Gafaar Nimeiri, president of Sudan
'eace Corps, VISTA targets of Reagan cutbacks
By L.A. HILL
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
President Reagan has zeroed in on two
programs, Peace Corps and Volunteers in
Service to America, as targets for cutbacks in
his plan to balance the national budget.
For the Peace Corps, Reagan's plan could
mean a cutback of volunteers, while, for
VISTA, it means total elimination of the
program.
"It's reached the point where we're actually
telling people not to bother applying to
VISTA," said Mary Keith, Peace .
Corps/VISTA recruiter at the University.
If the appropriations bill for ACTION
(VISTA's and Peace Corps's umbrella
agency) passes in the Senate, VISTA faces
about a $l2 million cut in the 1982 budget.
In addition to this cut, Reagan has
requested another 12.5 percent across-the
board cut from ACTION.
Jim Burnley, VISTA Public Affairs
Director, said he is not certain how the
possible additional cut will affect VISTA, .
"Our funding situation for 1982 is very much
up in the air," he said. In regard to the
appropriations bill, he said, "I certainly
of 77th district
Part
into 76th, 171st
split
by state commission
By RON WATERS
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The Pennsylvania
Reapportionment Commission
yesterday announced its
reapportionment plan that includes
placing parts of the 77th district,
now represented by Rep. Gregg L.
Cunningham, R-Centre County, into
the 76th district and into a new 171st
district, a commission secretary
said. •
The commission will redistrict the
state House and Senate legislative
districts following the results of the
1980 census.
Four University residence halls in
East Halls that are located in
College Township —Hastings,
Snyder, Stone and Stuart halls
would become part of the 171st, with
the remainder of the campus
remaining in the 77th.
The new districting will become
law in 30 days unless challenged in
court during that time, commission
spokeswoman Louise Gilles said.
"Even if there are (court
challenges), this will be the districts
for the 1982 elections,"she said.
Cunningham would not comment
on the plan because there have not
been new developments, his
secretary said.
However, Cunningham told The
Daily Collegian in September, after
a preliminary plan was proposed,
that he felt having two legislators
representing Penn State instead of
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Partly sunny and mild today after some early morning fog, with temperatures
reaching a pleasant 67 degrees. Increasing cloudiness tonight with low tempera
tures around 40 degrees. Variable cloudiness tomorrow with the change of
afternoon or evening showers. High temperatures in the low 60s.
one would be advantageous to the
University.
The 34th legislative district of Sen.
J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre County,
would continue to represent all of •
Centre County, but would also
represent all of Clinton County and
would lose all of its areas in
Clearfield County, said Lowell
Witmer, an aide tct the Senator.
"I don't think it will be too much of
a problem," Witmer said. "Corman
has certainly been up there, he
knows the people up there. There are
good people everywhere. People are
just as good in Clinton as in
Clearfield."
Gilles said all of the 50 Senate
districts are within 1 percent of the
237,335 ideal population, and all 203
House districts are within 1.5
percent of the 58,456 ideal
population.
James Eisenstein, state
coordinator for Common Cause, said
that organization's State Governing
Board will meet on Oct. 31 to stgdy
the plan.
Common Cause objected to the
preliminary plan because the
organization contended the plan
violated the state constitution, which
states that not only should districts
be as equal in population as
practical, but that districts be
composed of compact and
contiguous territory and that
political entities not be divided
unless necessary.
inside
weather
the
daily
anticipate no higher than $20.7 million (down
from $33 million last year) or less."
Just about the only action VISTA can count
on is VISTA's elimination in 1983.
VISTA, which celebrates its 16th
anniversary this year, will deal with the
eventual phase-out by slowly decreasing the
number of volunteers and closely scrutinizing
programs, Burnley said.
"We have not placed any new volunteers
since last April," he said. In addition, he said
VISTA will probably place only a few more
volunteers until the end of this year.
When various VISTA programs reach their
one-year deadlines, Burnley said VISTA will
decide which programs are worthy of
renewal.
"As they come up, we decide which we want
to renew and/or phase out completely," he
said. "A great many VISTA projects in 1981
will not be continued in 1982."
Burnley said the programs that will
probably survive scrutiny are those that
create job opportunities by training the'.
unskilled and teaching adults how to read and
"We're trying to get out of the business of
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Sudan to strengthen
Nimeiri says Sudanese villages have been
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS
Associated Press Writer
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Sudan, the largest African
country, is strengthening its ties with the United
States to counter what it sees as the threat of a Soviet
backed Libyan invasion.
President Gaafar Nimeiri, in Cairo for the funeral
of his assassinated ally, President Anwar Sadat, told
reporters Libya his neighbor to the northwest
has been bombing Sudanese border villages daily for
two months and has based strategic, bombers within
striking distance of his capital, Khartoum.
The United States has offered $l3O million in
military aid this year, primarily in anti-aircraft
weapons and rockets, but this is not enough, Nimeiri
said.
He said Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr,
Smooth as silk
encouraging dependency on welfare," he
said.
Ideally, the worthwhile programs will have
enough community support that local groups
will step in to fund them. Burnley said.
"Those projects which are doing good work,
which are worth institutionalizing, are going
to have local support," he said.
Many communities, Burnley added, are
aware of VISTA's eventual departure and are
already taking steps to maintain the various
programs. •
VISTA will also save money by not sending
volunteers out of their areas, as VISTA has
done in the past, he said, ,
"It's expensive to ship people back and
forth across the country," Burnley said.
"Virtually all volunteers will be working in
their areas in 1982."
Keith also said volunteers will no longer•be
sent to various regions of the United States.
,•
"There might b6;a:federallyp'aid .
administrator :herd ,StatqColiege, nanny "
VISTA - prograin will be carried'Out* a State
College resident," Keith said. No. VlSTA
sponsored programs are currently in
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with whom he met after the Sadat funeral, told him
he knew the situation in the area was dangerous.
Haig said the United States was looking into means
of speeding up arms deliveries to Sudan. The week
before Sadat was killed, his vice president and
apparent successor Hosni Mubarak went to
Washington to urge the United States to increase its
aid to Sudan.
Last March, Sudan followed Egypt's lead in
offering the United States military facilities in case
fighting erupts in the oil-rich Middle East.
Nimeiri said Sudan would join Egypt and the
United States next month for the first time in
expanded military exercises designed primarily to
train the American Rapid Deployment Force.
He said the United States was committed to helping
Sudan in the event Libya launches.a "traditional"
existance in the area.
On the other side of Reaganomics, the
Peace Corps faces a $lO million budget cut,
from $lO5 million to $95 million in 1982.
As with VISTA, the Peace Corps may have
to deal with ACTION's possible 12.5 percent
across-the-board cut.
Lewis Moore, volunteer at the national
,Peace Corps Office, said the 12.5 percent cut
could decrease the budget by an additional $l2
million. Even without the additional cut, next
year's budget will mean eliminating more
than 200 volunteer positions, Moore said.
This funding cutback, he said, "is serious
for a program which hasn't received any
increase in funding since 1972."
In addition to cutting overseas positions, the
Peace Corps, which now has more than 5,500
volunteers in 58 countries, , will also cut
personnel in Washington and other regional
offices, Keith said.
Although VISTA will be phased out,Keith •,
said, she does not expect the,ame fate,for.th:6".
Peace Corps.' - •
"I think that there's enough recognition of
the value of a person-to-person kind of
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U.S. ties
bombed by Libya
military attack, but there was no such agreement
regarding guerrilla activity.
Relations with the United States have been rocky
Diplomatic ties between the two countries were
suspended between 1967 and 1972 as a result of the
Arab-Israeli war. In March 1973, Palestinians in
Sudan murdered U.S. Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr.
and Deputy Chief of Mission George C. Moore. Sudan
later released the assassins, bringing another chill in
relations.
Nimeiri's growing friendliness toward Egypt, after
a period of coolness over the Egyptian-Israeli peace
treaty, was underlined yesterday by Nimeiri's
symbolic voting for Mubarak in an Egyptian election
to confirm Mubarak as Sadat's successor. Nimeiri
holds honorary Egyptian citzenship.
program," Keith said.
She said there are about 80,000 to 85,000
returning volunteers who praise the Peace
Corps's value in Washington.
Keith, who served five years as a volunteer
in Paraguay, said a lot of the returning
volunteers are working'in the federal
government, including two senators, three
representatives and the Agency of
International Development Director.
"There's more upper level support for the
volunteer program than back in the '7os when
Nixon tried to cut it," she said.
The Peace Corps probably will not cut hack
in the number of countries it has been serving,
although it will not be able to supply as many
of the volunteers as countries might request,
Keith added.
Peace Corps Public Affairs directors in
Washington have said the potential effects of
the budget cuts are still hard to determine.
"It's all so new tows," a Public Affairs
Director said
administiation'and we really do believe the
economic recoVery Program is an important
program."
Janis Burger