Monday, February 3, 1986/The Battalion/Page 9
World and Nation
1987 budget proposal
tops Congress’ agenda
Princess
Margaret
to visit U.S.
this week
LONDON — Princess Marga
ret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II,
left Sunday for a week’s visit to
Washington and New York.
She is due to visit an exhibition
of treasures from British homes
at Washington’s National Gallery
and attend a performance by the
Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet com
pany at New York’s Brooklyn
Academy of Music, aides said.
The princess, 55, president of
the Sadler’s Wells ballet company,
left London’s Heathrow Airport
accompanied by several ladies-in
waiting.
From New York, Margaret was
scheduled to fly to the Caribbean
island of Mustique, where she has
a home, for a three-week vaca
tion, aides said.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —- President
Reagan hits Congress with both bar
rels this week — his State of the
Union address Tuesday night and
his fiscal 1987 budget on Wednes
day.
The Senate, meantime, will press
on with legislation including the pro
posed sale of Conrail, while the
House plans action on bills delayed
by last week’s mourning over the
space shuttle tragedy, including a
Senate-passed plan to ban television
and radio advertising of chewing to
bacco and snuff.
Reagan had originally planned to
deliver the State of the Union ad
dress last Tuesday and the budget
this week, but the speech was post
poned after the shuttle explosion
that day.
House and Senate leaders agreed
to reschedule the address for this
Tuesday night, with the time moved
up from 9 p.m. to 8 p.m. so as not to
interfere with television network
programming.
White House officials said the
speech will focus on broad themes
rather than specific proposals, aim
ing more toward the public than the
Congress.
However, the president is ex
pected to ask Congress to revise the
nation’s welfare system to put more
pressure on recipients to find jobs.
The president has long contended
that many people receiving assis
tance don’t want to work.
Reagan is also expected to seek
more control over the budget proc
ess. And lawmakers won’t have
much time to sleep on that before
the president’s fiscal 1987 budget is
delivered at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
The spending plan will be the first
submitted by the president since en
actment of the Gramm-Rudman
deficit reduction law, which limits
the fiscal 1987 deficit to $144 billion.
Reaching the target will require
$38 billion in spending cuts or reve
nue increases, according to adminis
tration estimates. Budget Director
James C. Miller III has said the ad
ministration will stay within the defi
cit limits while increasing military
spending and opposing any tax in
creases.
Of the $38 billion, the budget will
recommend roughly $30 billion in
spending cuts and $8 billion in reve
nues, said officials who spoke only
on the condition of anonymity.
The president will recommend a
military spending increase of 6 per
cent, to $282 billion, the sources
said.
The Senate plans to open its week
Monday with a debate on whether to
put its sessions on television.
‘Harmless , firecracker thrown near pope
Associated Press
NEW DELHI, India — Police ar
rested a man they said appeared “of
unsound mind” after he tossed a
noisy but harmless firecracker at the
end of a Sunday Mass celebrated by
Popejohn Paul II.
The firecracker raised a plume of
smoke about 40 yards from John
Paul, who was leaving the indoor In
dira Gandhi Stadium after saying
Mass before about 25,000 people. It
burned the carpet, but hurt no one.
Already-tight security was in
creased for John Paul’s 10-day tour
of 14 cities, and police in the next
city on the tour, Ranchi, rounded up
around 100 people considered po
tential troublemakers.
Before the disturbance, John Paul
applauded efforts by Christians and
others to “relieve the burdens of
misery” of India’s millions of poor.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Na
varro said the pontiff heard the fire-.
cracker’s loud bang but gave no sign
of concern.
But a Vatican official, who asked
not to be named, said several mem
bers of the papal entourage “were
concerned” on hearing the blast.
The 65-year-old pontiff has survived
two assassination attempts.
Police told The Associated Press
the man, identified as Dominique
Ouseph, was charged with mischief
and violation of the explosive sub
stances act.
“It appears he was of unsound
mind,” said Deputy Police Commis
sioner Umesh Kumar Katna. “He
said he did it just to draw the pope’s
attention.”
Katna said Ouseph was carrying
an unspecified document bearing
President Reagan’s name and White
House address. He said Ouseph is
“about 40” and a Roman Catholic
from southern Kerala.
Police and security officials first
said the man threw the firecracker to
welcome John Paul and denied he
was arrested. They did not explain
the change.
Police in. the northeast city of Ran
chi, where John Paul is to say Mass
today, declared a security alert, the
United News of India reported.
The news agency said officials
were concerned about protests by
right-wing groups who have distrib
uted leaflets with “objectionable con
tents” about John Paul. It said about
100 suspected troublemakers were
rounded up under preventive de
tention laws.
Some Hindu groups strongly op
pose the papal visit, saying John
Paul’s goal is to convert poor Hindus
to Christianity. Hindus comprise
about 83 percent of India’s 750 mil
lion people, while only 3 percent are
Christians.
Polish peace group still fighting intimidation
Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — Although it
has been declared illegal and some
of its members imprisoned, Poland’s
first independent peace movement
shows no signs of succumbing to in
timidation from communist authori
ties.
“Despite the repressions we will
not give up,” said Jacek Czaputo-
wicz, a founder of the Freedom and
Peace Movement.
Freedom and Peace, founded in
March 1985, claims more than 100
activists in four Polish cities and sev
eral thousand sympathizers, includ
ing Solidarity leader Lech Walesa,
the 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Among its members are the son of
Jacek Kuron, the leader of the now-
disbanded Workers Defense Com
mittee and perhaps the country’s
best-known dissident, and former
leaders of the banned independent
students’ union that formed during
the Solidarity years, 1980-81. Most
members are in their 20s.
The Polish peace movement, like
other unofficial peace movements in
Eastern Europe, seeks the support
“There is no peace without freedom, without national
independence and democracy. ”
— Jacek Czaputowicz, a founder of the Freedom and
Peace Movement.
of West European anti-war
movements in pressuring Soviet-bloc
countries to respect human rights
and make democratic reforms.
“There are now more (West Euro
pean peace) groups that understand
what we are talking about — that
there is no peace without freedom,
without national independence and
democracy,” said Czaputowicz, a 30-
year-old economist.
Although the Polish organization
shares such objectives of Western
peace movements as the demilitari
zation of Central Europe and the
end of the division of the continent
into competing blocs, its members
acknowledge these goals are uto
pian. They have presented more
realistic demands to Polish authori
ties. Earlier this month, at a news
conference that was raided by police,
Czaputowicz read the group’s de
mands.
They included releasing youths
imprisoned for refusing military
service, allowing conscientious objec
tors to perform alternate service and
dropping pro-Soviet ideological ref
erences in the Polish army oath.
“If the authorities went ahead
with such measures it would be
proof . . . that their declarations
about peace are not empty words,”
Czaputowicz said in an interview at
his Warsaw apartment. “We cannot
begin talking about things like nu
clear arms or troop reductions or a
neutral Europe if even these con
crete postulates cannot be realized.”
The government has not tolerated
any independent peace initiatives or
ganized outside the framework of
the official Polish Peace Committee
that supports Soviet policies.
Last May, officials in the southern
city of Krakow banned Freedom and
Peace on the grounds that it posed
“a danger to public peace” because
its founding declaration said condi
tions for peace do not exist in coun
tries like Poland “where traditional
public freedoms have been liqui
dated.”
Freedom and Peace was created
.last March during a weeklong hun
ger strike at a suburban Warsaw
church to protest the imprisonment
of Marek Adamkiewicz, a student ac
tivist who refused military service.
Adamkiewicz, 28, is serving a 2‘/2-
year sentence for refusing to recite
the Polish army oath because it
pledged support to the Soviet army.
He said he could not condone the
Soviet invasions of Czechoslovakia in
1968, in which Polish troops took
part, and Afghanistan in 1979.
Czaputowicz estimated that more
than 100 young Poles are in prison
for refusing military duty. The gov
ernment has admitted there are
“sporadic” refusal cases but has not
released any figures.
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