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Debate begins
on funding
for Star Wars
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Senate
returned Monday from a week-long
holiday recess to a debate about how
much money to spend for President
Rbagan’s “Star Wars” research pro
gram against nuclear attack.
“We ought to have at least a little
increase over last year for Star
Wars,” Senate Democratic Leader
Robert C. Byrd told reporters before
the start of the Senate session.
The Pentagon currently is spend
ing $1.4 billion for Star Wars, known
formally as the Strategic Defense
Initiative.
Reagan sought $3.7 billion for
next year but the Senate Armed
Services cut that to $2.97 billion.
The debate over Star Wars is the
latest fight in the attempt by the Re-
E ublican-controlled Senate to write a
ill authorizing most of the Penta
gon’s budget for next year.
Before leaving on a Memorial Day
recess, the Senate made decisions on
most of the bill, including cutting
Reagan’s overall MX nuclear missile
program in half.
The Senate is working on a bud
get permitting the Pentagon to
spena $302 billion in Fiscal 1986,
which would permit defense spend
ing to rise at a 3 percent inflation
rate. Reagan originally sought a 5.9
percent hike after inflation but has
reluctantly supported the lower fig
ure.
The Democratic-controlled
House is considering an even lower
defense budget, which would spend
$2.4 billion on Star Wars and limit
overall defense spending to current
levels with no increase for inflation.
Differences between the two cham
bers eventually will be ironed out in
a conference committee.
Byrd said the Star Wars program
“ought to proceed” because “it will
be good for the Soviets to see we’re
standing strong and firm” on the
program.
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Export subsidies panel
Advisers nominated
Associated Press
- WASHINGTON — Agriculture
Secretary John Block Monday an
nounced a list of eight nominees for
an advisory panel to oversee the ad
ministration’s new $2 billion export
subsidy program.
The proposed panel includes five
officials of commodity or general
farm organizations, two from the
grain export industry and a farmer.
“Members of the committee will
represent the people most affected
by the program — farmers and the
trade,” Block said in a statement.
The nominees are Varel Bailey of
Iowa, president of the National
Corn Growers Association; Harry.
Bell of South Carolina, president of
the South Carolina Farm Bureau;
Richard E. Bell of Arkansas, chair
man of the trade policy committee of
the National Council of Farmer Co
operatives; and Don Butler of Ari
zona, president elect of the National
Cattlemen’s Association.
Also, T.L. Irmen of Ohio, first
vice president of the National Grain
and Feed Association; Myron R. La-
serson of New York, president of the
American Export Grain Association;
Ervain Friehe of Nebraska, secre
tary-treasurer of U.S. Wheat Asso
ciates; and Fred Kerr, a Kansas state
senator and farmer.
The panel is to oversee implemen
tation of the program, known as
“Export PIK,” for payment in kind,
which offers to give away surplus
government commodities as bonuses
to exporters who arrange sales to
certain targeted foreign markets.
The group is intended to allay
fears that the program could be
come a giveaway that enriches large
grain trading companies while not
significantly helping financially ail
ing farmers or boosting sagging ex
port sales.
Block announced the program
last month after it was promised to
fbrm-state senators in peturn for
their votes on President Reagan’s
budget package.
Israeli prime minister ready
for negotiations with Jordan
Associated Press
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister
Shimon Peres said Monday he is re
ady to negotiate peace with King
Hussein “right away,” but opposes
prior talks between the Jordanian
ruler and the United States.
Peres told an audience of 1,000 at
erusalem’s Hebrew University that
is coalition government is “ready to
consider any proposal put on the ta-
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ble by a Jordanian-Palestinian dele
gation.”
It was the prime minister’s first
public reaction to a message he re
ceived over the weekend from Secre
tary of State George P. Shultz indi
cating that Hussein was ready for
direct peace talks.
“If the king and the Palestinians
want peace, let’s come straight ahead
in direct negotiation, put all the is
sues on the table, negotiate, solve it
and make peace,” he said, to loud
applause.
However, Peres also reaffirmed
Israel’s rejection of Hussein’s propo
sal that negotiations lead to an inter
national conference.
“We believe that an international
conference without any direct dis
cussion . . . would not serve a pur
pose,” he said.
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