Wednesday, March 6,1985/The Battalion/Page 11 ee freeze budget d Press — The Republi- ite Budget Cora, ■buff to Presidem tatively Tuesdat llion reduction ia |> over the next vote of 18-4, the ed freezing de- hority at current ng for inflatioi tat begins Oct. 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It is nil id some NATO sed concern that ica to shift its ft of European» • m iiiSs Si U.S. House moves toward approval of farm credit bill Associated Press WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives moved toward approval of a credit bail-out for fi nancially troubled farmers and their lenders during a Tuesday session. By doing this, members of the House also moved closer to a con frontation with a veto-minded Presi dent Reagan. As several hundred farmers lob bied on Capitol Hill for more gov ernment aid, Democratic House leaders predicted an Af rican famine relief bill with farm credit amend ments attached would pass easily and go to Reagan for his signature or veto. Reagan “seems to want the farm ers to cry ‘uncle’ before he gives them the help they need,” said House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. O’Neill decided to shortcut nor mal procedures and send a Senate- passed version of the bill straight to the White House. He said the president “can veto the farm hill, but he can’t veto the problem. If we can spend hundreds of billions putting missiles in the ground, we can spend half a billion to put seed in the ground.” The bill includes several provi sions easing credit for farmers Illegal aliens whose unmanageable debt loads are preventing them from getting new loans for spring planting: $100 mil lion in interest subsidies, $1.85 bil lion in new loan guarantees and about $7 billion in immediate ad vances on crop loans normally not received until harvest time. Congressional economists say the measure’s actual cost to the govern ment over the next five years will be about $429 million after loans are repaid. The administration believes the cost will be higher, about $1 bil lion to $2 billion, because of antic ipated def aults on guaranteed loans. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan., tola a meeting of the U.S. Feed Grains Council Tuesday: “Within the next few days we are ? 'oing to lay to rest this so-called arm credit crisis. “Obviously some farmers are not going to make it, and that’s unfortunate. But I don’t know what the answer is ... I don’t think there are any.” Republicans in Congress have charged that Democrats used the bill as a vehicle for the farm-credit pro visions to force Reagan into an em barrassing and difficult position. But Democrats contend they merely want to get aid to farmers as quickly as possible. Camp houses the ‘sneaked in’ Associated Press MIAMI — A sprawling 36-acre federal prison complex surrounded bya double row of barbed wire holds 523 people from 30 countries. Known as the “Carribean Ellis Is land,” this facility houses the people who have tried to sneak into the United States. York Evans, a 26-year-old, En glish-speaking Haitian with a talent lor painting and poetry has been held at the Krome North Service Processing Center for seven months. “America is freedom,” Evans says. “I left my country in search of free dom.” The inmates at Krome are only a fraction of the aliens who enter South Florida and the United States. The U.S. Border Patrol arrests about 9,000 “deportable” foreigners in Florida each year, and most of them pass through Krome. More than 125,000 Cubans (led their homeland in the "Freedom Flotilla” from the port of Mariel in 1980, and around 100,000 Haitians have entered the United States in the past live years, federal officials guess. When it was first set up in 1980 on the site of a former missile base, it was called the “Krome Refugee Camp." About 2,500 ref ugees milled around in hastily erected, yellow- and-white-striped circus tents. Some of them came in response to Presi dent Carter’s promise of an “open heart" for the newcomers from Cuba. ^ive years later, the tents have been replaced by concrete blocks painted pastel purples and blues. And the camp is now located in dusty west Dade County, about 20 miles from downtown Miami. It costs the federal government $38 a day per inmate to keep Krome running. Outside the large, hangar-like building where many inmates con gregate during the day, a reporter was immediately surrounded by a crowd of perhaps 100 inmates in regulation orange jumpsuits who hoped he could do something about their plight. Inside the building, small groups sat in the library leafing through copies of National Geographic mag azine. In the mess hall, they ate lunch, sitting beneath a large color mural of a skyscraper-studded, nighttime Miami skyline, staring at images of America that most will never see for themselves. For, according to government sta tistics, around 80 percent of illegal aliens caught entering the United States eventually accept the govern ment’s offer of a free ticket home, or make their way out of the country by ’ their own means. Once they are detained in a fa cility such as Krome, some inmates can qualify for bond, often around $500, and be released into the com munity pending a later hearing. According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service here, 77 per cent of them disappear and are never heard from again. Immigration officials who run Krome describe it as a humane place, where inmates are decently housed and well fed. They are given a chance to learn English and other skills. But its detractors describe it as a “concentration , camp” because it imprisons people who are trying to flee repressive governments. Police acting ‘out of if to be given urine tests , Associated Press BOST ON — Police officers who S ear red-eyed, woozy or simply a : “out of it” will be given surprise urine tests in the first program of its kind in the nation aimed at detecting illicit drug use, the Boston Police De partment announced Tuesday. "We’re not going to march into the station house and shout, ‘Freeze. Line up. Everyone take a urine test.’ ” said spokesman Robert O’Toole. “It won’t be random. But if someone is acting strange or out of it, and we’ve been around so we know what to look for, they will be asked for a urine sample.” Gerald Arenberg, executive direc tor of the American Federation of Police, called it a “pioneer program,” and said he had not heard of any thing similar elsewhere in the na tion. Boston police officials said the 1,800-memDer department is not be set by a major drug problem. The new program, O’TooJe said, was the idea of new Commissioner Francis Roache, whose “key purpose is in tegrity.” “We’re not saying we have junkies driving around in police cruisers,” O’Toole said. “We’re human like ev eryone else. Some of our officers use drugs. “But we can’t have that. Po licemen on the road have to make split-second decisions with a lot of common sense and a lot of compas sion.” When police union officials first heard about the plan, they said it sounded like “a witch hunt.” But when they learned the details, they said they would not oppose the pro gram as long as it focused only on of ficers who clearly appeared to use drugs. “We are absolutely against any random taking of urine or blood samples,” said Robert Guiney, presi dent of the 1,500-member Police Pa trolman’s Association. “But if there is probable cause that anybody is us ing drugs, they (the internal affairs unit) can do what they have to do.” O’Toole said details of the drug testing plan are still being worked out by Roache, who was appointed by Mayor Raymond Flynn last month, and his advisers. 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