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University Daily Kansan, January 24, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Dole to help introduce bill to bail out Social Security
WASHINGTON — A $168 billion prescription for Social Security's ills goes to Congress this week, carrying doctor's orders from political leaders but strong objections from some who must swallow the bitter pill.
sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., and Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., members of the president's National Commission on Social Security Reform, said they intend to introduce the plan to the Senate this week. The House Ways and Means Committee begins hearings Feb. 1 on the ballot plan, which was endorsed by the Social Security commission 12-3.
Congressional leaders hope to have a bill on President Reagan's desk by Easter to ensure a steady flow of checks to 36 million old and disabled Americans. Unless Congress acts, the system's old-age fund will run short of cash to pay 31 million July checks.
The report was immediately endorsed by Reagan, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and the bipartisan congressional leadership. But criticism came from federal workers, the nation's biggest retiree group and some businesses.
OPEC agrees to cut oil production
GENEVA, Switzerland — OPEC oil ministers yesterday agreed to cut oil production and limit the amount each country can produce in a bid to prop up prices threatened by the world oil glut.
"We are agreed in principle on a production ceiling and on individual quotas," said Humberto Calderon Berti, Venezuelan oil minister.
He said the new Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries production ceiling would be "between 17 and 17.5 million barrels" — down from the current 18.5 million barrel ceiling set in December.
out caused the current of thunderbolt price would remain in force.
Caldero Bert insisted that OFC's $34 base price would remain in force.
force.
But Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Libya still disagreed on prices for realty oil.
Analysts have cautioned the OPEC could collapse if agreement was not reached on production ceilings to avoid a price-cutting war.
Japanese leader stands by remarks
TOKYO — Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone faced a political storm today in Japan's parliament, the Diet, over remarks against the Soviet Union he made during his visit to the United States.
Unhere he made untidy a noise. The prime minister, trying to shake reports he wanted to transform Joanne Giles, "uninshakeable aircraft carrier," has warned he will dissolve the lower house of the Diet and call new elections if the opposition tries to block his policies.
opposition tries to block his protests.
Nakason is expected to present a 1983 budget that holds down most spending except defense, which is to increase by 6.5 percent. He is also expected to reaffirm his pro-Western stance.
Opposition parties are angry about what they see as Nakasone's attempt to emplore Japan in Washington's anti-Soviet strategy.
Criticism of Nakasae centers on his trip last week to Washington, where he reaffirmed Japan's military alliance.
House savs Navv overspent on F-18
WASHINGTON — A House committee has charged the Navy with amassing more than $500 million in cost overruns on the F-18 fighter-bomber and hiding the sums in possible violation of the law.
"Amidst the obfuscation surrounding the F-18 program, there are some ominous signs of a very serious financial situation," the committee said in a letter to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger dated Jan. 6.
dated Jan. 6.
The House Appropriations Committee charged the Navy with concealing the overruns by juggling money from other programs and from one year to another.
true ones. The right-hand letter said that because of the alleged wrongdoing "it is impossible" for the panel to consider appropriating the money for the F-18 that was requested in the fiscal 1984 budget, which is to be presented later this month.
The letter also asked Weinberger for a detailed financial audit of the F-18 program.
Britons' health threatened by strike
LONDON — About 29,000 water and sewage workers went on strike nationwide today as contract talks broke down, raising fears for the health of millions of Britons and their recession-plagued industry.
Talks adjourned last night with union officials "bitterly disappointed" with a mediator's offer for a 7.3 percent wage hike less than half the workers' original 15 percent demand.
New talks were scheduled for today.
"Save water in every way you can," urged newspaper advertisement. Supermarkets reported a boom in the sale of mineral water.
meils Sapphire. The 23 million residents of Manchester, 180 miles northwest of London, were urged to boil tap water.
filters in water treatment plants have to be cleaned manually, and one or two of the 50 plants in the Manchester area may not be serviced, a North-West Water Authority spokesman said.
CIA to fight Japanese high-tech theft
U. S. Attorney Joseph Russoletti said the role of the CIA and DIA would be to supply information from inside Japan and other countries about where the technology might be used if it gets out of the United States.
SAN FRANCISCO — The Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency are being enlisted in the government's attempt to cut off Japanese theft of technology in California's Silicon Valley, according to a U.S. attorney.
Russoniello, in an interview with United Press International, said plans to fight illegal export of high technology were ready. The "Critical Technology Task Force" will begin functioning as soon as funds are allocated by the administration.
allegated by the administration. The new force will include agents from the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs Service and Postal Service, as well as the CIA and DIA, Russiello said.
Convicted killer awaits execution
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Lawyers for Thomas "Andy" Barefoot face a life-or-death hearing in federal court today, just hours before the convicted killer is scheduled to die by poison injection.
convictor Barefoot, 37, was convicted of the Aug. 7, 1978 shooting of a central Tucson ceaseman. He is scheduled to die just after midnight tomorrow morning unless a federal judge in El Paso or the Supreme Court intervenes.
intervenes.
If Barefoot is executed, Texas will become the first state to put two people to death since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld capital punishment laws in 1976.
Texas uses an overdose of the anesthetic sodium thiopental and, if necessary, the muscle relaxer pavulum and potassium chloride to cause a heart attack. The poison injection method was used on Charlie Brooks Jr. on Dec. 7.
Deficit for '84 may be $180 billion
In addition, Reagan is expected to propose about $135 billion in contingency three-year tax increases that would take effect beginning Oct. 1, 1985, only if the deficit is higher than about $100 billion.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON The 1984 budget President Reagan sends Congress Jan 31 is expected to include about $45 billion in spending cuts and other savings, a $30 billion increase in defense spending and a deficit of around $180 billion.
Administration officials have leaked large parts of the budget, some as trial balloons to gauge the degree of
opposition on Capitol Hill and others to soften their imact.
Reagan is opposed to tax increases this year, although the administration projects the fiscal 1984 deficit at close range. The governor now no tax increase or spending cuts.
BUT REAGAN intends to propose 1984 spending cuts of about $22 billion to $30 billion in domestic programs, a six-month delay in annual cost-of-living increases for recipients of Social Security and perhaps other federal benefit programs, and cost-cutting reform of major benefit programs.
He plans to seek a $30 billion increase in military spending over this year's $209 billion level. That is $8 billion less than he originally wanted, but still
Senate Republican leader Howard Baker said yesterday the $8 billion President Reagan has agreed to cut from the Pentagon budget is not enough.
more than even Republican congressional leaders seem willing to accept
"Congress, the Senate," he said,
"will require something more than an $8 billion cut in outlays," which amounts to approximately $11.5 billion cut in spending authorization.
"THE INKN IT will be something more in the neighborhood of $15 billion cut," he said. "That is a lot of money in terms of budget authority, but the military simply can't be immune" from the cuts
needed to reduce projected budget deficits.
If all of those changes were enacted, the deficit would still be between $175 billion and $185 billion.
Reagan came up with the contingency tax package so he would be able to show in his budget proposal that federal deficits will decline in fiscal 1986, 1987 and 1988, rather than increase.
Currently, without any budget changes, the administration projects the deficit would increase each year and hit a whopping $288 billion in 1988. The budget cuts to protect a trillion addition to the national debt over four years.
U.S. objects to Israeli spy station plan
By United Press International
U. envoy Philip Habil met Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin yesterday amid a growing rift between Jerusalem and Washington over Israel's demand for spy stations in south Lebanon.
U. S. opposition to several key Israeli demands in the talks with Lebanon may reflect a desire by Washington to show the Arab world the United States can bend Israel to its will, a senior Israeli official in Jerusalem said.
Among the demands are early warning stations in south Lebanon, manned by Israelis, to keep a lookout for Palestinian guerrillas. Lebanese Prime Minister Celtik Wazlan rejected the stations Saturday, even if they are on time, but other officials, including Lebanese officials reportedly, have approved that idea.
Americans manned early, warning stations in Sinai for several years before Israel withdrew and returned the region to Egypt last April.
troops and U.S. Marines near Beirut had been purposefully exaggerated by U.S. officials "to show the Arabs there that Iraq is between us, which is in Arab interests."
POINTING TO another dispute, the official said the flap between Israeli
U. S. officials have complained in recent weeks that Israeli soldiers have challenged Marine checkpoints.
In response, the Israeli army charged that Palestinian guerrillas have repeatedly escaped through Masada near Beit Albut after ambushing Israeli
At least a half-dozen Israelis have been killed and more than 30 wounded.
in hit-and-run ambushes on patrols and
convoy during the past few weeks.
THE WHITE HOUSE said Habib would return to the United States early in the week to join talks between President Honi Mubarak Thursday.
The senior Israeli official said "there is no agreement between Israel and the United States on security arrangements or normalization," two items which are holding up the Israeli-Lebanese talks. The ninth session of the talks are scheduled to resume today in the Beirut suburb of Khalide.
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