Thursday, December 4, 1986
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Daily Nebraskan
News Digest.
By The Associated Press
Fiscal Mstory
Reagan presents nation's first $1 trillion budget
WASHINGTON President Reagan's Cabinet was pres
ented Wednesday with the first $1 t rillion spending outline
in history, a fiscal 1988 budget proposal that the president's
chief economist says will be "accompanied with a lot of
pain."
More detailed information on individual cuts reconv
mended by the president's Office of Management and
Budget was being sent to each federal agency, according to
OMB spokesman Edwin Dale.
With a month to go before the president's budget is put in
final form, the broad outlines of the spending plan for the
fiscal year that begins next Oct. 1 showed:
O An overall budget document citing anticipated
revenues of approximately $900 billion and outlays a shade
over the $1 trillion mark, but less than $1.1 trillion.
O Roughly $25 billion in spending cuts and program
eliminations and another $25 billion in proposed new user
fees and the sale of federal assets, including loan portfolios.
O A dramatic overhaul of the government's credit
programs.
O Another attempt at dropping most of the 40 programs
the administration has sought to eliminate, unsuccessfully,
in previous budget plans.
O A proposed increase in defense spending of about 6
percent made up of 3 percent in "real" increases on top
of projected 3 percent inflation to a spending level of
$308 billion.
O No higher taxes and no decrease in Social Security
benefits.
Court: Law may affect people with AIDS
WASHINGTON In a case that may
affect the rights of AIDS victims, the
Supreme Court was told Wednesday
that a federal law banning bias against
the handicapped does not protect people
with the contagious disease.
"This cannot be what Congress had
in mind," Solicitor General Charles
Fried, the Reagan administration's top
courtroom lawyer, said in urging the
justices to rule that people with
contagious illnesses are not covered by
the 1973 anti-bias law.
With a nationwide debate over AIDS
discrimination as a backdrop, the court
must decide whether all recipients of
federal aid including virtually all
public schools are barred from
discriminating against people with
contagious diseases.
Gay rights activists say the decision
may affect the national debate on AIDS
even though the Supreme Court case
does not involve a victim of acquired
immune deficiency syndrome, a deadly
disease that to date mainly has afflicted
homosexuals.
The U.S. Public Health Service says
there are no known cases of anyone
getting AIDS through casual contact.
In Brief
State considers nuke dump sites
LINCOLN Two broad areas of Nebraska remain under consideration
as possible sites for burial of low-level radioactive wastes from five states,
a geologist said.
Marvin Carlson of the University of Nebraska Conservation Survey
Division said one of the areas is a band of northern Sioux and Dawes
counties and part of northwest Sheridan County in northwest Nebraska.
The other area includes part of Knox County and all of 12 other
northeast counties Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dixon, Dodge, Madi
son, Pierce, Platte, Stanton, Thurston and Wayne.
Carlson said Tuesday that seven areas of the state had been under
consideration but the list had been narrowed to two. Four areas in
Louisiana, three in Kansas and three in Arkansas are also being
considered.
Carlson is Nebraska's technical consultant to the Central Interstate
Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission. The commission is
seeking to pick a site where low-level radioactive waste from Arkansas,
Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma could be buried.
Whales dies on Cape Cod beaches
EASTHAM, Mass. Dozens of pilot whales beached themselves Wed
nesday along Cape Cod, and at least six died as scientists and volunteers
labored to rescue the mammals, some of which weighed up to two tons
each.
Of about 50 whales involved in the mass beaching, three had suffo
cated, and biologists used lethal injections to kill three others, About six
others were stranded in shallow pools, in danger of dying under the crush
of theii own weight.
The first alarm was sounded when workers arriving to empty trash bins
spotted 38 whales that had washed up on First Encounter Beach.
Robert Prescott, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Welifleet Bay
Wildlife Sanctuary, said the whales averaged about 15 to 20 feet in length
and weighed between one and two tons each. They all were females with a
few juveniles.
Scientists report blanket of soot
raising temperatures in North Pole
WASHINGTON A warm blanket of soot may
be raising temperatures around the North Pole
by absorbing newly arriving sunlight as well as
light reflected from the icecap below, govern
ment scientists reported Wednesday.
"One pollution plume we encountered on a
flight over the icecap off Barrow, Alaska, last
March was the equivalent of five or six large
power plants putting all their effluents in a
single plume," said Dr. Russell Schnell of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The NOAA report was based on a five-nation
study of the haze that has been observed over the
Arctic region in the last three decades.
This haze layer has been reported as much as
18,000 feet thick and scientists have expressed
concern about its warming the Arctic climate,
although they remain unsure of the exact effects
as yet.
The Arctic pollution probably moves north
from industrial and chemical complexes in
eastern Europe and Asia, NOAA said.
Crash delays "nuclear winter" test;
pilot survives, escapes serious iiyury
SAN DIMAS, Calif. A long-awaited experi
mental brush fire to study whether smoke and
dust from an atomic war would trigger a "nuclear
winter" was scrubbed Wednesday after a helic
opter crashed while igniting a test burn.
The chopper was dumping thickened gasoline
to start a 5-acre preliminary burn when the cable
suspending the torch from the bottom of the
aircraft snagged on telephone lines, causing the
crash, county fire Capt. Garry Oversby said.
About 200 scientists and firefighters had
gathered near Johnstone Peak, 30 miles north
east of downtown Los Angeles, to observe the
burn. The controlled fire, which was to have
consumed 320 to 480 acres, had been expected
to create a 10,000-foot-tall smoke plume for
study, said Philip Riggan of the U.S. Forest
Service.
The fire was meant to be a first step toward
resolving uncertainties in the nuclear winter
theory, said atmospheric scientist Richard Turco,
who proposed the theory in 1983 with astrono
mer Carl Sagan and other researchers.
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Correction
A story irr Wednesday's Daily
Nebraskan incorrectly stated t he
damage to residential hall win
downs from Monday's snowball
fight. The actual amount was
between $200 and $250. Sorry
about that folks.
Police end boys cross-country spending spree
COLUMBUS, Ohia Two California
teen-agers took off on a cross-country
binge of fancy meals and new clothes
after finding a suitcase stuffed with
about $8,000 in drug money, but their
spending spree attracted police, who
arrested them five days later.
Raymond Salter, 13, and Marc Hair
rell, 14, were picked up Sunday at Port
Columbus International Airport with
nearly $5,000 and a bag containing less
than a gram of cocaine.
"They were buying fine dinners, rid
ing is taxis and limousines," Wise said.
"They just got mixed up in something
that they shouldn't have," Columbus
police officer Floyd Wise said.
Wise said the boys told police they
left California Nov. 26 after Hairrell
found a suitcase that had been tossed
out a window during a police search at
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estimated $8,000 in cash and a bag
containing less than a gram of cocaine.
"They didn't even realize it was
cocaine," Wise said.
The youths were arrested after police
were told of two teen-agers leaving
$100 tips with airport concessionaires.
He said he charged the boys with
delinquency counts of drug abuse and
was going to hold them until their par
ents could be contacted.
Nancy Reagan
says staff changes
not her doing
WASHINGTON - Nancy Reagan said
Wednesday she had made no recom
mendation to her husband regarding
further staff changes at the White
House.
The first lady, who is regarded by
White House insiders as having extra
ordinary influence over her husband's
staff choices, told reporters it is up to
President Reagan to decide whether to
keep embattled Chief of Staff Donald T.
Regan.
Responding to the questions at a
brief, impromptu news conference in
the driveway of the executive mansion
as she accepted the traditional White
House Christmas tree, Mrs. Reagan
said that deciding whether Regan has
best served the president "has nothing
to do with me whatsoever."
"I have made no recommendations
at all," she said.
She added she had "no idea" whether
there might be further changes in the
administration as a result of the uproar
over Iranian arms sales that so far has
brought down national security adviser
John M. Poindexter and one of his dep
uties, Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North.