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A-2 Town Talk, Alexandria-Pineville, Wednesday, November 17, 1982 Reagan: Won't Permit Tampering on Tax Cut Or Defense Spending WDM States v' 0 1 K. A'. l.tJH.it.t m.A3l3iJ: (Continued from Page 1) shop across the street from the hotel where Reagan spoke, displaying placards saying "Ronald Reagan is a Hazardous Waste" and "Bread Not Bombs." In his first major address since the midterm elections earlier this month, in which Republicans lost 26 House seats and seven governorships, Reagan returned to themes he had stressed on the campaign traiL He pledged to stay on his course to reduce federal deficits and get the economy back on track "without violating our goals" reducing taxes, protecting the needy, and rebuilding the nation's "badly neglected defenses." Reagan said "sharp increases in non-defense spending" are responsible for deficits expected to exceed $150 billion annually in the next few years, and suggested he will continue to apply the brakes to domestic spending in the approaching battles over next year's budget "Difficult choices lie ahead. They will require political courage," Reagan said, observing, "No one ever said democracy was easy." Before leaving Washington, Reagan met with Secretary of State George Shultz to discuss Shultz' trip to Moscow for Leonid Brezhnev's funeral and a meeting with the new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov. While in New Orleans, Reagan arranged to attend a closed fund-raising reception for Louisiana Gov.

David Treen's 1983 re-election campaign. The president flew to Miami in the evening so he could attend Wednesday morning briefings on the special federal drug trafficking task force in the area, including a visit to the Coast Guard cut ter Dauntless. Speaking to the thrift industry group, Reagan vowed he will not permit tampering with the 10 percent reduction in personal income tax rates scheduled for next July, nor will he tolerate cuts in military outlays. "A propaganda campaign would have you believe these deficits are caused by our so-called massive tax cut and defense buildup," Reagan said. "Well, that's a real dipsy-doodle because, even after our tax reductions are fully in place, they will barely neutralize the enomormous (Social Security) tax increases approved in 1977." "We cannot permit the Congress to take away the third year of the people's tax cut or the indexing provision," he said.

"This would mean a net tax increase of about $3,000 over the next five years for a typical working family and it would send up the white flag of surrender to big spenders." The tax cut was billed by Reagan as a tonic for lagging savings, part of the "supply side" economic equation he is convinced will end the recession and relieve the 10.4 percent unemployment rate. While Reagan said he is considering a plan to boost the federal gasoline tax by 5 cents a gallon to finance a road-repair project worth an estimated 320,000 jobs, he warned, "Let's quite kidding ourselves. We will not solve the problems of unemployed autoworkers and steel workers with another giant temporary, public works program." Defending the Pentagon buildup a $15 trillion expansion of military spending over five years Reagan said the defense budget now represents a smaller percentage of the gross national product than it did 22 years ago. ilil The space shuttle Columbia Is passed by shuttle lands at Edwards Air Force Base back borne unwinding after their space a chase plane Tuesday morning as the in California. The astronauts are now voyage.

(UPI Photo) Shuttle Crew Back in Houston suit and why a regulator valve let pressure drop in Lenoir's suit while the two were preparing to go outside Columbia Monday. Testing the new $2 million suits in orbit as soon as possible is important, Abrahamson said, because they will be needed in April 1984 when astronauts try to snare and repair the broken Solar Maximum scientific satellite during the 13th space shuttle flight Challenger's first mission will be flown by Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Donald Peterson and Story Musgrave. The flight now is scheduled to last two days, but it could be extended a day or two to allow spacewalk, Abrahamson said. motto the crew adopted after the first satellite launch from Columbia's cargo bay Thursday. "It's nice to be back," Brand said.

The next shuttle mission will be the maiden flight of the Challenger. Now at Cape Canaveral, the craft is scheduled to be moved Thursday into a tall vertical hanger to be attached to its rockets on a mobile launch platform. Abrahamson said Challenger's flight, which includes the launch of a huge orbital switchboard satellite, will begin between Jan. 24 and Feb. 4, 1983.

He said the Challenger mission will include a spacewalk if technicians can find out in time why a vital fan motor failed in Allen's space- (Continued from Page 1) spaceport at 7:19 a.m. EST Thursday to its touchdown in California, the 81-orbit flight lasted 5 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes, 25 seconds. "Hey, Roy, are we down now?" Overmyer asked as the 110-ton winged spaceship rolled to a stop on the runway center line, suggesting he had been unable to feel the touchdown. "Absolutely!" replied ground communicator Roy Bridges. "It was beautiful And you certainly lived up to your motto this flight Welcome home." "Yes, sir," Overmyer said.

"We deliver." "We delivered!" echoed Allen, sounding the More Than Million Listened to Astronauts logged to a special telephone number before it was shut down at noon Tuesday. Another 247,702 calls were received from overseas as of midnight Sunday the latest figures available. Domestic calling volume was substantially down from the shuttle's fourth flight when the service first was offered. BEDMINSTER, N.J. (UPI) -More than 1 million people listened in on conversations between Mission Control and the space shuttle Columbia during its five days in orbit an American Telephone it Telegraph Co.

spokeswoman said Tuesday. Spokeswoman Carolyn Zachary said 756,763 domestic calls were ighlights of Shuttle Flight Crossword Fun The Town Talk's daily crossword puzzle is a fun thing for the entire family. Sunday, Nov. 14 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) Highlights of the fifth flight of the space shuttle Columbia: Thursday, Nov.

11 Astronauts Vance Brand, Robert Overmyer, Joseph Allen and William Lenoir took off on time at 7:19 a.m. EST and reached orbit 12 minutes later, carrying two communications satellites the shuttle's first commercial cargo. The first of the satellites was launched from the shuttle's open cargo bay eight hours later. When the shuttle was 18 miles away, a rocket motor aboard the satellite fired to push it into an egg-shaped orbit reaching more than 22,000 miles high. Friday, Nov.

12 The second satellite, an "Anik" owned by Telesat Canada, was launched from the Columbia at 3:24 p.m. and 45 minutes later rocketed into the far-reaching transfer orbit required to reach stationary orbit 22,300 miles high. The astronauts jubilantly exclaimed, "We deliver," and space officials back on Earth said the two-for-two satellite launching successes proved the shuttle is a reliable space freighter and a stable orbital launching platform. Saturday, Nov. 13 Lenoir told doctors in Houston he had developed what appeared to be a case of space sickness.

Plight surgeon Sam Pool, noting that about half of all previous shuttle crewmen had developed the unique form of motion sickness, revealed that Overmyer also suffered a brief bout with nausea Thursday. Project officials decided to delay the spacewalk planned for Sunday to give Lenoir time to recover. Lenoir said he was feeling better. Officials went ahead with plans for Lenior and Allen to stage the spacewalk Monday. The astronauts had a light day and Allen worked on a student experiment designed to see how fluid behaves in weightless space.

The crewmen also put on several television shows, including one showing all four eating lunch in the Columbia's lower cabin. Overmyer fixed a broken video display terminal in the ship's dashboard. Monday, Nov. 15 Spacesuit troubles thwarted the spacewalk by Allen and Lenoir. A vital fan and pump motor on Allen's suit would not run, and a regulator let oxygen pressure in Lenoir's suit get too low.

Both suit difficulties were discovered before the spacewalk started. During a television show, Overmyer demonstrated shaving in weightlessness and Allen presented a physics lesson using gyroscopes. Tuesday, Nov. 16 The astronauts closed the doors to the Columbia's payload compartment fired the ship's twin braking rockets and flew to a flawless landing at 8:33 a.m CST at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mo-jave Desert The four spacemen said they had a great trip and were ready to return to space. Project officials called the flight one of the best yet and said it inaugurated an era of routine space operations.

The astronauts flew home to Houston and the Columbia was prepared to be ferried back to Cape Canaveral Sunday. 55,000 Viewed Shuttle's Return 1 9 fifth orbital mission, broke through a layer of clouds and touched down on the runway seven minutes after daybreak. The spectators, many of whom spent the night in near-freezing weather, shouted and cheered. Following the landing, there was a brief ceremony for the four astronauts, featuring music from a Marine band. The astronauts went through a medical checkup, then head back to Houston where they trained so long and hard for their mission.

"It was the most beautiful sight I have ever seen," said Dodi Hard-castle of Harlingen, Texas. "It brought tears to my eyes. EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI) More than 55,000 people bundled against chilly high-desert temperatures were enthralled Tuesday by the "picture-book perfect" landing of Columbia against a spectacular pink sunrise. The 110-ton shuttle, ending its La.

Faces (Continued from Page 1) KIDS, DON'T MISS SANTA'S EXCITING ARRIVAL! 10:00 AM Deficit 7 Doctor's Column Read "About Medicine" by Dr. Lawrence E. Lamb Monday through Friday in The Town Talk. Saturday, Nov. 20 aiexandria mall et "We still have $78 million to keep this government moving and keep it moving at the pace the Legislature wanted back when we passed the budgets," said Jumonville.

But Perlman said the administration is opposed to using reverted funds because they are not considered part of the state's annual income and it would make budget cuts more difficult when the next operating budget is adopted. Perlman said the reversions would not cover all of the anticipated shortage in revenues costs more than $80 million to run PIP when all costs are added. Drennen said, "If the committee would ask the fiscal office for our recommendation, we would recommend that you take that money less money and give it to the teachers in a pay raise. And you would save all the money for administration (of PIP), for the college tuition program and so forth." Sea John J. Jumonville, D-Vent-ress, suggested using $75 million to $80 million reverted to the state from unexpended funds appropriated in 1981-82 to balance the budg- Front Mall Entrance Alexandria Daily Town Talk (USPS 013-100) November 17, 1982 No.

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