NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 21, 1984
Page 9
Deficit, jobless rate are 'time bombs' Kirkland rips Reagan policies
By United Press International
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. — AFLCIO leaders called yesterday for an economic policy based on military budget cuts, a progressive surtax and job-creating programs. Federation president Lane Kirkland called the growing deficit and the unemployment rate "time bombs ticking away."
Kirkland made his remarks at the opening session of the federation executive council's mid-winter meeting. He also defended the AFL-CIO's endorsement of Walter Mondale for the Democratic presidential nomination against charges that Mondale had become a tool of organized labor.
Working people "are entitled to have champions of their legitimate concerns"
HOUSE SPEAKER Thomas O'Neill, who addressed the council, told reporters that he hoped that in three or four weeks Mondale would be "such a front-runner that the others would also want to vote" for the Democratic people and we would be out there attacking just one common cause — the record of Ronald Reagan."
'We have time bombs ticking away that are going to exact a price sooner or later.'
Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO president
The executive council, in a five-page policy statement, said that Congress should deal with its concerns, "but only if they can be understood and can these principles be achieved."
Reagan's record on economic issues were strongly attacked by the council, which said continuing high interest rates would damage economy into yet another Reagan recession."
Kirkland told a news conference, "there is no problem, no really basic problem, that faces this country economically that's been addressed almost all four years and several of those inherent problems have been compounded.
"We have time boms ticking away the are going to exact a price sooner or later."
HE POINTED TO the nation's 8
percent unemployment rate, which he noted was still higher than at any time during the Carter administration. He said that the size of enormous and mounting proportion ."
The administration "has magnified" the defict "and multiplied" two allied crimes.
"We now hear from them that deficits don't matter, that they don't cause high interest rates. That they don't cause inflation, they don't cause anything bad," Kirkland said. "Well, if that's the case, we've suddenly discovered the miraculous horn of plenty and then we should stop worrying and just keep borrowing and borrowing and spending."
The council called for full employment policies, including a federal bank to loan funds for revitalizing American industry, a public works bill to reconstruct facilities such as roads, bridges and transportation legislation to insure that a percentage of autos bought in the United States are made with American products.
To help pay for that, the council recommended several measures, including a cap on the last of the Reagan administration's tax cuts at $700.
U.S. will test its cruise missile over Canada
OTTWA — Initial testing of the U.S. cruise missile will begin next month along a 1,500-mile corridor across remote parts of Alberta province, Canadian Defense Minister Jean-Jacques Blais said yesterday.
By United Press International
The date has been set for the controversial tests but will not be made public until 48 hours before the tests, a defense department spokesman said.
Blais said that the missile tests would be conducted along a corridor stretching from the Beaufort Sea to the Arctic Ocean. In addition, Canadian Forces Base near Cold Lake,
Alberta. The area is sparsely populated.
"Free flight tests are not scheduled until 1985." Blais said.
In the first test, an unarmed missile will be "captive carried" under the wing of a long-range B-52 bomber, Blais said. Instruments on the aircraft will monitor the missile's guidance system.
In addition, a U.S. Air Force AWACS aircraft will maintain radar surveil
A coalition of peace groups headed by the Ottawa-based Operation Dismantle is awaiting a Canadian Supreme Court decision on its challenge.
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evangelical Christians that they would mount a strong effort on behalf of President Reagan's proposed constitutional amendment that would allow states to require prayer in the schools.
WASHINGTON — The controversial school prayer issue, pushed by White House officials and some members of Congress, will come up in Senate this week, aides to the president Howard Baker said yesterday.
By United Press International
But Baker also predicted a filibuster by opponents of the proposal to reverse the 20-year-old Supreme Court ruling that prohibited state-directed prayer and Bible readings in public classrooms.
Southern Baptist officials said that White House staff members and congressional conservatives had told
THE BAPTIST OFFICIALS said that Rep. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., told a Feb. 10 meeting of evangelical pastors and student leaders that Reagan was preparing a "full-court press" on the issue.
The upcoming debate, Gingrich said, is "a collective battle of everyone in the world of (the) spirit against the forces of materialism."
Gingrich told the ministers that his head count of the Senate showd 64 or more.
Two-thirds of both houses of Congress
- 67 in the case of the Senate - are needed to pass a constitutional amendment and send it to the states.
A key House aide, however, said that if Reagan's amendment lost in the Senate it would not come up in the House, and that Senate defeat probably would mean if it would come up again "for years and years."
White House officials also told the evangelicals that the president would push for his proposal rather than the policies of President Obama, by San Green Hatch, R-Uttah
HATCH'S PROPOSAL would allow pupils in public schools a moment of silence at the beginning of the school day.
Cold sends winter gas bills climbing
By United Press International
distribution companies that represent 75 percent of the natural gas markets
WASHINGTON — Natural gas heating bills rose less than 1 percent in New England last month over the previous January, but consumers in parts of the Midwest were stung with a steep jump at 32 percent, a survey showed Sunday.
Those findings from the Natural Gas Supply Association were reported along with a separate survey conducted by the Citizens-Labor Energy Coalition.
The coalition, which looked at both December and January heating bills in 21 major cities, reported an average 27 percent increase from the previous year. The gas association estimated the increase for January alone at 20.6 percent.
NEW ENGLAND EXPERIENCED the smallest increase from January to January at 0.8 percent, according to the gas association. It surveyed 100 gas
The association blamed 84 percent of that increase directly on the cold weather. The energy coalition's study, based on information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Energy Department, said the average residential bill for December and January increased from $169.05 to $214.50.
In the same study, the gas association found the East North Central region of the country (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin) paid the largest amount of $17.7 percent. The survey said the average per person in December 1983 paid 53.2 percent more to heat their homes than in the previous December.
Their study said consumers in cold weather cities faced the sharpest increases in gas bills, except for Boston, whose residents were treated to a 2 percent drop in the two-month period, from $216.18 to $211.59.
THE ONLY OTHER city where gas bills shrunk for that two month period was San Francisco, with average gas costs dropping from $79.13 to $72.83.
Detroit residents, on the other hand, watched their heating bills climb 61 percent — the steepest increase in the coalition's survey. Tying for second place were Chicago and St. Louis at 41 percent
Increased consumption combined with a 5 percent hike in the price of gas translated into a 27 percent total price increase, the study said.
The energy coalition said further steep increases could be expected next year unless legislation controlling this year was passed by Congress this year.
Robert Brandon, executive director of the group, said the gas glut that the natural gas industry said would lead to price decreases was fast disappearing and would probably be non-existent by January 1, 1985.
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