Reagan stands firm on tax cuts and defense spending
President Reagan refused to bow to pressure in Congress to alter the income tax cuts or slow the defense buildup. He rejected calls for a massive public works program and warned against jeopardizing the tax cuts or inflation indexing as lawmakers eyed deficits and the lame duck session. Senator Domenici urged a slower Pentagon buildup to help reduce deficits.
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Congress
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Pete Domenici
New Mexico
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Panel withholds funds for missiles and defers Pershing II
The House defense appropriations subcommittee tentatively approved money for B 1 bombers F 18 fighters and two nuclear powered aircraft carriers while withholding funding for the Pershing II intermediate range missiles The panel worked behind closed doors on the Pentagon spending bill for the new fiscal year Rep Joseph P Addabbo urged large multi year cuts while Rep Norman Dicks estimated smaller reductions The Pershing II deployment in Western Europe remains delayed due to flight test problems and the production funding of 498 3 million was deferred without prejudice until issues are resolved.
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Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Pentagon
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Reagan
Norman Dicks
D-Wash
Subcommittee
Europe
Bridge construction collapse kills inspector in Kansas
Rescue teams carry eight construction workers injured when an access span collapsed near an unfinished Missouri River bridge near Elwood Kansas. Mary Simpson 35 a Kansas DOT inspector was crushed to death. Injured include John Young 40 of Villisca Robert Eugene Anderson 32 of Atlantic and Charles Wohlhutter 52 of Atlantic. contractor was A M Cochran and Sons Inc of Atlantic Iowa.
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Colombia Grants Amnesty to 4000 Guerrillas
The House of Representatives approved a government plan granting amnesty to about 4,000 leftist guerrillas and free 366 inmates. President Betancur to sign next week as he noted it was a major early task of his administration.
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Americans Freed in Angola Swap Amid Regional Tensions
Three U S prisoners were released by Angola in a swap with three Soviets two Cubans and about 94 Angolans. The Americans Gary Acker Gustavo Grillo and Geoffrey Tyler were flown to Lusaka then Paris and New York. The exchange involved Red Cross mediation and governments of South Africa Cuba Angola the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Government oversight of genetic engineering urged
A presidential commission urged stronger government oversight of genetic engineering citing the danger of attempting to perfect human beings. Alexander M. Capron told a House subcommittee the panel found well founded concern about inadequate scrutiny and ethical questions, though no fundamental danger to human values was found in current gene splicing plans.
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