Page 2-Friday, February 4, 1983-The Michigan Daily Budget office gives optimistic deficit picture WASHINGTON (UPI) - The usually cautious Congressional Budget Office said yesterday "The recession is en- ding" and predicted the deficit will be $14 billion lower this year than President Reagan forecasts. . The office, which has been issuing more pessimistic forecasts than every administration since its creation in 1975, said in it annual economic report the economy will grow 4 percent in 1983 and 4.7 percent in 1984, and the budget deficit will be $194 billion this year. In contrast, Reagan's 1984 budget estimates the economy will grow only 3.1 percent this year and 4 percent in 1984 and the budget deficit will be about $208 billion in 1983. "WE THINK the recession is ending and (the economy) will grow at a moderate rate this year,"Alice Rivlin, director of the office, said at a news briefing. "This is the first year in some time the CBO and the president's budget forecasts are close to the same," she said. "In general, we've been slightly less optimistic than the administration. This time we're slightly on the op- timistic side of them, which is, unusual." The similarity of the two estimates should speed the budget process in Congress this year, she said, because legislators will not have to "fight about the forecasts." RIVLIN SAID her office believes the economic recovery will be a "little bit stronger" and inflation will be slightly lower than the administration estimates. But, she said, the modest growth rates are not sufficient to quickly bring the unemployment rate down. "We expect unemployment to remain above 10 percent this year and dip below 10 percent to 9.8 percent next year," she said. THE REPORT estimates unem- ployment, which reached 10.8 percent in December, will be 10.6 percent this year and then slowly decline to 7.5 per- cent by 1988. The Reagan budget predicts unemployment of 10.9 percent this year, 10 percent in 1984 and 6.6 per- cent by 1988. Even with a higher economic growth than the office predicts, the deficit in 1988 still would be around $183 billion. "That's very worrisome," Rivlin said. "It's very likely to raise interest rates and crowd out investment. Get- ting the out-year deficits down are necessary to sustaining the recovery.'' The report said, "It is now generally agreed that a balanced federal budget is not an attainable goal for the near future." One of Bo's Boys? Daily Photo by RENEE FREIER Paul Bunyan cut an impressive figure in the Union yesterday, as he readied himself for tonight's dance held in his honor. The Paul Bunyan Ball, spon- sored by the School of Natural Resources, will be held in the Union Ballroom. IT'S NOT TOO LATE! ORDER YOUR 1983 Trucking stri, (Continued from Page 1) since Monday when the Independent Truckers Association called the strike to protest scheduled hikes in gasoline taxes and highway fees. WHILE THE nation's 100,000 in- dependent truckers - drivers who own' their own rigs - represent about one fi- fth of the trucking industry, they handle about 90 percent of the perishable produce shipments. Teamsters Union truckers who have little sympathy for the strike especially since Teamsters were bearing the brunt of the violence. One of their members, George F. " G. ke intensifie Capps, who was fatally shot in his rig Monday night, was buried in Clayton, N.C., Thursday. SOME TRUCKERS refused to drive at night. Others demanded - and got - "combat pay." They stuck close together and kept in touch with "Smokey Bears" on their CB's. Others carried guns. "I've got a shotgun in there and it's fully loaded," said Michael Bevel of Huntsville, Ala., at a truck stop in Columbus, Ohio. "The strike is the only reason I'm carrying it and if worse comes to worse, believe me, I'll use it." IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports Deportees from Nigeria flood refugee camps in Ghana ACCRA, Ghana - Deportees from Nigeria yesterday poured into camps already jammed with exhausted Ghanaians suffering from food shortages, illness and the rigors of their long trip home. The flood of returning Ghanains raised government concerns that violence will add to the misery of the estimated half-million that have reached the camps. Commodore S. G. Obimbeh, coordinator of the repatriation task force, said authorities would not tolerate "acts of violence or unruly behavior." Obimbeh said he saw some newly arrived deportees set fire to a man in Accra who they accused of trying to steal a cassette recorder. The Ghanaians went to oil-rich Nigeria in the mid-1970s seeking well-paying jobs. On Jan. 17 Nigeria, hit by the drop in oil prices, ordered the expulsion of an estimated 2 million illegal aliens - half of them said to be Ghanaians. The Ghanaian government has not given official figures on the number now back home. But Interior Minister Johnny Hansen told reportes in the Nigerian capital of Lagos on Wednesday that "abut half a million" of the ex- pelled 1 million Ghanaians had returned. Digging at state toxic waste site awaits emergency plan LANSING - Department of Natural Resources Director Howard Tanner said yesterday no digging will be done at Michigan's worst toxic waste site for possible cyanide contamination until an emergency management plan is in place. Tanner, speaking to the House Conservation Committee, also said such a plan will not necessarily include evacuations of area residents. He partly blamed the media for alarming residents. The DNR believes that up to 300 barrels containing cyanide and hydrochloric acid are buried beneath a lagoon on the 40-acre site of the Berlin & Farro Liquid Waste Incineration in Genessee County. There are fars the chemicals could mix during a disposal effort and form deadly hydrogen cyanide. "We're not going to approach those barrels without an emergency management plan," Tanner said. Senators ask for Defense cuts WASHINGTON - A key Senate committee asked Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger yesterday for suggestions to reduce his budget by up to $10 billion, despite a plea from President Reagan that any new cuts would "damage national security." "We're reaching a consensus here just from the questioning that there are going to be changes made in your request," Sen. Bob Kasten (R-Wis.) told Weinberger during a four-hour hearing of the Senate Budget Committee. Weiberger, in his third congressional appearance in three days, came un- der a scathing attack-from Sen. Donald Riegle (D-Mich.), who accused him loudly of being "dangerous .to our country" because of his "fanatical in- sistence" on more money for the Pentagon at a time of economic hardship. "I think you're making our country weaker," charged Riegle,who said there are currently 750,000 unemployed in Michigan. American shotin El Salvador SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Lftist guerrillas firing on a government helicopter wounded an American Green Beret sergeant, the first casualty among the 37 American military advisers stationed in El Salvador, U.S. of- ficials said yesterday. Sgt. Jay T. Stanley, a U.S. Green Beret, was shot Wednesday while flying in a Salvadoran-piloted helicopter over the nation's most important bridge, U.S. Embassy Spokesman Donald Hamilton said. At least two Salvadoran government soldiers and 60 guerrillas were repor- ted killed as the rebel force of some 500 men retreated from the city of Berlin in the southeast part of the country, A foreign military observer saidan air force fighter strafed a column of 200 rebels five miles west of Berlin, and troops ferried in by helicopter at- tacked on the ground. An army battalion regained control of Berlin with little fighting yesterday, after leftist guerrillas pulled out of the biggest city they have captured and claimed they fulfilled their objectives. They held it for two days. U.S., Israel agree on boundary WASHINGTON - W.S. and Israeli representatives in Lebanon have reached an agreement on a tentative line to separate U.S. Marines and Israeli troops, State Department sources said yesterday. The agreement comes after six U.S.-Iraeli confrontations, including the one yesterday in which a pistol-waving U.S. Marine stopped an Israeli tank convoy. But officials were vague about where the line is and what the agreement entails. The Israeli army said in a staement to Tel Aviv that it had reached an agreement with U.S. representatives which the Israelis claim re-affirms their rights to patrolup to a north-south railroad line. Asked whether it agreed with this Israeli version, the Defense Department had no comment. The State Department also had no official comment. "While some Israeli patrols are taking place, the remainder of the disputed territory is still at issue. We haven't given them permission to do anything," a State Department official said. 4 111i4 Ilivdl IINS A 1 1 W Quad secures women's . 4 TODAY AND S, **4*0 4 sv% $p UNTIL FEB. 14, 1983 mmin m m - m -mm m mmm - mi Please reserve my copy of the $15.00. 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A THREE-NUMBER combination CHICAGO HOUSE RA Sarah Laible must be pushed to open the doors, but said before the locks were installed "a during "peak" times female residents can choose to keep the doors open by snapping the lock in the off position, Levy said. He said pressure exerted by residen- ce staff and a "generally enthusiastic" Action Sp1.orts Wear response from the West Quad-Barbour- Newberry (WQBN) House Council FAC y/ CLSMEOtShelped get the locks installed. FAV/VIAI Y LO I-0 TKurt Gerber, president of the WQBN council, said locks had been tried before on the fifth floor Williams House Swimwear and the problems were reduced. "It's a safety ,measure," he said. Footwear "(The locks) keep the guys out." Ger- B odywear ber said the problems with men in the women's bathrooms "got a little out of 419 East Liberty hand." 2 Mocks of State Streei Pointing an accusing finger at her roommate, Johnson said "for some 663-6 7 7' people who get really trashed, it may be a problem." 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