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University Daily Kansan, January 20, 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
Former Cabinet members propose spending cut plan
WASHINGTON — Six former Cabinet officers, warning that soaring federal deficits will bring "stagnation with no end in sight," yesterday proposed $175 billion in spending cuts and tax increases for 1985.
The group, supported by some 500 former federal officials, businessmen, lawyers, educators and others, made the appeal in a letter to President Reagan, House Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker.
Peter Peterson, former commerce secretary and now head of a New York investment banking firm, said the group hoped to persuade a broad spectrum of Americans to rise above their separate special interests and support the proposals.
They said the federal deficit, if unchecked, could rise to $250 billion in fiscal 1985.
The proposal includes $60 billion in savings from entitlement programs and other non-defense programs, $23 billion in defense cuts, $60 billion in increased consumption taxes and $30 billion in reduced federal interest payments on the national debt.
Bishops reaffirm stance on weapons
VATICAN CITY — American and European Roman Catholic bishops ended a two-day conference on nuclear weapons yesterday and said the church had the moral authority to take a stand on the issue.
church had the most moral authority." The bishops reaffirmed the responsibility and the moral authority of the church concerning problems of war and peace," the prelates said in a statement prepared at the end of the meeting.
a statement prepared at the end of the meeting. The bishops drafted a position paper expected to reflect their disdain for nuclear weapons, but also interpreted church law in such areas as defense and retaliatory strikes against civilian areas.
Chicago Archbishop Joseph Bernardin, the chairman of the U.S. committee drafting the paper, said there were differences of opinion among the bishops, but not on the basic principles of church teachings.
Chief economist ponders tax change
WASHINGTON — President Reagan's chief economist, Martin Feldstein, said yesterday that the administration was considering a tax change so people would pay tax on how much they spend, not on how much they make.
mbek they nabbed the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said, "We in the administration are just beginning to discuss this idea and no decisions have been made. But many of us do think that taxing consumed income is a promising approach to tax reform."
His remarks were part of a speech prepared for the opening of a 2- day meeting of the American Council for Capital Formation, devoted to possible tax reforms for the 1980s.
to possible tax records in order to Feldstein said that under the plan, taxes would be paid on the difference between total receipts and total savings or investment outlays.
Possible Falkland raids stir British
LONDON — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher yesterday summoned senior ministers to discuss the future of the Falkland Islands, amid reports of possible Argentine raids.
Ministry of Defense spokesmen said Britain was taking seriously reports from Washington of an Argentine military buildup for "a campaign of active harassment" of the 4,000 British troops on the islands.
In Buenos Aires, Argentine military sources denied U.S. reports that Argentina was preparing raids on the islands and suggested the stories might have been planted by Britain.
A British defense source said Argentina could quite easily mount hit-and-run attacks on remote areas of the windswept islands since "there simply aren't enough British troops to line all the cliffs around the islands."
High court overturns prison ruling
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday gave states added clout to punish armed criminals, ruling 7-2 that lawbreakers who use a gun or danger weapon can be given extra prison terms.
gun or dangerous weapon can be given up, but Reversing a Missouri court, the justices ruled states could give double sentences for the same criminal act without violating the Constitution's ban against prosecuting a person twice for the same offense.
The decision upheld a Missouri law and could set an example for other states.
Chief Justice Warren Burger, in the court's majority opinion, said multiple punishments for the same crime were not forbidden if authorized by state law.
authorized by state law.
Justices Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens dissented,
questioning why double punishments for the same crime should be
permitted when double prosecution is outlawed under the Constitution.
Bell defends college contributions
TOPEKA - A Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. executive, testifying on the last day of hearings for Bell's proposed $63.5 million rate increase, yesterday defended the utility's contributions to private colleges and social organizations.
"I think the cost of contributions is a legitimate cost of doing business. It is an expense borne by the ratepayer." Edward Whitacre, vice president of the telephone company's Kansas operations, testified before the Kansas Corporation Commission.
before the raiders corporal Bell has made $200,000 in such intrataste contributions during the past two years, said Bell spokesman George Chaffee. The contributions cost Bell's customers 31 cents a year or 2.5 cents a month.
Lookouts see Poe's birthday visitor
on APB 301-1: 1:30 this morning, we saw a well-dressed man enter the graveyard carrying three roses and a bottle of cognac, said Jeff Jerome. "We made no attempt to talk to, photograph or otherwise hinder the man.
BALTIMORE — Lookouts hid in church catacombs yesterday caught a glimpse of the mysterious stranger who for 34 years on Edgar Allen Poe's birthday has placed roses and a half-empty bottle of cognac on the storyteller's grave.
in what "This tells us what we wanted to know — that someone living is making this toast to Poe."
Jerome, curator of the Poe House museum, was one of five volunteers who locked themselves inside the catacombs of the 19th-century Westminster Church in an attempt to find out how the mementos appeared annually on Poe's tombstone.
Correction
Because of a reporting error, the Kansan incorrectly reported yesterday that the Kansas University Endowment Association donated $25,000 to the department of classics.
The Endowment Association gave $2,500 to that department to move the Wilcox Collection.
Pentagon maps peacetime plans for war
It has directed the buildup of stockpiles to support combat operations by U.S. forces in Europe, South Korea and the Persian Gulf for 60 days — nearly triple the 24 days of war reserves now on hand.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon, concerned about its ability to carry out a sustained war, has mapped far-reaching plans to provide U.S. forces with manpower and equipment to fight for an indefinite period on several
say that Warsaw Pact countries have stockified enough equipment in Eastern Europe to fight for at least 90 days.
The 136-page document sets a priority on peacetime readiness to meet every contingency, and makes it clear that the goals established for each branch of the armed forces may be met over the next five-year planning period because of a lack of money and industrial capacity.
By contrast, U.S. intelligence sources
THE UNDERLYING assumption for the buildup, outlined in a secret Pentagon document, is that "U.S. forces must be prepared for war at any time."
Guidance, $^{17}$ the document sets forth policy, strategy, spending and planning priorities for that five-year period and reflects the thinking of the Pentagon and officials of the National Security Council within the White House.
TITLED "Fiscal 1984-1968 Defense
THE RAPID Deployment Force can call on at least 200,000 personnel from all branches of the service and weapons from aircraft carriers to land-based ships in a crisis in the Persian Gulf. The Pentagon refers to the RDF as the RDJTF.
of NATO against the Warsaw Pact, and RDJTF operation in Southwest Asia and a contingency in Northeast Asia," it said.
"Our planning goal is the support posture which, if attained, would sustain our general purpose forces for an indefinite period in a successful defense
ALTHOUGH CASPAR Weinberger, U.S. secretary of defense, often has said publicly he considered readiness for war the No.1 priority over the purchase of new weapons, the document provided a clearer picture of the Pentagon's goals for achieving a peacetime posture poised for the outbreak of war.
"Our first priority is to improve existing and programmed forces," the document said, referring to strategic units, U.S. troops overseas and the RDF.
Campus police search for tunnel-roamer
By United Press International
MADISON, Wis. - University of Wisconsin police are after a big underworld figure on campus, but odds are they will never catch him.
Bob Grueenewald knows the territory better than anyone.
Miles of tunnels connect every building on campus serving as channels for 4,000 volt electric cables, telephone lines and water supply. STUDENTS VENTURE down them
for fraternity parties and initiation rites. But, says security officer Bruce Carroll, Gruenewald has roamed them since the 1960s.
"He practically lives there," Carroll said.
In daylight, Grenewenlaid is easy enough to spot above ground. He stands 6-foot-6 and sports a Green Bay Packer stocking cup. He rooms in an old hotel
"To even help out the tradesmen like steamfitters when they have to go down in there, and (he) replaces overhead lights when they burn out."
by day, but vanishes into the tunnels at night.
"He actually sleeps at a hotel, but he spends the majority of his time in the tunnels," Carroll said. "He mainly goes to the pool and then runs in the tunnels and keep them dry."
CARROL SAID the university had renewed efforts to keep students and Gruenewald, 26, from entering the tunnels.
"It's impossible to walk down there with touching something." Carroll
There is barely room to stand in some places, and university officials are fearful party-goers or explorers may venture into electric cables or corroded steam pipes.
If A PIFE burst, the steam "could
cook a person to death."
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Gruenewald is the only person known to have been injured in the tunnels. Two years ago, he touched a high-voltage wire and suffered third-degree burns on his hands and forearms.
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