News Digest By The Associated Press
Workers would be warned under House bill
WASHINGTON — The House on
Wednesday moved toward setting up
a new program requiring the govern
ment to individually notify between
100,(XX) and 300,000 workers annu
al ly that they face a high risk of cancer
and other diseases from job exposure
to hazardous substances.
Final action on the bill was post
poned until today after Democrats
beat back an effort by Republicans to
replace it with a weaker substitute.
The substitute bill would have
required a two-year study first while
giving the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration more money
to enforce new hazard-labeling re
quirements placed on employers in
the past 15 months.
Despite the threat of a presidential
veto, labor unions and health groups
said legislation is necessary to ad
dress the nearly 100,000 deaths and
some 350,000 disabling illnesses
blamed on occupational hazards each
year.
While the notices themselves can
not be used as evidence in civil suits,
opponents led by the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce and the National Associa
tion of Manufacturers claim the proc
ess will trigger billions of dollars in
liability suits against employers by
their workers and former workers.
The substitute measure offered by
Reps. James Jeffords, R-Vt., and Paul
Henry, R-Mich., was defeated 234
191, with Democrats voting 217-33
against and Republicans voting 158
17 in favor of it.
Having lost the key test vote,
Republicans began offering amend
ments in an effort to weaken some of
the provisions of the bill by Demo
cratic Rep. Joseph Gaydos of Penn
sylvania, chairman of the House
Education and Labor Committee’s
health and safety subcommittee.
Gaydos’ bill would create a new
board in the Department of Health
and Human Services to determine
what workers are most at risk. Once
identified, the National Institute of
Occupational Safety and Health
would then be required to notify them
of the risks.
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Democracy needed tor
peace, presidents agree
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan welcomed Salvadoran Presi
dent Jose Napoleon Duarte to the
White House on Wednesday, and
they agreed there can be no lasting
peace in Central America without
democratic rule throughout the re
gion.
Duarte was offered an enthusiastic
official reception as he began a state
visit. He showed his appreciation for
U.S. support by kissing an American
flag displayed on the White House
south lawn.
After a ceremony that featured full
military honors, Reagan said peace
prospects for Central America have
Clarification
A cullinc w ith a picture on the front
page of Wednesday’s Daily Nebras
kan incorrectly identified the instru
ment that musician Erving Curtis
played. Curtis played a vibraphone,
which has metal bars that sustain
notes, not a xylophone, which has
wooden bars that give sharp,
piercing notes.
been enhanced because of the agree
ment Duarte and four other area presi
dents signed two months ago.
“If peace is to prevail, so must
democracy,” the president said, add
ing that a successful outcome of the
Aug. 7 accord remains “far from cer
tain.”
Duarte, in a similar vein, said
Central Americans “still have a long
way to go” in implementing the peace
plan.
“I am convinced that there cannot
be peace in Central America without
freedom and democracy," he said.
Some administration officials
have been privately critical of Duarte
for signing the peace agreement,
contending that it does not address
key questions, such as Sovicl-Cuban
military ties with Nicaragua’s leftist
government.
But there was no hint of any dis
crepancies between the two countries
in a day-long scries of activities that,
in addition to the welcoming cere
mony, also included an elaborate
luncheon for Duarte hosted by Secre
tary of Slate George Shultz and a
White House dinner Wednesday
night.
f In Brief
Taxpayers expect an explanation from IRS
WASHINGTON - More than 90 million taxpayers are about to get
unexpected greetings from the Internal Revenue Service—a reminder
that the new tax law is like nothing they’ve ever seen.
The IRS announced it is spending $7.6 million to mail the brief, six
sided brochures in hopes of reducing the level of confusion when
taxpayers begin filling out their returns early next year. Those returns
will be the first reflecting the new tax law for most people.
Soviets will not retaliate for press restrictions
MOSCOW—A Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that new
restrictions on Soviet journalists in the United States will make their
jobs more difficult and expensive, but that the Soviet Union will not
retaliate.
The State Department said last week that regulations placed on about
30 Soviet journalists in Washington and New York are intended to
mirror restrictions faced by Americans working in Moscow.
From now on. Soviet journalists will have to live in apartment
selected by the U.S. government. The State Dcpartmcntalso makes their I
airline and hotel reservations and bills the Soviet Embassy.
Trade deficit dips to $15.7 billion in August
WASHINGTON — The nation’s persistent trade deficit showed its
first decline in five months as it narrowed slightly to $15.7 billion in
August, but an unexpected dip in U.S. overseas sales clouded the
improvements, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
Despite the one-momh improvement, acting Commerce Secretary
Bruce Smart said the deficit “continues on an unacceptably hiph
plateau,” with the United States still buying nearly twice as much as it
sells.
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Belly to the Bar, Bears
ESSEX, Mont. — Black bears and grizzlies
are bellying up to a natural bar and getting
falling-down drunk.
Bears are gathering along Burlington North
ern railroad tracks east of this northwestern
Montana community where a train carrying
hundreds of ions of com derailed in 1985. Some
of the com was left at the site.
“It’s actually fermented to the point now it’s
putting out quite an aroma and drawing bears
in,” said Loren Hicks, a wildlife biologist for
Plum Creek Timber Co., a BN subsidiary. "The
bears arc actually intoxicated up there.”
“We looked at one bear that was blotto,”
Hicks said. “I ’d never quite seen one fall off a
com pile and into a ditch like he did.”
As many as nine bears at a time have been
seen at the site and crowds have gathered along
a nearby highway to watch, he said.
“It’s creating something of acircus up there,
a roadside circus,” Hicks said.
Wildlife officials would like to stop the
bears from gathering, to keep them out of the
path of trains and away from poachers, but it’s
not easy.
Once bears have realized the rewards of
„ g°'ng10 a Place like that, it’s hard to break them
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of the habit,” Hicks said. ‘‘There was no way we
could ring enough bells, ring enough buzzers or
fire enough rubber bullets to keep those bears
away from that site.”
The answer may come from a method ap
plied to one of man's smellier creations — die
outdoor privy. BN crews have mixed quick
lime, used to break down organic compounds
and reduce their odors in outhouses, with the
com-laden soil.
Reagan decries Bork debate
as ‘ugly spectacle 'of politics
WASHINGTON — President Reagan on
Wednesday decried the battle over Robert H.
Bork’s Supreme Court nomination as an “ugly
spectacle” of high-pressure politics and prom
ised to keep fighting in the face of all but certain
defeat for Bork.
“I am determined to fight right down to the
last ballot on the Senate floor,” Reagan said in
a brief Oval Office address.
The speech was made available to the tele
vision networks, but only the Cable News
Network earned it live, followed by a response
in which Democratic Sen. Terry Sanford of
North Carolina lashed back.
Senators opposing Bork ‘‘are tired of having
our integrity impugned,” Sanford said, adding
that “it is lime for that corrosive dialogue to
stop."
In the Senate, meanwhile, Democratic and
Republican leaders continued arguing over the
timing for a vote, with Democrats insisting on
quick action and the GOP demanding enough
time to make acase for the conservative appeals
court judge.
Fifty-four senators are on record against
Bork.all but ensuring he will lose when the vole
is taken in the 100-member body.
Reagan, however, said that although the
public may have heard that the battle over Bork
is over, he also had another cause in mind.
“I’m doing this because what’s now at stake
in this battle must never in our land of freedom
become a lost cause, and whether lost or not, we
Americans must never give up this particular
battle: the independence of our judiciary,” he
said.
