Summer Nebroskon Julv17,1fC3
Afghan committee provides aid Balanced federal budget
is not likely Bereuter
By Jeanne Mohatt
NU President Ronald Roskens and
Thomas Goutierre, UNO Center for Af
ganistan Studies director, are members of
the nation-wide Afghanistan Relief Com
mittee. The incorporated, non-profit organiza
tion, formed Jan. 4 and based in New
York City, is helping to provide food,
clothing, tents, blankets and medicine to
the estimated one million Afghan ref
ugees who have fled to Pakistan and
Iran. Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan
last December.
Afghanistan Relief Committees have
been formed in cities throughout the
United States to help raise money for the
relief effort
The ARC is cooperating with the U.S.
ambassador, the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, and public
and private relief groups in America and
abroad.
President Jimmy Carter has declared
July 21 through 27, the first week of the
Moscow Summer Olympics, Afghanistan
Relief Week. Nebraska Gov. Charles
Thone has endorsed the president's proc
lamation. Nebraska Sens. J. James Exon and
Edward Zorinsky are two of ARC's seven
honorary co-chairmen. Service An
nouncement spots to Lincoln's Fred
Spompinato, a 26-year-old former Peace
Corps volunteer in Afghanistan. Spompi
nato, also an ARC member, is the man
ager of Footlights in the Gunny's Com
plex, 13th and Q Streets.
The 30, 20, and 10-second PSA spots
are being distributed to television and
radio stations across the nation in sup
port of Carter's proclamation. Author
James Michener, an ARC co-chairman, is
Lowell Thomas and William Simon,
former Treasury Secretary, are also co
chairmen. The Board of Directors in
cludes all former U.S. ambassadors to Af
ghanistan, representatives from business
and industry, the academic and financial
world, and the arts. Board Member Rob
ert Joffrey.'of the Joffrey Ballet Com
pany, is of Afghan descent-
In a July 4 letter to Spompinato, Mi-
the spokesman for the committee in the
spots, which will be aired during Afghan
istan Relief Week.
chener wrote, "We of the Afghanistan
Relief Committee are urgently embark
wg on a $10 million campaign to provide
food, medical supplies, and services and
shelter to the (Afghan) refugees...."
This is a struggle for freedom. I am
my colleagues-Senators Pell (Claiborne,
of Rhode Island), Percy (Charles, of Illi
nois), Javits (Jacob, of New York), Zorin-
Spominato said he was in Kabul, Af
ghanistan's capital, when the coup that
deposed President Daoud took place in
April, 1978.
sky and Exon, among others-are deter
mined to do all in our power to bring to
the American consciousness the plight of
these heroic people."
"There were MiG's (bombers), tanks,
everything," he said.
The tanks stopped in front of the
school where he was teaching, he said,
and opened fire on someone. Gunfire was
an everyday occurrence, however.
"I just thought, 'Now, what's going
on?' he said, holding his head in his
hands.
After the initial revolution, Spompi
nato said, an estimated 6,000 to 10,000
people were executed.
"1 anticipated trouble, but nobody ns
tened," he said. No one thought the Af
ghan rebels would try to resist the
Soviet-backed takeover.
"The British tried three times to con
quer the country and failed three times,"
he said.
The Afghan people, he said, " are
spirited."
By Lynn Mongar
Efforts to balance the fiscal 1981 fed
eral budget will not succeed and there
probably will be a $30 to $40 million defi
cit, U.S. Rep. Doug Bereuter, R-Neb.,
said Tuesday.
"All the rhetoric you've heard about
balancing the budget is a sham," Ber
euter told about 200 persons attending a
seminar on survival strategies for private
business owners. The seminar was spon
sored by Touche Ross & Co.
Bereuter said Congress cannot balance
the federal budget with tax revenue
alone.
"Because of the recession, the tax rev
enues behind the paper-balanced budget
are not going to meet the projections," he
said.
'Deepening recession'
The rising unemployment rate will re
duce tax revenue. It will increase unem
ployment compensation and other aid
programs, he said, thus deepening the re
cession. For these reasons, he said, Congress
will be "way short" of achieving a bal
anced budget.
"A constitutional limit on federal
spending is the only way to have substan
tial restraint on federal spending."
Responding to a question about limit
ing imports, Bereuter said the import
problem is most noticeable in the au
tomotive industry.
"Most people in the business commu
nity think the auto industry ought to
work itself out of this problem because of
their failure to adapt to American wishes,
the impact of OPEC, and their inability
or unwillingness to deal with declining
productivity."
'Pressure needed'
He said Americans should pressure
Japanese governmental officials into
loosening restrictions on beef and other
products which are exported to Japan.
"If we're going to continue to have
this country flooded with Japanese au
tomotive products it certainly ought to
work the other way as well," he said.
Responding to a question concerning
the stability of the Social Security Sys
tem, he said that people have forgotten
the original purpose of the system.
'Retirement supplement
"People have forgotten that the social
security system was designed to be a re
tirement supplement," he said. "It was
not aimed at providing all of the funds
for retirement."
He said Congress also needs to strip
the Social Security System of welfare-related
programs which overburden it.
However, he said, the welfare services
the social security system provides need
to be supported with other tax revenues.
"We need to leave the social security
systems for retirement supplement"
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