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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1987
Page
2
The Office of Management and Budget started trimming federal spending to meet Gramm Rudman targets. The deficit law takes effect November 20 unless lawmakers and the White House reach a tax or spending compromise. Agencies act to avoid locked in high spending patterns.
Inouye optimistic after hearing backing from New York and Washington museum officials and Indian leaders for moving the Museum of the American Indian to Washington. Testimony before a joint Senate Indian Affairs and Rules and Administration hearing supported the bill. The current Manhattan facility is decaying and too small to display more than about 1 percent of its one million piece collection.
A silo in Bar in the Yugoslav port exploded injuring 20 workers, three seriously, amid 25 000 tons of grain stored there. Preliminary reports blame excessive gas concentration. an investigation was ordered.
The Senate approved a $16 billion energy and water package authorizing Yucca Mountain Nevada as the nation’s permanent high level waste repository by a 63 30 vote. The measure shifts plans from the Midwest or East and allocates 100 million yearly to the host state plus 50 million for a monitored retrievable storage facility. Senators Johnston and McClure rewrote the Nuclear Waste Policy Act to attach the plan to the appropriations bill.
Rioting inmates at St Maur Prison in Chateauroux released 12 hostages including the warden after about 15 hours of violence. About 375 inmates were involved. 20 percent of 440 are serving life terms. Negotiations continued through the night with Security Minister Robert Pandraud and prison chaplain Rev. Bernard Stehr mediating.
United States Ambassador Vernon Walters told a New York audience that Congress must restore withheld UN funds or the world body faces grave financial danger. He said the U S has not paid any of its annual contribution, over 200 million dollars, for the past year, and urged reforms by consensus to preserve U S influence.
In Henniker New Hampshire Bruce Babbitt attacked Michael Dukakis for not defining a domestic spending plan during the 1988 presidential campaign. Dukakis defended his record of nine balanced state budgets and warned about tax questions raised by Gore.
Washington negotiators enter a 15th day of bargaining over shrinking the federal deficit. A proposed three month delay in Social Security and federal workers increases was discussed but not pursued, with goals to cut about 30 billion this year and more than 45 billion next year. Gramm Rudman deadline looms November 20 risking 23 billion in automatic cuts if no agreement.
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