Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 428, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 December 1985 — Page 2

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Temporary money bill will keep government solvent til Monday

WASHINGTON (AP) The government is operating through Monday under a temporary money bill while Congress finishes work on long-term spending legislation and President Reagan tries to reverse his defeat on tax revision. A government shutdown today was avoided Thursday night, when Congress extended the government’s spending authority until 6 p.m. Monday. The House and Senate also extended the 16-cent-a----pack cigarette tax, the dairy price support program and current Medicaid reimbursement levels, all due to expire this week, in anticipation of permanent bills early next week. Without action, the cigarette tax would have dropped to 8 cents and dairy price support levels would have soared. Congress is eager to break for the holidays and was shooting for adjournment this week. But the spending bill must be finished first. The legislation is needed because many of the regular appropriations bills have not been passed and signed by the president. House and Senate negotiators abandoned efforts to meet the midnight deadline with a long-term bill after they were unable to resolve differences over spending by the Defense and Interior departments. The four-day extension was then quickly approved and sent to President Reagan, who said he would sign it. The administration, handed a stinging defeat Wednesday when only 14 House Republicans voted for the tax overhaul bill, lobbied hard Thursday to gain enough votes before Congress departs. However, the president and his top aides

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appeared to gain only a few pledges of support. Some of those were on the condition that Democratic leaders reverse themselves and agree to open the bill to amendment on the floor. The House bill to revise the income tax code was written by Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-111., and other Democrats on his Ways and Means Committee, but it is reasonably similar to the tax plan proposed by Reagan. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., DMass., said he wouldn’t let the tax bill come up again this year unless the votes were in place. “If the president can deliver 50 to 75 votes ... we'll bring it up,” he said. “If the

U.S. firing 100 Moscow embassy employees

WASHINGTON (AP) move, the Reagan administration is replacing about half the Russian drivers, guards, mechanics and other workers at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with Americans. Similar changes will be made at the U.S. embassies in Eastern Europe, also to counter a “hostile intelligence threat,” the State Department said Thursday. Officials said privately, however, that the Russian workers do not have access to U.S. secrets and already are “hermetically sealed” in the embassy’s ground floor. The cutback was demanded by some members of Congress and initially resisted by the department as unnecessary and expensive. The Russian employees are useful for their language fluency and ac-

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Republicans want to kill it, that’s their business.” Lawmakers also were working to find agreement on the farm bill and on a separate budget package designed to save SBO billion in the next three years. The farm bill negotiations moved forward Thursday in a hard-fought area when Senate negotiators voted 6-2 to accept a House-offered package dealing with subsidies and price support levels for wheat and corn through the end of the decade. Under the proposal, the per-bushel income subsidy levels for those two crops would be frozen at current levels for the next two years, then be reduced in small increments in each of the following three years. Income guarantee levels in 1990 would be about 90 percent of current targets. A separate House-Senate conference committee has labored all week on disputed portions of a bill designed to reduce deficits by about SBO billion in the next three years. The bill would commit Congress to making the spending cuts and tax changes envisioned in the budget passed last summer. President Reagan on Thursday signed a balanced-budget bill that would force even further cuts, including up to $11.7 billion this fiscal year. The so-called GrammRudman amendment calls for budget deficits to be reduced in stages to zero by fiscal 1991. Soon after Reagan made the bill law, Rep. Mike Synar, D-Okla., filed suit in federal court to block the measure’s key provision that the spending cuts take place automatically if Congress and the president fail to perform the task.

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GANDER, Newfoundland (AP) Searchers recovered flight recorders and the bodies of half the 258 victims from the sparsely wooded hills where a DC-8 packed with U.S. soldiers crashed and exploded, but said determining the cause of the tragedy still may be “time-consuming.” The four-engine jet crashed early Thursday seconds after takeoff from this airport on Canada’s Atlantic coast. Aboard were troops of the 101st Airborne Division, returning home for Christmas after a sixmonth tour of duty with the multinational peacekeeping force in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Horrified airport employees watched the pre-dawn sky light up with the explosion minutes after they had chatted with the U.S. soldiers, heard them singing Christmas carols in the terminal and directed them onto the Arrow Air charter. “There was a flash, just like a sunburst,” said Judy Parsons, a car rental agent who witnessed the crash from the Gander parking lot. “It lasted for just two seconds and then I heard an explosion.” Canadian Transport Minister Don Mazankowski said the plane climbed no higher than 1,000 feet before crashing. Transport Canada spokesman Bruce Reid, returning from a helicopter tour over the site, said there was no suggestion that the

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A computerized robot, made by the American firm Zenith, hands a pen to a Chinese engineer at a recent computer exhibition in Peking. The robot, marketed under

access to secret information or to the places where it’s stored," another U.S. official said. About 100 Soviet workers at the Moscow embassy will be replaced, the officials said. The security move was announced by

Mechanic saw earlier problems with DC-Bthat crashed

SAN DIEGO (AP) One engine of the DC-8 jet that crashed with more than 250 aboard in Newfoundland had serious malfunctions in July, according to a maintenance worker who says he worked on the plane. Randy Stirm said the plane was experiencing compression stalls in the No. 3 engine, caused by faulty valves, when it was serviced at McChord Air Force Base in Tacoma, Wash. He said the condition can result in a buildup of fuel and engine explosion in flight. Stirm said he was working at the time for ServAir, a company that does

jet exploded in flight. “Where it came down, it obviously exploded on impact. Everything in the area is charred," he said. “It’s not nice to look at.” The crash littered the sparse, hilly landscape 1,200 feet from the runway’s end with Christmas gifts, weapons and smoldering debris. A makeshift morgue was erected next to

the name “Hero/' is used to teach the fundamentals of robotic and computer engineering. (AP Wirephoto).

department spokesman Charles Redman in response to questions prompted by a Los Angeles Times report that President Reagan had ordered the elimination of all Soviet nationals at the embassy, the U.S. consulate in Leningrad and at U.S. embassies in the Eastern bloc. Redman said Secretary of State George P. Shultz had authorized the gradual replacement of a “substantial” number of the Soviets at the Moscow embassy and fewer in Leningrad and elsewhere. “The Department of State has long been active in efforts to take strong and practical steps to counter the hostile; intelligence threat against our embassies abroad,” he said. About 200 Soviet nationals work at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and 29 in Leningrad. A second U.S. consulate may be opened soon in Kiev.

subcontract maintenance work for airlines, including Arrow Air. He is now employed by Pacific Southwest Airlines in San Diego. Stirm said he contacted the Federal Aviation Administration in Miami and was told that the plane he had worked on was the one that crashed. Stirm said two Arrow Air mechanics tried to correct the engine problem with new valves in July, but didn’t change a faulty in-line filter which can lead to fuel buildup in the engine.

a body of water known as Deadman’s Pond. Officials said there was no indication what might have caused the crash. Gander airport manager John Pittman and Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Roger Tinkham said the plane was not deiced before takeoff, despite having landed a little more than an hour earlier in light freezing rain after a refueling stop in

Kentuckians convicted of negligence in death of son, 2

MADISON, Ind. (AP) A Kentucky couple whose 2-year-old son died from extreme heat as he sat strapped inside the family car were convicted of criminal negligence but acquitted of reckless homicide. “These things are never easy,” said Jefferson Circuit Judge Joseph L. Hensley, who heard the case without a jury and pronounced the verdict Thursday. “It is now obvious that as the child lay sleeping, he was also dying.” Hensley ordered a presentence investigation, but said he “sees no point in incarcerating” Army Spec. 4 Lewis Ross Sr. and his wife, Petra. Hensley said he would pursue “alternative forms” o( punishment. Ross, 26, and his wife, 22, who had waived their right to a jury trial, had no comment.

Approval easy for Bowen WASHINGTON (AP) Former Indiana Gov. Otis R. Bowen will be sworn in sometime next week as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department. The country doctor who became a popular tax-slashing Republican governor easily won Senate confirmation Thursday to head the largest department in the federal government. MHS has 145,000 employees and an annual budget of $330 billion. He becomes the third HHS secretary since President Reagan took office in 1981. The Senate vote was 93-2, with only Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Jesse Helms, R-N.C., dissenting. Gov. Robert D. Orr, who succeeded Bowen after serving eight years as his lieutenant governor, said he was delighted at the news of the confirmation. “That kind of overwhelming support indicates that he’s going into the job with Congress behind him,” Orr said. “There are many, many problems in health and human Services, some of them immense problems. Secretary Otis Bowen of health and human services will need congressional support to make sure the kind of commonsense approaches that he takes will properly be converted into law.” When Bowen’s nomination came up on the Senate floor, there was no discussion, an indication of Bowen’s widespread acceptance. Two confirmation hearings this week were extremely friendly, and both Democrats and Republicans praised him. “This is a proud day for Doc Bowen, for the Hoosier state that he led so capably during his two terms as our governor and for the nation,” Sen. Dan Quayle, R-Ind., said in a statement after the vote. “I am certain that during his tenure at HHS Secretarx Bowen will demonstrate that he is more than worthy of the vote of confidence that the Senate quite properly gave him today.” Reagan nominated Bowen Nov. 7 to succeed Margaret M. Heckler, who will leave the HHS post at Reagan’s request to become ambassador to Ireland. Mrs. Heckler had succeeded Reagan’s first HHS secretary, Richard Schweiker, who left to become a lobbyist for the life insurance industry. Bowen, 67, served 14 years in the Indiana Legislature, including four terms as House speaker, before moving to the governor’s office from 1973 to 1981. A professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine, Bowen has been a practicing physician 44 years, including 26 in Bremen, Ind.

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Cologne, West Germany. But authorities refused to speculate on the possible cause of the crash and Pittman, appearing later at an evening news briefing, refused to elaborate on his earlier statement. Thursday’s crash, the worst air disaster ever in Canada, adds to this year’s record death toll in commercial aviation, which now stands at 1,948 Families of two young Hoosiers have learned the servicemen were among the 250 U.S. Army personnel listed aboard the charter jetliner that crashed in Newfoundland. Ronald Mayhew, 24, an Indianapolis native, and Spec. 4 Roger D. Arvin, 27, an Evansville native, were listed on the manifest of the plane that crashed during takeoff Thursday. Meanwhile, the Pentagon confirmed that passengers aboard the Arrow Air DC--8 included Pfc. Timothy E. Miller of Noblesville, Ind. Mayhew, who planned a career in the Army, told his family last July he “wanted to make the world a better place for my two kids to grow up in,” said his aunt, Janet Lewellyn of Fairland. That’s why he volunteered for a multinational peace-keeping force stationed in Egypt, she said.

In testimony, they denied they were uncaring parents and explained what happened July 7 when Lewis Jr. died. Both parents said they had driven from Fort Knox, Ky., to watch the Madison Regatta speedboat races on the Ohio River and took the boy to the riverbank when they arrived. After about 20 minutes, Ross said, the child appeared to be sleepy. Mrs. Ross said she took him back to the car, fastened him into his child-restraint seat and gave him a bottle of Kool-Aid. “There was a breeze that day," she said, adding she left the windows partly open. She and her husband both testified Thursday they believed the breeze would protect their child from the 90-degree weather as he slept. Mrs. Ross said she checked on the child three times.