Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, December 11, 1985 Balanced budget bill WASHIGNTON (AP) - Congressional negotiators ratified landmark legislation yesterday designed to force a balanced budget by 1991, clearing the way for a rise in the national debt limit to more than $2 trillion. The measure was cleared for votes by the full House and Senate later in the week as Congress, prodded by the president, also labored on year-end spending legislation and struggled to save the president's cherished tax overhaul proposal from oblivion. 4ENATE leaders said they would attempt to complete work on the om- nibus $490 billion spending bill during the evening, even if that meant incon- veniencing senators eager to attend a formal Christmas party at the White House. Once approved by the Senate, the spending bill will have to be recon- ciled with similar House-passed measure in time to keep most federal programs from running out of funds tomorrow at midnight. As for the .Democratic-drafted tax bill - reluctantly endorsed by Reagan as a "first step" toward genuine overhaul - Democrats and even some Republican critics said the measure would likely survive a showdown vote in the House later in the week. But the plan suffered a 6lt when Beryl Sprinkel, Reagan's chief economic adviser, was quoted as saying that the Democratic-drafted measure would "play hell with the economy." REP. JOHN Duncan, (R-Tenn.,) said Sprinkel made his comment to two congressmen during a white House meeting, but the ad- ministration economics adviser could not be reached for comment. With Congress nursing faint hopes of wrapping up its 1985 business by the end of the week, the day began with a White House meeting in which Reagan urged legislative leaders to complete work on the five-year deficit-reduction plan and the spen- ding bill and advance the tax measure to the Senate. Despite the evident good cheer around the polished mahogany table in the White House Cabinet Room, Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Oreg.), said "nothing" was agreed upon. And atified House Republican leaders continued to rebel against Reagan's call to vote for the Democratic tax overhaul bill later this week as a "first step"' that can be substantially revised next year in the GOP-controlled Senate. The plan designed to balance the budget would trigger automatic cut- backs in defense and domestic programs in each of the next five years if Congress does not gradually make spending cuts on its own, star- ting with reductions of $11.7 billion in 1986. Administration officials pressed until the last moment for concessions designed to shield the defense budget from deep cuts, and while GOP sour- ces said they expected Reagan would sign the measure, there was no formal word from the White House. Yale names Schmidt new president NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Columbia University Law School Dean Benno Schmidt will be named the 20th president of Yale University, a newspaper reported Monday. Schmidt, a graduate of Yale, was named yesterday to succeed A. Bar- tlett Giamatti, who announced in April that he is retiring June 30 from the post he has held for eight years, the New Haven Journal Courier reported. YALE spokesman Walter Littell refused to comment on the report. Yale spokeswoman Martha McCor- mick said Giamatti's successor would be on hand when the announcement was made yesterday. Schmidt, contacted at his home in New York City, declined comment but refused to rule himself out as a can- didate. "I can't say anything . . . really," said Schmidt, who was appointed dean of Columbia's law school in July 1984. He said he was on "strict radio silence" about the matter. The newspaper, which did not disclose the source of its information said Schmidt was the apparent choice from among 430 initial candidates, in- cluding Vartan Gregorian, president of New York Public Library, and Maxine Singer, head of the laboratory of biochemistry at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. SCHMIDT graduated from Yale College in 1963 and obtained his law degree from Yale in 1966. Schmidt was a law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1966-67. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney general from 1967-69. Since 1983, he has held the post of Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Con- stitutional Law at Columbia. IN BRIEF COMPILED FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL REPORTS 3 more dead in S.A. violence JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Police reported three more black deaths yesterday in violence against white-minority rule that has raged through this segregated nation for nearly 16 months. One of the victims was a black policeman whose body was mutilated and burned, apparently by other blacks who saw him as a sellout to the white authorities. Winnie Mandela paid an unannounced visit to her husband, Nelson. The imprisoned black leader has become a symbol to many blacks fighting apartheid, the official race policy that preserves privilege for South Africa's 5 million whites and denies rights to the 24 million blacks. Rumors abound that the government is trying to strike a deal with Mandela, 67, under which he will renounce violence in return for freedom. He rejected such an offer when President P.W. Botha made it last January. The government announced that payments on the principal of foreign loans will be postponed again, until March 1. The country is in the grip of recession, inflation and high unemployment that have exacerbated the racial conflict. New Zealand may ban nukes WELLINGTON, New Aealand - The government proposed a law yesterday to make New Zealand a "nuclear-ress" zone, a move that could keep U.S. warships out of the country and lead Washington to scuttle a longstanding defense pact. The opposition National Party opposed the bill's introduction by Prime Minister David Lange's government, accusing the ruling Labor Party of "snuggling up to the pacifists in the eastern Bloc." "The only real beneficiaries of this bill are in the Kremlin," charged Warren Cooper, foreign affairs spokesman for the conservative op- position. In Washington, a State Department spokesman said the Reagan ad- ministration "would review its security obligations to New Zealand" un- der the ANZUS defense pact between Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Shultz decries W. European allies' gestures toward PLO LONDON - Secretary of State George Shultz criticized West European allies yesterday for making gestures toward the PLO that he called "payment in advance" for policy changes the guerrilla organization has not been willing to make. Shultz said at the beginning of a 10-day, six-nation tour of Europe that such gestures hurt chances for peace in the Middle East. The Palestine Liberation Organization is not entitled to recognition or participation in the peace effort until it renounces the use of force, Shultz said. "We differ with some of our European friends over the role of the PLO," Shultz said in a speech to the Pilgrim, an Anglo-American frien- dship society. "To us it seems obvious that the PLO excludes itself as a player so long as it rejec'ts United Nations Security Council resolutions," which renounce the use of force and recognize Israel's right to exist. "The PLO is not entitled to any payment in advance so long as it rejects what are, after all, the basic premises of the peace process," he said. Demonstrators burn Reagan, Marcos effigesin P ppmes MANILA, Philippines - Thousands of demonstrators burned efigies of President Reagan and President Ferdinand Marcos in four cities yester- day on the eve of the official presidential campaign kickoff. One person was killed. Marcos was expected to name his vice presidential running mate during a speech Wednesday accepting the nomination of the ruling party, the Kilusang Baging Lipunan (New Society Movement); as its candidate for the Feb. 7 election. Marcos, who called the early elections under pressure from his critics and the United States, has given seven names he is considering for the vice presidential post but there was speculation his former foreign minister, Arturo Tolentino, may get the nod. Tolentino was fired in March because of his criticism of Marcos' policies, but has since recovered some credibility in the government. AMA calls for tobacco ban WASHINGTON - Setting a goal of a tobacco-free United States by the year 2000, the 271,000-member American Medical Association called yesterday for laws to ban all advertising and promotion of cigarettes an- smokeless tobacco. After passing the anti-advertising resolution, the association's policymaking House of Delegates also voted to press for a 21-year minimum age for buying tobacco products; for a ban on vending machine cigarette sales; and for required health warning labels on smokeless tobacco such as chewing tobacco and snuff. Association officials acknowledged it would be difficult to get such proposals through Congress, especially in light of objections already raised concerning possible violation of free-speech rights. But doctors contended in debate that tobacco and lung cancer are clearly linked, that tobacco advertising encourages Americans to use tobacco products and that the medical profession has a duty to try to do something about it. "We expect a challenge; we're willing to fight it," said AMA general counsel Kirk Johnson at a post-vote news conference. 9 10 The Housing Information Office is now accepting applications from U of M students, faculty and staff for Winter Term 1986 UNIVERSITY FAMILY HOUSING APARTMENTS " low cost " furnished or unfurnished units " utilities included in rent * free University bus * community services available * an internationally rewarding environment " no deposits COME SEE US OR CALL US The Housing Information Office Housing Division Office of Student Services 1011 Student Activities Building TPlPnhnnp- (213)763-3164 I TERIYAKI! Experience it at FUJI. 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