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House ready for budget battle with Reagan
WASHINGTON (AP) — Heading
toward an expected showdown with
President Ronald Reagan and Senate
Republicans, the Democrat-controlled
House takes up a plan this week to freeze
defense spending while keeping Social
Security benefit hikes.
The proposed Pentagon spending
freeze is contained in a 1986 fiscal year
budget blueprint that would cut govern
ment outlays by $56 billion.
In an Armed Forces Day radio speech
Saturday, Reagan warned House
Democrats he would take his case direct
ly to the American public if they approv
ed tighter limits on Pentagon spending
than those passed by the Senate.
The Senate, meanwhile, is set to
resume its consideration of a bill that
holds Pentagon spending increases next
year to the inflation rate. Debate began
last Friday, but the Senate put off until
this week votes on controversial issues
such as chemical weapons, “Star Wars”
and the MX missile.
Senators will first consider changes in
Pentagon procurement procedures
designed to prevent defense contractors
from submitting exhorbitant bills for
such items as hammers, screwdrivers
and coffee pots.
The budget plan on the House floor
differs widely from the spending
blueprint approved 10 days ago by the
Republican-controlled Senate. Dif
ferences between the two measures
would eventually have to be ironed out
by a conference committee.
The $967 billion House spending
plan, in addition to freezing spending
for the Pentagon and many domestic pro
grams, provides for inflation ad
justments next year for Social Security
payments as well as Medicaid and
welfare.
Those benefit increases were knocked
out of the Senate budget, and the
Democratic plan now on the House floor
has been criticized by Republicans.
They have vowed to fight the plan, but
Democrats have a 71-seat margin and are
expected to prevail. At the White House,
spokesman Larry Speakes admitted as
much and said Reagan will seek a better
package when the conference committee
begins its work.
The Senate refused Reagan's request
for a 5.9 percent hike beyond inflation
for the Pentagon, but it did propose $302
billion for defense that includes an in
crease to cover expected inflation. The
total is about $10 billion above current
defense spending.
While the bill now on the Senate floor
didn’t give Reagan all he wanted, it
would permit the purchase of tens of
thousands of missiles, planes, ships,
tanks and other weapons in the fifth year
of Reagan’s five-year plan to “rearm
America."
O’Neill urges dialogue with Nicaragua;
Duarte addresses Notre Dame seniors
(AP) — House Speaker Tip O’Neill urged the Reagan ad
ministration to resume direct negotiations with Nicaragua in a
commencement speech at Tufts University in his home state of
Massachusetts Sunday.
Meanwhile. Salvadoran President Jose Napoioen Duarte ad
dressed the graduating class at Notre Dame University and said
principles he learned as an undergraduate there are helping him
lead his nation today.
O’Neill, a Democrat, said the adminstration should accept an
offer from Nicaragua’s Sapdinista government to resume talks.
Nicaragua is fighting rebels who have received aid from the
United States.
Since the United States is willing to negotiate with the Soviet
Union, O'Neill said, it should also be willing to talk “with our
weakest adversary in the world; Nicaragua.’’
Duarte, a 1948 graduate of Notre Dame, said principles learn
ed in his student years have guided his efforts to bring peace and
democracy to his country, where a left-wing insurgency is battl
ing his government.
“1 come as the constitutional president of my country, freely
elected, to carry out humane and Christian principles based on
justice, liberty and democracy.” he said, pledging to work for
democracy and economic development in his Central American
nation.
Outside the commencement hall, about 150 protesters
demonstrated against Duarte, blaming him and the U.S. govern
ment for continued political killings and poverty in El Salvador.
Duarte, who was awarded an honorary degree in engineering
during Sunday’s ceremonies, told reporters Saturday that he will
rely on the “political weapon” of his popular support, rather
than military force, to combat a recent wave of urban attacks by
guerillas.
Goode reveals threatening MOVE letter
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — MOVE threatened to burn its
neighborhood, “with smoke, gas, fire and bullets,” in a letter police
received two days before bombing the radical group’s headquarters,
Mayor Wilson Goode disclosed Sunday.
The existence of the letter, from MOVE spokeswoman Ramona
Africa, was revealed during Goode’s appearance on the CBS News
program “Face the Nation” the day the mayor designated as a time
of prayer for the 11 people killed in the raid and those displaced
when 61 rowhouses burned.
Church services were held throughout Philadelphia for the
victims.
Threats and reports that MOVE had stockpiled incendiary
materials in its fortified rowhouse have become a key issue in the
controversy over the bombing of the compound a week ago. Goode
said Sunday that while hindsight might make officials say “if in fact
we had to proceed the same way again we would not,” those involv
ed in the assault decision should be judged by what they knew at the
time.
The police department received the letter May 11, Goode said,
and Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor saw it May 13. the day of
the bombing and fire.
The mayor said the letter ‘‘contains threats against that
neighborhood, threats against all law enforcement authorities,
threats against the mayor and also says that if in fact there’s an at
tempt to come in and remove them that the entire nation will bow
down on its knees because of this.”
CBS reporter Lesley Stahl quoted the letter as saying any move
on the group’s compound would result in ‘‘a mess.”
“‘We’re going to burn them’ — meaning the people in the
neighborhood,” she said, quoting the letter. “We’re going to burn
them with smoke, gas, fire and bullets. We will burn this blank
blank house down and burn you up with us.’”
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Gemayel unhurt
as fighting rages
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) —
President Amin Gemayel’s
palace was hit by heavy
machine gun fire Sunday as
fighting between Christian and
Moslem militias in Beirut
entered its fourth week.
Gemayel, a Christian, was not
hurt, police said.
Police said three people were
killed and 21 wounded in the
night-long battles, which con
tinued despite a Christian
militia’s move to appease
neighboring Syria and its
Moslem allies in Lebanon by
cutting ties with Israel.
An anonymous caller claim
ing to represent the Islamic
Jihad group told a VVesern news
agency in Beirut that the fun
damentalist extremists were
responsible for two bomb explo
sions Saturday in the Saudi Ara
bian capital of Riyadh.
The Saudi Interior Ministry
said one person was killed and
three wounded when the bombs
detonated in garbage trucks on a
busy street.
The caller said Islamic Jihad,
believed to lx; loyal to Iran’s
revolutionary' leader, Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini, will
unleash more attacks against
Saudi Arabia “in order to shake
up the retrogressive
monarchy.”
The official Islamic Republic
News Agency in Tehran,
however, blamed the bombings
on Iran’s enemy, Iraq.
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