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Cabinet resistance to budget plan surfaces
By OWEN ULLMANN
Associated Press Writer
:WASHINGTON (AP) Budget Direc
tqr David A. Stockman's assault on next
yfar's federal budget, expected to rival
the record reductions already achieved,
hps spawned a strong resistence
movement within President Reagan's
own camp.
iCabinet secretaries and agency direc
tors are fighting Stockman's latest bud
get-slashing proposals with a temerity
alid skill they lacked last winter, when
Stockman called virtually all the shots.
;The growing opposition from top ad-
Canada's House of Commons nears final vote
By CHARLES J. HANLEY
Associated Press Writer
;.OTTAWA (AP) The House of Commons was
approaching a final vote yesterday in a 50-year
dirive to give Canada a true national charter for
the first time. The resolution on constitutional
reform, expected to be overwhelmingly ap
proved, could also spur on the French separatists
of. Quebec.
-The resolution asks the British Parliament to
eld a legal anachronism by giving up control of
qnada's constitution, after first inserting a U.S.-
style bill of rights and other new provisions in the
dikument.
;The resolution must go from the House of
Commons v to the powerless Canadian Senate be
fOre being sent to London; where the British
Prliament is expected to approve it.
Nicaragua gains Soviet support
Nation becoming superpower in Central America, U.S. official , says
KV MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN
Atsociated Press Writer
:WASHINGTON (AP) A senior U.S.
official said yesterday that• Nicaragua is
preparing to bolster its air force with
Soviet-made MiG jets and is "on the
verge of becoming a superpower in Cen
tral American terms."
* The official, who spoke on condition his
nOme and position not be identified,
dksclosed that the revolutionary govern-
Ment in Nicaragua recently lengthened
three runways to accommodate MiGs.
The official said the U.S. government
now expects about two dozen MiG jets to
Wive in Nicaragua next spring..
•As a result, the official said, the Soviet
btoc. "can see for the first time the
psissibility of a military base in Central
,America."
;That statement represented the most
serious statement yet in a recently
tepped-up Reagan administration cam
paign warning of a drift of the Sandanista
!overnment toward the Soviet bloc.
:"The appearance of the planes will tip
the balance," the official said. "Now the
ondurans have air superiority, but
hen the MiGs and pilots get there they
ministration officers adds a new and
formidable barrier to the president's
drive for major new savings in his 1983
budget plan, which he must send to
Congress early next year.
Congress, which went along last sum
mer with much of the president's budget
and tax cuts for 1982, also seems less
inclined to be as cooperative this time
around.
"Dave (Stockman) doesn't expect to
win all of these (cuts)," conceded one
aide at the Office of Management and
Budget. "We never expected it to be the
same the second time around.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Tru
deau's government hopes to have the process
completed by February
The constitutional plan, goal of Canadian lead
ers for more than 50 years, was the product of a
compromise between Trudeau and the premiers
of Canada's nine English-speaking provinces, and
of last-minute struggles over the rights of women
and Canadian native peoples.
The last remaining problem is the opposition of
Quebec's separatist premier, Rene Levesque,
who plans to go to the Canadian Supreme Court
one final time in a desperation bid to block a
constitution that he contends diminishes the pro
vincial powers of French-speaking Quebec. The
courts have ruled against him before.
In one move last week, Levesque's Cabinet
issued a decree declaring that Quebec was exer
won't." Honduras has a pro-Western
government
The arrival of the planes "will cement
Nicaragua's military superiority in Cen
tral America," the official said.
Last week, another senior U.S. official
said the Soviet Union recently trans
ferred 17 MiG-21 jets to Cuba, prompting
speculation this would allow Cuba to send
older MiGs to Nicaragua. Earlier, U.S.
officials had said Nicaraguan pilots are
being training in Bulgaria.
Reviewing Soviet bloc influence in Ni
caragua, the senior official said yester
day that the capital, Managua, "has
become an international center with
East Germans there, Bulgarians there,
North Koreans there, Soviets there, Cu
bans there, and even the PLO (Palestine
Liberation Organization.)"
The official said East Germans were
handling Nicaragua's internal securit
y,and Cubans were running its army.
The official said that when the Sanda
nistas overthrew Anastasio Somoza two
and-a-half years ago the Nicaraguan
army had 7,000 men mostly concentrated
in Managua. Now, he said, it has 50,000
"before, the Cabinet officers didn't
even know where the bathroom was.
They weren't on their feet. Now they
are."
A year ago, even before Reagan and
his Cabinet took office, then-Rep. Stock
man of Michigan was assembling an
awesome package of spending cuts total
ing nearly $5O billion. Acknowledged
widely as a brilliant budget mastermind,
Stockman sold the president on almost
every item on the list.
For the next budget, Stockman is ex
pected to produce a package of cuts at
least as large as the last one, to narrow a
cising a "veto" over the new constitution, some
thing it said French-Canadians were entitled to do
as one of the country's "two founding nations."
But federal Justice Minister Jean Chretien, a
French Quebecer but a staunch federalist, replied
that Levesque "can pass a decree if he wants that
there will be no snow in . Quebec this winter and it
will have the same effect."
Levesque says he opposes the plan because,
among other things, it makes illegal parts of a
Quebec law that discourages English-language
education in the province, and overrides other
laws that favor Quebecers over other Canadians
in employment
The Quebec leader's critics assert that he never
planned to accept any constitutional agreement,
in the hope that a new split between Quebec and
English Canada would boost the cause of his Parti
troops and an additional 200,000 mili
tiamen.
'The appearance of
the planes will tip the
balance. Now the
Hondurans have air
superiority, but when
the MiGs and pilots
get there (Nicaragua)
they won't.'
—U.S. official
Secretary of State,Alexander M. Haig
Jr. had said previously there are 3,000
Cubans in Nicaragua, including doctors,
teachers and some military advisers.
The .senior official who disclosed the
information on the MiG jets said one of
the powerful Ortega brothers recently
gaping deficit projected at more than
$lOO billion.
But top department administrators,
having grown familiar with and protec
tive of their programs, are complaining
that Stockman is going too far. They hope
the president will listen to them this
time.
In acknowledging the fights that lie
ahead, White House officials announced
last weekend that next month the presi
dent will become heavily involved in
shaping the 1983 budget by personally
hearing his Cabinet officers' appeals.
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes
was "in Moscow for a week or 10 days."
He did not specify whether he meant
Nicarguan Defense Minister Humberto
Ortega or Daniel Ortega, a member of
the Sandinistas' ruling directorate.
The official said Nicaragua is "on the
verge of becoming a superpower in Cen
tral American terms." He said this
causes U.S. concern because "insurgen
cies are being fed in • Guatemala and
Honduras in the same way as in El
Salvador."
The Reagan administration has de
scribed the El Salvadoran insurgency, as
Cuban-backed aggression with weapons
funneled through Nicaragua to the Salva
doran guerrillas
The Nicaraguan government has ex
pressed concern that the Reagan admin
istration is supporting efforts to
overthrow it. The Nicaraguans have said
they need to build their defenses against
raids from Honduras by former Somoza
guardsmen and against perceived mili
tary threats from other governments in
the region.
Haig has warned in recent weeks of
Nicaragua's "drift toward totalitaria
nism."•
said Reagan "expects an unusual num
ber of appeals" because the cuts for 1983
will•be "very deep."
"We're going through a more normal
process this year," said a budget official
at the Labor Department, which plans to
appeal proposed budget cuts in its pro
grams. "Last time, it all happened so
fast; this time, it's a more orderly proce
dure.
Several department budget officials
said the stiffened resistance has not been
prompted in any way. by Stockman's
confessed doubts about Reagan's eco
nomic program.
Quebecois government, which wants to pull the
province out of the Canadian confederation.
Quebec voters, by a 60-to-40 ratio, rejected the
separatist option in a referendum in May 1980.
At a convention this weekend in Montreal, PQ
militants are expected to push for a new indepen
dence campaign, possibly through early provin
cial elections fought solely on the secession issue.
Although the revised constitution reduces the
powers of Canada's provinces in some ways, in
others it firmly establishes the world's second
largest country a vast land of only 24 million
people as a highly decentralized federation.
The constitution, has been the British North
America Act of 1867, an act of the British Parlia
ment that formed an independent nation out of the
colonial provinces.
London has tried to relinquish control of the
schedules meeting
Haig
Nicaraguan official
with
By MARC D. CHARNEY
Associated Press Writer
CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) Sec
retary of State Alexander M. Haig
Jr., arriving in this Caribbean island
nation yesterday at the start of the
Organization of American States
assembly, set talks with Nicara
gua's foreign minister as his first
private meeting, a U.S. spokesman
said.
Haig is expected to address the 27-
member general assembly today. A
Newsweek magazine report said he
would call for a tough new line by
nations of the Americas against
Cuba.
State Department spokesman
Dean Fischer said Haig would meet
privately later today with Miguel
d'Escoto Brockman, Nicaragua's
foreign minister. Ashley Wills,
spokesman for the. U.S. Embassy in
the, eastern Caribbean, said it was
Haig's first scheduled bilateral con
versation.
Recent U.S. charges that Nicara-
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Thursday, Dec.
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Senate Democrats
find opposition.
to amendments
for military bill
WASHINGTON (AP) Senate ; Democrats,
saying the nation is "overprepared for nuclear .
war," met solid Republican opposition yesterday',
as they unsuccessfully tried to increase spending;
for military manpower and conventional war 1 ,
gear.
Rejected in virtual party-line votes were;
amendments to the $208.5 billion military spend-:
ing bill, which includes $2.43 billion sought by.
President Reagan to start construction of 100 B-1 5 .
bombers. •
The, Democrats said they were trying to shift]
money .away from the B-1. An amendment to
eliminate funds for the bombers was expected to:
be offered later.
Among the defeated amendments were propo-h
sals to add $77 million for more soldiers and
airmen; $l4B million for Army ammunition; $6O,
million for faster production of tanks, trucks and; ;
other equipment; and $74.6 million to intensify ;
U.S. naval presence in the Persian Gulf.
Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., said the United;
States was "overprepared for nuclear war" and;
would be "unprepared for conventional war,"
unless spending on such items as ammunition and
manpower was increased.
Sen. J. James Emily', sponsor of the $6O
- force-modernization amendment, ap
pealed to Republicans not to "follow blindly, the-•
dictates of the leaderliii);" - btillifs proposal was ';
defeated 56-37, with no Republican support. 54,
The manpower amendment would have pro
vided funds for 6,000 more soldiers and 6,000 more;
airmen. . • ife
Hollings said the administration's decision t 0..;
abandon its original request for the troop increas
es was "a reversal of a manpower policy and a:1
defense posture that had been carefully consid- , I
ered as a minimum force necessary."
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Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., contended that-4
the Air Force and Army supported the amounts:.
already in the bill, which would increase Air',;
Force strength by 10,500 people and maintain';
Army strength at existing levels.
on charter
document to Canada . since 1931, but federal and
provincial leaders here could not agree on how-:
amendments would be ratified once the constitu-"•
tion was theirs. As a result, amendments request
ed by Canada have had to be enacted by the
British Parliament. z.
The separatist movement that arose in Quebeco ,
in the late.l97os prompted Canadians to try again , .
to seek a firmer legal foundation for their confed-':
eration. At a constitutional conference held Nov..:
2-5 a dozen have been held over the past half- - ;
century Trudeau and the nine premiers , finally)
•
reached an accord.
The Nov. 5 agreement had dropped proposed'
guarantees of sexual equality of rights and the
rights of Canadian Indians and Eskimos. After a';
strenuous lobbying campaign by women's and
native groups, the provisions were restored. .1,
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gua was drifting to the left, and
accusations by the Central Ameri
can nation that the United States
was preparing some form of action
against Nicaragua, have formed a
worrisome backdrop to the opening
of this assembly.
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Dates set for French elections
PARIS (AP) The French Cab
inet yesterday set March 14 and
March 21 as the dates for next year's
two-round cantonal elections that
will mark the first test of the new
Socialist government's grassroots
strength.
Officials of about half of France's
3,629 cantons, roughly eqqivalent in
structure to counties, will be up for
election in balloting that also will
show the progress of the conserva
tive opposition to rebuild its base.
The government also plans to cre
ate about 160 new cantons to con
form with demographic changes,
and those new posts also will be up
for election.
Cantonal officials are elected for
six-year terms. Every three years,
half of them face re-election.
The. Socialists ended 23 years of
U.S. weapons
PEKING (AP) China's official
Xinhua news agency yesterday
sharply attacked proposed U.S.
weapons sales to Taiwan, saying
that American supporters of such
sales are meddling in Chinese af
fairs and acting like "overlords."
The commentary was the latest
sign of increasing Chinese opposi
tion to U.S. policy on Taiwan, the
Chinese island province governed by
the rival Nationalists. China has
vowed an unspecified but, strong
reaction. •
, Xinhua said: "Unable to,advance
any tenable arguments to justify
their position in faVor of arms sales
to Taiwan, a number of Americans
Royal pregnancy understood
FALMOUTH, England (AP)
Prince Charles, explaining the fre
quent absences of the pregnant Prin
cess Diana, said yesterday he's
beginning to understand female
problems.
Diana, 20 and expecting a baby in
June, cancelled three appearances
this week and several last month,
apparently, because of morning sick
ness.
"I must apologize for the absence ,
of my wife," the 33-year-old prince
told well-wishers during a tour here.
"I have come to the conclusion
that most ladies think that we men
don't understand the problems they
face," said Charles. "But I must
say, I am slowly beginning to find
out what they are."
unbroken conservative rule with the
election this
,spring of President
Francois Mitterrand and a Socialist
Majority in the National Assembly.
. Since then, the Socialists have
moved the country sharply to the left
economically -- nationalizing key
industries and all remaining private
banks, imposing a wealth tax, cre
ating public jobs through public
spending and increasing social secu
rity benefits.
Another major government pro
ject is the decentralization of local
government, reversing a centuries
long system under which most local
government o decisions were made by
federally-appointed prefects.
The dates for the cantonal elec
tions coincide roughly with the dates
for final parliamentary debate on
the decentralization law.
sales opposed
have now come out to suggest that
the. U.S. government should go
aheOd with its decision regardless of
China's reaction."
The commentary said some Amer
icans "still believe that China's sov
ereignty is limited, but , that of the
United States is boundless. The idea
that that United States has a right to
meddle in China's affairs reminds
people of the theciry of 'limited sov
ereignty.'
China, which regards the Soviet
Union has the world's greatest men
ace, has used this so-called limited
sovereignty theory to' describe
Kremlin policy toward Eastern Eu
ropean countries such as Poland.
Prince Charles
' Conference
Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., walks
through placard-waving delegates to the
White House Conference on Aging,
Wednesday, as he arrives to address the
conference's Committee on Economic
Well-Being. On Tuesday, •President Rea
gan, in a surprise visit to the conference,
said he is frustrated at being portrayed
as an enemy of his own generation and
added he would not betray those entitled
to Social Security benefits.
Funeral services held in Hollywood for actress Natalie Woo
BY YARDENA ARAR
Associated Press Writer
HOLLYWOOD (AP) To the soft
strains of Russian balalaika music, actor
Robert Wagner bent and kissed the flow
er-covered casket of his wife, Natalie
Wood, as she was buried yesterday in the
city she loved.
About 100 people gathered around the
gravesite in the warm afternoon sun
shine, bidding farewell to the actress who
drowned over the weekend.
The mourners included Wood's two
daughters, Courtney, 7, and Natasha, 11,
a daughter by a previous marriage.
Photographers, barred from the subur
ban Los Angeles cemetery, crowded out
side along a wall about 30 yards from the
Reagan asks for fresh start with union leaders
By •MERRILL HARTSON
AP Labor Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -President Reagan, lamenting
that he has become "estranged from labor," asked
AFL-CIO leaders for a fresh,start yesterday and prom
ised, for his part, that he will review the mass firings of
air traffic controllers. •
But despite the optimism 'expressed by union leaders
over Reagan's remarks in an Oval Office meeting, a
later written notice from
, the White House press office
appeared to rule out any prospect that the 11,500 fired
controllers would be brought back to their old jobs.
According to the AFL-CIO contingent, including presi
dent Lane Kirkland, Reagan promised a full review of
grave of the woman who was born Nata
sha Gurden, daughter of Russian immi
grants..
Wagner had been under a doctor's care
as he grieved over his wife's death.
Friends said he had seemed still unable
to accept her death.
"I think it will take a little time before
it hits him," said Daily Variety column
ist Army Archerd, a family friend. "It's
like he thinks someone made a horrible
mistake and (Wood) will just come walk
ing in the door anytime."
Days before she died, Wood had talked
with another Hollywood columnist and
friend, Roderick Mann of the Los An
geles Times, about her plans for finishing
"Brainstorm," making her. February
the controllers issue. The union officials said they took Informed of that statement, AFL-CIO spokesman Rex
that to mean that not only might he lift the three-year Hardesty said the White House had "closed the door" on
ban on any other government employment for the fired • 'the federation's desire that the controllers be re
strikers a prospect he raised a day earlier but that instated. "This puts us back to square one," he said.
they might actually be returned to their old jobs. Speakes quoted Reagan as telling the AFL-CIO lead-
At first, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said ership in an hour-long meeting that "I never anticipated
that "there are no plans now to put them back in the I would be estranged from labor with all the years I put
towers." But he agreed that Reagan didn't rule that out, in as a union member.
either. A day earlier, Reagan told leaders of the Teamster
But later, in a written notice to the press, the White union he was considering whether to lift a three-year
House said "is not considering rehiring these ban on any federal employment for the air traffic
individuals as air -traffic controllers." Rather, the strikers. Yesterday, according to the AFL-CIO contin
notice said, the issue remains whether to lift the tan on gent, he went a step further and said he "will review"
any federal employment. the entire issue.
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stage debut in "Anastasia" at the Los
Angeles Civic Theater, and then taking
her annual tt•ip to Europe with Wagner.
He said she held a special fondness for
the city where she began her 39-year film
career at age 4 and quoted her as saying:
"I love this town. I suppose it's because I
grew up here."
A statement from publicists Rogers
and Cowan, distributed. at the funeral,
said Wood's will would be filed for pro
bate today in Los Angeles Superior
Court. Wagner, 51, is sole executor and
trustee, the release said, and Miss
Wood's attorney, Paul Ziffren, was
named his successor.
Meanwhile, sheriff's deputies contin
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The Daily Collegian Thursday, Dec. 3, 1981
early Sunday . off Santa Catalina Island.
Sheriff's homicide investigators said
they planned to re-interview Wagner and
actor Christopher Walken, 38, after hedg
ing on coroner's comments that the two
actors' "heated argument" prompted
Wood to leave them on the Wagners'
yacht Splendor for a dinghy ride about
midnight. Assistant Coroner Richard
Wilson now says "argument" was too
strong a word.
Los Angeles County Coroner Thomas
Noguchi said the actress slipped on the
yacht's swim step as she tried to board
the dinghy.
Tests showed Miss Wood's blood alco
hol level at 0.14, slightly above Californi
a's 0.10 drunken driving standard.
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