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Show 4A The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday, January 20 Locations 17, 1986 Senator Calls for SDI Education Funds - Sen. Larry Thursday called for up to 600 million a year in support of engineering and other educational studies to develop President Reasysgans Star Wars missile-defenstem. This legislation is aimed at strengthening academic programs in WASHINGTON (UPI) Pressler, R-- D., e American colleges and universities necessary to meet the needs of the Strategic Defense Initiative," Pressler said at a news conference. Pressler asked the Office of Technology Assessment to study the longterm personnel requirements for developing and operating the space-basemissile-defens- e program. d Newly Formed Panel Will Study Elderly Who Live Alone in U.S. - WASHINGTON (AP) Elderly d Americans who live alone, a but growing population, are the focus of a new commission that will look at who they are, what problems they have and how best to improve their lives. The commission, headed by Dr. Robert N. Butler of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, will spend three years and $5 million on the project, which is financed by The Commonwealth Fund. All of us should have a deep personal concern about growing old and living alone," Butler said, noting that the over-8age group is the most rapidly growing segment of society in all industrialized countries. The commissions first step is to conduct a statistically accurate survey of elderly people who live alone. Of the 27 million people over 65 in the United States, an estimated 8 million live by themselves in their own 2.2 million homes. Some 28 percent little-studie- 1 5 j- - are poverty-stricke- Although hard information is sketchy, the Commission on Elderly fepple Living Alone painted a picture of the group: over half are over 75 years old, 78 percent are female, 45 percent are lonely and 45 percent are m poor health. In most cases, the older person is phijdless or has children residing in another city, far away. The growth in the population is indicated by figures showing that in 1970, elderly people on their own constituted 27 percent of the population. JRJrt figure is expected to jump to 40 ccent by 1995 X)ne factor is that women live long-Jatha- n men, and that age gap is exto acted increase. jltfany old people are happy on their own and Butler said the commission wants to find out what makes their lives special. Just as often, he said, elderly people on their own are short on money, depressed and perhaps sick. Gramm-Rudma- But he said there is a diminishing number of Americans studying engineering, physics, computer sciencies and related subjects and since 1981, foreign nationals have received more than half of U.S. doctoral degrees in engineering. Pressler said the loans, grants and various tax breaks in support of increased engineering and related studies could cost $400 million to $600 million a year. Pressler said he would support legislation to provide: Government support tax incentives and direct assistance to colleges and universities to buy advanced equipment. Fellowships, guaranteed loans and other incentives to encourage U.S. students to seek advanced - USDA functions will bear a total reduction of more than $1.26 billion. n g For example, said Robert E. Sherman, the department's deputy budget director, when farmers go to their local USDA offices to collect crop price support loans or apply for target price deficiency payments, theyll have 4.3 percent deducted from what they otherwise would get. In effect, Sherman said in an interview, the 1986 wheat price support of $2.40 per bushel will be shaved to $2.30. The deficiency payments, which make up the difference between market prices and the target also would be trimmed. ture Department programs, including how much farmers will get in federal benefits, officials said Thursday. Some employee cutbacks also will occur, probably resulting in reductions in federal meat and poultry inspection and conservation services to farmers. The law calls for a 4.3 percent domestic spending reduction in many government programs for fiscal 1986, which began last Oct. 1. price-suppo- rt Department budget officials said food stamps and programs are exempt, but other child-feedin- PS6tK lLC,)TTB 5AJW; - i (i ( n illjliT making plans to battle against having the dump in their state. The government still is settling on nua location for its first high-levclear dump, a project begun under orders from Congress to find a safe way to store deadly waste from atomic power plants. Final selection of the second site is several years away, and officials said if Congress eventually orders construction, the repository would begin operating in about 20 years. A dozen of the locations named Thursday were described as potentially acceptable sites for a second waste repository. high-levOf the primary sites, three are in Minnesota; two each in Maine, Virginia and North Carolina and one each in Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Georgia. The backup list includes five sites in Minnesota and one each in Georgia, Virginia and Wisconsin. The list of prospective sites for the first repository tentatively has been narrowed to three: Deaf Smith County, Texas, Yucca Mountain in Nevada and Hanford, Wash. A site near National Park in southern Utah has been designated an alternate in case one of the top three contenders for the first repository is eliminated. - The Ener- WASHINGTON (UPI) gy Department announced Thursday it has narrowed possible sites for a nuclear waste second high-levin seven states, 20 to locations dump all east of the Rockies, with a dozen tagged as primary choices. winnowed from an iniThe sites tial list of 235 rock formations in 17 were identified by the destates partments Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management as worthy of further intensive study. The locations are in Minnesota, Maine, Virginia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Georgia, and even before the formal announcement state officials began Will Crimp Farm Programs n WASHINGTON (AP) Spending cuts under the Gramm-Rud-malaw will mean reductions in most Agriculbudget-balancin- DOE Targets Seven States Site For 2nd Waste-Dum- p g Although the law applies to the current fiscal year, Sherman said its curb on USDA spending will affect the entire 1986 crop year, meaning corn and other commodities harvested next fall. The 1986 corn loan the amount farmers can borrow from USDA by using their crop as collatwould be effectively reeral duced to $1.84 per bushel from $1.92. The 1986 crop loan rates were announced earlier this week by Agriculture Secretary John R. Block as part of his decisions to carry out the new Food Security Act of 1985, the farm bill passed by Congress and signed by President Reagan just before Christmas. Sedative Will Leave Reagan Drowsy But Alert for Cancer Exam - WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan will receive mild sedatives Friday for his first major intestinal examination since his July cancer surgery but he will not be put to sleep," White House officials said Thursday. While Reagan is undergoing the colonoscopy a probe inserted into his anal canal to allow doctors to check there for any recurrence of cancer will be no transfer of power to Vice President George Bush, spokesman Larry Speakes said. He said Reagan would be given a mild anesthetic" for Fridays procedure at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Aide Mark Weinberg said it would be a combination of sedatives and analgesics. He will not be put to sleep," Wein- berg said. Speakes described the effect of the drugs as a sort of drowsiness. If you ask him a question, he could respond to it. We think the president will be fully capable of performing his duties," Speakes said. A decision will be made after the exam on whether Reagan will go to Camp David, Md for the weekend or remain overnight in the hospital, depending on discomfort that could be caused by the Block, hoping to make U.S. commodities more competitive in the world market, reduced the 1986 wheat loan rate to $2.40 from $3.30 per bushel last year, and corn to $1.92 per bushel from $2.55 in 1985, the maximum reduction allowed by the law. The Gramm-Rudmacuts will be on top of that. The USDA has the equivalent of e about 109,000 employees, but Sherman said he could not tell now how many might have to be furloughed or laid off. Most likely, he said, those would occur in the department's Food Safety and Inspection Service, which includes meat and poultry inspection, and the Soil Conservation Service, which provides technical assistance to farmers. n full-tim- The facilities will be used to isolate mostradioactive waste from the nations nuclear power plants. 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