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W'$ ational THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1981 Page 9 ongress works toward Friday budget deadline United Press International ■ WASHINGTON — House f|||gg|KH)mmi11ccs have approved reduc- - Itions in food stamps, housing and stal subsidies in a flurry of activ- aimed at meeting Friday’s l&PHeaclline for deep budget cuts. gfggH Democratic hearts were often flot in it, and Republicans general ly were dissatisfied with the re- ptilts. Sometimes, they claimed the cuts were not real. | The actions came Tuesday, as mgressional panels worked to eet a self-imposed June 12 dead- ic for $35 billion in budget cuts, 'he reductions were ordered by a iscal 1982 budget resolution pas sed last month. Several House and Senate panels planned to meet today for more cutting, including the Sen ate Labor and Human Resources Committee, the House Education and Labor Committee and the Senate Banking Committee. Rep. Phil Gramm, D-Texas, not satisfied the committee work will achieve the austerity called for in the budget, said he was working on an alternative package of re ductions. He apparently hoped to take the package to the House floor and tap the same coalition of Republi cans and Southern Democrats who passed a modified version of President Reagan’s budget over the objections of Democratic leaders. Gramm co-sponsored last month’s budget measure along with Rep. Delbert Latta, R-Ohio. On Tuesday, the House Post Office Committee offered a half hearted proposal to close or merge thousands of post offices. It also suggested a delay in the nine-digit ZIP code. But the panel made clear it was offering the proposals only out of technical compliance with the budget resolution, and urged the full House to reject them. The proposals were contained in a resolution that passed the committee on a 19-6 vote, with all Republicans opposed. Among them was one directing the Postal Service to devise a plan to close or consolidate about 10,000 small post offices to achieve $100 million in savings. On another party-line vote, 26- 19, the committee approved spending reductions recom mended by its Democratic ma jority. They included $642 million in actual outlay reductions for fiscal 1982. But more significant was a $13.2 billion cut in spending au thority for government agencies to enter housing contracts and make loans and commitments for fore ign aid and trade assistance. Most of the spending authority cut — $9.1 billion — came from housing funds. Also, the House Agriculture Committee approved $2.5 billion in cuts in Agriculture Department programs for this year, including a $1.46 billion reduction in food stamp spending approved earlier. A large chunk of the reduction — $449 million — was achieved simply by claiming savings already made when Congress approved a lower minimum level for dairy price supports. The price supports were reduced in the earlier bill from 80 percent of parity to 75 percent. The Republican-controlled Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee was to have met Tuesday on the budget, but postponed its sssion for a day at the request of Democrats want ing more time to plot strategy. mnmittee approves federal death penalty mm United Press International WASHINGTON — The Re- ublican-dominated Senate Judi- ary Committee has sent to the floor a sweeping bill to reinstate the federal death penalty and Rwkc certain acts of treason or jspionage capital crimes even hen no lives have been taken. The bill, approved late Tuesday a 13-5 vote, also would set the death penalty for attempts on the life of the president and for terror ist acts that result in a death. I The bill would allow the death sentence for acts of espionage or treason, even if no death occurs, if the defendant knowingly risked a life or substantially damaged na tional security. Acts of espionage or treason directed against nuclear weapons, military spacecraft, war plans, in telligence communications, major weapons systems or defense strategy would be “aggravating circumstances’’ punishable by death. There has been no valid federal death penalty since the Supreme Court in 1972 struck down capital punishment statutes not contain ing provisions for eliminating ra cial prejudice or other biases. In a 5-4 decision June 29, 1972, the court ruled the death penalty as usually enforced in the United States violated the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Congress has enacted a death penalty for hijackings that result in death hut has not replaced the in validated federal death penalty. Thirty-five states have passed their own death penalty laws. The committee bill is modeled after a Georgia statute that calls for a separate hearing on punish ment. It adopted an amendment expressly forbidding racial or sex bias in those hearings. Committee sources were un sure when the Senate would take up the bill, but most believe the Republican leadership will insist the administration’s budget and tax-cut proposals come first. The committee approved the bill after a long wrangle over how opinion jsandopini > sued aretlfi robust debl sought toprJ e as district I ouuty was,J iversial,” tlfl melyplcasdl rision,” lie | v ; grateful nir news si imminents g and rota e Court sond eapons cutoff is unlikely, hite House spokesman says United Press International I WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration has until Friday to decide whether to suspend weapons deliveries to Israel for using American war planes in its pinpoint destruction of Iraq’s major nuclear installation. | Four more F-16s — the aircraft that bombed the Iraqi facility Sunday — are scheduled for delivery to Israel Friday. And equipment worth hundreds of millions of dollars is in the pipeline for future deliv ery, the Pentagon said. Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto said Tuesday it s “too early to tell” whether the F-16s will be delivered. “I can’t rule it in and I can’t ride it out,’ he said. President Reagan met for 75 minutes with his ihief foreign policy advisers Tuesday to discuss whether Israel violated U.S. law by using American planes offensively or whether the bombing might be construed as defensive in nature. I Acting White House press secretary Larry Speakes declined to say whether any decision had een reached. Congress has the final word on the weapons deliv- iry, but a cutoff was deemed unlikely. “I don’t see us [aking a position as an administration on a cutoff of ms,” a White House spokesman said. Catto said Reagan could continue sales even if he etermined Israel violated the law. Israelis piloting eight F-16 fighter-bombers and •six F-15 fighters traversed 600 miles of hostile Arab territory and entered Iraq through Saudi Arabian air pace to drop 2,000-pound bombs on the nuclear 9. ooviet married by proxy United Press International ■ BUTTE, Mont. — It was a sub r dued wedding for the stepson of exiled Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, because his bride re mains in Russia. The marriage was conducted Tuesday by proxy in hopes that Liza Alexeyeva, 24, would finally be allowed to leave for the United States. She has been denied per mission to emigrate. Alexey Semyonov, 24, stood Tuesday with proxy Ed Kline be fore District Judge Arnold Olsen. [ Court records show the bride gave Kline power of attorney Feb. 3 in documents witnessed by Jane Leahy Miller, vice consul of the United States in Moscow. Chief Deputy Clerk of Court Lori Maloney said the ceremony Tasted maybe 10 or 12 minutes at the most.” About 25 persons watched. 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