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Budget negotiations go on
United Press International
[WASHINGTON — The White
Bouse is optimistic about negotia-
ions on a new federal spending
make suit ill, but will not rule out another
tomers)ji avemment shutdown to combat
audget busting” by Congress, a
atronsneai rokesman said Tuesday,
outh Plata ; “We get a feeling in our meet
wing oftlr ngson (Capitol) Hill that there is
dent, seat >ason for a good feeling about it, ”
nstallsiven arry Speakes, deputy press sec-
glass inlii rtary, told reporters. “We hope
out andtlt rat we will be able to work it out
d. the satisfaction of all concerned
1 to avoid any midnight madness
|»ith the budget on Dec. 15. ”
I But, he added: “If the bill is
mcceptable, we cannot take
business as usual from the Hill.
We’ve got to hold it down.”
President Reagan “feels strong
ly enough about budget-busting
bills” to close down the govern
ment again if his demand for fiscal
restraint is not met, Speakes said.
Reagan ordered a partial shut
down of government agencies last
week after vetoing an emergency
bill needed to restore spending
authority that ran out with the ex
piration of an earlier budget re
solution.
Reagan labeled the $428 billion
measure “budget busting.”
Speakes also said Reagan does
not share the view of Sen. Paul
Laxalt, R-N. M., his closest ally on
Capitol Hill, that social programs
may be cut too deeply if control
over them is shifted to the states.
After a speech to the National
League of Cities, Laxalt told re
porters the states may have been
handed too much responsibility
and not enough funding under
Reagan’s “New Federalism” prog
ram, the Washington Post re
ported.
“I don’t think the president
agrees,” Speakes said.
GOP congressional leaders met
with administration officials Mon
day to discuss ways of averting
another dramatic rejection of their
work on the order of last week’s
veto. The work continued Tues
day at the staff level.
House Speaker Thomas O’Neill
said the Republicans had excluded
Democrats from the talks because
“the art of compromise is not in
their lexicon.”
The government is being
funded by stopgap resolutions be
cause Congress has failed to pass
its 13 regular appropriations bills
on time.
After the Reagan veto. Con
gress passed a simple resolution
continuing spending at the pre
vious annual level of $400 billion.
That resolution expires Dec. 15
and another will be required to
keep the government in business.
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es final iti^ ASHINGTON — Senate Re
tire Sociil 1 ^ 0,1111 l ea der Howard Baker
retained |v es d a y postponed the expulsion
pplaudejiilsl of Sen. Harrison Williams,
Monday fr NJ-> until next year. Williams’
>scam conviction could make
n the first to be ousted from the
nate since the Civil War.
Baker said that he was granting
fe delay at the request of Sen.
Wiiel Inouye, D-Hawaii, Wil-
ainst cuts'P ms self-appointed defender,
ho pledged to bring the case be-
dav thatl ; ,re Senate early in 1982.
I Debate on the expulsion of Wil-
jms, who has been in the Senate
I (years, was to have begun
re progra' ^sday. But in a brief exchange
pledge aJ lles d a y> Inouye asked for the de-
othpart aT, d said be needed time to
not beta' I e P are Williams’ defense.
Baker said that he and Demo-
fetic leader Robert Byrd had pre-
'uritv on: ' ous ^ resisted any more delays
Williams’ trial, saying that the
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Senate had a “special and power
ful reason to act on this constitu
tional duty.”
But Baker said Inouye’s request
was “entirely different” and added
“no one wishes to see the senator
from New Jersey without counsel
or defense on the floor.”
With Byrd’s agreement, Baker
said he is postponing the trial until
the Senate reconvenes'in January,
and said he will ask the Senate to
make tbe Williams case “one of
the earliest if not the earliest item
of business.”
The postponement also delays
possible expulsion of Williams un
til after the inauguration of the
new Republican governor in New
Jersey, Thomas Kean, who could
tap a member of his own party to
fill Williams’ office.
Baker said Ethics Committee
Chairman Malcolm Wallop, R-
Wyo., and Sen. Howell Heflin,
D-Ala., were prepared to begin
Alcoholism wins
court case delay
United Press International
'AUSTIN — An attorney won a
lay in his client’s murder trial by
uing that his own alcoholism
iad impaired his ability to defend
the man, who is accused of drown
ing a worftan in a mop bucket.
I District Judge Tom Blackwell
granted the delay Monday after
attorney David Spencer, 38, testi
fied in court that he was unpre
pared to render effective counsel.
Spencer asked that his client,
pteven Glenn Payne, be given
(more time to hire a new lawyer or
to allow Spencer to prepare his
[defense.
Spencer, a former assistant dis
trict attorney, said he has been
ober since Nov. 15, but he said
his drinking before that date bad
left him unable to adequately pre
pare a defense.
Payne, 23, was charged with
murder in the March 7 death of
Carol Kissman Rosembaum, a
nightclub bookkeeper. A beer de
livery man found the woman with
her head in a mop bucket of water
and her hands bound behind her
back. Payne was night manager of
the club where the woman
worked.
Spencer and Payne embraced
after Monday’s court hearing.
“It was something I had to do for
my own peace of mind, and I hope
Steven’s family can forgive me,”
Spencer said.
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presenting the case against Wil
liams on Thursday as scheduled.
Baker made the announcement
during an unusually solemn floor
session in which he and Byrd ex
changed compliments on the way
the Williams case has been
bandied.
Byrd said that while the delay
may appear to be in the Republi
cans’ political interests, Baker had
acted in a nonpartisan way.
“1 compliment tbe majority
leader,” Byrd said. “(Baker) has
not rushed the Senate to judg
ment, has not pressed it at all. He
has not sought partisan gain.”
Williams sought a postpone
ment to provide what he termed
new evidence of government
wrongdoing in his and other
Abscam cases — including alleged
proof of perjury by FBI agents in
his case and in other Abscam
cases.
Inouye said that Williams’ con
viction on bribery and conspiracy
charges is not final. U.S. District
Judge George Pratt, who presided
over the trial last spring, is consid
ering a motion to set aside the ver
dict on grounds that prosecutors
violated Williams’ due process
rights.
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Wood slightly drunk,
coroner determines
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Natalie
Wood, 43, slipped and fell over
board in a drunken attempt to get
off the yacht where her husband
Robert Wagner and costar Christ
opher Walken were arguing, the
coroner said.
Coroner Thomas Noguchi said
Monday the actress apparently
missed a step while trying to get
into a rubber dinghy early Sun
day, struck the yacht and fell into
the water off Santa Catalina Island
where she tragically drowned.
The autopsy showed Wood’s
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hol, a level the coroner described
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Noguchi said the actress had
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George Kirvay, a personal
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arguing and tried to get away.
The coroner said there was no
evidence of foul play in Wood’s
death.
Wood’s body, clad in a blue
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day, floating face down about one
mile from the yacht. The yacht
was anchored off Santa Catalina,
which is about 25 miles off the
California coast from Los Angeles.
Noguchi said several prescrip
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