Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 107, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 January 1983 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 12.1983

Heckler to accept Schweiker post?

WASHINGTON (AP> Richard S. Schweiker is resigning as secretary of health and human services and will likely be succeeded, administration sources say, by former Rep Margaret Heckler of Massachusetts. If chosen, Mrs. Heckler would be the second woman appointed to the Cabinet by President Reagan since last week. C Administration ' officials disclosed Schweiker’s decision to qsit Tuesday night. Returning to private business, he gives up control of a $274-billion department that oversees Social Security, Medicare and Aledicaid, welfare and public Tiealth programs, including Those of the Food and Drug AdTninistration. ' Schweiker's departure after Two years would make him the /fourth of Reagan's original Cabinet to resign and the Second to leave in two weeks. I'. Schweiker, stepping outside //his McLean Va., mansion to talk with reporters, refused to confirm or deny the reports .Tuesday night. But his son and 'colleagues in the ad.ministration confirmed he had .accepted an offer to head the

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American Council of Life Insurance. "Anything that is happening or that will happen ... has nothing to do with the budget or personalities. It was an independent series of events,” Schweiker said, turning away questions with the promise of an announcement today. Administration sources who asked not to be identified said Mrs. Heckler was expected to be nominated to succeed Schweiker. The eight-term Republican congresswoman was defeated in a re-election bid last November by Rep. Barney Frank when their respective districts were combined. Mrs. Heckler has stayed in Washington, working for a lawfirm while reportedly being considered for, and considering. administrative appointments. If she succeeds Schweiker, Mrs. Heckler, 51, would become the third woman in the Reagan Cabinet, joining Elizabeth Dole, nominated secretary of transportation last week to replace Drew Lewis, and Jeane Kirkpatrick. ambassador to the United Nations. Sen. Orrin Hatch. R-Utah,

chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. confirmed Schweiker’s plans to leave government and added: "I was very, very surprised and very disappointed. "It w'as a tremendous loss to all of us. I think he’s been one of the best members of the Cabinet. I don’t think anyone has exceeded him. I think he has been a marvelous, compassionate and effective secretary.” Asked it Schweiker might have had problems with the White House staff. Hatch replied: "I can’t conceive of any. He’s very close to the president, having run with him in 1976.” “Knowing Dick as 1 do, he probably just feels it’s time to get out and get into the private sector,’ Hatch speculated. "He's given most of his adult life to public service.” Schweiker's son Malcolm. 25, said in a radio interview his father had "a desire to return to the private sector, and with this new position he feels ... that he can still serve his fellow man in some manner. ”

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RICHARD SCHWEIKER: Leaving Cabinet

States struggling to make jobless benefit payments

WASHINGTON (AP) High unemployment has forced officials in 21 states to borrow heavily from the federal government to assure nonstop payment of jobless benefits. As a consequence, the U.S. Treasury is owed more than $10.7 billion by these states, and only about $2.8 billion o! that must be repaid with interest Prior to April 1. 1982, the loans were interest-free. Alabama, for instance, had to borrow SB2 million from the federal government this week when the state exhausted its unemployment fund reserve in the face of 15.2 percent joblessness. Federal law allows states which have exhausted unemployment funds to borrow, virtually without question, from

Implicated in two '65 murders

Top NOW official under arrest

LOS ANGELES (AP) Leaders of the California chapter of the National Organization for Women said the arrest of their top officer for a 1965 murder in New Orleans is “clear harassment" and promised to stand by her “100 percent." Ginny Eleanor Foat, 42, was arrested Tuesday on a murder warrant from Louisiana. Officiels there said they had believed until recently that Ms. Foat was in a Nevada prison for another slaying. The story of her arrest sent shock waves through Los Angeles' feminist and political circles, where Ms. Fout was admired by her peers as a forceful

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the Treasury. Jack Hashian of the Employment and Training Administration said that for the most part, requests for loans are routinely honored because states cannot legally cease jobless benefit payments to eligible recipients. “The state will approach us and say they're about to run out of money," Hashian said. There's no big hassle about borrowing the money.’’ Hut Hashian added in an interview that these loans now must be paid back with 10 percent interest. Congress amended the law requiring the interest payments, effective last April 1. "thinking perhaps states would be a little more eager to repay these as soon as possible."

advocate for liberal causes. Some California NOW officials said they had long known of the allegations and did not believe them. Law enforcement officials said Tuesday that Ms. Foat has had a number of aliases, was once known as Virginia Galluzzo and had worked as a Bourbon Street barmaid in New Orleans. Police said her ex-husband, John Sidote, had implicated Ms. Foat in two 1965 killings: the New Orleans robbery-murder of a South American man and the Nevada killing of a San Francisco hotel executive. The Nevada charges were dismissed when Sidote refused

Reagan agrees to curtail defense spending plan

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, insisting "we’re not reversing our course,” is nonetheless scaling back his record Pentagon spending buildup and seeking a govern-ment-wide pay freeze to help curb soaring federal deficits. Reagan, under intense pressure to make cuts in his proposed fiscal 1984 spending plan, Tuesday abandoned his opposition to slowing increases in military spending. He accepted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger’s recommendation to reduce the military’s spending authority by $11.3 billion, or 4 percent. That would mean a reduction in the year’s cash outlays by about $8 billion since spending authority spreads over more

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The overall, seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate stood at 10.8 percent of the labor force in December with more than 12 million people out of work. Less than half of those officially listed as unemployed are eligible to receive jobless benefit checks. Rising unemployment has placed severe strains on the states' ability to meet legal requirements for payment of regular unemployment benefits, which average 26 weeks, but range as high 34 weeks for jobless people with dependents in the District of Columbia and Wisconsin. Nationally, a weekly unemployment check averages slls, compared to SB7 during the previous deep recession in 197576,

to testify, authorities there said. California NOW officials questioned the timing of the arrest. They said in a statement that Louisiana had twice tried to extradite Ms. Foat but had dropped the proceedings because of lack of evidence. “We consider this arrest to be clear harassment ... and we are backing Ginny 100 percent," the NOW statement said. Ms. Foat, a Democratic Party activist, was being held without bail pending arraignment today. California NOW leaders said they would seek to have her released on her own recognizance. Ms. Foat was arrested at

than one year. Reagan said the reduction “does not interfere with the production of any weapons system at all ... We are not reversing course.” Pentagon officials said part of the reduction will result from a proposed freeze on pay for the 2.1 million members of the armed forces, an action other administration sources said would be extended as well to the nation’s 2 million civilian federal workers. The federal workforce received a 4 percent across-the-board wage increase last Oct. 1. Forgoing a similar increase in 1984 would save the government about $5 billion. The administration has less than three weeks to settle on a

Rallying Clark could be released by Feb. 1 SALT LAKE CITY <AP > Artificial heart recipient Barney Clark has "clearly improved" since the new year began, can take steps with an aluminum walker and appears to have overcome his periods of mental confusion, doctors say. Dr. Chase Peterson, University of Utah vice president for health sciences, said Tuesday that the 61-vear-old retired dentist from the Seattle area could be released by month's end if his recovery continues. "He has clearly improved during the last two weeks." Peterson said, adding that Clark's condition may be upgraded soon from serious to good. “The heart is working well. He's responding to the ravages of his congestive heart failure before surgery, and the multiple surgeries since Dec. 2." Peterson said at the first formal briefing on Clark's condition since Dec. 27. Dr. Lyle Joyce, one ot the attending physicians, was asked when Clark might be allowed to leave the University, of Utah Medical Center. “I think we re probably still talking two to three weeks at least." Joyce said, provided Clark's recovery continues to progress at its current pace.

suburban Holly wood-Burbank Airport as she and a friend were waiting to board a plane, said Los Angeles Police Cmdr. William Booth. Although the .arrest warrant was for Virginia Galluzzo. the name Ginny Foat also has been mentioned in documents, and “It is well established that Ginny Foat is Virginia Galluzzo." Booth said. As the first full-time, paid president of California NOW. Ms. Foat is responsible for daily administration, policy and supervision of the state's 40 chapters with 30.000 members. She planned to enter law school this fall.

course for reducing record deficits threatening to grow from S2OO billion in 1984 to S3OO billion by 1988. Reagan must complete his spending plan for fiscal 1984. which begins Oct. 1. by Jan. 31. Reagan and Weinberger appeared to be the last holdouts against cuts in the defense budget. In recent weeks, the president’s chief economic advisers, congressional leaders and influential members of the business community had been lobbying extensively for a slowdown in the president’s five-year plan for building up the nation’s defenses. Overall, the prospective defense budget for the next fiscal year would give the Pentagon a record $273.4 billion

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