University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 16, 1989
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Federal spending cuts to take effect today
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — "The Gramm- Rudman law's automatic spending cuts." Those seven words were supposed to conjure visions of chaos that would frighten Congress and the president into cutting the federal deficit.
But it hasn't worked that way this year. Today, $16 billion in "automatic" federal spending cuts take effect.
The law calls the cuts "permanent." In reality, they may not be.
Unless you are a doctor, hospital official, veteran, college student or
federal worker, you are unlikely ever to notice the reductions.
Even if you are among those victims, however, you may not suffer very much or for very long. If Congress follows its own precedent, it may roll back the cuts in a matter of days.
The Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law, enacted in 1985, has triggered automatic cuts twice before, in 1986 and 1987. The 1987 cutback lasted two months and was rolled back by Congress.
The White House budget chief, Richard Darman, said yesterday that allowing the cuts to last a full
year 'maybe . . . is the best available alternative. At least it is real.
"This time, if it goes into effect, I think it would be good if people would live with it . . ,," Darman said on the ABC-TV program "This Week with David Brinkley."
One of the bill's authors, Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, rebuffed criticism of the law and said strengthening it could balance the budget.
"You can't blame a mechanism that was aimed at reducing the deficit when Congress does not want to do the job." Gramm said on the NBC-TV program, "Meet the Press."
The law requires a projected deficit for fiscal 1990 — which began Oct. 1 — of no more than $100 billion. If the projected shortfall exceeds the target by more than $10 billion today, the law automatically triggers cuts in spending of whatever is required to slash the figure to $100 billion.
The Associated Press
SOWETO, South Africa — Eight leaders of the anti-apartheid movement became free men yesterday, six of them after at least 25 years in jail, and told rejoicing supporters that equality for Blacks in South Africa is within reach.
Walter Sisulu, 77, a friend and colleague of African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, proudly presided over the first news conference held by the organization in South Africa since it was banned in 1960.
South Africa frees Black leaders
"Our determination has never been weakened by our long years of imprisonment," Sisiua told scores of reporters and hundreds of ANC followers who packed a church hall. "We have been strengthened by the developments in our country and our own clear vision of the future."
Some in the crowd wept as the freed prisoners, railing clenched behind their supporters in singing "God Bless America" and them of the anti-apartheid movement.
Sisulu and six other ANC members were freed early yesterday. Also the Pan Africanist Congress, 88, of the Pan Africanist Congress, a smaller guerrilla movement.
The releases are viewed as a tacit acknowledgement by the government of the ANC's influence and popularity among South Africa's Black majority. Even relatively conservative Black leaders said they
would reject any negotiations with the government unless the ANC was legalized and its inlailed leaders freed.
Sisulu and his colleagues, seated in front of a large green, gold and black dress that he wore for the event that Mandela remained in prison and said they would press for his release.
They said the ANC, the largest group fighting the white-led government, would continue its military campaign and reject calls for negotiation under the terms it lifted, the state of emergency, and released all political prisoners.
"If the government doesn't meet our demands, we have no alternative but to continue to fight for our freedom," said Andrew Mlangeni, 63.
Beijing school reopens for first time since riots
The Associated Press
BEIJING — China's most prestigious university opened Saturday for the first time since soldiers stopped protesting a law that protects its students helped lead.
Students gathered to buy books at the center of the Beijing University campus near a long red banner that urged them to uphold Marxist principles and take a clear stand against Western capitalist values.
Few were willing to talk about the protests that ended in gunfire and
triggered a hard-line backlash in which Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang was ousted and thousands were arrested.
Student enrollment was noticeably less than usual The 750-member freshman class - down from about 2,100 last year - will be absent all year to undergo military and political training at an army academy outside the capital.
The reduction in the freshman class was part of a nationwide cut in first-year students from about 640,000 to 610,000.
PLO SEEKS TALKES Palestinian leaders meet yesterday in the Iraqi capital seeking a common strategy toward U.S. and Egyptian proposals for direct Palestine-Iraqian negotiations.
Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat was expected to come under pressure from hard-liners to reject recent peace proposals by Israel, Egypt and the United States, which have either ruled out PLO participation in peace talks or left its role vague.
The Central Council convened at the PLO's "embassy" in downtown Baghdad under tight security.
World Briefs
The council, comprising 80 members, acts as an intermediary between the PLO's policy-making body, the Palestine National Council and the 15-man Executive Committee.
General Richard Thornburgh arrived in Moscow yesterday for consultations with leading criminal justice officials at a time when the Soviet Union was planning sweeping legal reforms.
Thornburgh is to meet during his five-day visit with Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, Justice Minister Veniamin F. Yakovlev, Prosecutor General Alexander Sukhehar and Interior Minister Vadim Bakatin.
THORNBURGH IN MOSCOW: U.S. Attorney
PANAMANIAN SHAKE-UP: The Panamanian government yesterday announced a shake-up of six key posts in the military, twelve days after it reached coup against Gen. Manuel Antonel Narváez.
The announcement, made on a television broadcast, said Maj. Rafel Cedeno was named
state security chief, Cedeno, who has worked as an assistant to Noriega, replaced Col. Guilermo Wong, who was detained as a result of the Oct. 3 uprising.
Wong, with other high officials, allegedly was involved in the attempt.
Maj. Anibal Maylin is the new head of Panama's police, some of whose units also were involved in the coup attempt. Ll. Col. Roberto Armijo, who was chief of police when the uprising occurred, will become head of a military post.
Mai. Marj. A. del Cid was named head of the second military zone and Capt. Rafael Jurado will control the Peace Battalion stationed along the northern border with Costa Rica.
Capt. Asunción Gaitan Rios will serve as head of Panama's special forces. He was previously head of a military training school.
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