NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, November 9, 1983
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House kills bill needed to keep agencies open
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — In yet another surprising congressional protest vote over large budget deficits, the House yesterday defeated 206-203 a stoppage long needed to keep many federal agencies operating past midnight tomorrow.
On Oct. 31, the Republican-led Senate defeated a national debt limit bill that would have allowed the government to borrow more money to pay its bills. Since Nov. 1, the government has had to pay its bills by cash.
In the Democratic-dominated House,
67 Democrats joined 139 Republicans in voting against the "continuing resolution" yesterday night.
IN BOTH CASES, members of Congress said the votes against the financially crucial legislation were cast to protest huge budget deficits and the paralysis of Congress to reduce their through tax increases or spending cuts.
"The freshmen are playing it cute," House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., said afterward. "They don't want to spend more money, so they're asking them. They want to show the people back home they sincerely want to cut the budget."
"I know that on Thursday night, when we stop the government, we're going to be angry," he said.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jaime Whitten, D-Miss, will send the House a "clean" continuing effort to help him try to pass one again, O'Neill said.
However, there were some indications the freshmen Democrats wanted to vote first on a tax increase bill before they could go against a gag spending bill for the government.
THE FINAL VOTE was a shock. Only
minutes beforehand, the House defeated 244-166 a Republican move to strip all amendments off the resolution and move it away a "clear" stogapg spending bill.
Before killing the resolution, the House, in a series of votes, attached to the bill a rider restoring some $1 billion to education, school lunch and other programs. But Congress had cut over the past two years under pressure from President Reagan.
The House also approved, 262-150, an $11.3 billion foreign aid rider that would increase U.S. military and economic assistance to Israel and Egypt and place restrictions on aid to El Salvador. It would also halt aid to Syria.
Those two amendments died with the resolution.
BEFORE THE HOUSE voted down the bill, the $1 billion was added through a series of votes despite that Reagan would veto the legislation.
"You're going to get a vet on this," warned Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., senior Republican on the Appropriations Committee.
"I predict we will have Thanksgiving dinner here and we will be served an appetizer of veto bait and a main course of fattened legislative turkey," he said. "I don't care how many bottles of Chari No. 3 you put on this thing; it stinks!"
The proposal would have added about $812 million to seven separate education programs, including a new one to educate the children of immigrants.
IT ALSO WOULD add $100 million for school lunch and breakfast programs, $195 million for low-income energy assistance, and $75 million for job training and vocational rehabilitation, community health centers, emergency shelters for the homeless and other programs.
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Report says war against drugs is not discouraging smugglers
By United Press International
A new report by the House Government Operations Committee calls the nation's southern border the soft underbelly of the United States and a Rugan administration efforts to halt drug smuggling have had little effect.
WASHINGTON — The nation's war against drugs has consisted only of a few skirmishes, a congressman said yesterday, and the drug smugglers are the winning because their planes easily penetrate the U.S. southern border.
Rep. Glenn English, D-Okla., said the report followed hearings by his Government Information, Justice and Agriculture Subcommittee that deterred drug interdiction programs were unauthorized, inadequate and temporary.
"I THINK THIS report points up very accurately where we are at this point." English said. "In fortunately, the reality of the capability of our effort is that we do not have the political rhetoric that so often accompanies the description of the program."
The report said the drug smuggling threat had overwhelmed the capacity to contain it and "even in those areas where extraordinary emphasis has been placed, interdiction has been only marginally successful."
U. S. Customs officials have estimated that 1.3 million pounds of illegal drugs will be smuggled into the United States by air this year, 90 percent of the drugs through remote airstrips along the southern border.
"Efforts to date to respond to drug smuggling have been uncoordinated, inadequate and temporary," the report said. "Not all promises made to law enforcement interdiction have been kept, but some of them been reasonable."
THE REPORT HAMILSY criticizes
Customs, saying it "lacks leadership
Still, the region needs more high-altitude radar capabilities, the report said. Law enforcement agencies are not directly enforcing a new required flight plan and prior reporting procedures in the United States, the report said, and the Navy has been unable to give support for the promised amount of hours.
English said his panel would next examine portions of the report that said problems existed with federal agencies and education intelligence in a timely manner.
and coordination at the national level which would implement a program that responds to the current threat."
THE MIAMI CUSTOMS area of responsibility, which covers the entire Florida peninsula extending east to the Atlantic Ocean and well to the south of Cuba, is most threatened by drug smuggling and has been the focus of drug interdiction efforts, the report said.
Customsmen spokesman Jim Mahan said, "Some of the things pointed out in the report are absolutely right. Some of them we've resolved and those that we have not solved, we still have under consideration."
The report said Customs and the Coast Guard — the nation's primary drug interdiction agencies — were severely limited in terms of manpower and modern equipment. The report said also that the two agencies lacked timely intelligence to use their limited resources.
"Despite this vulnerability which is well known to Customs, there is not a single sensor-equipped aircraft assist to the entire region," the report said.
EVEN IF AIRCRAFT are detected, the report concluded that the region was unable to intercept aircraft. It noted that in a four-month period, New Orleans detected 67 suspect aircraft and intercepted just 17.
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SENIORS Introducing Hilltoppers
The Jayhawker Yearbook is happy to announce the rebirth of an old tradition, the Hilltoppers. The Hilltoppers Awards are the Jayhawker's way of recognizing those seniors who have made high calibre contributions to the University and/or Lawrence community. The award, which was last given in 1973, is being brought back by this year's yearbook staff and interested parties within the University.
Criteria for selection includes:
- involvement and leadership in campus and community activities.
- — respect of the nominee's peers as-well-as his or her professors
- references that can address the quality of the nominee's service
- a GPA of around 3.0,however grades will not play an extremely important part in the selection
The nominations will be screened by a committee that includes KU faculty, student representatives, and the Jayhawker staff. Anyone can nominate a senior for this award, and seniors can nominate themselves by picking up an application. They will be available at the Office of Student Organizations and Activities, 403 Kansas Union, and the Yearbook Office, 121 B Kansas Union. Deadline for acceptance of applications is Friday, January 20, 1984.
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