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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 11,1982
House panel ignores veto threat, endorses $5.4 billion jobs package
WASHINGTON (AP) Ignoring threats of a presidential veto, the House Appropriations Committee is endorsing a spending bill that includes $5.4 billion to help the unemployed and a chance for members of Congress to raise their salaries. The full House is expected to vote early next week on the
Willing to consider M X options: Reagan
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan seems open to compromise on his embattled basing plan for the MX missile as he tries to line up Senate votes for the weapon after its crushing defeat in the House. Facing a crucial Senate vote next week, the president said Friday he is willing to have Congress “debate and discuss and see if there are possible other options that could conceivably be improvements.” He urged Congress to approve money now and argue about its basing system next year. “I believe it is absolutely essential to a strong, secure defense that we vote now on funds for that missile. Then next year as we have more time. I’d welcome a vigorous debate on the best way to base the missile,” Reagan said at a brief news conference in the Oval Office. He portrayed the dense-pack basing plan as “probably of-
U.S. plans war headquarters in Britain
c. 1982 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON - The Reagan administration plans to build a sl3 million support headquarters in Britain, into which 1,000 staff officers of the
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package, which was approved by the committee Friday on a 25-18 party-line vote. The legislation is necessary to keep money flowing to most of the federal government after Dec. 17. “This is just a grab bag of goodies,” said Rep. Silvio 0. Conte, R-Mass., the top Republican on the panel.
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sering the best opportunity” but said “if the Congress wants to debate and discuss and see if there are possible other options that could conceivably be improvements over this, we’re willing for that.”
U.S. European Command would move if war began in Europe, senior administration officials said Friday. The officials said the support center in High Wycombe, west of London, scheduled to be completed by 1986, would accommodate intelligence, operations, personnel and logistics officers from the peacetime headquarters in Stuttgart, West Germany, and from the United States. The main mission of the wartime support headquarters would be to assist American commanders on the continent
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“We’re going to get a veto,” he said. Meanwhile, a jobs-creating gasoline tax hike bill is bogged down in the Senate, where conservative Republicans want to postpone debate until next year. But Senate aides said Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Tenn., would have more than the 60 votes needed
“It is a conciliatory statement,” said Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C. “He is not looking for confrontation and we are not looking for confrontation.” By a surprisingly large 69vote margin Tuesday, the House deleted money from a defense spending bill to boiid the first five missiles. Reagan hopes to convince the House to reverse its vote The dense-pack plan, calling for missiles to be deployed in silos spaced closely together in Wyoming, was initially opposed by most of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and is the target of widespread skepticism in Congress. “I agree that more time is needed before we achieve a consensus in Congress on the basing mode, but the need for the missile itself has long been apparent,” Reagan said. He accused House opponents of the MX of “unfairly”
but not to run the war. The support center would be charged in particular with moving troop reinforcements and supplies from the United States to the battle front. The commanders of U.S. and allied forces would remain in Europe, the officials said, and would operate from a new command post being built in Mons, Belgium, near Brussels. Combat commanders would lead their forces in the field. The officials said the wartime headquarters was needed because Stuttgart is too exposed and lacks protected facilities
next week when he moves to choke off debate. Wrangling over the stopgap bill and the nickel-a-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax is expected to force the lame-duck session of Congress to meet past its Dec. 17 target for adjournment. The Democratic jobs plan included in the stopgap bill would
building their arguments around the basing mode instead of discussing the need for the missile itself. “And this was unfair,” Reagan said. “It was lacking a little in honesty to do that, and I think the message that came out was that they were opposed to the basing mode.” Noting that the Kremlin had expressed satisfaction about the House vote, Reagan said, “Well, if the Soviets are so pleased, perhaps we should be a little more concerned.” Insisting that the new missiles are essential to national defense, Reagan said “a vote against MX production today is a vote against arms control tomorrow. ’ ’ Edward Rowny, the administration’s chief negotiator in strategic arms talks with the Soviet Union, said rejection of the MX would have a “very, very damaging impact” on the talks.
for an extensive war room. The European Command headquarters in Stuttgart, they said, was intended only for peacetime use. They asserted that, contrary to press reports from Europe, the plan for moving staff officers into the wartime headquarters in Britain signified no loss of confidence in American and European forces. One senior officer called such allegations “hogwash.” A British newspaper, The Guardian, carried a Friday morning headlined: “U.S. to Pull Back War Centre to Britain.’’ The article contended the United States believed NATO forces would not be able to hold Germany against a Soviet invasion. The dispatch set off a flurry of denials in Germany, Britain and the United States, with Secretary of State George P. Shultz telling correspondents in Brussels that “there is no truth” to the report that the headquarters would be moved within four years.
provide money for a variety of emergency public works jobs, housing aid and assistance for the unemployed, including food and shelter. Included in the package is $1 billion for “emergency jobs creation” to provide about 160,000 jobs repairing bridges, water systems and public buildings.
Drinkin'to'dillers Down in Texas, they take their armadillos 'seriously'
By WAYNE KING c. 1982 N.Y. Times FREDERICKSBURG, Tex. Chris Christian, who runs Pat’s outdoor dance hall here and is the man responsible for it all, conceded that it was downright embarrassing. Here it was, the 300 millionth birthday of the armadillo, there was this big party and all, a proclamation from the governor, a telegram from James Michener, who is writing a book about Texas starring an armadillo, and all the guests standing around waiting and drinking beer and not a guest of honor in sight. There were stuffed toy armadillos, big ones and little ones, armadillo T-shirts, armadillo hats, armadillo mugs, armadillo lapel pins, armadillo string ties, armadillo belt buckles and even miniature six-packs of Lone Star beer labeled “Armadillo Bait.” But there was not a real live ’diller insight. “Well,” sighed Christian, cocking back his hat and rubbing his brow, “they’re kinda hard to keep in captivity, you know, so you got to get ‘em a day or two before, so they won’t dehydrate. We sent two boys out last night to round us up some, but they ain’t showed up yet.” “Got drunk,” somebody ventured. “Hogs ate 'em,” suggested another. No armadillos. Not even Billy Smallwood, who wrote a song about them that goes like this: Armadillos, Armadill-o-o-s, They’re too soft for rocks And too hard for pill-o-o-ws. And they can’t dance a jig ‘Cause their feet are too big. So why do we have armadillos? But not even Billy with his armadillo-calling guitar could summon one up, despite claims that he had seen 377 of them that morning rushing to a highway to get run over. So they ran the armadillo races with stick armadillos, broomsticks with wooden armadillo heads tacked on. The crowd liked that, but it wasn’t the real thing. It was Billy Smallwood who decided to take the armadillo by the tail, so to speak, and do something. Billy and his band, co-host with Christian of the Rocky Mountain Oyster Cookoff, which featured items like Rocky Mountain oysters Rockefeller, felt a little responsible for the dearth of armadillos, what with the failure of his magic guitar notes to call up any. “Well, let’s just go catch some,” said Billy, who sounds like the bottom note of a banjo and looks like an advertisement for Skoal snuff. Just why, after 300 million years, give or take a week or two, would anyone decide to throw a birthday party for an ar-mor-plated ’possum? One reason, of course, is that it’s Texas, and Texans will celebrate going to the dentist. Also, armadillos are real special to Texans, ranking right up there with Sam Houston, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, longhorns, pickup trucks, Willie Nelson and telling lies. For reasons of their own, Texans identify with them. They look like rocks, are about half as smart, smell awful and, from all accounts, are born with a single purpose: to amble out onto a highway and leap under the wheels ot a semitrailer. But they are cute, if you like an E.T. that has the I.Q. of a cabbage, and they share with humans the ability to contract leprosy, which makes them valuable for research. They also play dead, although sometimes it’s hard to tell. Nonetheless, they are extremely quick when cornered, a fact
Cosmonauts end record 211 -day orbit
MOSCOW (AP) Two Soviet cosmonauts returned to a heroes’ welcome and were reported “feeling well” after completing history’s longest space flight, a 211-day odyssey in orbit. The 40-year-old spacemen, Anatoly Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev, returned safely to Earth Friday night. After a medical checkup, the official Tass news agency reported the cosmonauts were “feeling well” and appeared to have “withstood well the long
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The measure also includes $1 billion in grants to hard-pressed areas to create about 65,000 jobs in “’brick and mortar’ public facilities-type programs where the projects can move to construction in less than six months,” according to a committee report accompanying the legislation. Also included were provisions
period of weightlessness.” Berezovoy and Lebedev uncoupled their Soyuz T-7 space ship from the orbiting Salyut-7 space station, where they had spent nearly seven months, and landed at 10:03 p.m. Moscow time (2:03 p.m. EST), Tass said. Their spacecraft touched down in the dark in the “designated area” in flat steppe country 110 miles east of the town of Dzhezkazgan in the Soviet Central Asian Republic
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for items that committee members joked they had never heard of before, such as SSO million for Small Business Administration “National Resources Development Grants.” In addition, there is a SSO million grant to the United Way of America to provide emergency food and shelter to needy people.
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Scare an armadillo and he'll vault straight up in the air. This prehistoric-looking, armor-clad creature is now making a remarkable leap in range and population across the southern United States. (National Geographic photo) borne out on the ensuing armadillo hunt mounted by Smallwood and company. Careering along the Texas outback in Smallwood's van. the party of hunters, five grown men. searched the sun-baked ridges, clefts and fields for nearly an hour before someone in the back of a van shouted, “Whoa, hey, there’s one! ” But the diller didn't move. It turned out to be a rock. Another 15 minutes, however, produced a true sighting, and the hunters were out of the van like a flash, closing on what looked like another rock. But this “rock” moved so fast, in fact, that it skittered through a pair of legs, leaped a foot in the air, zigged, zagged, leaped again, then began tearing at the ground with its taloned paws, buried its head in the dirt and stopped. "They’re kinda like ostriches," one hunter said. “If they get their head covered up. they figure they're hid.” Seized by the tail, the armadillo was finally taken captive, a fact it acknowledged by curling its armor over its head. The hunters named it Armand. Meanwhile, back at Pat's, other armadillos, likewise taken hostage, began a series of races. But Armand and Brown 'n' Root, a second captive taken by Billy Smallwood's hunters, declined the competition, preferring a fetal position. There were several heats, a woman kissed one of the winners "His nose is cold.” she said and 11-year-old Shane Enderlin, handler of the winning beast. Running Fast, said he planned to set him free. “My cousin caught him today,” he said. “He's a fast runner. I'll let him loose, let him roam free.”
of Kazakhstan, Soviet media reports said. Once in the atmosphere, the Soyuz spacecraft floated down under a parachute and a special rocket was fired just before touchdown to cushion the landing, Moscow radio said. The parachute descent took about 10 minutes, the radio said. Shortly after landing, the cosmonauts were taken to the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan where they had
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There was no overall total of how many jobs the measure would create, but Democratic aides have said they hoped to provide employment for about 300,000 people. The president has said he would veto the stopgap bill if the Democratic jobs plan were attached when it reached his desk.
been fired into space last May 13, Tass said. The cosmonauts’ 211 days in space exceeded by almost a month the 185-day space eo durance record set in 1980 by their countrymen Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin. Berezovoy and Lebedev “fulfilled aboard the Salyut orbital station a broad program of experiments,” Moscow radio said. “They took some 20,000 photographs of the Earth’s sur face, invaluable for study-pf natural resources.”