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Show Promises . Veto By David Espo Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON President Reagan. stung by Senate passage of a 1984 budget he opposes, said Friday that he would veto both tax increase legislation and spending bills that could rekindle the fires of inflation and high interest rates. I will not support a budget resolution that raises taxes as we are coming out of a recession, the president said. Then, referring to a veto threat he made during his news conference Tuesday night, he added: "1 meant it then and I mean it now. He issued the statement several Senhours after the ate defied him and its own GOP leadership in approving an $849.7 billion budget. The blueprint provides for tax increases of $9 billion next year and $73 billion over three years to reduce soaring federal - 4 jT iHm d X Jh ? f'vWwr-- Jgf' iTW' jjssSsafc-SS- u VV , v GOP-controll- VSifyA fc)3f Associated Press Laserphoto tornado. Several were killed as tornadoes skipped around southeast Texas Friday. R.H. Warkentin ponders wreckage of his home in Houston after it was struck by a Tornadoes Roar Through Houston By David L. Langford Associated Press Writer Two lethal volleys of tornadoes and hail the size of baseballs hit Houston and surrounding towns in Texas and Louisiana on Friday, killing 10 people, injuring dozens, and reducing hundreds of homes and buildings to splinters. The deaths from the and afternoon storms in southeast Texas raised to 24 the fatalities in flash floods and 60 twisters that have wracked Dixie since Wednesday. Six people have died in Tennessee, three in Missouri, two in Georgia, and one each in Louisiana, Mississippi and Kentucky. It looks like a war out there and pre-daw- n we lost, said Graham Painter, a spokesman for Houston Lighting & Power Co. in the oil country of southeast Texas where tornadoes wrecked an estimated 350 homes and knocked out the power to 100,000 people. The National Weather Service said 10 tornadoes were reported in Texas and the Texas Department of Public Safety said aerial surveys indicated as many as 17 may have touched down within 150 miles of Houston. Twelve hours after the first wave of storms ravaged the region, killing eight, another storm system blew through a mobile home park at Cros by, 30 miles northeast of Houston, killing one person and injuring sev- eral more, a Harris County deputy said. Details were not available. second afternoon tornado caused heavy damage at a mobile A home park in Baytown, south of Crosby, injuring at least nine people and destroying eight to 10 mobile homes, a Department of Public Safety official said. In Houston, police reported five people arrested for looting. At least five of the Texas tornado victims lived in mobile homes, said police Lt. Larry Snider in Houston. At a trailer park in Prairie View, about 30 miles west of Houston, the tornado wrapped one trailer around a utility pole, toppled others, flaty tened a home nearby and lifted the roof off a service station and a small frame house. two-stor- "A boy was pulled from the grasp of members of his family from a mobile home, he He was found outside the said. trailer house, a matter of feet from the residence. The youth died. In Nederland, 70 miles northeast of Houston, a tornado ripped through a terminal at the Jefferson County Airport area and killed an unidentified man, said public safety spokesman David Rose. The plan, drafted by Sen. Slade and endorsed by Gorton, Democrats and moderate Republicans, envisions a defense spending increase of 6 percent after inflation for next year, far below the 10 percent the White House originally sought. It also sets domestic spending targets that are about $12 billion higher than what Reagan originally sought in January. Under the plan, the deficit would be $178.6 billion in 1984, $167.7 billion in 1985, and $130.1 billion in 1986. Deficits under an alternative budget, backed by the Senate Republican leadership and Reagan, would have climbed over $200 billion a year by the end of the decade. Reagan offered his reaction as House and Senate negotiators said they would begin talks next week on a compromise, although no agreement is expected until after Con- gress returns from its Memorial Day recess. March Budget Vote The Democratic-controlle- d House voted in March for a budget providing more money for domestic spending and less for defense than the Senate budget, and a $30 billion tax The $9 billion tax increase next year and the $73 billion over three years were issued as revised figures on Friday and were slightly lower than the amounts in documents released late Thursday by the Senate. Should a tax increase emerge in the final version, its exact form would be guided by the Ways and Means and Finance committees. Democrats and some Republicans want to raise tax revenues by altering the tax cut this year, but Reagan has vowed to veto any such move. All Sides Agree In the aftermath of the vote in the Senate, all sides agreed that Republican Leader Howard Baker played Dia-Alla- Plane Sale, A3 assailed the Reagan administrations decision to lift its embargo on the sale of 75 advanced 6 jet fighters to Israel. Carry Death, Destruction "These aircraft carry death and destruction since Israel is going to use these arms to expand its present said. aggression, wishes to Council If the Security and its credibility prestige regain then it has to impose mandatory sanctions against Israel in accordance with the U.N. Charter or to oust Israel from the organization, of Arab territories, F-i- al Todays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity - Sun- ny and warmer. Highs in the 70s. Lows mostly in 40s. Details on C-- 8. e heeler Farm Desert Blooms Lark Ascending spectively, ac- cord for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon. Israel has made the withdrawal of its own troops contingent on the departure of Syrian and Palestinian forces in Lebanon. Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul-HaliKhaddam, in an interview with Radio Monte Crlo, said, What do they the Americans want to talk to Syria about? Only Framework "I cannot see what we can possibly talk about except in one direction, and that is to save Lebanon and save Syrias security, that is to prevent the realization of this agreement. This is the only framework within which we can talk. He added that Syria will never acaccord, cept the not in weeks, not in years. As U.S. presidential envoy Philip C. Habib shuttled around the Middle East trying to work up pressure on Syria to negotiate, sources in Damascus said the Syrian government was planning a diplomatic counteroffensive to reverse the generally favorable Arab response to the Israeli agreement. The sources said Information Minister Ahmad Iskandar Ahmad and Khaddams chief aide, Minister of State Farouk Chareh, would be sent on a tour of Arab capitals to explain Syrias opposition. Threatens Syria Khaddam told Radio Monte Carlo the agreement has given Israel political and security advantages and privileges that threaten directly Syria's peace, security and future and consequently the peace?, security and future of the entire Arab nation." He said the agreement, unaer which Israel would withdraw its 25,000 troops in Lebanon in return for security concessions, allows Israel "to Impose a number of its agents in decision-makin- g positions in Lebanon and especially in the south. Israeli-Lebane- At ll - g, Israeli-Lebanes- Community Gardens By Cass Peterson Washington Post Writer WASHINGTON Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus Friday fired four top officials at the Environmental Protection Agency, including the heads of the agency's air and water divisions. Kathleen M. Bennett and Frederic A. Eidsness Jr., assistant administrators for air and water, re- being a country that is not peace-lovinthe Syrian envoy said. Unless the council can implement unconditional Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territories and bring about Palestinian statehood and unless Washington stops interfering in the area and curbs Israel, then peace will always elude us like a mirage, the Syrian ambassador concluded. Syria has vehemently opposed a U.S.-back- c Ruckelshaus Fires Four at EPA Troop Pullout Pact Lebanese and the United States are ready to renegotiate the entire Israeli withdrawal pact. Syrias ambassador to the United h Nations, speaking at the opening of a Security Council debate on Israeli occupation .Coming Sunday. In The increase next year. Syrians Get Tougher In Dispute Over By Associated Press Syrias U.N. ambassador demanded Friday that the United States stop interfering in the Middle East and that the Security Council impose sanctions on Israel or expel the Jewish state from the world body. Meanwhile, Syrias foreign minister told a radio interviewer his government will not discuss withdrawing troops from Lebanon unless the a key role in facilitating final approval, even though he supported a low-ta- x alternative budget with higher deficits and wound up voting against the plan finally adopted. Tugged in one direction by Reagan, who was adamant against higher taxes, and in another by his determination to see the Senate fulfill an institutional obligation to pass a budget. Baker was "on the horns of an exquisite dilemma, declared Gorton shortly after the vote. He resolved it by declaring on the Senate floor that he was determined the Senate approve some type of budget, and by making a key procedural motion that paved the way for reconsideration of Gortons plan, several hours after it was first rejected. I regard Sen. Baker as being the key to the change when he simply said he had to have a budget," said Gorton. Associated Press Loserphoto President Reagan holds jar of jelly beans given to him by young Cuban boy after he i I had lunch in the Little Havana section of Miami with group of Cuban businessmen. Reagan Vows to Thwart Communists, Challenges Castro on Drug Selling By George Skelton Los Angeles Times Writer MIAMI President Reagan vowed vehemently Friday to keep the Communists from taking over Central America and challenged Cuban leader Fidel Castro to explain why his officials are peddling drugs in the United States. In the toughest speech he has given since taking office, Reagan declared flatly: We will not permit the Soviets and their henchmen in Havana to deprive others of their freedom. And, he quickly addanti-Cast- ed to thunderous cheers from his largely Cuban exile audience, some day, Cuba itself will be free. Speaking to 2,500 people at a Cuban Independence Day celebration commemorating Cubas total independence from Spain 83 years ago Reagan asserted that today a new colonialism threatens the Americas. Calling Castros government a new fascist regime where freedom ... has been stamped into the ground with ideological zeal," the president proclaimed: A The people of Central America, with our support, have chosen a dif- ferent course freedom, pluralism and free economic development. They, and we, are committed to this course and will not tolerate Mr. Castros efforts to prevent it. They, and we, want Central America for Central Americans and thats the way its going to be." Enthusiastic Welcome In Miami, the adopted home of an estimated 750,000 Cuban emigrants, Reagan received what was undoubtedly the most friendly, enthusiastic reception he has encountered outside of Washington since becoming president. Several thousand people-line- d Reagans motorcade route and held signs supporting his foreign policies. A White House spokesman quoted Miami police as estimating that 60,000 people were gathered around Chuckle Todays bikini is held together with a A couple of hooks and a lot of eyes. the Dade County Auditorium, where Reagan spoke. At one point, a brightly colored mock-u- p of an MX nuclear missile was driven around the building on the back of a camouflaged pickup truck with a sign proclaiming: MX yes. Unprecedented Ovation After lunching with leaders of the n community at a popular restaurant in Miamis "Little Havana, Reagan received an unprecedented 12 standing ovations during his speech and was repeatedly cheered and applauded. The declining Castro economy continues to make a grotesque joke out of the ideological claims that Marxism is for the people, Reagan said. Once one of the most prosperous countries in Latin America, (Cuba) is rapidly becoming the most economically backward in the region, thanks to the Communists. Cuban-America- . And now, he said, there is strong evidence that Castro officials are involved in the drug trade, peddling drugs like criminals, profiting on the misery of the addicted. submitted their resignations to President Reagan at Ruckelshaus request, according to agency officials. Ruckelshaus. acting swiftly on his second day in office to make room for his own management team, also requested and received resignations from the regional administrators in Philadelphia and Boston. The EPA has 10 regions, and two regional ad- ministrators, in Seattle and Denver, have already been removed. EPA sources said that another regional administrator, Sonia F. Crow in San Francisco, also would be asked to resign. But her office said Friday that Crow, who was out of town and not available for comment, "remains officially the regional administrator. EPA offiTwenty cials have been ousted since a series of congressional investigations focused attention on the agency earlier this year. In addition to former administrator Anne M. Burford and her deputy, John A. Hernandez Jr., that number includes five of the agency's six assistant administrators, its general counsel and its inspector general. The latest housecleaning came as the first subpoenas were being served in preparation for a federal grand jury investigation of allegations of impropriety against some former EPA officials. .Environmentalists who met with Ruckelshaus in April urged him to make personnel changes, contending that the ideological beliefs and industry ties of some officials made them unsuitable for the EPA. But EPA sources said privately Friday that Ruckelshaus "agonized over the fate of some of the officials, particularly Bennett, for whom he reportedly has high regard. In a statement released by the high-ranki- EPA press office, Ruckelshaus praised Bennett and Eidsness for their dedicated and professional service and said both had agreed to serve him as special assistants until the transitional period we are in is completed. As a result of the departures'. Ruckelshaus will be the only official at the agency who has been confirmed in his job by the Senate. ; |