10 Friday, November 20, 1987 / University Daily Kansan Nation/World Speech opposition grows Gorbachev's congressional address unlikely, leaders say The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The possibility of Soviet General Secretary Mihail Gorbachev becoming the first Communist leader to address a joint meeting of Congress diminished yesterday as House Republican leader Robert Michel joined a GOP revolt against the proposal. Faced with opposition on Capitol Hill, a senior White House official said, "I would be very surprised if he (Gorbachev) ever ends up addressing a joint meeting." Michel. R-III, said in a statement that a plan to ask Gorbachev to address a joint meeting of Congress on Dec. 9 during the Washington summit "would be a terrible mistake, and I have relayed my views to the State Department." the state Senate-nine members of the House, mostly Republicans, signed a letter to President Reagan urging that another forum than a joint meeting be found for a meeting between Gorbachev and Congress, said Rep. Robert Walker, R-Pa. The status of the invitation remained unclear. A spokesman for House Speaker Jim Wright, D-Texas, said Tuesday that White House officials had requested that Gorbachev be invited to address a joint meeting of Congress at 10 a.m. Dec. 9, and that Congress had set the wheels in motion for the event. However, a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that "all along the White House felt the most appropriate thing would be a breakfast or luncheon meeting" with some members of Congress, a far less formal event than a joint meeting. Michel said the purpose of the planned Dec. 7-10 summit "is to finalize details of a very important arms agreement. There is no logical reason to obscure the purpose of the visit or give it an inappropriate symbolic value" by having a joint meeting. Michel's stance threw the invitation into grave doubt, because he is one of four top congressional leaders whose approval would be needed to formally open the doors of Congress to Gorbachev, said a Republican aide. Michel and other Republican leaders were working behind the scenes with White House officials to find a forum for Gorbachev that would be less controversial than a joint meeting of Congress, an honor usually reserved for allies. Seventy-five conservative House members signed a letter urging Reagan to arrange another avenue for Gorbachev to meet with Congress. And Senate Majority leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said that such an appearance by Gorbache "would make sense only if the Soviets would agree in advance to allow Reagan to address the Soviet people live and united and through his own interpreter on prime-time Soviet television." Republicans said they saw signs of a compromise. Deficit plan splits Republicans on eve of Gramm-Rudman cuts The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Divisions in Republican ranks imperiled efforts to reach a deficient reduction pact between the White House and Congress yesterday. This debate came one day before the Gramm-Rudman budget cuts take automatic effect. As darkness fell yesterday after a long day's bargaining, White House Chief of Staff Howard H. Baker Jr. said President Reagan will order the Gramm-Rudman cuts into effect even if the bipartisan bargainers come up with a last minute alternative plan. Some negotiators talked of delaying the Gramm-Rudman cuts while they finished their work, but Baker's comments ruled that out. The Gramm-Rudman law requires $23 billion in deficit reduction in fiscal 1988, which began Oct. 1. By the end of today. Reagan must order such a cut in federal spending, half from domestic programs and half from the military. Bargainers from the White House and Congress said they were closer than ever to agreement. But in separate meetings, so many House and Senate Republicans expressed opposition to the emerging plan that it was endangered, even if they agreed on a deal. Baker, leaving a session with congressional budget writers, repeatedly said "No" to reporters' questions about conditions under which Reagan would accept a delay, proposed by some lawmaker. ers. 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