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Show If King Jr.'s Birthday Salt Lake City, Vol. 232, No. 112 Itah Monday Morning January King 20, 19H6 Budget Battle Faces CoagresB By Steven Komarow Associated Press Writer pass enough cutbacks n creases to meet gets. or tax - WASHINGTON The debate over raised to new guns versus butter intensity by the sweeping Gramm-Rudma- n dominates budget cuts the agenda along with tax revision as the second session of the 99th Congress opens this week. The lawmakers will be operating for the first time under the Gramm-Rudmalaw they passed last month, which mandates deep spending cuts if Congress and the president fail to n in- tar- deficit-reductio- Government agencies are already laboring to make the $11.7 billion cut required on March 1, which would still leave a deficit of about $208 billion. Far more onerous is the prospect of more than $50 billion in cuts to meet the fiscal 1987 deficit target of $144 billion. The 1987 fiscal year begins Oct. 1, so the decisionmaking will be spot lighted in the campaigns for 34 Senate and 435 House seats. Gramm-Rudmato reach a balanced budget by fiscal 1991, cuts a wide range of programs, and thats going to be very unfair to some programs and some groups, said Senate Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd, Rep. Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, on Sunday released a report project- will take ing that Gramm-Rudma- n more out of military personnel and readiness than out of ware. hard- high-tec- h Over the next five years, Gramm Rudman will give us weapons, but without all the people or repair funds needed to man and maintain them, the Wisconsin Democrat said. Gramm-Rudmacuts don't hit Social Security or welfare benefits, veterans compensation, or interest on the national debt. But foreign aid, law enforcement, air traffic control and countless other government tasks are being cut back, and shielding one n area from cuts would mean other areas get hit harder. President Reagan helped push through the House a major tax overhaul slashing individual and corporate tax rates while eliminating or reducing some deductions and credits. The administration will try in the Senate to take away some of what the president considers anti-busine- bias in the House plan. Gramm-Rudmanamed for its sponsors. Sen. Phil Gramm, SeeA-2- , Column 1 Jr.'s Birthday D.C. Notables Will Retire This Session Speaker of House Leads Exodus By Steve Gerstel United Press International WASHINGTON Led by House - Speaker Thomas O'Neill, for nine years second in line of succession to the presidency, a pantheon of politi- Bells Ring for Humanity On Eve of King Holiday By The Associated Press South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu stood Sunday in the pulpit once occupied by Martin Luther King Jr. and promised a campaign of civil disobedience against apartheid laws. Tutu was the keynote speaker at an international conference honoring the slain civil rights leader and civil dispreacher of obedience on the eve of the first national holiday marking his birth. If the South African government does not change its racial policies, Tutu said he would lead a campaign of civil disobedience against unjust laws. Our people are peaceful to a fault, he said. We are stupid, for we keep going up against an government. They use tear gas, bullets, dogs and whips. Representatives of 40 nations attended the conference at Atlantas Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was pastor until his assassination in 1968. A candlelight memorial service was planned Sunday night at Kings tomb in Atlanta, in advance non-viole- KAV; c.TIGtR GRAPHICS of Mondays official holiday. His widow, Coretta Scott King, was to place a wreath at the tomb Mon- day. Mondays scheduled observances included Living the Dream, a musical celebration by several top recording stars and others in Washington, New York City and Atlanta. Performers will include such people as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Quincy Jones, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Patti Labelle and more, with Harry Belafonte and Bill Cosby as s. I think he would have viewed this holiday as something to be celebrated in the cause of humanity, not as Martin Luther Kings birthday, said Belafonte, who was a close friend of King. I think he would like to see his work continued, not simply remembered. The program will be recorded in all three cities and edited for a two-honationally televised special on the same night as a fundraiser for the Martin Luther King Social Jr. Center for Change in Atlanta. Non-Viole- Radio stations throughout GUATEMALA CITY (AP) - Au- twin-engin- temporary morgue said planes brought the bodies of 33 identified victims there Saturday and late Sunday. They said a Guatemalan air force plane flew to the capital Sunday night with the remains of 42 victims that have not been identified. Relatives identified and claimed the bodies of the 18 other victims at the Santa Elena airport, according to the officials. The airline earlier put the death toll at 90, including six Americans, but Sunday it said two other Ameri- - Todays Chuckle Show me someone who claims they have an open mind and Ill show you someone whose mind should be closed for repairs. two-minu- A parade was planned in Birmingham, Ala., to Kelly Ingram monument Phrk, where a to King will be unveiled and where King spoke and marched in the early 1960s. His dream liberated Birmingham from itself and began a new day of love mutual respect and cooperation, the inscription on the statue reads in part. The King holiday symbolizes that weve finally recognized formally what our Constitution recognized legally: that all men are created equal, said Ramsey County Municipal Judge Alberto Miera in St. Paul. However, Miera cautioned: Were naive if we dont realize we still dont treat all people equally. cans and another Guatemalan were among the victims. The cause of the crash has not been determined. The transfer of the bodies to Guatemala City began Saturday Night, but on Sunday rain limited visibility to 300 feet and prevented flights to or from the northern zone most of the QURAISH BORDER POST, South Palestinian forces Yemen (AP) heading for Aden to try to arrange a cease-fir- e were barred from crossing this frontier post Sunday, and there were indications rebels may have seized control of South Yemen in this Marxist countrys civil war. day. Diplomatic sources based along the Persian Gulf said Sunday there were signs that President Ali Nasser Mohammed had been ousted, basing their assessment on reports received from their Aden missions and a transmission on the government radio wave length describing the president as irresponsible. But the British Broadcasting Corp. and an Israeli television monitor said Guatemalan air force captain said the bodies of many of the victims were mutilated or burned beyond recognition, and they were brought to the capital in hopes relatives could make identifications. U.S. Consul Dora Trujillo spid two recovered bodies were believed to be Americans, but positive identification would require further tests. of the 99th Congress. The list of notables includes a for- mer presidential candidate, a former vice presidential nominee, the last of one of America's great political families, Tip ONeill publican liberals left on the national scene and one of President Reagans closest friends. One other, Sen. Gary Hart, is ending his Senate career as the prelude to an almost certain run for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomi- one of the few Re- - nation. In addition to ONeill, the most prominent House members who have decided not to seek another term are Rep. Parren Mitchell, long a leading figure in the House Black Caucus, and veteran Reps. John William Whitehurst, and Marjorie Holt, But it is the Senate that faces an exodus of some of its most prominent, most colorful lumnaries. Going of their own free will into retirement are Sens. Russell Long ThomBarry Goldwater, Charles Mathias, as Eagleton, Paul Laxalt, John and Hart. East, ONeill, 73, has been second in succession to the presidency since he became speaker in 1977. He follows See A-- Column 4 Rebels May Have Control In S. Yemen, Reports Say Crews Recover Bodies of 93 Victims In Guatemalas Worst Air Disaster thorities recovered the bodies of all 93 people who died in Guatemalas worst air crash, and flew most of them back to the capital by Sunday night. Eight Americans were among the victims. e A Caravelle jet operated by the private airline Aerovias crashed Saturday as it approached the Santa Elena airport, about 150 miles north of Guatemala City, while flying tourists to the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal. All aboard were killed. Officials at a hanger at the Guatemala City airport that is serving as a Rhode Island agreed to simulcast a excerpt of Kings I Have a Dream speech, to be followed by noon church bell ringing throughout the state. Churches also were asked to ring their bells at noon in Minnesota, where Gov. Rudy Perpich was to unveil a sculpture of King on the Capitol steps in St. Paul. cians are ending their careers with the second session A Todays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity chance of showers. Details, B-- Fog, 3 Mohammed was on his way back to the capital, Aden, after flying to Ethiopia Saturday. A radio station which said it was transmitting from Aden on behalf of an unidentified new leadership broadcast a communique Sunday indicating that rebels had ousted Mohammed after a week of fighting. , The Bahrain-base- d Gulf News Agency quoted the radio as accusing Mohammed of irresponsibility and dictatorship and said he had tried p physically liquidate members of the governing Yemeni Socialist Party Political Bureau and to undermine state institutions. Frontier guards at Quraish Border See Column 4 A-- Loss Up to $5 Million Winning $16 Million Was Easy , Collectings Not By James Litke Associated Press Writer If he lives to be 100, CHICAGO Frank Maggio will never forget the weekend he scratched off $10 million in winning contest entries. If Beatrice Companies Inc. has to pay off, it may never forget Frank Maggio. Ive already learned that noth- ing is sacred, that money changes everything, said Maggio, 23, a sales representative from Decatur, Ga. Tve also learned it's easy to spend what you don't have. What Maggio doesn't have right now is any of the more than $16 million he claims he earned by breaking the pattern of the scratch-of- f cards in Beatrices "Monday Night Winning Line-u- p contest and completing 4,018 winning entries. Breaking the contest was the easy part; collecting on it could be tough. Beatrice canceled the contest two weeks ahead of schedule, triggering a lawsuit by Maggio. "As soon as Mr. Maggio indicated hed won millions and millions of dollars," said Bill Blodgett, West Coast spokesman for Beatrice, "we knew we had a problem." Maggio, who works for Procter 4 Gamble Inc., Beatrices direct competitor, started playing the when he game in a Beatrice off 50 cards grabbed display rack at a grocery store. Although he didnt crack the contest design for another month, mid-Octob- Maggio said he detected a pattern in that first batch within hours and won a color television set. Beatrice canceled the contest Nov. 29, nearly two weeks before the Dec. 6 deadline set on the back of the game cards. The promotion offered prizes ranging from food coupons to a Super Bowl trip for or cash eight in a private jet equivalents. In a widely distributed newspaper advertisement, the Chicago-base- d food and home products conwas glomerate said Line-u- p being canceled because the company had learned it could be manipulated. The revelation came from Maggio. The game required players to scratch the cards surface to correctly pick the winners and the numbers of touchdowns and field goals in eight televised Monday night National Football League contests from Oct. 7 through Nov. 25. Three million game cards were to be distributed. After detecting the handful of patterns In his first batch of cards, Maggio feverishly began collecting them, grabbing cards off display racks in stores, writing Beatrice for more and asking the company's sales reps for leftovers. By Nov. 11, he'd won three more TVs. The game had become an obsession. On Nov. 16, Maggio had been out See A-- Column 5 Fire Sweeps Belmont Barn, Killing 45 Racehorses - A fire SunELMONT, N.Y. (AP) day swept through a Belmont Park Racetrack barn where a sprinkler system had broken down just days earlier, killing 45 thoroughbred horses worth up to $5 million and injuring two firefighters, authorities said. "It looked like a fireball in the middle of the barn. It was tough to make a decision not to charge in there and try to get the horses out, said Assistant Fire Chief John Loser. Flames shot 50 feet into the air from the barn and it took 200 firefighters more than an hour to contain the early morning blaze, said Fire Chief James Sna-deck- Most of the horses suffocated in their stalls where they had been tied up for the night, said Loser. "They didn't have a chance, added Gene Martello, 34, a horse trainer who works in a neighboring barn. Two horses were rescued by grooms. One was Pleasant Sea, an offspring of Pleasant Colony, which won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness in 1981. One track spokesman said four of the dead horses were also offspring of Pleasant Colony. Two firefighters, one suffering from smoke Inhalation and the other with minor burns, were taken to Franklin General Hospital, Snadeeky said. They were treated and released. Track officials Issued a statement estimating the loss at $1 million for the barn and from $500,000 to $5 million for the horses. Nassau County po lice officer Howard Burtt estimated the loss at up to $10 million. The track is the annual home of the Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, horse racings most prestigious honor. The horses were among more than 2,000 kept in 64 e barns at the complex on Long Island, although the track's racing season is over. The fire was first spotted by a night watchman who saw flames coming out of a stall in the middle of the barn, said John Keenan, vice president of operations for the New York Racing Association. Keenan said the sprinkler systems pipes burst last week when the temperature fell to near zero and "would have been repaired today or tomorrow." The fire department knew of the problem and security had been increased around the barn, Keenan said. A guard had checked the barn 10 minutes before the fire was reported, he added. The barn contained a hay loft and Keenan said it was possible the hay caught fire through spontaneous combustion. The cause of the fire was undetermined, but authorities found "nothing that indicates it would be suspicious," said Detective Lt. William Gutersloh, head of the Nassau County arson squad. Horse owners Indicated "a good portion of the horses were not insured, and they will have substantial losses," Gutersloh said. 430-acr- 4 United Prtw ntrrKitlonol Phdo Track workers stand amid the rubble Sunday after an early morning stable fire at Belmont Park killed 45 racehorses. 9 ' m Jr c |