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inter/national news Prom Associated Prma reports U.S. offers plan for arms reduction WASHINGTON Staking out his claim as a man of peace, Pres Reagan laid before the world Wednesday a four-step plan for sheathing nu clear weapons and pulling back troops in Europe, challenging the Soviet Union to "share our commitment" to arms reduc tion "With Soviet agreement, we could together substantially reduce the dread threat of nu clear war which hangs over the people of Europe," the pre sident said "This, like the first footstep on the moon, would be a giant step for mankind." Reagan offered to cancel U S deployment of medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe if the Soviets would dismantle the 600 missiles it now has trained on European targets He called, too, for slashes in conventional forces and new efforts to scale down the nuclear weaponry the superpowers aim at one another And last, he asked new efforts to guarantee nuclear war will never erupt though "uncer tainty or miscalculation " but Moscow quickly rejected the president’s initiative as propaganda designed to cloak an American attempt to gain military superiority "through the back door." While Tass used those words, another Soviet news agency, Novosti, said Kremlin acceptance would ac tually mean the Soviet Union's unilateral disarmament " More holes appear in Allen story WASHINGTON New discrepancies arose Wednesday in the story of how Pres Reagan's national securi ty adviser came to receive $1.000 in cash from a Japanese woman s magazine that inter viewed Nancy Reagan But Reagan, after first saying he was in no position to com ment while the matter was under review, told reporters the in cident was investigated, and it was reported that everything was fine " It was not clear what the pre sident meant, since a Justice Department investigation still is under way — as Reagan himself first indicated — and White House spokesmen have said repeatedly there has been no internal probe of the matter in volving national security adviser Richard Allen * Meanwhile, it was disclosed Wednesday by a Tokyo newspaper and confirmed by the White House that the magazine journalists who inter viewed Nancy Reagan one day after her husband s inaugura tion had given her a lacquered stationery box That gift was handled accor ding to usual practice and is now in storage at the National Archives, deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said But Speakes could not expl ain why, if the box was present ed to Nancy Reagan, there would also be an envelope containing $1,000 in cash in tended for her When the matter first sur faced last week, Speakes said the money was intended for Nancy Reagan but had been intercepted by Allen, simply because he didn't want the first lady or the Japanese journalists to be embarrassed Public cuts back personal spending WASHINGTON Recession-wary Americans cut back their spending last month for the first time since April, even though their per sonal income rose and lower tax rates allowed them to keep more of it, the government reported Wednesday Instead of spending, they socked the money away in new "all savers" certificates and other accounts as forecasts of tough economic times became more noticeable, the Commerce Department report indicated All in all, said private econ omist Sandra Shaber, the report "was not very pleasant news for the economy in general and Christmas shopping in particular " Talk of recession and worker layoffs — as well as the effects of the lost jobs themselves — often cause consumers to be more careful about spending money But figures for personal income and spending so far in the cur rent recession are not as bad as during last year's short but steep downturn The situation has been much worse in the housing industry, however, as indicated by Wed nesday's Commerce report that builders began construction of new houses last month at an annual rate of only 857,000 un its, the second lowest rate since the department began com piling such statistics in 1959 Housing starts for new single-family dwellings plunged about 25 percent to an annual rate of 487,000 Actor Holden dies from fall LOS ANGELES Actor William Holden hit his head on a table after a drunken fall in his apartment, then lay down and bled to death, the coroner reports “It may seem strange to us, but the telephone was never picked up,” Coroner Thomas Noguchi said Tuesday "It seemed that Mr Holden was not aware of the severe injury to himself Noguchi said at a news con ference that Holden tripped or slipped on a bedroom throw rug, hit the sharp corner of a night table and began bleeding heavily from a 2Vi-inch cut on the right side of his forehead Noguchi said bloodstains were found on Holden’s bed, along with eight to 10 bloodied tissues, indicating that Holden lay down and tried to stem the flow of blood The coroner es timated that Holden was con scious for five to 10 minutes after falling, and during those few minutes he apparently rolled over and fell off the bed He died within a half-hour, Noguchi said Noguchi said Holden's blood fluid contained 22 percent alcohol, a level that would have required him to drink eight to 10 shots” of liquor at once, or more over a period of time Reagan, Senate battle over budget WASHINGTON The Senate rushed Wed nesday to debate an urgent money bill to keep the govern ment running past midnight Friday, but Democratic House Speaker Thomas O'Neill charged Pres Reagan was certain to veto the measure to "get a headline " Privately, Republican Senate sources confirmed that a veto, the first of Reagan's presidency, was likely But Republican Leader Howard Baker, R-Tenn , trying to prevent a confrontation that could keep Congress in session through the weekend, ordered a private head count to see whether the Senate would bow to Reagan's wish for across the-board cuts of 5 percent in domestic programs Asked if a veto looked more -MEI LIN’S BAMBOO PAVILION ■itt 4 w ® Authentic Chinese Food From Szechuan & Northern Chinn • The Best in Chinese Food • Authentic Atmosphere • Friendly Service • (Iriental Music Open 5:00-9:30 Mon-Sat ; 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