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ALL EDITIONS All The Arizona Republic Thursday, April 14, 1983 Food Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Dole, also oppose further reductions, Jeffords said. White House spokesman Anson Franklin said, "We have not seen the report, but we disagree with their assessment because we would not do anything to hurt the truly needy." Agriculture Secretary John Block disagreed with the budget office report's conclusions. "We stand on the statements we've made before," he said. "There's a substantial savings to come from reducing the error rates, and that's what we're proposing." Robert E. Leard, administrator of the Federal Food and Nutrition Service, which runs the food-stamp program, defended the president's proposals.

"We stand by our fiscal year 1984 budget as a package to simplify and standardize the food-stamp program," he said. Leard said data prepared by his agency show that only 35 percent of food-stamp households would lose benefits under the president's proposals, while 39 percent would gain. Most of the families losing benefits are above the poverty line, he said. The budget office study acknowledges that the changes proposed by the administration would increase benefits for about a third of the food-stamp households. But Panetta argued that those improvements for a few cannot make up for the large reductions to be imposed on millions of others.

Reagan, in his State of the Union address Jan. 25, said he is determined to stamp out fraud and waste in so-called entitlement programs. Six days later, Reagan proposed cutting food stamps by that same $1.1 billion figure he claimed as corruption or error. But the budget office analysts said that cut was based on changing the benefit formula and delaying cost-of-living increases as well as making the states, rather than Washington, pay for errors eiceeding 3 percent in processing federal funds. Continued from Al At present, 7.9 million households receive the nutrition assistance.

"The president and the White House cannot have been told about the effects of these cuts," Jeffords said Wednesday, blaming the Office of Management and Budget for proposing the changes. "I am here because I am a Republican, and I taking care of the needy people of this country is not a partisan issue," he said, adding that he hopes administration officials will "change their and withdraw these cuts." and Panetta said they have 188 co-; sponsors for a House resolution opposing any further cuts in federal nutrition programs, including stamps. A majority of senators, including 7 in jkr-j TV "Continued from A I Queen or king sheets, standard or king cases from Burlington 8.99 your choice Give your bedroom a fresh as spring feeling with savings on sheets in two romantic patterns! Top, Floral Vine pastel pinks and yellows on primrose ground. Below, Wild Lilies, a delicate lilac, pink and yellow floral on white. Both in no iron Caress polyestercotton.

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ON TV was seeking an injunction that would have forced Channel 15 to allow it to begin operating two hours earlier each day and to continue playing ON TV's "adults only" fare, which consists of sexually explicit movies. KNXV-TV had objected to those movies and had threatened stop telecasting them. ON TV filed a complaint in court against Channel 15 on Nov. 29 after the station declined a request to relinquish the air time in the late afternoon and early evening, hours the company claimed were necessary to sustain its operation. Alleging that Channel 15 breached an agreement with ON TV, the company asserted in its complaint that it would "suffer a diminished ability to obtain and retain subscribers, as well as a general diminish-ment of its business, good will, community status and economic well-being" unless the ON TV broadcast day was expanded.

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