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(J A3 r.f-. Crash kills stunt pilot Vv welfare duties I 4 1 4 'i Interior Secretary James Watt testifies on his proposal for wilderness lands Conservation group calls Associated Press early drafts (of the bill)," said Kallman. "Whatever anyone claims to have obtained is worth no more than the paper it is written on has no authenticity," he said. Kallman noted that Watt, in his original statement about the wilderness leases on national TV, said Congress could re-examine the entire wilderness question at the end of the century. But, Kallman said, "The wilderness system would not dissolve in a flash." However, Chuck Clusen, the Wilderness Society's conservation director, said the wilderness protections outlined in the leaked bill would end, "notwithstanding any other provision in law." He said it was clear the provision would repeal the 1964 protections, not be an addition to them.

The society also said the Reagan administration proposal may pose unacceptable risks to other undeveloped federal lands. att wilderness plan a hoax Associated Press WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan, confronted by a battery of state officials unwilling to assume responsibility for the welfare system, says he wants their help in "fleshing out the details" of his New Federalism plan. The National Governors Association, by a 36-5 vote Monday, told Reagan it supported his proposal that the federal government take over the expensive Medicaid program. But the governors balked at his suggestion that they run basic welfare programs. Instead, the governors and leaders of the National Association of Counties offered to take over other programs of equal cost if Washington will assume welfare responsibilities they consider national in nature and unmanageable at their level.

"The President's reaction to our alternative and to our statement that we would like to negotiate it was, 'We begin said Gov. Richard Snelling of Vermont after the governors met with Reagan at the White House. Snelling, a Republican who is chairman of the governor's association, said Reagan's mild response to their defiance convinced him "that we are now in a full negotiating posture and that the odds are very high" that a federalism program agreeable to all can be worked out. SPEAKING to the governors at their annual winter conference, however, Rep. James Jones, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said there was "less than a 50-50 chance" any New Federalism program will pass this year.

In a meeting with the county officials, Reagan had said his plan to swap Medicaid for welfare is only an outline, not a blueprint. "It is not presented as a finished plan that we are seeking to impose on our colleagues in various echelons of government," Reagan said. "It is a statement of principles, and we seek your Associated Press WASHINGTON A conservation group says Interior Secretary James G. Watt's proposal for a moratorium on oil and gas leasing in wilderness areas is a sham that actually would abolish all protections in 18 years. "This bill is a duplicitous hoax and we will oppose it," said William Turnage, executive director of the Wilderness Society.

"It is not a wilderness-protection bill as Mr. Watt described it Sunday on national television, but a wilderness 'sunset' bill that would end wilderness protection." Turnage said the society has obtained a leaked copy of the administration proposal. He said Watt "is guilty of deception by deliberately misrepresenting his intentions to the American people and arrogantly misleading Congress." Watt stunned conservationists Sunday when he said the administration would ask Congress to withdraw all wilderness areas from mineral leasing until the year 2000. ICeeo A Japanese-American businessman proposed to the nation's governors that the Japanese provide a fund to create jobs in the United States. Page A 10.

help in fleshing out the details." But Reagan declined to respond to the governors' declaration that they oppose his plan to out federal aid to the states in the fiscal 1983 budget. THE PRESIDENT told county officials, however, that the proposed New Federalism trust fund to help states pay for programs turned over to them will cover the cost of the programs. Specifically, he said he will increase the trust fund if Congress fails to approve budget cuts that would reduce the size of the programs for next year. "There is one thing for certain," "We have no intention of dumping responsibilities on other levels of government without providing resources to pay for them." Reagan has proposed turning 43 programs back to the states, but his new budget proposal calls for first cutting their federal financing by about $6 billion. Akron Beacon Joi rnal No.

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The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news published in this newspaper as well as all AP news. DO YOU DO IT? Look orders. gQSCX WALL COVERING l)wo in avy Angels flyer was ex-Akronite From staff and wire reports 1 EL CENTRO, Calif. A Navy Blue Angel pilot, formerly of Akron, was killed Monday when his jet crashed into the desert while the team was practicing loops, officials said. The pilot was Lt.

Cmdr Stuart R. Powrie, 34, a 1966 graduate of Firestone High School. He lived with his wife, Linda, and their children, Scott Stuart and Elizabeth, at the Blue Angels home base in Pensacola, Fla. The accident came just a month after a similar accident killed four members of the Air Force's Thunderbirds. Powrie, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Stuart A. Powrie of Akron, was the 20th pilot of the precision flying team to be killed in air shows or training since the group was formed in 1946, Navy officials said. POWRIE was appointed to the U. S.

Naval Academy at Annapolis, after his graduation from Firestone. Powrie was a member of Firestone's state championship swimming team, won the Jack Taylor Award as Akron's outstanding swimmer and was a member of the National Honor Society, i He was a competitive swimmer at the Naval Academy, setting two school records before graduating in 1970. In his second year at the academy, he was one of two midshipman selected as exchange students and spent the summer in Norway. He also lectured on the Navy at six area high schools while home on leave from the academy during his midshipman days. Powrie had earned a master's degree in aeronautical engineering from the Navy's graduate school in Monterey, Calif.

POWRIE had been a pilot aboard the carriers Midway and Coral Sea and had flown helicop-iter escort missions in Vietnam, Powrie signed up with the Blue Angels in October 1980 and flew in the No. 5 position of the six planes. He had more than 2,000 flight hours. He also leaves a sister, Cynthia Powrie of Akron. Services will be held Friday in Pensacola.

on L-J 1 -Mt a pa miwm Bmms mi WALLPAPER GALLERY, (3017 Interior Secretary James Watt reiterates his vow to keep House committee investigators from contacting employees of his department. Page A4. At first, conservationists cautiously hailed the development as a shift in administration policy. BUT TURNAGE said examination of the bill, which Watt has promised to submit to Congress this week, showed that, in fact, the administration would repeal the permanent protections afforded wilderness areas under the Wilderness Act of 1964. More than 80 million acres are wilderness areas, which keeps them off limits to developers and motorized vehicles.

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