NATION AND WORLD
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Hijackers issue threats to blow up Kuwaiti plane
KUWAIT — Five gunmen who hijacked a Kuwaiti airbase to Teheran threatened yesterday to blow up the plane with all 95 people aboard unless Kuwait freed 21 people imprisoned for bombing U.S. and French facilities. Kuwait refused.
Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said the hackers had disclosed that a hostage they had shot to death and dumped on the tarmac Tuesday was a U.S. diplomat, but U.S. officials in Washington said no confirmation that the victim was an American.
EPA denies states' petitions
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday denied petitions by three Northeastern states that asked the agency to force seven states to reduce sulfur emissions by 30 to 40 percent.
The agency said New York, Pennsylvania and Maine had not proved the allegations made in the petitions — that sulfur emissions from the industrial Midwest and border states were significantly contributing to air pollution in the
Environmentalists believe sulfur emissions from coal-fired Midwest power plants drift into the Northeast and combine with cloud moisture to form acid rain, which has been linked to "dead" lakes and stunted forests in the Northeast.
CIA broke the law, group says
WASHINGTON — The CIA broke the law with a guerrilla war manual for Nicaraguan rebels, the House Intelligence Committee said yesterday. The committee chastised its agency for confusion and negligence in the production of the booklet.
One panel member said CIA Director William Casey confessed to "negligence in management" during a two-hour appearance before the committee to review the manual, which critics charge advocates political assassination.
PACs get money from models
WASHINGTON - Two political action committees are raising a lot of money using women in their two "modeling studios" to collect contributions for their cause.
The Franklin Square Political Action Committee and the Democratic Freedoms Political Action Committee own the "Paradise" and the "Adam and Eve"
City officials are trying to determine whether the PACs financing is legal.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Cyanide claims 1,600; epidemics feared now
By United Press International
BHOPAL, India — The death toll from a poisonous gas cloud climbed past 1,600 yesterday amid fears of epidemics from hundreds of decomposing bodies and warnings of long-term health problems among those injured in the world's worst chemical disaster.
A preliminary investigation determined that 25 tons of deadly cyanide spewed out of a U.S.-owned pesticide plant and engulfed Bhopal Monday, after a "runaway chemical reaction" caused a pressure buildup in an underground tank.
Local government officials accused the Union Carbide Corp., which has its headquarters in Danbury, Conn., of failing to warn them of the dangers posed by the plant and said they would prosecute any plant found to have violated safety regulations.
REPORTS COMPLED BY THE Press
Trust of India showed more than 1,600 people were killed by the cloak of choking, blinding furnes that enveloped Bhopal and a 15-square
Arjun Singh, chief minister of Madhya Pradesh state, told reporters the government's official count was 620, but acknowledged it was incomplete, saying it did not include bodies cremated or buried by families who did not report the deaths.
The delayed effects of the gas continued to claim more victims, and more than 1,000 people are still hospitalized with blinded or inflamed eyes, seared lungs and vomiting.
More than 50,000 people treated for less serious injuries have been released since the cloud of white gas mushroom over the central Indian city, 360 miles south of New Delhi.
**Definition:** PEOPLE CONTINUED TO seek help at overflowing hospitals, which had to set up makeshift treatment centers outside.
Teams of volunteers searched for bodies left in the stricken slum and carted them away along narrow, muddy paths.
City streets were dotted with flaming funeral pyres for a second day as Hindus cremated their dead, but corpse piled up at cremation facilities and the city morgue because of a shortage of gasoline to burn them.
Officials fear that some of those exposed to the gas might suffer long-term kidney problems, and that the corneal ulcers suffered by many victims could cause permanent blindness.
BHOPAL, India — Volunteer workers carry a woman seriously ill from toxic gas away from the squatter colony opposite the Union Carbide plant. Many wore masks against the stench of the dead and for fear that pockets of the deadly gas remained in the area.
United Press International
Reagan proposes cuts for domestic programs
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan got tough with his Cabinet on the budget yesterday and ordered domestic programs frozen, cut or eliminated to help keep the debt from hitting $2 trillion in 1986. Urbair areas and federal workers appeared to suffer most.
Reagan said his goal was to slash $34 billion from domestic spending in his new budget, by freezing federal workers' and military pay, eliminating major programs in urban areas and even cutting by $8 billion the growth in defense spending.
SOCIAL SECURITY WOULD be exempt from any cuts, according to several House members attending the briefing.
However, since Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has not yet returned from Europe to discuss the proposal, the budget for it would add to the $8 billion as a "savings shortfall".
Overall, the proposed $42 billion in budget savings would reduce the fiscal 1996 deficit to $170 billion and bring the red ink figure to $89 billion. At the same time, the current year is estimated at $210 billion.
After Reagan's meeting with his Cabinet, budget director David Stockman briefed House Republicans on the spending blueprint.
Rep. Olympia Snowe, R.Maine, who attended the briefing, said Stockman had promised that "nothing will be touched in Social Security." However, she said, some budget savings would come from freezing military and federal pay next year and eliminating cost-of-living adjustments for federal and military retirement programs.
OTHER PROGRAMS SUBJECT to the cost-of-living freeze in the administration's budget, proposal, titled the "Freeze plus Framework," include: railroad retirement and black lung benefits, food stamps, the Medicare and the Supplemental Security Income welfare program for the aged, blind and disabled.
Student aid would also be capped under the proposal, Snowe said, and farm subsidies would be targeted to small farmers.
Rep Bill Green, R-N.Y., who also attended the briefing, listed mass transit subsidies, including Amtrak, part of the impact-aid-to-schools program, funding for the Export-Import bank, sewer grants, revenue sharing and Urban Development Action Grants as being on Reagan's hit list to be eliminated.
Green, a moderate Republican who has opposed many of Reagan's programs in the past, said, "There was a great deal of sentiment that this sort of selective 'freeze' actually means a rollback in many programs."
SINCE SOCIAL SECURITY, and possibly defense, would be exempt from the cuts, the brunt of the budget savings would fall on domestic programs that were slashed in 1981.
"It isn't going to fly." Green said. However, he said, it is merely a proposal. Mimicking Treasury Secretary Donald Regan's comment on his recently released tax
reform plan, Green said: "None of it is frozen. This too is written on a word processor."
White House spokesman Larry Speaks said Reagan had announced a two-pronged approach at his 75-minute Cabinet meeting to prepare heads of agencies to be hit hardest by the freeze attempt.
"We must get control over federal spending. We must commit to steadily reducing the deficit by reducing spending." Speakes quoted Reagan as saying. He said the White House operation itself would face budget cuts.
REAGAN SAID HIS GOAL was to reduce a defect projected at $299 billion without cuts, to 4 percent of the GNP, with annual deficits rising to 3 percent and 2 percent the next two years.
"More specifically," Reagan said, "to reach our immediate goal in 1966, we must freeze overall program spending at the 1985 level. Most federal programs will be frozen or reduced in order to achieve an overall freeze on program spending."
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December 6,1984
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