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The Salina Journal from Salina, Kansas • Page 5

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The Salina Journal Closing of bases to be difficult WASHINGTON (AP) A presidential panel is nearing a decision on which of 3,800 military bases to recommend shutting, a budget-cutting move certain to provoke protests from communities that will lose jobs as a result of closings. "When we finally come up with the list, we'll give it to (Defense Secretary) Frank Carlucci and then we'll prepare for the attacks that are sure to come," said Jack Edwards, the former Republican congressman from Alabama who is co-chairman of the 12-member panel. I The commission has been meeting (quietly for months in a rented office Jn downtown Washington, reading reams of material from the Pentagon and receiving dozens of pleas from congressmen and community leaders concerned about a possible shutdown order. It has been reviewing the 3,800 U.S. military installations, but has been focusing on the 870 largest bases, said Jim Abbee, a spokesman for the panel.

As of yet, no formal list has been prepared and there is no target number, said Edwards. The commission will submit a list to Carlucci on Dec. 30. keep asking about a list and wanting to know how many bases, but we don't have a goal in terms of numbers," he said. "I don't know how big the list will be, I really don't." 1 Rep.

Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said he thought "the figure will likely be 20 to 25 bases, perhaps a few more," although he admitted he has not sought details about the panel's deliberations. The commission, approved in October shortly before the 100th Congress adjourned, was a response to Congress' inability to close any major installations since 1977, when the legislative body passed a thicket of laws to block closures. Monday, December 12,1988 AP Lech Walesa takes communion from Polish Bishop Mieczyslaw Jaworski during a Sunday mass. Walesa snubs communist union PARIS (AP) Solidarity leader Lech Walesa Sunday thanked French unions for their support and urged East and West Europe to come together in peace. "Something is moving in Poland, something is moving in Eastern Europe," Walesa said.

"Our Europe should rejoin yours. We want to rejoin peacefully, intelligently but with respect for the identity and culture of each party." Walesa, making his first foreign visit in seven years, visited the headquarters of four French national unions Sunday but snubbed the largest labor federation, the communist-led General Confederation of Labor. The powerful confederation, which is leading a strike that has snarled public transit in Paris for weeks, backed the 1981 martial-law crackdown on Solidarity by Polish leader Wojciech Jaruzelski. Over the years, it has usually followed Moscow's lead on international policy. Walesa made a round of visits to the smaller French Democratic Confederation of Labor, the French Con- federation of Christian Labor, the Workers Force and the General Confederation of Cadres, thanking them for their support over the years.

Although union membership figures in France are unreliable, independent experts estimate about one- fourth of union members in the country belong to the communist confederation, including many non- communists. Walesa made only one public reference to the communist confederation, saying its secretary- general, Henri Krasucki, had not contacted him when visiting Poland. He joked that he might have lost his address while cleaning out his pockets in anticipation of being searched by Polish authorities. "Perhaps I would also lose the address in a similar situation." Walesa was in Paris at the invitation of President Francois Mitterrand for Saturday's celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.

Walesa has started each day at a Mass sung in Pob'sh at the Polish Roman Catholic community's 17th century domed church off the Place de la Concorde. Deficit panel leader calls for tax increase WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic co-chairman of the National Economic Commission said Sunday that spending cuts alone won't solve the budget deficit problem and that new taxes will be needed to balance the books a possibility not ruled out by his Republican counterpart. "I must tell you that in my judgment I have not found sufficient spending cuts to make up the shortfall" in meeting a deficit-reducing target, said Robert Strauss, one of two leaders of the high-level advisory panel seeking solutions to the deficit problem. Such a finding by the panel would be directly at odds with President- elect Bush's campaign pledge not to raise taxes. Democrats are turning up the heat for Bush to show how he would close the $35 billion gap in meeting next year's deficit-reduction goal.

"I haven't seen a way to get there without some increased revenue," Strauss, a former Democratic national chairman, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" program. "Hopefully we'll find it. If we don't, I'm going to be for some increased revenue." Appearing with Strauss, Republican co-chairman Drew Lewis sought to emphasize the commission's search for spending savings. He expressed optimism that the 12- member panel eventually would produce a consensus report. "The position all of us have taken is that we're going to address this based on cutting the spending," said Lewis, a former transportation secretary in the Reagan administration.

"This does not mean if we are not able to address the issue on that basis, that there are not a number of members on the commission who would prefer a tax increase." U.S. GOVERNMENT GUARANTEED BONDS 9.01 FEDERAL INCOME TAX-FREE' MUNICIPAL BONDS 7.80 IRA. AND KEOGH RETIREMENT PLANS 9.75% 'Interest may be subiect to state and local taxes. Based on A-rated Corporate Bonds Rates Expressed As Yield To Maturity Edward D. Jones Member New York Stock Exchange, Inc.

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