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Senate opposes House budget

IN BRIEF
From United Press International

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WASHINGTON (UPI) - Senate budget conferees
balked at a new budget proposal from House bargainers
yesterday, saying it did not allocate enough money for the
military next year.
"There's an accord that this (House plan) won't fly,"
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici told
reporters.
BUT DOMENICI said he did not know whether the
Senate side would make a counter offer.
The House proposal;made Tuesday, cut $24 billion more
in non-military domestic spending over the next three
years and preserved Social Security raises, but did not
allot as much money for the Pentagon as Senate
bargainers and President Reagan had wanted.
The new House budget allows the Pentagon to sign con-

tracts for $298 billion worth of goods and services in fiscal
1986, less than the Senate's figure of $302.5 billion but up
from the House-passed number of $292.6 billion. The
proposal freezes outlays, the amount the military may ac-
tually spend next year. Domenici, (R-N.M.), insisted a ten-
tative budget compromise framework agreed on by the
adminstration and congressional leaders last week called
for the Senate's higher military funding figure.
But House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray,
(D-Pa.), maintained the framework only required the
House to move "toward" the Senate on Pentagon funding.
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd yesterday urged
the White House and Senate Republicans not to torpedo a
compromise budget plan because "they didn't get their
way" on a Social Security cost-of-living freeze.

Tiny beads made in space go on sale
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The as reference standards. measuring the size of particles in the
government yesterday announced the "This material is the first of what products.
sale of the first producta made in we expect will be a long line of
space - plastic beads so small that products to carry a made in space The polystyrene beads are 10
18,000 could fit on the head of a pin. label," said James M. Beggs, ad- micrometers (about one 2,500th of an
Nearly 1 billion of the tiny spheres ministrator of the National inch) in diameter and are more
produced in the absence of gravity Aeronautics and Space Ad- spherical than any that size made on
aboard the space shuttle Challenger ministration. Earth. Stanley Rasberry, chief of the
have been sold to eight U.S. com- Among other promising space bureau of standards' reference
panies, the Food and Drug Ad-. products likely to come along soon, materials office, said they will be
ministration and the University of Beggs said, are pure drugs "to fight useful in helping manufacturers keep
Utah for use as microscopic "yar- age-old diseases," perfect crystals particles within specifications.
dsticks." larger than any made on Earth, thin A photocopier toner with particles
A VIAL containing about 30 million films for industrial uses and new too large or small, for example, may
of the microballs sells for $384 and 29 alloys. produce unreadable copies, pigments
of 600 available vials have been sold The companies that bought the first with abnormal particles may not
so far for $11,136. The proceeds will be batch of space spheres make finely blend as well as they should in paints
split by the space agency, which ground powder products such as print and cosmetics and even ordinary
produced them, and the National pigments, copy machine toners, flour flour must be ground to the right size
Bureau of Standards, which and cosmetics. The space spheres will if it is to produce bread of proper con-
measured and packaged them for use be used to calibrate instruments for sistency.
Conference turns into political forum
(ContinuedfromPageei) Reagan's daughter had hoped to focus troduced in the final conference
UntdSae fo t rpoe Sa the 11-day conference attended by report.
United States for its e program, as 160 nations on women's issues and to At two previous women's conferen-
wellarsmitss ensl.Aeprranasdrefrain from political attacks. ces, -in Mexico City in 1975 and
well as its Central American and But virtually every delegation that Copenhagen in 1980, the United States
Middle East policies, took the floor yesterday spoke of rejected the final document because
"In our view one of the main ob- political issues, from South Africa's of clauses equating Zionism with
stacles has been the course of im- strict racial separation' policies racism, sanction calls against South
perialist forces to heighten inter- known as apartheid to the treatment Africa, and demands for immediate
national tensions and provoke hotbeds of Palestinians in areas occupied by implementation for immeidate im-
of tensions in various par of. the Israel. plementation of a new North-South
world," Soviet delegation leader THE CHINESE- delegation con- economic order.
Valentina Tereshkova said... demned both the Soviet Union and the Also yesterday:
"THE implementation of the United States for "bullying" smaller * Filipino delegates to the
notorious 'Star Wars' policy program countries such as Afghanistan and, nongovernmental, unofficial
would boost the threat of a truly Nicaragua. Women's Forum 85 - which is being
global and adestroying cofict and In one of the committees, Reagan held concurrently with the Women's
would result in a new and still more had a verbal battle with Iranian- Decade Conference -staged an anti-
sdangerous round of the arms race, delegates who insisted that a clause U.S. demonstration, calling for an
heto the American support of
The U.S. delegation headed by equating Zionism with racism be in- end toteAercnsppoto

Balloonist injured
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - An
Illinois pilot remained hospitalized
in serious condition yesterday af-
ter inadvertently flying his balloon
into another during a Tuesday
night contest at the World Hot-Air
Balloon Championships.
Alan Blount of Palos Park,
sustained serious back injuries
when his balloon plummeted some
900 feet into a wooded tract near
the Binder Park area, about six
miles southeast of the city, event
official Tom Sheppard said.
The crash occured about 8 p.m.
during a "hare and hound" style
competition, in which balloonists
chase a smaller, more
maneuverable balloon, trying to
toss sandbag markers into its
"carriage", or basket, he said.
Economy will grow
WASHINGTON - Housing star-
ts rebounded slightly in June, in-
creasing 1.9 percent after.May's 13
percent decline, but "take home"
pay showed the steepest percen-
tage drop in 10 years, government
economists said yesterday.
Federal Reserve Board Chair-
man Paul Volcker told Congress.
his colleagues in the central bank
believe economic growth will
reach "4 percent plus" in the
second half of the year, a
significant improvement from the
weak first half.
Volcker also said the latest sur-
vey of consumer confidence being
released by the Conference Board
showed an improvement in June
although still lower than at the
beginning of the year.
Students do poorly
on state health test
LANSING, Mich - The State
Board of Education was told
yesterday that Michigan school
children fared poorly on health and
education tests conducted last fall.
Board members reacted with
concern to the reports, especially
the one regarding health
knowledge.
Another health test is scheduled

for this coming year.
The tests were conducted in 36
randomly selected schools in con-
junction with the regular Michigan
Educational Assessment Program,
which checks math and reading
skills.
A total of 6,386 fourth, seventh
and 10th graders took the health
test.
Israel not convinced
body is Mengele's
MUNICH, West Germany -
Israel is not convinced a skeleton
unearthed from a Brazilian grave
was that of Nazi death camp doctor
Josef Mengele and a search for
him continues, an Israeli journalist
said in an article published yester-
day.
"We are not convinced that the
corpse really was Josef Mengele,"
journalist Deni sEisenberg, in an
article in the respected Bunte
magazine, quoted Israeli Justice
Ministry spokesman Yitzhak
Feinberg as saying.
Kuwait cancels aid
to some Arab nations
KUWAIT - Kuwait's
parliament canceled yesterday
$340 million worth of military aid
earmarked for Syria, Jordan and
the Palestine Liberation
Organization because it is being
misused, the Kuwaiti News Agen-
cy said.
The National Assembly voted 32-
18 in a closed session to stop the
allocation of 100 million dinars, or
$340 million, due to be granted for
the period July 1985 to July 198 to
help fight Israel onita sborders,
said the KUNA news agency.
The assembly's financial and
economic affairs committee
recommended termination of the
aid last week on grounds it is being
misused, the news agency said.
There has been speculation that
the committee recommendation
may have inspired two bomb ex-
plosions in the Persian Gulf state
July 11 that killed eight people and
injured 88 others.

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FRIDAY, JULY 19
"UPDATE ON ZIMBABWE"
- including background information on the recent
election andfuture developments in that nation.
SPEAKER: WARREN DAY, Representative of
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President Ferdinand Marcos and the
closing of U.S. military bases.
" A group of women attending
Forum 85 demanded a worldwide ban
on the use of the drug DES or
diethylstilbestrol,ta synthetic hor-
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