Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 80, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 December 1984 — Page 2
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Scampering squirrels on Reagans'card WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, are sending out 125,000 Christmas cards, showing a Jamie Wyeth painting of the White House as a squirrel scampers across freshly fallen snow and makes the first footprints. The oil painting, titled “Christmas Morning at the White House,” marks the second time the Reagans have used a Wyeth painting for their Christmas card. The 1981 card, depicting the south view of the White House, was a reproduction of the artist’s “Christmas Eve at the White House.” Inside the card, in gold engraved script, is the message: “The president and Mrs. Reagan extend to you their warmest holiday greetings and best wishes for the new year. 1984.” Above the message, the presidential seal is embossed in white. A White House statement said the cards were printed by Hallmark at cost.
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Elimination of federal revenue sharing pondered
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan, freezing some programs while deep freezing others, is tentatively calling for elimination of federal revenue sharing for the states and phasing out subsidies for mass transportation as part of a plan to slash domestic spending by nearly SB4 billion next year. Reagan’s decisions, reviewed with his Cabinet on Wednesday and later shared with Republican members of Congress, would freeze spending for the 1986 fiscal year at current levels for hundreds of federal programs. Federal employees would be forced to take a 5 percent pay cut under the plan tentatively approved by the president, said sources who spoke on condition they not be identified. Cost-of-living increases would be frozen for several programs, including food stamps, veterans’ retirement benefits, railroad retirement and black lung payments, the sources said. Other programs, such as the Small Business Administration and the Community Development Block Grant Program, would be cut back dramatically, and one source said the federal program of farm price supports would be cut by half over three years. Still other programs, such as revenue sharing, the Legal Services Corp., Amtrak and other transportation subsidies and the Jobs Corps would be eliminated or phased out over several years. The Urban Development Action Grant program would be phased out, for example, as would the federal subsidy for the Postal Service. One congressman briefed by Budget Director David Stockman said Social Security wasn’t affected by the president’s plan. But sources said the Department of Housing and Urban Development was targeted for significant reductions. Thus far, none of the cuts involve the administration’s military buildup, an issue the president is expected to address next week when Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger returns home from a trip overseas. But some administration officials have been urging the president to trim his military buildup, and many Republicans in Congress have said the chance for approving sweeping cuts in domestic programs is greatly reduced unless the president agrees to changes in Pentagon spending. The Washington Post reported today that Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., wants Reagan to freeze military spending at about last year’s level as a contribution toward deficit reduction. Goldwater is in line to be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Goldwater also believes the administration should give up on the MX missile, the Post reported. Goldwater, who said he has supported the MX until now, said he expects Congress to kill the program, and that “you don’t go out and pick a fight if you’re going to lose.” One retiring member of Congress, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, hinted he thought there might be some changes before Reagan’s budget plan is finally submitted early next year. “I’ve heard of trial balloons, but this is funny,” he said. “It’s going to be quite an experience.” Officials at the Cabinet meeting raised with the president the question of making sacrifices in the military budget, according to the White House, which declined to present the private dialogue. In continuing to avoid a tax increase as a means of easing the annual budget deficits, Reagan generally decided to spare only Social Security and military spending from the series of freezes, cuts and closings he has chosen as the heart of his budget submission to Congress. “Most programs will be frozen or reduced in order to achieve an overall freeze in program spending,” Reagan said at the 70-minute-long Cabinet meeting.
House committee completes probe
ClA's guerrilla manual ruled illegal
By JOEL BRINKLEY C.19K4 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - The House Intelligence Committee concluded Wednesday that the ClA’s guerrilla warfare manual for Nicaraguan rebels violated the law because it advised the rebels on how to overthrow the Sandinista government. But the committee, completing a twomonth investigation of the manual, did not recommend specific actions against CIA employees. That conclusion caused dissension, committee members said. “At least 7 or 8 times in the manual, there is a reference to overthrowing the Sandinistas,” said Rep. Edward P. Boland, D-Mass., who is the committee’s chairman. “It was the opinion of the vast majority of the committee that there was a violation of the Boland Amendment.” That 1982 amendment forbids American personnel to participate in any effort to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, but it carries no penalities. Boland also said the manual was the result of “extremely poor management.”
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He added that “I just can’t understand why this manual wasn’t read by someone in headquarters or someone in the field who would have realized” that it violated the law. A committee statement issued Wednesday called the manual “repugnant” and an “embarrassment to the United States.” For those reasons and others, commitee members said, there was dissension over the decision not to recommend disciplinary actions against senior agency officials. After the ClA’s inspector general completed his investigation of the manual last month, he recommended that several midlevel agency officers be reprimanded. President Reagan endorsed that finding. On Wednesday Boland said, “I think the inspector general’s report was a fair one.” But one member of the committee, Rep. Wyche Fowler Jr., D-Ga., said “there were mixed feelings about that” among members of committee. Another committee member, Rep. Nor-
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man Y. Mineta, D-Calif., said the midlevel employees who were reprimanded “were scapegoats.” He said other senior officials should have been disciplined, too. He said he had urged the committee to turn its investigative report over to the Justice Department. The chairman decided not to do that, Mineta said, adding: “And I think that impacts on our credibility as an oversight agency. We’re allowing them to pick and choose which laws they want to obey. “With 18,000 employees, no one read the manual,” Mineta said, “and now they say they knew nothing about it and are washing their hands of it ” William J. Casey, director of central intelligence, testifying before the committee Wednesdsav morning, accepted responsibility for the manual as the agency’s head, committee members said Boland said Casey had also assured the committee that he would order several managerial changes to avoid such problems in the future. The committee’s statement said, “The entire publication and distribution of the manual was marked within the agency by confusion about who had authority and responsibility for the manual.” It added that “most CIA officials learned about it from news accounts” in October. The manual was f irst made public in
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Two more hostages are killed By ALEX EFTY Associated Press Writer Two more hostages were shot and killed today aboard a hijacked Kuwaiti airliner held for more than two days at Tehran airport in Iran, state-run Tehran radio reported. The radio report, monitored in London, said that “as a result of a clash inside the aircraft this morning, two people were killed and one managed to escape.” The radio did not identify the dead hostages either by name or nationality. The five Arabic-speaking hijackers had shot and killed one of the captive passengers and wounded a Kuwaiti security guard aboard the plane early Tuesday after they commandeered the Kuwait Airways Airbus A-300 on a flight from Kuwait to Karachi, Pakistan, with 161 people aboard. The hijackers claimed the slain man was an American diplomat, but the U.S. State Department said it could not confirm that report. The hijackers, who are demanding the release of a group of prisoners in Kuwait, reportedly have freed 67 those on board. A Pakistani passenger managed to escape today from the plane “and is at present in a hospital receiving medical treatment,” Tehran radio said, without elaborating on how he was wounded. After today’s shooting, the asked a photographer at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport to approach the aircraft and photograph the two bodies. About two hours later, the hijackers demanded that the plane be refueled and that barriers set up around the plane to prevent its departure be removed, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said. IRNA said Iranian authorities complied with this demand, indicating their willingness to allow the hijacked jet to take off. In a report Wednesday night, IRNA said the runways were blocked with parked vehicles to prevent an attempt by the hijackers to take off.
mid-October, and it caused a storm of protest from Congress and elsewhere. It was prepared by a CIA contract employee in Honduras and was the result of a suggestion from Casey and other agency officials last spring that the Nicaraguan rebels needed instruction in guerrilla warfare, Boland said Wednesday. The manual advised the rebels to kidnap Nicaraguan government officials. It suggested hiring criminals who would arrange the killing of fellow rebels so they would become martyrs. It said ordinary Nicaraguan citizens should be blackmailed so they would be forced to join the rebel cause. And. in a section entitled “selective use of violence," the manual ad vised the rebels to "neutralize selected government officials," a phrase interpreted by rebel leaders and others to mean assassinate At first, Reagan said any CIA officer found to be responsible for the manual would be discharged. But after reading the CIA inspector general’s report, he concluded that the manual was "much ado about nothing." The CIA offered no comment Wednesday. Although the committee has completed its inquiry on the manual, Boland said it would continue a related investigaton, to see whether the CIA violated its spending limits for the Nicaraguan operation.
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