NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, February 8, 1984
Governors ask Congress to act on acid-rain issue
3y United Press International
WASHINGTON — Governors of four states appealed to Congress yesterday to break the deadlock over acid-rain legislation, but their pleas demonstrated the difficulty of finding a solution to the problem.
In testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chief executives from New Hampshire, Utah, Minnesota and Montana differed with Reagan administration and said that he had been enough acid-rain research.
While agreeing that Congress should not act on pollution control legislation, however, the governors differed on how to accomplish and should pay for it.
"It seems to me we've reached a point where we should get on with our business," said Democrat Gov. Scott Matheson of Utah, who suggested that
"We've already moved dramatically on clean air in the West," he said, arguing that such cost-sharing plans "have the perverse effect of punishing those who have already invested in cleaner air and benefiting those who haven't."
to reduce the pollution that caused acid rain the states should be given the option of having coal-burning industries, or crumbbers, or swirling sulfur, sulfuric acid,
Matheson denounced the idea, popular in the House, of taxing electric customers nationwide to pay for emissions reductions.
Republican John Sumum of New Hampshire, who headed a National Governors' Association Task Force on acid rain, supported a form of the electricity tax and suggested that a bill would be passed requiring that levy and an emissions fee, which would be placed on industries causing the most pollution.
Some rape-trial jurors picked
By United Press International
FALL RIVER, Mass. — A judge struggled yesterday to emulate two juries to try six men accused of gang raping a woman on a tavern pool table, as attorneys predicted that more people would be added to the original 500-member jury pool to secure two impartial juries.
After two days of intense questioning,
Superior Court Judge William G.
Young had selected only 32 potential
jurors, including eight women, from 200
called to the courthouse.
Twenty-one were picked yesterday and
11 Monday.
Prosecutor Raymond Veary Jr. said he "beidn't think it would be possible" to secure a pool of 242 impartial jurors from which the lawyers must pick the two 16-member juries. The defendants who be tried in two groups because, he said, they may some defenders have made allegations that could implicate others.
Young focused his questions of potential jurors on possible negative effects of the massive pre-trial media against Portugal-America.
Twenty-five prospective jurors were excused yesterday after they said that they could not reach a fair and impartial decision.
Unchecked deficit will soar congressional office predicts
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The annual federal deficit will reach $339 billion by the end of the decade unless quick action is taken to cut it, the Congressional Budget Office predicted yesterday.
Sen. Lawton Chiles of Florida, senior Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, called the indictments "frightening, but not surpriseing."
In addition, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker warned that "something is out of killer," and urged Congress yesterday to shrink the federal spending. United States become the world's biggest international borrower.
VOLCKER SPELLED out the "clear hazards and risks before us," but said only half of the $200 billion annual deficit is dangerous.
The other half is fading away of its own accord, he said.
Paul Volcker
In its annual economic outlook — released as President Reagan's three top economic advisers appeared on Capitol Hill — the budget office said that the overall economic picture is bright, but marred by high interest rates that it blamed in part on the deficit.
Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, budget director David Stockman and chief economic adviser Martin Feldstein, testifying in the House Appropriations Committee, all agreed that the imperative to decrease the deficits.
The three, who have disagreed on whether to raise taxes to reduce the debt, presented a united front as they
Feldstein, who has said that he was asked to cancel a television appearance last Sunday to shunt the image of disarray, said "if there is disagreement" among the three "it is the those deficits have on the economy."
"WE ARE IN total agreement on the need to get the deficit down." Regina
posed for cameras and answered questions about President Reagan's $926 billion budget with its $180 billion projected deficit.
Comparing Reagan to the chief executive officer of a large corporation, Regan said there should be a "variety of opinions."
"The three of us are that," he said to chuckles. "But far from being in the mood for it, we were."
Feldstein has linked the deficits directly to high interest rates, while Regan said the link is more indirect.
Feldstein also has indicated taxes may have to be raised, a move both Regan and his boss, Reagan, resist.
VOLCKER, SPEAKING separately from the other three, explained that he worries primarily about perma- turm, or structural, borrowing that regardless of the state of the economy of the country, half of the total deficit but growt
The remaining red ink is cyclical, due to the costs of the recession, and will vanish if the economy continues to strengthen. Volcker said
The country is squandering its strong international position in trade and investment by becoming addicted to a stream of international cash that may not always be so steady, he warned.
IN ITS REPORT, the Congressional Budget Office projected the fiscal 1985 deficit at $208 billion and forecast it to reach $376 billion by year, reaching $295 billion in fiscal 1987.
If the numbers are correct, you said, "The largest and richest economy in the world is on the verge of collapse," finally and would soon become the largest.
By contrast, Reagan's budget — counting on a drastic drop in interest paid to finance the national debt — was reduced slightly in fiscal 1986 to $177 billion.
Rudolph Penner, new director of the budget office that Congress established to be independent of the White House Office of Management and Budget, told the House Budget Committee Monday, "Our own forecast implies that the economy can continue to expand robustly in the short run despite the level of federal borrowing.
Bill limiting alcohol sales goes to House
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - A House committee, weighing young lives against states' rights, approved a bill yesterday that would forbid the sale of beer, wine or liquor to people under 21 everywhere in the United States.
At present, 19 states have a drinking age of 21; others range from 18 to 20.
Foes of the legislation argued that imposing a national standard on liquor sales to the young would amount to federal intrusion into state affairs. Several supporters acknowledged this in 2013, and said the drawback was outweighed by the lives that would be saved each year if teenagers did not drink and drive.
The measure was sent to the House on a voice vote after a 90-minute debate by members of the Energy and Commerce Committee. It would not take effect for two years so that states would time to change their laws in compliance.
About 50,000 people a year are killed in auto accidents, half of them as the result of drunken driving Teenage Age Group The percentage of the alcohol-related highway deaths.
"When it comes to drinking ages, the states are in turmoil." Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said in arguing in favor of the bill. "We need a national standard."
The bill, sponsored by Rep James Florio, D.N., is backed by such groups as Mothers Against Dillen Tucker and is opposed by the liquor industry.
The Reagan administration has said it supports a drinking age of 21, but also says that the matter should be left to the states.
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