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House rejects speaker’s plan for deficit cuts WASHINGTON (UPI) — House lead- ers lost a crucial test vote today on a 123 billion tax and spending plan denounced as “flimflam" by critics who said they prefer an alternative being drafted in talks with the White House 3 Lawmakers voted against the debate rules ignoring a plea from to back Speaker Jim Wright the measure as “honest to God deficit reduction” “What has been said here Mr Speaker is there ought not be a quick rush to judgment" House Republican leader Robert Michel ll said after the vote Four dozen Democratic defectors 217-20- R-I- ' joined 169 Republicans in voting down the rule and blocking consideration of the deficit plan Critics from both parties said they were afraid action on the plan would interfere with development of a compromise package being negotiated privately by lawmakers and White House aides and send confusing signals to Wall Street which has been troubled by the high deficit rI bow to the majority That's part of the business of this chamber" Wright said after the vote He sent the legislation back to the House Rules Committee with instructions to break off controversial welfare reform provisions that some lawmakers said did not belong in the deficit reductionpackage House leaders said they would try again Friday to debate the measure During debate Michel complained that the bill was put together “in a flimflam sort of way" ana complained that the timing of today’s debate was a mistake because it could interfere with negotiations between the White House and Congress to find a compromise deficit reduction formula' “This entire process should be linked" agreed Rep Edward Madigan I1L “We should allow the summit process to continue" a chairman Rep William Gray of the House Budget Committee disD-P- agreed 1 “We come today to put a downpayment on deficit reduction" he said “There is no better time than now for us to begin a deficit reduction program" “It isn’t perfect" Wright said “but it is deficit reduction and it’s the first chance we’ve had It’s deeds instead of words" The negotiations on a compromise now in their third day continued even while the House conducted preliminary debate on its own proposal Participants have consistently reported progress but Chairman Jamie books are a police matter in Hartland — a practice that has come under fire measures The deficit reduction effort required under the revised balanced budget law is seen by many as one way of easing the financial worries that last week touched off the sharpest drop in Wall Street history House Democrats say approval of the package is vital but Republicans argue that lawmakers should concentrate instead on the budget summit with the White House which began this ed week “It’s tragic that this bill is Coming up (now)" said Rep John Duncan in a preliminary Rules tee meeting Wednesday Gray countered “It does not in any way shape or form bipartisan budget negotiations with the administration" nn Commit- interfere with the going on Gray and others see the measure as a backup plan in case negotiators are unable to meet their deadlines in producing a compromise acceptable to both Congress and Reagan T'eiTTchroppHeraiTjourndl Lawmakers and top Reagan aides reported slow progress in their assessments of a range of deficit-cuttin-g suggestions including a freeze on snack for Spuds gov- ed production reactors confinement systems might not be able to prevent deadly radioactive material from being released into the environment “There have been no severe accidents at the production reactors" noted the National Academy of Sciences study on the trio of reactors at South Carolina’s Savannah River Plant and the at Hanford Wash “Still" it conceded “such accidents cannot be ruled out” overkill" people inadvertently forget they have the ed book” The resident who asked not to be named said he thought police had better things to do than warn book borrowers about overdue library material Police Chief Morton A Hetznecker defended the practice of calling six to 12 residents a month saying it helped recover valuable items - version of him the rounds through Logan this week hitting most of the grocery store parking lots air-fille- d - non-furr- is making Wednesday concludes The report relased today also warns that at any of the nation's four defense Burkard said “I don’t like the insinuation that it's theft The majority of the Marilyn Kidd of Logan offers her son Zak as a small snack for that party canine of beer Spuds McKenzie advertising fame ' or at least the giant Spuds A ernment spending participants said in describing a third round of talks long-await- recently from Village President Joseph Burkard and a resident who received h warning call from The report was ordered by Energy Secretary John Herrington last year after the catastrophic accident at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear station in April amounts of environment 1986 which spewed huge radioactivity report says fail-saf- e into the Assessing the chances of a accident in the United States the report said the potential for a similar “power excursion does not appear to exist" because of multiple reactor shutdown systems However it added under certain circumstances at the Savannah River reactors near the Georgia border “calculations showed even the operation of the backup system might not be adequate to prevent" a similar Chernobyl-typ- e loss of control Furthermore the committee of experts said the Energy Department and private contractors operating the reactors do not fully understand what might happen during a severe accident or whether plant safety systems could cope with one “The existing level of understanding a realistic (is) inadequate for assessment of the effectiveness of these designs in mitigating the consequences of severe accidents rthe report said It lambasted the department's approach to safety and its oversight of plant operators acknowledging that safety concerns must be weighed against national security needs but concluding: "The department's approach to management falls short of reasonable expectation” In several cases it said “The contractors have pressed for safety upgrades that the (department) has then rejected for budgetary reasons The department needs to develop a better approach to making budgetary decisions in the face of important safety needs” The experts found federal oversight of the contractors has become “ingrown” and “largely outside the scrutiny of the public” It recommended establishment of an independent external safety committee to advise the department In addition it said the department should expand its monitoring of plant operations and should Improve its capability for safety analyses and research The report also recommended the department accelerate its plans to build new defense production reactors warning that the existing facilities are too old to assure reasonable safety in producing plutonium and other Summit set for end of year Soviet official says - MOSCOW (UPI) A Foreign President Reagan and SecreMinistry spokesman said today tary of State George Shultz the superpower summit is “fix- spokesman Boris Pyadyshev ed for the end of this year” and said will include the signing of a pact In Washington President on eliminating medium-rang- e Reagan was asked during an e missiles and talks on Oval Office photo session u he had heard the report strategic weapons Eduard Minister “Nope he said “I'm going to Foreign Shevardnadze will arrive in wait until tomorrow and find Washington Friday after brief- out” when he meets with ing Warsaw Pact ministers in Shevardnadze White House spokesman Prague and will meet with wat- long-rang- ching the shelves of the library go bare or having to use Die tad dollars to replace the books” said Index Inside today The Smithfield City Council Wednesday denied a citizen's appeal for the city to waive a number of building code requirements for a proposed preschool House committees includes 312 billion in new taxes and a similar sum in spending cuts and other economy - HARTLAND Wis (UPI) “Overdue library Hetznecker agreement The measure put together by various WASHINGTON (UPI) Inadequate federal oversight of plants making material for the US atomic bomb program is a major reason why a severe nuclear accident like the one at the Chernobyl reactor “cannot be ruled out" a government report 1 “It's better than spending cuts" House leaders described their 323 billion deficit reduction plan drafted before the stock market collapse last week and before the subsequent deficit negotiations as a backup in case those talks fail to yield a tax and spending US reactors not Overdue ?: library books bring out cops police “I think it’s of the House Appropriations Committee was skeptical “I’ve read in the papers about the progress we’d made I haven't seen it" said Whitten one of the 14 congressional negotiators President Reagan received an update from his budget negotiators who reported they were stressing spending cuts in the drive to reduce the deficit by at least 23 billion session During a brief picture-takin- g White House chief of staff Howard Baker told Reagan in an Oval Office meeting that he wanted to let him know “the progress and state of the negotiations in their third day today “It sounds to me like you’re talking about the right issues" Reagan replied Asked what the issues were Treasury Secretary James Baker said “Getting Whitten 4 About Cache Almanac Ann Landers Births Classified ads Roman Popadiuk said he could not confirm Pyadyshev's statement about a fixed date "We just know that and Shevardnadze is summit” Pyadyshev said It Shevardnadze was carrying a was not clear if a summit date letter from Soviet leader would be announced during Shevardnadze’s visit “Along with the accords on coming missiles the we'll wait and see” he said medium-rang- e “We’ve always said it's up to issue of strategic arms and the Missile Treaty him (Gorbachev) to set” a date also will be discussed substanfor the summit One of the main topics of tively during a summit meeting discussion at the weekend that is fixed for the end of this Washington meetings will be year” he said “preparatory work for the Anti-Ballist- ic Pyadyshev said Comics 22 Crossword 22 Dr Lamb 4 16 Corner Family 22 Focus 15 16 22 Happenings 4 22 Horoscope 23 Letters to the Editor 20 22-2- 3 Mikhail Gorbachev to Reagan which apparently outlines the Kremlin's position on the summit and arms control He said the Soviet Union would settle for “an exchange of views” at the summit on the issue of the US Strategic Defense Initiative known also See SUMMIT on page 2 Weather Look out the window What you see is "decreasing thunderstorms through Friday" according to the forecast Ap- parently Soupy Sales is work4 ing for the weather service |