Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 123, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 January 1983 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 31,1983

Increased spending of $43.3 billion in 1984 budget

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan today unveiled a deficit-choked $848.5 billion budget plan for 1984 in which the entire spending increase w'ould be absorbed by the military and higher interest charges on the national debt. As he delivered his spending blueprint to Congress, the president plunged straight into a showdown with lawmakers o\er his push to give more to defense and less to social programs. He said he remains •‘adamantly opposed” to a public jobs bill, the first order of business on Capitol Hill. Despite a $lB9 billion deficit projection for fiscal 1984, the year he once pledged would show a surplus, the president declared: "The stage is set; a recovery to vigorous, sustainable, noninflationary economic growth is imminent. Steadily and unmistakably, our national economy is completing the transition from recession to recovery,” he said. Reagan proposed to increase spending in the new fiscal year by $43.3 billion or a modest 5.4 percent from fiscal 1983, which ends Sept. 30. The increase, an amount adequate only to cover the expected rate of inflation, equaled the combined rise devoted to defense and interest on the national debt. That left all domestic spending on balance frozen at or below this year’s levels. Programs for the poor - including food stamps, welfare and child nutrition would be reduced. Annual cost-of-living raises for Social Security and other pension and disability programs would be delayed six months. Overall spending on farm programs, energy and the environment, education and job training would fall. Government and military salaries and pensions would be frozen for a year. However, the president sought an additional $1.5 million to run

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his White House offices and $500,000 for the residence. Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s budget for 1984 would jump $29.7 billion or 14 percent to $238.6 billion, even after an $8 billion cut from the 1984 defense spending envisioned in last last year’s budget. Nuclear weapons production by the Energy Department would rise an additional $1 billion. Net interest payments on the national debt, now $1.2 trillion and mounting, would rise by $14.3 billion to $103.2 billion. Reagan also called for $146 billion in standby taxes from fiscal 1986 through 1988 if needed to hold down future deficits. The package, consisting of an crude oil excise tax equal to 12 cents per gallon of gasoline and an unspecified income tax surcharge, already has been declared dead by leading members of Congress. And although his own economic forecast sees unemployment persisting above 10 percent well into 1984, the president declared, “I remain adamantly opposed to temporary makework public jobs or public works,” a position congressional Democrats and many Republican will resist mightily. Reagan rejected any major tax increases for 1984 and promised to protect future income tax cuts now on the books from repeal by Congress. However, his 1984 budget would accelerate an increase in Social Security payroll taxes as part of a bipartisan compromise of tax and benefit changes for restoring the pension system to health. The changes would reduce next year’s deficit by an estimated $12.2 billion from what it otherwise would be. The new budget also would set a limit for the first time on the amount of employer-paid health insurance premiums a worker could receive tax-free. Without his domestic budget savings, Reagan said, future

Four dead after Mideast clash

BEIRUT, Lebanon <AP) Israeli soldiers and Arab guerrillas fought in the streets of Beirut, leaving one Israeli soldier and three civilians dead, and Israel charged the ambush was launched from an area supposedly under U S. Marine control. In Tokyo, U S. Secretary of State George Shultz said Sunday that “some very considerable differences of opinion" probably will bar a quick breakthrough in talks aimed at withdrawing Israeli troops from Lebanon. The talks resume today in the Beirut suburb Khalde, with Lebanon resisting Israeli demands for early-warning stations in Lebanese territory to prevent further guerrilla attacks across Israel’s northern border.

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Christian and Druse Moslem militiamen traded artillery barrages east of Beirut Sunday, resulting in the first shelling of the capital since Israel stopped its heavy bombing after the PLO agreed to evacuate the bulk of its guerrilla force from the capital late last summer. Guerrillas ambushed an Israeli patrol in southern Beirut with rockets and automatic weapons fire Sunday, and Israeli officials said an Israeli soldier was killed and four were wounded in the attack. The Israelis retaliated with machine-gun and tank fire, and three civilians were killed, Lebanese officials said The Lebanese National Resistance Front claimed responsibility for the ambush and vowed to “continue the armed struggle.”

Bush pledges commitment to arms cuts

c. 1983 N.Y. Times BONN, West Germany Vice President Bush arrived here Sunday night on the first leg of a seven-nation West European visit that is aimed at affirming to America’s allies the Reagan administration’s commitment to arms reduction. “For nearly four decades we and our NATO allies have kept the peace in Europe,” said Bush in a statement read at the Cologne-Bonn airport. “We have done it by maintaining our strength and our will to defend ourselves; by linking U.S. and Europe’s security; by being open to dialogue that aims to reduce tensions with the East, and by being committed to genuine arms reduction.” “And that is why,” said Bush, “I am confident that my discussions with our allies will affirm our unity on a policy that

Mass deportation ordered by Nigerian officials

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) Hundreds of thousands of Ghana citizens faced with a mass deportation order mobbed the harbor, airport and roads out of Lagos today, and news reports said a half-million Ghanaians were stranded inside this West African nation. Sources at the Interior Ministry said Sunday that the government might be flexible on President Shehu Shagari’s demand that all illegal, unskilled foreigners leave economically troubled Nigeria by midnight or risk arrest. The sources did not say how much more time the aliens might be given.

federal reach unprecedented heights climbing from $231 billion next year to S3OO billion in 1988 and snuff out any hopes for a lasting return to economic prosperity. Even with congressional approval of his plan, the president would be forced to accept deficits that would still run above SIOO billion by 1988. Reagan had come into office promising to balance the budget by 1983, a pledge he soon postponed to 1984 and eventually abandoned. Instead of balancing its budget this year, the government expects to show a record S2OB billion deficit more than double the $91.5 billion estimate Reagan made a year ago. “Only the most sweeping set of fiscal policy changes could help to reverse the trend and set the budget on a path that is consistent with long-term economic recovery,” Reagan said in his budget message to Congress. “We have come far in restoring order to the chaos prevailing in our economy and government affairs just two years ago,” he added. However, congressional leaders, less sanguine about the state of the budget and the economy, promised to make their own sweeping changes once they got their hands on Reagan’s spending blueprint. Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-111., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, predicted Democrats and Republicans would join in a “bipartisan effort” to defend social programs and reduce Reagan’s ambitious military buildup program. Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee forsees a “donnybrook” over defense, and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said the president’s standby tax package is in trouble.

Cleanup begins for Californians as sun replaces stormy skies

By The .Associated Press Many California residents took advantage of sunny weather to return to flooded or sand-clogged homes and begin the cleanup after last week’s violent Pacific storms, while some Midwesterners coped with up to 8 inches of snow. Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman Dick Friend said 75 truckloads of debris were removed from Malibu beaches in 12 hours ending early Sunday. “There’s still an awful lot of debris in the water." he said. In Northern California, emergency crews at Rio Vista worked around the clock to reinforce levees protecting 16,800 acres of farmland. Emergency Services spokesman Larry Buffaloe said crop losses from flooding probably would be “substantial.” The week-long storms caused an estimate s7l million in damages, leaving 10 people dead, 22 injured and 3,960 displaced, John Taylor of the California's Office of Emergency Services in Sacramento said Sunday. Four moisture-laden storms have hit the state since Jan. 21, the last one on Friday night. During the period, rain and gusty winds combined with high tides and 15-foot waves to batter

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GEORGE BUSH Visiting U.S. allies has given us the longest period of uninterrupted peace in Europe for more than a century.” Bush's two-day stay in West Germany, which includes a trip to West Berlin Monday, is the

The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that with only hours to go before the deadline, half a million Ghanaians still were in Nigeria and there was “speculation” authorities would let all illegal immigrants remain until the end of February. That is the orginal deadline set for the departure of skilled foreigners and professionals. Shegari, who ordered the mass expulsion on Jan. 17, blames the 2 million illegal foreigners in Nigeria for religious riots last fall that left hundreds of people dead, as well as for Nigeria’s unemployment and economic

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ANKLE-DEEP: Nadean Dawson salvages a lamp in Madera

California’s entire 840-mile coast. A new “weak weather system" moved in from the Pacific late Sunday, but National Weather Service forecaster Dan Atkin said it threatened only light showers in far Northern California and wouldn't touch Southern California. In Pasadena, Calif., the Washington Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins 27-17 in the National Football League's Super Bowl, which was played under clear skies Sunday.

most important and sensitive on his 10-dav itinerary. He will also visit the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, France and Britain and will make a stop in Geneva to meet Soviet arms negotiators. West Germany is swept up in a tense parliamentary election campaign, and the outcome of the March 6 vote could be significantly influenced by popular perceptions of Washington’s attitude toward the Soviet Union and arms control. Along with Italy, Britain, Belgium and the Netherlands, West Germany is scheduled to begin receiving Pershing 2 and cruise medium-range missiles at the end of this year if the Geneva talks with the Soviet Union on reducing nuclear weapons remain deadlocked Opinion polls suggest a majority of West Germans are

problems. Seventy-five percent of the aliens are Ghanaians who fled the political and economic troubles in their own country to take advantage of Nigeria’s oil boom, which has been deflated by world recession and the glut on the international oil market Thousands of buses, heavy trucks, private cars and motorcycles all packed with personal belongings jammed the roads to Benin and Togo, while 2,000 people packed Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed Airport, vying for places on a shuttle service to the Ghanian capital of Accra. About 20,000 people crowded

The president’s forecast predicts that inflation, which plummeted from 12.4 percent in 1980 to 3.9 percent last year, will rise slightly in the coming years, fluctuating between 4 percent and 5 percent. Interest rates on three-month Treasury bills are expected to decline from an average of 10.7 percent in 1982 to 8 percent this year and 6.1 percent in 1988. Other highlights of the president’s budget plan include: —A six-month delay in the annual cost-of-living raise for Social Security and other federal pension and disability programs affecting veterans, railroad workers, the blind and the disabled. —lncreased out-of-pocket medical expenses for Medicare and Medicaid patients, designed to slow rising health care costs by increasing consumer consciousness of prices. —Limits on the tax-exemption for employer-paid health insurance premiums. Some 50 million employees, about 30 percent of all workers with company-paid plans, would be affected by the ceiling: $175 a month S7O a month have to pay taxes on employer contributions beyond those limits. The change would raise $2.3 billion in the first year. —A $1.5 billion cut in spending on food stamps and meal subsidy programs for children. Total spending in these areas, targeted largely for the poor, would fall from $17.8 billion this year to $16.3 billion in 1984. —A 12 percent rise in international assistance, including foreign and military aid, from $11.9 billion to $13.3 billion. —A halving of farm price support payments, from $18.3 billion this year to an estimated $9.3 billion.

“It looks like the next one that's going to bring any rain to Southern California won’t be until late Tuesday or Wednesday, probably Wednesday," Atkin said. Los Angeles, Marin, San Diego and San Mateo counties have been declared state disaster areas by Gov. George Deukmejian, meaning the state will help pay for repairing damaged public facilities. Meanwhile, in the Midwest, snow was the problem. Snow and freezing drizzle

anxious about deploying the new missiles and hopeful of a Geneva accord. The opposition Social Democrat Party has made the missiles a central campaign issue and has demanded that the United States match what it portrays as Soviet concessions at Geneva. As the campaign has intensified, Chancellor Helmut Kohl has found himself caught between a wish to remain a steadfast American ally and a concern that the Social Democrats will paint him as lacking commitment to arms reduction. Like leaders in Britain and Italy, Kohl and his foreign minister. Hans-Dietrich Genscher, have recently shaded their support for the Reagan administration’s so-called zero option at Geneva. This calls for the Soviet Union to dismantle

Lagos’ port district of Apapa in hopes of boarding one of the two Ghanian ships in the harbor for the 17-hour voyage to Accra. It was not immediately known how many passengers the ships could take. “We’ve been sitting here for six days,” cried one exasperated Ghanaian waiting at dockside Sunday. “We have no money. We’re getting desperate. We don’t know what we’re going to do. Some people are getting wild.” When a ship docked last week, people fought to be among the 6,000 aboard and several ended up in the water. Port officials said a child died.

glazed roadways across Nebraska while a thick blanket of new snow covered much of Kansas. Nebraska State Patrol troopers responded to 26 accident calls in the Lincoln area Sunday night, said dispatcher Floyd Doughty. No serious injuries were reported. At least eight inches of snow had fallen by late Sunday at Belleville, Kansas, and forecasters said up to 10 inches was expected in sections of northeast and north central Kansas later today.

some 600 SS-20. SS-4 and SS-5 missiles aimed at Western Europe and in Asia in return for a commitment by NATO not to deploy 572 cruise and Pershing 2 missiles. A Bush endorsement of a summit meeting would carry a personal bonus for Kohl since the chancellor, in declarations here and on a visit to the United States in November, was the first Western leader to push publicly for such talks. The chancellor would thus be able to take a certain amount of credit if a summit meeting appeared to going to take place. By contrast, an abrupt Reagan administration move from the zero option before March 6 could benefit Hans-Jochen Vogel, the Social Democratic candidate, who could claim to have pressed Washington into making concessions.

Ekua Ssemian, a worker from Cape Coast Ghana, rolled up her sleeve and pointed to her arm when asked why she was unable to get on the ship. “I didn’t have enough muscle,” she said. Some of the refugees at the dock took their frustrations out on reporters, several of whom were roughed up and accused of being spies for the American and Soviet intelligence agencies. Several youths attacked Associated Press photographer Dominique Mollard, ripping off his watch and threatening to throw him into the water.