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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
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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.
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