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University Daily Kansan, October 28, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Senate spending bill exceeds Reagan's budget cut targets
WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday completed its first spending bill since President Reagan asked for more cutbacks. The bill exceeded Reagan's targets for the Interior Department and other agencies by about $1 billion.
The bill, approved 87.8, provides about 7.6 billion for the Interior Department, the Energy Department, and Indian health and education programs.
Because of growing estimates of the 1982 budget deficit, Reagan asked Congress Sept. 24 to cut the budget $13 billion more than he originally planned.
The administration said the new Senate measure was about $1 billion more expensive than the president's September request, but the bill's Senate Republican side had raised it.
Senators approved the bill hours after the Senate Appropriations Committee passed another bill that surpassed Reagan's funding request for the program.
Reagan could veto either measure, but negotiations are under way to prevent such action.
Mark Haffield, R-Ore, and the Appropriations Committee Chairman, said senators were trying to preventveters of several funding bills, all of which are underway.
"The chances of there not being a veto are pretty good," he said.
Teacher strike ends in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA—The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers ended its 50-day strike last night and agreed to go back to their classrooms, averting a hardship for students.
"We are teachers and our primary concern is the children," the union's executive director said yesterday.
John Murray, the federation's president, said his 22,000-member union agreed to comply with a judge's order that the teachers return to work. Earlier, the Philadelphia school district agreed to rehire 3,500 teachers and aides it had laid off. The judge also ordered that change.
After the announcement, Murray and school district officials immediately began to negotiate a new contract for the teachers. The contract will replace a two-year agreement that the school district said it could not afford to honor because of its $235 million deficit.
Young wins Atlanta's mayoral race
ATLANTA—Andrew Young, a former U.N. ambassador, was elected mayor of Atlanta yesterday.
Young defeated State Rep. Sidney Marcus, who is white, in a run-off election that racially divided the deep South city.
With returns in from all but seven of the city's 188 precincts, Young had 60,887 votes, or 53 percent of the vote compared to 49,798 votes, or 45 percent.
Except for one early lug, Young maintained the lead throughout his bid to succeed Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor. Jackson was the first player in history to win a national title.
The endorsed Young, who was the front-runner in the race after winning the primary three weeks ago with 41 percent of the vote.
principally by 38 percent of the vote in the racially divided primary.
Feds to adjust inflation measure
WASHINGTON—The government announced yesterday it planned to change the way it computes the Consumer Price Index by reducing the weight of its housing component. A government spokesman said the change would make the inflation measure more accurate.
The change will be made by shrinking the housing component and pegging it to rental costs instead of home ownership costs.
Many economists agreed that the change would eliminate a large distortion from the index and said it could slow the growth rate of the budget deficit.
"I think the development is a very good and important one," an economist for a non-partisan business group said. He added that downgrading the bond rate was a good thing.
One economist said the current index seriously overstated the inflation rate.
"People do not purchase houses every day, so the day-to-day budgets of most people are not influenced by mortgage rates and home prices," he said.
U.S. sends food to Polish children
WASHINGTON—The United States will send Poland $23 million worth of food to demonstrate "continuing humanitarian concern for the well-being" of Polish refugees.
The final contract, to be signed today, will lead to the shipment of butter, dry milk and cheese from the Department of Agriculture's stock. Poland will
Poland will pay for the food with Polish currency worth about one tenth the American dollar's official exchange rate.
U. S. figures show that the new contract will bring to $741 million the U.S. guaranteees, food credits and direct food aid that the U.S. has given Poland and France.
PATCO decertified, can appeal ruling
WASHINGTON—The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was discertified yesterday because an appellate court refused to delay the decision.
The authority also ruled last week that the controllers' Aug. 3 strike was illegal.
The three-judge panel's 2-1 decision gives the union 10 days to file papers against the Federal Labor Relations Authority's decision last week to strip the company of $35 million.
Yesterday, when the Appeals Court dissolved the temporary stay it issued last day, it said the union did not show why its decretification should be postponed.
The court criticized the government's reasons for decertification, but its final decision was against the union.
Two more arrested in Brink's theft
The fourth woman to be arrested and the owner of the getaway car, Eve Rosahn, was arraigned last night in Nayack Village Court, near the scene of the holdup and shootout that left two police officers and one Brink's guard dead.
NEW YORK--Authorities arrested two more women, including the owner of the alleged gotaway car, on charges stemming from last week's assault.
Earlier yesterday, FBI agents and military SWAT teams raided a farinse in Gallman, Miss., and arrested Cynthia Boston, a member of a
Boston was arraigned on a charge of conspiracy to commit the robbery and jailed in lieu of $500,000 bond.
Boston's common-law husband, William Johnson, remained the only suspect still at large in the Nyack hold and was believed to be in Missis-
Authorities said they thought the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, the Black Panthers and the Republic of New Africa all were involved.
In another incident, one of the original leaders of the Weather Underground, Carl Jones, yesterday was charged with operating a Hoboken, NJ company.
Soviets say U.S. threatening nuclear war
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—President Reagan has "great faith" in his foreign policy advisers and does not think the United States projects a "warmonger image" despite growing anti-America protests in Europe, his aides said yesterday.
Yesterday, the Soviet Union demanded that the United States give "direct answers to simple questions" about American policy on fighting a battlefield.
the prospect of the death of hundreds of millions of people," Brezhnev said.
Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev said U.S. interference in the internal affairs of Middle East countries threatened to start a world nuclear
"There has never been such a period in history when the policy of states, the destinies of whole peoples . . . were manipulated so shamelessly and unreasonably is being done now by the aggressive forces of imperialism," Brehzny said.
HE SPOKE at a Kremlin dinner for North Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
"The stakes in this dangerous game are the threat of a world nuclear war.
Brezhnev's remarks stem in part from Reagan's remark last week that it would be possible to fight a limited nuclear war in Europe.
"The question that the U.S. could even consider fighting a nuclear war at Europe's expense is an outright deception," he said. "Any use of nuclear weapons would have the most profound consequences."
White House aides said Reagan's remarks gave the Soviets an advantage in spreading propaganda. The remarks in the speech from U.S. demonstrations in Europe last week.
Reagan later clarified his remark.
HOWEVER, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said that the demonstrations represented a minority view and that they would cause concern only if they affected the defense policies of NATO allies.
Another aide said the country's reputation had not suffered very much.
But, on advice from top aides,
Reagan has not yet made a comprehensive foreign speech laying out his goals for peace.
"He is not going to make a speech saying 'Here is my foreign policy in a
THE MASSIVE PROTEST marches in London and Rome last weekend coincided with reports that there might be a new government's foreign policy-making hierarchy.
thousand words or less,' ' the spokesman said.
Joseph Kraft, a columnist, said there were rumors of a possible "musical chairs" state in which Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Richard Allen, the national security affairs adviser, would lose their posts.
Kraft said Weinberger would replace Haig and Edwin Meese, the top White House aide, would take Weinberger's place.
David Gergen, director of White
David Gergen, said the Kraft
columnist is a founder.
"We're denying the rumors," he said. "The president feels its ironic after the success of the Cancun and Ottawa that such reports should arise."
Gergen said the president "has great faith in the people he has. He thinks they've done a fine job, but there is always room for improvement."
ON THE "TODAY" show, Weinberger dismissed the weekend's
demonstrations by saying, "It is a minority view, clearly."
But Tass, the Soviet's official news agency, disagreed.
"Demonstrations are going on," it said. "The West European do not believe the reassurance of NATO leaders, and with good reason."
The news agency also issued three news commentaries that depicted the Reagan administration as a threat to Western Europe.
On the programs, commentators asked whether the United States would give Pence a mandate to missible, whether the Pentagon would publicly renounce its first nuclear strike strategy and whether it was prepared to abandon the concept of nuclear war.
"Up to now, the U.S. president and his lieutenants have been unable to give direct answers to these simple questions," Tass said.
IN ANOTHER STATEMENT Tass
a Weinberger painted an incunable
picture.
"Deafening his audience with statistics he got from nowhere, he presented fresh figures," an analyst said, referring to U.S. estimates of 250 triple-warhead Soviet missiles in Europe.
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