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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 26,1985

Reagan, O'Neill agree, both dislike latest

Senate budget offer

WASHINGTON (AP) Despite objections from President Reagan and House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., Senate negotiators are trying to break the congressional budget impasse with a $338 billion deficit-reduction package that would raise taxes and delay Social Security increases. So far, though, neither the president nor the speaker shows any sign of yielding and the deadlock over a fiscal 1986 budget continues. Sen. Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, told House conferees on Thursday that White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan had authorized him to say the administration is “genuinely interested” and “they are willing, at an early date, to sit down and discuss” the new proposal with congressional leaders. But when Reagan was asked Thursday if he supported an oil import tax a major provision of the Senate package he replied, “I’m not ior any taxes.” Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Jim Wright, D-Texas, told Senate conferees that O’Neill, D-Mass., “is not loathe or unwilling to meet with the president at any time.” Legislators said another White House meeting between Reagan and congressional leaders could come soon. When O’Neill was asked about adjusting Social Security cost-of-living adjustments every other year, instead of annually another major part of the Senate plan he said it was "morally wrong” and “politically wrong.” O’Neill said he also opposed the oil import levy. “All of us in the Northeast oppose it,” he said. Wright said we are “kidding ourselves if we think we can pass this tax over the president’s opposition.” The Senate plan, which would reduce next year’s projected $230 billion budget deficit by $65 billion, would: —Make inflation adjustments in Social Security and other benefit programs every two years, instead of annually. For example, cost-of-living adjustments would be

Congress nears final agreement on $302 billion defense budget

WASHINGTON (AP) - House and Senate negotiators have finally agreed on a defense bill that would permit the Pentagon to build new chemical weapons after a 16-year halt, but nerve gas opponents will likely have another chance next week to kill the program. The 39-member conference committee gave voice vote approval to the huge package late Thursday, ending two weeks of wrangling that reconciled more than 1,000 differences between the House and Senate versions of the bills authorizing the Pentagon’s budget for fiscal 1986.

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Reagan gets more R & R WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, after convalescing a week at the White House from cancer surgery, is heading to Camp David for three days of rest in the solitude of Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains. The 74-year-old president had no appointments on his published schedule today other than a 20-minute update in the family living quarters on foreign policy matters. On Thursday, the president made his first appearance back in the Oval Office since his surgery July 13. The president worked at his desk for nearly an hour following a 45-minute meeting with the Cabinet in an adjacent room. Reagan, who had worn pajamas and a robe during a midday meeting with congressional leaders on Wednesday, was dressed in a dark blue suit. “I dressed up for you. Don’t I get any credit for it?” he joked to reporters.

made in even numbered years but skipped in odd numbered years. This would save sl2 billion over three years. —Adjust personal income tax rates to account for inflation every two years instead of annually. This would save $7 billion over three years. —lmpose a $5-a-barrel fee on imported crude oil to raise $25 billion through 1988. —lmpose a 2 percent across-the-board reduction in overall spending authority for domestic spending programs, excluding welfare, to save $5 billion over three years. —Bring state and local government employees not already covered by Social Security and Medicare into those programs to raise $8 billion.

The bill now goes back to the House and Senate floors, where votes are expected next week. The $302 billion budget would permit Pentagon spending to rise next year at the expected rate of inflation. President Reagan has endorsed the plan, although he originally sought a 5.9 percent hike beyond inflation. The major controversy involved nerve gas. The United States has not built any chemical weapons since 1969, and the Democratic-led House had refused for three years to approve it, the only weapon

Showdown seen over ClA's role with rebels

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Congress may be headed toward a showdown this fall over whether the Central Intelligence Agency should be allowed to resume its former role of arming anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua. A prohibition against U.S. aid for military operations in Nicaragua expires at the end of September, and many members of Congress would like to see the ban permanently lifted. But critics of U.S. support for the antiSandinista “contra” rebels are trying to have the ban extended before the September expiration date. “D-Day (is) September 30 literally,” says Cindy Buhl, human rights coordinator for the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy, one of many Washington-based groups which

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Killer bees

Year-old colony of feared African insects found in Southern California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) State inspectors fanned out with airplanes and earth-moving equipment, planning to examine more than 2,000 commercial hives in search of African “killer bees” that apparently swarmed from a mammoth nest. The search for the bees widened Thursday after scientists determined that the first known U S. colony of the bees had been in a Southern California oilfield for at least a year and probably had two queens. “We’ll have to intensify the search and work our way out” from the discovery site at Lost Hills, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, said state Agriculture Director Clare Berryhill. The bees, blamed for the deaths of animals and people in other countries, were discovered in June by an oilfield worker who tried to seal the hole with asphalt after the bees swarmed from the ground and attacked a rabbit Authorities are scouring a 400-square-mile area surrounding the site and have ordered commercial or hobbyist beekeepers not to move anv of the more

denied Reagan as part of his military buildup. The Senate again this year approved nerve gas, but the House approval included a number of conditions. The key restriction would have blocked production unless U.S. NATO allies specifically asked for the weapon and agreed to store it in Western Europe. But Senate conferees balked at that, arguing that no other country should be permitted to decide what weapons the United States builds, said congressional sources.

have fought aid to the contras. At stake is the so-called Boland amendment, a provision which since last October has prohibited U.S. government agencies from providing aid to the contras. The amendment was named after its original sponsor, Rep. Edward Boland, D-Mass., former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The House had consistently supported the ban since 1983. But in a major turnaround on the contra issue, the House voted in June to approve non-military aid to the contras. At the same time, House members rejected a proposal to re-impose the Boland amendment. That meant that if the amendment were not attached to any other bill before September 30, the CIA would thereafter be free with the approval of congressional intelligence committees to reprogram

Suspend sect couple's sentence

WARSAW, Ind. (AP) A father whose prayers failed to save his sick daughter from kidney disease says prayer saved him from serving a prison term for her death. A judge Thursday suspended a five-year prison sentence handed Faith Assembly member James H. Menne on convictions of reckless homicide and misdemeanor criminal recklessness. Menne was fined $250. Meanwhile, in Huntington a couple belonging to the Faith Assembly church was convicted of child neglect in the death of their 3-week-old son. The six-member Huntington Circuit Court jury deliberated less than an hour Thursday before convicting David and Joyce Winkleman. Menne, 38, of near Warsaw, was charged after his daughter. Pamela, 15, died at home last Sept. 16 as her father prayed over her during a fatal seizure. His wife, lone, 45, was also convicted of misdemeanor criminal recklessness and handed a six-month suspended sentence. After the sentencing hearing, Menne said “a lot of Christian people” had prayed

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than 2,000 hives in the area. They will take 50 sample bees from each colony to see if any are African. The African honeybees are popularly called “killer bees” because they are more aggressive and prone to sting than the average bee, although they are almost identical in appearance. They are descended from 26 African swarms that escaped in Brazil in the 19505, and their spread north has inspired several Hollywood horror movies. Scientists say the bee’s sting is no more toxic than that of domestic bees, but

The House negotiators finally gave in, the sources said, and approved a compromise that only requires that the White House tell Congress that U.S. allies have been consulted about contingency deployment plans during a crisis. Other provisions in the bill: —Provide the death penalty for military personnel convicted of espionage during peacetime, a House-approved directive arising from the recent Navy spy case. —Permit the expanded use by the Pentagon of lie detectors to ferret out spies, another House proposal that arose after

its contingency reserve fund to buy arms and ammunition for the contras. That prospect is anathema to critics of contra aid. Recently, they managed to attach a modified Boland amendment to the House version of the 1986 intelligence authorization bill. The provision allows the CIA to gather intelligence information and pass it on to the contras, but bars any military aid. Opponents of aid to the contras would rather not see any CIA involvement at all with the rebels, but they concede they have lost that fight for now because of the dramatic turnaround in the House. “I think we’re going to have to live with the sharing of intelligence,” said Reggie Norton, a Nicaragua expert at the Washington Office on Latin America. Instead, they are readying themselves

that they be spared a prison term. “We believe the suspended sentence is in answer to those prayers,” he said. Both were convicted June 12 in a jury trial. During the trial, the Mennes testified they were members of Faith Assembly, a Noble County-based church whose members shun the care of doctors and believe modern medicine has evolved from devilinspired witchcraft. Under terms of probation imposed by Kosciusko Superior Court Judge Robert Burner, the Mennes were ordered to seek conventional medical treatment for their two surviving daughters. Menne said they would obey the terms of probation requiring medical attention for their daughters, although he did not abandon his faith in divine healing. “I believe the Lord heals today,” he said. The court required the Mennes to take their daughters, aged 11 and 3, to a hcensed doctor twice a year for examination. The Mennes were also ordered to consult a doctor if either chiid becomes ill.

because they are more excitable, a slight disturbance can cause an entire swarm to chase and sting any people or animals within 300 feet. Norman Gary, an entomologist from the University of California at Davis, dug Thursday into the burrow and found a nest of 20 honeycombs 5*2 feet long, a foot high and a foot wide. The nest was so large it probably had been there a year or longer, Gary said. He also found a queen cell from which a reproductive queen had emerged recently. Experts theorize that the newly hatched

the Navy case broke two months ago. —Limit the overall number of MX nuclear missiles that can be deployed to a total of 50 in existing Minuteman silos, half the force of 100 MX weapons President Reagan had sought. —Authorize the Pentagon to spend $2.75 billion next year for “Star Wars" research. The Senate approved $2.95 billion and the House had voted for $2.5 billion. —Allow three final-stage tests of antisatellite weapons, a compromise between the House ban on such tests and the Senate approval of a full-scale testing program.

for an expected battle in September over the fiscal 1986 defense appropriations bill, which will contain money for the CIA. That bill is the most critical vehicle for Bolandtype language, analysts say. And if backers of aid to the contras want to kill the Boland restrictions, that’s where they’ll have to make their fight. Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., a member of the House Intelligence Committee and a staunch backer of contra aid, said he thinks the tide has turned on the contra issue in the House, and that Boland-style restrictions will likely “expire for good.” But as a member of the Intelligence Committee, Livingston was involved in crafting the compromise over the modified Boland language that was attached to the intelligence authorization bill.

The Menne’s daughter, Pamela, 15, died Sept. 16 at the couple’s rural Warsaw home after an illness of several months. The Mennes are the fourth Faith Assembly couple convicted of criminal charges in the death of a child from a treatable illness. Winkelman, 49, represented himself and his 46-year-old wife. During his opening remarks, he said, “We are Bible-abiding Christians. We have a responsibility to Jesus and the world.” The couple, who will be sentenced Aug. 12, could receive four years in prison and a SIO,OOO fine. Their son, Joel, who had not received medical attention since his birth April 1, died April 21 of pneumonia, said Dr. Duane Hogendobler, acting deputy coroner. He testified during the one-day trial he examined the baby when he arrived at the house after he was summoned by emergency medical technicians and the sheriff’s department. An autopsy showed the child died from streptococcus pneumonia, a fairly common, but very treatable disease.

"Stubbie," a month-old raccoon munches on some French fries as Kelley Heinecke of St. Paul tries to work on his car. The animal hopped into the vehicle last week to eat some popcorn that had been left in the car. Adopting wild creatures isn't anything new for Heinecke, who shares his home with a pet skunk and a snake. (AP Wirephoto).

queen left with a swarm of bees a few weeks before the burrow was discovered and that the rest of the swarm fled after the worker tried to cover the burrow. “We’re pretty well convinced that we have two queens and their colonies out there and possibly more,” Berryhill said late Thursday. Searchers are using airplanes and earthmoving equipment to look for infestations. Only 50 bees, none of them queens, were found in the burrow, which was doused with pesticide June 26. An African colony would have 5,000 to 10,000 bees. There are about 600,000 commercial hives in California, worth up to SIOO each. Farmers in the agriculture-rich valley rely on bees to pollinate crops such as almonds, melons, plums and seed alfalfa. The African bees, if they displaced European honeybees, would not pollinate as many crops, would be difficult and expensive for beekeepers to handle and would carry parasites, said Kern County Agriculture Commissioner Bob Edwards.

Astronauts plan reunion at Purdue WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Purdue University wants to give the fans for its homecoming football game this fall a little something extra. School officials have invited Purdue’s 16 surviving astronauts to a reunion. “Right now we’re just in the beginning stages,” says John Koch of Evansville, former president of Purdue’s Alumni Association. “We hope to have all 16 of them there. I think it’s terrific.” According to an official of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, only the U.S. Naval Academy has launched more graduates into the astronaut program than Purdue. As of last fall, the Naval Academy had 24 active astronauts, while Purdue had 14, the Air Force Academy 13 and U.S. Military Academy at West Point 10. Two other Purdue graduates have retired from the space program. They are Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, and Eugene Cernan, who was the last. Two other Purdue University graduates were among the only three astronauts who died in service. Virgil I “Gus” Grissom, who graduated in 1950, and Roger Chaffee, of the class of 1957, died Jan. 27,1967, when fire swept through their Apollo spacecraft during a test in Florida. Don Williams, a Lafayette native and 1964 Purdue graduate is in charge of plans for the astronaut reunion. Williams was pilot on a shuttle mission earlier this year. He told Koch Thursday the astronauts are responding favorably. The only hitch might be if a shuttle launch is scheduled on or close to the homecoming weekend. Koch said that would prevent some of the astronauts who might be flying or working on the ground crew from attending. He added that the university has “sent out feelers" to get Armstrong and Cernan back for the reunion, scheduled Oct. 26. Armstrong, who graduated in 1955, stepped onto the moon July 20,1969 Cernan graduated from Purdue in 1956. He was commander of the last moon mission, Apollo 17, and spent 75 hours on the moon in 1972. The Boilermakers will meet Michigan State in the homecoming football game.