Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 112, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 January 1983 — Page 2

The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 18,1983

Grandmother's guard dog kills baby (c) 1983 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO At least two animal lovers asked Monday to be given a 70-pound dog that killed a 7-month-old Chicago girl. The requests were turned down and the dog was destroyed, Peter Poholik, the city’s director of animal care, said. The dog cornered the child, Heather Horton, in her greatgrandmother’s apartment Sunday night and inflicted many bites, police said. The child was staying with her greatgrandmother while her parents were on a trip. After newspapers reported Monday that the dog was to be destroyed, two men called individually to ask if they could have the dog. Poholik said. "They were more concerned about the animal,” Poholik said.- "No, I shouldn’t say that. But the man I talked with was an animal lover who didn't think it was the dog’s fault. "But of course, we are reluctant to give any biter to the general public, especially when there’s a death, as in this case.” The other man called after the dog w'as dead, Poholik said, "and the conversation was very short.” Asked if he w'as surprised at the requests, Poholik said, “Yes and no. Animal lovers can recognize that dogs are jealous and territorial to begin with. A dog that’s basically not aggressive can attack a child who appears to be a new'comer and an intruder.” Employees of Poholik said the dog appeared friendly and gave no trouble to workers w'ho took it from the home.

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Soviets want missiles out of Western Europe...

BONN, West Germany (AP) Lobbying hard against the planned deployment of new U.S. nuclear missiles in Europe, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko said Moscow wants “all nuclear weapons” out of the continent. He warned deployment of the American missiles would mean an escalation of the arms race, “a years-long confrontation for the whole world.” Gromyko is to meet with Chancellor Helmut Kohl today, the third day of his visit to the West German capital. He already has met with the foreign minister and plans discussions with leaders of West Germany's opposition parties. “We are for Europe becoming free in the end of all nuclear weapons - intermediate range as well as tactical,” Gromyko said in a speech Monday night. But West German Foreign Minister Hans Dietrich Genscher replied by saying NATO’s

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decision to deploy new U.S. medium-range missiles starting later this year resulted from Soviet advances in producing and deploying similar weapons. In Washington, the Reagan administration reaffirmed its commitment to negotiate the elimination of all mediumrange nuclear missiles from Europe. But officials charged the Soviet Union is intent on preserving a “massive advantage and monopoly” in this area. Under a NATO agreement, the United States will begin deploying 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles in Europe starting in December unless there is an East-West arms control agreement before then. The U.S. missiles are intended to neutralize SS-20 nuclear missiles Moscow has targeted at Western Europe. Gromyko repeated Monday night the Kremlin’s rejection of

a U.S. offer to cancel the deployment plans if the Soviet Union dismantles all its medium-range SS-20s. The foreign minister said the U.S. offer dubbed the “zero option” by Washington means “one-sided disarmament by the Soviet Union.” He repeated Soviet Communist Party chief Yuri V. Andropov’s Dec. 22 proposal to reduce medium-range nuclear missiles deployed in the European part of the Soviet Union to 162 and to set “optimal limits for corresponding planes.” “Our missiles of intermediate range beyond the number agreed upon for the European zone would be stationed behind a line in Siberia from which they could not hit targets in Europe," Gromyko said. He added that the Soviet Union is prepared to reach a similar agreement on a mutual basis for its tactical missiles.

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Bipartisan effort praised

WASHINGTON (APi President Reagan, seeking to smooth the way for congressional passage of a $169 billion Social Security bailout plan, is offering nothing but praise for the deal that he and congressional leaders have struck. “President Reagan told me today that he will actively support and work for the passage of this bipartisan agreement," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Dole, R-Kan., said Monday. Dole also predicted final congressional approval of the package in early May. In another development, it

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was learned the package may be amended as it moves through Congress to add a provision gradually hiking the retirement age from 65 t 066. Dole issued his statement after the president made a round of congratulatory telephone calls Monday to key legislators who had a hand in fashioning the pact that was approved Saturday night by the National Commission on Social Security Reform In addition to Dole, Reagan called House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., D-Mass.; Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr.. R-Tenn.; and House Ways and Means Committee

Federal pension growth may slow under budget proposal

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans drawing federal pensions or disability pay could have their cost-of-living raises delayed for six months this year under a proposal the Reagan administration is considering to lower budget deficits. Yet, even with a proposed delay in cost-of-living raises. President Reagan will be hardpressed to keep the projected deficit below a record S2OO billion for fiscal 1984, according to administration sources, who did not want their names used. The president’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins next Oct. 1 is to be

Chairman Dan Rostenkowski. D-111. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan told O'Neill. Baker and Rostenkowski in a joint call: "Some may call this the lion and the lamb lying down together. To avoid controversy, let’s all say us lions are standing together.’’ Speakes added that Reagan thanked the lawmakers for their cooperation and told them: "Our joining together on this matter will provide a real boost to the American people in these tough times."

delivered to Congress on Jan. 31. In addition, the sources said the administration is considering a plan to raise taxes after 1985. Under the "contingency” tax proposal for fiscal years 1986 through 1988. taxes totaling S4O billion would go into effect if needed to keep budget deficits under SIOO billion a year. On the spending side, administration sources said Monday that a proposed six-month delay in cost-of-living raises this year would affect pensions for millions of veterans, Civil Service employees, and railroad workers, and disability

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...or do they really? WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration says the Soviet Union is insisting on preserving its massive nuclear weapons advantage in Europe while ignoring American appeals for the elimination of such armaments. , • • The White House and the State Department issued ideh-: tical statements on the subject : Monday in response to reports • that U.S. and Soviet negotiators . in Geneva had reached an in- - formal arms agreement last • summer that later was rejected • by Washington and Moscow. According to the reports, - Paul H. Nitze, the chief U.S. * negotiator to the talks on • limiting medium-range nuclear • missiles, had worked out the - tentative agreement in • discussions with his Soviet > counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. - • There were contradictory * reports about the nature of the ; agreement, with some officials ; saying it would have preserved ; the Soviet advantage and others ; saying it would have ensured Soviet-American parity. In either case, the proposed accord negotiated by Nitze represented a departure from the administration’s position that the Soviets dismantle all of their nuclear weapons targeted at Western Europe. In return. NATO countries would cancel their proposed plan to install 572 cruise and Pershing II missiles starting in December 1983. Nitze apparently conducted the discussions away from the negotiating site during informal exchanges with Kvitsinsky. The administration statements • Monday suggested that tactic ■ does not violate Nitze’s in- • structions. And White House Deputy • Press Secretary Larry Speakes • said President Reagan does not • feel Nitze "had done anything • out of the ordinary." But supporters of Eugene V. • Rostow. the ousted director of * the U.S. Arms Control and • Disarmament Agency, believe - Rostow was fired because of his • role in recommending the in- • formal accord to the White • House.

pay for veterans and for coal miners with black lung disease. * Congressional analysts said! the delay would save $1 billion in the current year. A proposed six-month delaji in the cost-of-living increase for food stamp benefits also' is possible, said the sources, who’ did not want their names used. A six-month freeze in she automatic yearly inflation triggers would parallel a proposed move to rescue she Social Security system. A national commission suggested' the idea over the weekend, and Reagan and House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., endorsed it.