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Page 2 Portland Obwrvar, February 2,1983 udget increases military at expense of poor (Continued /rom page I column J) and SI per doctor*« visit. For non- welfare recipient« the charge« would be $2 and $1.50. Reagan will ssk Congre*« to re quire income tax payment« on medi cal insurance payment* made by em ployer* in excess of $2,100 a year for fam ily coverage or S840 per single person. This w ill raise S2 to S3 billion in taxes the first year and dis courage "discretionary visits" to doctors, Department of Health and Human Services said. K M 1 « , 1 tjf f j */ „1 C.5 3 /• W elfare Recipients of A FD C would be re quired to accept private em ploy ment and, if none exists, to accept non-paying public service job*. Pay ment* to recipient* would be re duced to reflect rent and utility pay ment requirements from person* living in an A FD C household. The A F D C program serves 11 m illion persons, nearly all women and chil dren, in 3.8 million households. The federal government pay* about 52 percent of the total cost. Energy assistance to low income persons would be cut drastically. Em ploym ent Reagan propose* expenditures of $3.5 b illion on employment and training, a decrease from the 1483 level, to serve 2 million people. A bout 50 percent would be in grants to the states to work with pri vate industry to train jobless. A sep arate grant would train or locate work for persons whose job* have been permanently eliminated. The President would continue the 16 weeks extended benefits for un employed but require that recipient* had worked 30 weeks rather than 20 to qualify. A seasonal sub-minimum wage o f $2.50 per hour for youth under 22 w ill be requested. Resi dential Job Corps and summer youth jobs programs would be re duced Federal employe The budget would impose a freeze in federal wages for one year; con tributions to the retirem ent fund would increase from 7 percent to 11 percent; retirees and survivors would receive no cost-of-living in creases. Federal employment would be cut by about 75,000 jobs. Educeton Education Department programs would receive a 12 percent cut. Aid to disadvantaged students and han dicapped would be unchanged. Student aid would be drastically changed. Persons applying for stu dent loans would be subjected to a means test; grants would not be giv- W A N N A START SOMETHIN? Then try the Union Avenue . . . en unless loans and work-study grants were insufficient; Supple mental Education O p p o rtu n ity grants would be eliminated; basic grant* would be restricted to 60 per cent o f costs; loan fund* would in crease. Students can borrow $2,500 per year at 7 percent interest. Inter est and dividends on "college sav ing* accounts” will be tax free. t*) BATTERY X-CHANGE • FREE Installation ’ 19.95 - FREE Battery Tea, Environment FREE Electrical check Environmental protection funds w ill be cut; 25 percent removed from support to states; fund* for air quality, water quality progrmas will be cut; local sewage-treatment grants will be retained; hazardous- waste dum p cleanup w ill receive added funds. Cachang« 3007 N.E. Union Ave. 249-0101 Natural reeourcee There are increases for irrigation and dam projects but 60 percent cuts in aquisition o f parkland. Cuts would be made in programs to en hance the fisheries, particularly In dian fisheries. Food programa Reagan propose* a $1.5 billion cut in food programd administered by the Agriculture Department. The proposed cut in food stamp* is $1.1 billion, approximately 10 percent. The child nutrition program would be cut by $250 million, or 8 percent. The Women, Infant* and Children program would remain at the 1983 level. Farmers will be paid to leave half their land unused. Farm produce ex port loans will be reduced. In spite o f increased farm bankruptcies, community-development and emer gency-disaster loans will be reduced. Cutback* will be made in programs to inspect food products for disease and to control crop and animal dis ease. Energy The Administration wants to cut 60 percent from research funds for non-conventional energy and put nearly all it* energy funds into nu clear arms research. High-energy physics, magnetic fusion and nu clear medicine would be funded along with the proposed Clinch River breeder reactor. Tranaportatlon Highway spending w ill increase 37 percent, financed by the 5< in crease in gas tax. Increases in a ir port and a ir tra ffic control are planned. Spending for mass transit will decline. Law enforcement A 10 percent increase in the Jus- TbsGranma tice Department is planned— most o f which will go to 12 regional task forces to investigate large scale drug operations and prison construction. Military The Reagan budget call* for a 14.2 percent increase in m ilitary spending, raising the military share to 28 percent o f the budget— up from 25.9 percent in 1983 and from 23.8 percent in Carter's 1981 bud get. An increase of an additional 10 percent is planned for fiscal 1985. The budget gives a much greater increase. 36.4 percent, to nuclear- weapons forces than to general pur pose weapons (8 .8 percent). The President seeks funds to produce 27 M Xs plus research and construction funds $457.4 m illio n is scheduled for Pershing II medium wage missiles for deployment in Europe. The Navy will begin construction o f 17 ships and reactivating six other*. Among them is a new type o f assault ship to carry marines ashore using helicopters and a ir- cushioned landing cratt. These ship* are half the size of a nuclear carrier. Active forces are to increase from 2.I27.OOO to 2,165,000, with the largest increase going to the A ir Force. The budget includes $6.9 billion for the ten B-l bombers; three nu clear submarines; three cruisers; one Trident submarine at $2.5 billion; $2 b illion for Trident I I missiles; $1.2 to develop and purchase cruise missiles; $393.3 million for 124 sea- launched cruise missiles; $563.2 for 120 ground-launched missiles; 227 Patriot missiles. Also: 120 F-16 fighter planes; 48 B -l5 fighters; 12 cargo planes; 2,600 Maverick missiles; 84 F -l 8 fighters; 24 F-14 fighters; 21 amphibious hel icopters; 32 AV-8B bombers; 12 at tack helicopters; 84 utility helicop ters; 720 M - l tanks; 600 armored personnel vehicles; 76 rocket launchers and 36,000 rockets. The 1984 m ilita ry budget is planned at $274.1 b illio n . O ver a five year period, $1.8 trillion would be spent. 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The inmates point out that Spanish speaking people are often deprived o f a fa ir trial because o f the lan guage b arrier. They cannot ade quately participate in their own de fense and are often advised by their non-Spanish-speaking attorneys to FROM plead guilty. The prison maintains a law li brary—as required by court order— which is manned by inmate parale gals who are trained to assist in mates with their appeals and other legal matter*. The inmates believe they are deprived of their civil rights because there is no paralegal “ who can understand and comprehend the Spanish language to a degree suffi cient enough to assist them in get ting access to the courts or any ad ministrative agency which has juris diction over them.” Abraham Cruz, who is Spanish speaking, has completed the parale gal training twice and has applied for the position. (2ALDWELLS COLONIA!. MORTUARY N E H lh •( S.ndy Blvd .n d BurnMd. Po rtl.nd O r . gon 97132 Phon. I JOS) 2)2 411} Honduras (Continued from page ! column 6) o f which were to move Honduras' Fifth Battalion and four tons of mil itary hardware to the Nicaraguan frontier. A large part of these arms were given to counterrevolutionary groups operating along the border with U.S. financing and training. In December o f 1981, C .I.A . director W illiam Casey admitted to a Con gressional committee that the agency The construction of Stonehenge required an esti mated 1.5 million hours of labor The Amazon river has 1,100 tributary streams. The eyes of the four-eyed fish of Central an South America are most unusual. These fish swim on the sur face of the w ater. The upper half of their eyes are adapted for seeing in air, the lower half for seeing in water. The first Bank of the United States was chartered by Congress in 1791. w a » d do n o t do business w ith S o u th A fric a W o p American State • J • I Bank M IN0CPEN0CNT bank Head Ottica 2737 N. C. Union Portland, Oregon 97212 was involved in destabilization e f forts against Nicaragua. Nicaragua has been the victim of numerous aggressions over its bor der by U S.-armed "somocistas” — followers o f the deposed and now deceased Nicaraguan dictator. In the last six months there have been 71 reported air violations, 15 naval attacks, 68 ground attacks over the border by Nicaraguan exiles, 17 at tack* by the Honduran military; 128 Nicaraguans have been kidnapped and more than 100 killed. The U.S. Honduran maneuvers in February, and the presence of U.S. troops a few miles from the border are expected to increase tensions and aggressions. The United Nations provided $19 million in military aid to Honduras in 1982, plus $1.3 million in military training. Also, $21 million was pro vided for upgrading three airports for “ U.S. use in case of an emergen cy." Bring this advertisement for additional 5% savings. 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