Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, January 15, 1985 GOP members clash over cuts IN BRIEF From AP and UPI WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders yesterday called on President Reagan to keep his pledge not to tamper with Social Security benefits, clashing with Senate GOP leaders who want to freeze spending for the program next year. Reagan said last week he would accept the Social Security freeze if there was overwhelming congressional approval. House Democrats, however, also reject disturbing Social Security. HOUSE Republican leader Robert Michel said he has "tried to honor" Reagan's campaign pledge not to tamper with Social Security and "not do anything that would do violence to anything the president has pledged." "We'd all like that utopian balanced budget, but if it isn't there, you ask yourself how much of a deficit can you absorb?" Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House GOP conference, said the Republican Party was trying to reach out to "millions of senior citizens during the campaign that had a pledge from the president for no reductions in Social Security benefits ... I think that's something that should be outside this budget process." BUT A top Dole aide said the Senate GOP leader is "still looking at an across-the-board package that would include the Social Securty COLAs" and is working closely with the White House and other Republicans. Although leaders of both parties have previously said deficit-reduction was Congress' No. 1 priority this year, Michel told reporters: "Not everybody is so possessed with this deficit that every document that is published has to have a bearing on deficit- reduction." The GOP plan, called "Ideas for Tomorrow, Choices for Today," calls for tax-code simplification, curbs on the independence of the Federal Reserve system to "allow greater public scrutiny," and a variety of domestic-policy initiatives not usually associated with Republicans - including larger tax breaks for child care and home care of elderly relatives. THEIR preliminary proposal would freeze all. federal spending including the Pentagon budget and cost-of-living increases in Social Security payments. Reagan in the past has ruled out any tampering with Social Security payments, although he said at his nationally broadcast news conference last week that he would consider a one-year freeze on Social Security increases if there were a "congressional mandate" for it. House Democrats have indicated they do not sup- port a freeze on Social Security benefits, and Repdblicans yesterday suggested that such a freeze would have a hard time winning approval in the House, which Democrats control by a 252-182 margin with one vacancy. The GOP document offers 252 suggestions "for Congress to consider as it deals with President Reagan's budget," but some of them are contradic- tory. For instance, at the same time it advocates a flat tax system with an elimination of all current deduc- tions and credits, it proposes a batch of new tax breaks. It advocates "tax credits for home care of elderly relatives who would otherwise be institutionalized" as well as "tax deductions for home care of elderly relatives suffering from disabling ailments such as Alzheimer's Disease." And it calls for "increasing the tax credit for dependent care services for low- and moderate- income taxpayers, or providing modest tax incen- tives to firms for offering day care as an employee benefit." Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports Belgium refuses U.S. missiles .. WASHINGTON - Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens told President Reagan yesterday that Belgium will not deploy new American nuclear missiles in March as planned, a spokesman for Martens said. "The military and technical schedule no longer exists," said the spokesman, Lou De Clerq. "It will be replaced by a political decision to be taken at the end of March." CBS News reported yesterday evening that "Martens told CBS News that his government now would not begin deployment in March. He said Belgium would decide then whether the missiles will be based there." U.S. officials have taken the position that a failure to deploy in March would be a breach in solidarity on this issue among the NATO allies. Martens himself told a reporter with regard to the March deployment decision: "There will be a vote of confidence by parliament and it is not ex- cluded that we will be defeated. In that case there will be new elections. The whole question is to get a majority to sustain the decisions of the gover- nment." Teachers contest anti-gay law WASHINGTON-"All the goals of public education" are threatened if public schools cannot fire teachers who advocate homosexuality, the Supreme Court was told yesterday. Seeking reinstatement of an Oklahoma law that enpowered local school boards to carry out such firings, University of Oklahoma City Law School professor Dennis Arrow argued that the statute was aimed at barring. teachers from advocating sodomy, a crime under Oklahoma law. The disputed law stated that a teacher could be fired for engaging in "public homosexual conduct or activity"-a term defined as "advocating, solicity, imposing, encouraging or promoting public or private homosexual activity in a manner that creates a substantial risk that such conduct will, come to the attention of school children or school employees." Inaugural committee to pay r IE LIBERAL ARTS MAJORS ... You're Needed All Over the, World. Ask Peace Corps volunteers why their ingenuity and flexibility are as vital as their degrees. They'll tell you they are helping the world's poorest peoples attain self sufficiency in the areas of food production, energy conservation, education, development and health services. And they'll tell rewards of hands on career experience overseas. it's the toughest job you'll ever love. economic you about the They'll tell you PEACE CORPS Agreement reached in new hospital pay dispute (Continued from Page 1) delay caused by the walkoff, Ayers said, declining to explain the plan. But IMC might hire more workers or have crews working on the weekends to put the project back on schedule, she ad- ded. The $285 million project, which began in the fall of 1981, is scheduled for completion in August of this year and should be ready for occupancy in January 1986. Israel sees probable end to occupation of Lebanon (Continued from Page 1) were killed and seven were wounded when two roadside bombs exploded near the south Lebanon town of Rzay just north of the Litani River. The deaths brought to 606 the number of Israelis killed in Lebanon since the in- vasion. RABIN SAID that if the Palestine Liberation Organization tries to reorganize in south Lebanon "the Israeli army will not hesitate to enter and liquidate such reorganization. It will be a roving, aggressive method of defense." The initial invasion, dubbed Operation Peace for Galilee, was laun- ched to oust the PLO from southern Lebanon and to end guerrilla attackes against Israel's northern border. Since the PLO was routed, most of the attacks on Israeli soldiers in Lebanon have been blamed on the increasingly hostile Shiite Moslem population. Rabin, who presented the plan with top army officers, said the decision to turn Lebanese territory over to the Lebanese army was "a test for the Lebanese government and its claims at Naqoura that it is able to impose order" in areas evacuated by Israel. THE ISRAELI plan for a unilateral withdrawal was borm out of frustration over deadlocked troop withdrawal negotiations with Lebanon that began Nov. 8 in the border town of Naqoura in south Lebanon. If the United Nations and Lebanon "are not ready in five weeks, we are not going to wait any more," the defense minister said. In the final stage, Rabin said, Israel would establish a security zone along its border in south Lebanon to be patrolled by local Lebanese forces "backed by Israel." Rabin said that the timing of the next two stages would be "at our discretion," and that each move would need Cabinet approval. Of course the hope is that indeed we will be able to implement the stages in a way that won't take a long time," Rabin said. "The time will be in terms of mon- ths, not weeks, for each stage, and I recommend patience and to see how the decision materializes." performers triple union wages NEW YORK - Bowing to protests, President Reagan's inaugural commit- tee has reversed its decision to hire 200 amateur performers for free during Inauguration Week and has agreed to pay them triple the union minimum, wage, a union spokesman said yesterday. The committee also agreed to pay the performers travel and living expen- ses and make contributions for each one into the pension and welfare fund of the American Guild of Variety Artists, said Dick Moore, a spokesman for an umbrella group of four entertainment unions. The committee incurred the wrath of all four unions last week by publishing an audition call for "clean-cut American types" who are non- union to sing and dance at inaugural celebrations Jan. 19-21. The Screen Actors Guild asked Reagan to personally condemn the audition call because he served as head of SAG for six terms before leaving acting for politics. Actors Equityannounced plans for a demonstration in Washington to coin- cide with the inaugural celebrations.u Hundreds die in Ethiopian crash NAIROBI, Kenya - A speeding train derailed on a bridge in central Ethiopia, and four passenger cars tumbled into a 40-foot ravine, killing 392 people, Ethiopia's state radio reported yesterday night. Other estimates put the death toll as high as 449. The broadcast, monitored in Nairobi, said 373 people were injured in the' wreck Sunday afternoon near Awash, about 125 miles east of Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. It said the locomotive engineer was arrested. Ethiopian relief officials said he apparently failed to slow down while negotiating the curve of the ; bridge. Air force helicopters evacuated those seriously hurt. Relief workers in Addis Ababa said emergency teams were caring for survivors until they could be flown to hospitals in Addis Ababa and Nazareth, a town about 60 miles to the southeast. The government's first official mention of the wreck came nearly 24 hours after it happened. Transport Minister Yussuf -Ahmed is leading an in- vestigation into the disaster, the radio said. 0 'fit A 14 Opposition leads in Brazil polls x' ,r BRASILIA, Brazil - A 74-year-old lawyer is favored to upset the gover-.. nment's official nominee in today's presidential elections that will end 21 years of military rule in Latin America's largest nation. Tancredo Neves, a moderate who heads an alliance of opposition parties and dissidents, leads in public opinion polls by at least a two-thirds margin over government candidate Paulo Maluf, a 53-year-old right-wing millionaire. Neves attributes his opponent's weakness in the public opinion polls to Maluf's status as official government candidate, which identifies him with the outgoing military regime. Whoever wins the presidency will face a world record foreign deft of $100 billion, an annual inflation rate of more than 200 percent and pressure from lower paid workers whose purchasing power has been cut in half since the military seized power in 1964. ! ENGINEERING STUDENTS kCourse books - Technical references - Drafting materials -Calculators & Computers ALL AT DISCOUNT PRICES. 2 CONVENIENT LOCATIONS: 341 E. Liberty at Division Open 7 days a week. 769-7940 North Campus Commons Open 6 days a week. 994-9012 Vol. XCV - No.86 The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967 X) is published Tuesday through Sunday during the Fall and Winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the Spring and Summer terms by students at the University of Michigan. 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