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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 22,1985

$2.5 million spent so far in 'BS to influence Indiana legislators

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Special interest groups spent more than $2.5 million wining, dining and otherwise influencing the Indiana Legislature during the first six months of 1985. That’s according to their own reports filed with Secretary of State Edwin J. Simcox, whose office audits a random 5 percent of the disclosure forms. But the $2.5 million doesn’t accurately reflect what was spent in the legitimate pursuit of legislative influence. That’s because lobbyists don’t have to report how much they spend to throw parties, dinners and other outings for legislators if they invited the entire General Assembly. According to the state lobbying law written by none other than the legislators being lobbied money spent entertaining all 150 lawmakers doesn’t count as a lobbying expenditure. That loophole explains why out of more than $2.5 million spent on lobbying, only $78,649 went for receptions and entertainment. Of the more than 333 lobbying groups whose reports were on file by Friday, only 69 reported any entertainment expenses. But those 69 said they spent $59,252 on entertainment, which works out to an average of $395 for each of the 150 legislators.

'Must'cut oil prices GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - OPEC oil ministers debated what Saudi Arabia called “a must” cut in oil prices today, but Iran and others were advocating further production cuts as a way of shoring up prices. Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the oil minister of Saudi Arabia, said that he would press for an unspecified cut in the price of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ lower-grade crudes. OPEC prices currently range from S2B a barrel to $26.50. In an opening address to the group’s regular summer conference, Indonesian Oil Minister and OPEC President Subroto said the group was facing perhaps the severest test in its 25 years of existance. “We are all facing a dilemma,” Subroto said. “On the one hand, we all appreciate the importance of maintaining solidarity in the face of the current threat to our source of livelihood and even survival. On the other, we cannot view our steeply plunging oil revenues with equanimity.” Subroto said OPEC no longer could afford to lose sales to non-OPEC competitors such as Britain and Mexico. “We want to make it quite clear that we are not here with the express purpose of cutting prices or reducing production,” Subroto said. “We are here to initiate measures that will lead us to regain control of the market.”

Dole: Chances less than 50-50 Reagan moves to break budget impasse

WASHINGTON (AP) The House plans to act on major money bills this week even though negotiations with the Senate have failed to produce a budget to control spending. With both houses of Congress unable to agree on a budget, President Reagan, just back from the hospital, began making phone calls Sunday to pressure Congress to get moving on deficit reduction. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, RKan., said there is “a likelihood” Congress will not be able to agree on a budget for the coming fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Dole said, “I wouldn’t want to indicate today that we’re very optimistic. I think we’re less than 50-50.” Rep. William H. Gray 111, D-Pa., chairman of the House Budget Committee, said in an interview brodcast Sunday on the

Police detain South African black leaders

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Police detained four prominent black clerics and at least nine other activists in the eastern Cape Province today under South Africa’s first state of emergency in a quarter century, reporters and monitoring groups said. On Sunday, when the emergency took effect in 36 cities and towns, police said they detained 113 people. The powers allow police and soldiers to arrest without warrants, detain and interrogate suspects for up to 14 days, seize control of property, impose curfews and limit or ban press coverage in affected areas.

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Another 19 lobbying organizations reported $19,397 spent on receptions. In the entertainment category, the big spenders were U.S. Steel, $6,877; the Insurance Institute of Indiana, $5,897; and AmaxCoal, $3,701. When it came to receptions, the Metropolitan Evansville Chamber of Commerce led the spending list with $4,930; followed by the Northwest Indiana Forum, $4,180; the Indiana State Teachers Association, $2,866; and Indiana Planned Parenthood Affiliates Association, $2,287. For overall lobbying expenditures, ISTA spent the most $68,016. Next in line were Lincoln National Corp. of Fort Wayne, $55,627; the Indiana Hospital Association, $52,691; and Northern Indiana Public Service Co., $51,579, outspending every other utility lobbying in 1985. During the session, rumors flew about the big money being spent by Project Marketplace, the lobbying group formed to back legislation to legalize exclusive selling territories for beer distributors. The estimates grew to as high as $250,000. But according to Project Marketplace’s lobbying disclosure,

Business is a little slow for Shelby Nold, 9, who waits patiently for contestants at a softball-throw booth at the Town and Country Fair in Smithton, Mo. The youth

Mutual Radio Network: “I’d say our chances have moved from 50-50 to unfortunately 65-35 to have a budget at all.” Dole said Senate Republicans now are counting on Reagan’s help to resolve the budget impasse or finally bring the issue to a head. “My view is that the president can sort of step into the breech now (that he is) home from the hospital and maybe put it together, if he does it very quickly,” Dole said. At the White House, presidential spokesman Peter Roussel said Sunday, “The president this afternoon has initiated some calls to members of the Senate, asking them to allow a vote on the lineitem veto,” The line-item veto would allow the president to delete individual items from spending bills without throwing out the entire bills.

The measures were imposed to quell nearly a year of rioting against apartheid, South Africa’s system of racial segregation, that has left more than 450 blacks dead in this nation where 5 million whites rule 22 million blacks. In Kwa-Thema, a riot-torn black township east of Johannesburg, police distributed pamphlets explaining why the emergency was imposed. The pamphlets said: “Thugs are disrupting your life through intimidation, arson and murder. This must be stopped.” Police refused to disclose details on the alleged detentions today. Gen. Johan Coetzee, commissioner of police, scheduled

NOW headed 'back into the streetsSmeal

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Eleanor Smeal, who won a tough struggle for leadership of the National Organization for Women, is pledging to “raise a little hell” in the battle for abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment and other women’s causes. “We’ve been good too long,” an exhausted but triumphant Smeal said Sunday, a few hours after an all-night vote count showed her the victor over incumbent Judy Goldsmith. “I intend to raise a little hell with you all,” she told cheering delegates to the annual NOW convention. She said that effort would include a march next spring in Washington to demand retention of abortion rights. Smeal, 45, a former two-term president, won 839 votes to 703 for Goldsmith and 11

operated the booth at the weekend fair, which also included a tractor pull and horse show. (AP Laserphoto)

Opponents of the line-item veto, which faces the threat of a continued filibuster, claim it would subvert the balance of power in the Constitution, taking away from Congress the power of the purse. Filibuster leader Mark O. Hatfield, ROre., calls it “constitutional madness” that would give the president overwhelming power. Dole has set for Tuesday a second attempt to choke off the filibuster. Last Thursday, he fell three votes short of the 60 needed to end the filibuster despite a written appeal from the bedridden president. The filibuster can block other important legislation from coming to the floor and Dole may be forced to give up if he fails to get the debate-limiting motion approved on Tuesday. Other important legislation is starting to back up and that could soon

meetings with South African editors and foreign correspondents to explain new restrictions on reporting from emergency areas. Coetzee said in an interview on govern-ment-run television Sunday night that “dramatized versions, slanted truths and half truths” would not be allowed. He said he wanted to maintain a free flow of information, but wanted to ensure that “those factors ... which are negative to getting the situation back to normal are ... avoided.” A spokesman for the Detainees Parents’ Support Committee who spoke on condition of anonymity said those detained

for Sonia Johnson, a write-in candidate. Smeal demonstrated enough strength in her comeback candidacy to carry two vice presidential candidates to victory on her coattails. Goldsmith issued a statement praising her rival as a “proven leader who I know will build a strong NOW and move us quickly toward equality.” She then bade a jaunty farewell to the delegates, saying, “I am going out into the world, which I fully intend to take over. ” Both women said NOW would emerge united from the tough leadership struggle, but some Goldsmith supporters made little secret of their disapproval of Smeal’s highvisibility style. “We’ve been pretty good we tried that last year but now it’s time to go back into the streets,” Mrs. Smeal said.

the sum was actually $47,260. Spending by individual beer companies and their trade associationes totaled an additional $59,000. Even so, the bill died. Indiana Citizens Against Legalized Gambling spent $12,765 to fight attempts to legalize lotteries, currently forbidden by the state constitution. They were successful. As a class, utilities spent more than $300,000 to make their presence felt at the Statehouse. Electric utilities spent more than $165,000; phone companies disclosed more than $106,000 in lobbying expenses; and natural gas utilities reported $28,129 in spending. Banks spent more than $197,000 on lobbying in a year that finally produced a bill that would allow banks to cross county lines and engage in a limited form of interstate banking. Here are other lobbying expenditures, by general category: —lnsurance, $197,907. —Local government, $67,223. —Business and industry, $292,944. -Labor, $155,813. -Health, $220,223.

include a farm bill dear to Dole’s Kansas heart. Dole has vowed to have a farm bill passed before the August recess. “We’re going to vote on something before we get out of here August 2,” Dole said, despite the doubts of Democrats who feel the bill is being rushed through committee. The key hangup has been in finding a way to reduce the cost of crop subsidy programs while not hurting farmers, many of whom are in their worst financial shape in decades. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill says the lack of a budget won’t stop the House from approving spending bills for fiscal 1986 so long as they’re within the budget guidelines the House approved to cut $56 billion from the deficit next year.

today in the Port Elizabeth area included the Rev. De Villiers Soga, president of the Interdenominational African Ministers Association of South Africa. His group has worked to end bloody in-fighting between rival black anti-government groups. Two other clerics reportedly held were the Rev. Samson Daba, an Anglican minister and community leader from Uitenhage and Hamilton Dandala, a Methodist minister from Port Elizabeth. Reporters in Port Elizabeth said at least 10 other activists were rounded up before dawn, including leaders of the black Motor Assembly and Component Workers Union of South Africa.

She said her two most immediate goals, after taking the $55,000-a-year office Sept. 1, would be to organize an abortion rights march in Washington next March, and a campaign to pass the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1985, which, among other things, would restore prohibitions on sex discrimination at institutions receiving federal aid. Asked what would happen if the Supreme Court overturned its 1973 decision that legalized abortion, as the Reagan administration requested last week, Mrs. Smeal said: “You’ll see this movement explode in size.” Mrs. Smeal said she would continue the campaign for abortion rights that was announced here Friday by Mrs. Goldsmith, which will include rallies, ticketing, and a signature campaign.

—Coal, oil and gas, $128,893. —Lawyers and law enforcement, $79,829. —Education, $120,860. —Transportation, $131,531. —Social issues, $84,421. —Environment, $4,1%. —Consumers, $20,617. Lobbyists also are required to report when they spend more than SIOO on a legislator or spouse in a day or more than SSOO in a year. Five groups reported spending almost $2,700 on Senate President Pro Tern Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus. The list includes the Home Builders Association of Indiana, $200; the Indiana Association of Convenience Stores, $600; Indiana Gas Association, $634; Indiana Telephone Association, $635; and Indiana Veterinary Medical Association, S6OO. The gas association said its payment to Garton was for an honorarium and expenses for Garton’s speech to the group at its conference in French Lick. The other groups didn’t list the purpose for the expenditures on Garton, who runs a personnel consulting business in Columbus.

New attacks jolt Lebanon

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Gunbattles jolted central Beirut and the Palestinian refugee camp of Chatilla early today, and attackers rocketed the transmitter of the state radio, causing a two-hour interruption of broadcasts, police said. They reported three people were killed and 16 wounded in the latest hostilities. Nabih Berri, the Shiite Moslem militia leader, condemned Israel’s attack on two Shiite villages in southern Lebanon, vowing to escalate guerrilla warfare against Israel. “Israel hasn’t learned yet that such operations only increase our determination to continue the struggle until total liberation of our land,” said Berri, who serves as justice minister and state minister for south Lebanon. His statement published by all Beirut newspapers today followed Israeli raids Sunday on the southern Lebanese villages of Qabrikha and Sejoud in which at least three Lebanese were reported killed. Witnesses said Israeli troops used helicopter gunships and armored personnel carriers to stage their first major ground assault in southern Lebanon since Israel withdrew most of its troops from Lebanon last month. Christian and Moslem militiamen traded grenade-throwing forays overnight across the Green Line that bisects Beirut into Moslem and Christian sectors, sparking a three-hour mortar duel, a police statement said. The statement said two civilians were killed and six others wounded in shelling that hit residential neighborhoods on both sides of the 3-mile Green Line. Police were unsure who attacked the Shiite-influenced state radio in Moslem west Beirut. The fighting kept all crossings closed

Rides in 18-wheelers delight ill, handicapped youngsters

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) More than 100 seriously ill and handicapped children had a chance Sunday to play truck driver, taking rides in tractortrailer rigs at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Nearly an equal number of the 18wheel trucks were on hand, along with two helicopters from the Indiana State Police and Fort Benjamin Harrison. “It’s like Christmas,” said the driver of one truck, after giving a ride to one of the children. “You feel like a kid and you feel like Santa Claus.” Among the delighted youngsters was 5-year-old Ryan McDonald, who “had a big smile on his face all the way around,” according to Oran Keeton, whose glossy black truck the boy rode in. The idea began about three weeks ago when an official of the Children’s Wish Foundation called a Westside house. It was a wrong number, but Alice

Mrs. Smeal said she also plans to begin a recruitment effort on college campuses, start a paid advertising campaign for NOW, and work towards the passage of a model state equal rights amendment in a referendum in Vermont scheduled for 1986. “I want to take on the enemy and one referendum after another,” she said. “You can’t keep the ERA on the back burner. You have to keep it alive. ” Asked why she thought she had defeated Mrs. Goldsmith, who had been her vice president-executive at NOW and who was her hand-picked candidate to succeed her in 1982, Mrs. Smeal said: “Because people thought we would be a real shot in the arm for the movement.” She added that she hoped Mrs. Goldsmith would remain active in NOW “as a major speaker.”

Israelis get life terms JERUSALEM (AP) - Three members of a Jewish terror ring which attacked Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were sentenced to life in prison today after being convicted of murder, ending one of the most divisive trials in Israel’s history. The settlers, who were greeted with loud applause when they arrived at the packed courtroom, were convicted July 10 of killing three Palestinian students during a shooting spree at the Islamic University in Hebron in 1983 which also wounded 33 people. Twelve other Israelis received lesser prison terms of up to 10 years for conducting a four-year campaign of terrorism against West Bank Palestinians. The three sentenced to life are: Menachem Livni, 35, accused of being the planner and ringleader of the Hebron attack, Shaul Nir, 31 and Uzi Sharbaf, 25 both of whom were named in the charges as gunmen in the assault. between the two halves of the capital as a Syrian-sponsored security plan to curb lawlessness in the Moslem sector and Beirut airport completed its first week. The overnight fighting at west Beirut’s Chatilla refugee camp pitted Palestinian guerrillas against Berri’s Amal militia. Police said one combatant was killed and 10 were wounded

Duncan, who answered the phone, learned about the foundation, which tries to fill special requests from terminally ill children. She called them back the next day after thinking of a story she had heard about a boy whose dying wish was to ride in a semi truck. Her husband, Jim, a hauler for Atlas Van Lines, said he could offer a truck for that kind of project. Mrs. Duncan started calling trucking companies asking them to participate in an event for special children. Despite the cost of idling a rig for most of a day, 30 companies offered to send rigs. The word spread and law enforcement and community groups recruited volunteers, including some clowns to direct the truck traffic. Invitations were extended to children through the Children’s Wish Foundation and associations for children with muscular dystrophy and other illnesses and disabilities.

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