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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1985
Page
2
Washington faces painful cuts as lawmakers start trimming programs to meet deficit targets. Last year the deficit reached 212 billion, with 85 percent of the 1.1 trillion budget going to defense 27 percent interest 14 percent and entitlements 45 percent.
The Medical Research Council launches a large scale study across a dozen centers to compare hospital and physiotherapy care with spinal manipulation by chiropractors and osteopaths. Dr. Thomas Meade notes vast impact with 50 000 daily work absences and costs of about 1 billion pounds yearly.
NATO wraps up one of its most harmonious ministerial meetings in 36 years in Brussels. Secretary Shultz says the alliance is in good shape as discussions reflect realism on East West relations. Final communique praises Reagan Gorbachev summit and Geneva talks while ministers press for faster arms control progress before the 1986 summit.
Critics in Congress vow to block Reagan’s proposal to privatize the Federal Housing Administration and cut housing subsidies in the 1987 budget. New York Mayor Edward I Koch and Representative Barney Frank condemn the move as harming low income renters and worsening a housing crisis.
Rep. Robert Matsui charged Republican lawmakers with deserting President Reagan and middle income workers by resisting tax reform. He said the party risks turning Reagan's tax plan into a civil war and urged support for the reform despite White House hesitation.
Four Cuban Embassy staffers were arrested and expelled from Spain after allegedly attempting to kidnap a high level Cuban defector. Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez summoned Cuban Ambassador Oscar Garcia Fernandez and the envoy pledged to investigate. The four left Spain on a Cuban airliner, including Vice Consul Angel Alberto Leon Cervantes.
The Pentagon identified seven South Carolina servicemen on the Arrow Air DC-8 crash manifest in Gander Newfoundland where all aboard were killed. Names include Pfc Johnny Brown Sumter Cpl Joseph Diventura Summerville Capt Kyle Edmonds Hartsville Pfc Calvin McWhite Pamplico Spec 4 Ray Ruth Walterboro Sgt Earl Singleton Huger and Pfc Gregory Walker Manning. Families were contacted as authorities noted Edmonds was married and had a sister Dana. Ruth’s sister said the family hoped he was not on the flight and he had been stationed in Egypt’s Sinai as a radio operator since June.
Columbia, flagship of NASA’s shuttle fleet, plans a 7 a.m. Wednesday liftoff with a seven member crew including a Florida congressman and the first Hispanic American astronaut. The mission follows Atlantis’ 15 day turn around, marking the shortest turnaround between flights.
President Reagan in a weekly radio address denounced Daniel Ortega as a dictator in designer glasses and accused the Sandinistas of using Cuban aid and terrorists to subvert Nicaragua. He labeled Ortega’s regime cruel and oppressive toward Catholics and Jews and urged more aid to the rebels.
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