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National and international news
from the Rcuter News Report
Stockman osalio t eal
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WASHINGTON White House cconoraic poilcjTaakcrs Thurs
day outlined to congressional leaders a plan to reduce massive
federal budget deficits by cutting government spending by
$240 billion over the next three years. A senior administration
official said Budget Director David Stockman proposed spend
ing cuts of $45 billion in fiscal 1 933, $35 billion in 1 C57 and $1 1 0
billion in 1833.
Spending reductions of that magnitude, which would amount
to seven percent of total government spending over those three
years, would require elimination of entire programs and would
also mean large cuts in proposed military spending, the official
said. The official, who spoke on condition he net be named, told
Reuters the outline would cut military spending by $58 billion
over the three years from the $993 billion now being sought by
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger. The spending cuts are
intended to pare the deficit from about $210 billion in the
current fiscal year to about $100 billion in 1983. President
Reagan repeatedly has rejected tax increases as an alternative
means of cutting the deficit.
Stockman's plan, which has not been approved yet by Rea
gan, proposes spending rollbacks in farm price supports,
government pensions and health care for the elderly, elimina
tion of the Export-Import Bank and an end to new purchases
to fill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The congressional
leaders said there was some Interest in Congress in an across-the-board
spending freeze as an alternative to the program-by-program
cuts suggested by Stockman.
Arafat scores personal triumph
AMMAN, Jordan Yasser Arafat was reelected head of the
Palestine Liberation Organziation Thursday night and vowed
to fight on to establish a Palestinian homeland. His reelection
was a personal triumph after 18 months fighting a mutiny that
has divided the PLO and brought him into conflict with Syria.
For the first time in Arafat's 1 5 years as PLO leader he achieved
his ambition of personally being elected chairman of the PLO
by the council, reinforcing his status. Normally, his name is
included in a list presented to the council and other members
of the committee, the PLO's cabinet elect him chairman.
Syria, which wants Arafat's resignation, said the resolutions
passed by the PNC Thursday were null and void. The official
Syrian news agency Sana said the PNC had "crowned the devia
tionist trend" of Arafat and accused him of joining "U.S. plans"
in the Middle East.
Apartheid attitude may harden
JOHANNESBURG South Africa's ultra right-wing conser
vatives cut deeply into the ruling National Party's majority
Thursday night after a special election in a constituency consi
dered a Nationalist stronghold. They reduced the National
Party's majority to less than 1 ,000, Radio South Africa said. The
radio said the Nationalists' majority of 4,400 at the last election
in the suburban Johannesburg seat of Primrose had been cut
to 748 in a two-cornered fight withjhe Conservatives.
The Conservatives had fought the campaign with an attack
.on government moves to modify the country's apartheid laws.
Political analysts predicted before the poll that a big cut in the
Nationalists' majority could alarm the government into har
dening its attitude against further changes in its racial segre
gation policies.
' German booby
BONN East Germany has dismantled ths last of its scat
terguns from the northern sector of the border with West
Germany, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. Removal of the
scatterguns was one of Bonn's conditions for authorizing a
major financial credit to East Germany from West German
banks last year.
The SM-70 devices, which once lined long stretches of the
fenced and heavily-guarded frontier, were intended to deter
escapes to the West They sprayed anyone who touched the
trip-wires with a blast of shrapnel The Interior Ministry
statement said the last of the SM-70a on the Lower Saxony
section of the frontier were dismantled by East German border
guards Thursday. The southern and middle sections of the
border already have been cleared, and only a few SM-70s
remain in the coastal sector, it added.
Dinosaiir demise explained
MOSCOW Dinosaurs may have been kHIed off by radiation
due to a sharp increase in the uranium content in the lagoons
wnere they hved, according to the findings of a Soviet scientist
published Thursday. The weekly Moscow News cited geologist
feergei Neruchev as saying hi3 theory was based cn research
showing that the extinction of the prehistoric creatures coin
jnded with a period of high natural uranium levels in rocks and
water.
Biologists already have shown that living cells esoak up"
uJ"anlJ!in. and t is plausible that the dinosaurs gradually
absorbed so much radiation that it idlled them, he said. Neru
cnev said his theory was supported by analyses of dinosaur
content Sh0Wed they hsd an usually high uranium
It appears that natural uranium levels reach a peak every 30
io 4U mulion years, causing extinction among animals and
plants, he said. . '
