The Michigan Daily--Tuesday, July 13, 1982-Page 5
Shultz to face
difficulties in
new cabinet post
WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of
State-designate George Shultz is
coming across on Capitol Hill as a soft-
spoken smoothie, but he faces many of
the same problems his prickly
predecessor did in dealing with
Congress.
As Shultz made the rounds of Senate
offices preparing for his confirmation
hearing, which begins Tuesday, both
Republicans and Democrats described
him as a low-key, likable man who
should be easy to get along with.
Many of the senators already knew
Shultz from his days as treasury
secretary and secretary of labor in the
Nixon administration. But'even those
who didn't know him seemed taken with
his personality.
FRESHMAN Sen. Christopher Dodd
(D-Conn.), for instance,- praised the
secretary-designate for conceding can-
didly that he did not know very much
about Latin America, compared to
other regions of the world.
For all his apparent charm, however,
Shultz could run into trouble selling the
administration's policies on Capitol
Hill, as the more testy Haig did before
him.
He will, for instance, learn some
things about Latin America. Dodd said
he already had tried-he didn't know
how successfully-to correct what he
said was Shultz's erroneous impression
that things were getting better in El
Salvador.
WITHIN TWO weeks of Shultz's ex-
pected swearing-in, the administration
is suooosed to report to Congress on
Sultz
...nears confirmation
whether the government in El Salvador
is making progress in land reform and
other areas. If the answer to that
question is "yes"-as it must be if
military aid to the Salvadoran gover-
nment is to continue-Dodd and other
critics are likely to ask how
scrupulously the administration looked
into the matter.
Meanwhile, the administration's ef-
fort to boost foreign aid spending is
foundering in an election year in which
Congress has been asked to cut
politically popular domestic programs.
. In 1981, the lawmakers authorized
$5.9 billion in foreign aid for the fiscal
year that begins Oct. 1. Both the Senate
Foreign Relations and House Foreign
Affairs panels have agreed to add about
17milin to thk
vUn rk y rV~C-- r
Shovel it !
Fred Vrdman takes his job and shovels it on E. Huron near the Power Center
yesterday. The roads around the medical campus are being improved in con-
junction with the Replacement Hospital Project.
Congress balks at U.S.
troop involvement in Beirut
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AS BEIRUT residents inspected the
damage from Sunday's artillery ex-
changes, former prime minister Saeb
Salam said it is up to the United States
to find a country willing to accept the,
guerrillas now that Syria has announ-
ced it will not.
Meanwhile PLO Chairman Yasser
Arafat said that the PLO would not leave
Lebanon completely.
"Don't ask me about negotiations,"
Arafat shouted in response to a question
from an AP correspondent.
BPC advises ISMRRD
be eliminated from budget
subcommittee with reasons for ISM-
(Continuedfrom Page 1) MRD's continuation; however, at one
from outside sources as a "contributing public me:eting no one showed up.
factor" in the decision to eliminate "The fact that nobody showed up in a
ISMRRD. sense becomes a comment in itself,"
"THIS WAS certainly one of the in- Frye said, commenting on the low tur-
stitutes in which that was a factor," nout. "Given the problems we have had
Frye explained. with the institute, I wouldn't be sur-
He said that the committee's recom- prised," he said.
mendation will now be sent to the FRYE SAID that closure of the in-
Committee on Budget Administration, stitute will affect only the disabled who
who will then report to the Board of utilize its services, and not students,
Regents. because it is a "non-academic unit"
"The ultimate decision on a program and, therefore, does not offer struc-
closure rests with the Regents," Frye tured courses.
said, "but we obviously take the report The mental retardation institute is
of the committee very, very seriously." nationally respected for its pioneering
During the review process, Frye said research and development of com-
ample opportunity was provided for munity reintegration programs for the
concerned individuals to present the mentally handicapped.