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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1981
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ATLANTA — Fonmn- U.N.
Ambassador Andrew Young
pledged Wednesday to bring
Atlanta “together as mayor,
saying he defeated his white
opponent with support from the
white minority — although the
victory margin mirrored the ra
cial makeup of the eity’s voters.
“This is what we’ve been
working for, Young said at a
midnight pep rally for his jubi
lant campaign volunteers. “It’s
simply an opportunity to bring
our city together.
Young defeated state Rep.
Sidney Marcus with 57 percent
of the vote and although a cros
sover factor of about 10 percent
was credited to each candidate,
the gross totals reflected the
black-white composition of
Atlanta’s voting rolls.
Marcus, 53, a contractor and
13-year legislative veteran, had
finished second in a seven-
candidate field Oct. 6, polling
38 percent of tire vote to
Young’s 41 percent. Young
picked up the mostly black fol
lowing of Fulton County Com
missioner A. Reginald Eaves,
who had run third.
But Young, 49, the former di
rector of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference and a
three-term Georgia congress-
tnari before his appointment to
the United Nations job, said
race was not a factor in his im
provement over the Oct. 6
totals.
“Where we worked hard, we
got good votes — and that did
not depend on race,’’ said
Young.
He said official results would
show him finishing slightly
stronger in white neighbor
hoods than he had done in the
initial heat.
The outspoken Young had
been preparing for the race
since he was forced out of the
Carter administration in 1979
because of his secret meeting
with a Palestinian Liberation
Organization envoy.
He will be inaugurated Jan. 4
to succeed Mayor Maynard
Jackson, the city’s first black
mayor. Jackson, mayor since
1973, was not eligible for a third
term.
Young and his wife, Jean,
were mobbed by well-wishers
— including Jackson, baseball
great Hank Aaron and the Rev.
Jesse Jackson of Chicago’s
Operation PUSH — as they en-
tered his campaign headquar
ters minutes before midnight.
The Rev. Jackson led the mostly
young, overwhelmingly black
crowd in chanting “Andee! An-
dee!”
“We have broken down bar
riers and we have determined
that we will live together in
peace and harmony,” Young
said, thanking voters for “the
vote of confidence that you cast
in this city.”
Harkening to a pledge he
made repeatedly during the
campaign, Young said: “I want
to be a better friend of Sidney
Marcus after this campaign than
I was before,” and commended
the runnerup on “a really tough
and hard but fair campaign.”
Marcus, apparently still
angered by a few attempts by
some black leaders to inject ra
cial rhetoric into the campaign,
said in his concession speech his
supporters had not resorted to
such tactics.
“I’m proud that we can look
back on the way we conducted
this campaign and feel pride,”
Marcus told a dwindling group
of disappointed supporters in
the ballroom of a downtown
hotel a few blocks from Young’s
party.
Marcus said however he
would work with the Young
administration to help the city
with legislative needs in the
Georgia General Assembly,
which is dominated by rural
forces and often hostile to the
state’s biggest city.
Young said he would be out at
daybreak to thank commuters at
downtown bus stops. He said he
would work slowly on the tran
sition from the Jackson adminis
tration.
“We need to take our time to
get a new concensus on where
we want our city to go, ’’ he said.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — After
weeks of opposition talk and hand-
wringing, Congress is making its
first concrete move against Presi
dent Reagan’s request for an addi
tional $13 billion in fiscal 1982
spending cuts.
The Republican-controlled
Senate overwhelmingly passed a
bill Tuesday that exceeds by $1
billion Reagan’s new budget
targets for the Interior Depart
ment and related agencies.
It provides about $7.6 billion
for the Interior Department,
Energy Department conservation
programs, Indian health and edu
cation programs and several agen
cies dealing with federal land and
monuments.
It was approved by an 87-8 vote
after the Senate Appropriations
Committee passed by voice vote
another bill surpassing Reagan’s
funding request for transportation
programs.
Both measures face the possi
bility of presidential veto, but
negotiations were under way to
prevent such action.
Appropriations Committee
Chairman Mark Hatfield, R-Ore.,
said senators are discussing with
the administration ways to pre
vent vetoes of several funding
bills, all of which apparently will
exceed Reagan’s latest limits.
“The chances of tfiere not being
a veto are pretty good,” Hatfield
told reporters Tuesday.
Last month Reagan proposed an
additional $13 billion in fiscal 1982
budget cuts, along with tax mea
sures that would generate $3 bil
lion in revenue.
There has been widespread
opposition to these proposals,
which would be imposed on top of
the record $35 billion in spending
reductions approved last summer.
Before completing the Interior
bill, the Senate rejected an
amendment by Sen. Mack Mat
tingly, R-Ga., that would have cut
5 percent from the cost of the In
terior bill.
Mattingly said it was time “to
prove we have not just been
paying lip service” to goals of fiscal
responsibility. But sponsors of the
bill said the Mattingly amend
ment would have hardly any im
pact on the deficit and would
cause problems by giving the
administration power to decide
where the cuts should be made.
Earlier, the Senate rejected an
attempt to increase to $150 million
funds for weatherizing low income
homes. Opponents warned every
new dollar would increase the
chance of a veto.
The Senate voted 49-46 against
the amendment by Sen. George
Mitchell, D-Maine, to add $37.5
million to the bill.
The vote followed rejection by a
48-43 margin of another amend
ment, by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-
Vt., that would have increased
funds for investigating price viola
tions by oil companies.
Sen. James McClure, R-Idaho,
chief sponsor of the overall mea
sure, cautioned that “every dollar
we add to this bill adds to whether
the bill will be accepted by the
administration. ”
Also Tuesday, the Senate
Appropriations Committee asure exceeds Reagan’s Septei
approved a bill providing $10.4 her target by $637 millid
billion for the Department of although it meets the level set
I ransportation. th e president’s initial budgt
Committee staffers said the me- cutting blueprint.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Investiga
tors found the government’s black
lung program has been paying up
to $18 million in checks to dead
beneficiaries, Social Security
Commissioner John Svahn said
Wednesday.
Svahn said Social Security audi
tors found 1,206 dead benefi
ciaries Bad been receiving the im
proper payments — for an average
of 81 months at an average cost of
$12,200.
He said they found a total of $15
million to $18 million in improper
payments under the $1 billion
program for disabled coal miners.
The auditors found the over
payments by matching Social
Security death reports against the
237,000 black lung cases on file in
the system’s computers.
“It’s one more glaring example
of the kind of problems we in So
cial Security have inherited over
theyears,” Svahn said. He blamed
the system’s “antiquated compu
ters and “past management fai
lures.
The auditors began looking into
the problem four months ago, at
the same time they began a cross
check of Medicare benefit files
that later turned up $60 million in
improper payments, some dating
back 15 years.
Svahn said the government will
try to collect back the overpay
ments, and the Social Security
Administration will take addition
al steps internally to prevent
further abuse.
He said in many cases the over
payments have gone to miners
whose spouses have died or who
have been divorced and who may
not have realized their checks
should have been reduced.
Svahn said there may be even
more improper payments unco
vered when auditors complete
their double-check of all black
lung beneficiaries who did not re
ceive Social Security payments.
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