CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, March 9. 1984
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Spokesmen look to Capitol Hill Regan snubs deficit panel
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The administration played taps yesterday for President Reagan's hipartisan panel that is supposed to cut the budget deficit. Key spokesmen pointed to Capitol Hill as the place to sponge up the red ink.
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said the House-congressional group called together by the president to begin trimming annual budget deficits in preparation for future things, but he expected that Congress could do something about the deficits.
In his State of the Union speech Jan.
25, Reagan called for a special panel
to come up with a $100 billion
three-year down payment on the
federal debt, which passed $1 trillion
during Reagan's first year in office
and has swollen by another $450
billion.
SUSPICIOUS DEMOCRATS said in the outset that the panel looked like a political beast created to obscure responsibility for the deficit and take
attention away from Reagan's fiscal 1963 budget. Reagan proposed a $926 billion spending plan that would feature a $180 billion deficit.
Even though the group held several meetings, it reached no agreements. Democrats said that the White House side offered unrealistic savings recommendations, and Reagan rejected both substantial cuts in military spending and significant tax increases.
iy yesterday, the process appeared to have returned to the starting point. Attention returned to the key budget and tax committees in Congress, even though they had already voted on O'Neill said the bipartisan conference on the deficit was "still in being."
on the deficit was "almost" Rigan was asked if action would be taken to reduce the deficit before the November presidential election.
"OH, YES, very definitely," he said. "I think it probably won't be done in the bipartisan working group approach, but I think it could, can and will be done through the Congress."
At the Capitol, the Senate Finance Committee continued work yesterday on a $100 billion deficit-reduction package. It approved a few minor tax changes and imposed a bill that would curtail tax write-offs for owners of commercial buildings.
Regan indicated that the administration would accept the package. "Most of these are loophole closers . . . many of which we have suggested ourselves," he said.
The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee also has put together a $50 billion tax bundle, including increased levies on diesel fuel, cigarettes and liquor.
Separate from the committees,
Senate Finance Chairman Robert
Dole, R-Kan., is working with Budget
Committee Chairman Pete Domenic,
R.N.M., and Appropriations Chair-
员 Kevin Brennan. The billion-dictactory plan that combines cuts in domestic and defense spending with tax increases.
Iran retains control of oil-rich island
By United Press International
Iran said it repelled Iraqi forces in an overnight battle yesterday to maintain control of oil-rich Majoum Island, Tehran and Tabriz in its three capital cities. War of affile
The broadcast on Tehran Radio, monitored in London, came as Britain protested an Iraqi missile attack on a Saudi air base. The strike against a foreign ship in a week.
Iran also reported sporadic fighting on six fronts, ranging from Ilam in the north to Manbij and Raqqa in the south.
on the Gulf. It claimed 50 Iraqi soldiers were killed in the battles.
Iraq claimed success in fighting in the southern sector, saying helicopter gunships attacked Iranian positions across the river and its river and inflicted heavy casualties.
Ten boats carrying army soldiers in the marines were hit, according to reports, during a mission.
But the main fighting centered on Majnoun Island in the oil-rich marshes near the Iraqi port of Basra for the third straight day, Tehran radio said
The artificial island, built to tap the area's rich oil reserves, is Iran's most
The island has an untapped oil field with estimated reserves of 7 billion barrels. Iranian troops captured it Feb. 24.
Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini's fundamentalist fighters launched an attack Wednesday and the fighting raged for four hours, Tehran radio said.
important gain since it launched a major offensive against Iraq Feb. 21.
An important part of the mechanized and arm-placed forces of the enemy was destroyed and a large number of Iraqi troops were killed or wounded," the radio said. It gave no further details.
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Rebels to disrupt Salvadoran voting
Rv United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Leftist guerrillas will attempt to disrupt El Salvador's upcoming presidential elections, a top Pentagon official said yesterday amid reports that the United States would send 2,000 troops to the region.
Assistant Secretary of Defense William Taft said the Pentagon had indications that the guerrillas would go back on their pledge to interefere with the March 25 elections.
the next two months as part of a
support for El Salvador to bolster
support for El Salvador.
Taft's warning came as NBC News reported last night that more than 2,000 U.S. troops would be sent to the tense Honduran-Salvadoran border during
Quoting Pentagon sources, the report said that the troops would arrive from the 93rd Infantry now in Panama over the next two months with orders to avoid combat, although they would be carrying live ammo.
several thousand Honduran troops would join the U.S. infantry units to show support for the Salvadoran army by posing a threat to leftist guerrillas who operated freely on the Salvadoran side of the border, NBC News said
The report could not be confirmed immediately.
In other developments in Central America:
*Guerrilla Radio Venceremos admitted rebels killed two Red Cross workers Tuesday aboard a Red Cross ambulance in a combat zone in eastern San Vicente province in El Salvador, but said soldiers had commanded the vehicle. Army and Red Cross officials have denied troops were using the ambulance when it was shot up before dawn.
- In Nicaragua, rebels in a speedboat used rockets and machine guns to attack a fuel dock late Wednesday and again early yesterday in the third strike against a Nicaraguan port in as many days, witnesses said. The attempt was at San Juan del Sur, 70 miles southeast of Managua.
Fugitives may have made drug run
By United Press International
MARION, N.C. — Two Tennessee fugitives who left a path of blood and terror across two states apparently were running drugs during 18 days of freedom, authorities said yesterday.
Clegg was taken to court in leg irons yesterday for a 10-minute hearing.
nigative w o u g h t s Police cornered the survivor, James A. Clegg, in a garage Wednesday and killed his partner in a shootout.
North Carolina's chief law enforcement officer called the surviving fugitive a "tough, slick son-of-a-gun."
yesterday for a 10-minute hearing.
Clegg admitted he escaped from a Tennessee prison, was given a court-ordered probation sentence to the maximum security prison in Raleigh "for safekeeping" to await another hearing. But officials later set
a special court term in McDowell County.
Clegg, 30, was captured Wednesday afternoon when officers participating in a massive manhunt spotted him wedged under a garage. His partner, Ronald Lee Freeman, died in a shootout earlier in the day. Each had sworn that he would never be taken alive.
They surfaced in North Carolina Tuesday morning. They shot a state trooper who stopped their stolen car near Marion for speeding, Freeman,
Clegg and Freeman broke out of Fort Pillow prison in western Tennessee Feb. 18, killed a Sunday school teacher three days later, abducted his wife and fled across the state to Knoxville. They released the woman unharmed, and disappeared into the mountains along the border.
wounded himself in the gunbattle, burst into the home of an elderly, blind woman Wednesday morning, causing her to suffer a fatal heart attack. Hounded from house to house, he finally faced his pursuers in an empty house and died in a brief burst of riffle fire.
Heman Clark, North Carolina's secretary of crime control and public safety, the convicts had paid $850 for a used Buck in Asheville Monday for a ride from 2.00 miles on a car they had rented at the Asheville airport last Thursday.
They later abandoned the Buck and stole a Cadillac, which they were driving when they were stopped by the state trooper near Marlint. Clark said he believed their travels had involved a delivery that had meted them the cash.
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