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Monday, February 24, 1986
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Reagan threatens cut in aid
MANILA, Philippines Battle
dressed marines, firing tear gas and
swinging truncheons, attacked civili
ans manning street barricades outside
a military camp at dawn Monday.
They dispersed hundreds of people
supporting two senior military officials
in an adjacent military camp who are
demanding that President Ferdinand
Marcos resign and hand over power to
Corazon Aquino.
Witnesses said some students tried
to link arms to stop and block the
marines.
Many people tumbled and fell as
they tried to escape the troopers,
according to radio reports from the
scene. There were no immediate reports
on casualties.
The assault took place on a side
street near Camp Crame, where ousted
Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile
and Lt. Gen. Fidel Ramos, former dep
Gramm-Rudmasi a 'planned' wreck
Senator says it's 50-50 Congress can beat deadline
WASHINGTON The chairman of
the Senate budget committee told the
nation's governors Sunday that the
balanced-budget law. is "a planned
train wreck," but he said Congress
. would act to avoid scheduled, auto
matic spending cuts.
Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said the
odds are better than 50-50 that Con
gress will "pull the switch and the
wreck will be avoided," by passing its
own budget that meets the deficit
reduction targets of the Gramm-Rudman
balanced-budget law. :
"It is best analogized as a planned
train wreck. No one would plan a train
wreck, but we did," Domenici said.
Domenici, speaking to the execut ive
committee of the National Governors'
Association, said the final budget solu
tino may include some additional tax
revenues to "glue it all together."
But Domenici, who offered few details
of what he thought the budget would
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uty military chief of staff, were en
trenched with troops loyal to them.
The marines entered Camp Agui
naldo, but not Camp Crame across the
street, where Ramos and Enrile have
set up their rebel headquarters.
After the initial assault that dispe
rsed hundreds of pro-rebel civilians
the marines remained in Aguinaldo but
did not make a move against Camp
Crame.
In Washington, White House spokes
man Larry Speakes said Sunday even
ing, "The president appealed earlier
today to President Marcos to avoid an
attack against other elements of the
Philippine armed forces. Regrettably,
there are now reports of an attack."
Speakes said Reagan sent Marcos a
message through diplomatic channels
saying America "cannot continue our
existing military assistance if the govern
ment uses that aid against other ele
look like, said a major increase in taxes
for the purpose of reducing the deficit
is unlikely, even if included in a pack
age of overall tax reform.
Domenici spoke as the governors
began their annual winter meeting.
They were attending a black-tie dinner
and reception at the White House in
the evening, and were going back to the
executive mansion this morning for a
meeting with President Reagan.
The governors, mostly Democrats,
arrived at the meeting after their lead
ers attacked Reagan's budget proposal
for fiscal 1987. But there was some
agreement with Reagan on the major
budget issues of taxes and Social
Security.
An Associated Press survey of the
governors found a substantial majority
opposing a federal tax increase to
whittle at the federal budget deficit, or
at least saying any boost in taxes ought
to be only a last resort. They were also
Federal pornography
panel called biased
WASHINGTON A constitutional
rights group charged Sunday that a
pornography commission established
by Attorney General Edwin Meese
dwells on "bizarre sexual practices"
while disregarding fair fact-finding
methods.
"Our worst fears have been sur
passed," said Barry Lynn, legislative
counsel for the American Civil Liber
ties Union.
In a 31-page report on the Attorney
General's Commission on Porno
graphy, Lynn wrote: "Even though many
commissioners concede they have only
a rudimentary understanding of the
law, they continue to spend more time
discussing bizarre sexual practices
than in learning anything about the
First Amendment."
The Justice Department issued a
statement from commission Chairman
Henry Hudson, Arlington County, Va.,
prosecutor, saying the commission has
been fair and has considered a wide
variety of opinion.
ACLU allegations were "not sup
ported by the record of the hearings
conducted by the commission," the
statement said, adding that since the
commission has made no final deci
sions on recommendations, specific
comment on the ACLU criticism would
be "premature and inappropriate."
The 63-year-old civil liberties group
said hearings in six cities over the past
11 months have featured biased wit
nesses, "limited" social science data
and "inordinate attention to aberrant
sexual practices."
"The commission staff was directed
situ
acK lemon wsiroirs
for government aggression
ments of the Philippine military that
enjoy popular backing."
Meanwhile, the Philippine Roman
Catholic church radio station put rebel
military officials on the air Monday to
claim that "tyranny" had been de
feated, and a station announcer said
Marcos was leaving the country, but
Marcos appeared on national television
Monday in a live broadcast, and said
the claims were an effort to frighten
the people. Marcos declared a "state of
emergency" and said public utilities
can be taken over by the government.
He said he wasn't leaving the country.
"Don't believe any of these stories,"
said Marcos, calling the reports "pro
paganda lies they are peddling through
the air waves."
"They (the reports) are completely
without basis. They are intended to
frighten our people," Marcos said,
directing his men to "use all necessary
opposed to cutbacks in Social Security
to lower deficits.
With federal aid to states and local
governments both targeted by the pres
ident's proposal, however, there is some
sentiment for higher federal taxes
among the governors.
Arkansas' Democratic Gov. Bill Clin
ton said Reagan's budget would cut
more domestic spending than even the
automatic cuts of Gramm-Rudman, and
questioned why revenues could not be
raised through a tax-reform package.
- "All of us would be better off with
the train wreck than the president's
budget," Clinton said.
The governors released a report
before the meeting denouncing Rea
gan's proposal as a "one-way street"
that shifts responsibilities to the states
without providing the money to pay for
them. It repeated the governors associ
ation's position in favor of some kind of
tax increase to balance the budget, if
necessary.
to purchase several glossy, interracial
sex publicatons and a magazine called
"Young Girls in Bondage" while on a
Sept. 1 1 visit to "three Houston peep
shows," the report said.
"It is as if by finding the single most
despicable scene of sexual conduct
ever photographed the commission
would be justified in urging supress
sion of all sexually oriented material,"
it said.
The 11-member commission named
by Meese in March 1985 meets next
week in Scottsdale, Ariz., to draft
recommendations due in June.
Meese established the panel after
President Reagan called in May 1984
for a study of new evidence that has
become available since a 1970 federal
commission found no links between
pornography and anti-social behavior
and urged repeal of numerous obscen
ity laws.
Lynn said Friday he expects the
commission to urge approval of sweep
ing Senate legislation that would vio
late constitutional rights. In specific,
he criticized a measure sponsored by
Sen. Paul Trible, R-Va., to outlaw use ol
home computers to transmit sexual
information about children.
Lynn said the ACLU would not
oppose a ban on plotting crimes against
children but believes Trible's measure
overshoots that target.
Trible responded, "The ACLU appar
ently believes that anything can go.
Most Americans would agree with me
that child pornography and child abuse
is wrong and something should be done
about it."
force" to defend their installations.
He directed soldiers to use small
arms to defend themselves but said big
weapons like tanks and armored per
sonnel carriers should not be employed
"as yet."
Several local and foreign reporters
were in the hall with Marcos, and the
president said this would prove the
broadcast was not taper! in advance.
Radio Veritas had broadcast state
ments by the two rebel military offi
cials, former Defense Minister Juan
Ponce Enrile and Lt. Gen. Fidel V.
Ramos, the former deputy armed forces
chief, who said "tyranny" had been
defeated. Just hours before the attack,
a furious Marcos accused Enrile and
Ramos in a television speech of trying
to seize power and threatened to "sic
the tanks and artillery on them."
An Associated Press correspondent
reported that at about the same time,
"In Brief" ' .
Reagan drafts arms control plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. . In a formal reply to Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's arms control proposal, President Reagan has drafted a
sweeping plan urging elimination of medium-range missiles in Europe as
first step, a U.S. official says.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Reagan's prop
osal was contained in a letter signed over the weekend that would be
mailed to Gorbachev at the beginning of the week. A presidential state
ment to the nation also is planned, he said.
White House spokesman Ben Jarrett confirmed Saturday that the White
House was circulating Reagan's plan to U.S. Allies, key Congress
members, and the U.S. arms negotiating team in Geneva He declined to
say when the letter would be sent to Gorbachev or discuss its contents.
. Reagan's proposal to eliminate medium range missiles "holds out the
hope of earliest progress," the other official said.
The official said Reagan also proposed that the more than 100 mobile
SS-20 missiles the Soviets have deployed in their Asian territories be
drastically reduced. These missiles are targeted on China and Japan and
were not included in the disarmament proposal Gorbachev made Jan. 15.
Reagan's letter also discussed long range nuclear weapons, space
based defense systems and other aspects of the complex arms race, he
said. :
Reagan based his plan on the premise advanced by most of his senior
control advisers that the most likely way to break the deadlock at the
Geneva arms talks is through agreement on U.S. and Soviet medium range
missiles those with a range of about 3,400 miles, the official said.
Study says 'workfare' saves money
WASHINGTON, D.C. Programs to put welfare recipients to work not
only give people jobs but also save taxpayers money, said a major study
released Sunday.
The Manpower Demonstration Research Corp. has tracked the fortunes
of 35,000 welfare recipients in 11 states since 1982 in a Ford Foundation
backed effort to seek ways to help people climb out of poverty.
The group's latest report found that "workfare," unpaid jobs that some
states, cities or counties require welfare recipients to take "has not
turned out to be either as punitive as its critics feared or as praiseworthy
as its advocates claimed."
"The majority of all participants agreed that a work requirement was
fair," the study said. The welfare recipients generally liked the clerical,
park or maintenance jobs they were placed in, although the work itself did
not teach them any marketable skills.
The most widely used technique in the 1 1 states was not workfare, but
formal "job serach" efforts to line the welfare applicants or recipients up
with work.
Wedding brawl: love at first fight
CHERRY HILL, N J. A family feud at a wedding reception erupted
into a free-for-all that involved about 200 guests and required about 60
police officers to restore order, authorities said Sunday.
"There were fights all over the place," said Sgt. John Vaughan, one of
the first officers to respond to the call Saturday night at the Ashland Fire
Hal . "Windows were broken, drapes were pulled, chairs knocked over."
No one was seriously injured, Vaughan said. An argument between the
groom's family and the bride's family caused the fight, he said.
Michael Rappo, the bride's uncle was charged with disorderly conduct
and defiant trespassing.
The bride and groom, Patricia and Richard Remsing, could not be
reached for comment. Rappo said they had left for their honeymoon at
Niagara Falls.
Ferraro list may bo used in arrests
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. A list of names found after police arrested the son
of former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro on drug charges
may be used to arrest other students at Middlebury College, police said.
Thwe s a lot of stuients who have a lot to worry about," police Sgt.
David W emette said Saturday. John Zaccaro Jr. pleaded innocent Friday in
Vermont District Court to a charge of possession of a regulated drug with
?te?U If convcted, he could be sentenced to five years in prison,
fined $5,000 or both.
Zaccaro, a senior at the $13,000-a-year school, was known on campus as
lne Pharmacist," police said. He had been under investigation for
several months before being arrested last week after selling one-quarter
biqia m luiame io an undercover
four Philippine air force helicopters
landed on a grassy field inside the
Camp Crame compound. A man aboard
one waved a white flag and about 24
men left the helicopters as rebel
national police manning the headquar
ters camp applauded.
Air force officials refused comment
on the helicopters' arrival, but a police
sergeant, Eduardo Sanchez, said the
air force men had come "to protect
General Ramos and Minister Enrile."
Enrile and Ramos have insisted since
they began their rebellion Saturday
that Marcos stole the special presiden
tial election by fraud and demanded
he step down.
Earlier Sunday, an attempt by hun
dreds of pro-Marcos soldiers and eight
armored troop-carriers to roust the
rebels was foiled by about 25,000 dem
onstrators who blocked them from
reaching the military camps.
police officer, authorities said.