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Agase Human Resources Supervisor The Battalion \ WORLD & NATION Wednesday, February 15,1989 White House: Congress will shape spending cuts WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration, saying its 1990 budget speaks for itself, declined Tues day to provide additional details on spending cuts and insisted they be shaped through negotiations with Con gress. “This budget is alive and is an active force subject to change in negotiation and discussion,” presidential spokesman Marlin Fitzwater told reporters. He said the administration would have no separate proposal for Filling a spending gap estimated at $9.6 bil lion to $ 11 billion to help pay for expanded social pro grams Bush advocated in his $1.16 trillion spending plan. “We’ll be providing details as we go along. Everybody knows cuts have to be made,” Fitzwater said. Congressional Democrats have complained that Bush’s budget allows him to claim credit for proposing more spending on social programs, such as those affect ing the homeless, child care and education, while mak ing sure Congress shares responsibility for coming up with unpopular cuts in other programs. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., chairman of the Sen ate Appropriations Committee, and Sen. Jim Sasser, D- Tenn., the budget committee chairman, told Bush in a letter Tuesday that if he failed to provide more detail, Congress would “have no alternative” but to assume he endorses the program cuts proposed last month by then-President Reagan. Bush budget director Richard G. Darman, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu and congressional budget leaders met T uesday afternoon. Sununu was coy with reporters regarding how much new informa tion he would provide the Congress before leaders agreed to full-scale negotiations. “It’s not a question as to whether the detail is avail able, it’s a question of whether you do it a step at a time,” Sununu said. Bush plans to travel around the country to build pub lic support for his budget plan. He travels to Columbia, S.C., on Wednesday to high light the budget measure in an appearance before the state legislature. Bush spoke Monday to business and civic leaders in Manchester, N.H. f itzwater denied Bush’s budget road show was an ef fort to make an end-run around Congress, as Reagan had done in building public support for some of his ini tiatives. Instead, the spokesman said, the trips were just “an opportunity for the president to discuss his priorities” and an attempt to stress his intention “to work with Congress.” Bush’s budget, which he unveiled Thursday in his first major policy speech before Congress, called for ex panded spending to cover a host of campaign promises. Other than calling for freezing military spending at the level of inflation, the spending outline was vague on where other specific areas of spending would be re strained to meet deficit targets. New Orleans moves focus to tourism NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For one week, this jazz ’n’ roll city put aside its problems, polished away its tar nish, set aside its bickering, dug deep into its threadbare pockets and put on a party for the Republican National Convention. It was a celebration amidst a de pression, a $150 million economic surge in the middle of a financial cri sis. It was also a symbolic move for “The Big Easy,” which now, more than ever, sees its future in tourism rather than oil. “We saw what happened during the Republican convention. New Or leans was by far one of the premier cities in America,” Mayor Sidney Barthelemy said. “That gave me a little glimmer of what the future of New Orleans could be.” But the present is one of crisis. The city budget is in such shambles Barthelemy said he had to cut city funding for the courts by 40 percent this year. Unemployment remains at nearly 9 percent. A real estate group labeled New Orleans a place to avoid because of falling home values. And finances at City Hall are so bleak that some worry that New Or leans may be headed for a crisis simi lar to New York City’s several years ago — knocking on bankruptcy’s door. “T he more likely situation is a de fault by the city,” economist Tim Ryan of the University of New Or leans said. “But I don’t think that’s going to happen.” Part of that effort is a move to overhaul the tax structure for all of Louisiana, including New Orleans. And part of it is Barthelemy’s push for tourism development. New Orleans draws 5 million visi tors a year, and that number is climbing, according to the tourist bureau. Tourism-generated jobs have grown 38 percent over the last four years, from 37,000 to 51,000. The city is doubling the size of its convention center, building a new aquarium and looking at developing a European-style botanical garden. Family attractions are needed to off set the adults-only image of the French Quarter, the mayor said. And if it all works, there will be more than enough business to offset the collapse of the highflying oil in dustry. “If you ever doubt that, go to Or lando and see what the tourism has done for that city,” Barthelemy said. Bush, S&L adviser work for passage of thrift proposal WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration vowed Tuesday to fight any effort by savings and loan lobbyists to preserve a close relationship with federal regulators and said it’s ready to work with Con gress to gain speedy passage of the president’s plan to deal with the in dustry’s crisis. Richard C. Breeden, Bush’s top adviser on S&Ls, said the president’s proposal to restructure the thrift regulatory system is inseparable from any infusion of taxpayer money. And, in an interview at the White House, he vowed to “spare no ef fort” in helping Congress meet Bush’s challenge to pass the S&L program in 45 days. “If we have to burn the midnight oil and work late and work hard, then we’ll do it,” Breeden said. Sen. Donald W. Riegle Jr., D- Mich., chairman of the Senate Bank ing Committee, and Sen. Jake Garn of Utah, the committee’s senior Re publican, have already agreed to in troduce the administration pro gram. An inch-thick draft of the bill was sitting on Breeden’s desk Tuesday, and he said it likely would he sub mitted to Congress next week. He described the tone of discussion on the issue between the administration and legislators as excellent. “I hope things will go smoothly, but I don’t want to be unrealistic,” he said. “We are proposing some pro found long-run changes in the regu latory system.” Last week, Bush proposed spend ing $ 126 billion over the next decade to dose or sell failed thrift associa tions, $40 billion of it a direct charge against the taxpayers and the federal budget. He also would wrap the indepen dent Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which regulates the nation’s 3,000 S&Ls, into the Treasury De partment and merge the staff of the S&L deposit insurance fund into the larger Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., which guarantees commercial bank accounts. Thrift industry officials have de nounced the restructuring plan as a power-grab by the Treasury Depart ment and have vowed to fight it. Baker plans to sell stock in response to questions about conflict of interest ROME (AP) — Secretary of State James A. Baker III announced Tuesday he will sell his holdings in a New York bank and all his other publicly traded stock, a move prompted by questions from Presi dent Bush’s ethics chief about poten tial conflicts of interest. Baker said the decision went “well beyond” what was required by law or had been recommended to him by government lawyers. Baker’s decision, which a spokes man said had been reached Saturday but was announced only Tuesday, came as Senate Foreign Relations Committee sources said the panel had asked Baker more than a week ago for additional detailed informa tion about his holdings. The controversy revolves primar ily around Baker’s holdings in Chemical New York Corp., which has lent $4.5 billion to Third World nations. As Bush’s chief adviser on foreign policy, Baker is certain to be con fronted by the nagging problem of the indebted nations and their stag gering loans to Western and other commercial banks. While heading the Treasury De partment under President Reagan, Baker developed the so-called Baker plan, which called on Third World nations to make good on their debts as they restructured their sagging economies. Page 10 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million NEW DELHI, India (AP) Union Carbide Corp. apts Tuesday to pay $470 million the government of India in court-ordered settlement resii ing from the 1984 gas leak Bhopal that killed more tin y Denise Tho TAFF WRITER 3,300 people in the world'st® industrial disaster. Activists in Bhopal denountti the settlement as a betrayal of ik 20,000 victims who still from exposure to the deadlta that escaped from a pesti^ plant on Dec. 3, 1984. Theft, eminent had sought $3 billion damages. Chief Justice R.S. Pathakinta. rupted a government pros., tor’s routine argument whenili court reconvened after and ordered the U.S.-based *| tinational company to pay t* damages by March 31 Attorneys for the governing and Union Carbide prompl agreed. “It was apparent that there® an out-of-court agreement It tween Union Carbide and government,” said a court of who spoke on condition of nymity. “For such an order(b should have been excitement, there was no murmur even." “It wasn’t entirely out oftkj blue,” said another source, win also spoke on condition of nymity. Pathak, citing “the enormityi human suffering,” said a set dement was needed to “providi immediate and substantial relief More than 2,000 people wett killed almost immediately wkei the white vapor of methylisocyi nate seeped from a storage at the plant operated by Ui Carbide’s Indian subsidiary drifted over nearby shantytown and into Bhopal. The leak occurred shortlyaftti midnight, and some victimsditt in their sleep. Others, blinded! tears and gasping for bread tried to flee but collapsed death. More than 20,000 peopled suffer from exposure to thep and victims continue todieati rate of at least one a day, acconl ing to a government gas relit board. It says the death reached 3,329. Pathak, speaking for a fo judge Supreme Court panel, oi dered Union Carbide to pay million to the Indian governmei “in full and final settlementofi claims, rights and liabilities re iated to and arising out of tkf Bhopal gas disaster.” He also ordered all civil pt( ceedings transferred to the St preme Court, and quashed criminal charges, including ok of culpable homicide filed 1987 against former Union Cat bide chairman Warren son. Pathak gave no details of ho* the money should be paidtotln victims, but he directed govern ment prosecutors and attorne for the Danbury, Conn.-I company to submit a detail® agreement Wednesday. “This is a fair and just set tlement,” Copal Subramanii® one of the chief governmental torneys, told a reporter. In New York, Union Carbi® spokesman Earl Slack said thak’s order was based on its it view of all pleadings in India am the U.S., applicable law and face and the enormity of human sol feting that requires substantia and immediate aid. Union, Carbide’s stock jnio soared $2.12-and-a-half to$31 a share in early trading on New York Stock Exchange Tuesday, and analysts sab approved of the settlement If you’ve set a complete all t uirements you’ iou may have to According to ets, the numl :ourses availabl ient to meet th 'aul Parrish, as lollege of Li be er, he said thi emforthecolle “Quite hones tot being able l )f classes that st jroblem we h; /ear,” he said. concerned, but cern we’ve had spring as well.” Students atte in August are o: the liberal arts Although the will be limite* doesn’t foresee delay graduatic uling problems. Preside o demt ontra I ihtf SAN SALV (AP) — Preside Nicaragua, Jo: Honduras, Os Rica, Vinicio ( and Jose Napol ador annour greed to devc days to demobi HiOOO-strong < Ortega also national and lo vember 1990 year and open to the oppositi jermit Unitec )ut the presic agree on a veri Nicaragug Wednesday re; Central An agreement. 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