Tuesday, December 4, 1984/The Battalion/Page 5
By Jim Earle
Budget freeze Suspected
Big spending cuts included Snistheid
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Reagan neared
decisions Monday on elements of a 1986 budget
“freeze” amid further signs his proposed lid on federal
spending will require deep cuts in domestic programs
to slash the deficit in half.
Reagan met with his advisers for three hours to dis
cuss sharp reductions needed to hold fiscal 1986
spending to about $968 billion — the same level as this
year — and offset growth in such areas as defense and
Social Security.
While military spending looms as the big variable in
the budget equation, White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said the president and his aides focused on do
mestic areas.
As the budget work progressed, the idea of a spend
ing freeze came under further scrutiny on Capitol Hill,
where Figures provided by budget director David
Stockman showed a simple freeze of spending on se
lected programs would produce only $8.9 billion of the
$42 billion in savings needed to.meet a target of $170
billion deficit in fiscal 1986.
Stockman also indicated the administration is con
sidering Medicare cuts of $7.9 billion over three years.
“They are using the word ‘freeze,’ but it’s not a
freeze at all,” said a GOP senator’s aide. “It’s a cut.”
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“How did you get ’em printed so fast?”
itudy says less attractive
women have top job edge
thought to be required for success.
said the Stockman report was not presented as a rec
ommendation, but to illustrate what a freeze would en
tail.
At the White House, presidential spokesman Larry
Speakes asserted a freeze would “go a long way toward
our goal” for deficit reduction.
Reagan told reporters late in the day he was “in no
position” yet to discuss the Pentagon budget.
Speakes said Reagan hopes to wind up work on do
mestic portions of the budget by today and issue bud-
get-cutting instructions to the Cabinet during a meet
ing set for Wednesday.
Still to be decided, Speakes said, is whether Reagan
will bow to pressure from Capitol Hill and some of his
own advisers by agreeing to a smaller increase in the
Pentagon budget than the double-digit boost sought by
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.
Speakes also hinted Reagan might be more amena
ble to compromise than he himself suggested last week,
in warning a military cutback could send a wrong sig
nal to Moscow about United States resolve.
The superpowers are preparing to renew arms con
trol talks next montfn
Republican congressional leaders said last week Rea
gan would have to trim his projected military budget
by $8 billion to $15 billion next year to meet his fiscal
target with a plan that could be sold to Congress.
The Stockman-Reagan blueprint calls for overall re
ductions of $42 billion next year, $85 billion in 1987
and $110 billion in 1988.
Speakes said Reagan wants Congress to devote pri
mary attention to the budget and secondary attention
to the tax simplification plan he expects to send to Ca
pitol Hill early next year.
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A female for
mer mental patient from Houston
was booked for a 1983 arson that de
stroyed a three-story building in the
French Quarter, police said Mon
day.
Catherine Christley, 22, was ar
rested and charged with setting the
fire that destroyed the Mad Mad
World of T-Shirts on Bourbon
Street. Police said the building
burned to the ground after a woman
began burning T-shirts on the racks
with a cigarette lighter.
According to the police officers, a
woman they knew only as Cathy also
crossed the street on the night of the
fire and began burning T-shirts in
another shop.
The woman then fled to a bar
near Bourbon Street, where she
caught a ride to Baton Rouge. Police
said they identified her after learn
ing the name of the man who drove
Christley.
Police said Christley had been a
patient at the Houston International
Hospital but escaped, and later went
back to the hospital.
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The more
ieautiful a woman, the less likely she
s to land a corporate management
iosition and the more likely she is to
>e put in a “pink collar” joo, the au-
lorof a new study said Monday.
Thomas Cash, writing in the De-
ember issue of Psychology Today,
aid studies show that when women
Iried for corporate management
bs — a male-dominated field —the
note attractive women were dis-
riminated against relative to less at-
ractive women in those managerial
pplications.
Cash, associate professor of psy-
The flip side, said Cash, is that
beautiful women more often get the
“pink collar” jobs, ones traditionally
dominated by females.
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plosions ant
aced thne biology at Virginia’s Old Dominion
lass bam University, sain in an interview that
Jttractive women are at a real disad-
on report: vantage when they aspire to occupa-
ted in tilt: Ions in which stereotypically mascu-
oplewerei: line traits — such as being strong,
n criticalo; Undependent and decisive — are
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rial ... a clerical position, nursing, re
ceptionists, teaching — in that case,
when it is perceived as requiring
feminine traits for success — attrac
tive women are at advantage,” Cash
said.
The choices made by male and fe
male corporate personnel consul
tants at more than 200 corporations
on the basis of photographs suggest
that the less feminine the appear
ance, the more competent the
woman, even though the candidates
were considered equally qualified.
Playboy channel
subject of protest
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — The Play
boy Channel, which offers R-
rated movies and other adult pro
gramming on cable television, will
go on the air despite protests and
boycott threats from a fundamen
talist minister, cable officials said
Monday.
About 200 people led by the
Rev. Joe West staged a demon
stration Sunday outside Rogers
Cablesystems of Texas Inc.,
which is offering the cable chan
nel to San Antonio subscribers
for the first time.
The Playboy Channel is al
ready available to Bexar County
residents through a different
company
West, calling the channel the
granddaddy of the pornographic
movies, vowed his group will boy
cott Rogers unless the company
drops thd channel.
“We are against all forms of
pornography, including the
movie cable channels,” West told
su
of
pporters outside the company’s
Tice in downtown San Antonio.
‘We’re going to keep on protest
ing until they pull the channel
Protestors' waved Bibles and
carried homemade signs in a pro
test that briefly interrupted traf
fic. West vowed that the group
would return Monday, but no
demonstrators appeared.
World’s Fair cost overruns
boosted by consultant fees
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — Hundreds of
people were paid just under $6 mil
lion by the World’s Fair to serve as
consultants for everything from at
tracting visitors to the Fair to picking
up trasn, records revealed.
The consultants helped decide
how the fair would look and who
would help it look that way.
Expo president Peter Spurney
said many consultants were hired to
guard against financial problems
and also get experienced people to
improve the fair’s staff. But the ex
position ended up with debts be
tween $100 million and $140 mil
lion.
Spurney said the $5.9 million was
somewhat higher than the amount
originally anticipated because some
expo employees were listed as con
sultants.
One of the highest paid consul
tants since January was Barry How
ard and Associates Inc., according to
fair records made public after seve
ral newspapers sued for access.
Howard, who has worked with
Spurney on other expositions, de
signed the Petroleum, U.S. and Eu
ropean Economic Community pavil
ions at the New Orleans fair.
The Europeans paid him $20,000
for his work, and the oil industry
paid him at least $55,000 for design
ing the Petroleum Pavilion. In both
cases, the money was funneled to
Howard through the fair.
While records on Howard’s work
for the U.S. Pavilion were not in
cluded in the documents made avail
able to reporters, Spurney said the
federal government reimbursed the
fair for the fee.
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