Show World News Briefs By Linda Fabert Wednesday night the House voted to ban the use of polygraph tests by private employers The bill passed by Opponents of the he bill bUl argued that lie detector tests are a valuable weapon against employee thefts which cost businesses an estimated 40 billion annually The Reagan admin administration and the business community both opposed the ban Approximately 2 million employees and job applicants applicants applicants cants are given polygraphs annually The General Accounting Office exonerated NASA Administrator James C C. Fletcher of questions question surrounding his 1973 selection of Morton Thiokol Inc as the builder of the space shuttles shuttle's booster rockets While I 1 am not completely satisfied with the report I recognize the difficulty of trying to pursue an investigation of events that occurred nearly 15 years ago said Sen Albert Gore of Tennessee The fact that the General Accounting Office was constrained ined to rely on incomplete documentation still leaves unanswered questions but it appears that they may never be fully resolved Senator Gore was responsible for requesting the report on Fletcher Deadbeats are an embarrassment The Education Department expects government student-loan student defaults to jump to 16 billion this fiscal year so colleges universities avid and nd other th i institutions will be penalized if students fail to repay their loans To days day's default rates are not merely an embarrassment they are arean arean arean an injustice to the millions of American Ameri Ameri- can taxpayers who generously support our student-aid student program said Education Secretary William Bennett And if these default rates continue they will jeopardize future educational opportunities for millions of our students Under the new rules institutions with default rates exceeding 20 percent may ultimately be expelled from all federal student-aid student programs The decision to demand collection by the institutions represents represents represents a new new- approach by the government which historically has tried to track down student debtors debtors' itself or garnishee income tax refund checks The new policy is likely to hit business technical and trade schools the hardest because a large percentage of these have the highest default rate of the institutions involved Salt Lake County has given the go ahead I to allow a major shopping center ter at the southeast corner comer of S. S and Redwood Road The County Commission voted Tuesday to approve a zoning change hange which would allow the shopping center enter center t The acre 35 development is a akey akey akey key property in the Taylorsville- Taylorsville Bennion area Support came from residents who feared apartments I and and or or condominiums would be built there Opposition came from those who complained that the roads in the area cannot handle more traffic They claimed that massive traffic jams would result from the development Locally Mayor DePaulis buried one opponent after another Wednesday in ina a landslide victory in his bid for re election as mayor of Salt Lake City The final tally was votes for DePaulis compared to votes for Ernest Dixon Two new members were elected to the Salt Lake City Council Alan G. G Hardman and Wayne Horrocks Mayor DePaulis speculated that the City Council elections will have little effect on the councils council's or his administrations administration's administrations administration's administrations administration's general policies a |