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Federal programs could suffer severe cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's budget
balancing law will require cuts of 25 to 50 percent in
most domestic federal programs, with even larger cuts
possible in certain law enforcement ureas, according to
a private analysis released Monday.
The study by Management Services Inc. and the
Center for Defense Information said the impact of the
Gremth-Rudman Act would be far more severe than
previously Indieved.
The report, billed as the first full-scale study of the
long-range impacts of the law, said deep cuts will occur
even if Congress raises taxes and stashes defense spen
ding. "There is little to avoid this If the act remains un
changed." it said
Management Services Inc. is a consulting firm that
makes private economic analyses for a wide .-radge of .
•• private and govern mental' clients. The-.Center fur
Dtferiae.‘Information is a private, non-profir organixa
• tibnthat studies.a variety of military-issues. Beth am .
• baseddn Washington, Q.C. . - • ~:
If th« law's constitutionality is uphold by the
Supromo Court, and Congress doesn't subsequently
modify it, some law enforcement areas — including the
FBI — could suffer cuts of up to f>3 percent by 1990, the
study said.
The reason for this, it said, is that Congress, while
shielding some sensitive programs like Social .Security
from the Cramm-Rudman cuts, neglected to make pro
visions under the law for fully funding some critical
law enforcement programs. These include the U,S.
prison system, protecting the president and patrolling
U S. borders. » • .
° The Cramm-Rudman Act, which requires a balanc
ed federal budget by 19t$l. is named for its principal
sponsors. Sens. Fhil Gramm. R-Texas, and Warren
Rudman, R-N.H. •’ * •
Automatic .cuts triggered under Cramm-Rudman
would chop away at law enforcement. programs as
much' as they would other programs. But the study
•assumed that Congress would-not permit a reduction in *
prison guards, border agents, or in the Secret Service
force protecting the president and other high ad
ministration officials.
*‘To the extent that officials in Congress and the ad
ministration find that some areas of spending meet
critical national needs, cuts in other programs will have
to be even deeper,” the study said.
Thus, under terms of • the law, ' other law- '
enforcement areas — especially the FBI. the Drug En
forcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms — would take the brunt of law , 1
enforcement spending cuts, the study concluded.
This could amount to cuts of 63 percent by 1990 if
Congress goes along with President Reagan’s plans to.
increase defense spending by roughly 3 percent above
inflation in each of the next four years, it said.
It.could result in cuts of up.tp 4Z percent if Con
gress meets deficit-reduction targets by making equal
cuts from defense and domestic programs, the study
idded. ' . .. ’• ’• «• •
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Israeli forces strafe villages
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israeli
helicopter gunships. tanks and 600 troops
swept through south Lebanon villages Monday
In response to the capture of two soldiers by
Moslem guerrillas. IJ.N. sources said.
Timur Goksei. spokesman for ihe U N.
peacekeeping force in the area, said Israeli
a unships strafed suspected guerrilla hideouts
In the rugged hill country He said Israeli
soldiers ferried by helicopter stormed at least
15 Shiite Moslem villages searching for the
two men. who were captured inside Israel's
"security tone."
Lebanese security sources said the
soldiers were seized at about 1 p.m. Monday.
The Israeli assault began an hour later
After dark, the sources said, gunahips
dropped flares to light landing zones, and the
Israeli pushed as far as Qaaqaaiyet. nearly 12
mile* north of the buffer zone.
Israeli forces spent two hours searching
the Qaaqaaiyet area and then began withdraw
ing from two assembly points on the outskirts
of Haris and Sroubine, about four miles north
of the security zone, the Lebanese sources
said.
Helicopter gunships were seen airlifting
soldiers back to Israel at about « p.m,. nearly
six hours after the drive began, they said
C.oksel said the Israelis had “at least two
companies of mechanized troops pushing on
several fronts and landing helicopter-borne
troops in several villages '*
Beirut state radio quoted its reporters in
south Lebanon as saying the fighting centered
around the villages of Deir Ntar and al
Sultaniyeh, about seven miles north of the
frontier, and Haris and Kafra. three miles far
ther north.
tt reported hand-to-hand combat in al
Sultaniyeh and said the Israelis pushed the
guerrillas out of ICafra after a two-hour battle.
Five are killed in Johannesburg rioting ;
JOHANNESBURG. South
Africa (AP) —' Day long riot* „
rhged Monday, in ” a. black
township »Hat forma a pocket,of
squalor amidst .-comfortable. '
. white suburbs north of'Johan- .
nesburg . Residents ■ said -five ■
people were killed, including a
' black policeman.
. Witnesses said the rioting
was the Worst in the three days”
of .bloodshed . In ; Alexandra
toWnship that started Saturday •
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