University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1985 NATION AND WORLD Page 2 NEWS BRIEFS Power outage mars Papal visit LIMA, Peru — Suspected communist guerrillas dynamited electrical towers outside of Lima late yesterday, cutting off power to the Peruvian capital at about the same time Pope John Paul II arrived in the city from a trip to northern Peru. Police said that four explosions had been heard in the eastern suburb of Vitarte and that at least two electrical towers had been damaged. The pope returned safely to the Roman Catholic nunciature, the church's diplomatic mission in Lima. He later spoke to crowds gathered below in the night. Lanterns in the form of a hammer and sickle — the communist emblem and a sign frequently used by the Maori priestiriiriti for the protection on the San Cristobal hill overlooking Limna at about the time of the blackout, police said. Six murdered in Sikh temple NEW DELHI, India — Attackers shot and killed six people, including two priests, at a Sikh temple in the worst outbreak of violence in Punjab state for several months, the Press Trust of India reported yesterday. The bodies were found yesterday in a Sikh temple in the Bhatindia district of Punjab, about 150 miles north of New Delhi, the news agency said. The people appeared to have been killed Sunday night. British coal strike loses steam LONDON — More than 2,200 miners abandoned an 11-month-old coal strike yesterday — the most to return to work in one day of the strike — following collapse of another round of negotiations last week, the National Coal Board said. a spokesman for the state-run board called the return of 2,237 workers "dramatic" and said it was "the biggest return to work on any day since the strike began." Pet owners in the doghouse FREMONT, Calif. Dennis and Dell Ullman worked with council with a patent for the company's 13 dogs. The dogs became a problem when one of the huge Great Danes peered over a six-foot fence into the yard of neighbor Jim Austin. Austin was scared and threatened to shoot the next monster's head that appeared above the fence. Compiled from United Press International reports. Reagan bids for budget approval By United Press International WASHINGTON — Citing a "chance to change the course of our nation's history," President Reagan launched an all-out bid yesterday to sell the painful social cuts and hefty defense increases of his $973.7 billion budget to a sketched Congress. Unveiling a set of proposals that became one of the capital's worst-kept secrets, Reagan made pitches to members of business groups and friends on the colossal right. He said that losing the budget battle would mean accepting the tyranny of a government that respected no boundaries and knew no limits. "But if we win," he said, "We'll show ourselves and the world that in America, the government is still the servant of the people, not their master." THE SELLING OF the budget intensified as Reagan went through the formalities of handing over the document to congressional leaders in the Oval Office. In remarks later to business and trade association officials at the White House, Reagan appealed for the same public support that helped win enactment of his 1981 tax During a late afternoon appearance before several thousand religious broadcasters, the congregation gathered in the auditorium. Striking a theme that will receive frequent use, the president portrayed his budget as a blueprint for progress and its opponents as threats to economic growth. "Divine Providence" in the budget fight and cited a biblical analogy for resisting cuts in defense. THE BUGET CALLS for a slim 1.5 percent increase in outlast next year, the smallest annual growth in 22 years. Reagan said the figure reflects an absolute freeze on government program spending, but a growth in debt servicing. Democrats are accusing Reagan of trying to gut vital domestic programs while spending too much on defense. Midwestern concerns about deep cuts in farm programs. Within the overall freeze, however, are deep cuts in such areas as housing, urban development and agriculture, a scheduled budget cut of 20 percent, real increase in military spending. Many Republicans fear projections that the budget — if approved in full — would leave deficits of $180 billion next year and $144 billion in 1988. "This is a fantasy budget worked out in the never-ending defects," said Sen. Mark Warren. "It has been a bad year." pritiions Committee. "It does not attack the deficit. It accommodates it." Hatfield accused Reagan of pursuing a strategy "which obviously seeks to achieve the highest possible defense figure rather than a responsible compromise." REAGAN SAID HIS request to increase Pentagon spending to $313.7 billion next year is needed to respond to the "unprecedented military buildup" of the Soviet Union. "Ultimately' our security and our hopes for success in the arms reduction talks hinge on the determination that we show here to aid and to reforge our defenses." he said. However, Senate Republican leader Bob Dole said it was still too early to predict the outcome of the budget battle. He said Republicans and Democrats agree on the need for defense cuts, but are divided over how much. Congressional leaders from both parties served notice days ago that any agreement on reducing the deficit would require Reagan to trim his military buildup. Conscious of the outcry over proposed cuts in Medicare and farm price supports and outright elimination of revenue sharing, Amtrak subsidies and a dozen other programs, Reagan said he never had submitted a budget that was not controversial. "RIGHT NOW." THE president said with a smile, "I'll settle for a tie." Senators expect to cut military budget By United Press International WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger told Congress yesterday that the military needs to spend $313.7 billion next year, but Republican and Democratic senators warned him to expect less. President Reagan's fiscal 1986 budget proposal seeks a three-fold increase in spending for research into the "Star Wars" anti-missile system, to $313.7 billion, and builds on the expansion of strategic nuclear missiles. In addition, it adds missiles, B-1B bombers, another Trident missile submarine and a new sub-launched missile. The Pentagon's budget — the biggest in peacetime history — represents spending of $891 million a day, or $1,324 for every American. Allowing for inflation, it is 5.9 percent higher than Congress authorized for this year. AS PRESENTED, THE military budget is the first in a five-year program, running through fiscal 1990, that projects defense expenditures of $2 trillion (wice the amount already spent by President Reagan is his drive to "re-arm America." But Weinberger said no decisions had been made about the next four years. Actual defense spending for the budget year beginning Oct. 1 was set at $277.5 billion, 5.9 percent in "real growth" over the $242.3 billion authorized for 1985. The $313.7 billion authorized for 1986 includes money for weapons approved this year but paid for in later years. Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee voiced the sentiment of most of their colleagues in challenging Pentagon spending plans and insisting they must be lowered to help defray the estimated $180 billion federal budget deficit. be cut and how much it's going to be cut, not whether it's going to be cut." WEINBERGER, HIS ARGUUMENTS reinforced by 17 charts, said the Pentagon had contributed to deficit reduction by trimming the budget $38 billion from its projection of a year ago. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said, "Secretary Weinberger, the administration's defense budget is going to be cut. Everybody around here knows it. The issue is where it's going to SEN. BARRY GOLDWATER, R-Ariz, the new chairman of the committee, said the Pentagon budget "can and will be reduced," although he echeed Weinberger in arguing that military spending is not based on "the external threat to our security." To achieve the $36 billion cutback, Weinberger eliminated 72 fighters, four support ships and thousands of smaller trucks and trucks sought by the armed services. Nevertheless, the budget seeks 180 F-16 and 48 F-15 fighters for the Air Force, up from 150 and 42 a year ago; 46 Harrier jump-airs for the Navy, a boost from 32 last year, and 716 Bradley Fighting Vehicles for the Army, up from 655 ordered a year ago. The biggest chunks of money are for strategic nuclear weapons, including $3.2 billion for 4M MX missiles, $5.6 billion for 4B-1B bombers, $1.5 billion for another sub-launched missile and $2.1 billion for the sub-launched D-5 missile, also known as the Trident 2 missile. Congress has yet to vote approval of $1 billion for 21 MX missiles requested last year. Debt may grow by $700 billion in Reagan term By United Press International WASHINGTON - Deficit spending during President Reagan's second term will add more than $700 billion to the national debt, even if Congress passes all proposed spending cuts, 1986 budget documents estimated yesterday. The White House documents embrace for the first time a new and still unofficial way of measuring government deficits that consolidates off-budget borrowing and purchases for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Congressional Budget Office economists have recommended the change for several years. Many congressional budget watchers were not surprised to see the system adopted by the White House this year, because it makes deficit totals smaller in 1987 and 1988, and because it makes the deficits of the Carter years look worse. But the numbers in the two accounting systems, important in reaching deficit cutting targets, are small compared to the numbers known for two Reagan terms, $4.8 trillion. "From the point of view of showing a nicer result it makes sense to use the (consolidated) totals," one congressional staff member said. Reagan's first term, with $999.9 billion in deficits, increased the national debt to its current level. Tomorrow, the Congressional Budget Office will issue its own predictions. The deficits anticipated for the end of the decade are likely to be much higher than those in the budget. by the end of fiscal 1988, the budget projects another $711.5 billion in deficit spending, which will increase the national debt to $2.53 trillion, or 3 percent of gross national product. The national debt equalled 2 percent of the GNP in 1981. However, the tables provided in the documents show that the new system makes Carter administration deficits look worse. The total deficit for 1976 through 1980 under the new system is $226.6 billion, $45.8 billion more than portrayed by the deficient figures currently prescribed by law. Before the change in deficit accounting, the deficit in 1988 would have been $148.7 billion. After the change, the total drops — on paper — by $1.4 billion to $144.4 billion. 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