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Show PCS Tht Oc9y Utah Chronic, tflftdwitoy. October 7, mi Two COM Ttl 2 ACC0CIATCD TJATEOrJAL Spending cuts feco first tost in Housa WASHINGTON Congressional support for President Reagan's new round of spending cuts faced its first test Tuesday as the House considered an S87.Sbillion appropriations bill which the administration deemed hundreds of millions over budget. The House voted 383-5- 0 to cut $74 million from the measure, but the decisive vote was expected later on a Republican move to send it back toacommitteedrawingboard in light of a potential presidential veto. Reagan's House allies argued that the appropriations bill lor the department's of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services must be trimmed. This is the best of bills and the worn of bills," said Republican Leader Robert H. Michel of Illinois. "On another day and another time" it would have received nearly unanimous support, he said. But the bill "is excessive and the president surely will veto it," Michel said in a speech on the House floor. bills Reagan vowed last week to veto any "budget-busting- " Congress sends him. Republicans acknowledged that making further cuts in the measure would be difficult. "This bill is the safety net for the truly needy," said Rep. a member of the House Budget Ralph Regula, io, Committee. But "in the final analysis it's $763 million over the budget resolution" Congress enacted in May. But Republicans were not unanimous in their effort to get further cuts. chairman of the Rep. William H. Natcher, and Human Health on subcommittee Labor, Appropriations Services, offered the amendment backed by the Democratic leadership to reduce the bill by $74 million and technically bring it within the guidelines set by a preliminary budget resolution enacted by Congress in May. D-K- B- -l bomber plan faces indefinite fate WASHINGTON The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee warned the Reagan administration Tuesday that its plan to resurrect the 1 bomber faces a "by no means certain" fate in Congress. openings hearings on the Rep. Melvin Price, ., administration's strategic proposals, also said that President Reagan's plan to put MX missiles intoTitan missilesilos "has "shell even more uncertainties" than the favored administration. the Carter by game" B-- D-IU- now-abandon- Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, however, told the committee that the administration's $180.3 billion is stable and far more deterrent would a that "create program secure than exists today." Air Force Gen. David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday that he had ample opportunity to express his views but that the Joint Chiefs "did not have the opportunity to go over the package in detail before it was announced." Jones opposed putting the MX missiles in existing silos, six-yea- r, favoring the Carter administration plan to shuttle them among a network of new shelters in Utah and Nevada. Two Republican members of the Senate committee demanded to see a report prepared specifically for Reagan and used in his decision. Weinberger told them that because the report was directed to Reagan, "I don't think I have the authority to release it." AUTUMN 4904 Shying throws ermsssh into uncertainty WASHINGTON The first congressional test of President Reagan's arms sale to Saudi Arabia was postponed Tuesday after the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, but there were signs the slaying could sway some opponents to the administration's side. In the Senate, where the $8.5 billion package faced a formidable front of critics. Democrats and Republicans suggested the president may now be able to argue more persuasively that it is essential to bolster moderate regimes in the Middle East. The House Foreign Affairs Committee, meanwhile, put off at least until Wednesday its scheduled vote on a resolution to veto the sale. The panel was still regarded virtually certain to recommend that action. The deal can be killed only if both houses disapprove it by Nov. 1. But there were conflicting signals in the Senate. One of 19 Republican opponents immediately switched in favor of the sale of AWACS radar plans and jetfighter equipment, and other senators suggested the issue should be put off indefinitely for revaluation. said. "I'm going to reverse my Sen. Orrin Hatch. vote on AWACS and support the president. We have to have the safeguards this deployment makes." Hatch was one of a dozen Republicans targeted by Reagan and his Strategists for a heavy dose of presidential lobbying. The Senate GOP leadership estimates it would take that many R-Ut- switches from the ranks of the opposition and the uncommitted to forestall a veto. Order could lift CIA 's restrictions WASHINGTON A pending presidential order would place fewer restrictions on CIA infiltration of domestic groups than an earlier draft that wasshelved last March after a storm of protest, government sources said Tuesday. The latest plan, if signed by President Reagan, would replace restrictions imposed on U.S. intelligence agencies by President Carter in 1978. It would permit the CIA to infiltrate and, with the attorney general's approval, influence domestic groups, sources said. The CIA is barred from such activities under the Carter order. The March Reagan draft would have permitted the CIA to infiltrate a domestic organization only if that action "is strictly limited in its nature, scope and duration to a lawful purpose related to foreign intelligence." In the March draft, which was obtained by The Associated Press, influencing a U.S. organization's activities would be allowed only if the group were run, owned or controlled by "foreign nationals . . .a foreign organization or government or is working for or on behalf of a foreign organization or government." Those March restrictions on infiltration and on influencing U.S. groups are dropped in the new draft, sources said. The new draft would permit secret infiltration of a U.S. organization simply if the action is judged necessary toachieve lawful purposes as determined by the agency head or his designee, sources said. The new draft does not specifically state that CIA infiltrations must be for obtaining "foreign intelligence," the sources said. REGIONAL Forest officials restrict use of vehicles PROVO, Utah Uinta National Forest officials said Tuesday they are closing hundreds of acres of forest land along the Wasatch Front in Utah County to use by of f road vehicles. Don Nebeker, forest supervisor, said the closure is needed to protect the forest and watershed. He said hunters would not be able to take vehicles off -- designated roads and trails except under circumstances DATG8 TO last day to drop classes 9 last day to turn in CRNC cards last day to add classes OCTOBER 44 last day to initiate registration or pay tuition; regardless of late fees controlled by the forest service. Nebeker said the regulations are more strict than those issued in the past. "When a hunter or any other user of the forest takes off across country, he pays little attention to the watershed problems." Nebeker said. He said 90.000 tons of sediment of soil is lost each year through travel, grazing or natural occurrences. The Uinta National Forest covers 900.000 acres, which includes 1 .200 miles of developed roads and 800 miles of trail open to trail bikes. Nebeker said the forest service plans to strictly enforce the ban. Stones beck out of Choycnno concert CHEYENNE. Wyo. The Rolling Stones had made secret plans to play a concert in Cheyenne on Monday night as pan of their current tour of the United States, the director of the Cheyenne Civic Center says. But the popular British rock group decided against the Cheyenne stop at the last minute and headed straight to Los Angeles after playing two concerts at the University of Colorado in Boulder over the weekend, center director Bob Stewart said. The Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne quoted Stewart Tuesday as saying bad publicity about unannounced Stonesconcertsat the start of their tour probably accounted for their not arriving in Cheyenne. There had been no public announcement a Stones concert even had been contemplated, and Stewart said he was the only member of the civic center staff who had any knowledge of the proposed concert. The Stones had booked the new Cheyenne center about a month earlier through Barry Fey of Denver, the producer of their two outdoor conceits at CU's Folsom Field Saturday and Sunday, Stewart said. "We knew all along that it was a tentative booking," Stewart told the Eagle. "But they are likeall musicians, and they like to come to the smaller places so they can jam to their hearts' content. "I'm sorry we missed that experience," he said. "Every so often the big one gets away from you." Stewart said had the Stones gone through with the plan to play Cheyenne, the civic center would have announced it Monday morning and expected to sell out. "We were going to fly them in at the last moment and rush them right out after the concert," he said. Commission proposes redistneting SALT LAKE CITY A seven-memb- er advisory commission on reapportionment Tuesday made its report to Utah Gov. Scott Matheson. e The report recommends ways of creating a third U.S. House seat and balancing legislative districts. 130-pag- The bipartisan commission's recommendations will be reviewed by the governor, a Democrat, and forwarded to the Republican-controlle- d Legislature, which is responsible for reapportionment. Matheson said he will call a special session during the last week of October to handle redistricting. "Agreed emergency issues" may also be placed on the agenda of the special session, the governor said. "Most facets of the American political system anticipate and, indeed, require partisan politics," said commission chairman Robert Campbell. "Reapportionment is an exception. Those who are responsible for reapportionment of this state are guardians, in a very real sense, of the entire electoral process," he said. Campbell said the commission's recom mendations di ffer in many respects from the plans most favored by Republican lawmakers. Rep. Merrill Harward, Lake, who has been chairing Republican reapportionment studies in the House, said the commission's report will be carefully reviewed. However, some of the commission's proposals have already been examined by the lawmakers and tentatively rejected, he said. R-Sa- lt Now That You've Let It Slide For One Week don't miss the second Thursday evening of "The Photographic Essay in Color" a creditnoncredit architecture course that shows you how to take and edit color slides to tell the kind of stories you can't tell with single images. A 35 mm. camera is all you need. No darkroom work involved. Commercial processing is used. Course is taught by Cannes Film Festival award-winnCraig Pozzi. Class meets Thursdays, 5 p.m., in AAC 132 through December 10. Register today at the Division of Continuing Education, Annex Building. er 7:15-10:1- |
