Senate committee
approves jobs plan
By DAVID ESPO
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON The Senate
Appropriations Committee
approved a scaled-down, $1.2
billion jobs plan last night but
rejected a $9,100 Christmas pay
raise for members of Congress.
Both actions came as the
committee passed legislation to
keep most federal agencies from
running out of money at midnight
tomorrow.
On the Senate floor, meanwhile,
a filibuster against a nickel boost
in the federal gasoline tax a $5.5
billion program for highway and
bridge repair appeared to be
running out of steam in the face of
a threat by Republican Leader
Howard Baker of Tennessee to
hold an all-night session.
'The president
does not support
this.'
—Sen. Mark 0.
Hatfield, R-Ore.
Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., one
of those delaying final action on
the gasoline tax increase,
indicated that he and others may
give up the parliamentary
maneuver.
"If we feel like . . . we don't
have a chance in defeating the bill
at least I won't prolong it if we feel
like it's a futile effort," Nickles
said.
However, it still was not clear
when there would be a final vote
on the gasoline tax itself.
In the Appropriations
Committee, the vote was 22-1 to
kill the pay raise, approved
scarcely 24 hours earlier by the
House. It came after Sen. Ted
Stevens, R-Alaska, suggested that
an existing pay cap eventually be
lifted for House members and
Anderson: U.S. economy needs help
Business, government, labor must cooperate
By WILLIAM SCOTT
Collegian Staff Writer
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
Jack Anderson told a capacity
crowd last night that for the United
States to compete in the worldwide
marketplace, big business,
government and labor would have
to work together.
Other countries with fewer
'I wouldn't count on any great boom. The interest rate will go back
up so far that not even Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill will be able to
hold it down.'
senior civil servants, but not for
senators.
The committee's action also
knocked out a 27 percent pay
increase that would have gone into
effect tomorrow if Congress had
taken no action.
As for the jobs provision, Sen.
Mark 0. Hatfield, R-Ore., the
committee chairman, conceded,
"The president does not support
this."
But the proposal drafted as an
alternative to a $5.4 billion
proposal cleared by the
Democratic-controlled House on
Tuesday was approved without
a roll call and after only a few
minutes of debate.
The $1.2 billion resulted from an
expansion of a $9OO million
proposal by Hatfield focusing on
highway, forest and water
projects. Committee members
reached the higher sum by adding
a provision for renovation of
family housing on military bases.
Committee aides and members
had no immediate estimate of the
number of people who could be
hired as a result.
Efforts are likely on the Senate
floor both to increase the amount
provided for jobs and to cut it.
The committee also voted to
provide $9BB million for production
of the MX missile, but bar
President Reagan from spending
any of the funds until Congress
approves a method of deployment.
The committee sent the overall
jobs measure to the Senate floor
on a voice vote for debate
expected to begin today,
Together, the spending measure
and gasoline tax increase,
endorsed by Reagan, are the two
"must" items on the bipartisan
leadership's list of bills to be
passed before the lame-duck 97th
Congress calls it quits.
The Democratic-controlled
House already has passed the
gasoline tax bill as well as the
overall spending measure.
resources than the United States,
such as Japan, have been
competing successfully in the the
market because labor and •
management have joined forces to
work collectively, Anderson said in
a Colloquy-sponsored speech.
"No corporation in the United
States is big enough to compete
with the Japanese government
when combined with labor and
—Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Jack Anderson
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Teamsters president convicted for bribery
By SHARON COHEN
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO A federal jury convicted
Teamsters President Roy L. Williams and four
others yesterday of conspiring to bribe Sen.
Howard Cannon with a lucrative Las Vegas land
deal in return for his help in defeating legislation
opposed by the nation's largest union.
Williams, 67, the third Teamsters president
convicted of a federal crime, said he would
appeal. He may remain in office as long as his
case is in the courts. Attorneys for the other
defendants said they would also appeal.
The defendants could face maximum terms of
55 years in prison for their convictions on one
count each of conspiracy and interstate travel to
further bribery and nine counts each of wire
fraud.
The jury of six men and six women deliberated
for 26 hours over four days. They notified
presiding U.S. District Judge Prentice H.
Marshall that they reached a verdict just
moments after resuming their fifth day of
deliberations in the eight-week trial.
business," Anderson said
Also a factor in the economic
competition is the rapid
advancement of technology, he
said.
"Today, we can double the
world's knowledge.every year.
Today's technology is going to be
obsolete in your lifetime," he said
Therefore, the United States
should start rebuilding plants and
Marshall summarized the verdicts in a silent
courtroom, saying each defendant is "guilty of
each and every count of the indictment."
Williams bowed his head and the others sat
stunned while some relatives cried.
Outside, some relatives who could not get in the
packed courtroom wept loudly when they heard
the verdict. Some of the defendants embraced
their wives and daughters as they left the court.
In addition to Williams, the defendants were
Allen Dorfman, 59, a millionaire insurance
executive and former consultant to the
Teamsters' Central States Pension Fund;
Thomas O'Malley, 46, a pension fund trustee;
Andrew Massa, 65, a former trustee; and Joseph
"Joey the Clown" Lombardo, 53, a reputed
Chicago crime syndicate figure.
Douglas Roller, chief prosecutor in the case,
said, "Of course we are gratified with the verdict
... This jury did an admirable job under very
difficult circumstances.
"I think the message from this jury is quite
clear ...," he said that such conduct "will not
be tolerated."
Government prosecutors charged that the five
to compete in world market
retraining workers to keep pace
with technology, he warned, or
both will become obsolete
"But.if we do," he said, "no other
country would be able to compete
with us because we have the most
innovation." -
"The system is what's defeating
us today," he said. "I suggest that
we change, or like the Soviets, we
will lose our markets."
Anderson said that if the United
States is able to build 109 steel
plants in foreign countries, it
should be financially able to build
them in this country, with the help
of the federal government.
President Reagan's philosophy
of non-intervention by the federal
government into the open market
system, he said, is not the route to
economic prosperity in this
,country.
Anderson criticized Reagan's
plan to stimulate the economy by
reducing taxes, saying that tax
reductions and corporate tax
credits only "put more money into
the hands of the rich."
"But what the rich spend will not
make up for what the 12 million
unemployed don't spend," he said.
Because of the rising national
debt, the United States is forced to
borrow money, which forces people
in the private sector to compete for
money, thus driving up interest
rates, he said.
Although Reagan has been able
to lower interest rates somewhat,
"from incredible to outrageous,"
Anderson said, "he won't be able to
hold them down as long as there is
that enormous debt."
"I wouldn't count on any great
boom," he said. "The interest rate
will go back up so far that not even
Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill will
be able to hold it down."
On another topic, Anderson said
that a "constituency," consisting
of Pentagon officials, military
contractors, politicians and
officials of weapon manufacturing
corporations, is pressuring Reagan
and Congress to increase military
spending.
Anderson then criticized the
previously abandoned and current
plans for the deployment of the MX
missile system.
The first plan, under former
President Jimmy Carter, was "to
dig up the wild, wild west by
building 4,600 silos, linked by a
Walt Disney-type track," Anderson
said.
But being able to shuffle missiles
from silo to silo is not necessarily a
good plan, he said.
"If you had the mentality of Yuri
Andropov, what would you do?"
Anderson asked rhetorically.
"Knock them all out, why not?"
he said. "It's cheaper to build a
warhead than a silo."
But with the current "dense
pack" proposal, Anderson said, the
same people who said "we gotta
hide these things" are now saying
"put them all together in a
bull's-eye."
"There's not going to be any
survivors, just one big hole in the
ground where the bull's-eye used to
be," if the Soviets strike first, he
said.
But Reagan's plan to increase
military spending is not
necessarily wrong. Anderson said
he has seen classified reports
indicating the U.S. arsenal is
"dangerously behind" the Soviet
Union in almost every military
category.
"We literally still have weapons
that were deployed during the
Vietnam War that are still being
operated by factory
representatives," he said
In a press conference after the
speech, Anderson said one way to
help this situation is to reinstate
the draft.
"We need a draft that will take
the best of our young people,"
Anderson said. "The only way
we're going to be able to survive is
to take the best, not just the people
who are looking for jobs."
Thursday, Dec. 16, 1982
Vol. 83, No. 91 18 pages University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University
conspired to bribe Cannon, a Nevada Democrat,
with exclusive rights to buy Teamster-owned
land at a reduced price in return for his help in
scuttling a trucking deregulation bill.
Cannon, who was defeated last month in a re
election bid, was not charged. The deregulation
measure passed with his support in 1980.
In Washington, Cannon declined comment on
the verdict Tuesday.
Shortly after the verdicts were announced, the
government moved to revoke bond for Dorfman
and Lombardo, who are charged with extortion in
an unrelated case. Prosecutors cited "fear of
flight and danger to the community."
Marshall raised Dorfman's bond to'ss million
and Lombardo's to $2.5 million and gave them
until 4 p.m. Friday to come up with the money.
Lombardo's attorney, Sherman Magidson, said
later yesterday that he did not know if his client
would be able to come up with the bond money.
Dorfman's attorney failed to answer repeated
telephone calls from a reporter and could not be
reached for comment.
inside
s You can buy some unique
and novel Christmas gifts right
here on campus Page 2
• USG sponsors buses to
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New
York and Long Island for
Christmas Break Page 3
OTIS is developing a fee sur
vey that will be sent to area
apartment owners and managers
Page 3
• The women's basketball
team raised their record to 5-1
after defeating St. Joseph's 71-
53 last night in Philadelphia
Page 10
To make people more aware of
the dangers involved in driving
under the influence, Gov. Dick
Thornburgh has proclaimed Dec.
12-18 as Pennsylvania's Drunk
and Drugged Driving Awareness
Week Page 18
weather
Cloudy and turning colder to
day with rain turning to snow
flurries this afternopn, high 40.
Continued cloudy and cold to-
night with a chance of snow
flurries and a low of 23. Clearing
and cold tomorrow with a high
near 32.
—by Craig Wagner
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