udget rewards defense,
but calls for welfare cuts
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
lagan’s budget proposes
ending more on the military
m ever in history during
acetime, while slashing ex
penditures for human needs.
1 It would spend more than
$201 million on Texas military
projects and threatens Texas
weltare payments — already
Second-lowest in the nation.
| UU B The budget proposal was de
fended by Republican Sen. John
Tower and assailed by Texas Lt.
,v Gov. Bill Hobby.
■ Hobby denounced Reagan’s
: ,1: '' proposed 18 percent increase in
defense spending, calling such a
tnove incredible.
ilkd't.jM g tate D ernocra t Party Chair-
tp out !:i^wn Bob Slagle said Reagan’s
' 11 ' policies have led to high unern-
! f co11 " plovment and a depressed eco-
'^"Tlomy, which the Republicans
‘ enl ' fan expect to pay for at t he polls
in November.
“If Reagan doesn’t get a tur
naround in the economy by the
middle of this year — and it’s
obvious he won’t — then he and
a lot of Republicans are in a
great deal of trouble,” Slagle
said.
Tower, chairman of the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee,
said Reagan’s record $215.9 bil
lion military budget proposal is
certain to trickle down into
Texas.
Reagan sent Congress the big
gest peacetime military budget
in history Saturday. It contains
military construction projects in
Texas totaling more than $201
million for the fiscal year begin
ning Oct. 1.
“Texas military installations
play a very significant and visible
role in our national defense
capability, and 1 am most hope
ful that the Senate will approve
these suggested improvements,”
Tower said.
The Reagan budget proposal
contains cuts in welfare prog
rams totaling nearly $26 billion,
of which $11.7 billion are in
basic benefit or so-called “enti
tlement” programs such as Med
icare, federal pensions and food
stamps.
“We’ve never had much abuse
in our Texas programs,” Hu
man Resources Commissioner
Marlin Johnson said. “Any kind
of further cuts are going to
cause us to make further cuts in
services. That’s all there is to it.”
Dallas Republican state Sen.
John Leedom said welfare
budget cuts would affect the
lazy, not the needy.
“We’ll take care of the truly
needy,” he said, “but we’re
spending billions taking care of
those who don’t want to work.”
In Reagan’s military propos
al, the largest proposed outlay
would go to Carswell Air Force
Base in Fort Worth, which
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[LAREDO — Authorities
Monday were trying to deter-
ine if the decomposed body of
a|man who was shot once in the
ad was that of a Corpus
risd priest who disappeared
]|in. 8 in Laredo.
The body was found across
e border in a field near Neuvo
iredo late Saturday. The man
ad been tied with barbed wire
ad shot once in the head.
Officials say it may be the
)dy of the Rev. Simon Thomas
lores, 44, a priest at Christ the
ing Church in Corpus Christi.
lores disappeared while in
aredo for a conference with
le Rev. Vladimer Manente of
le San Francisco Xavier
hurch.
Manente told officials Flores
ft the church for a walk
round town Jan. 8.
Dr. Francisco Gonzalez, a
aredo pathologist, said he be-
:ves the body is that of Flores,
e said the hair color was the
me, and the height was about
hfoot-2, Flores’ height.
“All of our findings corres-
ind to the description of the
riest,” Gonzalez said. “The
[lasses found near the body are
e same as the glasses in a pic-
ire of the priest.”
But Laredo police investiga-
rs said the body was clad in
rown trousers and a brown
weater. Manente said Flores
is wearing black trousers and a
ilue sweater when he left the
hurch.
Flores had left his luggage
and car at Manente’s church.
Also causing of ficials to ques
tion the identity was the discov
ery of a key to a room at the
Hotel Del Rio, considered the
best hotel in Nuevo Laredo. The
room was not registered to
Flores at the time of the murder,
officials said.
A spokesman in the Laredo
police department said officials
were awaiting Flores’ dental re
cords from Trenton, N.J., to de
termine if the body was that of
the priest’s. He said the records
were expected some time this
week.
Debbie Flores, a part time sec
retary at Christ the Kings
Church in Corpus Christi, said
the Rev. Juan Ayerbe had gone
to Laredo Sunday to assist au
thorities in making an identifica
tion.
Ms. Flores is not related to the
missing priest.
“Yesterday (Sunday) we were
very optimistic it was not Father
Flores,” she said. “We would
have said no that’s not him. But
there have been a lot of coin
cidental incidences since then.
The body had dentures in the
front missing and Father Flores
had dentures.”
Ms. Flores said the priest had
been at Christ the King Church
since September. He grew up in
the Victoria area, went to semi
nary in Spain and joined the T ri-
nitarian Friars order in Tren
ton, N.J.
“People are fairly upset, parti
cularly since police said there
were signs he may have been tor
tured,” she said. “When he was
missing, we had rosaries before
the masses. Most of the congre
gation, I think was pessimistic
we would ever hear anything at
all about him. But the fathers
remained optimistic he would be
found, and found in good con
dition.
“I still think they are clinging
to that optimism that the body
will not be Father Flores.”
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