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NATION AND WORLD
Reagan makes drinking age bill a law
University Daily Kansan, July 18, 1984
Page 10
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan signed a bill yesterday putting the pressure on states to enact a drinking age of 2 or face the loss of 5 percent of federal highway construction funds.
The measure, aimed at preventing more carnage on the nation's highways because of drunken driving, could save more than 1,000 lives a year, according to the National
The legislation will restrict highway construction money for states that do not raise their legal drinking ages to 21 within two years.
Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
UNDER ELECTION-YEAR pressure, Congress gave Reagan what he wanted: a drinking-age bill separated from what White House officials had described as "pork-barrel" road projects attached to earlier House legislation.
The measure runs counter to Reagan's philosophy against using federal aid as punitive leverage to mandate actions by the states. But he endorsed the bill last month in response to what Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole called "a groundswell" of public support.
If the 27 states that do not now have
Federal safety statistics indicate that people between the ages of 18 and 20 are more than twice as likely as the average driver to be involved in alcohol-related crashes.
a drinking age of at least 21 do not conform with the higher drinking age, they stand to lose 5 percent of their highway construction funds, or $260 million, in fiscal 1987 and 10 percent, or $260 million, in fiscal 1988.
Included in the bill is a sweetener for states that impose mandatory jail terms and license revocation for drunken driving offenses. Those states could qualify for a 5 percent addition to their federal highway safety grants.
New postal contract negotiations deadlocked
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A spokesman for the American Postal Workers union said yesterday that negotiations for a new contract were "deadlocked" and there were no plans to return to the bargaining table this week.
or non-economic issues.
Spokesman Alan Madison said negotiators left the bargaining talks Monday after two and a half hours of talks with no progress on economic
A three-year contract for 600,000 postal workers expires at midnight Friday. If no contract is hammered out by the deadlines, Madison said the dispute would have to go to arbitration.
Union officials oppose the Postal Service demand for economic givebacks, including a wage freeze, a one-third percent cut in salaries for new employees and a cap on the cost-of-living adjustment.
"No present postal employee would have basic pay cuts under this proposal, but it would enable postal management to hold down future personnel cuts, which now account for 83 percent of every postal dollar." Assistant Postmaster General Mary Layton said.
LAYTON SAID the postal unions were proposing economic packages that would cost about $15 billion over three years and drive the price of a first-class stamp up to at least 28 cents.
the National Rural Letter Carriers Association — scheduled a resumption of talks yesterday.
Madison said if no agreement was reached when the contracts expire, the two unions planned to consider new labor conventions August 20 in Las Vegas.
Along with the APWU and the American Association of Letter Carriers, which represent 500,000 workers, the Postal Service is negotiating with the Rural Letter Carriers, which represents 60,000 rural mail deliverers, and the Mail Handlers Division of the Laborer's International Union of North America, which bargains for 40,000 handlers of heavy mail bags.
"This is exorbitant and clearly unacceptable," she said.
By United Press International
Plan to upgrade hotline approved amid secrecy
WASHINGTON — The United States and the Soviet Union yesterday initialed an agreement, negotiated in almost total secrecy, to upgrade the Washington-Moscow crisis hotline, administration officials said.
Kenneth Dam, deputy secretary of state, and Victor Isakov, the No. 2 official at the Soviet Embassy during the leave of Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, initialed the agreement in a private ceremony at the State Department. Dam is the acting secretary while Secretary of State George Shultz is out of the country.
Court ruling supports order despite groups' challenge
Only one of the three unions negotiating with the Postal Service —
THE NEGOTIATIONS and the signing ceremony at the State Department were conducted in a virtual news blackout because of the sensitivity of the Soviets to any appearance of cooperating with the Reagan White House.
Despite their opposition to President Reagan's policies, the Soviets saw it was to their advantage to advance the 21-year old hotline system into the age of satellites and virtually instantaneous communications. The communications link is intended to avoid an attack by either nation because of miscalculation or misunderstanding of the other actions.
The accord would be an executive agreement, which would not require approval by the Senate.
The two sides negotiating the hotline's upgrading met for the fourth time Monday amid complete secrecy, with the Soviet delegation being brought into the State Department through a side entrance to avoid waiting reporters.
THE NEW HOTLINE would be a satellite link that would allow the two sides to transmit maps, diagrams and words. It would replace the present system, in which the American end is a 67-word-a-minute Teletype at the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court yesterday rejected a challenge brought by 26 church and labor groups to President Reagan's 1981 executive order defining the intelligence collection powers of the FBI and the CIA.
Neither side has ever told when the hotline has been used, but it is known that messages were passed between the White House and the Kremlin at least five times, including during the 1973 Middle East war.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia voted 3-4 to uphold a lower court ruling dismissing a challenge spearheaded by the United Presbyterian Church and the National Council of Churches.
By United Press International
actions of the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and similar agencies.
They contested Reagan's Dec. 4, 1981, order outlining the intelligence collection procedures of executive agencies. The order specified procedures and limitations on the foreign intelligence and counterintelligence
In their suit, the church groups said the orders violated constitutional guarantees of free speech, political belief, freedom of religion and the Constitution's protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
They argued that fear of being victims of illegal surveillance would have a "chilling effect" on their exercise of these constitutionally guaranteed rights.
The upgrading of the hollie was one of a series of "confidence building" measures with the Soviets suggested in May 1983 by President Reagan.
A federal district judge found the groups had no legal right to sue because they had not been directly injured by the president's action.
The federal appeals court in Washington upheld that ruling, dismissing all claims.
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