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Regan rips budget impasse as talks .con t inue
By CLIFF HAAS takes is the art of compromise." Republican senators agreed that for the together where they could pass anything in Congress. No budget has been passed by the
Associated Press Writer Dole said the Senate was seeking time being they will try to keep up pressure the Senate," said House Majority Leader Congress. Why not?"
alternative proposals, but that it would take on the House to make additional spending Jim Wright, D-Texas. He said that "at the current rate we will
have no budget at all" by the time Congress
WASHINGTON White House chief of a while before there is any consensus. cuts. Rep. William H. Gray 111, D-Pa.,
staff Donald T. Regan angrily denounced He said it would take "two or three more "The message that came out to the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is due to begin a month-long summer recess
the "ridiculous" budget deadlock on Capitol conferences before we decide where we (Senate budget) conferees .. . was we said the bitter tone of Wednesday's at the beginning of August. The new fiscal
Hill yesterday as congressional leaders want to go." wanted them to hang tough," said Sen. John bargaining session made him "begin to year begins Oct. 1.
argued over whose turn it is to make an Dole and other senators also brushed H. Chafee, R-R.I. "We are not going along wonder whether there is going to be a Regan's solution to the impasse was:
offer that will salvage the deficit-reduction aside Regan's remarks. with what the House has proposed, we think budget" this year. "Cut federal spending; cut federal
effort."l didn't write that speech," Dole said.. those savings are phony. And it's got to be Meanwhile, Regan lambasted Congress spending; cut federal spending."
,
"Everything's up in the air, nothing's on "I'd have singled out the House." very significant budget reductions before for the budget situation. Regan also told his audience to press
the table," said Senate Majority Leader Sen. Pete V. Domenici, R-N.M., chairman we'll be satisfied. The House has to do a lot "The federal government, the world's legislators for action. "If you don't speak up
Robert Dole of Kansas, who called of the Senate Budget Committee, recessed more than they've done." largest economy, the strength of the free now, it will be too late 98 hours from now,"
Republican senators together to consider budget talks between the House and Senate Wednesday's meeting ended after the world, is about to go into a new fiscal year he said. "That conference is teetering."
their next move. on Wednesday after rejecting a bottom-line senators said the House offer did not go far without a budget," Regan said in a Congressional leaders have said that if no
After the meeting, Dole said it is "up to offer from the House in an acrimonious enough toward making serious domestic breakfast appearance before the U.S. budget is passed this year, they will simply
the House whether we're on the verge of session. spending cuts and violated an agreement Chamber of Commerce. "How ridiculous abide by the separate budgets each
anything." Domenici said the final gavel had not yet with President Reagan by providing too can you be?" chamber has passed as they enact money
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., D- fallen on the talks aimed at drafting a little for military spending. With his voice and his anger rising, Regan bills this year.
Mass., said he hoped the Senate would compromise version of fiscal 1986 budgets But some in the House questioned said, "Did we not submit a budget? We did. The Ho
congressiona use on Tuesday
ru es voted 239-181-to
return to the talks. passed by each chamber. whether the Senate has any interest in Where is it now?" waive l that prevent
"We think it's kind of childish to be "No, I don't think it's over," Domenici passing a budget. Now, pounding the podium, Regan consideration of money bills before a budget
walking out," O'Neill told reporters. "All it said. But "it's in pretty bad shape." "I don't know whether they have their act shouted, "It has not been passed by the accepted by both houses is in place.
Officials
demand
trust in
parleys
By BARRY SCHWEID
AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. The
Reagan administration assured
Israel yesterday that the United
States would meet with
Palestinians only if the session
was guaranteed in advance to
lead to Arab-Israeli peace talks.
"The only way this process is
going to work all the.way through
is to have trust between
ourselves, the Israelis and the
Jordanians," a senior official,
speaking on condition of
anonymity, said in an interview.
The conciliatory gesture
followed rejection in Jerusalem
of a list of Palestinians approved
by Yasser Arafat, the chairman
of the Palestine Liberation
Organization.
"The only way progress can be
made in the peace process is if it
is based on mutual trust and full
confidence," the department said
through a spokesman, Robert
Smalley. "That requires
consultation. It also requires a
certain amount of discretion."
The statement also emphasized
that none of the parties would be
permitted a veto over U.S.
actions. "Our decision will be
taken in light of consultations
with our friends in the area and it
will be our decision," Smalley
said.
The Palestinans and
Jordanians were to be in a mixed
delegation to hold talks with a
U.S. group headed by Richard W.
Murphy, the assistant secretary
of state for the Near East.
Earlier, State Department
officials said they hoped the talks
could be held in Amman, the
capital of Jordan, by late
summer and peace negotiations
started by the end of the year.
The talks were proposed by
Hussein as a prelude to peace
negotiations with Israel. A
Jordanian official said during his
visit here in May that a major
goal was to establish a U.S.
dialogue with the PLO.
The Israeli government has
registered its willingness to
discuss peace terms with Jordan
and Palestinians who live on the
West Bank and in Gaza and are
not known members of the PLO,
which is sworn to destruction of
the Jewish state.
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terday that the Reagan adminis
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enforcement of the laws that
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South Africa:
Violence continues in Soweto and . blacks turn to boycotts of white-run businesses
By JAMES F. SMITH South Africa's black majority, and that might be forced to close down. are seen by many as tools of the government.
Associated Press Writer strikes and consumer boycotts are likely to "I have not made one sale among blacks In Johannesburg, leaders of the black
increase. this week. My daily takings have droped from National Union of Mineworkers said they
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Police Apartheid is the legal system of racial an average of 5,000 rand ($2,500) daily to 750 were preparing for a possible strike of the
fired birdshot, rubber bullets and tear gas to segregation under which 5 million whites deny rand ($375) since Monday," said Johan gold mines, which produce half of South
break up crowds of blacks stoning patrol cars the vote and citizenship to 22 million blacks. Scholtz, manager of a furniture store Africa's export earnings.
and houses in Soweto township yesterday, In Pietermaritzburg, the Natal Province patronized mainly by black customers. Spokeswoman Manoko Nchwe said the
killing one black man, authorities said. capital of 191,000 people, thousands of black Black activists called a two-month boycott strike could begin next month unless the gold
Numerous clashes were reported in other workers stayed home for the day to protest of white shops to force whites to support black mines made wage concessions.
black townships as anti-apartheid violence the firing of 950 black workers in nearby demands for the release of jailed anti- The mines imposed pay hikes of 14 percent
flared anew after a few hours of relative Howick by the South African subsidiary of the apartheid leaders as well as other grievances. to 19 percent on July 1 after negotiations with
calm. Blacks turned to strikes and consumer British firm, BTR Ltd. The two cities have been among the hardest the union broke down. The union demanded
boycotts in a new show of economic muscle Spokesmen for several major factories hit in 10 months of rioting that has left more what it said was a 22-percent pay hike.
aimed at white-run businesses. reported that few of their black employees than 450 blacks dead. The South African subsidiary of Siemens,
In Katlehong east of Johannesburg, police turned up for work. Bus service was halted Press reports said black supporters of the the West German multinational company,
arrested 122 blacks who refused to disperse when 325 drivers stayed away, and the shops boycott stopped people on the streets and at negotiated with the black metalworkers union
during an illegal outdoor gathering, a police and streets were as quiet as on a Sunday. entrances to black townships and confiscated a day after firing 1,200 workers who the
spokesman said. The labor battle at Sarmcol, BTR's rubber purchases made in defiance of the boycott. company said were striking illegally at five
Earlier, police reported that a black woman plant in Howick, began in June when the A man who bought a new suit watched as plants over wage hike demands.
was slain with an ax and her body burned, company dismissed the entire striking work youths cut it into shreds in front of him, the In the eastern Cape, strikes broke out at
apparently because she broke a black boycott force and hired new employees. South African Press Association said. three major auto makers. Grievances varied
of white-owned stores in a small Cape The company denied the chemical workers In De Aar, a small eastern Cape town, in the walkouts at Volkswagen, Ford and
Province town, said the spokesman, who union's charge that BTR was unwilling to police said a crowd used an ax to kill a 25- General Motors' locomotive plant.
demanded anonymity. grant the union formal recognition at the year-old woman who had bought from a white Last week, Volkswagen workers struck for
Five labor disputes and consumer boycotts plant. Two blacks have been killed in unrest in shop. Her body was doused with fuel and set three days over the company's offer to loan
began or were threatened around the country, Howick sparked by the strike. alight on a street, police said. vans for the New Zealand rugby tour of South
including a potential strike in the gold mines In the eastern Cape Province, shopkeepers Black mobs have meted out that form of Africa, opposed by most blacks as an attempt
that employ more than 500,000 blacks. in Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage said a black punishment periodically to blacks who they to undermine the international sports boycott
Many South African analysts believe consumer boycott that began this week was consider to be collaborating with the white against South Africa. The strike ended Friday
economic clout is the most potent weapon for biting sharply into business, and some shops government. Black police and local officials when the tour was called off.
Collegian
President makes appearance
Reagan to meet with Soviet official in two months
abdominal incision yesterday and replaced them with
adhesive strips.
"The president is totally back to normal," Speakes
WASHINGTON,— Dressed in blue pajamas and a said light-heartedly.
robe, President Reagan flashed an OK sign by hand Vice President George Bush, who visited with
from a hospital window yesterday in his first public Reagan on Wednesday, made telephone calls to allied
appearance since cancer surgery, but indicated he did leaders to pass along the message that, "The best
not know when he would be going home to the White medical evidence is that the president will make a full
House. recovery and resume duties here at the White House
With his wife, Nancy, at his side, the president next week."
appeared at a third-floor window of Bethesda Naval A White House statement said Reagan's vital signs
Hospital at 4:27 p.m. EDT to pose for photographers, were "excellent and his recovery continues
who had been alerted in advance. Aside from pictures unimpeded. The president was taken off antibiotics
released by the White House, it was the first time the and now is receiving no medication."
president had been seen since he entered the hospital The statement quoted Reagan as saying, "I'm
last Friday. feeling great."
Reagan was quoted earlier in the day by his staff as Reagan's visitor list was expanded to include Robert
saying, "I'm feeling great," and the White House, C. McFarlane, the White House national security
underscoring the picture of a patient rapidly on the adviser, who briefed the president firsthand for the
mend, disclosed the president will meet with the Soviet first time since he entered the hospital last Friday.
.foreign ministerintwo months to prepare for . _„_ McFarlane updated the president on the second.
November's summit. round of U.S.-Soviet arms control talks, which went
When questions were shouted to the president at the into recess Tuesday, and on the subject of terrorism,
hospital window, he replied with gestures. Asked if the Speakes said. He said they also discussed the seven
president had a sore throat, Nancy Reagan said it was American hostages still held in Beirut.
easier for her to speak than for him. The president also met with White House chief of
Reagan gave an OK sign, using his thumb and staff Donald T. Regan and Speakes.
forefinger, when someone asked how he was feeling. Meanwhile, Speakes said Reagan, joined by
Asked when he was going home, the president made a Secretary of State George P. Shultz, will meet in
quizzical face and sliced the air with his hands, palms September with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard
down, indicating he did not know. Shevardnadze, who was picked recently to succeed
Doctors have said the president would, be released in veteran Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko.
seven to 10 days after surgery meaning that The subject of arms control is at the top of the
Saturday would be his earliest release date. Mrs. agenda for the talks, said one official, speaking
Reagan said he would go home "as soon as they say it's privately. It also includes human rights in the Soviet
OK." Union.
Asked what Reagan looked forward to most, Nancy Shevardnadze will be in the United States to attend
Reagan replied, "Just being home." She said they both the special session of the U.N. General Assembly.
were in good spirits. Reagan is to meet in Geneva on Nov. 19-21 with Soviet
"We'll make a big to-do of it" when Reagan comes leader Mikhail Gorbachev. An American team
home, presidential spokesman Larry Speakes told departed Washington yesterday for Geneva to begin
reporters at the White House earlier. advance preparations.
Perhaps the best news for Reagan was that he could Speakes, who had bristled at questions Wednesday
return to a diet of solid food for the first time in eight concerning Reagan's medical care over the past 14
days: soup, bread, crackers and pudding for lunch, months, provided additional information yesterday,
followed by what presidential spokesman Larry and said, "There has been no second-guessing by the
Speakes said would be a "feast of baked chicken and president" about what doctors have advised.
rice" for dinner. The spokesman said doctors at Bethesda did not
His menu suggested that Reagan's digestive process, recommend any further tests in May of 1984 when
which had been interrupted by last Saturday's surgery, physicians discovered an inflammatory tissue in
was returning to normal. Reagan's colon.
The 74-year-old president had been put on a Speakes acknowledged that doctors had
restricted diet two days before he entered the hospital recommended four months ago that Reagan undergo a
for a thorough intestinal examination. After surgery, complete examination of his lower intestines though
he was fed intravenously, and then was limited to a the use of a device known as a colonoscope. However,
liquid diet of tea, apple juice, Jell-O and Popsicles. he said there was no sense of urgency in the
Doctors removed the staple stitches in Reagan's recommendation.
By TERENCE HUNT
Associated Press Writer
Friday, July 19, 1985
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