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Show a k t si r 1 u ti 11 c Vol. 232. No. 108 Salt Lake Lit). U Vsf Log of DeficiiLaw Some Jobs. Programs To Feel W Blade By Turn Haum A I Economics Writer - A $117 billion installment toward a balanced federal budget was triggered under a WASHINGTON lir.st new law Wednesday. paving the way fur cutbacks in hundreds of programs and a near hiring freeze. Some federal officials said layoffs of federal workers also were a possiHowever, budget director bility. James C. Miller III called on agency heads to look for other ways to make deficit-reductio- - the required reductions including cutting down on travel expenses and not filling vacancies. The administration's firm position is that we're going to meet these challenges in a way that minimizes disruptions." Miller told a news conference. The cuts were set in motion by the issuance of a joint report by Miller's Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office projecting that the fiscal 1986 deficit would soar to $220.5 billion $8.6 billion above last years record flow of federal red ink. Miller said he doubted these cutbacks amounting to 4.3 percent for domestic programs and 4.9 percent for the military on March 1 would result in widespread disruptions or anything "like closing the Washington Monument or draining the Tidal Basin" here. But other administration officials said there would be furloughs at some agencies, that some workers might be encouraged to take early retirements and that a plan was being studied for reduced hours in national parks. Despite possible disruptions. Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III I'tah Thursday Morning-Janu- r Hi. 1080 ary O Gorbachev Proposes Timetable To Eliminate All Nuclear Arms By Serge Schmemann New York Times Writer MOSCOW Mikhail S. Gorbachev proposed a broad timetable Wednesday lor the elimination of all nuclear arms by the end of the century and announced a ol the Soviet three-montextension moratorium on nuclear h tests. But the Soviet leader declared that his disarmament process could start only if the l.'mted States joined in renouncing the testing and deployment of what he called "space strike weapons." That is the Soviet reference to President Reagan's research defenses gram on space-base- pro- d Reagan has repeatedly insisted that the space defense program, popularly known as "Star Wars." is nut negotiable, and the dispute has blocked substantive movement at the Geneva arms talks (In Washington, Reagan said Kenyan Retulion, A-- he 2 welcomed the Soviet proposal and would study it carefully.) Gorbachev described his proposal as the most important of several foreign policy decisions made by the Politburo at the start of 1986. The Soviet leader's proposal, read an announcer on television and published by the press agency Tass. was issued on the eve of the resumption of the negotiations, and Western diplomats said they saw it in large part as an attempt to seize the other nuclear powers to join in later stages The proposal broadly covered all aspects of disarmament and was based for the most part on existing Soviet positions Diplomats said it differed from previous Soviet calls for total nuclear disarmament largely in fixing stages and deadlines tor the process b public-relation- initiative in the talks. The nuclear plan proposed by Gorbachev consisted of three broad stages that would culminate in the year 20(10 with a "universal accord that such weapons should never again come into being " It called for the Soviet I'nion and the United States to start the process this year and for foi the elimination missiles in Europe, however. Goibachev made what Western experts thought could be a significant departure from earlici Soviet positions In his of A-- Column e By Douglas L. Parker Tribune Political Editor A judicial reform bill in the Utah Legislature calling for a new appeals court can go a long way toward healing the courts' chief sore spot, the state's top judge told lawmakers Wednesday. ready to invade the last rampant area of delay the appellate said Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon R. Hall. He addressed the Senate and House of Representatives separately in an annual message sizing up problems of the third branch of government. Accompanying him were the other justices, all dressed in their judicial robes: I. Daniel Stewart, ratios are too low and the school fails to meet required standards for active treatment, state Department of Social Services Director Norman G Madden No. large their nuclear arsenals The stance appeared to resemble the offer that Reagan mad", and tin Soviet negotiators rejetted, at the .see Column A-- 1 Richard C. Howe. Christine M. Dur ham and Michael D. Zimmerman. The chief justice cited as "signifi cant and very positive" a bill proposed by the Governor's Task Force on the judicial Article, although not every task force recom- - Tribune Stott Photo bv Frank Porschatts Utah Supreme Court Justice Gordon R. Hall addresses problems of backlog and court delays in his State of the Judiciary speech to lawmakers in state Senate. high-cou- Angus told legislators Wednesday. Some buildings also were found to be deficient by federal Health Care Financing Administration officials who oversee the Medicaid program. Mr. Angus explained at Wednesdays Health and Social Services Appropriations Subcommittee meeting. alternative to decertification, Mr. Angus recommends reducing the school's population of 685 by As an nearly 300 patients over the next 3.5 years. Those individuals would be moved into community residential programs. The director told legislators it will $2 million in state funds for the move. The total cost is estimated a; $5.5 million, but the federal government would pay $3.5 million. The training school was initially-auditeby the state Department of cost More Legislature: A-- l; B-1.- 2; I)-- 1 Health on behalf of the federal Health Care Financing Administration. Following that audit the school agreed last December that Medicaid dollars wouldnt be received for new patients until federal standards were met. But Health Care Financing Administration officials in the Denver regional office didn't accept that arrangement, Mr. Angus explained in an interview. "They didn't identify a whole lot of things that the Health Department hadn't already found, he said. "But they are a lot more strict in their interpretation of regulations." The State Division of Services to the Handicapped, located in the Department of Social Services, has been moving mentally retarded individuals from the training school in ac cordance with its master plan ready. al- The school population of 750 last year is down to 685 now, Mr. Angus said. But rather than moving 64 patients annually as originally planned, the school would move nearly 100 annually under the new plan if the federal government accepts it. Because the school must lower ratios to meet standards, Mr. Angus said the same staff would be maintained active-treatme- staff-to-patie- See A-- Column 1 mendation reflects the views of the judiciary. The task force bill opens the door to several administrative changes in the court system, but its chief feature inter is a proposed new seven-judgmediate court of appeals to cut into a growing case backlog piling up before the Supreme Court. e Those currently filing appeals in nonpriority civil cases must wait between two to three years before they will be scheduled for Supreme Court oral argument, Justice Hall noted. Projections based on population growth suggest that such delay may escalate to seven years by 1990, hi added. Reflecting on the task force's proposed changes. Justice Hall concluded: "I'm persuaded by the data pre- sented that case disposition at the appellate level by 1990 can be re- See Column 1 A-- Federal Holiday Monday 1 Dull as Dirt: Group Picks The Top 10 - ROCHESTER. N.Y. (AP) For being "maddeningly down to earth," sports commentator and former football coach John Madden has been given the No. 1 spot on the list of (he 10 Dullest Americans" of 1985. The list that includes Andy Rooney. Joan Collins, Frank Perdue, Brooke Shields, New York Mayor Edward I. Koch, wrestler " k Hogan and comic strip char-ac- t t Ziggy was announced Wednesday by J. D. "Dull" Stewart, chairman of the bored of the International Dull Folks Unlimited, a organization based in Rochester Stewart defines dull' people as "people who know how to relax and enjoy life while at the same lime doing an honest day's work for an honest day's pay" and who are intuitively aware of the Dull Folks motto: "Enthusiasm wanes, but dullness is forever." r Sports announcer Brent and Sen. Jesse Helms, R N.C., were honored for having dull bruins and Halley's comet and the Geneva summit earned special dullness awards. In a new award this year, the group selected a "Most Exciting American" of 1985 because "dull people - by virtue of their relaxed. unassuming demeanors -have a much better understanding of what constitutes an excit" ing person The group inked author and radio personality Garrison Keillor lor the inaugural honor which s pays tribute to a person who authentic excitement in contrast to the phony, glitzy, President Pays Homage To Martin Luther King By United Press International The men who marched beside Martin Luther King Jr. marked his 57th birthday Wednesday with vivid memories of how the "drum major for justice" scorned violence, and President Reagan told schoolchildren that King made the United States a better place to live. "It takes guts not to hit back when someone is hitting you." Reagan told I liilm. Itnncmlicr: II-- 1 . Mus-burge- "te-fleet- kind " At the same time, he said. Britain and France would pledge not to en pro-ce.- Training School May Lose $14 Million in Medicaid Funds Staff-to-patie- " "There can be no question that delay is the most pernicious aspect of our judicial system and Utah is 1 By Carol Sisco Tribune Staff Writer The Utah State Training School has until Feb. 22 to comply with federal standards or face decertification and loss of its yearly $14 million Medicaid allocation. weapons Chief Justice Urges Utah Court Reform - See proposals medium-rang- Outlining the first stage of his pin posed program. Got bachev called tin the "complele elimination of intci mediute-- i ange missiles of tin U S S R and the U S.A. in the European zone, both ballistic and cruise mis siles. as a first step toward ridding the European continent of nucleai children at a school named for King in Washington, "and he had that kind of guts " - - Next Monday is the Jan. 20 federal holiday in honor of King's birthday, but some states made Wednesday the official holiday and ceremonies marking his actual birthday were held from the state capitol in Georgia to an Air Force chapel on the island of Guam. Reagan, who once strongly opposed any federal holiday in honor of King, told the students at Martin Luther King Jr. elementary school in Washington that "our country is different and belter" because of King. Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, one of King's closest lieutenants in the Civil Rights Movement of he 1960s, said "I think of him as being a very reluctant leader. It was not until 1963 that Martin began to take the responsibility that had been thrust on him "I think its nothing short of miraculous that when blacks came out after Martin's home had been bombed, that he tinned them hack to their homes and told them to take their guns back. "lie said We re not going to do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, Young recalled on the UBS " We're Morning News going to re deem the soul of America If King had not been slain in Memphis on April 4, 1968, "I think we would have a different world," Young said. King's fellow Nobel laureate, South African Bishop Desmond T utu, said in Philadelphia that there are parallels, and vast diffferences, between his fight and Kings. This is the first year King's birthday is a legal federal holiday, and trouble is brewing in some of the many localities refusing to honor it. Black leaders are threatening to demonstrate in some cities where the Monday holiday will not be observed. uniTea Press inTernaitonai Photo President Reagan, marking 57th birthday of the drum major for justice, speaks to r children Wednesday at a school in named for Martin ington King Jr. Wash-Luthe- Khadafy Says Reagan Is Hitler No. 2, Calls for His Trial as War Criminal - Moammar TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Khadafy said Wednesday an international court should try President Reagan as a war criminal for his "policy of aggression" toward Libya and other Arab nations. Reagan imposed economic sanctions on Khadafys government last week, accusing it of harboring the terrorist group the United States blames for the Dec. 27 airport massacres at Rome and Vienna, in which five Americans and 14 other people were killed. "There is no difference between Nazi imperialism and the imperialism led by Ronald Reagan," the radical Libyan leader told a cheering meeting of one of the 1.411(1 local political groups he calls Basic People's Congresses. "Reagan is Hitler No. 2'" Khadafy declared "There is no reason why the world should continue to regard Hitler as a war criminal and seek out fugitive Nazis, while leaving Reagan unpunished. Reagan, too. should be tried as a war criminal." His voice rose to a screaming pitch at times, and at others was deadly calm. It was the second night in a row that Khadafy delivered a violent speech broadcast live on state radio and television. He called Tuesday fir a "general mobilization of the Libyan people" and threatened Libyan economic sanctions against the United States On both occasions, he said the danger of a direct military confrontation liad temporarily receded and the conflict had moved to a "political and economic front." n Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers on A-,- He said Wednesday night, repeating a previous threat, that he would spread war through the Mediterranean if the United States attacks. Superior military strength cannot defeat "the spirit of the nation" and the "readiness for sacrifice." he said. "We can swim in the sea with mines strapped to our bodies," travel in mine-ladeboats and "turn into explosive charges in the Mediterranean." The meeting hall in Tripoli appeared to be filled with supporters, who constantly interrupted with cheers, applause and rhythmic chants of slogans that seemed orchestrated n anti-America- n Terrorist actions, Khadafy said, "are acts of legitimate against the American and Israeli policy of aggression. We Arabs are ready to defend ourselves against any intensification of the war." Today's Forecast e Chuckle Today's someone who thinks Diplomat twice before saying nothing 3 . . Salt Lake City and vicinity Fog gv and cold. Highs in the 30s; lows near 20. Details, . |
