Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 98, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 January 1982 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 4,1982

Search for money the primary goal of 'fast-paced' 1982 legislature

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Legislative leaders say they’ll be seeking short term solutions to the state’s financial problems in the 1982 General Assembly which begins its work Tuesday. House Speaker J Robert Dailey and Senate President Pro Tempore Robert D. Carton both say finding money to balance the state property tax relief fund and school funding are major issues in the session. “Most of our issues will be fiscal in nature,” said Dailey, RMuncie. “There’s a projected shortage in property tax relief funds for the spring payment for 1983. That is something we’ll address. We ve also got to find S4O million to pay for lawsuits,” he said, referring to suits the state has lost during the year. In one, a federal judge has ordered the state to pay for desegregation busing in Marion County and in the other the state has been ordered to provide pay raises for county welfare workers to bring them to the level of state employees. "It will be a session where we face reality,” said Carton, RColumbus, adding that he expected the property tax relief fund to be kept solvent and the school formula to be reaffirmed. The school formula was passed in a special session last year and the legislation required the Legislature to review the formula again this year. ‘ 'We must either re-affirm what we did last session or come up with something new,” Dailey said, adding that the appropriation for public schools is “in the neighborhood of $1 billion a healthy sum.”

Postal Service ignores Justice, starts E-COM

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Postal Service, ignoring opposition from the Justice Department, is going ahead with a new electronic mail service in which businesses can have computerized bills and messages delivered with the regular mail. The Electronic Computer Originated Mail service will allow large-volume mailers to bypass traditional handling methods in which a letter is sorted by various postal clerks between the sender and the receiver. * Under the service starting today, a company’s computer will send a message via a communications common carrier such as long-distance telephone •i- to one of 25 specially equipped post offices around the country. There, the message will be printed on paper, put in a distinctive blue-and-white E-COM envelope and delivered with Fegular mail. The service is for those who

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send 200 or more computeroriginated messages at one time. The Postal Service promises delivery within two business days. The Justice Department asked for a restraining order to block the service New Year’s Eve, but a federal court refused. The Justice Department contended the E-COM service threatens to divert taxpayer’s money to subsidize a new service. “Barring a court decision to the contrary, we intend to begin offering the service as we have planned,” Postal Service spokesman Eon Powell said Sunday evening. E-COM is the Postal Service’s largest effort to harness computer technology to move the mail. The service is designed for first-class mail sent by businesses, which comprises the largest portion of mail volume. The Postal Service expects a first-year volume of at least 20 million pieces, said Karen

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The state’s fiscal problems include a forecast that the property tax fund will be broke by June 30 The fund pays at least 20 percent of all property taxes for the state’s residents. In addition, there are predictions the general fund will also have a deficit. Dailey sees no need for major revisions in the state’s revenue programs, explaining that the problems are mainly caused by a depressed economic situation. “Because we think this is a one-time problem, we only intend

Uemoto, director of E-COM operations. Eventually, up to 500 million pieces of mail per year could move through the service, she said. That still would be less than 1 percent of the 60 billion pieces of firstclass mail the service handled last year. So far, 123 companies have asked for Postal Service certification to use E-COM, Powell said. These include such large firms as Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc.; Shell Oil Co. and General Tire and Rubber Co.

Reagan returns to full schedule

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan, back home in the White House after a weeklong vacation in California, has a full work menu for the week ahead. Not all of it is tasty. There is lunch with West Ger-

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Five telecommunications carriers have signed agreements with the Postal Service to provide the link between companies’ computers and the Postal Service. Businesses that want to use E-COM are required to pay a SSO annual fee plus 26 cents for the first page and five cents for the second page of a message. They will have to pay the common carrier separately. The Postal Service expects that to add between a penny and a dime to the cost of each transmission.

man Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, with whom Reagan has diFfered over the Soviet role in the Polish crisis. There are some final decisions to be made on the 1983 fiscal budget. There is a National Security Council meeting on Poland. There is a likely meeting to discuss a proposal to return certain federal tax revenues to the states. And there is a meeting with Richard V. Allen, who has shown no public sign of willingly giving up his job as national security adviser despite signals from White House aides that he is on the way out. “He’s got a lot to do when he gets back,” deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Sunday as the president flew home from his sixth vacation in California since taking office a little over 11 m onths ago. The top priority items, Speakes said, are to “finish up the budget” that will be delivered to Congress soon and to keep abreast of developments in Poland. But White House officals have made clear that overhauling White House foreign policy operations with whatever that portends for Allen also will be high on the list. They have said the national security adviser, whoever fills the post, will be given increased authority and daily access to the president, something Allen has not had. The aides also have said Deputy Secretary of State William P. Clark is the unanimous choice of Reagan’s inner circle to replace Allen if he steps aside voluntarily upon completion of an internal White House investigation of possible ethics violations or is removed by Reagan. While in California, Reagan met with Clark, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and deputy White House chief of staff Michael K. Deaver to review preparations for Schmidt’s vist Tuesday. The West German chancellor has expressed disagreement with Reagan’s assessment that the Kremlin bears responsibility for the imposition of martial law in Poland.

to seek a one-time solution,” Dailey said. “We do think that fiscal policy in Indiana is sound, and we do not want to get to monkeying too much with it.” Garton has told legislators to expect a “fast-paced” session and a mid-February target for adjournment has been announced. The Legislature legally can meet until March 15 but Garton says the state’s Republicans, who enjoy a comfortable majority in both the House and Senate, have been told the leadership wants its 1982 business completed quickly. Some bills have already emerged from the committee process. “I think it’s an indication that committee chairmen recognize we’re going to attempt to close the session by mid-February and to utilize the time that’s available,” Garton said. “It’s going to be a very fast-paced session.” Gov. Robert D. Orr has announced he wants no general tax increases and an aide says he’s awaiting new revenue forecasts expected this week before revealing his solutions to money problems. House Minority Leader Michael K. Phillips, D-Boonville, indicates legislators on his side of the aisle will offer little help in producing a fiscal plan. “It is our belief that since the voters gave the Republicans the mandate of leadership, we will wait to see what the leadership proposes,” Phillips said, adding that he believes “it will take more than Band-Aids” to solve the money problems.

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Poland acts to blunt U.S. moves

By The Associated Press Poland’s military ruler was meeting with West European envoys in Warsaw today in an apparent effort to head off participation in American economic sanctions. The military regime also was reported to have lined up $350 million to avoid defaulting on its debt to Western governments and banks. Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland’s premier, Communist Party chief and head of the military council, invited the ambassadors from the 10 Common Market countries to talk about the Communist nation’s problems, the West German Foreign Office said. He was expected to ask that their governments not join in U.S. economic sanctions. Foreign ministers of the Common Market countries were

Get tougher with Soviets: Brzezinski

BRZEZINSKI Urges tougher stance

meeting in Brussels today to discuss Poland. Their governments have condemned Poland’s Communist regime for declaring martial law three weeks ago, curbing civil liberties and jailing thousands of unionists and dissidents. But none have showed any \ inclination to follow President Reagan’s lead in suspending aid and trade agreements with Poland and the Soviet Union. Uncensored reports from Poland reaching the West said Western sources in Warsaw reported Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski assured West German officials last week his government has the $350 million needed to pay the rest of last year’s interest on Poland’s $27 billion debt to the West. The sources said they assumed the Soviet bloc had provided the money because Western banks

(c) 1982 The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - Zbigniew Brezezinski, former President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, Sunday endorsed still tougher U.S. sanctions against the Soviet Union including reimposition of a grain embargo if the current repression in Poland continues. An architect of American reprisals following the 1979 Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, Brezezinski said President Reagan also should consider repudiation of the postWorld World II Yalta agreements and the suspension of arms limitation talks if Soviet troops intervene directly

Nursing home reform, alcholic beverage laws and a federal order to ease overcrowding at the Indiana State Prison are other topics expected to be closely reviewed in the session. Garton says it’s difficult to anticipate what the state will do about President Reagan’s block grant policies because “we don’t know the appropriation level and may not know it until the session’s over. It’s very difficult to appropriate moneys if you don’t know if those moneys are available.” The session could also be rather controversial. Sen. James Abraham, R-Anderson, announced last week that he was introducing legislation which would enable Hoosiers to sign a statement that if they became terminally ill or injured so that their life was supported by artificial means, that life sup l port could be legally withheld. Garton pronounced it “an interesting idea” but said he hadn’t yet seen the bill so it hadn’t been assigned to committee. A bill that would allow utilities to charge customers for construction work in progress is also expected to be brought up. Garton said he thought that bill would originate in the House and would await House action before predicting its fate. But he did say Orr “has not shown any enthusiasm for it.’” Garton also said the timing is poor because of the short session and the current economically depressed climate. “There’s no question construction costs are going to be paid by consumers. It’s a question of when. When we’re in a recession it’s not a good time to discuss it seriously,” he said.

another student. The photo was published in the Milwaukee Sentinel, then made available to the Associated Press. (AP Laserphoto)

had refused. Poland’s cash reserves are exhausted because its economy has been crippled by years of Communist mismanagement and planning as well as recent labor unrest. Polish officials have been privately telling Western diplomats and journalists that cuts in Western aid will force the country to rely more heavily on the Soviets. The Kremlin has already supplied thousands of tons of food, medicine and fuel to support the military regime. A Warsaw radio commentary said Sunday that Reagan’s economic sanctions were “typical of a sheriff from a Western,” and criticized him for asserting that the Soviet Union was responsible for Poland’s martial law. In Moscow, a Soviet television commentator predicted

in Poland. The Yalta treaty ceded Eastern Europe to the Soviet sphere of influence. Brezezinski, in an interview on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation,” generally supported Reagan’s actions thus far in the Polish crisis. He said it was important now, however, to develop and articulate future U.S. policy in anticipation of a denoument in Poland. If, on the one hand, Soviet and Polish authorities settle on a policy of accomodation with Solidarity and the Roman Catholic Church, the United States should be ready to provide economic assistance to Poland on a scale with the post-

Western Europe would reject. Reagan’s call for joint sanctions. The Communist Party’ newspaper Pravda accused the United States of violating the. 1975 Helsinki accords by helping Solidarity plan a coup inPoland. Meanwhile, the official Polish news agency PAP reported that, nine steelworkers from Solidarity, the independent trade union federation that was the chief target of the military crackdown, were sentenced to heavy fines and prison terms Sunday for “masterminding a strike at the Katowice steel mill.” PAP said their sentences ranged from 3Vfe to 6Vs years plus deprivation of civil rights afterward for up to five years. The strike lasted 10 days after martial law was declared Dec. 13, PAP said.

war Marshall Plan, he said. On the other hand, in the case of direct Soviet military intervention, the president should adopt across-the-board economic sanctions, suspend arms talks and reject the Yalta agreements, Brezezinski said. Repudiation of the Yalta accords, he said, would underscore the U.S. view that Eastern Europe “is no longer prepared to be dominated by the Soviets the way it was in the immediate postwar era.” He added that such a move would not entail any military action against the Soviets.