Reagan asks defense increase
EUGENE VISION CENTER
Dr. lohn Perkins,
Dr. Claude Brist
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan adminis
tration will flesh out its goal of "peace through
strength" this week with specific proposals for
rebuilding U S. defenses that will call for the most
lavish peacetime military spending ever by a new
administration.
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is
expected to ask Congress for a net boost of about
$33 billion over the military budget authority totals
recommended by former Pres. Carter for this year
and next.
These proposals would raise defense budget
authority to $177.7 billion in fiscal 1981, which
ends Sept. 30, and to $222.8 billion in fiscal 1982.
Only a small fraction of this would actually be
spent in those two years. Most of the new author
ity, permitting the Pentagon to make contract
commitments, would be "spent out" in future
years as new ships, planes and other equipment
are produced.
The new administration’s unprecedented
peacetime generosity to the armed services is in
line with Pres. Reagan's assertion that one of his
top priorities is to “rebuild the nation’s inade
quate defense capabilities.” Reagan contends
the Soviet Union has outspent the United States
by $300 billion for defense since the late 1960s.
Senior military officers, accustomed to tight
budgetary constraints, appear euphoric about the
new atmosphere. They and Weinberger dispute
suggestions that dramatic increases for defense
might cause a backlash among citizens affected
by deep cuts in domestic programs proposed by
the administration.
Documents prepared in the Pentagon list
more than 450 military programs that stand to
benefit from the administration’s planned defense
expansion.
—making the news—
From Associated Press Reports
MADRID, Spain (AP) - Militant Basques wounded three
police officers in a bombing and machine gun attack in
northern Spain on Sunday, authorities said, hours after
announcement of a separatists’ cease-fire had raised hopes
for Spain’s stability in the wake of an attempted military coup.
A woman passerby was slightly injured, police said.
“ETA-military (the radical wing) has given its answer,"
said a police spokesman after the attacks in the Bilbao suburb
of Portugalete
LONDON — Poland’s Roman Catholic Church called
Sunday for abstention from alcohol during Lent and referred
to what it called the country’s "tragic alcohol addiction."
"We appeal to all people of good will to abstain
completely from alcoholic drinks in any form throughout the
great fast,” according to an announcement made during a
Mass broadcast on Warsaw Radio.
"In the situation of our nation’s tragic alcoholic
addiction, let us treat this abstention as our contribution to
the saving of our homeland,” said the braodcast, monitored
in London.
NEW YORK — A soon-to-be-published book by a former
Cuban newspaper editor and aide to Fidel Castro contends
the Cuban president “pressed the button” on a Soviet
ground-to-air missile console in Cuba in 1962 and shot down
an American U-2 spy plane flying over the island.
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration may go
along with spending millions to clean up after Mount St.
Helens, but the outlook for Northwest fisheries enhancement
is bleak, says Sen. Mark Hatfield.
It’s "60 percent realistic and 40 percent hopeful think
ing” that President Ronald Reagan will support the level of
funding for volcano cleanup sought by the Army Corps of
Engineers, Hatfield, R-Ore., said last week.
Guerrillas
pushed back
in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador
(AP) — Government soldiers
backed by jet fighters battled
anti-junta guerrillas at two
towns in El Salvador’s eastern
province of San Vicente,
according to peasants stream
ing into the capital Sunday from
the embattled province.
The refugees said troops loyal •
to the civilian-military junta,
backed by the air power,
repelled guerrilla assaults laun
ched late Saturday, but some
witnesses reported "sporadic
and heavy gunfire” Sunday
around San Lorenzo and Santo
Domingo.
The leftist guerrillas had been
rumored to be planning a major
offensive this weekend but their
leadership issued no commun
iques on the outbreak of heavy
fighting.
In Washington, Sen. Jesse
Helms, R-N.C., a member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, said on NBC’s "Meet the
Press" program Sunday that the
Reagan administration has cut
off aid to Nicaragua because of
its role in tunneling arms to the
Salvadoran guerrillas.
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