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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1981
Page 13
Senate leaders work
on new funding plan
United Press International
WASHINGTON — With a ten
tative agreement in hand, admi
nistration officials and Senate
leaders are fine tuning a funding
plan they hope will avert a repeat
of last month’s partial government
shutdown.
“I think it will fly, ” said Senate
Appropriations Chairman Mark
Hatfield, R-Ore. “But that’s only
my personal observation.”
Hatfield said representatives of
the administration and Senate
leadership Wednesday reached
the tentative accord that would
fund the government when
emergency appropriations expire
Dec. 15.
He said the document was
drawn up at the staff leval after
three days of negotiations. But, he
stressed it was “only a technical
draft not locked into concrete.”
The plan was to be presented to
key Republican senators
Thursday.
It was drawn up by House and
Senate Republican staff members
and budget director David Stock-
man. It would cut about $4 billion
from domestic spending programs
for the remainder of the current
1982 fiscal year that ends Oct. 1.
Unless Congress approves a
stopgap funding bill by Dec. 15,
the government will again be out
of money — the way it was last
month that forced a one-day, par
tial shutdown of the government.
The crisis occurred when Presi
dent Reagan vetoed a funding bill
covering the rest of fiscal 1982 be
cause he believed it did not cut
federal spending enough. With
the government technically out of
money, Reagan shut down the
“non-essential” parts of the gov
ernment for a few hours Nov. 23.
Congress and Reagan then
agreed to extend the deadline un
til Dec. 15 to give the lawmakers
time to develop a new plan.
Hatfield said the new proposal
calls for about $4 billion in domes
tic spending cuts “in a selective
yet across-the-board manner”
through the remainder of the fiscal
year. Defense spending and most
“entitlement” benefits, like Social
Security, would be exempt from
the cuts.
Hatfield could not guarantee
that the president would sign such
a bill but he said Stockman has
participated and feels the docu
ment is worth pursuing.
Hatfield said the draft docu
ment was “the first step in extra
diting ourselves from the current
circumstances” of funding the
goverment through so called “con
tinuing resolutions.” Reagan has
criticized that practice.
Hatfield said he hoped the
proposal would help get the
appropriations process back on
track and called the draft “a very
encouraging first step.”
Keep it up!
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louston, Bob May, center, a freshman general studies
lor rom Houston, and Jay Hightower, a sophomore
accounting major from League City, are all playing a
fast-growing game called hackysack. The object is to keep
the ball in the air using only your feet.
Divorcees’
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United Press International
‘ lr0 ® pIICAGO — People who get
, _*ftceg may have been better off
id, married in the first place,
■divorce attorney Herbert A.
nignt »4el>mnan says he has the statis-
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|ig those who remarry point to
[eality that people may actual-
jpier in their first mar
ls than they realize,” said
berman, who has been a di-
B 1 lawyer for 28 years,
st-freel Glieberman, who has authored
; had s(% era i books on the subject, said
ears in s, Census Bureau figures show
id. ilereent of those who remarry
jn he a U U p j n divorce court again,
ivrappedjnparcd with 33 percent of those
i the hidjTving for the first time,
in a car Research indicates that in most
to makefes. “you marry the right spouse
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rest of b'k],
ihristmaiit’s after their divorce that
j show' any appreciate this fact and thus
i prove t;empt to retrieve happiness by
dulousaWng married again, usually
thin three to five years of their
) treads t vdree. Unfortunately, many
w'intcrizfJn discover that their new
everyttemse isn’t right for them and
J my car'tyre in divorce court a second
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