Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 121, Greencastle, Putnam County, 6 January 1986 — Page 2

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U.S. presses talks about 1,800 Ml As HANOI, Vietnam (AP) The most senior U.S. delegation to visit Vietnam since the end of the war more than a decade ago flew to Hanoi today to press for a final accounting of almost 1,800 Americans still listed as missing in action in Vietnam. The 10-member team, led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage, was flying in from Bangkok, Thailand, aboard a small U.S. government aircraft. Official Vietnamese sources said Hanoi was willing to restrict the talks to the MIA issue, but would discuss other problems between the two former enemies if the Americans raised them. The U.S. State Department said last week that the inclusion of Assistant Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz in the delegaton did not indicate that a broader range of issues, such as normalization of ties with Vietnam or Vietnam’s military involvement in Cambodia, would be discussed. Other members of the team include r ational Security Council staff member ! tichard Childress and Ann Mills Griffiths, executive director of the National League of POW-MIA Families. The Americans were to begin their talks with Foreign Minister Hoang Bich Son, and Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach was expected to meet with them before their return Tuesday to Bangkok. High level talks on the MIA issue had been scheduled for last August, but Washington canceled the trip because Thach was away at the time. The United States has long pressured Hanoi for as full an accounting as possible of the 1,797 Americans still listed as missing in action more than 10 years after the United States pulled the last of its soldiers out of Vietnam in 1975.

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Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pose for a formal photograph at the Pentagon. From left, they are Gen. John Wickham Jr., U.S. Army; Gen. Charles Gabriel, U.S. Air Force; Admiral James Watkins, U.S. Navy; Ad-

Defense buildup will be wiped out by balanced budget bill, Aspin warns

WASHINGTON (AP) - A new balanced budget law will wipe out President Reagan’s defense buildup in two years, sending the United States “marching down the mountain we have been marching up,” says the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Rep. Les Aspin, D-Wis., released a study Sunday in which he contended the balanced budget law approved by Congress and signed by Reagan last month will force

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deep cuts in military spending. “This isn’t just tinkering at the edges of the defense budget,” Aspin said. “It means we are reversing the defense buildup of the last few years. We are marching down the mountain we have been marching up.” He said the deficit reduction law will force up to SB3 billion in defense cuts in the next two years, resulting in a 20 percent reduction in Reagan’s planned military spending for fiscal 1987. “(Defense Secretary) Caspar Weinberger, who has prided himself on presiding over the greatest defense buildup in peacetime history is about to preside over the greatest defense cutback in peacetime history,” Aspin said Aspin said that projections beyond fiscal 1987, which ends on Sept. 30, 1987, are “iffy,” but the law is likely to continue to cause defense spending decreases. Named for its principal sponsors. Republican Sens. Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, the law sets deficit limits for each fiscal year through 1990 and requires that the federal budget be balanced by fiscal 1991. The bill permits Congress to make the reductions through conventional legislation, but would impose automatic spending cuts for each of the fiscal years through 1991 if Congress and the White House failed to agree on a reduction plan. The deficit for fiscal 1985 was $211.9 billion. Aspin said his analysis shows that defense budget authority will be cut by 5 percent to 6 percent in the current fiscal year. In fiscal 1987, he said, defense outlays will drop to about $245 billion and budget authority to about $260 billion. Congressionally approved military spending for the current fiscal year stands at $297 billion when separate legislation for military construction is included. Under Gramm-Rudman, Aspin said, “defense will lose sls billion to $lB billion

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'Reversing the buildup' in budget authority this year and $64 billion to $65 billion in fiscal 1987 a total of $79 billion tosß3 billion.” “And Gramm-Rudman doesn’t stop forcing cutbacks until 1991,” Aspin said. “In other words, Gramm-Rudman could give us a defense budget that Jimmy Carter would assail as a threat to our national security.” And he said that after the current fiscal year, the administration will lose all flexibility on where to make reductions. “The administration will have to make equal cuts down to the level of individual line items: F-16s, 155 mm artillery shells, FFF-7 class frigates,” Aspin said. Reagan agreed to no growth in military spending for the current fiscal year in exchange for a congressional pledge to permit 3 percent increases, over the rate of inflation, for fiscal 1987 and 1988. “He will miss by a mile,” because of the Gramm-Rudman spending restrictions, Aspin said.

'State of war' inside Libya, Khadafy says

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) - Col. Moammar Khadafy said Libya is in a “state of war” ready to repulse any attack from U.S. warships in the Mediterranean, and warned that an onslaught would be answered by attacks inside America, the Libyan news agency reported. JANA, the state-owned news agency, quoted the Libyan leader as saying his country almost went to war Saturday with the United States, which accuses Libya of abetting the Palestinian group it blames for the airport raids that killed 19 people, including five Americans, in Rome and Vienna on Dec. 27. “The U.S.A. mobilized yesterday no less than 40 warships in front of Libya and we have considered this a state of war and have announced the state of preparedness in the air and naval forces and air defense,” JANA quoted Khadafy as telling reporters Sunday at a farm project outside Tripoli. Pentagon officials, however, denied Khadafy’s charge. “It would be physically impossible for us to put 40 ships off of Libya,” said a Navy source in Washington, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “There are only about 20 ships in the 6th Fleet normally, and that includes everything. There are only about 15 combatant ships in the (Mediterranean).” On Friday, the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea led a task force of seven ships out of Naples, Italy, into the Mediterranean. U.S. Navy sources said the ships merely were ending a holiday port call and were on routine patrol Sunday, but their location was not made public. According to JANA, Khadafy said Sun-

Hostages safe as police storm prision

FORT MADISON, lowa (AP) - Five specially trained assault teams stormed a cellhouse at the lowa State Penitentiary today, freeing seven corrections officers who had been taken hostage by inmates an hour and a half earlier, officials said. '•tv Three inmates and one of the hostages were reported to have been hurt, but it was not known how, and none of the injuries was believed to be serious. “The institution is under control,” prison spokesman Ron Welder said shortly after 9 a.m. “All the inmates are accounted for.” Warden Crispus Nix immediately ordered inmates locked up as prison officials investigate the uprising. Welder said it was not known immediately what prompted the inmates to take the hostages in the maximum

Columbia scrubbed by balky fuel valve

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A balky fuel line valve today forced a second postponement of the launch of Columbia with a crew of seven, including a Florida congressman, on the first of three consecutive space shuttle missions to study Hally’s comet. “We have scrubbed for today,” said launch control commentator Jim Ball. “We’ll take another hard look at it overnight and come back tomorrow and do it right,” launch director Gene Thomas told the astronauts, who had been in Columbia’s cabin awaiting launch for nearly four hours. The postponement was announced 90 minutes afternthe countdown had moved to within 31 seconds of the planned predawn liftoff at 7:05 a.m. EST. At that time, the launch team detected a low temperature on a liquid hydrogen fuel line. Columbia’s countdown had been halted

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State of the Union Jan. 28 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan will deliver his annual address to Congress on the state of the union on Jan. 28, the White House announced today. The traditional speech to a joint session of the House and Senate generally is broadcast by the major radio and television networks at the time of delivery, which this year will be9p.m. EST. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said Reagan will submit his proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 on Feb. 3. Reagan has promised his budget will fall within the stringent new deficitcutting requirements of the GrammRudman legislation, which means Reagan must propose drastic spending cuts to reduce the administration’s record S2OO-billion deficits to $144 billion next year and to balance the budget by 1991.

day: “Actually, yesterday we were ready to fight.” He said the forces of his North African Arab nation had been placed on full alert, and that the alert would end only “when the American and Zionist threat is removed.” “If America commits aggression against us, then we will commit aggression against it, inside America itself,” JANA quoted Khadafy as saying

security prison, located in the southeast corner of the state. Corrections Director Hal Farrier said in Des Moines he ordered the four-man assault teams into the prison at 8:05 a.m., an hour after the uprising started. Farrier said three inmates were injured. One of the released guards, Peter Hodgerson, was taken to the Fort Madison Community Hospital for treatment of a twisted knee, Welder said. The 152-year-old prison is home to some of the state’s most violent criminals and has been the scene of occasional riots and disturbances. Twelve prison employees were taken hostage during a 17-hour disturbance on Sept. 2, 1981, that caused $1.3 million damage to the facility. All were eventually released, but one inmate was killed by fellow prisoners.

just 14 seconds before the intended liftoff on Dec. 19 because of a faulty electronic part. Ball said the trouble was traced to the failure of a valve on a fuel line to close late in the countdown, apparently because of a computer software error. A backup radio signal closed the valve, but not before too : much fuel flowed through it, lowering the • temperature in the line to below : specifications. Liquid oxygen is maintained at a tern- : perature of 293 degrees below zero. During five days in space, the Columbia : crew, which also includes the first : Hispanic-American astronaut, are to release an RCA communications satellite, • conduct more than a dozen medical, ■ materials processing and other ex- : periments and make the first extensive observations from space of the celebrated : comet.