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udget increases military at expense of poor
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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. Pentagon expenditures
have gone up by one-third since
Reagan took office; if he remains in
office for eight years and reaches his
goals, the annual m ilitary budget
will have increased by 250 percent
during his presidency.
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Inmates seek Spanish speaker
Hispanic inmates at Oregon State
Penitentiary have filed a petition re
questing that Abraham Cruz be se
lected as an inmate paralegal. 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
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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.
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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.
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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."
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