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THE BANNERGRAPHIC, January 5,1987

Reagan under surgeon's knife

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan is .undergoing prostate surgery today following a physical examination his doctor said showed no new evidence of cancer. Physicians at Bethesda Naval Hospital just outside Washington found and removed four apparently benign polyps from Reagan’s colon Sunday. Col. John Hutton, the presidential physician, said the small fleshy growths, similar to several found in earlier examinations, would be checked in the laboratory today but that tests so far “show no evidence of a recurrence of the cancer found in July 1985.” A brief written statement issued by the White House shortly after the tests were completed Sunday said,

No tax increase in $1 trillion budget

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan is proposing a record $1.02 trillion federal budget making sharp domestic cuts and boasting defense programs without raising income taxes, but congressional leaders are voicing deep skepticism. “I don’t like to call it dead on arrival, but it’s obviously going to be reworked considerably,” said House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois. Reagan’s budget for fiscal year 1988, which begins next Oct. 1, represents the first spending plan greater than $1 trillion ever submitted by a U.S. president. It is by far the largest single-year budget ever considered by any nation. T’ie new budget calls for cuts and

Democrats hope to set agenda in Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) The 100th Congress convenes Tuesday with Democrats, who will control both aouses for the first time in six years, hoping to seize the legislative miative from President Reagan on issues ranging from arms control to trade. The loss of eight Republican seats in the elections last Nov. 4 gave Democrats a 55-45 Senate majority. The Democrats also slightly in-

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“The president feels good and immediately began reading briefing papers on items on the presidential decision-making agenda. ’ ’ The 75-year-old president spent the night at the hospital after being admitted Sunday morning and was scheduled to undergo surgery today for an apparently enlarged prostate. His wife, Nancy, accompanied him to Bethesda and remained at the hospital’s VIP suite to be present for the morning surgery. Reagan spokesman Larry Speakes said the president has suffered “mild, recurring discomfort” and has known for some time he probably would need the operation, known as a transurethral resection.

program eliminations of the same ilk as those in other recent Reagan budgets plans that were largely ignored by Congress. Workers at the Government Printing Office worked through the night to ready the first installment of budget material. Some of the final figures were only finished on Sunday afternoon. According to advance information made available by the administration and other sources, the 1988 budget calls for sharp cuts in farm price supports, college student loans, food stamps, Medicare payments to physicians, housing and government-backed mortgage programs and mass transit subsidies.

creased their House majority to 258177. Thus, familiar faces will be assuming new leadership roles as the Republicans’ six-year hold on the Senate ends and a new speaker takes over in the House. The lingering controversy over Reagan administration involvement in the Iran-Contra connection also will become prominent again as both the House and Senate plan to move

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He had a similar operation 20 years ago. Speakes said there is no evidence Reagan has cancer of the prostate, a sex gland surrounding the urethra at the base of the bladder. Examination of tissue removed during the procedure is normal in such cases to determine whether any malignancy is present. A transurethral resection of the prostate involves the insertion of a small, flexible instrument into the penis and through the urethral canal, which passes through the prostate to the bladder. The instrument has a tiny, electrically charged wire on the end, which is used to cut away pieces of the prostate obstructing the canal.

At the same time, it seeks to move toward balancing the books by selling to private investors a variety of government-held assets, including part of the Amtrak rail passenger line, the Bonneville Power Administration, petroleum reserves in California and Wyoming and billions of dollars of existing government loans. It would boost defense spending authority to $312 billion, the smallest military spending increase yet sought by Reagan, but still above the $289 billion current level appropriated by Congress. Democrats, who now control both chambers of Congress, indicated the new Reagan budget faces the same uphill struggle that its predecessors

quickly to establish special committees that will consolidate congressional investigations of the matter. However, congressional leaders insist legislators will not be preoccupied by the foreign policy fiasco that has plagued the administration for more than a month. In addition, with President Reagan serving the final two years of his term, Democrats and Republicans will be mindful that the record of this Congress will be a major issue in the 1988 presidential election. Rep. Jim Wright, D-Texas, who will succeed the retiring Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., D-Mass., as speaker of the House, and Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., who will become Senate majority leader, have promised to move quickly on major issues. “Normally, the Senate and House have sat around until after the president’s State of the Union message, but this year we’re not going to do that,” said Byrd, who is replacing Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., as majority leader. “I have talked with my soon-to-be committee chairmen a number of times urging them to get their committees operating early: organize early, conducting oversight early, holding hearings on legislation early

The operation, which is not regarded as particularly risky and should last less than an hour, was to be performed under a spinal anesthetic that numbs the lower region of the body without rendering the patient unconscious. When Reagan had major surgery in 1985 and was put under general anesthesia he invoked the 25th Amendment to temporarily transfer power to Vice President George Bush. Speakes said he did not anticipate such a move this time, but said there are always contigency plans should it become necessary. During the physical on Sunday, Reagan’s third follow-up to check for any recurrence of the colon cancer discovered 18 months ago.

encountered. “The first thing we need is cooperation,” said House Budget Committee Chairman William H. Gray 111. “The second thing we need is some realism and fairness. ... Realism means we can’t start off with smoke and mirrors again.” And Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the new Senate majority leader, said he may seek an early floor vote on the budget, even though one isn’t required, to demonstrate how little political support it has. The budget is not legislation as such but a spending blueprint, even though many of its proposals would require congressonal action.

and reporting legislation early,” Byrd said in an interview last week. Byrd, who has led Democrats in the Senate for a decade, will become the first man who was Senate majority leader, minority leader and then majority leader again. Wright, meanwhile, who has been majority leader, will bring a different tone and flavor to the speakership than did O’Neill, the Jwirly, white-haired liberal Trom Massachusetts. Wright and Byrd, both moderate-to-conservative within their own party, are expected to have similar views on most issues. The friction that sometimes existed between O’Neill and Byrd is likely to be absent in the dealings between Wright and Byrd. “Jim Wright and I have a very good rapport and we’re going to be seeing things pretty much eye to eye,” Byrd said. Both leaders have made clear they plan to use committee hearings to highlight what they see as the shortcomings of Reagan administration policies and challenge the White House on several fronts. Byrd considers the message of the November elections to be clear. “The people indicated they wanted better checks and balances here. They’re going to get them,” Byrd said. “They’re going to get a lot of it in this oversight, the fulfilling of the oversight function that is the responsibility of the Congress under the Constitution. ... A Democratic Senate will carry out that responsibility.” After both houses convene at noon Tuesday, legislators will get off to a quick start. Resolutions will be introduced in both chambers to establish two select committees to investigate the diversion of Iranian arms sales profits to Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Expected is renewed debate on U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan rebels, which also could lead to legislation on covert operations, arms sales and the National Security Council. The first confrontation with the administration is expected to come on legislation to clean up the nation’s waterways, a measure Reagan vetoed last year despite unanimous passage in both houses. Administration officials have offered a compromise to avoid a fight, indicating the president would accept sl2 billion in long-term spending to help clean up dirty waterways. The amount is twice what the administration had originally proposed but still short of the $lB billion contained in the Clean Water Act that Reagan vetoed Nov. 6. Also topping the agenda will be trade legislation. A major trade bill passed the House last May but it was never acted up in the then-GOP-controlled Senate. Administration officials have resisted previous congressional efforts to pass trade legislation, saying such bills were no more than protectionist measures. But faced with a Democratic-led Congress, there have been indications the administration may seek a compromise trade bill.

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Recount creeping along

ELKHART, Ind. (AP) The recount of Indiana’s 3rd District congressional race was still crawling along at a snail’s pace, too slow to enq[ in time for Congress’s swearing-in Tuesday, officials said. Secretary of State B. Evan Bayh, the chairman of the State Recount Commission, said the recount of votes in Elkhart County might be completed today. Elkhart is the first of six counties involved in the recount. The three-member commission plans to move Tuesday to South Bend to open the recount in St. Joseph County, the largest of six counties in the northern Indiana district. The recount of questioned ballots cast in the remaining counties Kosciusko,

Soviets reconsider emigration denials

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service MOSCOW The government is reconsidering several previously rejected emigration requests from Soviet citizens married to Americans, two of the Americans said Sunday. The two, Keith B. Braun and Andrea M. Wine, said they were told by a Foreign Ministry official Sunday that their cases were under “intensive review.” Braun’s wife, Svetlana, and Wine’s husband, Viktor Fayermark, have repeatedly been

Israeli helicopters attack in Lebanon

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service JERUSALEM helicopters attacked houses in two villages in southern Lebanon Sunday, a military spokesman said. The spokesman said the houses in Khirbet-Salum, north of Bint Jbeil, and Kabrikha, southwest of Merj ’Uyun, belonged to mem-

Bird and Fuzzy investing in resort

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Native Hoosiers Larry Bird and Fuzzy Zoeller are among a group of investors in a deluxe entertainment and recreation complex planned for southern Indiana. Year-long feasibility studies were to begin this week on the S7O million complex, to be built on 1,779 wooded acres along the Patoka Lake in the French Lick and West Baden area, said spokesman W. Terry Davis. Bird, a French Lick native and

Libyans test French in Chad

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service PARIS Libyan warplanes bombed targets on Sunday in southern Chad, a region that France has committed itself to defend, the French Defense Ministry said. The- Defense Ministry, confirming radio reports in Chad, said that the raid had been carried out by four Soviet-built MiG-23 fighter-bombers against the towns of Biltine and Arada in southeastern Chad.

Cabinet member leads beach protest

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A mixed-race Cabinet minister led supporters Sunday onto a whites-only beach in Port Elizabeth for a swim to protest apartheid. The Cabinet member, the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, one of two nonwhite ministers in President P.W. Botha’s government, declared, “This is God’s beach,” as he and about 150 followers attending a party congress toe* to the waters. Police officers and whites opposed to racial mixing on South

Only two survived jet crash

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast A French military officer said Sunday that there was “no hope” for further survivors in a plane crash that killed 49 people and injured two passengers here Saturday. “The airplane w t ;s totally destroyed except for a small bit of the tail,” said the officer, Col. Y. Guillou, commander of the

Marshall, Starke and LaPorte will follow. Democratic challenger Thomas W. Ward, a Knox attorney, requested the recount after Republican Rep. John P. Hiler of Laporte won the Nov. 4 contest by just 66 votes. The recount was slowed again Saturday by a dispute over whether to count ballots in an Elkhart County precinct where a ballot box was opened during polling hours, a violation of state law. Bayh and commissioners Rexford Early and David Hamilton, both of Indianapolis, voted unanimously not to invalidate the nearly 700 ballots cast in the precinct after witnesses agreed that there were no wrong intentions.

refused permission to emigrate. The Brauns were married in August 1984, and Wine and Fayermark in November 1985. Western diplomats said the meeting with the Foreign Ministry official and other recent developments signaled a possible resolution of several of the socalled “divided spouses” cases early this year. There are at least 20 unresolved cases, according to American diplomats.

bers of the pro-Iranian Party of God organization. Party of God soldiers had taken part in guerrilla attacks last Friday on positions of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army in Baraachit, inside the strip of southern Lebanese territory that Israel calls its security zone. Six South Lebanon Army members were killed in the attacks.

Boston Celtics’ basketball star, joins pro golfer Zoeller, a New Albany native, Jim Fowler of television’s “Wild Kingdom” and other investors in the project. The land will be leased to the developers by the state of Indiana. Davis, a Madison, Tenn., businessman and one of the developers, said plans include a major resort and three parks: a wild animal park, a water park and an entertainment park with the theme of Americana. •

The raid was portrayed by government sources here as a direct challenge to France by Col. Moammar Gadhafi, the Libyan leader. France has warned that it will retaliate against any Libyan intrusions south of the 16th parallel. On Sunday night, a French government spokesman, Alain Juppe, said in a television interview that the government would take “appropriate action to support Chad.” But he did not say what that action would be.

Africa’s beaches looked on but took no action against Hendrickse and his supporters, who, under apartheid’s definitions, are classified as colored. Racial restrictions at beaches have become a major issue in recent days because of violence on the waterfront in and around Durban, where some beaches are still segregated. Cape Town’s beaches are open to all races, but in Port Elizabeth, the City Council’s decision to desegregate most beaches has yet to be ratified by more senior administrators.

rescue operation. “The fire was terrible.” The two survivors were traveling in the tail section of the plane. The crash killed the plane’s crew of 12 and 37 passengers. Varig listed most of the passengers as Brazilian. One of the dead, a man listed only as L. Cleveland, was an American.