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United Press International
I WASHINGTON —President
Reagan’s budget would lead to a
deficit of $121 billion ;iext year,
then steadily increasing deficits
later years — a trend directly
IS: Roger Ztirei| Opposite of the president's pro-
:50 p.m. in 2(fll ct i on — t | ie Congressional
1 Budget Of fice says.
House Republican Leader
lob Michel of Illinois said
~ Thursday he agreed with the
■BO estimate that the fiscal
B982 deficit will be about $111
j Billion, rather than the adminis-
LiS B ation ’ S P ro j ect ' on uf bil-
■ Michel also told reporters he
fexpects members of Congress to
tiv to attach deficit-reducing
Beasures such as tax hikes or
defense cuts — forming perhaps
In entire budget resolution — to
” on the miinBebt ceiling legislation that must
terviewers at 3be passed by mid-May.
ce seemed mcl “By May 1, something’s got to
give,” Michel said.
.e pretty blondl The budget office, which
underestimating the total deficit
during the next three years by
some $140 billion, budget office
director Alice Rivlin said.
“This is a very grim outlook
for the budget,” Rivlin told the
Senate Appropriations Com
mittee.
“To reduce the risk of con
tinued economic instability, |he
Congress may wish to consider
possible alternatives to the presi
dent’s budgetary proposals.”
Rivlin testified as debate con
tinued on Reagan’s $757 billion
spending proposal to boost Pen
tagon spending, cut back tire
growth of social programs and
resist additional taxes to cover
expected red ink.
At the White Horise, chief
spokesman David Gergen said
administration officials believe
additional savings — beyond the
$56 billion Reagan has asked —
can be achieved “with the
cooperation of Congress.”
He added: “And we think the
economic growth can be
achieved, again with the cooper
ation of Congress.”
The darker deficit view put
forward by the budget office, a
non-partisan agency created by
Congress to help it do economic
calaculations, said revenue
would be slightly lower than esti
mated by the administration for
1983-85, mainly because of dif
ferent estimates of the effects of
the sweeping tax^uu progr,am.
enictect List fyear- q . >
Also, it estimates higher fed
eral costs than Reagan foresees
for farm-price supports, de
fense procurement, a plan to
accelerate leasing of offshore oil
land and the net cost of interest
paid by the government.
The budget of lice believes the
d the ronvofiffbursday issued its analysis of
Inc cd —■^ a 8 an ’ s budget, said the 1983
ced a platforJ^. unt | er the president’s
spending plan would be nearly
key issues ofhl3() billion more than the admi-
I be increaslistration projection of $91.5
mtrol, risingutlillion.
the need ■ Michel’s announcement was
ent parking, lie strongest confirmation to
■ate, from a top Republican, the
■eficit is heading into a deepen
ing spiral and seemed likely to
fuel calls for defense cuts and
nx hikes to curb the rising debt.
1 The budget office report said
S it expects deficits would climb
Steadily from $111 billion in
■982 to $140 billion in 1985,
rather than decreasing as the
administration projects, trailing
will cost atonidown to $71.9 billion in 1985.
due to theeflii Overall, the administration is
> install, coittfi
Curz said, i
the braces ati|L^ ^ 1 ■
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nyone weanf
ppliances -seats contested
locking
them. And, to turn it into a con
test such as this is obviously a
play for publicity wihout any re
gard for politeness or courtesy.”
From more than 100 appli
cants, Shapiro selected six: a
first grader, a handicapped
veteran, an unemployed unem
ployment officer worker, a
teacher, a reformed drunken
driver and a prison inmate.'
Hughes had remained silent
about Shapiro’s contest Until
Thursday’s news conference,
which he opened by reading
aloud a letter from Corrections
Secretary Thomas Schmidt ex
plaining why the prison inmate,
Robert E. WechslCr, would not
be released from the Brock-
bridge Correctional Facility.
The Schmidt letter said
Wechsler had, a criminal record
dating back to 1948, including
two escapes, and he was current
ly serving a 12-year sentence for
nighttime burglary.
“We simply are not going to
have in attendance this man who
has a long criminal record,
which involves escapes, house
breakings, a concealed deadly
weapon — vie are simply not
going to permit that,” the gov
ernor said.
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United Press International
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A state
.•legislator who was told he can-
report on not bring a prison inmate as his
lontics will g ues t t 0 dinner at the executive
April Jour® mansion says he now may see
Kiontia. bow the governor likes dining
I with a gay rights activist instead.
Delegate David Shapiro, D-
!,Baltimore, had hoped to bring a
■HHMI prison inmate as one of his six
guests to a legislative dinner
ed With (tonight at Gov. Ha ry Hughes’
official residence, but Hughes
scotched the idea Thursday.
“If he doesn’t seem to feel
comfortable with having an in
mate with him, then I have sev
eral other alternatives, includ
ing one guy who is interested in
gay rights,” Shapiro said.
“Maybe he (the governor) will he
more comfortable with talking
about reforming the laws on
sodomy.”
Hughes opened his regular
weekly news conference Thurs
day by criticizing Shapiro for
turning the dinner invitation
into an essay contest.
Shapiro, at 26 the youngest
member of the General Assem
bly, said anyone wishing to be his
guest at the mansion could apply
by writing in 100 words or less
what they would like to say to the
governor over dinner.
, “I think it was rude,” the gov
ernor said. “I think it did not
show proper deference for his
colleagues who were extended
an invitation to come to the
house and to bring guests with
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Hughes said others invited
for Monday evening’s dinner
have said they may not attend if
Wechsler does and the governor
said he wanted to make it clear
the inmate would not be among
the diners.
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gross national product will grow
at an average annual rate of 3.5
percent a year between 1984
and 1987, while the adminisi
tion assumes a GNP growth r
4.6 percent annually.
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United Press International
HARTFORD, Conn. — A
special police unit working on a
major narcotics investigation
has uncovered a theft ring in
volving at least $5 million worth
of gold stolen from a major de
fense contractor, authorities say.
Fhreeepeople were in custody
Sunday, and the FBI sought
additional suspects in the thefts,
which occurred at the Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft Group plant in
Fast Hartford, Hartford Police
Chief George Sicaras said.
He said the gold powder was
taken from the jet-engine manu
facturer over approximateTythe
Iasi two to three years at the rate
of 25 to 50 troy ounces a week,
then shipped out of state in
attache cases and sold.
The gold powder, used for
industrial operations by Pratt 8c
Whitney, had a value of $5 mil
lion at a minimum, Sicaras said,
who said he couldn’t compare
the scope of the thefts with simi
lar incidents investigated by the
FBI.
“I know it’s the largest this
town has seen and this part of
the state,” the police chief said,
adding the theft operation could
have international ties because
“it’s a gold commodity we’re
dealing with and the defense in
dustry.”
Pratt 8c Whitney manufac
tures jet engines for military and
civilian aircraft and is a division
of the giant United Technolo
gies Corp., one of the nation’s
top three defense contractors.
Sicaras said the Hartford
Police Department’s Crime Sup
pression Unit came across the
operation at the start of this year
while working on a major narco
tics investigation.
The department immediately
informed the FBI, which then
launched a covert operation
with local police and security
personnel at Pratt 8c Whitney.
Both the FBI and Pratt 8c
Whitney declined comment on
the matter Thursday, but Sicar
as said Pratt 8c Whitney officials
“were surprised when we
brought it to their attention
along with the FBI.”
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