B—The Dai Frid, Post 'B3 Social Security in flux By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Social Security will be unable to pay retirees' and survivors' benefits on time starting in July 1983 unless Congress takes corrective action "in the very near future," the system's trustees said yesterday. But the trustees, all members of President Rea gan's Cabinet, made no recommendations for bol stering the system's sagging Old Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund. They said they are, waiting for Reagan's National Commission on Social Security Reform to complete a report due by the end of this year. The trustees forecast that beneficiaries will get a 7.6 percent benefit increase this July based on the consumer price index. Reagan has opposed congres sional calls to reduce the size of that increase. Despite benefit cuts enacted in 1981, "the short range financial status is significantly worse than was estimated last year,"the trustees said in their annual report to Congress. "A series of economic downturns more severe than anticipated have led to the current financial crisis," said the trustees Treasury Secretary Donald T. dead, 5 missing resort avalanches By MITCHELL LANDSBERG Associated Press Writer • SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. (AP) Rescue workers on skis searched ' drifts and debris at a snow-bombed • resort yesterday and found three more victims of a pair• of avalanches, ' bringing the death toll to six. Five people were missing, and two of them were "presumed perished" according to Placer County Sheriff Donald Nunes. Three other bodies were found Wednesday, after the first ..'avalanche swamped the area. No further information was imme diately available from officials about the bodies found yesterday. Although the day dawned bright and sunny yesterday, the weather deterio rated as the day wore on, and res cuers worked against a fast-moving snowstorm. Four people were rescued from the slides, including 74-year-old John Ri ley, who said avalanches "had come down many times in the past, but not as bad as this." • After early-morning dynamite blasts shook down loose snow to avert more avalanches yesterday, more than 100 rescuers headed for the Al pine Meadows resort aboard snow tractors, then by foot and on skis, and aided by dogs. The Alpine Meadows resort, about three miles south of Squaw Valley at 7,000 feet in the Sierra, was closed by heavy snow Wednesday. But up to 13 employees, and possibly some vaca tioners, Were there when disaster struck shortly after 4 p.m., officials said. One hissing wall of snow shot down a forested hillside, leveling a 20-foot wide swath of trees and burying the parking lot. The other slide, 15 to 2O feet high on April 2, 1982 its edge ; slammed into a two-story A frame ski patrol building, pushing it into the main lodge. The A-frame splintered and collapsed, and one wall of the 70,000-square-foot wood and glass lodge was smashed. "It was just total devastation at the bottom of the hill," said Tom Ander son, a member of Wednesday's rescue team. "Snow cats turned upside down, buildings blown apart. It was just a mess." Snow cats are large tractors used to groom slopes. A minor avalanche blocked Califor nia Route 89, forcing the first wave of rescuers on skis and dog sleds to make a long detour to reach the re sort. The first group did not make it in until noon yesterday, and the rest were racing a fast-moving snows torm, said Placer County sheriff's Sgt.. Kevin Besana. Slides and snowdrifts blocked mountain passes throughout the Lake Tahoe basin, trapping thousands of motorists, engulfing two homes near the Squaw Valley ski resort and prompted evacuations from 100 moun tain cabins endangered' by potential avalanches. Five people were rescued from buried homes. Several hundred people in homes near Alpine Meadows were being tak en out by a convoy of snow vehicles, Nunes said. They were not in danger rom avalanches, but their power was out and provisions were running low. Cathy Gibb, a real estate agent who has lived at the resort for nine years, said some of the visitors were "pan icking with cabin fever." "Some of them are really funny," she said. "They have enough food and they're safe but they've been trapped inside for four days and are going a little stir-crazy." Regan, Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan and Health and Human Services Secretary Richard S. Schweiker. Congress passed a stopgap measure last year to tide the old age fund over through 1982 by allowing it to borrow from the healthier disability and hospital reserves. Reagan set up the commission after with drawing his own controversial proposals for cutting early retirement and other benefits. Social Security Commissioner John A. Svahn said in an interview the old age fund will have to start borrowing from the other funds in October. He said that Regan, the managing trustee, then will have to decide before the end of the year how much to borrow to keep the old age fund afloat for the first half of 1983. Svahn said the timing for getting Social Security reforms enacted "is pretty good." The commission will make its recommendations by the end of the year or earlier, he said. "Assuming the authority to borrow was exercised, it would give the Congress several months to act and shore up the system," Svahn said. Rep. Claude Pepper, D-Fla., chairman of the House Select Committee on Aging and a member of Rea gan's commission, said the trustees' report "con firms my belief that the poor performance of the Polish soldiers, families defect By LARRY GERBER Associated Press Writer VIENNA, Austria (AP) Two Polish army pilots made a daredevil flight across two Communist bor ders yesterday, grazing treetops to evade radar and bring their loved ones out of Poland in a single-engine biplane. It was believed to be the first escape involving Polish soldiers since martial law was imposed in Poland on Dec. 13. The Soviet-made Antonov-2 landed at Vienna air port with 10 people aboard, including a mechanic who was forced at gunpoint to come along on the 210-mile flight that began near Krakow, in southern Poland, and .crossed Czechoslovakia before arriving in Aus tria. 'lt is not exactly what we consider a hijack. But the, two pilots who were armed with pistols will be remanded in custody for the time being.' —Polish police official The mechanic said he wanted to return to Poland. The others asked for political asylum. Witnesses said the plane, traveling at an altitude of only 200-260 feet, flew along the Danube after cross ing the Czechoslovak-Austrian border and then fol lowed the Danube Canal though Vienna before touching down at the airport. A police spokesman said "hi order to evade radar controls in Czechoslovakia the plane was flying so low it grazed tree tops. Parts of the branches could still be seen on the wings after touchdown." Another Official said "the plane has a little bit of damage, but it was a sturdy plane or it would not have made it," "It is not exactly what We consider a hijack," a police official said. "But the two pilots who were armed with pistols Will be remanded in custody for the time being." Police said the two pilots, Andrzej Malec, 31, arid economy is robbing the Social Security trust funds." But he said people should not say the system is going bankrupt. "The near-term shortfall amounts to about three cents on the benefit dollar," Pepper said. The trustees forecast "severe financial problems for the Social Security program in both the short range and the long-range." For the seventh straight year, the combined old age and disability trust funds paid out more than they took in in calendar 1981, the trustees said. Those two funds dropped by $1.9 billion to $24.5 billion enough to pay benefits for only two months at the end of last year, they said. But the hospital, or Medicare, trust fund rose by $5 billion. Consequently, the three combined funds fin ished the year in the black, taking in $178.2 billion in payroll taxes while paying out $175.1 billion in bene fits and medical bills for 36 million people. "Under present law, and on the basis of any reasonable set of economic assumptions," the old age and survivors fund will be saddled with annual deficits at least through 1986, the trustees said. Social Security operates on a pay-as-you-go basis with the trust funds serving as a buffer or contin gency reserve during periods when outgo exceeds income. O'Neill: Budget statements misleading By CLIFF HAAS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. accused President Reagan yesterday of making misleading and in some, cases "completely innaccurate" statements "to overcome the growing feeling that the administration is unfair." Meanwhile, the Senate budget committee abandoned efforts to draft a spending plan before beginning a two week Easter recess. But Republicans and Democrats alike said they hoped the panel would move swiftly to draft a budget when it returns on April 13, whether Reagan indicates he will compromise or not. O'Neill, D-Mass., made his statement on the House floor after a number of Republicans had complained about the Hopse adjourning next week without having accomplished much work this year. He repeated his remarks in a later peace he roosed last Honduras fears Soviet aggression month at aiative meeting of the Organiza tion of American States. , By FREDDY CUEVAS Associated Press Writer TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) Honduras is facing "armed aggres sion from the Soviet Union" via Cuba and would agree to U.S. military intervention in Central America if it was the only way to preserve peace, the armed forces' chief of staff said yesterday. Col. Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, speaking in a radio interview, also said his country is "tremendously worried" about the arms buildup in Nicaragua. Jerzy-Jan Czerwinski, 29, carried out their plan after they had dropped some 10 paratroopers during a training exercise. They forced the mechanic, Boleslaw Wrona, 35, to stay aboard and then staged an emergency landing in a field to pick up their families, a friend and his daughter. The flight to Vienna went apparently undetected by military air controllers in Poland and Czechoslova kia. The single-engine biplane sat on the tarmac, sur rounded by police officials and airport attendants. The fabric covering the lower wing was ripped and some lights were shattered. The metal part of one wing was bent, with Some tree branches still embedded in the Wings that had grazed tree tops during flight. Those picked tip in a field included Malec's wife and a daughter, Czerwinski's wife, her baby and 3- year-old boy, and a civilian friend, Michar Krzysztof Wasiliewski, 29, and his daughter. Wasiliewski's wife was said to be living in the West. It was the third hijack of a Polish plane to Austria since 1969. An Antonov-2 also was used by a group of 29 Itomailians who defected to Austria on July 3, 1980 and asked for political asylum. Salvadoran parties remain deadlocked By TOM FENTON Associated Press Writer SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Rightist parties and centrist Chris tian Democrats remained deadlocked yesterday on formation of a coalition to lead a representative assembly and name an interim president. Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of the ruling junta and a Christian Dem ocrat, left open the possibility he might step aside. "I've never personally sought any position. I've always obeyed the dic tates of my party . . . I will obey any decision my party takes," Duarte told a news conference yesterday in re sponse to a questions. On Wednesday, Duarte said he planned to remain at the helm and insisted that his party had to be in cluded in any viable government. The Reagan administration, which has supported the Christian Demo crats bat said before last Sunday's elections it would work with whichev er party won, stepped up pressure against aright-wing government. In Washington, State Department spokesman Dean Fischer said it was premature to pass judgment on El Salvador's political future because negotiations among the six parties "Our country is small and weak," he said. "Honduras now is confronting an armed aggression from the Soviet Union by way of Cuba. Because of that, if no other possibility exists to preserve peace, Honduras is in agreement that the United States, as a friendly country, intervene militarily in Central America." In Mexico City, Honduran Foreign Minister Edgardo Paz Barnica met his Mexican counterpart Jorge Casta neda in private talks. A brief statement from the Mexican Foreign Ministry said Paz Barnica explained the Central American meeting with reporters. "I would be afraid of going home, too, if I had to explain the inequities of Reagan's speech last night;" O'Neill said referring to the president's nationally broadcast news conference Wednesday night. "Unfortunately the president's defense of his program was not only misleading, but in several cases, completely inaccurate," O'Neill said. In a number of instances during his news conference, Reagan defended his administration against charges that harmful cuts were being made in domestic programs. But O'Neill said the president was wrong. "He said that his administration was increasing its commitment to social programs by increasing govern ment spending by $32 billion," O'Neill said. "The fact is, he has proposed an increase in spending, not for social programs but for a $33.6 billion increase in defense and a $13.4 billion increase for interest payments." 4,i-fit''..;'?;:i'!i.,:','..''. -'.'.":,7...;..',•; rc.t~ , ~~ k i i.~;~~, Two Polish soldiers hijacked the above plane yesterday and forced the pilot to fly it to Vienna along the path shown In map, below. . POLAND •Prinjtio CZEC Vienna . „o i AUSTRIA were still under way But he said the administrations hopes the new government will "cred ibly and effectively" implement poli cies of reforming the economy and politics while controlling political vio lence. Fisher said the policies are those "we have supported in El Salvador and which we expect to support in the future" a clear message that U.S. support for a regime that attempts to turn back , the gains of the past two years would probably not be forth coming. President Reagan said at a news conference Wednesday night that it would be "difficult" for the United States to continue providing economic and military support if conservative factions attempt to reverse the re form policies. The Associated Press has learned that U.S. warnings prompted the top two vote-getting rightist parties to end coalition planning. • The five right-wing parties won a total 'of 36 of the 60 seats in the Constituent Assembly that is to name an interim president • and consider drafting a new constitution as a pre lude to elected, representative gov ernment. The six-point peace plan includes general disarmament, reduction of foreign military advisers, elimination of illegal arms traffic, respect for each country's borders and perma nent dialogue to seek a solution to regional problems. Paz Barnica is to meet today with Mexican President Jose Lopez Portil lo, who also has formulated a peace plan. Nicaragua declared a one-month state of emergency March 15, claim ing a U.S.-backed invasion was immi nent. ~+r ~ ': ~+s Polish Plane Hijacked Krakow AP Laserphoto AI t e . state news briefs Thornburgh: No limit to campaign spending HARRISBURG (AP) Through his press secretary, Gov. Dick Thornburgh refused yesterday to limit his campaign re-election warchest to $1.7 million, as proposed Wednesday by his chief Demo cratic rival. In a letter to U.S. Rep. Allen Ertel typed on Thornburgh campaign station ary, Press Secretary Paul Critchlow said Thornburgh has consistently rejected "artificial" spending limits. He said the limit suggested by Ertel would "unfortunately not be sufficient to Ertel, a three-term congressman from adequately communicate" the gover- Lycoming County, is the endorsed Demo nor's achievements. cratic candidate and considered the par "l cannot help but note that, in your ty's likely nominee. Aid cuts topic at student leader conference PHILADELPHIA (AP) The rites of spring gave way to serious business yesterday as some 200 student leaders from 40 colleges and universities around the country opened the fourth Intercolle giate Conference here. While a wide array of topics were to be taken up at workshops, the focus will be on the Reagan administration's plans for cuts in funding for higher education. That matter was discussed last night in a panel discussion including U.S. Depart ment of Education Under-Secretary Gary L. Jones and a keynote address by Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif. With representatives from as far away as Oregon, Texas and California, the conference organizers wasted no time getting started. "The key here is to work hard. We have to, get psyched," said chairman Michael II • nation news briefs Second U.S. test tube baby born in Virginia NORFOLK, Va. (rAP) -- America's second "test tube" baby, conceived in the laboratory, has been born, the head of the in vitro fertilization clinic here said yesterday. "It's a very healthy baby, bigger than our last one," said Dr. Howard Jones, who heads the clinic run by the Eastern Virginia Medical School at Norfolk Gen eral Hospital with his wife, Dr. George anna Jones. The first U.S.-born in vitro baby, Eliza beth Jordan Carr, was born in Norfolk last Dec. 28. She weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces. The parents of the second baby asked Thornburgh: No limit to campaign spending WASHINGTON (AP) Interstate long-distance phone calls placed through the Bell System will rise immediately by an average 1.4 percent for most consum ers under a plan approved yesterday by the Federal Communications Commis sion. The rate changes by American Tele phone & Telegraph Co. will also boost the charges for private long-distance busi ness lines by 1.6 percent and increase the cost of Wide Area Telecommunications Service WATS by 4.1 percent. AT&T spokesman Charles E. Dynes said the company said the new charges went into effect at 12:01 today. Custody battle continues over Soviet boy CHICAGO (AP) The father of a Soviet boy who was granted asylum in the United States after refusing to go home with his parents is planning to return and join the custody battle for his son, attorneys say. Attorneys said yesterday that prepara tions are under way for a visit by Michael Polovchak, whose 14-year-old son, Wal ter, is fighting to remain in the United States. Walter has been granted asylum and permanent residency in this country. Julian Kulas, the boy's attorney, said he asked Walter's father to return to give depositions in the custody battle. A hear ing has tentatively been set for April 15, world news briefs 2 more British soldiers killed in IRA ambush LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (AP) IRA guerrillas, waiting in am bush in an apartment they seized, shot and killed two British soldiers in civilian clothes riding in an unmarked van out side a Roman Catholic cathedral yester day. They were the fourth and fifth soldiers murdered from ambush in a week. The Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack, calling the soldiers "plainclothes undercover 4 P agents." The IRA said it also was respon sible for setting off a 600-pound bomb under a railroad bridge near Newry that closed the main Belfast-Dublin rail line yesterday morning. t. Villages stranded, farms ruined by eruption PICHUCALCO, Mexico (AP) The rich farm lands of Tabasco state lay under an inch of volcanic ash yesterday and rescuers struggled to get heavy equipment to villages stranded four days by the deadly eruption of El Chiconal. Thirteen people are known dead. A hundred were injured when the volcano spewed out rocks, ash and hot sand early Monday, according to Mario Morillo, commander for the military zone for this area. A second eruption Wednesday slowed rescue work. He said the final death toll would not be known until rescue workers reach two villages on the flank of the volcano. Two foot-deep ash prevented the movement of equipment designed for alpine rescues, prior races when you deemed it to be to your advantage, you had no compunction about raising and spending as much campaign money as you could," Critch low said. The Republican administration also rejected Ertel's proposal that the two candidates have a series of debates. Critchlow said debates would be pre mature as well as unfair to Ertel's three opponents in the' Democratic primary. Finkelstein, 21, of host University of Pennsylvania, as he described four days of meetings, talks and workshops going from 9 a.m. to 12 midnight some days. Penn President Sheldon Hackney noted. in his opening remarks that the 50 universities in the association, including all eight Ivy League schools and many research-oriented universities like the University of Southern California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Johns Hopkins, not only have similar academic programs but together con duct 70 percent of the academic research in the nation. "If we can work on these similarities . . . what works at one school may work at another. Why re-invent the wheel?" said Ginsburg, who likened the confer ence to a "student think tank." the clinic not to identify them or release the date of birth or sex of the child, Jones said. "But the fact is it has occurred," Jones said. "It's a normal healthy baby. We are very pleased." The clinic has five other patients who became pregnant in 1981, and the next birth is due July 13, Jones said. He said he was not ready to release figures on pregnancies achieved this year. In vitro fertilization is used to treat women whose Fallopian tubes, where fertilization normally occurs, are miss ing or blocked. Charges for local telephone service and for long-distance calls within a single state were not changed. In a related matter, the FCC also authorized AT&T to change its procedure for calculating long-distance bills. As it stands now, the proper billing rate is determined by the time at which a call begins and it makes no difference if the call extends from one rate period into another. Thus if a 30-minute call begins at 4:55 p.m. five minutes before AT&T's evening discount period begins the entire call is billed at the standard daytime rate. Kulas said Polovchak, a bus driver in the Soviet Union, has agreed to return to give his side of the story, and applied for a visa last month at the U.S. Embassy in Mos cow, said Harvey Grossman, an Ameri can Civil Liberties Union attorney for the parents. A State DepartMent spokeswoman in Washington confirmed the visa request, but said no decision had been made yet whether . to grant it. Polovchak, his wife Anna, and another son returned to their native Soviet Union last August while the battle for custody of Walter was being fought in state and federal courts. The attacks came as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Cabinet approved a plan to set up a 78-member elected assembly in Northern Ireland this fall as a first step toward restoring partial self-rule. The soldiers were driving past St. Eugene's Catholic Cathedral on their way back to their barracks when the guerrillas opened fire, police said. One soldier was a technician who had just completed maintenance work on radio equipment at Rosemount police station on the edge of the staunchly Catholic Creggan housing estate. The other was an armed guard, authorities said. he said Tabasco State Gov. Leandro Rovirosa Wade worried about the economic effects of the hot sand and ash that spread over one of the country's most fertile farming regions. "The country does not have any idea of the magnitude of this disaster," Rovirosa Wade said before leaving yes terday for the volcano zone. An average of an inch of ash covers all of Tabasco state about 10,000 square miles except for one municipality near the Guatemalan border, he said. Rovirosa Wade said he considered the current agricultural season in Tabasco and northern Chiapas states "a total loss" because farmers would not be able to cultivate the land. GREAT ''''.::.'"''':. - i"....::::::.:'':.:..:.::• 1 FING sr(, - ;.'. wires WITH LITTLE LISTENING,A LITTLE BEER, AND A 1.1 1 OF LEGWORK. When the guys at Miller asked me to write an ad on writing, I said, "Forget it. Not even if you held a gun to my head: So they held a bottle of Lite Beer to my mouth They're a pretty persuasive group. THUGS TO MUGS If you're going to write anything, know what you're talking about. And that means three things: Research, research, and more research. The more you know, the more you can tell your reader. Take my characters. A lot of them I base on actual people. There's this buddy of mine who pops up in every book I write. In one story he's a cop. In another, a pri vate eye. Once, I made him a millionaire. Using him not only helped make character development a heck of a lot easier, he was so carried away by the rich image, he bought me a lot of free dinners (and a lot of Lite Beer from Miller). So use the people you know as models. With the dawn comes dz,Collegian Even locations should be based on real things. If you're writing about a bar, know that bar. Hang out there. Watch the bartender. The customers. Whatever they drink, you drink. When they drink Lite Beer, you drink Lite Beer. Re member—research is most fun when you soak up as much subject matter as you can. 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