University Daily Kansan, March 8, 1985
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NATION AND WORLD
NEWS BRIEFS
Salvadoran colonel killed
SAN SALVADOR. El Salvador — Lt. Col. Ricardo Ciengtueg, chief army press spokesman, was shot to death by unidentified gunmen yesterday while playing tennis at a sports club, the Salvadoran Defense Ministry said.
The ministry gave no other details of the attack.
Cienfuegos was chief of the Press committee of COBRA, known as COBRA for or a year and a half.
Walesa to face strike charges
WARSAW, Poland — Authorities summoned Lech Walesa, founder of the outlawed Solidarity union, to appear at a state prosecutor's office to face charges for calling a strike that was later canceled, his spokesman said yesterday.
If convicted, Wallea could be sentenced to a maximum term of two years in jail.
The spokesman said Walesa received a written summons at his home in Gdansk informing him that he would face charges of inciting unrest for calling for a 15-minute general strike to protest food price hikes.
College papers scorn aid cuts
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Ivy League college newspapers, in a joint editorial published yesterday, said the Reagan administration's proposal to reduce student aid showed a lack of contact with reality.
The editorial said, "For most students receiving financial aid, the cuts would not mean giving up stereos and Florida's education. Education William Bennett has suggested."
The proposed cuts "would affect precisely those students for whom such luxuries are the dreams of displaced people, poor or poor on minority students," the editorial said.
Film spurs Spanish courtship
PLAN, Spain — A caravan of women arrived in this Pyrenees village yesterday in response to an advertisement placed by 140 of the town's lonely bachelors.
Plan has been hard hit by a steady migration of single women to Spanish
At a local tavern last January, some lonely bachelors took up a collection after watching "Westward Women" and placed a want ad in the provincial newspaper Heraldo de Aragon: "Women needed, between 20 and 40 years, to town in the Aragon Pyrenees. Answers taken from 8 to 10. Tel. 974-506048."
Compiled from United Press International reports.
By United Press International
Senate panel restores cuts in Reagan budget
WASHINGTON — The Senate Budget Committee, ravaging President Reagan's budget proposals for the fourth consecutive day, voted yesterday to save Amtrak, student loans and the Job Corps, but divided over Social Security
The committee rejected one proposal that would have frozen cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients, one that would have kept adjustments the way they are and one that would have struck a middle ground.
Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., budget committee chairman, had pushed the freeze as integral to his overall effort to cut at least $50 billion off the federal deficit. Domenici said he thought the members might switch
sides when the issue came up again next week.
Reagan, citing a campaign promise not to tamper with the program, is against the game.
"If they succeed in getting other changes they'll change some votes." Domenic said.
The vote to freeze Social Security failed 9-12, with no clear partisan division. The vote to keep the program untouched also failed 9-12, with three Democrats were on the prevailing side.
An alternate proposal to freeze Social
scares for all but the poorest recipients also
failed, 3-10.
The committee unanimously agreed to a freeze in the Medicare program, voting 20-0 for a Democratic proposal that would not require recipients to pay any more money
but holds constant the payments to doctors and hospitals.
The committee agreed, 11-10, to a proposal from Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., that rejects Reagan's proposed $4,000 cap on federal funds and retains the Job Corps training program.
Domenici has set a goal of cutting $50 billion to $60 billion in programs as a step toward closing the gap.
Despite the committee's agreement to freeze military spending in fiscal 1986 and to modify or freeze other programs, the committee has not yet decided nearly $1 billion beyond Dornicius's goal.
Monday, the committee agreed to freeze the military budget in direct opposition to Reagan's requested 6 percent increase. The committee has spent most of the last three days restoring money for domestic programs
that Reagan wanted to cut drastically or eliminate.
Earlier yesterday, the committee voted, 12-7, to continue financing Amtrak at the current level of $700 million a year level through 1988, to freeze in federal operating subsidies for mass transit and to turn mass transit into a state-operated anee program. Reagan had called for an end to Amtrak and mass transit funds to save $2 billion over three years.
In addition, the committee voted 11-8 for a proposal to save the Urban Development Action Grant program that Reagan wanted to eliminate. Two Republicans voted with nine Democrats in favor of a plan that would reduce the percentage year at this year's level and that allows it to grow at the rate of inflation in fiscal 1967 and 1988.
Illinois floods drown volunteer efforts
By United Press International
Volunteers piled sandbags yesterday along the rising Illinois River, but authorities said there was little they could do to save two towns. Floodwaters there had already reached the rooftops of abandoned houses, and warnings that the worst was yet to come.
Water spilling from the river basin threatened Illinois with its worst flooding in history and at least 300 families along a 20-mile stretch fled to higher ground. Gov James R. Thompson declared 10 counties disaster areas.
Volunteers stacked sandbags along the river banks, but the towns of Rome, where floodwaters reached the rooftops of evacuated houses, and Liverpool were lost to any flood-fighting efforts, Greg Durham, an
Emergency Services and Disaster Agency
sookesman, said.
"THESE IS little that can be done," said Durham. "The towns are completely evacuated. I can't say every citizen in town is gone. Some want to hold on and stay near their property for whatever reason. There are always a few who stay on."
Chris Loftgren, a spokesman for the American Red Cross, said most of the displaced families were finding their own shelter.
"I'm happy my husband and I live in the middle" one Peaoria, II., office worker lamented. "We really sympathize with those who are close to the river. The view is beautiful near there, but it has to be like a bad dream for them today."
29. 5 feet, but Lofgren said the estimate might be high and he thought the river would crest at 29 feet, barring any significant precipitation.
THE RIVER stood at 28.4 feet — just short
of the 36.5 set in 1935. National
Weather Service records it as a
flooded river.
"As long as the river keeps going up, the worst is yet to come. For some of the people who might be out of their homes for three to four weeks, it can become progressively worse." he said.
To the west, winter storm warnings were issued for the California mountains, where 7 inches of snow fell in six hours at Norden and more locally heavy snowfall was forecast. Since Monday, 32 inches of snow has fallen on the beach, bringing the snow depth to 106 inches.
Snow and freezing rain fell in the upper Mississippi Valley and eastern Wisconsin. The snow across the western Great Lakes and rain dotted the central and southern Pacific Coast.
Civil rights bill called federal intrusion
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration's top civil rights official charged yesterday that a bill to boost federal protection for women, minorities, the handicapped and elderly would force government into more areas of citizens' lives.
Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, told Congress the bill would dramatically and unnecessarily expand civil rights enforcement.
At issue is the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1985, which would reverse the effect of last year's Supreme Court decision restricting private programs receiving federal funds.
Congress attempted to pass legislation on the issue last year, but got bogged down over the debate.
THIS YEAR, a broad coalition of civil rights leaders and members of Congress have renewed efforts to change the high poverty rate involving Grove City College in Pennsylvania.
Reynolds told a joint house committee that the bill was "one of the most
far-reaching legislative efforts in memory to stretch the tentacles of the federal government to every crevice of public and private sector activity."
The administration is supporting a more limited bill sponsored by Senate GOP leader Robert D. Kansas, which specifically institutionalizes the rule. Institutional institutions receiving federal money.
Civil rights leaders, including Benjamin Hooks of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Judy Goldsmith of the National Organization for Women, and James P. Cox of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, called for swift passage of the broader bill.
Weinberger wrangles over budget
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, appearing before a skeptical House Budget Committee, heatedly argued with lawmakers yesterday that the president should suggest one congressman's "nice little free speech" was not exactly true.
Weinberger, testifying to the panel two days after the Senate Budget Committee rebuked President Reagan's planned increase in military spending, presented a long list of items he said would have to be canceled under a spending freeze.
What you would be doing is cripping the continuity program in rearrment program. Weinerberg said.
However, several members of the committed, led by electrocrits, were not taken to the airport.
"Mr. Secretary, this country's got a problem — neither our missiles nor our secretary of defense shoots straight," said Rep. Pat Williams, D-Dont, contending that Weinberger had in the past issuedemy predictions that had not come true.
Weinberger had his strongest words for Williams and the congressman's complaints that pay for the military had grown more than pay for their civilian counterparts.
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