| Show 4A Wednesday Jaua'y 6 1323 - National reviews Cabinet New storm following killer cold Reagan budget Aisoc 'S A killer cold wave plowed the big chill from the Midwest to the Last today driving thousands of homeless people in from the cold while a new storm promised more snow from the Rockies to the Plains An emergence fee “But now we're out of a home and all the support we get is through the Faith Rescue Mission and we sure appreciate it" At least II deaths have been blamed on the weather since - The burgeoning Southwestern system prompted warnings for more than a foot of snow by Thursday in Oklahoma up to a foot of snow in Utah and 8 to 10 inches in Arizona nt 1 t-- t t t - V' 't trillio- budget being drafted for President Reagan but that it prescribes “a significant increase” for AIDS research and a tight n on Pentagon spending Reagan got his first detailed briefing on the budget Tuesday and made some preliminary decisions pn how the government should spend its money Today Cabinet chiefs learn the results: whether Reagan trimmed their budget requests or let them pass unscathed On Friday Cabinet secretaries can begin appealing the decisions first to the Office of Management and Budget and ultimately to Reagan himself “There aren't any big surprises in the budget" one official said after Reagan and top aides were briefed in the Cabinet Room by budget director James Miller Another official said “There aren’t any big dramatic changes in the budget The budget is similar to past years" One official said Reagan cautioned everyone at the meeting to keep the budget figures confidential since the numbers are subject to change The tax and spending package for the fiscal year beginning Oct will be submitted to Congress in The current budget totals slightly less than $11 trillion the 1989 package is expected to fall between $11 tril n-plus was declared in the nation's capital enabling Washington’s homeless residents to spend the night inside City Hall In Chicago activists briefly took over two empty public housing apartments Shelters were filled there and Baltiin Montgomery Ala more Cleveland Denver Detroit Des Moines Indianapolis Milwaukee Louisville Ky Minneapolis New York City and Philadelphia “I'm 50 years old and have never asked anybody for anything any type of help or support" said Thomas Evans who with his wife June dined in a Montgomery Ala shelter Tuesday night on chili and macaroni fried catfish butter beans corn Brussels sprouts and cof- Saturday WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials say there are no big surprises in a $1 hold-dow- Billows of steam hang over Lake Superior near Duluth Minn Snow advisories were posted minus in Indianapolis and With the city’s 2500 beds in for much of Nevada Colorado zero in Cincinnati and Pitts38 shelters filled to capacity acand higher elevations of New burgh tivists for homeless seized and Mexico with snow and freezing On Tuesday Warroad Minn barricaded two public housing rain extending across sections of and Huron SD had lows of apartments Tuesday Kansas and Texas minus 28 degrees the lowest ofIn Washington where a Record low temperatures for ficial temperature in the contigman apparently died homeless the date were set today in Beck-le- y uous 48 states the National last weekend the of exposure deWVa where it was 2 Weather Service said an emergency and declared city Below-zer- o grees New York City where it readings Tuesday opened the ground floor of city was 12 and Newark NJ 9 ranged from Minnesota and the hall to the homeless Tuesday Dakotas across Nebraska Iowa degrees Other low temperatures early and parts of Illinois Indiana night and Ohio In Boston with overnight today included minus 23 degrees in Bismarck ND 13 beToday’s high in Chicago is ex- wind chills forecast to minus 35 low zero in Minneapolis-S- t pected to reach a “balmy” 10 to degrees' officials put a second 20 degrees following Tuesday’s van into service to take homePaul minus 9 in Chicago 8 below zero in Des Moines Iowa less people to shelter high of minus 2 degrees 1 1 mid-Februa- ry lion and $12 trillion ' The general outline of the I9S9 deficit-liplan has been shaped by the requirements of the law and the agreement reached bv the White House and Congress following the stock market col- miting Gramm-Rudma- n lapse “It is our intention to accept the budget agreement as the targets that we're trying to meet” said presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater Those targets call for a deficit no larger than $136 billion in 1989 and $235 billion in cuts from previously anticipated spending An administration official said Reagan’s budget will not go beyond the $136 billion figure Fitzwater said that as a result of the agreements with Capitol Hill “we shouldn't have the debate that we have had in many past years because the Congress has worked with us in this summit agreement There’s agreement on the budget level of spending for defense and on the taxes so it should be less contentious all around than it has been in the past” The summit agreement pre- scribes $2995 billion in spending authority for’the Pentagon a 2 percent increase from the current year’s total of $292 billion In effect the 1989 figure will probably be a cutback in real spending since 2 percent is not likely to cover increased costs from |
