Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 364, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 October 1985 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, Wednesday, Oct. 9,1985

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Pentagon rejects study

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon has rejected as “uninformed or inaccurate” a congressional study that says the Reagan administration’s arms buildup has failed to produce marked improvement in most measurable standards of U.S. military capability. The study by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office was released Tuesday as the House Armed Services Committee opened a series of hearings into U.S. defense policy and whether the nation has received full value for increased Pentagon spending. Although measuring military capability is difficult, most yardsticks don’t show improvements as large as they should when compared with the amount of money being

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spent, CBO Director Rudolph G. Penntr said. At the Pentagon, spokesman Robert B. Sims told reporters, “We just reject a lot of these allegations as just being uninformed or inaccurate.” “We know the programs that have been put in place in the past few years have worked, and we believe that there is a significant improvement in readiness,” Sims told a news briefing. When President Reagan took office in 1981, he called for large increases in defense budgets which he said were necessary to “re-arm America” and reverse a “decade of neglect.” Congress agreed, authorizing increases in the Pentagon budgets of 36 percent.

Federal checks won't bounce yet

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate broke a deadlock early today and moved toward approval of a short-term increase in the government’s credit limit, action the Reagan administration says is needed to keep federal checks from bouncing. Democratic leaders fighting a proposed budget-balancing plan resigned themselves to defeat in the Senate. But House Democrats hardened their opposition to the plan that backers want attached to the credit ceiling authorization. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. called the plan “a fraud.” Days of negotiations between Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., and Minority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., climaxed when a marathon Senate session ended after 3 a m. today with a pact allowing a vote this afternoon on an amen-

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Terrorists agree to leave ship

PORT SAID, Egypt (AP) - A shipping source who monitored ship-to-shore radio said hijackers of an Italian cruise ship with more than 400 people aboard agreed today to leave the vessel. “It looks like there’s an agreement, and they are going to leave the boat,” one sourcesaid. “It looks like it’s over.” The reported agreement was apparently reached during radio contact between a Palestine Liberation Organization envoy whose code name is Abu-Khaled and the Palestinian gunmen who took over the Achille Lauro on Monday and demanded tha* Israel free 50 Palestinian prisoners. Reports of an agreement came about seven hours after the ship dropped anchor 15 nautical miles off Port Said. “I heard Abu-Khaled tell them, ‘There is someone you know and who knows you who will be coming to you. He will have some sign (to identify himself), and you can come down with him,’” said the source, who asked not to be identified. The source said he expected the unidentified intermediary to take a small boat to the Achille Lauro but could not estimate

dment designed to eliminate the nation’s deficit, currently about S2OO billion, by fiscal 1991. The measure was proposed by Sens. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, Warren Rudman, R-N.H., and Ernest Hollings, D-S.C. The plan would be attached to a bill raising the national debt to $2,078 trillion, enough to last through the fiscal year. Two test votes on Sunday indicated the amendment would pass. That vote, at the end of a six-day deadlock, would clear the way for action on a short-term hike in the national debt enough to carry the government through another week of its deficit spending. The interim hike, which must also be approved by the House, would allow Congress to leave for its Columbus Day recess this weekend without threat of the government defaulting on its obligations.

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Deja vu for Coalinga residents

COALINGA, Calif. (AP) A minor earthquake jiggled this town that was virtually destroyed by a 1983 quake, but police said there were no reports of damage or injury. The tremor, measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale, was centered eight miles east of Coalinga at 3:17 p.m. Tuesday, according to the seismology laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley.

how long the operation would take. Port officials and shipping sources said Abu-Khaled “tried to soothe the hijackers’ rising tempers and clarify their demands.” It was not known immediately known who Abu-Khaled is or if that was his real name. Earlier in the day, the Palestinian hijackers denied killing any hostages and demanded to talk to Western am-

The Reagan administration supports the deficit-reduction amendment and has been keeping up pressure for quick passage of the amendment and the debt increase with daily warnings of dire financial problems. The government has reached its current legal limit of $1,824 trillion in debt, and has used up its cash reserves, officials said. The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings amendment would force Congress and the president to stay within progressively tighter limits on government red ink until 1991, when the budget would have to be balanced. Taxes, spending cuts, or both could be used to meet the targets. The Senate, with President Reagan’s blessing, has been refusing to allow even a short-term increase in the debt limit before a vote on the deficit-reduction plan.

The earthquake produced “kind of a rolling effect” underfoot, but caused no damage or injuries, a police spokeswoman said. Coalinga was hit by an earthquake that registered 6.7 on the Richter scale May 2, 1983. Ninety percent of the city’s downtown district was reduced to rubble and it took months to rebuild.

bassadors, port sources said. “No one has been killed and no one will be released,” shipping sources in Port Said quoted an unidentified hijacker as telling Suez Canal officials. The hijackers reiterated their demands that Israel release 50 prisoners, the port and shipping sources said. A man who said he was the captain of the Achille Lauro reported by radio Tuesday night that all aboard were safe, con-

New York judge out to put head lock on professional wrestling

NEW YORK (AP) - Professional wrestling gives children the impression “that every dirty trick is legal,” a family court judge has told a state Senate task force. “We know professional wrestling is exhibitionism, but the public doesn’t know that; children don’t know that,” Judge Daniel D. Leddy Jr. of Staten Island said Tuesday. He testified as the task force began hearings in Manhattan to investigate alleged illegal practices, treatment of wrestlers and the effect of violence on children. State Sen. Abraham Bernstein, DBronx, has proposed legislation prohibiting pro wrestling in New York state.

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tradicting earlier reports that two Americans had been killed. The man pleaded against any rescue attempt. The number of Americans on board was uncertain, but was estimated by the White House to be about a dozen. Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said the U.S. government had taken a number of unspecified steps “in coordination with other governments!’ The Reagan administration said it was willing to talk to the hijackers, but not negotiate with them. One maritime source told The Associated Press that an Egyptian naval vessel approached the Achille Lauro as it steamed toward Port Said early today, but turned back when hijackers threatened to blow up the liner. The sources in Port Said, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said the ship was anchored 15-20 nautical miles off the coast. Their reports confirmed earlier reports by Israel Radio, quoting radio communications between the ship and Port Said.

“I want to prohibit professional wrestling as it is portrayed today because of its depiction of violence and physical punishment,” said Bernstein, who singled out wrestling “because it has reached tremendous proportions.” Bernstein said later that rather than an outright ban against pro wrestling he would support allowing it to continue under collegiate or Olympic rules. “Children are watching so much violence, they’re watching very little else,” testified Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children’s Television. “Research shows there's an imitative effect. ”

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