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C w National In a nationally televised speech to the nation and to the congress during the week President Ronald Reagan announced the economic policy of his administration would be to cut many of the regulations and policies dealing with business and the consumer cut the taxes that all Americans pay provide for continued business growth through tax reductions provide industry generated jobs and trim the size of the United States government The speech was being r reviewed viewed during the week and according to many watchers was a forthright and open approach to the economic problems of the nation Other Hill Capitol-Hill watchers indicated during the week that even though the approach was generating discussion and support in Washington it would be some sometime sometime sometime time before the congress would act on the proposals A full disclosure of the budget of the administration will be presented to the lawmakers in March A US U.S. attorney in saying more money is lost through student loan defaults than bank robberies planned during the week to file suits in an attempt to recover part of the million owed by Ohio students in defaulted loans for schooling As part of a Justice Department crackdown other US U.S. attorneys in Detroit Cleveland and Milwaukee also are taking steps to put pressure on former students who haven't paid back their loans Nationally the default totals million according to government officials A major oil company chief says in Washington that heating oil and gasoline prices will go up another seven to ten cents as the results of decontrol and OPEC'S latest hike making gasoline cost more than per gallon in some areas of the country But the Lundberg Letter an independent oil industry newsletter published in Los Angeles during the week predicted a new gasoline glut will help keep prices down perhaps under per gallon this year Surplus gasoline could begin to put downward downward downward down down- ward pressure on prices at any anytime anytime anytime time according to the newsletter but it is likely before the end of March And there are some days that it just doesn't pay to start anything Elton Adams of Des Moines Iowa just wanted to take his vacation in Hawaii Instead he spent most of the week looking over police mug shots trying to find the people who robbed and robbed him and robbed him Adams told police a woman jumped into his car last Monday night while he was stopped for a light wrestled his wallet from him and escaped with more than In an attempt to learn her identity he stopped in a be robbed nearby pool only hall to again by a man who took in travelers checks the woman robber had left behind Adams then returned home to find that his house had been burglarized International Pope John Paul II spent most of the past week carrying the message of the Catholic Church to various corners of the earth but the meetings and the masses were not entirely without incident In an appearance during the past week in India and Pakistan demonstrators in the huge throng pressed near the Pope attempting to press home demands for investigations of alleged human rights violations throughout that area of the world In the first mass celebrated during the trip a bomb went off in a crowd of Pakistani faithful killing one and injuring several In the Ph Phillipines i 11 nes security guards wrestled one man to the ground after he had entered a cordoned off security area near the papal throne The man was released after a search of his person He told reporters that he just wanted to reach out and touch the Pope Former Beatles Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney reunited during the past week on a tiny island for a recording session but butan butan butan an official at the studio hosting the session denied rumors throughout the week that the third surviving member of the rock group George Harrison would lend his talents to the session Rumors were rife in inthe inthe inthe the British press that this session would be a memorial tribute to former Beatle Beatie John Lennon shot to death in New York City late last year However according to the manager of the studio utilized by bythe bythe bythe the duo Starr and Harrison had booked recording time at the studio before Lennons Lennon's death Egyptian President Anwar Sad Sadat at charged during the week that the Palestine Liberation Organization is completely dominated by the Soviet Union and Syria and its chairman Yasser Arafat is a compromise leader who cannot make independent decisions Sadat told a news conference conference conference con con- ference in Cairo that he has revived his proposal for a Palestinian provisional government in order to relieve the PLO or pressures from Moscow and Damascus Apparent political killings continued during the week in Guatemala and El Salvador as officials continued to try to find answers to continued fighting in both torn strife-torn Central American nations The bodies of 14 young men all showing signs of torture were found during one day in Guatemala and more people were reported killed in El EI Salvador during the week Officials said that the work appeared to be that of hired death squads I Local Oi 1 The Utah Legislature is now on the downhill side of its 60 day session in Salt Lake City but still had during the week the task of dealing with more than pieces of legislation while the governor had signed only ten bills into law as of late last week Meanwhile watchers in the state capitol spent more than an inordinate amount of time sifting through piles of new bills and resolutions and lawyers for various special interest groups announced plans to test more than one half of the sponsored pieces of legislation through the courts Among the more contested bills is isone isone isone one titled 3 and known as the Family Bill the measure sponsored by Senator Karl Snow R-Provo R provides that parents must consent before any public money can be used to provide contraceptive and abortion services counseling services or information Opponents of the measure charge that the bill wouldn't strengthen the family unit but could lead to higher rates of teenage pregnancies drug usage and other family problems And legislators themselves spent more than just a few hours debating the merits of a bill that would provide for tickets issued to students found smoking in school buildings during session Several state legislators commented on the bill and the overriding opinion seemed to be expressed by Senator Frances Farley Salt D-Salt Lake Senator Farley told colleagues during the week every year we have a dumb bill and I would like to nominate this one as the dumb bill of the year She joined fellow Democrat Senator Arthur Kimball Salt D-Salt Lake City in arguing that more important student problems go while the legislature concentrates its effort on ridding the schools of smoking Supporters of the bill like Sen William Barton West R-West Valley City said the bill represents an attempt to start dealing with school problems that have long gone un un- checked A draft environmental impact statement released in Denver by bythe bythe bythe the Army says the nerve gas bombs stored at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in the Colorado city can be moved to the Tooele Army Depot with minimal impact risk of mishap An aide in inthe inthe inthe the office of Colorado Senator Gary Hart said during the week that the actual transfer of the bombs will occur in August or September Utah government officials continued their opposition to the transfer of the bombs but said during the week that support for their their o opposition to the move was waning In in Washington |