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Show National News efieit By TOM RAUM AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (APl U.S. agencies have been told by the White House to brace for automatic spending cuts of nearly 5 percent as new estimates of the 1986 budget deficit soared to a record $220 billion. That's $48 billion above the $172 billion target for fiscal 1986 set by the Gramm-Rudma- n budget-bai-ancin- g law. The cuts if are triggered the deficit exceeds the target by $20 billion or more. The Congressional Budget Office and the White House Office of Management and Budget were to release their official deficit projections on Wednesday, along with details of the cuts that will be required. However, White House spokes- - man Larry Speakes on Monda announced that the cuts would amount to 4.3 percent for most domestic programs and 4 9 percent for the military. Military programs are receiving a higher proportional reduction because the law exempts some weapons contracts from being cut and because of a presidential decision to shield all military personnel from the reductions. That shifted a larger burden of the cuts onto other military programs. On Capitol" Hill. Rep. Edward R. chairman of the Roybal, House Aging Committee, called for Congress to block automatic cuts the Medicare program that would be triggered under the in n formula. The law calls for automatic cuts of 1 percent in Medicare payments Gramm-Rudma- omet Scope B Stays roken - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Columbia's astronauts today failed to fix a balky instrument vital for Halley's comet studies and officials considered bringing the shuttle home a day early to speed g preparations for a flight in March. Flight director Jay Greene said mission managers might decide to order Columbia back to the Kennedy Space Center Thursday instead of Friday to give engineers more time to ready the spaceship for launch March 6 with more comet-viewin- g equipment. Greene said landing weather looked good for Thursday or Friday. He said if the mission is shortened to four days, "we're not going to miss very many objectives that we would have gotten by staying the full duration." In addition to the problem with a light intensifier used for comet observations, Greene said two other experiments were out of order both materials-processin- g units. A lid remained stuck open on an astronomical sensor in the ship's cargo bay. Astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaborn in Costa Rica and the first Hispanic-America- n to fly in space, conducted a televised tour of the shuttle and explained its operations at midday in Spanish in an international gesture of good will. "The operations in space in these last two days have been very said. "Today, this has been one of the best days ... busy, Chang-Dia- z healthwise," he said, apparently referring to recovery from space motion sickness symptoms often felt during the first day or two of flight. "We hope the next two days that we are here will be more interesting and even nicer." The other crewmen are commander Robert "Hoot" Gibson, copilot Charles Bolden, George Nelson, Steven Hawley, RCA engineer Robert Cenker and Rep. BillNelson, making the flight as a congressional observer. George Nelson, armed with screwdrivers, small wrenches and a Swiss army knife, worked through the morning to make adjustments on the balky Halley's comet image intensifier and Greene said later the work was to no avail. "I just got done playing with the intensifier again," Nelson said. "You still get a green screen when you turn it on but there's just no intensification at all." He promised to keep trying. The image intensifier, capable of amplifying the dim comet's light some 100,000 times, failed to work Monday after Nelson found it had been packed aboard the shuttle already turned on. Its dead batteries were replaced but it still failed to work, disappointing scientists on the ground. comet-watchin- to doctors and hospitals. Even though this is far less than the 4.3 percent cut in most other domestic programs. Roybal said it still posed "a major threat to the elderly's access to quality health Of Offshore LeCISS ANCHORAGE. Alaska (UPI) -A judge has halted a federal auction of offshore tracts said to contain $15 billion worth of oil and gas because the sales could harm the subsistence lifestyle of some 650 nearby Native Alaskans. U.s! District Court Judge James von der Heydt Monday issued a preliminary injunction against the Interior Department's plan to auction 990 offshore tracts, ruling the sale may violate the Native villagers' hunting rights. The auction of leases for 5.6 million acres off Alaska's southwest coast was scheduled Wednesday. Government lawyers today were expected to seek an emergency ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to overturn von der Ileydt's injunction. In a second order Monday, the judge said the Interior Department may accept oil company bids for the' leases today, but may not open them Wednesday unless a higher court intervenes and overrules him. Von der Heydt said Interior Sec retary Donald Hodel was in "probable violation" of a federal law that guarantees the subsistence rights of Alaska's Eskimos. Indians and Aleuts who depend on wild animals for survival. The offshore tracts are believed to contain $15 billion worth of oil and gas. Although there were nearly 50 including parties to the litigation seven states, 10 major oil companies and various national environmental groups -- - it was the arguments made by three tiny villages that halted the sale. Other plaintiffs argued that federal laws protecting the environment or endangered species were violated. Von der Heydt said he did not pass judgment on those arguments because the villagers' complaint was sufficient for him to stop the auction. Hodel probably violated the Alaska National Interest Lands Act by not holding hearings on whether Native villagers' subsistence lifestyle would be affected, the judge ruled. Armed Kennedy Guard Held at Senate Office - Sen. bodyguard, preSouth America, week when he a Senate office to enter attempted building carrying two submachine guns and nearly 150 rounds of ammunition, a Kennedy aide said WASHINGTON Edward Kennedy's paring for' a trip to was arrested last (UPI) today. The bodyguard, Chuck Stein, was arrested last Tuesday hours before he was to accompany Kennedy on a South American tour, Kennedy's press secretary Bob Mann said. Stein entered the Russell Senate Office Building on Jan. 7, identified himself as Kennedy' bodyguard and asked the guard where he an should leave his weapons Israeli-mad- e Uzi submachine gun, an Italian-mad- e Beretta submachine gun, and 146 rounds of ammunition in six clips. He was immediately arrested by a Capitol Hill policeman. Stein was released on his own recognizance in time to accompany the senator and two of Kennedy's sisters, Jean Smith and Pat Law-foron a tour of four Latin American countries. He was charged with possession of unregistered firearms and ammunition and ordered (o appear in court Jan. 28. Mann chalked the incident up to "human error" and said it was "not significant in the larger scheme of things." y ( He said the payments should be boosted 1 percent this year, not reduced. Medicare and other health programs are in a separate category under Gramm-RudmaThey can be cut automatically, but not more than 1 percent in fiscal 1986 and 2 percent in subsequent years. Social Security benefits, includining the annual cost-of-livi- creases, are exempted entirely from the cutbacks. Despite the $48 billion shortfall in meeting the deficit target this year. Congress limited the first round of Gramm-Rudmacuts on n March to a total of $11.7 billion. act. named for sponsors Sen. Phil Gramm. and Sen Warren Rudman. requires a series of successively lower annual deficits until the federal budget is balanced The 1 Gramm-Rudma- n in 1991. If Congress cannot enact the required cuts, then automatic spending reductions are trggered. This year, the cuts are to be triggered on March 1. In later years, they will come on Oct. 1 the beginning of each year. Under the Gramm-Rudmalaw. both budget offices will submit their findings to the General Accounting Office, a congressional auditing and watchdog agency, which will come up with a final list of specific cuts later this month. across-the-boar- d new-fisca- n Itah. - Pafee 15 iuii Biiiion i The GAO could change the cut percentages, although conj. essum-a- l and administration otiicials s.iv they do not expect that will happen this year. The actual cuts will then be passed along to President Reagan, who is required to issue an order on Feb. 1 detailing them The $11.7 billion limit only applies to 1986 In later years, the magnitude of the automatic cuts triggered under Gramm-Rudmawill be equal to the difference between the law's target and the deficit projection. Officials have not yet made public the deficit projections for liscal 1986. which began last Oct But a CBO official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named, said the congressional forecast would top $220 billion The OMR n deficit-reductio- iorecast was expected to be a sh.ule lower because ot more opti-- i economic assumptions used in The deiieit tor the fiscal year th.it ended last Sept. oO was $212 billion The Reagan administration is expected to submit its budget for tiscal 1;87 to Congress on Feb. 3 and it is being billed in advance as containing the largest array of domestic spending cuts ever proposed by ,i U.S. president. The ltH7 n 1 the administration by Gramm-Rudma- target n billion. Administration budget oiticiais had said previously this target could tie met with $50 billion in tresh cuts - although with the 1986 deficit now soaring to 220 billion, even greater cuts may tie needed to meet next year's target s is 1 4 4 MIA 95 Sitings Probing enfagon - WASHINGTON tUPH A high-rankin- g Pentagon official, back from a trip to Vietnam, says the U.S. government is investigating 95 reports that American servicemen missing in action have been seen alive in Southeast Asia. U.S. technical experts plan to present information about the live sighting reports and crash sites to the Vietnamese at a meeting in Hanoi scheduled for late February, Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Armitage said Monday. Armitage said the Pentagon has identified more than 60 crash sites where U.S. aircraft of all types went down intact over rural North Vietnam, possibly leaving evidence of Americans' remains. Armitage, who returned Friday from two days of talks with top Vietnamese officials in Hanoi, said the reports of Americans thought to be in Vietnam. Laos and Cambodia date to 1975. with the latest one received two years ago. His disclosures at a news conference marked the latest information about the status of U.S. efforts to determine the late of 2,441 Americans listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War. Armitage added little to what he said in Thailand last week on the outcome oi meetings between Vietnamese officials, including Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach. and the highest-leve- l U.S. delegation to travel to Hanoi since the war. It was Armitage's third trip to Hanoi Armitage said in Bangkok that Vietnam had agreed to investigate live sighting reports, to resolve the missing Americans issue within two years and to provide information at a meeting in Hanoi in about 50 missing Americans ami about crash sites. There are more than 200 crash sites in North Vietnam, but Armitage said there are only slightly more than 60 in which enough of the plane may have survived so that remains of crew members still may be aboard. Many of the crash sites have been run over and scavanged and that makes finding remains more clitiicult," Armitage said. COACHMAN'S 75 N 200 WEST MAIN ST. MOVIE Briefs Spanish Fork, 798-935- (f 0 WITH DRINK & DESSERT For WEE'S BIG PEE (UP TO Child Agei Birthday RESERVATIONS 5 mwi ici i: i i PANCAKE HOUSE PROVO. it S10 VALUE) Thru 91 CALL FOR DETAILS ONLY ADVENTURE EVENINGS Hormel Accepting Applications z, Judge Halts Sale The latest reports in national news from United Press International o id Hif o care. " THF HKKAI.I). Provo, 14. D' Tuesday. January - Minn. (AP) Striking meatpaekers who have been told they may be fired if they don't return to work at Geo. A. Hormel & Co. taunted their potential replacements today with shouts of AUSTIN. "scab'' as the company's flagship plant opened for a second day. Company officials planned to begin accepting applications today in order to replace workers who will not cross the picket line. The plant reopened Monday for the first time since 1.500 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers' Local P-- walked out Aug. 17. 9 'Everyone out there ton strike) has a right to their job unless and until they've been replaced.'' Hormel senior vice president Chuck Nyberg said Monday. "If enough of our people come back, we won't hire permanent replacements.'' Rare Condor May Undergo Surgery ESCONDIDO. Calif. (UPI) -Veterinarians may perform surgery in a "last gasp"' effort to keep the female half of the only breeding pair of nearly extinct California condors from starving to death because of lead poisoning. said they would Veterinarians insert a flexible tube into the bird's digestive tract today to see if they can find signs of blockage that could be repaired by surgery. "Surgery would be our last gasp because in the bird's current condition it is real doubtful she would survive." said Tom Hanscom, spokesman for the San Diego Wild Animal Park. "But then she is also unlikely to survive without nutrition." Veterinarians hooked the bird to an intravenous feeding needle Monday. the bird, one of only 27 known condors and part of the only breeding pair in existence, has been unable to digest food since Jan. 3, when it was found about 100 miles north of Los Angeles and taken to the San Diego Wild Animal Park. - welcome today to Ecuadoran President Leon Febres Cordero, praising him as a champion of free entermperature was 23 degrees when Febres arrived at the White House South Lawn for a welcoming ceremony that included full military honors. With Febres standing at his side, Reagan said he was "leading his 4'I: "Tjf YT- O 120 Weil Main American Fork - MON-FR- I SAT. 3 ALL SEATS 7:00-9:1- 5 15 6 Golden Globe RAINBOW BRITE & THE STAR STEALER MON-FR- I Award Nominations (- 7:00-9:1- 5 MURDER MYSTERY ... CALL 1 Villa Theatre 254 So. Main, Springville ALL SEATS Stvt n Spielbtrg't EVENINGS SAT. MAT. Slot. Strtat W H J d A IHE PICTURE UNIVERSAL sik! UIKHIilVt A I Of Africa V,1 At A. afffflfaa, Out I & .vJr?v 1L ROBERT MERYL REDEORD STREEP OFFICE PG13 1 Ji I t 5:00 Join the lunatics that run the world's most irrational multinational. criticize Nicaragua, citing that country's alleged role in supplying weapons to Colombian insurgents for use in the November attack on the criminal justice headquarters in Bogota. Nicaragua has denied the charges. it (C)j t,.";M. ..i. country toward a better tomorrow" by attacking both the symptoms and the causes of his country's underdevelopment. Reagan also used the occasion to A TRGE STORY A S DALMATIANS Nightly t 7:00 1 8:45 Matinees Saturday At 1:00, 3 00 BASED ON 2560 225 1)ff)lDISNEY jgj5Jn01 : 0 7:00-9:1- 5 745 South Including Best Picture Drama, Besf Director - Sydney Pollack Best Original Score Best Screenplay Best Actress Drama, Meryl Streep u SAT. A GREAT rAaw:lSCcM Reagan Welcomes Ecuadorian WASHINGTON Presi (AP) dent Reagan extended a cordial tndi Tuet. 7:00-9:0- 0 Ji MJLM! wmr 12:13, 2t00 3:45, 5:30, 7:15, 4r00 IN UNIV! HSITY 5 Today at 6:30 and 9:30 Friday 3:30 6:30 9:30 Politician Hurt in Mysterious Case NEW YORK (UPI) Democratic - The d official in Queens, found bleeding and incoherent when stopped by police for weaving along a city highway, says he was kidnapped but remembers little about the abduction. Questioned for the first time since police pulled him from his car early Friday. Queens Borough execuPresident Donald Manes tive of the New York City borough of 1.8 million lonuay told police he found two men in the back seat of his car when he left Queens Borough Hall after a party Thurs- day night. Manes said the two men drove him around the streets of Queens for hours, but said he could not remember how he got his injuries, what his abductors looked like, or why he was kidnapped, said Chief of Detectives Richard Nicastro. 777 UU ALL MLL DAY TiiccnAV SEATS ALL ATLANTA (UPI- )- Education Secretary William Bennett told a third-grad- e class of 20 children today that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s work helped white people as well as black. Bennett took part in the "teach-in- " at John Hope Elementary School as part of the King week ceremonies culminating next Monday with the first federally-decreeholiday in honor of King's birthday. "Although blacks who had to suffer under segregation certainly did suffer, whites suffered too," Bennett told the class. He said King "was working as much for the moral improvement of white people as he was the betterment of conditions for black people." King's youngest son kicked olf the King week festivities Monday in Washington, challenging his audience to carry on the slain civil rights leader's dream with deeds, not just words. t 1230 NO 233 WEST A CHORUS DAILY: PHOVO LINE (PGi3i 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 373 4470 d PHOVO WHITE NIGHTS DAILY: RATING GLIDE FOR FAMILIES G: "General Audience." A film most parents would find suitable for the entire family. PG: "Parental Guidance Suggested." Parents are cautioned they would probably consider some material unsuitable for children. Parents are urged to inquire about the film before deciding on a child's attendance. PG-13- : "Parental Guidance Suggested for Those Under 13." Parents are warned that some material is likely to be unsuitable for pre-teeagers. These films are often too intense or suggestive for youngsters to view. s R: "Restricted." Film adult-typmaterial and those under 18 are not admitted unless they are in the company of a parent or adult guardian. Motion Picture Assoc. of America n eon-tain- e 1 V (374-5525- ) b6NO UNIVEHSI1Y Secretary Bennett In Class Again V SHOWS me;v it! MGM (PG) U'1 OA 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 EE3a(4l224 SPIES LIKE IN Today at 7:00 and 9:00 Friday 5:00 7:00 9:00 5 US(PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10.00 THE GODS MUST & win 7:00 survive piaawa4i374 J MOON r BLACK RISING (R) SHOWS TODAY: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 & 9 30 YOUNG SHERLOCK HOMES SHOWS DAILY: ,PGU 2:15, 4 45, 7 15 & 9 45 Back TO ihe future IAGGED EDGE i) today, 3 00. 7 'm qp T ENEMY MINE IWtNUt SHOWS DAILY: ;PGi 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 & 9 45 CLUE (PG) 5:li 4 9:15 IM CCNtUB FO I'l 13 4I1S Today 7t00 and 9:00 IimJi TtWrtArf I I J JcV one (PG) TODAY: 1:00,4:00 I) MAI DENNIS OUAID LOUIS G033ETT, JR. SHOWS TODAY: 1:00. 4 00. 7:00 & 9 30 JEWEL OF THE NILE ifC TODAY: 1:15, 4:15, 7:15. 9:45 BE CRAZY UNwi'itSl'tY N |