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Friday, October 17, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11 hits $576 billion spending package ratified by Senate for fiscal ’87 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday ratified a record half-trillion-dollar spending package to operate the government in fiscal 1987 but stubborn disputes over side issues I held the compromise short of f inal enactment. I President Reagan had to sign stopgap legis- Jlation to prevent a government shutdown during 1 the day. Federal spending authority was expiring ■ again at midnight Thursday. The Senate, by voice vote, approved the House-Senate agreement on the $576 billion spending plan, which the House had approved Wednesday night and Reagan has endorsed. The measure trims Reagan’s military spending request but also holds the line in domestic pro grams, freezing most and allowing only a few se lect increases. The broad compromise left a few items in disagreement to be settled separately by the two chambers. The Senate quickly rejected one of the House add-ons, a labor protection measure. Efforts to resolve the issues in disagreement were delayed when the Senate, after approving the overall plan, became bogged down in some- times-angry disputes over local concerns. Sen. Alfonse D’Amato, R-N.Y., was fighting attempts by Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., to cut off production of the T-46A trainer jet being built on Long Island, N.Y. Sen. Alan Dixon, D-Ill., battled Sen. James Abdnor, R-S.D., to keep alive plans for a new federally financed building in Chicago. Congress needed additional time to nail down the details, and as a result, the Senate gave final approval to the additional stopgap bill, lasting until midnight Thursday. A similar stopgap mea sure had expired at midnight Wednesday. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the president, who has expressed impatience with congressional delays, was signing the latest stopgap because lawmakers were moving toward enactment of the long-term bill. With less than three weeks before the elec tions, lawmakers also were under political pres sure to finish up their Washington business. Nigerian honored as 1st African o win Nobel Prize in literature I |H11'V molts \ fern bint If Jans: I STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, a master of poetic drama who writes in English from the myth and ethos of his peo ple, was named Thursday as the first African to win a Nobel Prize in liter ature. The Swedish Academy of Letters ailed him a writer “who in a wide ultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence.” Soyinka, 52, is an impassioned so cial critic who was jailed in the late 1960s during the Nigerian civil war. He expressed hope Thursday that the award was not given “because I have been a vigorous critic of my government and others. I don’t want to think for a single moment it’s be cause of my political stand.” Also Thursday, the Nobel Memo rial Prize in Economic Science was awarded to American professor James McGill Buchanan for theories advocating strict rules to keep na tional budgets balanced. Buchanan, 67, filled a gap between pure eco nomics and political science with his work, the citation said. Announcement of Soyinka’s selec tion as the literature laureate was the sixth and final one this year. The dramatist, poet, novelist and essayist was quoted by the Nigerian newspaper Vanguard last month as saying he prefers the less notorious literary awards. “1 don’t like the Nobel thing,” Soyinka told the interviewer after becoming the third African ever to win honorary membership in the American Academy and Institute of Arts and letters. “I like the ones (where) you are sitting quietly and the letter comes. This kind of award nobody bothers about because there is no money involved.” This year the prizes established and endowed by Alfred Nobel are worth about $290,000. American wins Nobel Memorial in economics for budget theory STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — American James M. Buchanan won pie Nobel Memorial Prize in Eco- omic Sciences on Thursday for the- jries advocating firm rules to keep ational budgets balanced. Buchanan, a 67-year-old profes- or, holds that economic “fine tun- ng” by politicians often doesn’t ork, because public officials usually ict in their own self-interest. The Royal Swedish Academy of iciences cited Buchanan’s work in a field called the “new political econ omy,” or “public choice,” which ap plies economic analysis to political problems and fills a gap between tra ditional economic theory and politi cal science. Buchanan, along with colleague Gordon Tullock, founded the Cen ter for Study of Public Choice at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., where Buchanan teaches. “His analyses are fundamental and important to understand what has occurred in the West in recent years, how the budget explodes when there is not enough (public) demand to balance it,” said Ingemar Stahl, a member of the Nobel eco nomics committee. The academy said Buchanan and like-thinking economists refuse to accept the traditional idea that pub lic authorities can use mechanical methods to correct economic prob lems. If you're considering retirement. Consider Walden. Come home to Aggieland. Our stereotypes of senior adults (and retire ment housing) are fading. Thank goodness. Seniors are retired from routine, sure. But they are still busy, active and alive. Seniors want to travel, to go, to learn, to grow. And they want a carefree environment that supports independent living in a safe, secure surrounding without daily drudgery. If you are considering a retirement move, please give us a visit or a call. We are a warm, caring community built for active senior adults. Amenities include: • close to Texas A&M and its educational, cultural and championship sports activities • staff on duty 24 hours a day • lunch and dinner served with style (and private kitchens, too) • transportation • laundry and dry cleaning pick up • weekly housekeeping • activities, travel, library, exercise, pool • parking, elevators, convenience store, etc Walden Dr. Jarvis and Alma Miller, managing directors Walden on Memorial 2410 Memorial Drive/Bryan 823-7914 Former Axis powers to sit on council UNITED NATIONS (AP) — For the first time since their de feat in World War II, the three former Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan were elected Thursday to serve together on the U.N. Security Council. Also elected by the General As sembly were Zambia and Argen tina. The three former Axis powers will sit, as of Jan. 1, at the circular council chamber with the Allies — the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and China, which are permanent council members. The council has 10 non-perma nent members which are geo graphically distributed and serve two-year terms. Five are elected each year. Germany and Italy replace Australia and Denmark as rep resentatives of Western Europe. Japan replaces Thailand as an Asian member. Zambia replaces Madagascar from Africa and Ar gentina replaces Trinidad and Tobago from South America and the Caribbean. On the first ballot, each re ceived more than the 103 votes needed, representing two-thirds of the 154 votes cast in the 159- member assembly, ATTENTION Hillel Members Jewish Student Club 6:00 pm October 17, 1986 FRIDAY Come Join Os for Our Annual Sukkot Decorating and BBQ. Also On October 19,3:00 pm Sukkot Volleyball Tournament 800 Jersey St. 696-7313 SENIOR BANQUET Subchairman Positions • Decorations • Public Relations • Tickets/Sales Sign up for Interviews Monday (10/20) & Tues day (10/21) in the Class of ’87 Cubicle located in the SPO-216MSC ask Tor bud Lignt. Everything else is just a light.