Reagan: economy a mess
WASHINGTON (AP) -Pres
ident Reagan, declaring that
the nation is suffering from its
‘‘worst economic mess since
the Great Depression,” said
Thursday night that the govern
ment must make dramatic cuts
in taxes and spending because
the economic judgment day is at
hand.
He held government policies
responsible for the situation and
said his remedy would begin
with three years of 10 percent
cuts in income tax rates and
spending reductions ‘‘in virtual
ly every department” of govern
ment.
"Over the years, we have let
negative economic forces run
out of control,” Reagan said in
his first nationally broadcast
report to the nation. "We have
stalled the judgment day. We no
longer have that luxury. We are
out of time."
Reagan's address was stud
ded with statistics, but short of
details. He said those will come
when he unveils a legislative
program to Congress on Feb.
18.
"It will propose budget cuts in
virtually every department of
government," the president
said. Moreover, Reagan said his
Cabinet will search out “waste,
extravagence and costly ad
ministrative overhead" to
produce additional reductions.
"At the same time we are do
ing this, we must go forward
with a tax relief package,” he
said. "I shall ask fora 10 percent
reduction, across-the-board, in
personal income tax rates for
—making the news—
American free lance journalist Cynthia Dwyer denied
charges of espionage at her trial by an Iranian Revolutionary
Court and the prosecutor indicated she was tricked into
agreeing to a fake plan to release the 52 American hostages,
an Iranian newspaper reported today.
According to the newspaper Ettelat's account of the
Wednesday trial, the prosecutor Mrs. Dwyer, 49, of Amherst,
N.Y., met two revolutionary guards after she arrived in Tehran
last spring, and they told her about a fictitious group of armed
Iranian students who wanted to free the American hostages.
The prosecutor said she agreed to help and tried to get
radio equipment to aid the supposed attempt to free the
hostages, the paper reported.
Ettelat also said the prosecutor implied that Dwyer knew
in advance of the failed April 25 attempt by U S. commandos
to rescue the hostages and discussed it at a party at the home
of a Japanese journalist.
WASHINGTON - Rep. Jon Hinson, R-Miss., pleaded
innocent today to a misdemeanor charge of attempted oral
sodomy and was released on his personal recognizance by a
District of Columbia judge.
Hinson, re-elected last fall after admitting he had visited
two homosexual hangouts, was arrested Wednesday in a
men’s room in the Longworth House Office Building by
Capitol Police.
Hinson was initially charged with committing oral
sodomy, a felony carrying a maximum fine of $10,000 and
sentence of 10 years in prison.
The U S. attorney’s office today reduced the charge to a
misdemeanor, which carries a maximum one-year penalty.
Appearing at his arraignment in D.C. Superior Court,
Hinson remained silent while his attorney, Jospeh Clancy,
submitted the plea to Judge William Thompson and agreed to
a trial date of May 4.
each of the next three years.”
"It is time to recognize that we
have come to a turning point,”
Reagan said. "We are threat
ened with an economic calami
ty of tremendous proportions
and the old business as usual
treatment can't save us.”
Seated at his desk in the Oval
Office, the president sought to
portray the statistics that pep
pered his speech in graphic,
personal terms.
"There are seven million
Americans caught up in the
personal indignity and human
tragedy of unemployment,” the
president said. “If they stood in
a line — allowing three feet for
each person — the line would
reach from the coast of Maine to
California.”
He used a chart to illustrate
increasing tax revenues and
governmennt spending, and
U S. currency to portray infla
tion.
"Our spending cuts will not
be at the expense of the truly
needy,” he said. "We will, how
ever, seek to eliminate benefits
to those who are not really
qualified by reason of need.”
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