The Daily ^cW Monmouili C ouni.v\ Great Home Newspaper VOL. 104 NO. 56 SHREWSBURY, N.J. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1981 •20 CENTS Reagan plans cuts in defense budget LOS ANJELES (AP) - President Reagan seek more reductions. , today that Defense Secretary Caspar W. Wein- will "lice up to |30 billion off bis military spend- Baker gave no indication what programs berger has ordered the military services to ing buildup and may have to go even deeper to would be affected by the cuts and deputy White prepare detailed lists of programs that would be balance the budget by 1984, a fop White House House press secretary Larry Speakes said sepa- delayed, forces that would be cut and purchases aide says. rately thtat Reagan will'get further information that would be stretched out if Reagan's five- White House chief of staff James A. Baker on the defense budget later this week. year defense spending program is cut. III said in an Interview yesterday that the cuts Reagan has called for spending more than Quoting Pentagon sources, the newspaper in planned increases in the defense budget are $1.6 trillion over the next five years, the largest said the Defense Resources Board met yester- necessary to make additional reductions in so- military buildup in U.S. history. The adminis- day to compile the lists into one that could serve cial programs politically palatable. tration's most recent plans call (or defense as a guide in any presidential budget decision. Administration officials have said Reagan outlays of $225 billion in fiscal 1983 and $254 The Air Force said it would have to phase out must find at least $74 billion in savings In fiscal billion in 1984. old B 521) bombers and close two Strategic Air 1983 and 1964 to fulfill his pledge of balancing the Baker said Reagan's 1982 defense budget is Command bases if its planned 1983 budget were budget within three years — a task already $48 billion higher than former President cut by more than $3 billion, according to the made harder by record interest rates that are Carter's fiscal 1981 defense proposal, a dif- Post. driving up government spending and by a slug- ference of 19 percent after adjusting for infla- The newspaper also said the Air Force, cit- gish economy that could cut revenues. tion. ing high maintenance costs, indicated that it Cutting $30 billion from defense programs Using that 1981 budget proposal for com- might have to begin phasing out its old Titan II would leave $44 billion more to be found in social parison, Baker said he believes Reagan will be intercontinental missiles if $12 billion a year programs. able to fulfill his commitment to increase de- were cut from its budget. Baker said. Reagan would propose $20 billion fense spending by 7 percent — even after the To accommodate Reagan's goal of a bal- to $30 billion in defense cuts in 1983 and 1984 - cuts. anced budget and increased military spending, between 4 percent and 7 percent — and could The Washington Post, meanwhile, reported See Reagan, page 5 • Williams' plea upheld By KATHY SELIGMAN on the decision. She said the matter would be discussed at tonight's meeting of the Board of U.S. EMBASSY BOMBED — American Ambassador Edwin G. Corr stands on the bomb- TRENTON - State Education Com- Education. The first day of work for teachers in damaged porch of the U. S. States Embassy in Lima, Peru, yesterday. A string Of pre- missioner Fred G Burke has decided that the district is naxt Tuesday. dawn bombings damaged the embassy, the ambassador's residence, and four companies Portia Williams, suspended from her teaching Stephen Popper, board president, said he having American business connections. No Injuries were reported. , job at the Primary School in Red Bank last year, was disappointed with the decision. should not be denied tenure. "It's a shame the commissioner ruled that In a decision following the recommendations way," he said. "They might as well throw the of Administrative Law Judge Beatrice Tylutki, law out." Burke ruled that Williams did hit some children The board has not decided whether 1t will Peruvian terrorists in her first grade classroom on the hand with a appeal the decision. Martin M. Barger, attorney ruler and should not be given a salary increment for the Board of Education, said both sides filed for the 1980-81 school year. But he said that "exceptions" with the commissioner after Williams had "genuine concern and affection" Tylutki's initial recommendations. for her students and that her actions were not Mellk said that Williams has filed charges bomb U.S. facilities "premeditated, cruel or "vicious." which "are now pending in the Third District The Board of Education suspended Williams Court of Appeals against the Board of Education LIMA, Peru (AP) — After more than 700 Leftist newspapers claimed Ortiz was a with pay in the spring of 1980 after she was for denying her First Amendment rights by terrorist attacks since the return of uemocracy member of tbe Central Intelligence Agency who, charged with using corporal punishment Two bringing charges against her. to Peru 13 months ago U.S. installations have when he was political officer at the embassy in other charges—of humiliating a child in her Mellk argued at the tenure hearing that the been hit for the first time. Lima in 1967-68, helped Belaunde crack down on classroom and of "unbecoming conduct" at a charges against Williams of using corporal pun- Bombs exploded yesterday before dawn it guerrilla activity. OtKr newspapers and maga- board meeting — were dismissed by Tylutki ishment were "pretextual." He said that they the U.S. Embassy, the residence of Ambassador zines criticized the ffkagan administration for after the tenure hearing held in March. PORTIA WILLIAMS were brought only as an "afterthought" to the Edwin G. Corr, the Ford Motor Co., the Bank of replacing a good ambassador by a controversial Fourteen elementary school children testi- last night. Board's charge of making comments at a meet- America, the Coca-Cola bottling plant and Uie one. ^/ - fied at the hearing that Williams hit them or Her attorney, Arnold Mellk, said he was ing that the\Board -contendedwere "racist in distributor of Carnation Milk. V Corr denied the CIA charge, saying it was tone." V. others in their class most described as "taps" pleased with the decision. The bombs caused some damage, but nobody • .s invented by "enemies of the United States" to of a ruler. Williams testified at the hearing that "It appears," he said, ''that she will be In his decision Burke said that there was was hurt. The bombers struck without warning damage U.S.-Peruvian relations, she had never used corporal punishment in her back in school." "no indication in the records that the re-' and left no calling cards, the modus operand! in Senate President Javier Alva Orlandini, who nine years at the Primary School. Superintendent of Schools Dr. Joan Abrams spondent's actions had any lasting effect on the nearly 500 other bombings since President also is Peru's second vice president, said in a Williams could not be reached for comment said yesterday said she could not yet comment continuing operation of the school.'' Fernando Belaunde Terry took office July 28, recent report the police had recorded 700 ter- 1980, after 12 years of military dictatorship. rorist attacks since Belaunde was inaugurated. There has not been an unusual amount of He said five people had been killed and property anti-Americanism in Peru recently. The two damage totaled $12.5 million. countries enjoy good relations, and Corr, as- The terrorists have blown up power lines and Ma n talks continuing signed to Lima by President Carter in Novem- communications towers, attacked haciendas, ber, has gained widespread popularity although thrown dynamite sticks at government offices By MARK bRAVEN up the issues of salary, medical and dental amount is. Nelson said going into the meeting he has maintained a low profile. and police stations, burned and bombed schools, MANALAPAN - Manalapan-Knglishtown plans, and some "language" items not dealing that she was "willing to listen" to proposals put There has been severe criticism for several hoisted revolutionary flags in public squares and Regional school officials negotiated with repre- with money. -, forward by the teachers. weeks in 'most newspapers of the* recent an- seized radio stations to broadcast revolutionary sentatives of the teachers union into the earl) The last offer the board had put on the table Rucker has promised that school will open nouncement that Corr would be replaced by statements. morning hours in an effort to reach an agree- before last night was an 8.5 percent increase in regardless of whether a settlement is reached. Frank Ortiz, the former ambassador to But no organization has come forward to ment on a contract before school starts Sept. 9. salaries, although it has budgeted funds for a 9.6 She says that substitute teachers and adminis- Guatemala who was transferred by the Carter claim responsibility for the terrorism. Although Union leaders have been saying there is a percent increase. trators would be used in the event of a strike. administration for allegedly failing to support more than 300 people have been arrested as good chance that a strike could occur, the pri- John Wroblesky, president of the Manalapan- Murphy said that if a settlement was not its human rights policies. See Peruvian, page 5 mary issue being money. Englishtowr Teachers Association has said that reached in the session that began last night, Margaret Rucker, board president, said the anything less than 10 percent would "put the teachers would have to begin drafting strike talks were continuing as of 5 a.m.
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