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Monday, September 10, 1990/ University Daily Kansan
Budget negotiations hit deadline frenzy
The Associated Press
ANDREWS A.F.B., Md. — Congressional leaders and White House negotiators raced the clock yesterday, trying to narrow their differences about the budget and reach an agreement for fiscal 1991.
The two sidES worked for a third straight day at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, 20 minutes from the capital, spending much of their time discussing taxes. Lawmakers have said they wanted to finish work by today to give Congress time to enact a package of savings by the Oct. 1 start of the fiscal year.
Officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the bargainers could go to the White House this morning to try to complete their work. Additional bargaining was likely to be needed after that session, they said, perhaps running through tomorrow.
Congress and the Bush administration have been deadlocked all year about how to reduce the deficit.
The bargainers have been searching for a combination of new taxes and spending cuts producing $50 billion in savings for next year and $500 billion over the next five years. Injection could help $20 billion deficit next year.
Democrats and Republicans have clashed all year about how to achieve budget savings. Democrats have tried to emphasize tax cuts while Republics have sought to pare domestic programs.
An official said the two sides were considering about $10 billion in cuts in benefit programs such as Medicare and aid to farmers. When the talks began Friday, Democrats offered reductions of $7.2 billion, and Republicans pressed for $15.5 billion.
Republicans were hoping to limit cuts in the $303 billion defense budget to about $4 billion. Democrats, after initially about $15 billion in reductions, relied on their proposal by $2 billion.
Each side was seeking about $25 billion in new taxes and federal fees, but their components varied.
Educators wonder if goals can be met
WASHINGTON — Gov. Terry Branstad of Iowa was asked whether President Bush and the nation's governors had set education goals that were impossible to achieve. His response: a chuckle.
The Associated Press
"Look," Branstad said, "what did you want us to say — that U.S. students will be third, fourth or fifth in the world in mathematics and science achievement by the year 2002?"
The exchange at a recent CBS News education conference reflects as growing concern that the goals approved in February after an education summit between the president and governors may be a bit too lofty.
The goals state that beginning in the year 2000:
All children will start school ready to learn.
High school graduations will increase to at least 90 percent.
Students will demonstrate competency of challenging subject matter Students will be first in the world in math and science.
Every adult American will be literate.
Every school will be free of violence and drugs.
The goals are set against a backdrop of distal statistics. The Children's Defense Fund notes that every 67 seconds, a teenager has a every 67 seconds a teenager has a
baby, every seven minutes a child is arrested for drugs and every year 700,000 students graduate who cannot read their diplomas.
He said the concept includes making sure pregnant women receive adequate prenatal care and children get good nutrition and health care.
"The issue of having all children come to school ready to learn is almost breathtaking in its implications," said Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
"If we would deliver on that, I am confident all the others would fall into place much more completely," he said. "We have brought the issue of commitment to
children "front and center."
Asked about the chances of attaining the math goal, educator Marilyn Burns of Sausalito, Calif., said, "I would have to go to a higher school." Jimmy the Greek gave this one."
The Education Department said 19 percent of all eight graders and 30 percent of Hispanics, Blacks, and American Indians were not proficient in the basic math skills considered necessary to perform everyday tasks.
Congressional statistics show that four-fifths of elementary school mathematics teachers are not fully qualified to teach math and two-thirds of elementary school science teachers are not fully qualified.
Cambodian peace plan has support, official says
The Associated Press
JAKARTA, Indonesia — The four warring factions in Cambodia appear ready to accept a U.N. peace plan to end their 19-year-old war, Indonesian Foreign Minister Ali Alatas said yesterday.
"The circumstances for achieving a comprehensive settlement are unlikely ever again to be as favorable as they are now," the foreign minister said after the opening session of peace talks in the Indonesian capital.
The guerrillas and Cambodia's Vietnam-backed government had no immediate comment.
The talks focused on a plan backed by the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the United States, Soviet Union, China, Britain and France, to end Cambodia's civil war.
The plan envisions the formation of a transitional council on which each of the four Cambodian factions would be represented.
The so-called Supreme National Council would cede much of its authority to the United Nations, whose representatives would administer the country until free elections could be held. The plan also calls for disarming and regrouping the four armies.
Premier Hun Sen of the Vietnam installed government in Phnom Penh has accepted the U.N. plan as the framework for a solution.
The three-party guerrilla resistance coalition also accepts the U.N. proposal it was presented yesterday by Khea Sanphan, nominal leader of the communist Khmer Rouge; former Cambodian Premier Son Sai, who heads the anti-communist National Liberation Front; and Prime Minister Ranariddh, who represents the faction of his father, Prince Norodom Shanouk. He said he was ill and could not attend.
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