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i r ?age 8/Jhe Battalion/Monday, December 9,1985 World and Nation Hop dim SOP leaders say taxes may rise in ’86 Associated Press WASHINGTON — Congress be gins its final push toward year-end jdjournment with Republican lead- ks in agreement that a balanced- ludget plan expected to lie enacted his week could lead to higher taxes next vear. However, the GOP leaders are plit on whether to go along with fresident Reagan’s call for the jlouse to pass tax overhaul legis- ition drafted by the Democratic-led Vavs and Means Committee. Congressional leaders are aiming ) wrap up legislative business for |he year by the end of the week, but landing in the way is: • Legislation raising the govern- lent’s oorrowing authority — the 1 ational debt limit — to more than trillion. • Compromise legislation at tached to the debt limit measure aimed at forcing a balanced federal budget by 1991. • A three-year, $85 billion pack age of deficit-reduction actions. • The tax overhaul bill. • Reauthorization of the “super fund” toxic waste cleanup program. • An omnibus money bill that would keep most government de partments operating in the absence of their regular appropriations. • Legislation reauthorizing the government’s farm price support programs. president fail to meet statutory ceil ings on budget deficits. Deficits now are running at an an nual rate of about $200 billion a tear, but the legislation expected to pass both houses of Congress later this week would peg the deficit for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1980, at $Tl 1 billion. programs, ooert Senate Majority Dole, R-Kan., re- Negotiators from the House and Senate were set to meet Monday to put the final touches on the measure revising congressional budget proce dures and mandating automatic spending cuts if Congress and the The president has said that he wants the budget for that fiscal year to contain a 8 percent increase in military spending and no tax in creases. 1 hits, it would take about $50 bil lion in domestic spending cuts to meet the deficit target, which rep resents the elimination of 30 to 50 federal programs, according to Sen. Bob Pack wood, R-Ore., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Asked if Congress would kill that manv Leader Rol plied, “No way.” Less certain, however, is the fate of the tax overhaul plan that is due for a vote in the House of Represen tatives this week. The president, in a written statement and his weekly radio ad dress last week, offered vague sup port for the measure drafted by the I louse Ways and Means Committee. Reagan, though, has argued that passing the Ways and Means bill would be better than nothing and an affirmative vote would send the is sue to the Republican-controlled Senate for action next year. Dole, saying he supports “the process,” agreed the House should send a bill to the Senate, where it could be revised more to the presi dent’s liking. Bonner angiy after viewing Soviet tapes showing Sakharov Assoc MANILA, PI bid between t Salvador Laurt dimming oppo? feating Preside: cos in a Feb. 7 s Associated Press NEWTON, Mass. — The wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov grew “very angry" Sunday upon viewing videotapes made by Soviet officials that showed Sakharov eat ing when he was, in fact, on a hun ger strike, a family member said. Yelena Bonner was in her first f ull day of a stay in the United Slates for medical treatment and a long-sought reunion with her children, tier voy age comes after months of appeals by her family and reported hunger strikes by her husband, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. heart before attempting eye trai l ment. Bonner's children say shehassui fered at least two heart attacks*: 1983 and may need to undergo ml onary bypass surgery. The fam:s has received invitations for trat ment from live Boston-area htf tals. V. D ope: Catholic church striving to be modern “I am very happy about my chil dren. but Tin always worried about mv husband," Bonner said as she Associated Press VATICAN CITY -r- Pope )hn Paul 11, declaring that the Roman ■atholic Church “truly desires to be he church in the modern world,” jlosed on Sunday an extraordinary lynod of bishops called to assess the iecond Vatican Council. In a Mass he concelebrated with i vnod participants and other prel ates in St. Peter’s Basilica, the pontifl stressed that the church should also he like the early church of the Apostles. “At the end of the second millen nium after Christ, the church ear nestly, desires only one thing: To be the same church that was born of the Hob Spirit,” he said in his homily, delivered in Italian. Guatemalans go to to elect civilian president polls Associated Press GUATEMALA CITY —Gua temalans voted Sunday for a civil ian president after more than 30 tears of virtually uninterrupted and often brutal military rule in ibis Central American country. Opposing Cerezo, a 42-year- old lawyer, in the runoff election was Jorge Carpio, 53, a newspa per publisher and leader of the National Center Union. They were the top vote-getters in the Nov. 3 election that saw eight candidates run with none receiving the clear majority re quired by law. Cerezo is considered center- left while Carpio is right of cen ter. As the country’s economic problems deepeneu over the past live years, the military became more enthusiastic about turning the government over to civilians and escaping blame for calamity. This apparently was the moti vation behind Mejia’s promise to return Guatemala to civilian rule and schedule the Nov. 3 election. The new president will succeed Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Vic- tores, the last of live successive military rulers. He came to power in a coup in 1983, deposing Gen. Efrain Jose Rios Montt, The ()5-year-old pope, who at tended nearh everv session of the two-week assembly of 165 bishops, appeared tired, and his voice was hoarse. He said the synod accom plished the goal it set out to achieve — “celebrate, verify and promote the council." “As we come out of the synod, we wish to intensify our pastoral efforts to ensure that the Second Vatican Council is more widely and more thoroughly known,” he said. “To en sure that die orientations and direc tives that the council left us are as similated into the very heart of all the members of the people of God and translated into the way they live, with consistency and love.” I he pope noted that he was speaking on the Feast of the Immac ulate Conception, exactly 20 years after the council closed after holding four sessions starting in 1962. Vatican II fashioned far-reaching reforms, taking a more accepting at titude toward modernity and recast ing the church’s image from un changeable monolith to an institution ready to modernize. "At the end of the second millen nium the church truly desires to be the church in the modern world, she desires with her all her strength to serve, so that human life on Earth may be evermore worthy of man,” the pope said. During the closing session of the synod Saturday, John Paul said Ro man Catholicism should welcome and pursue the opening to the mod ern world ushered in by Vatican II. At the same time, the pope warned against “false interpreta tions” of the council reforms. Bv an overwhelming majority, the bishops adopted a 14-page report on the synod's findings and recommen dations. In a surprise move ap plauded by the bishops, the pope agreed to publish the documents as approved by. the prelates without anv change. Most of the participants had pressed for publication of the docu ment and the pope’s agreement to release the document was seen as a victory for the bishops in their at tempt to assert themselves in the running of the church. The document, to be officially re leased Monday, calls for greater church commitment to the poor, a new universal guidebook of church doctrine and morals and further study of the authority of national bishops conferences. In the report, written in Latin, the bishops also stress the need to pro mote dialogue for Christian unity and interfaith talks with other reli gions. posed for photographs with her three grandchildren on the front lawn of her daughter’s home in a Boston suburb. “She was verv angry” upon view ing the tapes, which were made in August 1984 and June and July of this year, said Bonner's son-in-law, Efrem Yankelevich. Her son, Alexei Semyonov, ail(■ family members would try withinitl next several days to call Gorky, ikl Soviet city closed to toreipj where Sakharov and Bonnwlivtii internal exile. On Sunday afternoon, Beit r with her daughter Tatiana YaiMj vich at the wheel, led the news air-j on a chase into Boston intheiil ternoon. where the women itKiii man arriving by train fromlfe ington. While Lai cheered and fi his family con senator blamed nated oppositi Aquino for the would have put opposition tickt Instead of a no’s offer to r dential Candida Laurel said he 1 for president. “The films were falsified to show him eating at a time w hen, in fact, he was on a hunger strike," Yankelevich said. "It was a clever trick. “She saw herself in the film, and she w;is especially angry that the So viet doctors were willing participants in these secret movies." Bonner, who hats Iteen living in in ternal exile with her husband, wais granted a three-month exit visa after signing an agreement not to make detailed statements to the press dur ing her trip to seek treatment in Italy for an eye problem and in Boston for a heart ailment. She arrived from Rome on Satur day and spent Sunday making plans to see a heart doctor and to call her husband. Efrem Yankelevich said thmI a friend of Bonner, was a physnsi from Moscow who now live i | Washington, but he refusedlopitj his name. Bonner, her daughteraii the man conversed in Russian as! left for the return to Newton,aguI trying to elude reporters in puim Semyonov said his motbtij brought a suitcase lull of Rik Ixxiks lor his 2-year-old dautte Alexandra, and Iter other gran» dren, Matvei Yankelevich, 12,anl| Anna Yankelevich, 10. "The grandchildren are trying* sort out the books," said Yanlek vich. "The positive emotions u very important lot aheanpaiiem Semyonov agreed. "When 1 saw her in Italy she looked lOytar older than she hxiks right nm, Ik jj said. Family members said a doctor would be chosen Monday to texa- mine Bonner. She was advised dur ing her week-long stay in Italy that she should have treatment for her Bonner, 62, hadn’t seen heni lives living in the United Statessiori February 1979. Bonner was detained in Gothr. the spring of 1984 on chargestf anti-Soviet slander. She was late convicted and sentenced to fa years exile in Gorky, to which to husband was banished 1980. in Jitiw 1 j Bose 901 KmJ yvr ‘^- v . , CLOSE OUT 301 reg $1500 a pair SALE $999 95 pair Going Out Of Business! 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