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Reagan: economic recovery plan sound
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Reagan, while
predicting "hard times" in
the months ahead, vowed
Tuesday to stick with his
economic program and
chastised Congress for
dragging its feet on further
budget cuts
"Our plan for economic
recovery is sound," Reagan
said of the sharp tax and
spending cuts that went into
effect 40 days ago "I am
determined to stick with it.”
But at his fifth news
conference, the president
said the recession "none of
us had predicted” is likely to
get worse before it gets
better
"I think we're going to
have some hard times in the
next few months," he said.
Asked if he might need to
raise some taxes if the
economy doesn't improve,
the president hedged, saying
"that's a decision that will
have to be made" early next
year.
Formally facing reporters
for the first time since Oct. 1,
Reagan also stood by his
controversial view that a
limited nuclear exchange is
possible, and described his
foreign policy ac
complishments as
"astounding "
The president opened the
session in the East Room of
the White House by reading
a prepared statement on the
economy that declared,
"We’ve laid a firm foun
dation for economic
recovery in 1982 ”
He urged Congress to get
working on new ap
propriations bills, including
the additional budget cuts he
asked for in September, and
noted that most of the
spending bills in the works
on Capitol Hill are “over
budget "
"This government must
stiffen its spine and not
throw in the towel" on
cutting the budget, Reagan
said, adding a warning: “I
stand ready to veto any bill
that abuses the limited
resources of the taxpayers ”
He also complained about
the slow pace of
congressional action on the
spending measures, noting
that a temporary continuing
Evidence links U.S.S.R. to toxins
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
United States has solid evidence — a
"smoking gun" — linking the Soviet
Union to the use of lethal chemical
weapons in Cambodia, Laos and
possibly Afghanistan, a top State
Department official said Tuesday.
"We now have the smoking gun
We now have four separate pieces of
physical evidence" of the use of
lethal toxins against civilian
populations in Southeast Asia, said
State Department official Richard
Burt
"We have concluded that chemical
weapons are being used in
Afghanistan, but we have no
evidence," the chief of the depart
ment's Bureau for Politico-Military
Affairs told the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee
Burt's testimony also contained the
strongest and most specific charges
of Soviet encouragement of chemical
warfare since Secretary of State
Alexander Haig first raised the issue
publicly last summer.
The Soviet press has denied the
charges. Burt said Washington has so
far "not received a substantive
response” from Moscow on its
inquiries about the use of the deadly
toxins.
He told the committee, “Over the
past five years, and perhaps longer,
weapons outlawed by mankind,
weapons successfully banned from
the battlefields of the industrialized
world for over five decades, have
been used against unsophisticated
and defenseless people, in campaigns
of mounting extermination which are
being conducted in Laos, Cambodia,
and more recently in Afghanistan.”
Burt plainly pointed the finger at
the Soviets, but stopped short of
directly accusing the Kremlin of
responsibility for the use of toxins
and other outlawed chemical
weapons in Southeast Asia.
"The Soviet Union is, of course,
directly involved in the fighting in
Afghanistan and thus in the use of
chemical weapons in that country,”
he said.
“In Laos and Cambodia, on the
other hand, these weapons would
seem to be employed by indigenous
forces — the Vietnamese, Laotians
and Cambodians. Nonetheless, the
links to the Soviet Union are strong,”
he said.
The poison said to be used in
Southeast Asia is called "yellow
rain." a biologically produced toxin
that causes massive bleeding in
humans and usually death. In
ternational agreements forbid its
production and use.
Burt accused the Soviet Union and
Vietnam of "flagrantly violating"
treaties of 1925 and 1972, which both
countries signed, that outlaw
chemical weapons in warfare and the
production, storing and transfer of
toxin weapons.
"The day the United States signs
unverifiable arms control
agreements is over,” he said.
resolution to fund the
government will soon run out
and probably have to be
extended
House Democratic leader
Jim Wright of Texas,
responding to Reagan’s
criticism, said nearly all the
appropriations bills have
passed the Democratic-
controlled House and are
awaiting action in the
Senate, where Republicans
are in the majority.
Wright said it was his
impression that Reagan's
economic plans are "on
hold.”
“It seems that he doesn't
know pxactly what he wants
to do," Wright said after
Reagan's news conference
While the economy and the
continuing tax and budget
conflict with Congress
dominated the 35-minute
session, there were several
questions about defense and
foreign policy
The president was
questioned closely about his
comment that a battlefield
exchange of nuclear
weapons could be kept from
escalating into a full-blown
holocaust — a remark that
fueled anti-nuclear protests
in Europe
Reagan said his response
to the "hypothetical
question" was that limiting
such an exchange was
"something that I thought
was possible .”
"I could see where both
sides could still be deterred
from going into the exchange
between strategic
weapons,” he said.
He also rejected
suggestions his foreign
policy has been hampered by
administration infighting
"There's no bickering or
backstabbing going on," he
said.
“Our accomplishments
have been astounding." he
said, citing improved ties
with Mexico and Canada and
the genial reception he got at
the Cancun economic
summit, where, he noted, "I
didn't get burned at the
stake.”
On the economic front,
Reagan said there is "un
certainty” among his ad
visers when "we can bring
ourselves out of this
recession” but noted "some
pretty hopeful signs" —
falling interest rates and
moderating inflation
"We are agreed," he said,
"we arc going to come out of
it in the next several mon
ths” — or by the middle of
1982
Can colleges limit free speech?
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Private colleges and
universities have a right to
regulate political activity on
campus by non-students to
limit "highly offensive"
speechmaking and pam
phleteering, the Supreme
Court was told Tuesday.
Former Attorney General
Nicholas Katzenbach made
that argument before the
justices during debate in an
important First Amendment
case that tests government's
authority to enforce free
Astronaut Truly:
Columbia’s ready
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - With the astronauts
confident of a Thursday launch, the countdown began
Tuesday (or the second attempt to send the shuttle Columbia
back into orbit and open a new era of repeat space travel.
“I've said it before and I'll say it again, Columbia’s
ready,” said astronaut Richard Truly as he and shuttle
commander Joe Engle left their Houston homes for Cape
Canaveral
"We’re going to make it this time,” said Truly, who will
celebrate his 44th birthday Thursday on the same day he
hopes to travel into space for the first time.
The countdown leading to a 7:30 a m. EST Thurday blastoff
was abbreviated since much of the flight preparation had
already been done before the first attempt to launch the
shuttle was canceled last Wednesday.
Kennedy Space Center officials said the countdown was
proceeding as scheduled with the weather again being a
potential factor. A storm front was expected to pass through
Florida Wednesday, but an Air Force forecast said no rain
was called for on Thursday.
One of the first jobs performed after the clock began
counting down was the loading of liquid hydrogen and liquid
oxygen into the shuttle's six fuel cell storage tanks The
launch pad was cleared of personnel for the hazardous job
The astronauts took off from Houston in the early af
ternoon, flying twin T-38s to the Kennedy Space Center Truly
— with John Young, the commander of the shuttle’s first
flight in April, aboard — flew one plane and Engle, the other.
Laughing as he walked to the plane. Truly said he had a
birthday cake "somewhere in here," holding up his equip
ment bag He said he didn't plan a party, however, until after
he returned to Earth next Tuesday.
"We re riding with the punches and we're ready to go,”
Truly said.
"You bet your life," Engle replied when asked if he too was
prepared for his first trip to orbit. "See you all later. See you
next week."
The five-day, 84-orbit mission is designed to prove the
shuttle can return repeatedly to space, something no manned
spacecraft has ever done.
speech guarantees at private
institutions.
The dispute stems from
Princeton University's
decision to bar a person with
no connection to the in
stitution from expressing
political views on campus
Chris Schmid, a U S. Labor
Party member, was
arrested in the case.
“There are situations on a
college campus where what
is said is highly offensive to
the great majority of
students and faculty,”
Katzenbach told the court.
He cited Nazis as an
example of a group whose
views would offend much of
the Princeton community.
But Nazis would have a right
to speak on campus if they
were invited by a student or
faculty group, he
acknowledged.
Sanford Levinson, an
American Civil Liberties
Union lawyer representing
Schmid, described the case
as a controversy involving
"the use of coercive prac
tices to stop a person from
exercising free speech
rights."
He charged Princeton is
asking the high court "to
exempt it from fundamental
laws ... that protect basic
freedoms."
Princeton is appealing a
New Jersey Supreme Court
ruling that the university
violated Schmid's rights by
having him arrested for
criminal trespass.
Schmid was stopped
because of Princeton's rule
requiring permission for off-
campus groups to distribute
material on campus. He was
found guilty and fined $25
Princeton is appealing to
the Supreme Court on
grounds its own right to
academic freedom protects
it from being compelled to
allow Schmid's leafleting.
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