Winchester Star (Newspaper) - April 6, 1984, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 88th Year No. 235 32 SECTIONS VIRGINIA 22601, APRIL 6, 1984 667-3200 15 CENTS Reagan Targets Congress WASHINGTON - President Reagan fired another round at Congress today for him on foreign saying the lawmakers should not meddle once U.S. goals are His blast at on Capitol Hill dominated a policy speech in which Reagan reaffirmed his determination to reduce nuclear weapons but offered no new initiatives to woo the Soviets back to the bargaining He ruled out to the weapons buildup and informed the Kremlin that deterrence would remain the cornerstone of his foreign In criticizing the president said we are to have a sustainable foreign the Congress must support the practical details of not just the general Couched in an appeal for Reagan said must realize that are Behind the which has already led to a feud with House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill is White House irritation with efforts by Congress to limit U.S. operations in the Middle East and Central A senior briefing reporters on the said that when American lives are at stake and after some public Congress should restrict its objections to meetings with letters to him and other private The Again Star Photo by Ray K. Saunders the word that decided the championship in Thursday night's Regional Spelling really does as Rhonda Kauf snows ner Sheila and Winchester Star publisher Thomas T. Fruticose means occurring in the form or resembling a Rhonda won the title for the second year in a She will compete in the National Spelling Bee May 28-June 1 in D.C. photos on Page 16. A Trillion WASHINGTON - The House has approved the outlines of the nation's first trillion opening the way for congressional action on a series of spending cuts and tax increases designed to slash the record federal The target 1985 budget approved by the House Thursday on a 250-168 vote envisions adoption of a plan favored by party leaders that would reduce the deficit by about billion over the next three But while the House action im- Gunfire Heard in Cameroon PARIS - Western diplomats in the West African nation of Cameroon reported heavy gunfire and military movements in the capital early and Cameroon Radio went off the air at The station had been broadcasting military music for several hours but had not reported on any monitors in neighboring Gabon Western diplomats in Cameroon's said by telephone they heard gunfire for two hours in the city of 313,000 people before dawn but were unable to reach government ministers by They reported there were military roadblocks at some points and a column of armored vehicles headed for the presidential palace and the home of the chief of staff of the armed proves prospects of a first start toward reducing the deficit this it does not assure it. Just a year Congress agreed to raise taxes by billion and cut spending by None of that combined billion deficit reduction had won final approval until when the Senate agreed to a reducing spending by billion over three That passed 67-26, now goes to President Reagan for his It would delay annual cost-of-living increases in the pensions of federal civilian and military retirees and limit federal employees - including members of Congress - 4 percent pay raise this The votes in the House and Senate Thursday were the most substantive action in Congress this year to do something about the which have become a major political issue and a concern of many There is a fear that interest rates will continue rising until investors are convinced that Congress is serious about reducing the red the Senate Budget Committee will begin writing its version of a target budget for fiscal 1985, which begins next Oct. 1. The Senate will begin work on a approved by the Finance Committee that would raise taxes by billion through Sept. 30,1987. The target budget that won House approval Thursday would permit government agencies to spend trillion over 12 the most ever but about billion less than the president originally Associated Press Isabella Yanovitch Wayne 84, sits in a rescue boat as firefighters carry her Pete from their flooded Shuttle Chases Lame Satellite For Repair Job CAPE Fla. astronauts rode Challenger today into orbit 290 miles above highest yet for a and set off in pursuit of a crippled solar observatory for a daring first attempt to repair a satellite in The in which astronaut George Nelson will use a backpack to fly 200 feet from the ship and snare the began with a rumbling liftoff right on schedule at 8:58 a.m. EST. looked great going up the Mission Control told the crew after the shuttle climbed through cloudless blue Florida skies and settled into view from here is as spectacular as replied commander Robert the first astronaut to make three shuttle Accompanying the crew were 3,300 honeybees and the heaviest cargo so far - an 11-ton package of including 13 million tomato that will be dropped off in orbit and picked up next Two minutes into the the shuttle shed its two solid propellant booster rockets and they parachuted into the where ships were to recover them for use on a later As the astronauts soared into the target satellite was half a world 11,500 miles in front of the Crippen will lead Challenger on a chase of 828,000 miles over two days until he moves to within 200 feet of his It was the 11th shuttle the fifth for The flight is to end next Thursday with the second landing back at Cape Crippen is in charge of an crew of pilot Dick Scobee and mission specialists Terry Hart and James van Their journey puts a record 11 people in space at the same including five cosmonauts and an Indian astronaut who are traveling on the Salyut 7 space The old mark of eight was set in February when five astronauts and three cosmonauts were With the skies so NASA had only 7 45 seconds leeway for today's The United States and Soviet Union have an agreement not to come within 200 Associated Press The Space Shuttle lifts off its Florida pad today to begin a six-day miles of one another's and liftoff any later would have put the shuttle and space station closer than The altitude is the highest yet for a shuttle but far short of the 840-mile Earth orbit record set by Gemini 10 in 1966. Apollo astronauts traveled a miles from home to reach the Nelson will wear one of the backpacks tested on the last flight for the adventuresome job of casting free from the orbiting flitting 200 to 300 feet away and attaching a device to Solar Max so it can be hauled into the cargo bay for During six days aloft the astronauts will have more than 3,300 traveling companions - a of Since bees are among nature's best scientists want to know if they can build honeycombs in weightlessness as well as they do on The first major task will come when they use the remote-controlled arm to place in orbit an 11-ton satellite carrying 57 technology and materials experiments Residents Chased By Flooding Rivers By The Associated PRess Flood alerts went up from Maryland to Maine today as a lingering storm bearing record rainfall swelled rivers over their closed major highways around New York City and chased at least 3,300 New Jersey residents from their Seven National Guard units using boats and trucks helped move residents to higher ground in northern New where more than 4 inches of rain sent rivers as much as 7 feet above flood stage to record levels in John Kozak of the state Office of Emergency Management said about 1,000 people were still in emergency shelters this while many had returned to their Flood warnings were in effect for southeastern New most of southern New England and inland areas of New Hampshire and southern Records Indicate Failed to List Trips New York Times News Service WASHINGTON - Edwin Meese 3d's financial disclosure statements for 1981 and 1982 fail to list more than a dozen trips in which organizations paid thousands of dollars of his according to a comparison of his disclosure statements and a compilation by office of his travels while counselor to President David H. the director of the Office of Government said government officials were re- Coll 667-0)45._ London Oxford quired to report all such expenses over except when the payments were made by a political organization that publicly reports the expenses to the Federal Election One of associates who asked not to be identified said Thursday that Meese was now reviewing his travel records with White House lawyers and deciding whether to amend his financial disclosure Meese did not receive any fees or honorariums for his but his such as limousine and paid by various political and trade The unreported expenses included numerous trips to California and a trip to Leonard an attorney for said in a prepared statement that the reporting of the travel expenses involve and debatable issues under the federal disclosure regulations and do not suggest any ethical misconduct or questionable motive on Mr. Garment went on to say that arrangements for Mr. including expenses and compliance with federal reporting were handled by his staff and the White House counsel's on his disclosure statements covering the years 1981, 1982 and 1983, reported about in travel expenses arising from nine These trips and the groups that paid those expenses are different from the trips Mr. Meese has not The reporting of travel expenses has not been an issue in the various investigations of In the frequent travels - he has been out of Washington one ejst of every four days since 1981 - have generated some criticism within the White according to White House Other examples of inaccurate records have been issues in the process of confirming nomination as attorney failure to disclose a loan in 1981 from his former aide Edwin Thomas contributed to the inquiry that led to the appointment earlier this week of an independent Jacob A. to investigate including his personal Meese subsequently amended his disclosure forms to reflect the The heavy rain reached New England this with 3 inches measured at Sebago Lake near In New highways near Manchester were covered by 4 feet of water and mudslides blocked roadways near Floodwaters in the White Mountains pushed a car off the Flash flood watches were in effect throughout most of New England as the Androscoggin and other big rivers rose to or near flood The Potomac River was rising at Point of Md. New York which was pelted again this received a record 4.15 inches of rain on easily topping the old record for the date of 1.95 inches set in 1947. In the where the rainfall was closer to 5 rain and mud forced police to close parts of the New York State Thruway and four major parkways this Dear Obituaries TV Partly Sunny and Breezy Page 2 1
