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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1985
Page
5
The Senate Budget Committee approved a no new taxes plan aimed at reducing deficits by 55 billion dollars next year. It calls for a freeze on Social Security benefits and deep cuts to Amtrak student loans mass transit and urban development. Democrats warned taxes may still be needed and criticized the move as a fraud.
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt was given 60 days in jail and a $350 fine after apologizing in a Los Angeles court for an obscene outburst before the Supreme Court in 1983 and for unlawfully wearing a Purple Heart war medal. Flynt, paraplegic from a 1978 assassination attempt, told the judge his behavior is now under control.
Negotiations to end the writers strike will pause until union members vote on a proposed three year contract next week. The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers met with federal mediator Leonard Farrell in an informational session after a surprise halt to the contract ratification vote. Executive producer Tom Werner disputed a spokesman's claim that writing on The Bill Cosby Show had resumed, saying no one is writing while the strike continues.
Washington AP adviser Paul Nitze and Defense Secretary Weinberger testified that a congressional vote against 21 MX intercontinental missiles may not cause an immediate or dramatic shift in Geneva negotiations. Nitze warned the Soviets would assume eventual MX deployment and use the vote to prop up their propaganda, while expressing support for MX to deter Soviet arsenal growth. Rep Les Aspin warned Star Wars could provoke Kremlin countermeasures.
An investigation is under way into a sizable toxic chemical leak near Union Carbide in South Charleston West Virginia that injured ten people and led to hospitalizations. Four were treated and released. the cloud drifted toward a shopping center.
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