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Supreme Court decision disappoints labor
WASHINGTON (AP) - Angry leaders of organized labor and an influential congressman are vowing increased efforts to convince Congress to override a new Supreme Court ruling that allows failing businesses to avoid union contract obligations by filing for bankruptcy. The court ruled, 9-0, Wednesday that a company need not prove to a bankruptcy judge that honoring the contract will force it to go out of business. It is enough to show that the contract would be a burden and the best interests of the business, its creditors and employees favor canceling the contract, the court said.
President raps Mondale, too
House, Demos dragging feet: Reagan
c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON President Reagan accused the House Democrats Wednesday night of having ‘‘begged away” from his call for bipartisan moves to reduce the federal deficit. ‘‘lf we don’t act soon we’ll lose another year to fruitless political posturing and legislative stalemate,” the president said in an opening statement at a nationally televised news conference. In his most direct attack on the Democrats thus far in his mon-th-old re-election campaign, the president also accused the House of Representatives, which is controlled by Democrats, of “dragging its feet” on the omnibus crime bill passed earlier this month by the Republican-controlled Senate. In a third initiative directed at Congress, Reagan called on both houses to approve a proposed Constitutional amendment that would supersede the Supreme Court ban on governmentsponsored prayer in public schools. The ripening political season was clear in the news conference as the president rebuffed Democratic charges that he is aloof from his job and engages in “government by amnesia,” as Walter F. Mondale, the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination, declared. “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” the president responded, defending his habit of California vacations by asserting that he carries a heavy work load through them. “Presidents don’t take vacations,” he said. “They just get a change of scenery.” Reagan, who had promised in running for the presidency in 1980 to have the federal budget in balance this year, clearly sought to blame House Democrats for the SIBO-billion deficit projected for fiscal year 1984, which ends Sept. 30. “It’s ironic that those who demanded negotiations have been
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“We’re disappointed in the decision and we will pursue a legislative remedy,” said AFLCIO President Lane Kirkland in Bal Harbour, Fla., at a meeting of organized labor. Rep. Peter Rodino, D-N.J., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, an-
David dies of heart failure
Struggle over for 'Bubble Boy'
HOUSTON (AP) David, the 12-year-old “bubble boy” who remained bright and cheerful through a life of isolation, is dead only 15 days after leaving his sterile environment the victim of a failed attempt to free him for a normal life. The longest-surviving victim of a rare condition that robbed him of immunity to disease, David died Wednesday night of heart failure in his room at Texas Children’s Hospital, officials said. The end came just over two weeks after the joyous moment when David stepped out of his bubble for the first time, kissed his mother and felt the loving warmth of a human touch. “When David died, everybody in the hospital felt it. There were tears all around. All of the family cried. A lot of the nurses cried and even some tough police officers cried,”
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nounced he will sponsor legislation to reverse the court decision which he called “a puzzling misreading of congressional intent.” “The bankruptcy laws were never intended as a device to let companies unilaterally break labor contracts,” said Rodino.
said Houston police Officer Bradley L. Mills. His family, whose last name has never been released to protect their privacy, left an hour later without comment. “They seemed limp and exhausted,” Mills said. David left the two-room enclosure Feb. 7 because it was the only way doctors could treat flu-like symptoms attributed to an experimental bone marrow transplant he received in October from his 15-year-old sister. David, who had talked of getting out of his bubble since the age of 3 and once said he wanted to walk barefoot in the grass, had agreed to and helped with the transplant. But the procedure, using unmatched but chemically treated cells which doctors hoped would trigger David’s own immune system, apparently ended up
so reluctant,” he said, referring to the thus far fruitless bipartisan sessions with congressional negotiators. “It’s time to get down to business,” he said. After contending that House Democrats had “begged away from all but one meeting” in his call for bipartisan deficit talks, the president said he was “pleased to announce” that second meeting would be held Thursday. The president proposed the approach last month as the way to legislate a SIOO billion “down payment” over three years to deal with record federal deficits. Speaking of the meeting and differences over the Democrats’ proposals for military spending cutbacks, Reagan said his negotiators would be “prepared to comment on their suggestions” Thursday and he assumed the Democrats would reply, in turn, to his plan for SIOO billion in savings. In answering questions, the president once again came down hard against proposals to increase taxes as one means of closing the deficit. “Raising taxes creates more government spending,” he said, echoing the view that already is a refrain in his campaign speeches. “All they talk about is dollars,” the president said of the Democrats’ proposals on military spending. He added that if the Democrats submitted proposals for military savings, he would have to study them carefully to see “what they would do to national security,” and whether they would affect the “window of vulnerability” that Reagan envisioned when he ran for office and that he considers to have been narrowed by his military spending build-up. In discussing the economy and the persistence of high interest rates, Reagan contended that the financial community was “not quite convinced yet” that inflation will remain low because inflation had accelerated in earlier recoveries from recession.
By a 5-4 vote, the court also ruled that a business may unilaterally cancel a union contract while awaiting a ruling from a bankruptcy judge on reorganization of the business. “It’s outrageous,” said William Winpisinger, president of the International Association
costing him his life. Doctors knew even before David was bom that he might suffer from severe combined immune deficiency. An older brother had died of the disease at 7 months, and prenatal tests showed there would be problems with David’s health. He was delivered by Caesarean section under extremely sterile conditions on Sept. 21, 1971, and put into a sterile incubator the first of a series of plastic homes that grew as he did. Everything he touched his clothes, food, toys and books was sterilized and passed through an airlock into the bubble. David initially spent most of his time at the hospital, then shared time at home after a bubble was built there, alonfs with one for the family’s station wagon. By 1981, he was spending all but two weeks a year at home. A sixth-grader at the time of his death, he attended school by telephone. He consistently got high grades, and tests showed he was brighter than average. His only taste of the outside world came in 1977, when National Aeronautics and Space
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of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. “It is inconsistent with the intent of the (bankruptcy) law. We just have to go to the Congress for relief.” Gerald F. McEntee, head of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, said the ruling was “devastating” and “this means we really have got to go out and work” for new legislation. The House is expected to soon take up proposed revision in the bankruptcy laws. But that would involve broader changes than the issue in Wednesday’s ruling. In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled that a key portion of the current bankruptcy law is unconstitutional
Administration engineers built a special spacesuit that enabled him to frolic in the yard of his home. Films showed him giggling as he sprayed delighted adults with a water hose. But he outgrew the suit, and no new one was constructed. Last fall, David’s parents asked for the bone marrow transplant from his sister, Katherine, using a new procedure that allowed the use of marrow that was not a perfect tissue match. David embraced the idea eagerly, signed consent forms himself and helped doctors inject the marrow. “It would have been impossible to perform this procedure without his cooperation,” said David’s doctor, William T. Shearer. “It was necessary to take the calculated risk,” hospital spokesman Gayle McNutt said. But in January, David became ill for the first time in his life, developing diarrhea and vomiting. After leaving the bubble, he developed a bleeding ulcer and began receiving blood transfusions. Other internal bleeding occurred.
“We’re determined to stay the course,” he said, predicting the rates would decline. One reason interest rates have not declined, Reagan said, is that based on the experience under prior administrations, investors “aren’t quite convinced yet that we mean it and that we are going to keep inflation down.” In dealing with the charges of critics that he does not work hard and spend enough time at the job, the president showed some sensitivity as he replied: “My answer to them is they don’t know what they are talking about. I almost made my answer more blunt.” He leaves the Oval Office each night with a “full evening’s work in a briefcase,” he continued, adding that he worked a weekend day during his California vacation earlier this month. Even before the president spoke Wednesday night, he was accused by the Speaker of the House, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., of dealing with the budget problem mainly in terms of electionyear politics. “On the campaign trail, he condemns deficits,” the Democrats’ leader declared in a statement. “Here in Washington he defends them.” The issue grew more heated Wednesday when the Congressional Budget Office projected future deficits rising to well above S2OO billion, hitting $248 billion in 1989, with little of the decline in interest rates predicted by the administration. Reagan has insisted the future holds a trend of moderately declining deficits. Democrats and Republicans in Congress immediately began calling for deficit cuts twice the size of the SIOO billion reduction proposed by Reagan over three years. O’Neill, focusing on the issue Democrats consider the president’s principal domestic failing, urged Reagan to “clarify his position on the federal deficit.”
Reagan remarks at-a-glance WASHINGTON (AP) Here are the highlights of President Reagan’s nationally televised press conference Wednesday: MIDDLE EAST The president said the U.S. forces are “not bugging out, we are just going into a little more defensible position.” Asked if the United States has lost credibility in Lebanon, Reagan said “In the first place, no I don’t think you can say we have lost as yet.” Reagan said he has not given up hope that the United States would achieve its long-term goals in Lebanon, but added that the 1,300 Marines in Beirut couldn’t just “stay there as a target, hunkering down.” The president also described as “disgraceful” speculation that Secretary of State George Shultz might step down following failure to solve the Lebanon crisis. The Marines, which are being moved to Navy ships off the Lebanese coast, might return to the mainland if that would “improve the possibility of carrying out their mission.” Reagan said the United States would not allow the IranIraq war to affect shipping traffic through the Straits of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf. LEADERSHIP Reagan disputed critics who say he is not working hard enough as president by saying these concerns show “a lack of understanding of how our system works.” The president said he goes home at night with a load of reading material and works through most his vacations, including a recent visit to his California ranch. “I have to tell you, presidents, I’ve learned, don’t take vacations. They just get a change of scenery. ” “There’s no way that we could allow that channel to be closed,” he said. The president also took a swipe at Democratic presidential front-runner Walter F. Mondale for suggesting he was intellectually lazy, forgetful and governed by amnesia. “I’m surprised he knew what the word meant,” Reagan said. US-SOVIET RELATIONS Reagan said his administration was “very hopeful” of improved relations with the Soviet Union under Moscow’s new leader, Konstantin U. Chernenko. One “good sign” was the acceptance in principle by Soviet negotiators of outside inspection if a ban on chemical weapons is negotiated. Reagan said his defense buildup has reduced the chances of war. CRIME The president urged Congress to complete action on a tough anti-crime measure that was passed by the Republican-controlled Senate. “Our legislation provides a long-overdue protection to law-abiding” Americans that would help put an end to the era of coddling criminals.” He invited the Democrat-controlled House to pass the bill that would restore the death penalty for certain federal crimes such as murder of kidnap victims, treason and assassinations.
Letters designed to spur PCB cleanup
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - For-ty-seven parties from 15 states must contact the state with a cleanup plan for a PCBcontaminated warehouse in Lebanon, or risk being sued, Attorney General Linley Pearson said. Pearson said Wednesday that his office is mailing certified letters to generators, transporters or disposers of PCBs at the Wed Zeb Enterprises Inc. warehouse, giving the companies and individuals 20 days to contact the state with a cleanup plan. After 60 days, the state may file suit for cleanup costs, which are estimated at $500,000. The warehouse, which was
destroyed by fire, had housed old capacitors which were manufactured with PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls. The capacitors were damaged and leaked PCBs onto the floor and into the ground. The 40 companies named are located in Indiana, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey, California, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Vermont, lowa, Michigan, Florida and Texas. William E. Daniels, president of Wed Zeb, has submitted a cleanup proposal which is being considered by state officials, Pearson said, adding that Daniels indicated he didn’t have the money necessary