Page 2-Wednesday, April 8, 1981-The Michigan Doily COMMITTEE PROPOSES NEW BUDGET House pan WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Budget Com- initte dealt President Reagan his biggest congressional defeat to date yesterday as it dumped his budget blueprint in favor of a Democratic alter- native with smaller deficits and tax cuts, more spen- ding on social programs and less on defense. Vice President George Bush declared the action unacceptable and vowed that "If we're going to have some battles on the House side, we're prepared to do it." FLANKED BY SECRET Service agents, Bush told an impromptu news conference at the Capitol that "We understand people doing their own thing, but we are determined . . . that this package that the president has proposed will get a chance ... and get this country back to work." 'the House panel took its action over the solid op- position of outnumbered Republicans as Speaker Thomas O'Neill predicted that House Democrats, would be able to pass their own plan on the floor as well. el dumps Democrats in the House are urging slightly deeper budget cuts than Reagan wants overall, and recom- mend a balanced budget in 1983, a year ahead of the president. BUT THEY ALSO reject. the administration's proposal for a. three-year, across-the-board cut in in- come taxes, substituting a less expensive one-year plan instead. O'Neill, in two meetings with reporters, conceded that last week's assassination attempt against Reagan generated a strong sympathy vote that ham- pered Democratic efforts to counter the ad- ministration's plan. Democrats held the line with only one defection in the House Budget Committee, where the panel is set- ting guidelines to be used by Congress later this year as it makes decisions about spending, taxes and the size of the deficit. THE COMMITTEE STILL can change the figures contained in the overall totals, but the vote placed the panel squarely behind the Democratic plan and eagan plan aganst Reagan's. All 12 Republicans on the committee were joined by Democrat Phil Gramm of Texas in supporting the president's overall .proposals. The opposition votes were all cast by Democrats. The Democratic approach calls for spending next year of $713.5 billion and a deficit of $24.6 billion. The budget Reagan submitted to Congress earlier this year calls for spending of $695.5 billion and carried a deficit of $45.2 billion. But Democratic economists in Congress refigured the ad- ministration's proposals using less optimistic assumptions about inflation and interest rates and said they would really amount to spending of $717.8 billion and a deficit of $50.4 billion. Overall, Democrats propose spending about $4 billion less than the administration. They also want to restore about $7 billion in Reagan-backed cuts in social programs such as health, education and nutrition, and reduce the administration's defense budget by about $4 billion. Man arrested for threat tot assassinateReagan NEW YORK (AP) - A 22-year-old man who once lived 20 miles from John Hinckley Jr.'s family and shares his fascination for actress Jodie Foster was arrested with a loaded revolver yesterday by Secret Service agents who accused him of threatening to kill President Reagan. Agents said Edward Michael Richar- - - - dson of Drexel Hill, Pa., was arrested at 1 p.m. carrying a .32-caliber revolver The Center for Japanese Studies presents a PUBLIC LECTURE ON Status Politics in Japan: The Revolt Of The Tea-Pourers In which a small group of women bureaucrats rebel at pouring tea for their male fellow bureaucrats. by PROF. SUSAN J. PHARR Department of Political Science University of Wisconsin, Madison aboard a bus in Manhattan's Port Authority terminal. The bus was scheduled to go to Philadelphia. RICHARDSON HAD left .32-caliber bullets and two letters in the Sheraton Park Plaza Hotel in New Haven, Conn., in which he said Reagan was "targeted for death," federal authorities said. The letters were found yesterday mor- ning by a cleaning woman at the hotel. Hinckley was arrested last week and charged with attempted assassination of the president after Reagan and three other men were shot in Washington. Authorities said he had written love let- ters to Miss Foster, a freshman at Yale University in New Haven, and had vowed to kill Reagan to impress her. The Sheraton Park Plaza is the hotel at which Hinckley was reported to have stayed last fall and again last month in an attempt to make contact with ac- tress Jodie Foster. ASKED WHETHER there was any connection between Hinckley and Richardson, Special Secret Service Agent James D'Amelio said "the in- vestigation is continuing. We can't comment on that." Richardson once lived in Lakewood, Colo., 20 miles from Evergreen, Colo., where Hinckley's family lives. D'Amelio said the possibility the two could have met while living in Colorado was being investigated. He also said there was no indication Richardson had ever attempted to contact either Reagan or Miss Foster. RICHARDSON HAD checked in to the New Haven hotel on -April 4, D'Amelio said, and checked out yester- day morning without paying his bill. Police had not had Richardson under surveillance, he said. The letters found in Richardson's hotel room were handwritten and the one threatening Reagan's life contained a photo of the president, authorities said. RICHARDSON WAS described as unemployed, although D'Amelio said he had held a job for two days during the past month. D'Amelio, a special agent in charge of the Secret Service's New York'field office, did not elaborate on the type of employment. In New Haven, the FBI said Richar- dson left bullets in his hotel room along with a note that "Ronald Reagan will be shot to death and this country turned to the Left." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Abbie Hoffman receives three-year sentence NEW YORK-Abbie Hoffman, Yippie leader of the 1960s who eluded federal authorities for six years, was sentenced yesterday to up to three years in prison for selling cocaine despite lobbying by various liberal luminaries. The sentence was imposed in spite of pleas from hundreds of his suppor- ters that he be freed, among them author Norman Mailer, actor Jon Voight,- poet Allen Ginsberg, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, and Doctor. Benjamin Spock. Hoffman, who spoke in Ann Arbor earlier this year, will have to serve at least one year in a state institution before he is eligible for parole. He is to* surrender April 21. Fire scorches 2,000 acres ATLANTA, Mich.-A forest fire swept by highwinds destroyed over 2,000 acres of pine in dry northern Michigan yesterday, threatening the habitat of the endangered Kirtland's Warbler before being contained by firefighters. . About six persons were forced to evacuate their rural cabins as the fire burned a northeast path toward some residential areas before the wind died down. No injuries were reported in the blaze, which was said to be one-mile wide and five to six miles long. Flames and smoke billowed up to 100-feet in the night sky as the fire roared down both sides of highway M-33 some 11 miles north of Atlanta, the state Department of Natural Resources said. It began in Montmorency County but burned one-mile into adjacent Presque Isle County by sunset. Agent leaves hospital WASHINGTON-Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, who threw himself in the line of fire when a gunman started shooting at President Reagan last week, was discharged from the hospital yesterday with tearful thanks to a stranger who cared for him as he lay wounded on the sidewalk. In an appearance before reporters, he got as far as saying, "We'd also like to thank the gentleman who helped me on the street.. .". Unable to continue, he turned to his wife, Carol, who finished: ". . . and we'd like to also know who he is. We never got his name." McCarthy, 31, the son of a Chicago policeman, looked well, with color in his cheeks. When his wife finished his statement, he grinned and called out, "It's great to be alive. It's great to be Irish." Lebanese battle escalates BEIRUT, Lebanon-Syrian troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen ex- panded fighting for key highways in eastern Lebanon yesterday,ignoring in- ternational appeals for a cease-fire. In Beirut, Syrian troops exchanged rocket and heavy artillery fire with;. Lebanese army units and militiamen of the right-wing Phalange across the Green Line dividing the Moslem and Christian sectors of the capital. The state radio said the military hospital of Beirut received several direct rocket bits. Emergency talks between Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khad- dam and the Lebanese government of Christian President Elias Srkis and Moslem Prime Minister Shafik Wazzan failed to produce a cease-fire = agreement. Seventeen cease-fires have collapsed since fighting broke out April 1 in the Christian city of Zahle, 30 miles east of Beirut. El Salvador slum massacre leaves 30 people dead SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador-Men in uniform and civilian clothes drove into a poor suburb of San Salvador before dawn yesterday, pulled 23 people from their homes and shot them dead in the street, witnesses said. Seven more people were slain in their homes in front of their families, they said. A Defense Ministry spokesman denied there had been a premeditated massacre, and said the shooting started when an army patrol was fired upon. He said four government soldiers were killed in the exchange of fire, but he did not identify them. When reporters arrived in the suburb of Monte Carmelos, 23 bodies ripped by automatic weapons' fire were strewn for 100 yards. Two homes were bur- ned, apparently by fires started by bazooka rounds. Silos explode in Texas CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas-Six huge silos exploded in flames yesterday during a shift change at a public grain elevator, killing at least three workers and injuring at least 22 others-including seven federal inspectors. The explosion occurred about 3:10 p.m. at the elevator, owned by the Nueces County Navigation District, as workers from the day shift were leaving and those on the evening shift were arriving.. 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