Banner Graphic, Volume 21, Number 201, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 April 1991 — Page 2

THE BANNERGRAPHIC April 29,1991

Special session looms if state lawmakers can’t finish budget

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana General Assembly faces a clear challenge this week as its 1991 regular session ends: complete work on a new state budget and other important issues or endure a special session. “The signs are in the making” for a special session, House Speaker Michael K. Phillips, DBoonville, said late Friday. “But we don’t need a special session. I have reason to believe we can achieve what we need to without one.” LAWMAKERS return to work Monday for conference committee meetings intended to resolve a variety of unfinished business, ranging from the state budget to rcdistricting and including workers compensation and environmental protection. Tuesday will be the 61st and final working day allotted by law for the regular session. If legislators haven’t passed a budget by midnight Tuesday, Gov. Evan Bayh would be forced to call them back into a special session. Bayh, Phillips and Republican leaders say they don’t want the Legislature to go into overtime, but they know there’s a chance that will be required just as it was in the last two budget sessions in 1987 and 1989. “THERE’S NO question the work can be done, and there’s no question that it should be done,” Bayh said Saturday. “But politics being what they are, I don’t know if it will get done.” Senate President Pro Tern Robert D. Garton, R-Columbus, rated the

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chance for a special session at “about 5 percent.” “There is absolutely no need for one,” he said. But if there is a special session, it likely will be forced by a failure of budget negotiations, the political leaders agree. TALKS OVER A proposed twoyear spending plan for state government have produced little progress and a lot of partisan maneuvering in recent days. Democrats have proposed a plan that includes a temporary suspension of the cut in auto excise tax rates, delays in payments to local government, borrowing for prison and university construction and limited use of the stale’s cash reserves. Republicans countered with a plan that would require $l5O million more in spending cuts and use

Jordan complains

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) The U.S. Navy says allied warships will continue intercepting Iraqibound shipping until a U.N. inspection procedure is established. Jordan claims the blockade is unjustly hurting is economy. The decision to continue enforcing the U.N.-ordered embargo on trade with Iraq was made by the 11 nations with naval forces still in the region, the thcU.S. Central Command said in a statement on Sunday. THE UNITED Nations ceasefire resolution ending the Persian Gulf War, approved this month, limits the number and type of weapons Iraq is permitted to import but lifts some restrictions on food and humanitarian goods. Coalition forces say they have challenged more than 9,000 commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf or the upper reaches of the Red

ROBERT J. BREMER THE MAYOR for GREENCASTLE

“There’s no question the work can be done, and there’s no question that it should be done. But politics being what they are, I don’t know if it will get done.” —Gov. Evan Bayh

of almost all of the state’s cash reserves. The GOP also opposes the temporary excise tax increase and substantial borrowing for construction projects. THE TWO SIDES have agreed on a key point that any additional spending in the budget should go toward public education. And that agreement may be more important than the disagreement over how to come up with the additional money, leaders believe. “I think the one thing that’s inevitable is that the money cut from education will be restored,” Bayh said. “But beyond that, we won’t know until later.” Garton said, “I think the differences are very narrow.” WHILE THE budget commands center stage, the last act of the redistricting battle could influence the end of the session.

Iraq eyes Turkish pipeline for oil exports

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) Iraq has told past customers it will soon be ready to resume oil exports, and hopes to move out about 600,000 barrels daily through its northern pipeline system, an industry newsletter reported today. The respected Middle East Economic Survey, published in Nicosia, said the pipeline system that leads into Turkey is largely intact, having survived the Persian Gulf War and Kurdish uprising.

Sea, boarding more than 1,200 and turning back at least 50 under the U.N. embargo. Jordan is complaining that many of those vessels were headed for its only port, Aqaba, carrying goods destined for Jordanians, not Iraqis. “THE WAR IS over and U.N. sanctions are partially lifted on

World Bank to focus on poverty, pollution, productivity

WASHINGTON (AP) The World Bank said today it will shift from financing low-cost projects in the developing world’s cities in favor of a broader strategy to heal urban problems. The international lending institution’s policy will focus on fighting poverty and pollution while increasing the productivity of the 1.3 billion people who live in exploding Third World cities. FOR TOO LONG, government efforts supported by lenders have

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Republicans and Democrats have been at odds for weeks over how to redraw legislative and congressional district lines. Bayh and others now fear that feuding might taint the final budget negotiations. FAILURE OF redistricting talks wouldn’t necessarily force an immediate special session, however. Garton said work on redistricting could be resumed when the Legislature meets in November to organize for its next session and still be resolved in time for the 1992 primary election. Bayh said he hasn’t thought about when he would call legislators back. Phillips said he would honor the governor’s request for a starting date of a special session but would then likely send lawmakers home for about five days. “1 expect it would take several weeks to reach solutions” in a special session, said Phillips. IF THEY WEREN’T ready to finish their work when they returned, legislators might be sent home for another five days, Phillips said. If that happens, lawmakers can expect criticism from the public and the governor. Bayh was already rehearsing his critique on Saturday. “The public’s skeptical enough of government these days without the Legislature being unable to complete its work on the single most important piece of business it has, the state budget,” he said. “THERE’S ABSOLUTELY no reason why this shouldn’t be finished, and the people of the state would have a right to be mad if they (legislators) don’t finish on time,” said Bayh.

about shipping intercepts

IRAQ IS USING about 200,000 barrels of the 800,000-barrel-per-day production from the northern fields, leaving about 600,000 barrels for export, the publication said. Production and export from the southern areas around Basra is still impossible due to war damage. The exports will depend on both the approval of Turkey and the U.N. Security Council committee that is supervising the continuing economic blockade

Iraq, but the embargo against Aqaba remains,” Bassam Qaqish, director of Aqaba District Authority, complained Sunday. Before Iraq touched of the gulf crisis with its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, Aqaba handled 70 percent of neighboring Iraq’s ship traffic. Some reports in Western media

addressed urban growth and poverty by backing low-cost shelter, water supply, sanitation and transit projects, said a report by Michael A. Cohen, chief of the bank’s Urban Development Division. Such projects “have not had major impact on the policies of national and local governments and the broader issues of managing the urban economy,” the report said. It estimated that one-fourth of the urban population in the

Students leave school to protest teacher cuts

CHARLESTOWN, Ind. (AP) Administrators say high school students in Charlestown may have taken their protest against school funding cutbacks several steps too far. More than 100 students at Charlestown High School walked out of class Friday to show their opposition to possible teacher layoffs and reductions in programs. THEY LEFT SOON after the first period of classes began and gathered at the town square, waving signs and shouting slogans at traffic. As the students cheered, several vehicles responded with loud horn blasts to signs that read, “Honk if you are for education.” Now school officials are pondering what action to take. “It depends on how long they were gone and what they did,” said George Marshall, Charlestown High School’s principal. “There were a few who began disrupting classes by marching down the hall yelling. That’s a suspension. Others who were gone all day committed truancy and could be given demerits.” THE WALKOUT followed a similar one by students in Floyd County over the state’s education funding. Greater Clark Superintendent Justin Roberts called the action a “copycat” walkout after one in Floyd County. He said that he believed that there was a genuine concern by some of the students involved but added that some were un-

of Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait. THE COMMITTEE is scheduled to meet Tuesday to decide on Baghdad’s request to export nearly $1 billion in oil to pay for emergency imports of food and medical supplies. The State Oil Marketing Organization has informed past customers that it will soon be ready to to resume exports of oil and petroleum products, the report said.

have alleged that Jordan continued to be a transit point for embargobusting Iraqi goods during the crisis an allegation Jordan denied. ONE OFFICIAL, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Jordan’s foreign minister complained about the embargo situation when

developing world lives in absolute poverty and says urban poverty is growing faster than rural poverty in many countries. UNDER THE new policy, the bank expects to back large-scale projects intended to improve housing, develop land, upgrade slums, build transit systems, create jobs, fight pollution and improve city governments. The report responds to rapid growth in Third World cities and towns, which are expected to account for two-thirds of the world’s population increase by the end of the decade. The policy paper noted that 20 of the world’s 25 largest cities will be

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familiar with the funding situation or funding requirements in state law. “YEAH, THEY DID it first, but that does not mean that we mean it any less,” said sophomore Chad Stocksdale. “We have classes of 30 students right now. What is going to happen to the classes when you double that” if they cut teachers. A group of parents joined their children on the steps of the square. “I think it’s right. I am supporting my child,” Gloria Leonard said. Marshall said classes at the high school proceeded normally and that he felt several students used the walkout as an excuse to skip school. “OUR GOOD STUDENTS stayed in class. It’s ironic that most of the kids out there shouting are the ones that need to be here the most,” he said. Krissy Powell, a junior, said she believed it was wrong for teachers to be laid off and programs cut due to a lack of funding from the state. She criticized Gov. Evan Bayh for not using more of the state’s lottery money and not using the state’s Rainy Day Fund to cover education costs. “He seems to be the one who always complained about Indiana students being under educated and being overtaken by students in Japan and other countries. Well, he better let up on some of that money he is sitting on or we are all going to be in trouble,” Powell said.

he met Secretary of State James A. Baker 111 earlier this month. During the last three months alone allied vessels have intercepted 70 ships carrying cargo destined for Jordan, said Akef Abu Tayeh, deputy director of Aqaba Port Authority. “Some ships are inspected four times before they are allowed to proceed to the port... This scares away the ship commanders and its very negative aspects affect our economy,” Qaqish said. IN JANUARY, during the gulf war, just 43 ships docked in Aqaba, compared with 127 the year before, said another port official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. In 1990, Aqaba handled 15.6 million tons of cargo, primarily of potash, phosphate and cement exports, compared with 19 million in 1989, the official said. The Navy statement said allied warships will continue to escort merchant vessels to Kuwait through mine zones, sweep for mines and issue advisories about mines.

in the developing world by the year 2000. IT OUTLINED bank strategies for increasing productivity, attacking poverty, addressing environmental problems and increasing research on urban development. The urban share of developing countries’ economies is as high as 80 percent, it said, and yet some governments continue to avoid steps that would help its city dwellers to become more productive. The report cited excessive regulation of housing construction in Malaysia as an example. The biggest pollution problem in most cities is unsafe drinking water, the report said.