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Show 2A The Sail Lake Trihu.ie, Thursday, 9S 16, January U.S. Installs 1st Leg of Deficit Law; Some Jobs, Programs Brace for Ax reduction will mean cuts in money for transit operation or construction. Meanwhile, at the Federal Aviation Administration, tight travel and luring restrictions have been imposed, although officials said plans to controllers lire additional and aviation inspectors as well as security specialists will not be affected. Some $67 9 million will be trimmed from the $1 4 billion federal student-ai- d program, including $9.6 million from guaranteed student-college- - Continued I rom l said lie felt the imposition of across A-- reductions was fair and ruts would aeeornplish in some popu- lar programs that Congress would never go along with otherwise. Baker also discounted fears of some economists that wholesale spending reductions caused by the law could new damage the economy. "I don't think is going to cutting spending cause a recession," he said. Whatever personnel cuts are made among civilian agencies, there wont be any in the military. That's because of a presidential decision to shield them from the cutbacks entirely. Also shielded will be the presiredent's "Star Wars search. But Robert W. Helm, the Defense Department's comptroller, said many key programs, including the 1 bomber, the MX missile and the Trident submarine will not be protected. "You're not going to be as ready tomorrow as you would have preferred to be, he told reporters, saying there would be less money for ammunition, spare parts, training and weapons purchases. Social Security payments also are exempted from the cutbacks, while Medicare and other health-car- e programs face reductions of only 1 percent. But few other federal programs were spared from the budget knife. Among the cuts outlined on report Wednesday in the OMB-CBwas a $142.5 million reduction in revenue sharing funds for local governments. Mass transit systems around the country likely will see their federal subsidies reduced. The Urban Mass Transportation Administrations budget of $3.7 billion will be cut by 4.3 percent, officials said. Bonnie Whyte, the agencys spokeswoman, said it has yet to be determined how the cuts will be distributed, but that most of the $159 million budget-balancin- c g ... backs In addition, students applying for the loans will be charged a loan origination fee of 5.5 percent, up from the current 5 percent fee. Some 68,000 students will lose federal scholarships called Fell Grants next fall as the family income cutoff drops by $1,000 to $24,000. The deficit projection of $220.5 bilan average between the OMB lion was nearly $50 and CBO estimates billion above the $172 billion target set by the Gramm-Rudmaact for - n Here's a Rundown Of Where Budget e space-defens- loans and $55 7 million from other student aid programs, under the cut- Ax Is Going to Fall - The WASHINGTON (UPI) following is a summary of the largest cuts, agency by agency, of the $11.7 billion required to be cut B-- from federal spending under the new Gramm-Rudma- balanced-budge- t n law: Defense $5.8 billion Legislative Agriculture Health, Human Serv. Education 0.1 billion Energy Interior Justice Labor 0.3 Transportation Treasury State 0.4 NASA 0.2 Office of Personnel 0.6 VA 0.2 Other 0.3 1.3 billion 1 billion 0.2 billion billion 0.2 billion 0.1 billion 0.2 billion 0.4 0.1 billion billion billion billion billion billion billion (Note: Numbers do not add because they are rounded and only the largest cuts are included.) fiscal 1986 The act requires progressively lower annual deficits until the budget is balanced in 1991 setting up a complex mechanism for automatic cuts if Congress is unable to meet the targets through the usual appropriations process. President Reagan is required under the law to order the cuts on Feb. 1, to take effect a month later. Congress could come up with an alternative package by then to achieve the same savings, but congressional leaders have said no such plan is being considered. The automatic cuts under the law are triggered for 1986 if the OMB-CBdeficit forecast exceeds the $172 billion target by $20 billion or more. Wednesdays report made official what congressional and administration budget officials have known all along: that there was no way to avoid the March 1 cuts short of a congressional order blocking them from taking place or court action. Even though the deficit estimate overshot the 1986 target by more than $48 billion, Congress limited the impact of this first round of cuts to a total of $11.7 billion. The CBO assumed the the nations economy would grow by 3.5 percent this year, while the OMB claimed it would accelerate by 4.0 percent. rm VA Spotlight 2 Inmates Hold j. 3 Hostage In Michigan YPS1LA.NTI, Mich. (AF - Two in- mates scheduled for transfer from one maximum-securitprison to another bolteo from their guards Wednesday and held two employees and another inmate hostage at knifepoint, authorities said. Two guards, a kitchen supervisor and an inmate working in the kitchen were taken hostage by the inmates, but they later released one of the guards unharmed after about 114 hours. The only other person in the cafeteria at the time, a civilian female worker, escaped, authorities y the Soviet Union and says freedoms they will have of sort writers there are still unsure what rule. Gorbachev's Mikhail under "1 was just in Lithuania a few weeks ago and the impression there was they were holding their breaths, the American playwright said would act more this week in New York. The hope there was that he that appara-- . could turn he if on was there liberally, but the skepticism tus around." The PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee says there are 441 writers either in jail, under house arrest or in labor camps around the world, with 140 of them in Latin America. Arthur Miller recently returned from said. The inmate worker first had been described as an accomplice, but prison officials later said he was a hostage. The inmates had demanded keys to the prison basement leading to steam tunnels beneath the Huron Valley Men's Facility, but the tunnels dont lead out of the prison and the demand was dropped, prison officials said. The hostages had not been harmed and three negotiators were talking to the inmates by walkie-talkisaid Gail Light, spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Corrections. State police put a special weapons team on standby and the Federal Aviation Administration banned flights over the area. Light said Wednesdays incident apparently was touched off by the frustration of convicted armed robber Namon Travis, 40, who failed to quash a transfer across state to the State Prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson, where he had been incarcerated once before. He Travis) claimed to have an enemy there and tried to talk his way out of the transfer. When he. was unsuccessful, he went into the yard and tried to mobilize prisoners, she said. An alarm was sounded for the prisoners to end their break and return inside, but Travis and Elvis Williams, 31, who also was scheduled to transfer to Jackson, dashed for the cafeteria, Light said. , -- Billy Crystal will join fellow comedians Whoopi Goldberg and benefit to raise money for Robin Williams as hosts of a three-hou- r ' health care for the nations homeless. sub-Box Home Office 29 to ; March live be will broadcast show The corporation made scribers, said officials of Comic Relief, a concerned ! in entertainment the and others of comedians industry up . with the plight of the poor and homeless. "It is most exciting to see the support from the comedy community I " crystallizing for this important benefit to raise funds for the nation's Comic of said this Relief, poor and homeless, Bob Zmuda, president week during a news conference in Los Angeles. non-prof- it Tribune Wire Services Gorbachev Offers Plan Reagan Says Hes Open to To Scrap All Missiles Russian Plan -- A-- l arms talks in Geneva that collapsed when the Russians walked out in November 1983. Reagan proposed in 1981 that the United States would abandon plans to missiles deploy new medium-rang- e in Europe if the Russians dismantled medium-rang- e their missiles, a came to be known as that proposal the zero option. Moscow, however, insisted that it should maintain to counter the 162 nuenough clear missiles in the British and French arsenals. The talks faltered, the Americans began deploying new missiles and the Russians walked out. medium-rang- 00 e SS-2- 0 SS-2- Associate loserphotn Caution, Livers Crossing It looks like a migrating herd of giant slugs has found its way onto the Kennedy Freeway, but the large, dark lumps are really just some of the 1,800 pounds of beef livers that spilled when the back of Charles Matts truck came open. The position outlined by Gorbachev Wednesday seemed to incorporate aspects of the "zero option in calling for the elimination of all Soviet and American rockets first, without any regard in the first stage for the British and French arms. But the experts cautioned that Gorbachevs phrasing was sufficiently broad to allow various interpreta- - Astronauts Stow Gear for Florida Landing SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) -Columbia's hard-luc- k astronauts, 25 days late getting up, one day early coming down, and unable to meet all their scientific goals, stowed equipment Wednesday to prepare for the shuttle's first Florida landing in nearly a year. The $150 million flight was set to end after four days in orbit with a landing at 8:28 a m. EST Thursday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission had been scheduled to last until Friday, but National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials decided to end it early to avoid chancy weather on Friday and Saturday. The Thursday landing also will help NASA keep to a tight schedule that calls for year. 15 shuttle launches this ; mogul), Jimmy Dean, the country singer who became a sausage sum for bad has again been ordered to pay his brother a mouthing him. A federal court jury in Dallas ordered Dean to pay $500,000 to hu brother, Don Dean, for mental anguish in violating a 1980 agreement not to talk about him. The singer had to pay his brother $148,000 under the original agreement that said Jimmy wouldn t talk about his differ-- , ) ences with Don and the way he ran the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. In the second suit, Don Dean claimed Jimmy violated their agree-- ; ment by talking to at least eight people, including a newspaper report- er. Reached at his Dallas home after the verdic t, Jimmy said, "I don't have a brother, and declined to answer questions. e, Continued From OMAHA, Neb. Jimmy Dean Arthur Miller That schedule already has been affected by the seven launch delays that kept Columbia on the ground 25 days past its original flight date of Dec. 18. NASA announced Wednesday that the next shuttle mission, originally set to begin Jan. 22, now will come no earlier than Jan. 25. The Kennedy landing will be the first at the Florida space base since a landing there last April resulted in two blown tires and a damaged brake system. The problems resulted from the use of differential braking to steer the shuttle on the concrete runway. Since then, a new nose wheel steering system has been installed, then tested in landings at Edwards Air Force Base in California. One major experiment of the flight will be conducted during the landing itself. An infrared camera mounted in the shuttle's tail will measure temperatures on top of Columbia while it burns through the atmosphere on its way back to Earth. Mission commander Robert Gibson and his six crewmates spent most of Wednesday packing equipment and turning off electronics to prepare for the landing. haul that included installation some new electronics. of were all anticipating unknowns in Columbia because of the massive modifications done on it, said Greene. But it's as trouble-fre- e a vehicle as we've seen. We Greene said individual experiments in a materials-processinpackage were a disappointment. The package included a furnace that was to melt metals and other materials, but the astronauts repeatedly were unable to make it work. g They did talk briefly with Costa Rica president Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez. The call was in honor of asa natronaut Franklin Chang-Diative of Costa Rica who is the first Hispanic-America- n to fly in space. Despite the abbreviated mission, flight director Jay Green said, I feel we had a good flight. It was the first flight for Columbia since it underwent an over The astronauts also reported the failure of a light image intensifier that was to gather unique photographs of Halleys comet. Astronaut George Nelson spent hours trying to repair the intensifier but finally had to give up. tions, and that dismantling of French and British arsenals was envisioned in later stages of his program. Western diplomats thought it likely that Gorbachevs purpose in including new language on the medium-rang- e missiles in a speech otherwise so broad and general might be to elicit a preliminary response from the West before making the proposal concrete or specific at the Geneva nego- tiations. In addition to outlining a deadline for disarmament, Gorbachev said the Soviet Union would extend for another three months the moratorium on underground nuclear tests that was announced last summer. The Russians had made continuation of their ban past d Jan. 1 conditional on American participation, but Washington refused on the ground that it had weapons to test. Gorbachev depicted the three-montextension as a gesture of good will, but warned that the Soviet Union cannot display unilateral restraint with regard to nuclear tests h By Norman D. Sandler United Press International WASHINGTON On the eve of a new round of arms talks, President Reagan said Wednesday parts of a fresh Soviet plan for eliminating nuan offer that took clear arsenals the administration by surprise "may be constructive. "I welcome the Soviets' latest response and hope that it represents a helpful further step in the process," Reagan said. We, together with our allies, will give careful study to General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's , suggestions. The tentative U.S. response to Gorbachevs three-poin- t plan to eliminate nuclear weapons by the turn of the century came hours after senior U.S. officials blamed the arms con- trol deadlock on a failure by the Kremlin to offer anything that is worthwhile." With U.S. and Soviet negotiators set to open their fourth round of talks Thursday in Geneva, the Gorbachev offer came as both sides engaged in a final bit of public relations rivalry worthy of the November summit. Steps to Disarmament - MOSCOW (UPI) The following are the three steps proposed by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to eliminate all nuclear weapons by the year 2000, as reported by the official Soviet news agency Tass. Stage 1: Within the next five to eight years, the U.S.S.R. and the United States will reduce by one half the nuclear arms that can reach each other's territory. On the remaining delivery vehicles of this kind, each side will retain no more than 6,000 warheads. Such a reduction is possible only if both sides renounce the development and deployment of space weapons. Stage 2: Should start no later than 1990 and last for five to seven years. The other nuclear powers will begin nuclear disarmament. Once the Soviets and Americans complete the 50 percent reduction in arms, another radical step is taken: all nuclear powers eliminate their tactical nuclear arms. Will begin no later than this stage, the elimination remaining nuclear weapons will be completed. By the end qf 1999, there will be no nuclear weapons on Earth. A universal accord will be drawn up that such weapons should never again come' Stage 3: 1995. At of all into being. Jackson Tries to Deliver a List of Gripes To Meese, But Is Turned Away at D - WASHINGTON (AP) The Rev. Jesse Jackson was turned away at the door of the Justice Department on Wednesday as he sought to present Attorney General Edwin Meese III with a long list of complaints against the Reagan administrations record. Jackson led a group of about 250 marchers from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library to the department on the 57th anniversary of King's birth. They picketed and chanted "What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! as Jackson, a e King aide, sought unsuccessfully to meet with Meese. "We are assembled here," said Jackson, "not only to remind the nation of the unfinished agenda of justice in our country but also to focus national attention on the serious assaults upon Dr. Kings legacy by the civil-righ- one-tim- Associated The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a long list of grievances in hand, is blocked from civil-righ- t ts Pre lo$erphoto entering the Justice Department offices because he didnt have an appointment. 4 ts present administration of this department that seeks to turn the clock back and eliminate the gains that have been won over the past 30 years. For over a quarter-centurthe Justice Department, under Republican and Democratic administrations, sought to protect the policies enunciated in Brown the Supreme Court decision banning segregated school systems as well as legislated in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Hie Voting Rights Act of 1965," Jackson said. "The Justice Department, under the Reagan administration, has failed to carry out its responsibility," he said. Jackson was met at the Justice Department door by a squad of uniformed police and Amelia L. Brown, assistant director of public affairs, who told him he could not enter the building without an appointment. She offered to take his written grievances and relay them to the attorney general, but Jackson refused saying he would not deal with a person. He demanded-tspeak with someone directly from Mceses office. After Jackson had stood his ground in a crush of police officers, supporters and reporters for more than 3( minutes, Steven Calabresi, a specia! assistant to Meese, appeared at the public-rel- ations c door. Later in the day, Meese told reporters, "Well see if we can set up a meeting with Rev. Jackson within the department, based on what's 'n hs letter." But the attorney general declined to say whether he would be willing to see Jackson personally. 11 depends on what the subject mattei is," he said. |
