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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1981
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I Haig to head U.S. delegation
Reagan won’t attend funeral
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan Wednesday designated
Secretary of State Alexander Haig
toheaclaU.S. delegation, which
may include three former presi
dents, to attend the funeral of slain
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Former Presidents Jimmy Car
ter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nix
on all were asked to join the de
legation, a White House official
said.
David Gergen, White House
communications director, said
Reagan — on the unanimous re
commendation of government
security agencies — will not
attend the funeral. He said the
same safety considerations will
keep Vice President George Bush
from going.
“We’re not going to discuss on
what precise grounds the security
agencies made their recommen
dations,” Gergen said, but he in
dicated the White House had
been in touch with the U.S.
Embassy in Cairo.
Gergen said Carter and Nixon
already have said they will join the
delegation, but a formal accept
ance has not yet been received
from Ford.
Haig told a news conference
Wednesday that Ford might have
some scheduling problems.
Former Secretary of State Hen
ry Kissinger and former Middle
East mediator Sol Linowitz have
also been invited.
Other dignitaries invited to
attend the funeral as members of
the U.S. delegation are: Senate
Republican leader Howard Baker;
Democratic Senate leader Robert
Byrd; Sen. Charles Percy, R-II1.,
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee; House
Speaker Thomas O’Neill; and
House Republican leader Bob
Michel.
Among those representing the
adminstration are Defense Secret
ary Caspar Weinberger and U.N.
Ambassador Jean Kirkpatrick.
Joseph Canzeri, a presidential
assistant also is included in the de
legation.
There was no word on when the
delegation would depart.
Reagan watching Mideast
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Presi
dent Reagan has sent cables to
allies and Middle East leaders
to express “his strong feelings’
about the assassination of
Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and
pledge a close U.S. watch on
the area, an aide said
Wednesday.
Reagan was briefed on de
velopments in the region Tues
day and Wednesday by Richard
Allen, his adviser on national
security matters.
There were indications that
the president wanted to attend
Sadat’s funeral, but was dis
couraged by aides because of
security constraints.
Former Presidents Richard
Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy
Carter have all been asked to fly
to Cairo for the burial.
Larry Speakes, White House
deputy press secretary, said
Reagan “sent cables to a num
ber of allies and other regional
leaders which expressed his
feelings, and in addition stres
sed the continued U.S. close re
lationship with Egypt and the
feeling that the Camp David
process should and would con
tinue.”
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House coalition dispatches
message to budget cutters
United Press Internationiil
WASHINGTON — A biparti
san House coalition has defeated
efforts by Republican leaders to
cut deeper into social programs,
sending a message to the White
House that proposals for more
spending reductions are in
trouble.
Thirty-nine Republicans joined
210 Democrats Tuesday to rebuff
the GOP leaders and President
Reagan's plan to further reduce
fiscal 1982 spending.
They rejected a procedural mo
tion that would have led to the
! deeper cuts Reagan has requested
for the departments of Education,
Health and Human Services and
Labor.
Moderate Rep. William Green,
R-N.Y., who voted against the
I motion, said it was a “message to
the budget cutters ... that the
House doesn t want the safety net
' cut to shreds.”
I After eight hours of debate, the
House voted 249-168 against the
motion by Rep. Ralph Regula, R-
Ohio. It would have returned the
measure to the Appropriations
Committee for more budget cut
ting.
The House then approved the
bill by voice vote, but Republican
leaders said they had enough
votes to sustain a presidential
veto. They said the measure was a
“candidate for veto” since it didn’t
meet Reagan’s latest requests for
the deeper cuts.
Assistant Republican leader
Trent Lott of Mississippi said it
was their “judgement call" that
the GOP could not muster suffi
cient votes to defeat the bill on the
final passage vote.
“The important thing was we
got 168 votes,” he said, adding it
was “clearly evident there are suf
ficient votes with room to spare for
sustaining a veto. ”
The Senate still must consider
its own version of the funding bill.
In the House, 28 Democrats
crossed party lines to support the
Republicans, much as they have in
previous budget votes. But the
GOP defections in support of the
Democratic bill were the largest
this year.
On a 383-30 vote earlier in the
day, the House trimmed $74 mil
lion from the bill in a committee- But GOP leader Bob Michel of
sponsored attempt to bring it in Illinois said the bill was excessive
line with budget targets set by and the president will surely con-
Congress this summer. sider it unacceptable.
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