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THE BATTALION Friday, march 21,1980 Page 7 nation c opi es ;£2L h u Q,,allty p Quid be games." ium wasn’t 3 indents 111 was full aid that be reason was ant to get ij game, id that. 11 md in line lien I could | n. the cob •penedato ouldliketo method of -■onvenient- diseum si ite says that eels that if a lights, be ie coliseum andseetbe ras “thrown enate. ulous idea,’ know some- instorm yon ling useful." ommittee eyes cuts in aid to cities, states • • ■v .1 United Press International WASHINGTON — The House Budget Committee, having made the easy decisions, now must roll up its sleeves and decide whether to adopt controversial cuts in mail de livery, defense spending and re venue sharing. The panel resumed work Thurs day on the $15.9 billion in recom mended reductions from President Carter’s January budget proposal for fiscal 1981. The proposals by committee Chairman Robert Giaimo, D-Conn., included elimination of Saturday mail delivery, revenue sharing to the states, and cuts in defense spending, jobs and social programs, and financ ing for food stamps and child nutri tion. Giaimo unveiled his package Wednesday with a warning the prop osal, aimed at balancing the federal budget, “will anger many groups and many beneficiaries of federal prog rams.” It calls for more than $1 billion worth of unspecified cuts in defense spending, despite major opposition to military reductions of any kind. It also would make all members of Congress and their staff forego a cost- of-living wage increase scheduled for October. The biggest cut would be $1.7 bil lion in no-strings-attached aid to the states — known as revenue sharing — and $1 billion in anti-recession aid to cities. Also $1 billion in a 2 percent save another $1 billion. If the panel’s revenue estimate holds along with the $612.4 billion spending projection, the govern ment would be in the black by more than $1 billion at the end of fiscal 1981, the first budget surplus in 12 years. The House panel, beginning its work a week ahead of the Senate Budget Committee, Wednesday went through the major budget cate gories one-hy-one to act on Giaimo’s proposed cuts. The panel began drafting its re commendations for the House even though Carter has not yet sent Con gress his revised proposal for a ba- across-the-board cut in department lanced budget, operation and administrative costs Carter has promised to cut $13 bil and delays in new social initiatives lion to $14 billion from the federal such as welfare reform and Medi- budget for the fiscal year beginning care-Medicaid expansion that would Oct. 1. OVERNIGHT RATES — 44 DURING THE DAY Reductions & Dissertations Conation & Binding&PadtBng WE HAVE A XEROX 9400 — THE BEST COPVING MACHINE IN THE WORLD! 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The NRC drafters of the 1971 im pact statement for the Three Mile -••ij Island reactor, for example, rejected ihe Interior Department’s call for a detailed analysis of a possible melt down’s effects on the Susquehanna River which flows by the Pennsyl- •m|| vania plant. “The staff believes, in view of the jjjlremote possibility of the occurrence if a (most serious) Class 9 event, that he environmental risk of such and vent is acceptably low and that ;eneric discussion of these events re adequate,” the document said. -Ml Mil -Ml Gus Speth, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, said past statements “don’t contain a serious candid assessment” of acci dent risk and potential impacts. Impact statements, however, are required by the National Environ mental Policy Act specifically to in form the public of the possible effects of proposed nuclear projects by gov ernment or industry. Speth’s Council, although it can not invalidate past impact state ments, is charged by law with inter preting the act. In a letter to John Ahearne, chair man of the Nuclear Regulatory Com mission, Speth called for an immedi ate change in current practices, in cluding a candid discussion of acci dent probability and impact. Speth also urged the NRC to make the statements clearer and more accessible to the public. For plants currently operating or soon to be licensed, he said supple mental impact statements should be prepared on possible accidents. Illegal pet traffic hit EVERYTHING REDUCED 20-50% BUCKLES — BELTS — WHIPS — EVERYTHING!! 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