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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 23, 1985
From Washington
Summit is the topic of meeting
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — U.S.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz and his Soviet counterpart meet here this week to prepare for the November superpower summit. They also join a parade of world leaders addressing the U.N. General Assembly in commemoration of its 40th anniversary.
The New York Police Department and United Nations have stepped up security in response to the expected record attendance of more than 100 presidents, foreign ministers and other government leaders, drawn by the monthlong anniversary commemoration.
The assembly's so-called general debate, an annual event, opens today with Brazilian President Jose Sarney as the first speaker. He is expected to emphasize the economic crises faced by developing countries like Brazil, in the unpaidign debt of more than $100 billion.
Shultz will follow Sarney to the rostrum and plans to attend tomorrow morning when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze addresses the 159-member assembly.
Upon arrival in New York last week, Shevardnadze said the Kremlin's prime concern was finding ways of "curbing and stopping the arms race, particularly the nuclear arms race, and preventing the militarization of outer space."
Shevardnadze already has sent the assembly a draft resolution that urges "preventing an arms race in outer space," an apparent reference to President Reagan's "Star Wars" research project for developing a space-based missile defense system.
Senate to debate Superfund
The Associated Press
The Senate, in sporadic floor work last week, has settled only one important question: the size of a new five-year program to replace the first five-year effort that expires at midnight Sept. 30.
WASHINGTON — With eight days remaining before America's toxic waste cleanup program expires, the Senate resumes debate on its "Superfund" renewal bill as House members scurry to get their bill ready for the floor.
Other issues before Congress this week are a farm bill that will set long-term agricultural policy and an anti-abortion amendment which is part of a District of Columbia spending bill.
Still to be confronted by the Senate in a work week shortened by the Yom Kippur holiday are how to pay for a greatly expanded Superfund and how to apportion cleanup cost liability among people responsible for creating toxic dumps.
In addition, the Senate fight over Superfund could be interrupted by
Neither side of Congress is worried about the clock running out on Superfund. Leaders concede they will miss the deadline, which will result in a drying up of revenues flowing into Superfund, principally from a tax on petroleum and basic petrochemicals.
Anticipating the law's expiration, the Environmental Protection Agency last month ordered a halt to work at 57 dump sites. Lawmakers say that although they can recover the lost money, they can't regain the time lost by the temporary halt in cleanup activity.
The Senate on Friday easily beat back an effort to set Superfund spending through 1990 at $5.7 billion. This all but guaranteed that the $7.5 billion in the Senate bill will be the least that Congress will approve.
On the House side, staunch environmentalists have renewed their efforts to strengthen the $10 billion Superfund reauthorization measure
hammered out by the Energy and Commerce Committee in July.
Their attention now is focused on the Public Works and Transportation Committee and its water resources subcommittee, which are tentatively scheduled to consider the House bill late this week.
The Senate bill would create a new value-added tax on large manufacturers to pay for more than two-thirds of its $7.5 billion program. The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee has yet to tackle the financing question.
The toughest question is how to pay for a huge increase in a cleanup program created in 1980 with a five-year budget of $1.6 billion.
The value-added levy, a form of national sales tax in use in Europe, is being opposed by manufacturer's groups and, more importantly, the White House. But despite criticism of this approach, no one has formally proposed another way of financing the program.
Reagan to unveil new trade plan
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, hoping to slow a drive toward protectionism, unveils a new trade strategy today that promises aggressive efforts to open markets and a $300 million fund to fight foreign export subsidies.
Administration officials said Reagan, in a speech to members of a presidential Export Council, will announce a multipronged approach to a problem that has been raised to the top of the administration's domestic policy agenda.
controversy over trade legislation designed to protect the domestic textile and shoe industries.
Reagan, in his speech, will announce some specific moves, such as proposal of a $300 million war chest to help American firms compete against subsidized foreign goods. But the officials said the tone of the speech would be of primary importance.
"The president will make clear, in no uncertain terms, that he is committed to the concept of fair as well as free trade," said one official. "It's a good speech, a forceful speech and one that shows we’re firmly on the right side of this issue."
On Saturday, in his weekly radio address, Reagan said the answer to U.S. trade problems was not antitrade legislation. It was more economic growth worldwide. But Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., argued yesterday that the problem lies in a failure by the administration to enforce U.S. trade laws.
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"The fundamental function of government is to protect," he said on the CBS News program "Face the Nation." "The other governments are giving that kind of protection and treatment to their industries."
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The U.S. trade deficit and the strong value of the dollar — blamed by the White House for much of the trade imbalance — were discussed yesterday at a meeting in New York of the finance ministers and central bankers of the United States, Japan, West Germany, Britain and France.
Today's speech will be the culmination of a weeks-long review of administration policy in the face of a huge trade deficit — estimated to be about $150 billion this year — that has fueled a push in Congress for protectionist legislation.
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Applications are now in any dean's office, and are due by Sept. 26 at 3 pm.
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Reagan is lobbying to get tax bill passed
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, determined to fight for his No. 1 domestic priority, has asked Congress to stay in session as long as it takes to pass important tax reform legislation this year, administration officials said yesterday.
"He is really dedicated to getting a tax bill this year and will work with Congress on that," one
If necessary, the officials said, Reagan may consider exercising a little-used presidential power to call Congress back into session to force the Senate to finish work this year.
The officials said Reagan conveyed the message to congressional leaders last week and may mount a publicity campaign to prevent the Senate from putting on a tax bill until next year.
official said. "He believes it can be done if Congress moves expeditiously. If they don't, he will examine the alternatives for his next move, which could include keeping them in session."
The same official described Reagan as "sympathetic" to the political realities of the situation and "the tremendous pressure on the Senate." Nonetheless, the official said, "the president is quite firm and quite determined."
The threat of further confrontation with Congress was sparked by an agreement last week by Senate Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas and House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, D-Mass., to aim for adjournment by Thanksgiving. Officials said Reagan wanted action this year for two reasons: to prevent election-year politics from muddling the issue in 1986 and to give taxpayers time to plan for changes next year.
United Press International
Proposed budget director called ketchup a vegetable
WASHINGTON — James C. Miller III, President Reagan's nominee for budget director, approved in 1981 an administration cost-cutting plan to count ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches, documents show.
Miller, currently head of the Federal Trade Commission, was chief of the regulation department at the Office of Management and Budget in 1981.
The proposed school lunch rules, which were withdrawn because of
strong opposition, would have allowed the nutritional value of condiments such as pickle relish and ketchup to be counted in fulfilling the requirements of a government subsidized school lunch.
The Food and Nutrition Service of the Agriculture Department wrote the proposed rule. But United Press International has learned that Miller, in his job as OMB's Administrator for Information and Regulation Affairs, gave his personal approval to the proposed school lunch regulations.
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Announcing Hilltoppers
The Jayhawker Yearbook is happy to announce the Hilltoppers. The Hilltopper Awards were established in the 1930's as the Jayhawker's way of recognizing those seniors who have made high calibre contributions to the University and/or the Lawrence community and have consistently displayed unselfish, responsible leadership in non-academic areas of campus life. The award was reestablished in 1984 in order that outstanding seniors may once again be recognized.
Criteria for selection includes:
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—unselfish service to the campus and community
respect of the nominee's peers as-well-as his or her professors
-references that can address the quality of the nominee's service
—a GPA of around 3.0,however grades will not play an extremely important part in the selection
The nominations will be screened by a committee that includes KU faculty, student representatives, and the Jayhawker staff. Anyone can nominate a senior for this award and seniors can nominate themselves by picking up an application. Nomination forms and applications will be available at the Organizations and Activities Center, 403 Kansas Union, and the Yearbook Office,121 B Kansas Union. Deadline for acceptance of nominations is Fri., Oct. 11, and the deadline for applications is Fri., Nov. 1, 1985.
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