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Show Bush already faces higher deficit than Reagan estimate WASHINGTON (AP) George Bush has been given the glum news President-ele- ct that the budget deficit in the next fiscal year will be $21 biilion higher than the Reagan administration had previously estimated. That information means that Bush will be facing an even bigger budget headache when he takes office on Jan. 20. The new deficit estimate was presented to Bush and Presi dent Reagan during a Cabinet briefing Thursday on the administration's final budget sub- mission to Congress. Joseph Wright Jr., director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the OMB now estimates that the deficit for the 1990 fiscal year, which begins next Oct 1, will be $132 billion, substantially higher than the $111 billion deficit estimate OMB made just three months ago. Officials said the main factors boosting the deficit estimate were the drought, which slowed economic growth this year, and interest rates, which raised the cost of financing the $2.6 triled higher-than-expect- lion national The debt Gramm-Rudma- bal- n anced budget law's deficit target for 1990 is $100 billion, which means that $32 billion in budget cuts will be needed to close the gap between reve- - nues and spending. During the campaign, Bush sidestepped specifics on how he would deal with the budget deficit by touting a plan for a "flexible freeze." Bush said he would allow government spending to grow only enough to match inflation. Within the overall freeze, selected programs could grow while others would be cut However, Bush avoided providing details. ft 115TH YEAR, NO. 90 PROVO, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1988 $6.75 A MONTH - PRICE S V IT 35 V i By TOM WALTON Herald Staff Writer During afternoon rush hour, many residents experience something previously traffic often gets Provo's chief administrative However, since University Avenue is a state road, any adjustment will have to come from the Utah Department of Transportation. "Up to this point, the peak periods of traffic haven't been a lrtnp pnnnffht in Lane Critser Photo . Motorists turning north onto 2230 North University Avenue have a long wait. mrit said. "UDOT has been cooperative in the past. It's just that they work under a priority system and have a shortage of funds." The city has communicated with UDOT concerning the in-- tersection, and it will be a topic of discussion at subsequent meetings. Waggener noted that UDOT recently made some adjustments at another trouble spot the intersection of University Parkway (BYU diagonal) and 550 West a few Mocks west of University Avenue and North. Those adjustments with the 2230 signal lights have created a more orderly traffic flow, although the intersection is still packed during rush hour. But Waggener said the (See TRAFFIC, Page 2) Reagan administration making new attack on abortion ruling WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration is making a new attack on the Supreme Court's landmark Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion, proposing that the justices use a Missouri case to rulreconsider the ing. : The proposal came in form of a brief filed with the court Thursday by Solicitor General Charles Fried, who said the Missouri case represents "an appropriate opportunity" for the justices to review the 1973 decision. groups said the timing of the proposal, two days after the general election, Pro-aborti- t n Salt Lake County's growing cities must have more water. Robert B. Hilbert, manager of the Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District, and Gerald Maloney, president of that district's board of directors, have repeatedly said that to members of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District. Many of these cities, some of them unincorporated, have been built without adequate sources of water to supply their own needs and are relying on the these water agen- cies and the Central Utah Project to supply it. As Salt Lake County reaches out for more and more water, Provo City and other water entities grow increasingly worried about their allocations in the Provo River. In testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Ener- gy and Water Development Committee on Appropriations, earlier this year in Salt Lake City,. Dr. Lavere B. Merritt, then chairman of the Provo Metropolitan Water Board, made the following statement: VThe controversy arises r i t 4 " TIM 'I 1 " AP Laserpfiolo was political. "I guess they were afraid to this before the election because they thought they might lose the votes of millions of do women," said Eve Paul, Planned Parenthood's vice president for legal affairs. But a Justice Department spokesman, Loye Miller, insisted that the timing was dictated by extended internal discus- sions at Justice the Department on the question and by extensive staff work that had to be completed. Fried's brief said the Missouri case "is free of procedural defects and implicates a number of the legislative choices foreclosed by Roe v. Wade." The solicitor general's brief noted that the Reagan administration's views on abortion were expressed in a case in June 1986, when the government urged that Roe vs. Wade be overturned. The high court at that time voted 4 to reaffirm the earlier ruling, but since then another Reagan appointee has joined the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy. groups hope that will tilt the court's balance and lead to scuttling of Roe vs. Wade, which held that a woman has a constitutional right to an 5-- Anti-aborti- on from the fact that water stored upstream on the Provo River in Jordanelle Reservoir will obviously not flow down the Provo River and out of Provo Canyon. Although Central Utah Project personnel have repeatedly stated that they will honor all downstream water rights, we don't see how they can do so and still have adequate water available to fill The flow of the Provo River will be cut to 85 second feet sometime today, after all entities involved in negotiations sign an agreement prepared by U.S. Rep. Wayne Owens, D-Ut- All parties were scheduled to meet today at noon to sign the memorandum of understanding which was being prepared in final form by Owens. The Division of Wildlife Resources will close the river, to fishing below Deer Creek Dam for the rest of the season, or until the 100 cfs flow can be restored. If DWR should determine that the fish will be lost anyway, they will reopen the river to fishing. Representatives of many dif- ferent agencies spent more than four hours Thursday .1 night in a marathon session hammering out the agreement. Owens called the agencies together in an effort to work out a compromise that will allow storage of more water in Deer Creek Reservoir, but at the same time provide enough water in the river to preserve the Class A fishery. Included in the negotiations were the Bureau of Reclamation, Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District, Salt Lake City Metropolitan Water District, Provo River Water Users Association, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Utah Wildlife Leadership Coalition, Stonefly Society, Utah abortion. Missouri officials want the to reinstate a Court Supreme strict state law, struck down in July by a federal appeals court which said the statute was invalid under Roe vs. Wade. The Missouri law declared that human life begins at the moment of conception and said no public funds, employees or facilities could be used to perform or assist in an abortion or to counsel a woman to have an abortion. A key issue in the Missouri case is whether it is unconstitutional for a state to declare when human life begins. anti-aborti- on the Jordanelle Reservoir and deliver the planned project water through their delivery system. "CUP personnel feel that much of the water flowing Sportsmen's Alliance, Provo City, Utah County, Provo River Canal Users, Central Utah Water Conservancy District, and others. Utah Countv Commissioners and the Provo River Canal Users were not involved in the week-lon- g negotiations until Thursday night. County Commissioner Brent Morris said all parties had signed off on the agreement after knocking heads for several days. Under the agreement, Owens will give the Bureau of Reclamation permission to cut the river flow without waiting notice for the required to the National Environmental Protection Agency. Owens obtained prior approval for this. 48-ho-ur cfs flow will be maintained until summer, and in the meantime trie Bureau of Reclamation will attempt to purchase additional water to maintain the flow. The bureau offered to purchase water at $50 per acre foot, after announcing that they would no (See PACT, Page 2) The 85 Day. He was shot down over Vietnam on Feb. 11, 1971. BONN, West Germany The president of par(AP) liament resigned today under attack for saying on the 50th anniversary of the program against the Jews that many Germans initially found Hitler's rule "glorious." Parliament President p Jenninger's speech also called the early years of the Nazi's Third Reich a "triumphal procession." Kris-tallnac- ht Phi-lip- In his resignation statement, Jenninger, who also condemned the Nazi program in his address Thursday, said River flow reduced to 85 cfs By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Herald Staff Writer erans cemetery in Seattle to honor her son on this Veterans German leader resigns over 'Hitler' speech he was misunderstood. Nevertheless, his speech was criticized throughout the country and abroad. "This event shows us how the darkest chapter of German history is still a present-da- y l, thing," leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party, said after Jenninger's resigHans-Joch- en Vo-ge- nation. The furor overshadowed West Germany's carefully organized ceremonies marking Kristallnacht, the night of terror against the Jews that signaled the start of the Holo- - Drought heats up rush for Provo River water By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Herald Staff Writer -- i T" Dorothea Eisenbeisz tends the grave of her only child, Air Force Lt. Robert Eisenbeisz, vet- at the Evergreen-Washel- li officer Chet Waggener. Waggener I' f In remembrance stacked two blocks or more and the light will change three times before a commuter passes through the intersection. .One of the reasons for the congestion is that the intersection has no left turn lanes, said change," I !! foreign Gridlock. The main culprit appears to be the intersection of 2230 North and University Avenue, where 4- - I CENTS Traffic stalled at major intersections to Provo commuters. ,o i down the lower Provo river is presently unused, particularly the 'winter' flows, and thus available to them for ex- storage and use upstream. However, most of both summer and winter flows in the lower Provo River are appropriated waters, repeatedly scrutinized and reaffirmed by the courts. Project personnel have been asked repeatedly to clearly demonstrate how 'all' downstream rights can be honored under the project operations, but they have failed to do so. They usually state that it's up to the state engineer to decide if their filings will be allowed, but the state engineer has not yet done so." The current drought has placed unusual focus on Provo River and just how much water is actually available to meet all the demands on its change, flow. From measurements sup- plied by the U.S. Geological Service it is apparent that there is not sufficient water in the upper Provo River to fill both Jordanelle and Deer Creek reservoirs and to take care of all downstream users. Salt Lake County, then, must (See RIVER, Page 2) Philipp Jenninger caust. Israel's Foreign Ministry called the incident "unacceptable and unfortunate." His speech, at a special session of the Bundestag, or parliament, caused a walkout by about 50 lawmakers and calls for his resignation. In his speech Thursday, Jenninger talked at length about the positive feelings of many ordinary Germans early in the Hitler dictatorship. Today AFA versus BYU Fisher DeBerry beaten BYU. The has run roughshod other WAC team has never Air Force over every during his tenure as Falcon football coach, but not the Cougars. Story Page 17. Cold and cloudy Tonight increasing clouds. the 30s. Saturday considerable cloudiness with a slight chance of showers. High in the mid 50s. Probability of measurable rain is 20 percent Saturday. Low in Where to find it Classified Ads. Comics Movies National Obituaries Opinions Sports State Today... TV listings World 22-3-2 .'...20 13-1-5 21 4 8 17-1- 9 5 11-1-2 13 10 V |