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President pushes start
of Gramm-Rudman cut
Vol. 87
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi
dent Reagan, after ordering the start
of $23 billion in automatic spending
cuts under the Gramm-Rudman law,
said Tuesday he would prefer cut
ting the deficit through a budget
compromise with Congress and indi
cated for the first time he might con
sider a tax increase.
The Gramm-Rudman law was co
sponsored by Sen. Phil Gramm, R-
Texas, who is a former Texas A&M
University economics professor.
Reagan’s remarks came after a
meeting with his top economic advis
ers ana followed calls from the hi-,
partisan congressional leadership
for action in the wake of Monday’s
stock market crash.
“I presented in my budget a pro
gram that provided for $22 billion in
additional revenue, which was not
necessarily taxes,” Reagan said in re
sponse to a question about whether
he’d compromise with the Demo
crats, who propose a tax increase to
reduce the deficit. “And I’m willing
to look at whatever proposal they
might have.
“I am willing to be a participant in
anything that can bring us together.”
Reagan told reporters he was imme
diately ordering his aides to open
discussions with the leaders of the
House and Senate.
tion,” Fitzwater said. “He said he’s
willing to hear their proposals (from
Congress) but he does not envision a
tax increase as being a part (of the fi
nal package)."
Fitzwater said Treasury Secretary
James A. Baker III and White
House Chief of Staff Howard Baker
Jr. would hold the discussions with
Congress and the president did not
see himself personally taking part.
Nonetheless, lawmakers em
braced Reagan’s announcement.
The chairman of the Senate Bud
get Committee. Sen. Lawton Chiles,
R-Kan., said he hoped ihen
would come quickly.
"I hope that his statement'^
assure American investors tin:,I
going to deal with this problerl
our economy is essential!
and sound,” Dole said.
James C. Miller III. diitd
the ()ffice of Managementandij
get, announced that 10.51
would he withheld from 1
pi ograms and 8.5 percentfroi
defense agencies, as eacht
absorbs half of the redact
quired by the Gramm-Rudmi'l
“/ presented in my budget
a program that provided
for $22 billion in additio
nal revenue, which was
not necessarily taxes. And
I’m willing to Uxfk at what
ever proposal they might
have. ”
President Ronald
Reagan
The. revenues in the president’s
budget included some government
asset sales along with taxes that the
administration considers “user fees.”
After Reagan’s statement, White
House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater
appeared to try to soften the presi
dent’s remarks.
“He does not envision tax in
creases as a part of the (deficit) solu-
D-Fla., called Reagan's announce
ment that he would negotiate with
Congress “good news for the coun-
try.”
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Byrd, D-W.Va., also said he wel
comed the news, but chastised the
president for blaming the govern
ment’s red ink on decades of Demo
cratic control of Congress.
“I believe that it’s time to stop
pointing fingers and cool the rhe
toric if progress in those talks is to he
made," Byrd said.
Senate Minority Leader Boh Dole,
Miller said that could mti
loughs at (he justice Depan
layof fs at the State Departm
delays in developing a spacest
Those could be avertedtmi
law if Congress and Reay
.in alternative deficit-reducc
Indore Nov. 20.
The cutbacks are temporaiJ
the mones held inescrowa
lies making temporaryadjut
From AIDS research tola#ti
meni and militarv readiness,jJ
• > • ' : : 1 ‘“i .iinv miikl T-j
one-tenth of their budgetsfi
19H8, which began Oct. 1.
I he law this vear cuts!;
lion each from domestic |
and from the Pentagon,
within those broad categor
cifie areas were exemp
will come from huge art
budget, including Social S
welfare and veterans betttl
the militarv payroll.
The Gramm-Rudman i
sion a deficit of about $14
the fiscal year that began l
an interim step toward a 1
budget in 199$.
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butdoor i
Working women
help with design
for 'dream home'
VOORHEES TOWNSHIP, N.J.
(AP) — A home office, a revolving
clothes rack and lights that never
need dusting all can be found in the
Working Woman’s Dream Home, a
$234,000 house designed from the
suggestions of 15 women who juggle
families and full-time jobs.
“Women are the ones that buy the
house,” said Cary Schaal, vice presi
dent of the house’s builder, the Scar
borough Corp. of nearbv Marlton.
“Gentlemen have their input, but in
95 percent of the cases it’s the
woman who says, ‘This is my
house.’ ”
A model of the two-story home re
cently opened to the public in The
Beagle Club development in south
ern Newjersey.
It all began last year when 15 pro
fessional w’omen associated with the
Cherry Hill Chamber of Commerce
were invited to discuss their ideas of
a perfect house.
Suggestions included such things
as storage, the need for natural light,
flow'ing traffic patterns and as little
dusting as possible.
Other suggestions were that the
house clean itself and that the toilet
seat not be cold.
“That we couldn’t do,” Schaal
said. “But the majority of what they
wanted, we were able to incorpo
rate.”
The women’s ideas were turned
over to an architect who designed a
3,150-square-foot house with four
bedrooms and 2Vs baths.
“They really did listen to us," said
Susan Milstein, a computer consul
tant who participated in the plan
ning sessions.
There’s a laundry room with a
built-in ironing board, a walk-in
pantry doubling as a serving area for
the dining room and a communica
tions center with an indoor-outdoor
intercom system and phone.
The two-room master bath sjxms
a revolving clothes rack that zips
around one of the two closets at tfie
touch of a button.
That was on the wish list of Char
lotte Cuarino, a hotel administrative
assistant who said it alleviates the
need to store out-of-season clothes.
“That was on a whim,” Cuarino
said. “They did pick up on it,
though. You push a button and the
clothes come to you.”
Milstein said what makes the
working woman's home different is
the extra attention to details.
“I like the office away from the
bustle of the house,” she said.
So far, none of the women inter
viewed in the discussion group ap
pear to be buying a dream home of
their own, Schaal noted.
However, Milstein said. “You
would not have to twist my arm to
get me to buy that house. I’m very
happy where I am now, but if 1 were
to move ... . ”
Market sto)
shaky despi
heavy tradi
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stocks tallied Tuesday,]
mg f rom Monday's his
tof
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Dried a Ic
lapse, but the rest of the
continued to ilounderin
ond straight session of
ding volume.
The Dow jonesave
industrials rose
1,84 1.01. topping its pro
"id point gain of 75.23 (•■.ASH i ,
t ollc-i i
99
I hat left the Down#ilcn.'t pun
s to go, however,to)««] a ,
unprecedented 508-pom]Wejnci ,, \
Mo nday’s session, or the I
938 point drop ittooTlT' ''
peak in late August t>w. c, ,,,
Monday’s close. ■p'gmdi
And broader market t Wfek
were less robust. DecliuEp
outnumbered advances 1)|
"> to 2 on the New Vorki'f
change.
As measured by’
nates' index of moretfej
stocks, the market gaiiteij
billion in value TuesdayJf
mg more than $500bill
day.
Analysts said there wj
that some of investor{
worries were easing.
I merest rates fellshat[ |
credit markets,
short-term Treasury
Ming nearly a full ^
point.
Charles Jensen at Mh 1
ties Inc. said, “.WestilH 1
of apprehension. ItW
dissipate all the selling
Man finds daughter he father*
in wartime Vietnam 15 years
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A for
mer U.S. Army medic arrived in the
United States on Tuesday with the
daughter he fathered in wartime
Vietnam 15 years ago and recently
rescued from a life peddling peanuts
on the beach.
Barry Huntoon and Tran Thi
Tuyet Mai stepped off a plane at San
Francisco International Airport with
two other Amerasian teen-agers.
The teen-ager was greeted by
Huntoon’s wife, Laura, and the cou
ple’s infant daughter.
“I want to go to school,” Mai said
when asked what she first wanted to
do in the United States. The girl can
neither read nor write.
Huntoon said, “I always believed I
would see this day.”
Huntoon met his half-Vietnamese
daughter for the first time Oct. 12,
when he went to Ho Chi Minh City
to bring her out of communist Viet
nam. He lost contact with Mai and
her mother after the end of the war
in 1975, but then saw his daughter’s
photograph in Life magazine two
years ago.
The other teen-agers. Loan and
Van Nguyen Vernon, received em
braces and pink roses from their fa
ther, Marc Vernon. Vernon had not
seen his daughters since 1 972.
“It’s going to he a while” before
the girls feel comfortable in public,
Vernon said, stroking their long
black hair. “They’re real nervous.”
Vernon, of Albuquerque, N.M.,
left Vietnam in 1972, and his wife,
Lien, left several years later. 1 hey
have tried desperately to get the girls
out of the country. Vernon worked
with an Army intelligence unit in
Vietnam in 1971 and 1972, and met
his wife while she was working as a
waitress in an NCO club in Pleiku.
Before leaving Ban? 1
non, a 38-year-old sale*
five from Paradise, P-
just wish every fatheri 0 ' 1 1
sian) could sit with his
five minutes. They're
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Despite bickering "'
let sc
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ese authorities,theU |ll k 0D | < ’
resettled about 4,000 ,
Bruce Burns of the Amerasian
Registry in Santa Clara County said
the girls have lived a modest life with
an English-speaking aunt, Lan
Nguyen, in Ho Chi Minh City. The
aunt also is coming to live with the
Vernon family, which includes an
other daughter, Kerry, who was
born in the United States.
an official migration? _
cent years. U.S. offr- iUeci u . u ^
10 000 remain tnV.etj| ut; ih( |](>
Huntoon said MarHy 0ut , U i ,
no education, hadl)C er ' in s
her mother in thepoO l :The C.olleE
near Ho Chi MinhCitf ;ni ros< y“
called Saigon whenii’’^ th( U)lu ^
of the South Vietnaipterhis ot .
which fell in Aprill^ Di JD,
“Her life's been 'Tie*- ,,t t -
really hard,” Hutto 0 ' been im ,, L
sold peanuts on tlir ufession i
asked her if sheivas^ ; college a
rning and she never nts by 376
she was there to" 01 * Things
play. She’s never ply n to imprr
witn other children.'
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