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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 24, 1983)
Baker airs his opposition to tax hike WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker put himself at odds with Pres. Ronald Reagan on key budget policies Sunday, saying he opposes a standby tax in tended to hold down future deficits and would vote to repeal inflation-adjusted tax cuts. Baker also served notice Congress will in sist on deeper cuts in Pentagon spending, scal ing back the defense budget perhaps twice as much as Reagan has proposed. The president is due to send his new budget to Capitol Hill on Jan. 31. Treasury Secretary Donald Regan said the administra tion will not propose new taxes for 1983 and 1984, beyond those enacted last year or already in the works, to curb deficits nearing $200 billion. "If we are talking taxes, it’s way in the future,” Regan said on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation.” "You certainly don’t get an economy mov ing again by instituting a whole bunch of new taxes," Regan said. A five-cent-a-gallon in crease in gasoline tax will take effect this sum mer and the $168-billion bailout plan Reagan endorsed for Social Security includes a number of tax hikes. Sources say Reagan's budget will call fora three-year, $135-billion contingency tax in crease that will take effect late in 1985. The tax, perhaps an income tax surcharge and a fee on imported oil, is intended to show declining deficits. Baker, who announced Friday he will not run for a fourth term in 1984, said the budget will be Congress’ "biggest challenge” this year, and he made clear that Congress will have no reservations about rewriting the plan Reagan proposes. “We’re going to take the president’s budget, which is, after all his proposal for a budget, we’re going to examine it, we're going to produce a congressional budget,” Baker said on NBC-TV’s "Meet the Press.” "Now that doesn’t mean we’re going to re ject his, but it also means we’re not going to ac cept his outright,” he added. Baker joined the two leading GOP tax writers in Congress in voicing opposition to the contingency tax hike. "It is my personal view that it is not a very good idea,” Baker said, echoing similar statements from Sen. Robert Dolo, R-Kan., chairman of the Finance Committee, and Rep. Barber Conable, R-N.Y., senior Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee. “We're going to do well enough to take care of this year without trying to figure too ex tensively on what's going to happen in the outyears (after 1984),” he said. EARN OVER s1100 A MONTH AND OPEN THE DOOR TO A TOP ENGINEERING FUTURE. How many corporations would be willing to pay you over s1100 a month during your junior and senior years just so you'd join the company after graduation? Under a special Navy program we're doing just that. It's called the Nuclear Propulsion Officer Candidate College Program. 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Fountain Court Cafe Luncheon Specials Served Daily 1 1a.m. to 2p.m. All Specials $1.75 Monday Chicken Livers in Sherry Wine Sauce Spanish Style Steak topped with bacon and onions Steamed Rice Scalloped Potatoes Savory Beans Corn Tuesday Boeuf Braise in la piemontaise with madeira sauce Reuben Sandwiches with potato salad Risotto Carrots Buttered Spinach Thursday Beef Stroganoff on buttered poppyseed noodles Kraut Bake — cabbage leaves stuffed with seasoned meat Whipped potatoes Petits pois bonne femme Stewed tomatoes Wednesday Irish Stew with lamb Geflugelklein — chicken hearts and gizzards in dill sauce Rice Pilaf Broccoli Normandy Friday Fish Goulash Coq Au Vin V« chicken In red wine sauce with mushroom and pearl onions Pommes aux fines herbes Risotto Milanese Style Buttered broccoli Cauliflower I Mexican Food Bar Burrito Supreme/Fried Burrito Taco & Enchiladas Spanish Rice & Refried Beans Salad Bar By the ounce 15' Chef’s Choice Soup Bar Soup Bar Two special soups and Chili served daily Court stained by racism SALEM (AP) — Chief Justice Berkeley Lent of the Oregon Supreme Court defended the state judicial system from racism charges Saturday, but admitted that subconscious prejudice among state judges may exist. Lent told about 40 people at a forum of the Oregon Assembly for Black Affairs that he is considering ordering judges to attend a four-hour conciousness-raising program to fight such prejudice. He promised to act if given firm evidence of prejudice in a courtroom. Conference at tendees cited the need for un prejudiced legal treatment as one of three top priorities for the current legislative session. Lent said Oregon has “the best” legal aid for those unable to afford lawyers, and he cited a Multnomah County study that he said shows racial prejudice does not in fluence judges' decisions. He also said the state bar has acted to support minority law students. In his 18 years as a Portland trial lawyer with a high percen tage of black clients, Lent said, he saw few judges bias ed against blacks. “There were a few excep tions, and every one of those (judges) is now gone — by retirement and many of them by death,” he said. But Lent cited a Jewish women’s group study of Multnomah County juvenile court punishments in support of his view that subconscious prejudice may exist. Several state legislators, in cluding House Speaker Grat tan Kerans and Senate Presi dent Ed Fadeley, attended the forum. Fadeley asked the group to recommend someone to advise him on which Senate committees should consider bills affecting black people. Conference attendees said other top issues facing black Oregonians during the legislative session are the cost and availability of higher education and the availability of job and promotion opportunities. University Theatre and U of O Dept, of Dance presents Dance ’83 f j January 27-30* February 2-5 Robinson Theatre 8:00 pm I ‘January 30 2 pm Matinee Tickets: *5 00—General Public *3.25—(J of O students & seniors Call 686 4191 for ticket in formation and reservations
