Lower proposed limits defeated
Senate sends
debt ceiling
over $1 trillion
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Oregon's Republican U S sen
ators voted with the majority of
their colleagues Tuesday in
favor of raising the national debt
limit to $1 079 trillion and ex
tending it into the next fiscal
year
Sens Mark Hatfield and Bob
Packwood were among 64 sen
ators who voted in favor of the
debt limit bill, which was sent to
President Reagan Thirty-four
senators, including six Repub
licans, voted against the bill
Hatfield and Packwood also
were among the majority when
the Senate voted Tuesday to kill
a proposed amendment to
reduce individual income tax
cuts in 1983 if interest rates
exceed the administration's
predictions
The measure, defeated 56-43,
was proposed as an amend
ment to the debt limit
The measure passed the
Senate by a vote of 64-34 after
Republican leaders fought off a
series of amendments that
would have sent it back to the
Democrat-dominated House
The House had approved the bill
earlier, but GOP leaders feared
it might balk at endorsing it
again
It is the fifth increase in the
debt limit since 1978, when the
limit was $798 billion and the
actual debt at the end of the
fiscal year was $772 69 billion
The new ceiling of $1 079 tril
lion, already approved by the
House, would amount to
$4,694.20 for every American
man, woman and child. At $1
per second, it would take 31,688
years just to count a trillion — or
$1,000,000,000,000
The debt limit reached a bil
lion for the first time during
World War I and stood at $293
billion 20 years ago
"We must pass the debt
ceiling or we can't honor all the
Social Security checks that
went into the mail yesterday and
today," Finance Chairer Bob
Dole, R-Kan., told fellow sena
tors
"The next stopping point, I
guess, is a quadrillion, that is a
thousand trillion," said Sen
William Proxmire, D-Wis . who
staged an all-night talkathon to
protest pushing the debt limit
over the trillion-dollar mark
Proxmire. of Wisconsin,
flailed at the measure Monday
night and early Tuesday for 16
hours and 12 minutes, then
gave up his talkfest at 10:27 a m
EDT
Proxmire said he was hopeful
he would wake up senators
and others in the Congress "
The Senate rejected 63-33 an
amendment by Proxmire to set
the debt limit at $995 billion, an
increase of $10 billion over the
current figure The $1 079 tril
lion figure is sought by Reagan
and has passed the House
By a vote of 84-15, the Senate
tabled, and thus killed, amend
ments by Sen William Arm
strong, R-Colo , that would have
allowed President Reagan to
withhold appropriated funds,
subject to a congressional veto
within either 30 or 45 days.
The Senate then rejected, by
a much closer vote of 56-43, an
amendment by Sen J James
Exon, D-Neb , that would have
reduced the third year of a con
gressionally approved tax cut if
interest rates turned out higher
than the administration has
predicted
Also turned down, 67-31, was
an amendment by Sen Thomas
Eagleton, D-Mo., to reverse tax
breaks already given to oil com
panies and use the money to
bolster the sagging Social
Security trust fund
After 8 years in Turkish jail
trio will tell of ordeal in book
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Kathryn
Zenz spent eight years in a Tur
kish prison on drug smuggling
charges, and she says she and
two other Americans impris
oned with her will tell their
story of survival in a book
"Bascially, it will be a story
that will be an honest portrayal
of what went on for eight years,"
Zenz, of Lancaster, Wis , said
Tuesday
Zenz has been living in
Salem, Ore , with her former
prison mates, Jo Ann McDaniel
and Robert Hubbard
The trio were serving 24-year
sentences for attempting to
smuggle hashish into Turkey
from Syria when they were
released to American authori
ties earlier this year under a
treaty the U S and Turkey
signed in 1979.
They arrived in New York Feb
22 and were granted parole
March 19 McDaniel, originally
from Coos Bay, Ore , and Hub
bard, from San Diego, were
married in Turkey shortly before
their release
Zenz spoke about the book
and her adjustment on returning
to America in a telephone inter
view from Salem with The Mil
waukee Journal
"It won't be a horror story, but
it will deal with the relationships
we had with the people around
us, the three of us and the peo
pie who helped us survive our
whole ordeal," Zenz, 35, said
"We re going over everything,
letters we wrote to people, that
kind of thing,” she said "We re
planning on a lot of things we've
forgotten about ”
The book will be written by the
three ex-prisoners with Charles
Jennings, a Portland journalist
Zenz said they had agreed to a
contract with World Pacific Co
of Portland for the film rights to
the book
“I think it will be a good
book," Zenz said "So much
has been buried in eight years It
will take a lot of soul searching
and a lot of delving into the
material we have "
Zenz said that before heading
to Oregon in August, she spent
a few days in Fond du Lac with
Bernice and Frank Wermes,
who spearheaded a letter-writ
ing campaign to free her,
McDaniel and Hubbard
She visited with her family in
Lancaster, who were "just
happy that I'm home," she said
She keeps in constant contact
with them, she said
During the summer, Zenz
worked on the production staff
at the Mill Valley Film Festival in
Mill Valley, Calif , which she said
was an exhilirating experience
Now settled in Salem, Zenz, a
former nurse, said she would
devote her energies to the book
and would not resume her
nursing career for the time be
ing
Zenz said she was still ad
justing to American life, having
been away since her conviction
in 1973 She said she and
McDaniel recently went to a
drive-in bank and were sur
prised to have to talk to a televi
sion camera and use a com
puter card
"Little things like that still hit
me in the face," she said “The
incident was funny to me They
couldn’t figure out why we were
laughing ”
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There are many bookstores in Eugene, but
only one that buys, sells and trades rare books.
J Michael’s Books features an impressive
assortment of more than 200 books.
J Michael's Books is located in a cozy house
at 372 E. 11th Ave. The owners, Jeremy Nissel
and his wife Linda Ellis, moved to this location
only a month ago after six years in west
Eugene
Nissel, a native of New York, has always
been involved with rare books “Rare books
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Nissel attributes J Michael’s corner on
Eugene’s rare book market as due to the small
number of such books available
"A rare book is not necessarily a good
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Rare books don’t have to be old either The
majority of books at J Michael’s are first
editions of recently printed books
“The most collected books are modern first
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first edition of novelist Tom Robbins’ "Another
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Many of the books at J. Michael’s come from
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