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Page 2: From the cover ffcT' IbaElS Weather Today's highlow WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan said Saturday that persistent Soviet efforts to restrict testing of the "Star Wars" missile defense program still threaten prospects for reductions in intercontinental nuclear missiles. The president, in his weekly radio address from Camp David, seemed to back off the statement he made in a question-and-an-swer session Friday that the question of Star Wars testing had been resolved. During the session, Reagan was asked whether his understanding with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev resolved or postponed the issue of Star Wars the informal name for Strategic Defense Initiative as an obstacle to a missile treaty. He responded, "It resolves it." "I don't think there is any impediment there at all." But in his radio speech, Reagan said, "The ic support for the treaty and said if no one ever before accused of being soft on Communism," can't persuade the Senate to rat-: ify the treaty, the Soviets will conclude that no; president will ever be able to get it Solarz said this would set the stage for an" unlimited escalation of the nuclear arms race.

The New York Democrat also chided Re publicans, including most of the party's presK denital candidates, who do not support Rea-; gan on the treaty, saying it "has been rightly characterized as a small step forward for man kind and a great step forward for President Reagan." "We only wish the Republican Party would provide the president with the same strong support that he will be able to count on front the Democratic Party," Solarz said. Secretary of State George P. Shultz urges the allies to increase spending on conventional forces. Page 1 A. Soviets have persisted in efforts to limit our testing in this vital area.

But providing a strategic defense is too important to restrict the promise it holds for future generations." He said that during his three days of summit talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "We made progress toward 50 percent reductions in strategic nuclear arsenals." "This could be another historic achievement, provided the Soviets don't try to hold it hostage to restrictions on SDI," he said. Meanwhile, Rep. Stephen Solarz, in the Democrats' response, reiterated Democrat Sfl Clarksville O3 Union City 5030s 50840 Jackson Nashviile Memphis 50S40 5030s 5040S Savannah 5030S Highlow, sky forecast State beefs up welfare fraud probe Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Partly cloudy 40s30s 50s40s 40s30s 40s20s By Phil Williams Gannett News Service certain. Past recordkeeping procedures have made it almost impossible to accurately gauge the amount of money being ripped off from taxpayers, Bumbalough said. But a recent report from the U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services' inspector general concluded that fraud in aid for dependent children alone, the nation's major welfare program for mothers and children, could ment of Agriculture to upgrade preventative efforts against welfare fraud. The state's latest tool in that, battle, he said, is a new mainframe computer the Claims On-line Tracking System 1' which enables the department to keep a record of welfare and food stamp recepients and suspected fraud cases. It began operation in July. Saturday record Forecast be costing $1 billion a year. The report estimated that federal and state governments could save $800 million a year just by placing more emphasis on weeding out unqualified applicants before they start receiving benefits from the program.

Bumbalough said the department had already begun responding to pressure from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Depart FRAUD Cloudy today with the high in the lower 50s. Wind northeast 5 mph. Rain likely tonight.

Low near 40. Chance of rain 60 percent. Rain Monday. High in the upper 40s. Chance of rain 90 percent.

Solunar tables am p.m. Monday 11:355:25 5:50 Tuesday 12:056:05 12:156:25 Wed'day 12:406:45 12:557:05 Thursday 1:207:25 1:357:55 Friday 2:108:15 2:258:45 (Best times to hunt or fish.) Moon phases NASHVILLE The state Department of Human Services is leveling a crackdown on welfare fraud that, agency officials boast, could save millions of dollars and set standards for other states. Among the elements are a new $2 million computer for tracking cases of suspected welfare and food stamp fraud and an increased emphasis on probing suspicious applications "to keep benefits from going out the front door." "We are putting our efforts on the preventative," Bob Bumba-lough, assistant commissioner for assessment and investigation, said. "We feel that is the wave of the future: just don't let them on it to begin with. But if they deserve it, that's another thing." The extent of welfare and food stamp fraud in Tennessee is un Rain 0.00 This month's rain .01 This year's total 38.81 Normal precipitation 48.94 High temperature 61 Normal high 50 Record high 68 (in 75) Low temperature 40 Normal low 33 Record low 0 (in '62) Sun sets today at 4:43 p.m.

and rises at 6:57 a.m. Monday. Across the state High Low Memphis 60 46 Millington 61 45 Dyersburg 60 38 Nashville 59 39 Crossville 53 34 Chattanooga 61 36 Knoxville 59 34 Bristol 54 36 (Temperatures Saturday.) are permanently disqualified. In the five years Watkins been working with this area, he. says there has only been one permanent disqualification.

Watkins points to hard times and the state of the economy as reasons for welfare fraud. When the state started using' the COTS system in July, Wat-' kins said he "got busier." The system tracked back some cases and made demands of payment that go back as far as 1976, he said. gators contact them and try to negotiate repayment. After continued non-response, investigators will take the offenders to civil court. In fraud cases, the department is more interested in getting its money back rather than having violators arrested, he said.

The department levels its own penalties for fraud. First-time violators are disqualified for assistance for six months. A second offense brings a year of disqualification, and third-time offenders From Page 1A recipients and suspected fraud cases, Watkins explained. Anyone with a claim against him in the computer system will be notified by mail that repayment is expected, he added. If the welfare offenders fail to respond to the mailed requests, Watkins or other special investi LostQtr.

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2 Forecast for 6 p.m. today ROAD be responsible for maintaining the completed connector road. The state has been asked to take the connector road into its road maintenance system, but has not decided, Moore said. An estimated 3,000 vehicles will use the connector road daily in 1988 and the volume will increase to by 2,008, according to the state's traffic projections. If the need arises, the connector road can be widened in the future to a four-lane road without too much difficulty, Moore said.

The connector road and the interchange, Moore said, will take traffic off Highland Avenue and U.S. 45 Bypass by providing a more direct route from downtown Jackson to Interstate 40. It should also remove most of the truck traffic from North Parkway, he said. Workers and shippers in Madison East Industrial Park will benefit from the shorter drive to the interstate, Moore said. "I don't think there is any question" that the interchange will help spurt development in that area," Moore said.

The interchange was first planned during the administration of Gov. Ray Blanton during the 1970s, Moore said. When Blanton left office, the funding did not immediately become available, he added. State officials are planning an interchange in west Madison County that would serve McKellar Field airport and Madison West Industrial Park. Moore hopes it will take less than 10 years for that to become a reality.

"These things just don't happen overnight," he said. From Page 1A About the only work that remains to be done is sweeping the shoulder and putting up some signs, he said. Both the interchange, old Christ-masville Road and part of a connector road from the interchange to North Parkway will be opened, he said. Moore said the remainder of the connector to Whitehall Street may open within the next two weeks. During the first day the interchange is open, highway department workers will be on hand to monitor the situation for any problems, he said.

After the connector road is completed, the city and the county will rnvn i Warm Cold Stationary 50 Rain is predicted today for most of Texas and Oklahoma, changing to Ice across the Panhandle region and blending into a snow storm extending from Nebraska to Arizona. RESCUE From Page 1 A volved in a rescue mission in the "tanker war." Iran and Iraq both have regularly attacked foreign ships in their 7-year-old war. The CBS helicopter ferried 29 people in all from the Pivot to the Chandler, including crewmen and the pregnant wife of a Greek officer, The Chandler's two smaller Lamps 1 maritime surveillance helicopters rescued the other 11 people. They could take only three men each per trip. The bow was clear of the fire that raged in most of the said Associated Press photographer Greg English, who watched from another helicopter.

The Iranians were believed to have fired rockets from a frigate: They punched holes in two tank holds of the Pivot, which was loaded with a million barrels of crude oil from the Saudi Arabian port of Ras Tanura and bound for Indonesia. The Pivot was the latest victim" of the Iranian strikes on neutral commercial shipping in the gulf in retaliation for Iraqi raids on Ira nian tanker routes. I The Navy began escorting U.S. flagged Kuwaiti tankers in July to protect them from attack by Iran, which considers Kuwait an ally of Iraq. Temperatures around the nation DeaMonaa Detroit OMahomaCity Orlando 52 39 77 52 56 36 Tmpuratuiw indicata Saturday Njh and kw unsi 7pm Omar data aia Saturday'! precipitation and today aky toracaat.

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Huh 83 dagraaa at Fort Laudat' rjale Beach, Fla. IMaa-FtWorti 61 37 iv tn 53 42 Oarrnr 34 22 suffering from a light case of hepatitis and was being teased by his fellow soldiers. The police, quoting witnesses, said Choi charged into the nightclub, opened fire and shouted, "Don't move or I will kill all of you." "Lie down and don't move," the soldier shouted as he fired about a dozen rounds into the ceiling, the witnesses said. He then ordered his captives to sit down on chairs and began drinking beer and firing intermittently to keep police from SEOUL, South Korea (APJ-A rifle-firing South Korean soldier who killed one man and held about 60 people hostage in a Pusan discotheque surrendered early today, police reported. They said Pfc.

Choi Hae-man, 21, dropped his M-16 rifle and gave up around 5 a.m., after holding his hostages for more than seven hours. Choi, wearing a helmet and fatigues, had charged into the nightclub in the Haeundae resort in the southern city of Pusan at 9: 30 p.m. Saturday, firing the automatic rifle. A 19-year-old man was shot in the chest and died and two club workers were among six people wounded, according to police. Some 100 people, many of them teen-agers, were dancing when the gunman entered, but 40 people escaped through a back door of the one-story building, police said.

"He surrendered after his mother had talked to him," said a police official who spoke with the condition he not be identified. He said Choi, a member of a subsidiary military organization called the Defense Force, told police he was angry because he was Q. When will the people who mailed in 'cards for Social Security disability bene-fits the last of June know if they qualify for benefits? It has been five still disabled and can meet medical evidence requirements can file a new claim and expect a response in about 60 to 120 days, Hendrix said. Back payment from the Samuels claim will still be received when that claim is processed, if it is approved, he added. Q.

When does daylight-saving time return in the spring? L.C. Jackson. A. On April 3. Under federal law, daylight time applies from 2 a.m.

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Tenn 1-800-372-3922 Circulation 423-1010 Sun Line 424-8080 Classified Gibson Co. Bureau 855-3610 USA TODAY 423-1010 News Executive editor Frank Sutherland Managing editor Curtis Coghlan Associate editor Malone News Mary Reed Editorials Ellen Dahnke Sports Dan Morris FeaturesPeople Lisa Cannon Green Photography Larry Atherton A. About 30,000 people have asked that their claim be redetermined under the Samuels Class Action court ruling. Processing these claims will take 12 to 36 months, said Walt Hendrix, district manager for the Social Security Administration. Any of these people who are As president, he said he would continue those efforts, as well as change the nation's strategy for dealing with the mentally ill and provide more community medical centers.

"Over the last 20 years a terrible mistake was made in turning tens of thousands of mentally ill Americans out of institutions on the assumption that they would get care they needed at community mental health centers," Gore said. "The theory was sound but the health care centers were not built." "Some of them need medication and they're not getting it; some need counseling and they're not getting it," Gore said. "They wind up muttering on the sidewalks." Call Sun Line, 4244080, or writ to Sun Line. P.O. Box 1059, Jackson, Term.

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Gore said he has worked to make affordable housing more available and to urge the Veterans Administration to do more to help homeless veterans, who Gore said comprise nearly half of the homeless in the country. Our letters policy The Jackson Sun values the opinions of the readers and encourages letters to Sun Forum. A letter must have the writer name, address and phone number, although the name and hometown only will be published. A phone number is needed so we can verify the letter. Letters are subect to condensing.

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McDearmon is frustrated it has taken so long to get the loan for the new building. The old one a barracks building at McKellar Field airport is overcrowded, lacks air conditioning, storage space and space in general. With more space the senior citizens center could provide more activities and classes, McDearmon said People who worked hard to raise local money for the project are wondering if the new center will ever be built, he said. Several members live close enough to -the project site they could walk to the center, he said. They have to drive or ride to get to the airport.

"We're here because we have no choice," McDearmon said. "We have been sitting and waiting for something to happen." Huntersville-Denmark Road, Norwood said. Farmers Home officials initially told McDearmon they were concerned about moving the center to the Denmark site where land has been donated, he said. Those officials were concerned about the security of the building in the rural area, he said. They did not think anyone lived in Denmark, he said.

The senior citizens center had to convince the landowner to extend the offer because of the delay, he said. To McDearmon, it appears the papers are stuck on somebody's desk, awaiting a signature. He said efforts by Rep. Ed Jones, D-York-viUe, also have seemed be un- gency Assistance for Families of Dependent Children program for single homeless people, he said. Spending under the program, which contributed to the housing of about 15,000 people a month, totaled about $100 million in the last fiscal year, Stanton said.

That would decline to about $10 million, he said. The cuts are being made to bring the program, which had "grown out of its bounds," into compliance with federal law, he said. About 85 percent of the money had gone to New York City, which would suffer the bulk of the cuts. WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration is proposing a change in rules that would substantially cut a federal program benefiting the homeless, an official said Saturday. Wayne A.

Stanton, head of the Family Support Administration in the Health and Human Services Department, said the new rule would limit the federal contribution to a family's stay in a welfare hotel or shelter to 30 days within any 12-month period. The new regulation also would prohibit use of money in the Emer For home delivery (within Jackson city limits), service billing Call 423-1010 Monday Friday between 9am and i m. For home delivery (outside Jackson city limits on tusting Jsckson Sun routes) service, billing cell 1 800-372 3922 Monday-Friday For mall subscription -all (800) USA-0O01. Monr)a ihtciuqr F'iday rjpr. a and rj Man surivnot'on acld'ess changes should be send to USA tODAv Bin iB'jh Washington 0 20044 giving ok) and address Subscription rates 52 Weeks 26 Weeks 13 Weeks' Home delivery I13O00 S6S00 (32 SO Mail delivery IMS 00 159 00 132 SO.