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United Press International
l| HOUSTON — There is no dan-
ser of large parts of Johnson Space
Center duties or employees being
transferred to Florida, the center’s
director assured Chamber of Com
merce members Wednesday.
■ “There will be some changes as
time goes on,” Gerald R. Griffin told
the chamber’s Aviation Committee.
“1 don’t think, though, there’s any
[chance of moving large chunks of
JSC to KSC (Kennedy Space Cen
ter).”
■ Griffin also said the naming of
JSC as the lead center for the space
station program “provides a super
stability factor in terms of levels of
employment” for the Houston fa-
rility.
I However, he said there will be
only a “modest” increase in the num
ber of overall employees at the cen
ter from the space station because
the space shuttle program is requir
ing fewer employees as it becomes
more routine.
In addition to growth at the cen
ter, private companies are interested
in moving their space departments
to Houston to be near the NASA fa
cility, Griffin said.
“There is one warning — that
some of the deficit reduction steps
could catch us,” he said. “The NASA
budget is less than I percent of the
total budget. If you cut it much more
it’s going to eventually run out of
steam.” '
Griffin said JSC will be a “key
player for many years to come” be
cause of its designation as the lead
center for both the space station and
space shuttle, two programs with no
designated end.
The space station is scheduled to
be in operation in the early 1990s,
but Griffin said he would like to see
it in orbit in 1992, which will be the
500th anniversary of the discovery
of America by Columbus.
Asked the difference between the
Soviet space' station and the one
planned by the United States, \ ^
Grimes said the Salyut is a “simple WO TOOCl
machine” that has “no where near
the type of capability we’re plan-
ning.”
Griffin told the business leaders
that the fourth space shuttle, the At
lantis, is expected to be completed in
mid-1985, about the same time re
furbishment of the first shuttle, the
Columbia, will be complete.
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mockers threaten to kill 95
if 21 prisoners aren’t freed
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indNiiti KUWAIT — Five gunmen who
lie held in IJiijacked a Kuwaiti airliner to Teh-
ing.Evtn- Ban threatened Wednesday to blow
Hip the plane with all 95 people
^■ooard unless Kuwait freed 21 peo-
§J)le imprisoned for bombing U.S.
and French facilities. Kuwait re
fused.
I Iran’s official news agency said
the hijackers disclosed that a hostage
they shot to death and dumped on
the tarmac Tuesday was a U.S. dip
lomat, but U.S. officials in Washing
ton s^id they had no confirmation
the victim was an American.
I State Department officials said
Ihree Americans employed by the
|\gency for International Devel-
■pment were among the 90 hostages
■board the plane 36 hours after five
heavily armed hijackers seized the
Frencn-built Airbus carrying 166
eople on a flight from Kuwait to
arachi, Pakistan.
“We’re concerned about every-
tjswair -Hiody on that plane, but obviously
dUbeM;He’re particularly concerned about
m.onSai- ■nierican citizens,” State Depart-
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merit spokesman John Hughes said
in Washington.
The hijackers Wednesday freed
24 hostages, including a security
guard wounded during the take
over, raising the number to 70 pas
sengers released since the Kuwaiti
Airways jet landed at Tehran’s snow-
covered Mehrabad Airport.
Hours later, the hijackers an
nounced their plane was ready to
leave for an unaisclosed destination
but the runway was blocked.
“They stepped out of the plane
and checked the plane’s lights and
wheels and the sound of its starter
was also heard,” the official Islamic
Republic News Agency said. “How
ever, security forces have closed the
runway with vehicles and other
obstacles.”
IRNA said the hijackers said they
had “planted explosives in the
plane” and threatened to blow it up
if their demands were not met.
They demanded Kuwait release
21 people who were imprisoned for
a wave of bombings against French
and U.S. facilities in Kuwait last De
cember, Kuwaiti officials said. The
bombings were attributed to Shiite
Moslem supporters of Iran’s Ayatol
lah Ruhollah Khomeini.
IRNA said ambulances, firemen
and other rescue teams were on alert
around the jetliner, which was also
surrounded by troops on a snow-
covered side runway at the airport.
The Arabic-speaking hijackers
forced the airliner with 150 other
passengers and 11 crew aboard to
Tehran early Tuesday, shortly after
a scheduled stopover at Dubai, the
United Emirates, on a flight from
Kuwait to Karachi, Pakistan.
Shortly after its arrival in Tehran,
the hijackers shot a man aboard the
aircraft, dumping him onto the tar
mac. The official Iranian News
Agency IRNA said the man died of
his wounds on the way to a Tehran
hospital.
A diplomatic source said the de
scription of the victim’s body did not
appear to match that of any of the
three AID employees, who sources
said were based in Karachi.
New House members advised on spending
Large budget cuts necessary
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan met with his Cabinet
Wednesday to present his plan to
slash about $34 billion from do
mestic spending in his new budget
after telling new House Republicans
to “take the lead and take the heat”
for the cuts.
Reagan’s plan for big budget cuts,
which is expected to include several
E opular programs, is part of a bid to
eep the national debt from hitting
$2 trillion in 1986.
An administration official indi
cated that Reagan, searching for a
$42 billion reduction in spending,
had settled on a $34 billion cut in
non-military budgets, leaving $8 bil
lion to cut from the Pentagon bud
get request. Military spending will be
considered next week after Defense
Secretary Caspar Weinberger re
turns from a trip to Europe.
White House spokesman Larry
Speakes said he would not quarrel
with reports Reagan would try to
dissuade Cabinet members from ap
pealing budget cuts in their depart
ments.
In an Oval Office meeting with 33
newly elected House Republicans,
budget director David Stockman
stressed the need to keep the fiscal
1986 budget under $1 trillion, said
John Grotberg, a new Illinois rep-
resenative.
Officials have already said Reagan
is trying to keep next year’s overall
spending at this year’s $968 billion
level, with some programs increased
and others cut.
“There are two magic words — 1
trillion and 2 trillion,” Grotberg told
reporters meeting at the White
House. He said Stockman, who did
most of the talking, told them in or
der to keep the national debt under
$2 trillion by the end of next year,
the budget would have to be kept
under $ I trillion.
Asked if Reagan impressed upon
them how difficult it would be to
fight the annual budget battle on Ca
pitol Hill, Grotberg said his response
was “only that it’s going to be tough.”
Helen Bentley, who will take over
a Maryland House seat in January,
said-Stockman “pointed out we have
to take some very firm stands on
spending.”
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