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Show a,,lio"s Democrats Mav Shorten Primaries orapf5ti President Takes Comfort i''' By Hatec panel suggested rkoP-fIn Lower Interest Rates To Cuba The Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday, Novembers, It ( 1981 fry ' v WASHINGTON (CPI Democrats probably will try in January to shorten the length of the A concerned about the if W ASHINGTON APi Amid the flu t k xigns of a vvorseiung n exMim ns mg unemployment .ind buigeonmg budget do fit Ut tho Reagan c.d mmixtiutiim has found a bright ray of hope in falling mteiesf laic s And as hum a, into ext iates continue to lecede i feet their xilu les will have on the economv by next falls oiigiessioiiul elections Just a few weeks ago the administration was saying the nation was in a short and mild retes sion Now it appeals the recession will be deeper and longei than ex i Piesident Reagan and t'liinomii advisers seem willing to accept a weakening economy and a jobless late !ike! to bin sf abo e K peiient .is the necess.iij tiadeoff Intel est iates an diopping and chopping rajndlv " Treasure See letaiv Donald T Regan noted Finlav tiving to c uslmm a new lejiort In the I.aboi Department that uneniphnment had surged to 8 peuent in O(tolxl the highest lew el his pec ted Admmisti ation econ mists pi ed 1 t the ec onumy will lemain in a i income slight sc in down inflation, but Democratic critics say nation is witnessing a repeat of a familiar Re trad publican formula mg jobs Tor more stable consumer prices And on Saturday Democratic Party Chair man Charles Manatt said the latest economic news was the first of many broken promises of this administration as far as their economic policy, as far as their debates on deficits versus unemployment versus interest Iates Most economists trace the i ecession to the tight-i- i edit policy the Federal Reserve Board has employed at Reagans urging to fight inflation Tight credit drove up interest rates to the point where busuiesses and eonsuin- ers could no longer afford to borrow, triggering the cghth American reees recent the shoitteim prime rate that banks chaige their most credit worthy customers has diopped fiom 20 5 per cent to 17 jiereent within two months and Regan 17 percent piedicted would he pieiced in the neat futuie Intel est iates on long teim gov eminent bonds have fallen from 15 per cent to below 14 percent lust m tlie last two weeks Mixed Blessing These developments ale a mixed blessing for Reagan s fellow Republicans in Congress who have been under intense pressure from heduled for next year against weeks The lending tax iates ists are issuing similar forecasts Natural Consequence The administration defends the rising unemploy ment rate as a natural short tei in con of its fight sequence waid movement in moil gage rates, which have kept millions of would be homebuveis out of the maiket other long teim and shoitteim intei est iates have shown rapid deei eases next providing the needed boost Private econom Rapid Decreases Although then has only ecession until sjiung with unemploy moot likely to climb aliovt 8 Kr ent Butthiy sav a stiong iccoveiy should Ik under wav by well in the summer advance of the elections with a cut in personal since 1975 been piesident sion since Win id s con- stituents to bring interest iates down from their painfullv high levels But (lit Republicans also are AAai tight on rein loses, J II that business ac tiv i ty is falling off the demand for crod.t is declin nig pulling down interest i ates The administration is counting on the Federal Reserve to maintain a Now i PMFLOYEK TMP Fof supplv HIBIWG MAWA6?RS' credit of nionev Audit Italics Results Of Medicaid Probe - The govt mment WASHINGTON (LPD to find improper payments under the $3( s eifort billion Medicaid program for the poor is plagued by weaknesses and inaccuiacies a imgesslonal audit says Asserting that the cai rot works bettei than the stick the General Accounting Office uiged Congress to consider legislation to reward states for cutting error rates while punishing those with high numbers of improper payments An estimated $1 2 billion in improper Medicaid payments are made each year and the Health and Human Services Departments Health Care Financing Administration runs a quality control program to find them k of But GAO said that based on its c spot-chec- cases, the e rnr iates U VSHINGTON tpi Scare td tu nr not Seuetaiv of State Alex under Haig desire for he Pentagon to come up with kin .it i.e U S milit iv ac lions against Cuba has ui ceded in getting the attention of Fidel ( axlio s government Haul Roa Koui i t ubu s ambassador to the I rated N itions deli vcd a note to L N Sec retdi v General Kurt Waldheim on Thursday piotestmg what lie said were U S plans to block .uli or liomb Cuba 1 believe that theie is a dangei of either a nav al blockade of economic actions, oi of peisecuting the companies that do business with us and even of an air strike against key economic points of Cuba Roa told rejxirters later The perceived U S threat also has prompted Cuba to place its military forces on alert We know military ae tion is being prepared said one Cuban diplomat in Washington "The only question is whether it will I throughout the recession i other than pumping up Hu - uncovered were questionable List Erroneous Payments GAO identified significantly more erroneous payments due to ineligibility, claims, processing errors and failure to use liable third parties," the audit said Third parties, GAO said, are generally insurance companies or Medicare GAOs review of cases in five states found $6 000 m eironeous payments that state or federal auditors a "sigiufuant" amount because tailed to uncover errors of only $50 in a small sample often project to more than $35,000 in improper payments annually, the report said Because the (quality control) system deals with relatively small samples of cases, even one case incorrectly reviewed can potentially have a sig mficant effect on a state, GAO said Some Other Findings The audit said federal investigators often depend on information supplied by the states, rathei than digging on their own, and often base findings on insufficient information Sometimes states have prior knowledge of which eases will be audited and are able to cover up, the GAO report said c be carried out Haig indirectly ack nowledged Thursday the accuracy of reports that he had asked the Pentagon to examine options for possible military action in El Salvador and against Cuba and Nicaragua The Reagan admmist rations perception emphatically denied by Cuba is that Cuba continues to supply weaponry to Salvadoran insurgents It is not clear whether military force is seriously being considered or whether the administration is merely engaging in scare tactics aimed at inducing Castro to end his alleged support of Central American guer rilla movements presidential primary season to around ck) davs and let more elected offi cidls go to conventions a party official said Saturday North Carolina Go. James Hunt Jr . head of the partvs comnossun m presidential nomina tions also said m an uiteiviiw dunng tin group s meeting that tl e party may do away A,h part of a dolegj'e landing rule allowing a piesidei Mai candidate to .aik his delegates from the convention floor T he pi iuiai y and caucus Hunt said the consensus the apjiears to Ik to trim length season of the political ed adding elected offic cials to each state's P on to the eonven tion is gaining favor be those off.cials are Co ii ol bee d'ise ats must run for office the The pioposals for ad ding elected officials and othei partv leadeistothe with touch Demo mcinstream c embers with ones of expanding the numlier of elected officials at conventions de-tp- in thev i window." along ary of g' it convention are ccmpli id ted Save 17.50 on Our Clipper Shop Helene Curtis Uniperm' season nos stretches from January to June and the confirms sion has been given a list of options for changing it piimanlv suggestions to shorten the system that lx gins with Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and ends with the California pi unary Hunt also said the idea It s toci long too ardu ous too time consuming and n s boiing people to sa'd Hunt ad death us I thins v. ull ding sigrid earitK nduce the lei gth to something like c'ose to 40 (lavs oi s, inn The commission has been offei ed a numbei of possible options for tight pi ini ening the be held onlv from March to June pnmaries Reg 42 50 including cut shampoo and styling now $25 A Un perm is a beautifuly manageable perm designed t m ke straight or lifeless hair come alive with new body and bounce Call our experts far your appointment Salt Lake Downtown 321-62- Cottonwood 321-61- Although the commission will not start voting on proposals for the na tional committee to consider until mid January Gat ii Want Funds Cut Tribune Washington Bureau An WASHINGTON amendment to delete $25 million for the continued study of an MX missile shell game basing mode will be offered Monday by Utah Sen Jake Gam at a Senate subcommit tee maikup of a defense apptopnations bill Sen Gam said Satur day he will propose to delete $25 million that has been allocated for the study of deceptiv e basing modes for land based missiles and radars in a $1 87 billion defense z; q ivs i Shop Weekdays 10-- 9, Saturdays 10-- 6 Closed Sunday bill Buddhist Leader Dies, 57 Reuter New s Agency Rangjung Rigpe Doije the xpn dual leader of the Karma Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism died Friday in Zion 111 , the Buddhist center in Washington said Saturday He was 57 Doije was the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa oi head of the older He was being treated at Ameucan Intel national Hospital in Zion for cancer and died of a heart attack following pneumonia His body will lie flown to Rumtek Monastery in Sikkim for traditional Vajrayana Buddhist rites, the tenter said WASHINGTON PIBRTNS PURE MILK. 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