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xCITY EDITION1 A 1,1981 I THE MUNCIE Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There Is Cor. 3:17 Muncie Ind. Cl ft Saudis agree to Yanks on AW ACS ft WASHINGTON mpn ground well into the 1990s," Haig The administration formally submitted the arms package to Congress today. The issue of an American presence together with Saudi personnel after the AWACS are delivered in 1985 has been one sticking point in gaining congressional permission for the sale. Congress could block the deal by a majority vote of both houses within 30 days.

One of President Reagan's top Senate boosters, Paul Laxalt, has called Glenn's position on the controversy critical in swinging enough votes to permit the arms deal a major test of administration foreign policy. The four-point proposal Glenn has made would include adequate safeguards on all sensitive technologies aboard the AWACS, written assurances concerning joint mission planning and crewing, an assurance the AWACS sold to the Saudis be at the top of the line to protect U.S.Saudi security interests, and a provision under which the United States could buy back the aircraft if the Saudis do not like it or are not satisfied with the agreement. "For several months we have been working with the Saudis to develop arrangements that will meet the concerns that the Congress has expressed about the proposed arms sales to Saudi Arabia," Haig told the committee today. "These discussions have now been concluded," he said. "We believe that the resulting understanding which will come into effect after consummation of the sale will ensure the security of the AWACS system, and the degree of continuing U.S.

participation in Saudi AWACS operations that respond to the fundamental concerns about the sale that have been raised during the course of our consultations with the Congress. "Taken together, this package of safeguards and agreements addresses the fundamental concerns that have been voiced about the sale and also reflects a Saudi willingness to work with us and engage our mutual concerns," he said. The committee also was to hear later from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who later was to give the Senate Armed Services Committee a closed briefing. Continued on page 8 Alexander Haig today announced a U.S.-Saudi understanding" that there will be an American presence well into the 1990s on AW ACS planes sold to Saudi Arabia. But a key senator was unimpressed.

"At this point, it is very difficult to see that my basic points have been met adequately," said John Glenn, D-Ohio, who has proposed joint control and manning of the aircraft to ease congressional opposition to the $8.5 billion arms deal. Glenn commented after Haig testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, first behind closed doors and then in an open session. Haig said a key point of an eight-part "understanding" with Riyadh is that "only carefully screened Saudi and U.S. nationals will be permitted to be involved with these aircraft" the five Airborne Warning and Control System planes to be sold Saudi Arabia. "Given the shortage of Saudi aircrews and technicians, this means that there will be an American presence in the aircraft and on the Skelton mugs at today's press conference.

Evening Press photo by Jerry Burney. Red Skelton returns to a city full of fans Police, firemen ponder city's 'final offers' By JOE CANAN negotiating table after the rank and file rejected the three-year proposal. One of the city's final offers to firefighters includes a one-year agreement and a salary increase that is "drastically less" than the pay hike included in the three-year proposal, Brian Reed, president of the firefighters' union said this morning. The city's final offer to the police reportedly contains a 7 percent' across-the-board salary increase which is non-compounded over the three-year period. The base pay of a policeman is now $14,352.

This means the city is offering the policemen pay raises of about $1,000 a year for the three years, and their starting salary in 1984 would thus be around $17,300. But there have been indications in the past of dissension among members of the police negotiating team, and sources speculate they might not present a united front to the rank and file when the policemen vote on the offer. Some city policemen have been heard grumbling their dissatisfaction about the three-year package. Although earlier reports said police members of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 87 (FOP) would vote on the proposal Tuesday, no policemen had been informed of the vote this morning, and there were no notices posted at uniform headquarters on East Seymour or at City Hall. If the policemen ratify the contract proposal, City Council would still have to vote on the police budget.

Reed, president of Firefighters Local 1348, said today the firemen will vote on the city's two final offers at their Oct. 13 meeting. According to Reed, the city has made two "last and final offers" to the firemen. One of the offers is a one-year, contract which includes a salary increase Reed called "drastically less" than the $1,000, or seven percent, increase called for in the first year of the three-year proposal. Reed would not disclose the exact percentage of the salary proposal.

The second offer is once again the Continued on page 8 Evening Press staff reporter The Muncie police team which has been negotiating with the city for several months on a 1982 contract finally has an offer to take to its rank and file. Sources, however, indicate the proposal has shaped up more as the city's final offer, rather than as a tentative agreement between the two negotiating teams. According to police department sources, the city's final offer to policemen closely resembles the same pay hike built into a three-year contract which the firefighters rejected recently. The firemen had to return to the views, really and truly," America's best-loved comic said with a chuckle. "I very seldom give 'em.

I'm very seldom asked." Maybe not, but when he does, folks love it. Red said he was happy to be back in Muncie, where he played to three packed houses at Emens in 1977. Saturday's performance at Emens is sold out, but there are still tickets available for the Sunday matinee. Continued" on page 8 By JOHN CARLSON Evening Press staff writer For a few moments today, Klem Kadiddlehopper brought guffaws, howls and other assorted laughs from a captivated group of newsmen and state officials gathered in the lobby of Emens Auditorium. For the remainder of his press conference, Red Skelton kept the group finely entertained on his own.

"I'm not used to giving inter Reagan defers $737 million projects Vol.77, No. 160 "The administration has DroDOsed terminating to lead to "increased self-suffikiency." WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan 1, 1981 Windy, cool mark start of October Thirty percent chance of showers tonight. Windy and cool; lows in the lower 40s. Friday clearing and cool; highs in the low to mid-60s. Winds northwesterly 10 to 20 mph tonight.

today ordered more than $737 million withheld from 26 "routine" federal projects, including funds earmarked for synthetic fuels and for "possible payments to survivors of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies. "The deferrals are primarily routine in nature and do not, in most cases, affect program levels," the president said in a letter to Congress. He pointed out that $596.3 million of the total only continued deferrals of funds which also had been withheld in the 1981 fiscal year. However, new impoundments hit the Energy Department, the Public Health Service, the Labor Department and the Appalachian Regional Commission. The largest amount is the $135 million to be deferred from the Energy Department's work on converting coal to oil or gas substitutes.

The Appalachian Regional Development Program will lose $15 million to terminate "non-highway activities" of the ARC pending completion of 1982 appropriations. Another $1.5 million was deferred from the Health Services Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services. The funds were earmarked for renovation projects on federal hospitals that will be transferred or closed next year. Meanwhile, Democratic congressmen charge the Reagan administration ended the War on Poverty and instead began a war on the poor with the shutdown of the Community Services Administration. The agency shut its doors Wednesday at the close of the 1981 fiscal year, and many employees Continued on page 8 all funding for fossil energy synthetic fuel demonstration plants" and shifting the funds earmarked for fiscal 1981 to other DOE programs, according to a memo to the president from Budget Director David Stockman.

"Also included in the deferral is $50,340 which could be used for the government's liability for surviving patients of the Tuskegee syphilis study and their dependents," Stockman advised. The study, which was run from 1932 until 1972, involved doctors withholding treatment from about 400 black men in Tuskegee, who had syphilis to study the results. A total of $49.8 million is to be held back from the employment and training administration of the Labor Department, pending receipt of a plan. The appropriation provides training for "disadvantaged, unemployed and underemployed persons" in 24 Barometer ....29.79 Temperatures recorded Precip. (24 hrs.

to noon) 0 Muncie during preceding R1. hiimiditv 6 a.m 75 hours: Midnight 70 2 a.m 68 4 a.m.. 68 6 a.m. .......67 8 a.m 66 Rel. humidity noon ....65 Noon yestdy .74 Wind direction 2 p.m.

78 Wind velocity 16 mph 4 p.m 81 Visibility 15 miles 6 p.m ...78 Sunrise 6:38 a.m. 8 p.m ....72 .62 10 p.m 72 10 a.m. Sunset .....6:24 p.m Noon today, 60 Maximum, 83; Minimum, 60 Soviets plan big grain purchase 4 Amtrak trains die, but efforts to save the Cardinal go on tons for the grain year beginning today. The U.S. negotiators offered an additional 15 million tons during two days of talks in Moscow.

U.S, Undersecretary of Agriculture Seeley Lodwick said he believes the Soviets would buy about 10 million beyond the 8 million-ton guarantee. "It would be my best judgement that of the additional 15 million tons now made available, Soviet purchases will be approximately 10 million tons," he said. MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union will buy a total of 18 million tons of grain of the 23 million offered by the United States for purchase through next October, U.S. negotiators said today. "The results of these talks will be helpful in providing U.S.

farmers with added indication that the overall level of U.S. grain exports this year will be significantly up from last year," a statement said. The Soviets are already guaranteed the right to buy 8 million 2 murdered in Kentland robbery j-? the dining area of Staton's home. Newton County Coroner David S. Dennis said each victim was shot several times in the head with a small caliber weapon.

Police said it appeared robbery was involved, but no suspect had been identified, KENTLAND, Ind. (UPI) -Robbery apparently was a motive in the slaying of a man and a woman found shot to death, state police said today. Lloyd Staton, 77, and Doris Oliver, 64, both of Kentland, were found shot to death Wednesday in mn QUIPS A spokeswoman for Rep. Adam Benjamin, who introduced the proposal, said the language "is not statutory law, but it is congressional direction and certainly expresses the sense that Congress wants to see it continued until it can act on the 1982 appropriations bill." The train's projected ridership for 1982 is just short of congressional requirements, but Amtrak officials say they will keep its time slot open in hope Congress will rewrite the requirement for the Cardinal. "The Cardinal is not yet dead," said Ross Capon, president of the National Association of Railroad Passengers.

Discontinuance of the Black Hawk was not a direct result of federal budget cuts but because Illinois decided to stop subsidizing the service, Amtrak official Debbie Marci-niak said. She said although the passenger system will be reduced by 9.5 percent, the average number of passengers on trains will improve from 173 to 185. More important, Amtrak will exceed its congressionally mandated goal of covering 50 percent of its operating costs through passenger revenues by Fiscal 1982. Here are other changes: -Chicago-Milwaukee, two" out of four round trips eliminated. -Elimination of weekend Blue Ridge service between Washington and Martinsburg, W.

Va. -Elimination of some service on the Inter-American between Chicago and Texas. The Inter-American will operate tri-weekly south of St. Louis. -Eliminate the Prairie Marksman between Chicago and Peoria, 111., a state-supported service Illinois decided not to continue.

WASHINGTON (UPI) Four Amtrak passenger trains the Shenandoah, the Beacon Hill, the Pacific International and the Black Hawk no longer exist today, but Congress is working to save a fifth, which runs through Muncie, that also is destined to die. The passenger trains made their last runs Wednesday as Amtrak began cutting back service by almost 10 percent because of 1982 budget reductions. Congress approved a million budget for the passenger rail corporation, compared to $906 million for fiscal 1981. But Congress was working to save, at least temporarily, the Washington-Cincinnati-Chicago Cardinal. The eliminated routes are the Shenandoah (Washington-Cincinnati), the Beacon Hill (New Haven-Boston), Pacific International (Seattle-Vancouver) and the Black Hawk (Chicago-Dubuque, Iowa).

On Wednesday, a House-Senate conference committee adopted a proposal barring Amtrak from dropping the Cardinal until Nov. 20, the expiration date of a pending resolution to provide interim funds for govern-memt agencies that have not yet received their regular appropriations. But Amtrak officials in Washington said the Cardinal still will not run today, because the conference committee report does not provide the necessary legal language to continue operation. "Given the budget constraints Amtrak is faced with this year, I cannot, without a clear mandate from Congress, expose Amtrak to the costs and possible legal liabilities that would result from continued operation of the Cardinal," Amtrak President Alan Boyd said in a letter to several key congressmen. i restored faith in the concept that Advice tor I.U.

fans going to Bloomington' for the Michigan game Saturday: Leave late, get caught in a traffic jam and enjoy the fall scenery. It'll cost a fortune to see the baseball playoffs $17.50 for a ticket, $10 for gloves, $5 for ear-muffs, $92.98 for a jacket and $3.98 for a scraper to clean the tee off the windshield after the game. The Reagan administration has there is equal justice wis country lor anyone who can afford to pay for it. The new tederal budget will maintain the speed limit at 55 mph by replacing state troopers with chuckholes. So tar, the only person Indiana Democrats have tound to run against Sen.

Richard Lugar is 'Not Me." -WENDELL TROGDON iliSI AfaH.V, ..4 'Obituaries 8 Op-ed page 5 Sports 17-19 Stodghill 2 Theaters 22-23 TV 22 Classified 28-31 Comics, puzzle 26 Dear Abby 9 Editorials 4 Focus 5 Lifestyle 9-11 Markets 27 Inside today's Press LAST TRAIN? Linda Durack, a Ball State student from Chicago, bids farewell to what may be the final passenger train to stop in Muncie. Congress is working to save the Washington-Chicago Cardinal from extinction, but Amtrak officials said the train would not run today. Evening Press photo. Weather 6 I.