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Tuesday, January 10, 1989 The Lincoln Star Page 4 Gigantic Navy blimp to patrol for subs tag air into two or more "bauonets," large air sacks inside the blimp that can expand to fin the space left by contracting helium. (The gas that supports an airship, helium or hydrogen, contracts when the craft descends to a lower attitude or when it is cooled by passing under a cloud that blocks warming sunlight This reduces the lift of the gas.) The four largest blimps ever buUt were the the Navy's ZPG-SWs buflt in the late 1950s, which were 403 feet long and contained 1.5 million cubic feet of helium. Most blimps fffled with helium have proved to be safe and reliableDuring World War only one of the Navy's 168 ocean-going blimps was destroyed by fire from an enemy submarine, and of the 89,000 ships escorted by anti-submarine blimps, none was sunk. veillance features of satellites, airplanes and surface ships, and that because it is made mostly of non-metal substances, it win be nearly invisible to enemy radar. Its own big radar antenna, mounted inside the gas bag, win be capable of giving timely warning of the approach not only of low-flying smugglers' aircraft, but also of bombers, ships, and even supersonic cruise missiles hugging the waves.

While flying 100 feet or so above the ocean, the ship win be able to tow mine-sweeping devices that could detonate mines without endangering the blimp. Unlike helicopters, which use large amounts of fuel and power to remain stationary, the blimp could hover indefinitely over a spot where its towed listening devices detected a submarine. Military planners hope the new blimp ELIZABETH CITY, N.C (NYT) A quarter century after the U.S. Navy consigned its last dirigible airship to the scrap heap of antiquated weaponry, a gigantic new blimp is taking shape to defend America against cruise missiles, drug smugglers and a host of other mod-, era threats. The airship, designated by the Defense Department as the YEZ-2A, win be 425 feet long and filled with 2.5 million cubic feet of helium, and will thus be the largest blimp ever built Equipped with powerful radar and capable of patrolling for up to five days without refueling, the YEZ-2A is intended to become a formidable sentry for the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and civilian police agencies.

Supporters of the ship say that it will combine some of the most useful sur Budget without raising taxes," Reagan said in his budget message. "It can be done in a reasonable, responsible way with discipline and fairness. New taxes are not required" Bush concurred. "The budget submitted by President Reagan today is an exceUent budget which demonstrates clearly that the (deficit-reduction) targets can be met and indeed exceeded without raising taxes," said Bush in a statement "NaturaUy, I support its intent," he continued. "However, I wUl continue to review it for possible amendments after I assume the office of the presidency." The Democratic-controUed Congress plans to relegate Reagan's proposals to the status of reference books until Bush decides which of it he win embrace and which he will change.

SENATE MAJORITY Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine, labeled Reagan's plan "largely irrelevant" and House Speaker Jim Wright called on Bush to announce his own plans soon. Rep. Leon Panetta, new chairman of the House Budget Committee, saw no surprises in the document, which he called "the last win and testament of the Reagan administration." "The real question is whether the priorities of the outgoing administration win be renewed or rejected by the new administration," Panetta said. "It provides a formula for a meaner, harsher America rather than a kinder, gentler one," as Bush promised, said Senate budget chairman Jim Sasser, D-Tenn. "It would be a serious mistake for George Bush to dress up Ronald From Page 1 would have to pay a $25 annual fee for using waterways patroUed by the Coast Guard.

A scheduled cut in aviation taxes would be canceled. AH state and local government workers would be required to pay the Medicare tax, raising about $2 biUion. MEANWHILE, corporate taxes would be cut under several proposals, including a $1.7 bfflion tax break for corporations operating abroad. Reagan told a business group Monday that because of the current economic expansion, "the revenue is UteraUy roU-ing in." The $370 biUion in additional taxes expected because of the bigger economy by 1994 means "plenty of money to do the business of government" "Raising taxes would be the surest way of killing the economic goose that lays the golden egg," the president sail In his eight years in office, Congress passed and Reagan signed 13 separate tax increases that will cost taxpayers $150 biUion during the next budget year. Reagan-era tax reductions wUl save taxpayers $377 bUlion next year, according to the budget documents.

Farm From Page 1 Record amount spent on world food aid ROME (AP) The World Food Program said Monday it spent a record amount of money in 1 988 on food aid for poor countries. The U.N. organization said it spent 1 36 million for almost 550,000 tons of food in 1988, a 42 percent spending increase over 1 987. The bigger expenditure reflects higher prices due to unfavorable climate in Asia and North Africa, it said. It distributed more than 2 million tons of purchased and donated food to about 90 developing countries last year, the Rome-based organization said.

African student kills himself in China BEIJING (LAT) A Ugandan studying at Zhongshan Medical Science University in Canton committed suicide last week by jumping from a window of his dormitory, the official New China News Agency reported Monday. It said the 26-year-old student had been depressed because of financial difficulties and failures in exams. But an African student at the school, reached by telephone from Beijing, said it appeared that the suicide may have been related to provoked by recent anti-African disturbances. Bears not hibernating in warm Europe BERLIN (DPA) Wild bears that ordinarily would be in hibernation are still wide-eyed and bushy-tailed and foraging for food in the forests of central Europe, according to reports reaching here. Game wardens in the forests of Czechoslovakia have reported numerous sightings and speculate that all of the region's more than 750 brown bears are still awake.

Game officials said the bears are apparently unable to hibernate because of temperatures that have remained above freezing. Poll shows sympathy for homeless NEW YORK (AP) Six in 10 Americans say homelessness afflicts their own communities, and a majority would pay higher federal taxes to help ease the problem, a Media General-Associated Press poll has found. The national survey found wide agreement that homelessness is a serious and worsening problem and general dissatisfaction with the level of the federal government's response. Thieves clean out maker of safes ROME (AP) Thieves broke into offices'of a company that makes safes and bulletproof doors and made off with the equivalent of $25,000 in cash, the Italian news agency ANSA reported Monday. The burglars forced open the armor-plated entrance door to the offices in a northern Rome suburb and used a blow torch to open the safe, ANSA said.

100 U.S. mining deaths is decrease WASHINGTON (AP) There were 100 mining deaths nationwide in 1988, a decline from 130 the year before and the lowest annual fatality total since the federal government began officially tracking mine deaths in 1911, the Labor Department said Monday. More students enter nursing schools BOSTON (AP) The number of students entering nursing school jumped 1 1 percent last year because of higher salaries and a healthy job market, according to the magazine that surveyed more than 220 schools. The increase follows a nearly a one-third drop from 1 983 to 1 987. Busey moves to rehabilitation facility LOS ANGELES (AP) Actor Gary Busey has left the hospital and moved to a private rehabilitation facility to continue his recovery from head injuries suffered in a near-fatal' motorcycle crash last month.

win begin flying in 1992. The great dirigibles of the 1930s, which had rigid aluminum skeletons to maintain their shape and to support an internal string of cylindrical gas bags, were much larger than blimps. The German rigid airship Hinden-burg, one of the two largest airships ever built, was 804 feet long and contained more, than 7 minion cubic feet of hydrogen, an explosive gas. Most of the big rigid airships of the past, including the Hindenburg, came to grief in explosions or crashes. By contrast, heuum blimps like the familiar Goodyear airships, have no internal skeletons and their Impermeable skins are supported entirely by the pressure of the non-flammable gas inside them.

This pressure is maintained by pump- R. Wright the president's budget director. The budget also proposes $3 binion to clean up and modernize the government's aging nuclear weapons plants. The Energy Department estimates the project could cost as much as $128 button over the next two decades. FOR THE MILITARY, Reagan sought to extend his influence halfway into Bush's first term by submitting a two-year spending plan, tacluding sharp increases in spending on anti-satellite and anti-missile weapons.

Reagan asked for $315.2 billion in military spending authority for fiscal 1990, of which $303 billion would actually be spent before the end of the fiscal year. The spending authority includes funding for long-term projects and weapons buying in future years. For fiscal 1991, the president requested $330.8 bulion in budget authority and $314.4 biffion in actual outlays. On the domestic side, the president proposed spending increases in select areas, including aviation safety, toxic waste cleanups and the search for a cure for AIDS. The $1.4 billion increase in the space program includes money to begin building the space station and launch 9 shuttle flights, and the budget also includes $250 million to start work on a superconducting, supercoUider physics laboratory.

The Reagan budget includes no general tax increase, although $1 billion in new fees would be Imposed for a variety government services, including a 1 percent increase in the charge for veterans' home loan guarantees. Commercial and recreational boaters From Page 1 health bill will still represent its fastest-growing sector. VMe Reagan did trim some poverty programs, including subsidized housing and low-income energy assistance, the budget document shows overaU spending in these areas remained relatively stable, representing 1.7 percent of the country's total economy in 1980 and 1.6 percent in 1988. One area that showed a huge increase, however, was the money spent to finance the national debt The administration said the government wUl spend $170.1 biUion on interest payments in 1990. That means that 15 cents out of every dollar of government spending wttl go to pay the interest on the $2.6 trillion national debt a debt burden which has almost tripled during the Reagan years.

INTEREST PAYMENTS surged from 2 percent of the total economy in 1980 to 3.2 percent in 1988. This development has crowded out spending for other programs and win constrain Bush as he struggles to find the money to fulfill his campaign promises to boost spending for education, cluld care, housing for the homeless and cleaning up the environment The $170.1 biUion interest payment projected in the budget for 1990 is more than the combined budgets of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Interior, Justice, Labor, State and Transportation. "This last (Reagan) budget is a sad testament to eight years of borrowing from our chUdren," said Jeff Faux, president of the Economic PoUcy Institute, a labor-backed think-tank. Reagan's budget in shghtly different mate for the current year was raised to clothes and expect it to be the basis for $161.5 billion, up from $145 billion esti-constructive budget debate," he mated last August according to Joseph Panetta and Sasser have been openly skeptical that Bush can comply with the Gramm-Rudman law while keeping his campaign promises and still avoiding a tax increase. HOUSE REPUBLICAN leader Bob Michel, R-Hl, predicted Congress would' accept the Reagan budget's underlying assumption that the economy will remain strong with moderate inflation and interest rates.

Reagan has been frequently criticized as too optimistic. Overall, the. budget proposes coUect-ing $1,059 trillion in revenues and spending $1,152 trillion, leaving a deficit of $92.5 biUion One ingredient of Reagan's budget which automaticaUy takes effect unless vetoed by Congress, is a 50 percept pay raise for the cabinet members of Congress, judges, and the federal government's top managers. Elsewhere in the budget but only if Congress approves, is a proposed 2 percent pay increase for rank-and-file federal workers, 3.6 percent for the mUi-tary. Federal pensioners would get zero, their cost-of-living increase for next year canceled, although inflation this year is running about 4.4 percent THE PRESIDENTS budget reflects the persistent demands on the Treasury to bail out insolvent savings and loan institutions, costing taxpayers $16 billion this year and $9 biUion next year.

Some $80 billion might be needed over the next few years, but Reagan leaves it to Bush to find the resources. The continuing banking crisis and last summer's drought were among the chief reasons the administration's deficit esti- gress, Reagan placed the blame for the tide of red ink on the steep 1981-82 recession, which lowered government revenues, and on Congress, which refused to go along with his proposed spending cuts. But in the area of spending, Reagan himself decided that it would be politically unwise to launch an assault against the major middle-class government benefit programs. He put Social Security, the most enduring legacy of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the government's biggest benefit program, off limits to budget cuts. AS A RESULT, Reagan's final budget projected Social Security payments to nearly 40 minion Social Security beneficiaries would total $241 biUion in 1990, one-fifth of the total $1.15 trillion budget and a 6 percent increase over the current year, a bigger increase than Reagan awarded the Pentagon.

Even after removing the effects of inflation, Social Security spending has grown by 27 percent from 1980 to 1988. Medicare and Medicaid, the two biggest programs from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, are also doing welL Medicare, which provides health coverage for Social Security recipients, has nearly doubled during the Reagan years, as the cost of health care and the elderly population have both grown at rapid clips. MEDICAID, which provides health care for the poor, has shot up 50 percent between 1980 and 1988. Reagan, struggling to contain health costs, did propose trimming the projected growth in both programs in 1990, but even with the cuts the government's 1 Waterbods 108MM PrictdFrom 119219 Analysis deficit of $92.5 billion and a balanced budget by 1993. Counting Monday's document Reagan sent nine budgets to Congress, none of them with balanced spending and revenues.

Each spending plan projected that the budget would one day be balanced, but only in the distant fugure, not in the budget year under consideration. FOR EXAMPLE, Reagan's first budget sent up in February 1981, forecast a balanced budget by 1984, the last year of his first term. Instead, the government suffered a deficit of $185.3 bUlion in 1984, an imbalance that was surpassed in both 1985 and 1986, a year when the deficit hit a record $221 bulion. In his final budget message tp Con- Coma In tor a ted rid. EQUIPMENT IN STOCK 1517 Ko.

Cctner 464-6952 20 MINUTES EVERY OTHER DAY TO TOTAL FITNESS STOCK Exercise and Diet Can Work Together. Exercise, especially performed before meals, can help modify your appetite and so help increase the ef ficiency of your dieting program. And Schwinn's Air-Dyne can gan administration had been going out of its way to inflate the costs of agricultural programs in the past few years to set the stage for cutting them. HaUoran doesn't think it was just a parting shot from a lameduck president. "There's always that label to be able to hang on an out-going president, but at the risk of sounding paranoid, agriculture has been set up, to some extent, in my opinion," he said.

HALLORAN SAID the public would have a more accurate picture of what is spent on agriculture if the cost of Commodity Credit Corp; grain loans were balanced by farmer repayments. "So when you keep seeing these horrendous figures they keep throwing out, erroneously," he said, "a lot of that comes back to the government But it doesn't come back, unfortunately, to the account it came out of." The state ASCS office's most recent estimate of annual Volume of such loans is $1.7 biUion, and, HaUoran said, "a very high percentage of those loans are repaid, either with (PIK) certificates or with cash plus interest" "If those were put back into the ag budget it would be a revolving fund, in effect" he said. "As it is now, it goes into the general treasury and it gets lost" HaU of the Farmers Union said President-elect Bush might be inclined to deal with agriculture less harshly as he works with Congress to get it into final form. "Beyond that we feel the cost of farm programs can be drasticaUy reduced, and should be," he said. "However, this win require an increase in the loan rate and in the market price." THE ASSOCIATED PRESS reported Monday that under Reagan's budget spending on the department's Commodity Credit Corp.

programs, which includes wheat corn and other major crop supports, would decline to a six-year low of less than $11.6 biUion from more than $13.8 biUion budgeted for 1989. The peak was $25.8 biUion in 1986. The budget for CCC spending included $1.1 biUion of unspecified cuts to be selected by the Bush administration and Congress. Future spending reductions in CCC programs could be in the range of $2 biUion to $2.5 biUion annuaUy for 1991 through 1994. A report released Monday by department budget analysts showed that spending for smaU community and rural development would drop to $3.4 biUion from more than $9.4 bilhon this year.

Farm loans of the Farmers Home Administration would be reduced to $3.7 billion from $4.9 biUion this year and "wUl continue the shift from direct loans to guaranteed loans" established by the 1985 farm law, the report said. Guaranteed operating loans are expected to increase to $2.8 biUion from $2.6 biUion this year. ACCORDING TO HaU, "Reagan's budget proposal would continue to be highly beneficial to ConAgra, who could buy cheap grain to feed to their own livestock and poultry and who could continue to receive handling payments for grain moving through elevators. "But for the farmer, it's an escalation of a program that returns a pittance in the marketplace and a payment in the maUbox." "I guess this is kind of the cold turkey approach, the way they're doing it right now," HaUoran said. "Whether, in the final analysis, it win be a healthy one, I dont think itjwffl take too much time to find out It's going to impact agriculture irabigway." provide total body exercise -lower as well as upper body muscles, plus aerobic exercise which can improve your cardiovascular system.

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