NATIONAL Automatic cuts delayed despite Bush’s threat WASHINGTON (AP) - Dem ocrats on the House Appropria tions Committee shouted down President Hush's veto threat Tuesday and voted to delay for 20 days deep spending cuts that will be triggered unless Congress and the White House agree on a deficit-reduction plan. If the $85 billion in arbitrary spending reductions are al lowed to take effect as sched uled Oct. 1, Chairman Jamie Whitten. D-Miss., told the com mittee. "it threatens to bring the economy to its knees. We can't afford the risk." “A full-blown crisis" may be required to force negotiators into solving the deficit, said Rep. Silvio Conte of Massachu setts. the senior Republican on the committee. At the White House, an angry Bush told reporters: "If there is no budget agreement with real spending reductions and real process reform by the end of the week, I will have to veto it. I do not want to see further de lay in kicking this problem on down the road." The House is likely to con sider the bill later this week. No deficit agreement was in sight, although top leaders of Congress and the administra tion claimed some progress. The goal is a combination of targeted spending reductions and tax increases that would cut the deficit by $50 billion during the 12 months begin ning Monday and by an addi tional $450 billion in the fol lowing four years. House Republican leader Bob Michel of Illinois told re porters he is ready to drop Bush's coveted capital-gains tax cut, which has been the thorniest issue in the negoti ations. “In my opinion the dog gone price is too steep.” he said. Michel said the administra tion is considering other op tions for stimulating the econo my — options that might be more acceptable to Democratic leaders, who consider a capital gains cut nothing but a wind fall for the rich. Democrats are insisting that any capital-gains reduction be offset by raising other taxes on the wealthy. The stopgap spending legis lation approved by the House panel is necessary because Neil Bush absent as S&L hearing begins in Denver DENY HR (AP) — One witness invoked the Fifth Amendment 14 times and another refused to appear voluntarily as a hearing began Tuesday on conflict-of interest allegations against Neil Bush, the president's son. Outside, the federal court house was surrounded by news media, security officers and protesters. The only thing missing in the savings and loan case was the center of all the attention. Neil Bush, 35, did not show up for the first day of what is anticipated to be a four-day proceeding before administra tive law Judge Daniel J. David son. "He has the option of being here. He only has to be here the day he testifies." said Office of Thrift Supervision spokesman Tom Mason. Bush is the last witness and is expected to tes tify at the end of the week. The federal Office of Thrift Supervision is trying to bar Bush from the banking and sav ings industry for his alleged ac tions as a director of Silverado Banking. Savings and 1-oan, which failed in late 19B8 at a cost to taxpayers of $1 billion. At Tuesday's hearing, Mi chael Wise. Silverado's former board chairman and chief exec utive officer, invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions on the grounds that he could incrimi nate himself. Davidson then allowed him the opportunity to testify in his chambers in order that Wise be "spared the ordeal of going through a futile gesture of tak ing the Fifth." But a transcript released later in the day showed Wise still re fused to answer any of the 14 questions he was asked. Those questions ranged from whether he could identify exhibits to his knowledge of Bush's business ties to two Denver developers who eventually defaulted on .Silverado loans exceeding *i.iu million. Wise also declined to speak with reporters as he left the judge's chambers. Meanwhile. Florian Barth, a former Silverado board member and a Denver car dealer, said Tuesday that he refused to tes tify voluntarily. The judge said he would sign a subpoena to bring Barth to court if either side requested one. Federal regulators accused Bush last February of violating his duty as a Silverado director from August 1985 to August 1988. The Office of Thrift Su pervision claims Bush may have improperly voted on loans and lines of credit for develop ers Kenneth Good and Bill Wal ters, both of whom contributed to Bush's JNB Exploration oil company. The two defaulted on Silverado loans totaling more than $130 million. Last week. Bush and other former Silverado directors also were sued for $200 million by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. The lawsuit alleged that gross negligence on the part of Silverado directors contributed to the S&L's collapse. Bush could have avoided this week's hearing by agreeing not to dispute the charges, as other S*L officials have done. By fighting the government, he has taken the case into a rare public forum. Russell Murray, former Sil verado executive vice presi dent. was the first scheduled witness to actually testify Tues day. He reviewed a 1986 proposal for a $900,000 line of credit for Good International Inc., which wanted to search for oil in Ar gentina with Bush's JNB as a partner. Murray said he did not recall anyone questioning the no-col lateral line of credit even though Good and Bush had a business relationship. none of the 13 annual appropri ation bills has been enacted — and a new budget year begins in less than a week. For the first time in several years, fed eral workers are taking the throat of furloughs seriously. "People are literally losing sleep over this." said Tom Do herty. an Occupational Safety and Health Administration in spector from Allentown, Pa. "They have kids to feud and house payments to make, and now they're having the rug swept out from under them by the system they work for ” With the Monday deadline in mind, the House panel agreed by a 32-20 vote to continue spending at present levels through Oct 20 and to block any threatened across-the-board spending cuts — including those that could bring mass fur loughs of federal workers — be fore that date. In an effort to discourage a veto, the Democratic-controlled committer' attached to the measure $2 billion of money to support the large-scale deploy ment of U S. military forces in the Persian Gulf. EVERYONE I9W LMVtRSm OF OREGON KALI CONVOCATION SEPTEMBER 28,1990 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: "ARE WE READY FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY?" 3:30 P.M., ERB MEMORIAL UNION BALLROOM Keynote Speaker: Mars Hat wood lutrcll, notevl publie school educator, advocate of civil and women’s rights and former president of the two-mil lion-member National Education Assoc ca tion, is this year’s convocation keynote speaker. Eutrell is the director of the Center for the Study of Education and National Development at George Washington University. Her address sc ill he followed by nine seminars on the convocation theme. “A University for Everyone." In addition to UO students and faculty and staff members, all members of our community are invited to participate in the annual academic activities celebrating the start of the school year. A UNIVERSITY FOR EVERYONE You are cordially invited to attend a seminar which represents a specific way to real or our coal of "A Univer sity tor Everyone " Seminars will be held in the Erb Memorial Union immediately following the convocation address Rooms, topics, and discussion leaders are listed Ix-low (/Mtnutxxi Room 1. The Structures of Discrimination and the Individual P.um 1.1 (iwartncy t iihl>s, Associate Professor. Si K. Il >ll«gV Ronald J Rousscve, Ptuiosi, Cnunsdimi Psychology hr Room 2. Affirmative Action: Historical, Social, and Legal Perspectives Clarence Spigner, Assistant Pnitessor, llc.ilth 1 Hanc Won«. Director, Affirmative Actual LVdur Ruum A ). Talking About Art and Architecture: Women’s Voices, Women's Visions Laura | Alpcrt, Associate Professor. Pine and Applied Arts Elizabeth Calm, Assistant Professor, Architecture Linda Enmger, Assistant Protestor, Art Education LVdur Huom E 4. Facing the Question of Class at "A University for Everyone” John B. Poster. Assistant Pnlessor. Sociology J Dennis (tilhcfl, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Physics Kis-i Haherman, President, Local 85,Oregon Public Employees I'nion Office (atordinator, East Asian Languages OuJ, Ruum 5. Native Son Fifty Years Later: Two Perspectives on Teaching the Novel Piles in I. (’oilman II, Pnitessor, English and Ethnic Studies Joseph Hynes. Professor, English Wulnul Ruum 6. Lesbian Women and (»ay Men: Our University Too Sarah A Dmgl.ts. Associate Pnifess,i*,L'intiputer and Inlorinaiion S lence IA Hiiiitic Is K Vetti. Protessot. I an Maple Kurnn 7. Beyond Curb Cut* and Charity: Disability and the University Dianne Fntuym, A»s.s late Pnrfessnr, Special EJih IIloll .iikI Rch.lhlllt.lt ItH) Phil kruuson. Research Av*s i.itc, Special Education and Rch.ihihl.idon Cedar Kuurn l) H. Many Women’s Voices: Discussion of Maxine Hong Kingston's Novels, Chicana Poetry, and Native American Autobiography Paul Dresman, Instructor.English l 'and.uc ( il.iss Montoya, InsirtHlot. English Robert C PfiHhlloot, Assistant Pfntcvsnr, Feather lulu, if ion Hen Ltiulet Riwm 4. A Chilly Climate in the Classroom: Students of Color, Lesbians and (Jays, and Athletes Speak Out About Their Educational Experiences I lavini Kisliir.i. Coordinator. Women’s ( enter, sc ill facilitate the panel dist uv.ltHI The hull l ' the ( /#»i th* S(u,/\ t»/ U umt M m SinVfjr and the CUdLrge nf kdinatkm uuh %fh\ uil diutldnt e ftutn the Offh. e UfirtvTww fit Eimyrne»»ffki "f / . .'ItitilM. .Mill( i.rnmiini|H RW.IH.*:> .It I V'l M<> V.V TV I 'nn,-run nfOr,T*i»i u