President axes wage council
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres.
Reagan, saying there has to be
"a change in direction” in the
country, announced Thursday
he is abolishing the Council on
Wage and Price Stability and
prohibiting federal agencies
from implementing new regula
tions for 60 days.
In an opening statement at his
first news conference since
taking office, Reagan said the
Council on Wage and Price
Stability, which administered
the Carter administration's anti
inflation program “has been to
tally ineffective in controlling
inflation and has imposed un
cecessary burdens on labor and
business.”
As for budget cuts, Reagan
said no area of government will
be exempt and he added that
"the time has come where there
has to be a change in direction
in this country."
"We have lived beyond our
means," he said. "We must gain
control of this inflationary mon
ster."
On Iran, Reagan said "I’m
certainly not thinking of
revenge."
The president said he expects
the United States will honor the
agreements that led to release
of the U S. hostages.
A day after his secretary of
state sounded a new hard line
toward the Soviet Union,
Reagan said that “so far, de
tente has been a one way street
that the Soviet Union has used
for its own ends."
As for his own view of Soviet
intent, Reagan said, “I know of
no leader of the Soviet Union
since the revolution, including
the present leadership, that has
not repeated more than once ...
that their goal must be world
domination."
Announcing the freeze on
pending federal regulations, the
new president said the action
would give his administration
time "to start a new regulatory
oversight process and also
prevents certain last-minute
regulatory decisions of the
previous administration — the
so-called ‘midnight regulations’
— from taking effect without
proper review and approval.”
Abolition of the Council on
Wage and Price Stability would
cut 120 persons from the federal
payroll. He said he will ask Con
gress to rescind its budget of
$1.5 million.
Reagan refutes revenge motive
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres.
Reagan said Thursday he is
“certainly not thinking of
revenge" against Iran for the
ordeal suffered by hostage
Americans, but neither does he
see a reconciliation with the
revolutionary government in
Tehran.
“What good would just
revenge do and what form
would that take?” Reagan
asked. “I don’t think revenge is
worthy of us. On the other hand,
I don't think we should act as if
this never happened."
In his first nationally broad
cast news conference since
taking office 10 days ago, the
president said he wouid not en
courage American business to
resume trade with the Persian
Gulf nation "at this point" and
cautioned anyone against
traveling there.
Though his administration
has not finished reviewing the
hostage settlement negotiated
by the Carter administration,
Reagan said, the United States
probably would honor the
agreement. He added that the
most important obligations al
ready have been carried out
since the release of the 52
Americans in the first hour of his
presidency.
Reagan said he was "certain
ly not thinking of revenge and I
don’t know whether reconcilia
tion would be possible.”
Reagan urged Americans to
“think long and hard before
they travel to Iran because we
don't think their safety can be
guaranteed there.”
He joked that he hoped that
any businessmen eager to deal
with Iran would consult “by long
distance. We wouldn't want to
go back to having just a differ
ent cast of characters but the
same show going on.”
To many questions, such as
whether he will lift the grain
embargo against the Soviet
Union, and whether he will
abolish draft registration,
Reagan said he had no answers
yet.
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