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School of Music graduate Kathleen Beck lets fly some tunes from the carillon at the top of Burton Tower.
Senate passes cuts in
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate,
handing President Reagan another
budget victory, approved 73 to 23
yesterday a $12.6-billion package of
spending cuts that slaps a 4 percent cap
on annual cost-of-living increases for
federal retirees through 1985.
The measure also calls for $2.5 billion
in food stamp cuts and trims $1.5 billion
for dairy price supports over the next
three years. The bill now goes to the
Democratic-controlled House, which
already has rejected some of the key
provisions, including the cap on in-
flation increases for federal retirees.
WHILE THE final vote was not in
doubt, the bill was amended to put the
Senate on record in favor of liberalized
unemployment benefits, a step
Republicans took after prodding from
Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, (D-Ohio).
The 84-13 vote did not actually
provide for the increase in benefits.
But it asked Senate negotiators on a
related tax bill to seek an extension of
10 to 13 weeks of the current maximum
of 39 weeks of jobless benefits.
The vote also put the Senate on record
in favor of restoring certain unem-
ployment cuts approved a year ago,
and scheduled to take effect next mon-
th. '
GOP OFFICIALS said they agreed to
the provision when Metzenbaum ap-
peared to have enough votes to win ap
proval for a proposal actually making
the changes.
The Reagan administration has been
involved in private negotiations to
reach agreement on specific changes in
unemployment compensation even
though publicly it opposes any exten-
spending
sion of existing benefits.
The bill to cut spending over the next
three fiscal years is the second in-
stallment of a deficit-reducing plan that
Republicans hope will lead to lower in-
terest rates and swift economic
recovery.
Nearly half of the $12.2 billion in
savings - slightly more than $5 billion -
would come from the provision to limit
cost of living increases to 4 percent a
year for federal retirees.
Congressional budget experts
estimate that without the cap, inflation
increases would amount to 6.6 percent
in 1983; 7.2 percent in 1984 and 6.6 per-
cent in 1985. The limitation would apply
to about three million civil service and
military retirees, as well as former
Coast Guard, Public Health Service and
foreign service personnel.
Ann Arbor
anti-nuke
groups mark
Hiroshima
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"SHE'S A symbol of people's desire
that people shouldn't die from nuclear
bombs," he said.
The Interfaith Council will wind up its
activities with an "interfaith
celebration of hope for peace" on Sun-
day at 12:30 p.m.
The Michigan Nuclear Weapons
Freeze organization will join the coun-
cil's activities tomorrow. The
organization currently is working for
passage of a proposal calling for a
mutual agreement between the United
States and the Soviet Union to stop the
testing, production, and deployment of
nuclear weapons.
THE FREEZE group has constructed
a large picture of a mushroom cloud.
Tomorrow, participants will dip their
hands in paint and cover the cloud with
handprints.
"It's a kind of visual commitment to
the motto of the freeze, 'the future in
our hands,' " Hayes said.
The anti-nuclear groups receive a
great deal of support from the Ann Ar-
bor community, according to Hayes,
who said he expects up to 200 people to
participate in this weekend's events.
"You have a lot of people who are
concerned about peace, but there's no
specific issue that excites people,"
Hayes said. He added, however, "the
nuclear weapons freeze is something
that excites people."
It makespeople realize how close this
country is to nuclear war, he added.
U.S. calls
for Israeli
withdrawal
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pression the president was not
necessarily asking Israel to surrender
any territory gained in fighting Wed-
nesday when its forces launched a fier-
ce new assault.
Reagan's message to Begin made no
reference to a date for an Israeli with-
drawal, leaving the impression the
president was not necessarily asking
Israel to surrender any territory gained
in fighting Wednesday when its forces
launched a fierce new assault.
But State Department spokesman
Alan Romberg said yesterday that
Reagan's call for a cease-fire in place
referred to cease-fire lines that had
been in effect since Sunday.
Although Israeli tanks moved back in
the northern harbor area of Beirut, they
dug in near the Palestinian camps in
the south. The Palestine Liberation
Organization accused Israel of reinfor-
cing its positions at the entrance to the
Lebanese capital's Moslem sector for a
final assault into the city.
PLO and Israeli gunners exchnged
sporadic sniper fire and occasional
shells near the mid-city horse
racetrack and around the besieged
Bourj el-Barajneb camp in the southern
end of the capital during the day.
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