Reagan
flays interest groups
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres.
Reagan assailed on Monday the
special interest groups standing
in the way of his economic
recovery program and pleaded
with urban leaders to realize
that "the only power needed to
restore America s strength is
will power."
In his first formal speech
since he advanced his budget
and tax-cutting plan to
Congress on Feb. 18, Reagan
complained to the National
League of Cities that a "political
gauntlet of interest groups”
threatens to dismantle it.
The president acknowledged
that cities would suffer their
share of cuts. But he declared
that "We are all in the same
boat, and we have to get the
—making the news—
From Associated Press Reports
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it will
decide whether workers with access to management’s
confidential files can join a labor union, a case which could
affect secretaries and thousands of other white-collar
employees.
The justices said they will hear National Labor Relations
Board arguments aimed at granting the right of union
membership to most such workers.
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration’s tempor
ary cutoff of aid to Nicaragua will become permanent in
about two weeks unless there is clear evidence that Nicar
agua has terminated arms shipments to leftist guerrillas in El
Salvador, U S. officials said Monday.
Aid disbursals were suspended several weeks ago after
captured documents disclosed that Nicaraguan territory was
being used as a transshipment point for Soviet bloc'weapons
deliveries to the Salvadoran insurgents.
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Jose Napoleon Duarte,
president of this nation at the center of a growing U.S.-Soviet
antagonism, said Monday he is ready to meet with
representatives of the Socialist International to seek a
political solution to the bloody rightist-leftist conflict here.
At the same time in Panama, Bernt Carlsson of Sweden,
the secretary general of the Socialist International, said the
most important leftist and guerrilla groups in El Salvador had
accepted the group’s mediation offer.
The group is an international organization of social
democratic parties — which have a political philosophy of
gradual, non-revolutionary movement to socialism.
Carlsson said the groups agreeing to mediation were the
Democratic Revolutionary Front, — an umbrella organization
that includes several leftist groups — and the Farabundo Marti
Front for National Liberation, a coalition of guerrilla groups.
United Nations expels
South Africa — again
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -
South Africa, twice before
expelled from the U N. General
Assembly, was kicked out again
Monday.
The world body voted 112-22
with six abstentions to accept a
credentials committee’s rec
ommendation that South Africa
not be seated because its
white-majority government
does not represent the majority
of South African people.
The United States voted in the
credentials committee to accept
the South African delegation,
and voted against the com
mittee recommendation on the
floor. Costa "Rica and Spain ab
stained in the committee and
the other committee members —
the Soviet Union, China, An
gola, Kenya, Haiti and Sin
gapore — voted not to seat the
delegation.
The United States argued that
United Nations rules state
credentials must be properly
signed by an official of the
government.
South African Ambassador
Jacobus Adriaan Eksteen and
his counsellor, David Steward,
left the hall immediately after the
assembly vote was announced.
After the committee action,
South African Foreign Minister
R.F. Botha said in Johannes
burg the decision was “scan
dalous and revengeful.”
South Africa was expelled
from the assembly’s 1974
regular session on grounds it
was practicing race segregation
at home and holding onto
South-West Africa, known here
as Namibia, in violation of U N.
resolutions.
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goes over the falls.”
Reagan assured the urban
leaders, that he would preserve
the ‘‘function” of the Urban
Development Action Grants
Program, which formed the
centerpiece of Jimmy Carter’s
urban policy and quickly
became a favorite of the na
tion’s mayors.
And while the recovery plan
calls for reducing federal sub
sidies to cities, Reagan said, he
had tried to ‘‘cushion the
budget blows” by making block
grants to local governments.
The president drew polite ap
plause from an audience of
several thousand representi
tives of cities and towns,
especially when he attacked the
“federal Goliath — unleased
and uncontrolled."
Reagan noted there has been
some congressional opposition
to his call for a three-year,
30-percent tax cut.
‘ Nevertheless," he said, "the
real threat to recovery comes
from those who will oppose only
a small part of the program
while supporting the overall
effort. Needless to say, the small
portion these parochial groups
oppose always deals with cuts
that affect them directly. Those
cuts they oppose.
‘‘They favor cutting
everybody else’s subsidy as an
important step in ending infla
tion and getting the country
moving again. The accumula
tive effect of this short
sightedness can be damaging,"
he said.
He repeatedly referred to the
dangers of inaction. "For a time
it appeared that Congress had
more solutions than the country
had problems," Reagan said
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