against the backdrop of workmen in rooms behind the Senate chamber noisily shoveling and sweeping debris caused by a bomb explosion Monday night See NERVE GAS page A2 Similarly Republican Alfonse D' Amato of New York had voted against nerve gas production on a procedural tally minutes earlier but then switched on the proposal to restore funding The Republican-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee had sided with the House and recommended blocking nerve gas funding and continuing the 14-year freexe by the United States on the production of chemical weapons But John Tower E-Texas chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee successfully moved to restore money for the nerve gas weapons to a 82525 billion defense MIL AaodattiPm WASHINGTON The Senate approved 47-46 yesterday the production of new nerve gas weapons as Vice President George Bush cast the deciding vote on the issue for the second time in four months The House earlier rejected the $124 million program assailed by opponents as gruesome immoral and a threat more to civilians than sddien But the decision Mowed arguments by President Reagan and others that the bombs and artillery shells should be produced to prod the Soviet Union into a negotiated reduction of chemical Both of Alabama's senators Democrat Howell Hel-fin and Republican Jeremiah Denton voted to approve the production la a rare and dramatic repeat of his constitutional rote as president of the Senate Bush made the difference Just as be did July IS in a 50-49 vote on a defense authorisation bilL Each vote was watched carefully by administration supporters and when conservative Jesse Helms R-NC voted with nerve gas opponents he was chased fey a number of Republicans as he left the floor Helms returned and changed his vote Bombing prompts tighter security office of Robert Byrd the Senate minorty leader Smith said the explosion appeared to have been caused by dynamite and Sen Jeremiah Denton R-Ala said he learned that three to seven sticks were used The bomb was set several hours earlier Smith said and a pocket watch apparently was used for a timer A group that identified itself as the Armed Resistance Unit called The Washington Post Monday night and claimed responsibility for the bombing The caller said the bombing was in support of the struggle against United States military aggression in Grenada and Lebanon See BOMB pap A2 All visitors to the House and Senate galleries will be asked to remove overcoats before passing through a second set of metal detectors that have been in place for some tone and they will be instructed to open Jackets By the end of the year Smith said anyone who enters the Capitol with the exception of members of Congress wUl have to wear an identification badge Meanwhile the FBI and Capitol Police said they had no dear idea who was responsible for the bombing On Capitol Hill congressional leaders said they deplored the incident which occurred at about 11 pm just outside the By Joel Brinkley Nm Yarfc TlmH Nmh ShvIg WASHINGTON As workers cleaned up the rubble from a bombing Monday night outside the Senate chamber in the Capitol the leadership of the Senate and House yesterday approved new security regulations for the building Larry Smith the sergeant-at-arms said that from now on visitors would be admitted through only tour of the Capitol's doors Before 10 entrances were open to visitors Metal detectors will be installed Inside the four doors and no longer will lobbyists or tourists be allowed in the hallways Just outside the House and Senate Chambers on the second floor Arafat won't fight if rebels halt push 1000 dead and 3000 wounded in and around Tripoli since fighting began Thursday Official sources in Tripoli who insisted on anonymity said Syrian President Hafes Assad whose troops have been supporting the mutineers has refused to meet with an Arab delegation pleading for a truce But Tunisian government sources in Tunisia said Assad had agreed to see the ministers The mutineers claim Arafat has abandoned the PLO's struggle to reclaim a homeland from IsraeL Arafat claims Syria is manipulating the mutiny and wants to dominate the PLO Syria denies 1L See LEBANON page A2 his Tripoli office several hours after the broadcast have agreed with those attending the meeting to spare Tripoli from i raid Arafat who earlier had vowed to fight to the death to defend his only remaining bastion of guerrilla support "You have my word that I will do anything to avert a bloodbath ia Tripoli" The port city of 500000 is 50 mites north of Beirut the Lebanese capitaL Despite Arafat's overtures mutineers pressed their artillery barrage raining shells around the remains of his Baddawi refugee camp and on Tripoli itself Loyalists fired back with rockets and mortars Police uid the PLO war has left at least AaocUUd Praa TRIPOLI Lebanon PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat said yesterday that to avert a bloodbath be will stop fighting Syrian-supported mutineers If the rebels halt their push into Tripoli his last Middle East stronghold will fight only in the Palestine Liberation Organization leader told reporters after meeting with Tripoli's political And religious figures They appealed for a cease-fire between Arafat loyalists and those who want to topple him The right-wing Christian Phalange radio reported that Arafat had left Tripoli by niane hut renorten saw the PLO leader in Wefcad HdiaUaa Beginning another term Mayor Richard Arrington takes the oath of office while his wife Rachel looks on Nearly 3000 people attended Arrington's inaugural for a second term as mayor last night at BoutwelJ Auditorium Story page A8.