Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 119, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 January 1983 — Page 2

I he Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 26,1983

Marine-lsraeli incidents cause iforll.S. concern

c. 1983 N Y. Times WASHINGTON US. officials expressed widely varying degrees of concern Tuesday about five non-violent, but confrontational, incidents ' between American Marines and Israeli soldiers in Lebanon . earlier this month. Defense Department officials said that an analysis was being ! conducted to gather evidence . meant to convince Israel that .excursions by armed Palestinian groups in and out of . the U.S. Marine area in South • Beirut were not taking place as Israeli officers assert. But one ► American official said “the • Israelis are accusing us of not ■ doing a mission we have never ■ had the Marines are not under orders to prevent infiltration by Palestinian Liberation Organization per- ► sonnel.” State Department officials, •and some of the high-ranking * Israeli military officers in * Israel and Lebanon, tended to - paint the problem as as much ►less serious than Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger who last week said he was ■ “very worried” that such incidents could “grow into ► something much more ► serious.” “He is only being consistent," said one Pentagon official of Weinberger, “in that he was always reluctant to commit the Marines to Lebanon in the first place.” Another Pentagon official added that the Defense Department also agreed that “these incidents are definitely a side issue with our more important differences with the Israelis on Israeli troop withdrawal from Lebanon."

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Most of the officials interviewed asked not to be identified by name. About 1,200 Marines from a Marine Amphibious Unit are part of a 3,400-man “multinational force” including French and Italian troops, that was sent to Beirut last Sept. 29 with a vaguely framed mission of helping the Lebanese armed forces and government to reestablish authority and soverignty after years of tumultuous occupation by Syrian, Palestinian and, since last June, Israeli troops. Both Pentagon and State Department officials said the last “incident” between Marines and Israeli troops took place on Jan. 17. Earlier incidents took place on Jan. 5,6,8 and 11, informants said. All of the incidents involved cases in which small Israeli units in vehicles approached Marine checkpoints and either asked to enter the Marine area or asked to speak with a senior Marine officer. Such requests were refused, usually after somewhat heated argument. One informant said that on Jan. 11 an Israeli soldier briefly pointed a machine gun at a Marine but that this had seemed to be more an act of surly bravado than a serious threat. Officials said “it was just not true" that a Marine had aimed a rifle at an Israeli soldier. Under the “rules of engagement” for the Marines in Lebanon, the magazines or clips of ammunition for their M--16 rifles are not carried in the rifles and cartridges are not carried in the chambers of the rifles.

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Hydrogen leak again discovered CAPK CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP» A tiny hydrogen leak which reappeared during a test firing of the space shuttle Challenger’s main engines may set back the entire shuttle program, including the U.S.European Skylab mission, officials say. The gas leak was found in Challenger's main engine compartment after a test firing Tuesday, and the director of the shuttle program said the start of the craft’s five-day maiden mission will be delayed at least until mid-March. Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson, associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said the delay could be much longer if one or more engines must be replaced. Officials said any replacement might come from the the shuttle Columbia, a veteran of five space missions which is undergoing extensive overhaul at the Kennedy Space Center. Abrahamson said the entire shuttle program could be set back if Challenger’s problem is serious. But he emphasized that it would be some time before all test data is analyzed and the full extent of the problem is known.

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'Our Union is strong, but our economy is troubled'

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan’s midterm appeal for a standby tax hike and the “strong medicine” of a domestic spending freeze faces trouble in Congress, even though Democratic leaders say they will accept his summons to find a bipartisan cure for the nation’s economic ills. The president, in his nationally broadcast State of the Union address to a joint House-Senate session Tuesday night, called for holding federal spending at about roughly 5 percent above current levels except for defense programs. And he urged a 1 percent income tax hike to take effect Oct. 1, 1985 if economic recovery fails to materialize. Reagan also called for excise taxes on domestic and imported oil. Reagan said cost-of-living increases in Social Security and government retirement benefits should be delayed for six months. And he said federal pay and retirement benefits, both military and civilian, should be frozen for one year. “The state of our union is strong, but our economy is troubled,” Reagan declared, adding: “We have a long way to go ... but America is on the mend.” Hecalledhisplan “bipartisan, fair, prudent (and) realistic.” And while praised by Republican leaders, the president’s prescription was greeted with skepticism and even sharp criticism from leading Democrats. They complained the proposed freeze would still permit an increase of defense spending of around 14 percent a year. “I found the speech was neither fair nor realistic,” said Senate Democratic Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. “He’s freezing the wrong thing. He offering a freeze on Medicaid payments instead of a nuclear freeze,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. However, Kennedy added: “There is a strong bipartisan feeling on the Hill to try to work together on the principal issue of the economy.” Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan was to defend the president’s new proposals today before a meeting of the HouseSenate Joint Economic Committee. Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle said Reagan would have a hard time winning approval for his provisional tax increase, either in the GOP controlled Senate or the Democratic-led House. Reagan's proposed standby tax surcharge would be levied as of Oct. 1.1985 only if the deficit is projected to exceed 2.5 percent of the gross national product and only if Congress has first adopted his freeze proposal. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn., called Reagan’s proposals “heroic and necessary" and said they “will be controverisal but I think Congress will respond to the challenge he uttered. ” Reagan, referring to the highest level of unemployment since the Depression, agreed this was “a painful period” for the nation’s 12 million unemployed And he declared: “We must all do everything in our power to bring their ordeal to an end ’ ’ Reagan said his freeze proposal to be contained in the budget he submits to Congress next week would hold the federal deficit at about $lB9 billion in fiscal 1984. the year in which he once promised to balance the budget. “I know this is strong medicine,” Reagan said. "In recognizing the responsibility to take action. President Reagan has taken the first, necessary step in putting America back to work," said House Speaker Thomas P O'Neill. D-Mass. But, the Democratic leader added: “The next step is to present a program for action that goes substantially beyond those proposals mentioned by the president.” Republicans did most of the applauding during Reagan's 43minute speech his first address to Congress since Democratic gains of 26 House seats in last November’s elections. But one line brought Democrats to their feet in hearty, partly mocking, applause Reagan’s declaration that “we who are in government must take the lead in restoring the economy.” Addressing the Democratic side of the aisle. Reagan ad libbed: “All the time I thought you were sitting there reading the papers.” O’Neill later said Democrats applauded because “this

Start school at 4, end

c. 1983 N.Y. Times ALBANY, N.Y. New York state’s education commissioner said Tuesday that his department was beginning to study a plan to start children in school at age 4 and have them graduate after completing the 11th grade. Under the plan outlined by Commissioner Gordon M. Ambach, children would enter kindergarten at age 4 and the first grade at 5, a year earlier than the present system. They would graduate from high school, presumably at age 16. and then could go on to college. If enacted, the plan, which would apply to public and private schools, would begin no sooner than the mid-1980s and

would be phased in over 10 years. Ambach said. The commissioner said it was a “radical idea" but one that might help to solve teacher shortages during expected increases in school enrollment by the end of the decade. Besides saving money by eliminating one year of high school, he said, the change would be educationally valid because it would encourage learning at an earlier age and would help students who mature early. Ambach stressed that the idea was still being studied and that he was not formally proposing it, but he said that “there has got to be bold thinking within the state and on

State of Union at-a-glance WASHINGTON (AP) Here, at a glance, is a look at proposals in President Reagan’s State of the Union address. BUDGETPLAN —Reagan’s budget plan for fiscal year 1984 is based on a spending freeze on selected government programs that would keep the fiscal year 1984 budget from growing more than the 1983 budget after inflation. STANDBY TAXES —Reagan proposed a standby 1 percent income tax surcharge and a $5-a-barrel oil tax, taking effect Oct. 1, 1985, only if the administration’s fiscal year 1986 deficit forecast exceeds 2 x k percent of gross national product; the nation’s economy is growing; and Congress agrees to spending restraints, including Reagan’s proposed budget freeze. EMPLOYMENT —Reagan proposed an employment bill to extend unemployment compensation benefits for six months; give tax credits to employers who hire the long-term unemployed; provide extra money for programs that help displaced workers; and provide a summer youth wage differential that is lower than the minimum wage. EDUCATION —The president said he will propose legislation that would exempt interest and dividends earned on contributions to an education saving account from taxation, these accounts would help families save for their child’s higher education; would provide tuition tax credits, up to a maximum of S3OO in 1985, to parents who send their children to private elementary and secondary schools. DISCRIMINATION —Reagan said he would submit legislation to remedy inequities based on sex discrimination in employer pension systems. He also said he would promote enforcement of state child support laws to insure that the children of single parents don't suffer financial hardship. HEALTHCARE —Reagan said he will propose legislation that would give' Medicare beneficiaries the option of enrolling in a private health plan through use of a voucher; provide catastrophic illness insurance coverage for hospitalization under Medicare; and change to a fixed payment to hospitals for particular services to discourage unnecessary costs. CRIME —Reagan's proposals involving crime include measures which would limit the insanity defense; make it more difficult for defendants to be released before trial or during appeals; increase penalties for drug trafficking; replace the parole system and require judges to operate within sentencing guidelines to assure greater likelihood of punishment; and change the exclusionary rule to avoid suppression of evidence seized by police acting in good faith. HOUSING —Reagan said he will seek better enforcement of the fair housing laws. FEDERALISM —Reagan said he will submit legislation in February to return programs and revenue resources to state and local governments.

represents a historic political reversal... Two years ago, before the current recession had begun. President Reagan said that “government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.’” Senate Minority Leader Robert Michel, R-111., said Reagan’s comments were “very well a recognition on his part that if industry can’t respond at this point, there’s room for government to move in.”

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a national basis’’ to cope with shrinking financial resources and population shifts. He said he had not investigated whether such a change would require regulatory or legislative action. The Board of Regents, as the top education policy makers of the state, probably would have to approve such a change, according to Arnold Bloom, a spokesman for the Education Department. Members of the state Senate and Assembly Education Committees said Tuesday that they believed such a change would require an amendment to the state’s education law, which requires school attendance from ages 6 to 16.

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Ambach said the plan would be flexible to accommodate students who might need additional years at the secondaryschool level. And he emphasized that he was “not talking about changing the fundamental principle that a child up to age 21 can get a free education.” Albert Shanker, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, said that the union had long endorsed the idea of starting school earlier, but that he would have to study the possible effects of ending high school after the 11 grade. Shanker said he had reservations about shortening high school •