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Accuracy in Academia - page 7 VOL XX, NO. 68 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1985 an independent student newspaper serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's Senate approves deficit bill; House 'dooms' tax plan As8ociated Press he will deliver the votes. Otherwise, Dec. 11 will be remembered as the WASHINGTON - The Senate gave date that Ronald Reagan became a 61-31 approval yesterday to a novel 'lame duck' on the floor of the bill designed to wipe out the na· House." tion's S200 billion deficits by 1991. The drama on taxes and the A rebellious House, meanwhile, balanced budget plan unfolded on sidetracked far-reaching tax over· the House and Senate floors as haul legislation · possibly dooming leaders of the two houses began President Reagan's top legislative negotiations on a mammoth, catch­ priority for the year. all spending bill needed to replenish The Senate vote came despite al- federal coffers for the current fiscal legations that the landmark budget year by tonight at midnight. In early balancing plan was "unthinking, un- maneuvering, the Senate agreed un­ necessary, unwarranted and perhaps der administration pressure to drop unconstitutional," and sent the a S55 million emergency job train· measure to a waiting House for final ing program for Vietnam Veterans. action. In a separate room in the sprawl· The plan, attached to a measure ing Capitol complex, meanwhile, raising the debt limit above $2 tell· lawmakers labored to draft long­ lion, would require defense and term farm legislation. domestic program cuts of $11.7 bil- Senate Majority Leader Robert lion early next year as a down pay- Dole told reporters there was "still a nient on the deficit. · glimmer" that Congress could close In the House, the 223-202 vote to up shop by the end of the week, even bottle up the most sweeping change though Reagan was holding out veto in the tax laws in a lifetime was threats for any spending or farm sparked by Republicans acting in measure that he deemed too costly. defiance of President Reagan's Lawmakers had long ago given up wishes. hope of enacting tax overhaul House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, legislation this year. They had APPboto said the vote showed Republicans settled instead on a strategy of Seasonal site had "turned their backs on the man moving a bill through the House and With the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, a tree on the htngton D.C. ts glowtng for Christmas as the na· who had brought them victory and postponing Senate consideration grounds of the Smithsonian lnstttutton tn Was- tton's capttol begtns to sparkle for the holidays. pride," but said Democrats were until next year. Reagan has placed ready to try again with the tax bill if the issue at the top of his second· Reagan could produce enough GOP term domestic agenda, and urged votes to assure success. lawmakers to approve a Reagan orders lie detector testing The president responded by dis- Democratic-drafted plan as a "first patching top aides to the Capitol and step." summoning recalcitrant GOP law- But on the 223-202 vote, law­ makers to the White House. "The makers refused to consider either for government workers, officials president said to me, 'I hope you will the Democratic plan or a GOP at­ State Department spokesman Rep. Don Edwards, D-Callf., not let me down,'" said one visitor, · ternative, with 164 of 182 Charles Redman. "I don't know." denounced Reagan's "sudden secret Rep. William Carney, R-N.Y.. Republicans joining 59 Democrats WASHINGTON · In the wake of "As a matter of principle, he Is order" as "contrary to the cautious Reagan himself appeared before in opposition. spy scandals, President Reagan has against the Idea," said a State Depart· approach to polygraph tests that reporters and television cameras The blueprint for a balanced ordered that lie detector tests be ment official who declined to be everybody else has taken in both and said, " we do not believe that budget was worked out during given to government employees, identified. The official said Shultz · houses of Congress and at the after all our good-faith efforts on weeks of tedious negotiations, and ranging all the way up to Cabinet now traveling in Europe · has held Department of Defense." both sides of the aisle, that our work would trigger automatic spending secretaries, with access to highly that view for a long time, and Speakes said the tests "will be should be lost for lack of a handful of cuts in defense and domestic secret information. opposes the use of lie detectors not applied to a selective number of offi· votes." program If Congress did not meet Even as the president's action · only on himself but on others. cials who have highest levels of Republican leaders insisted the pre-designated deficit reduction tar· taken Nov. 1 but kept secret · was White House spokesman Larry access to classified information, stunning vote was not a defeat for gets for each of the next five years. disclosed yesterday, Secretary of Speakes said he did not know how especially communications security the president, but O'Neill, D-Mass., The first cuts would total 511.7 State George Shultz was described as many people would be required to and other compartmentalized in­ had another interpretation. "Today, billion, and would be made early being opposed to using lie detec· take the tests, but the Los Angeles formation." with glee in their faces, Republican next year. Social Security and tors, whose reliability has been Times, which first revealed Reagan's Compartmentalization is a congressmen voted to humiliate the several poverty programs would be questioned and are viewed by some decision, said that up to 10,000 procedure under which a person man who had led them to victory," exempt from the cuts, while the as an invasion of privacy. people could be affected, including with a security clearance is per- he said. reductions would be cushioned for Would Shultz submit to a lie 4,000 people at the State Depart· O'Neill added, "If the president Medicare and certain other health detector test? "I can't answer," said ment. see LIE, page 4 really cares about tax reform, then programs. Britain, Ireland put Northern Ireland agreement to test plementation of the Nov. 1 5 ac· to numerous assaults by the Irish security activities on both sides of Anglo-Irish security cooperation cord giving Ireland a consultative Republican Army. the border," the statement said. against the Irish Republiean Army. BELFAST, Northern Ireland· Of· role in the administration of the The IRA, outlawed on both sides Protests included a rally by Militant Protestants view the ficials of Britain and Ireland put predominantly Protestant of the border, is fighting a guerrilla thousands of Protestant industrial Anglo-Irish accord as interference their new Northern Ireland agree· province. wa.r to drive the British out of the workers. Most demonstrations in Ulster's affairs ·by the Irish ment into practice yesterday, but Thirty-five miles southwes,t of province. were peaceful, but police said 32 Republic, which is 95 percent Cat· they met behind a barbed-wire the meeting site, a police station in A statement issued at the end of of their men suffered slight injuries holic, and weakening their union barrier to keep out angry Protes· the village of Tynan was hit by the daylong Northern Ireland in scumes, and six required hospi­ with Britain. tants who want the troubled mortar shells and four officers meeting affirmed the two govern· tal treatment. province to remain forever British. were wounded, police in Belfast ments' "total rejection" of any at· The Nov. 15 agreement re· Yesterday's meeting was held said. tempt to promote political quired the first session of the behind barbed-wire fences, The delegations were led by There was no immediate claim objectives by violence or threat of Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental roadblocks and hundreds of Peter Barry, the Irish foreign mini· of responsibility, but the mortar at· violence. Conference to discuss reforming policemen at the Stormont Castle ster, and Tom King, Britain's Nor­ ta<:k on the station, which Is less The officials paid "particular at· the police and army to make theni compound, home of the largely thern Ireland secretary. Their than two miles from the border tention to methods of improving more acceptable to the Roman powerless provincial parliament. meeting marked formal im· with the Irish Republic, was similar the existing coordination of Catholic minority, and to improve .... -----------~ --------------- The Observer Thursday, December 12, 1985 - page 2 In Brief Large class sizes detrimental to reaching learning potential Complaints have been filed against the Uni­ versity of Minnesota policy by three students arrested for an anti­ apartheid sit-in at the University president's office. The students said The Washington Hall stage is bare, except for a man with an overhead projector next to him. Yet the bal­ police incapacitated them with mace as they loaded them into a cony is filled and the lower seating is at full capacity. ScoH police van, and then drove around for 30 minutes, stopping and This scenario is really not so unusual. It is not the starting quickly and slamming them against the sides of the van, in­ opening of a one-man play; it is simply another class at Bearby stead of driving straight to the police station. The students also r•~ .. Notre Dame, only this one is composed of ap­ to file complaints against the Minneapolis pollee. - The Obseroer Assistant News Editor proximately 500 stud.ents. Incoming students are told many things about the University, and in the last three semesters I have found the vast majority of them to be true.

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