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4 rf. o4 op on rowf, but adds ara my i Ik 1 1 'I if'- By BRUCE DRAKE However, House Democratic Whip Thomas Foley speaking for his party, said that "as far as concerned, the great substance of (the jobs to be new resources to meet our emergency situation." REAGAN SAID THAT SIGNS of an economic recovery were bolstered yesterday by the report of an upturn in-industrial production and housing starts in January. But he said too many Americans were still unemployed and that he supported legislation to ease their burden as long as it did not threaten long-term recovery by enacting "just another quick fix." He expressed hope that he could have the bill on his desk in March so that people could go to work under the program by spring. The White House estimates that the emergency bill would create 180.000 direct jobs, while Foley used a Democratic estimate of 300,000 jobs. About 11.4 million Americans are out of work.

Projects include work on deep-water ports, repair of federal buildings and grants to cities and communities for local programs. Washington (News Bureau) President Reagan, maintaining that the nation's economy is starting to "flex its muscles," said last night that he still will push for short-term relief for the jobless, but only if Democrats don't load the bill with "make-work" projects. In opening his 16th nationally televised press conference, Reagan insisted that he had not changed positions in drafting a $4 .3 billion package of public works -jobs aid. But Sen. Alfonse D'Amato said after a White House meeting in the afternoon that Reagan's support for the package was "a remarkable Reagan said in the White House East Room that the plan did not contain the of public service jobs that were in a similar bill he vetoed in December.

His bill, which won the tentative approval of House Democratic leaders this week, relies on speeding up projects "already on the books." un press President Reagan preparing for conierence yesterday. t-r ft sa By BOBEST GEARTY Washington (News Bureau) Rita Lavelle, fired from the Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly lying to Congress, locked herself in her suburban apartment yesterday to duck a House subpena in the mushrooming scandal over possible EPA favors for polluters. dumped at Aurora, but he said he had no idea how many drums were dis-. posed of at Joliet, 111, and Emelle, Ala. SANDERSON.

WUOsaid he was a "friend" of Gorsuch, said he had no Sea CPA Page 20 The scandal reaches into the White House, according to both whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman who says he has documents to prove it and to a Queens congressman who saw those documents. Another potential conflict-of-interest in the EPA's executive suites Prime Minister Menachem Begin talking with Avraham Snapira, a member of the ruling coalition, during session in parliament yesterday. II III .1 emerged yesterday when James Sanderson said that while ap So face foir an EPA consultant he represented a chemical dumping firm in his private Denver law practice. 4. 1 cal Waste Manage- 1 ment Inc.

of Oak- through the checkpoint, but they gave conflicting accounts on what ensued. The Israelis said the patrol broke through the checkpoint and continued on its way; the Lebanese said the Israelis turned back. Both sides agreed that no shots were fired. Foreign Minister Salem said later that the Lebanese government had barred Israeli forces from all of east See LEBANON Page 6 sector of the tapital Tuesday to end eight years of domination by Christian Phalangist gunmen, an Israeli tank and two armored personnel carriers faced off for a half-hour with Lebanese troops at an army checkpoint in the Sinn el-Fil neighborhood. LEBANESE AND Israeli' spokesmen said the confrontation began when the Israeli vehicles tried to pass DrooK.

earned 1 thousands of dollars nne Gorsuch when EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch Beirut (Combined Dispatches) Only a day after its greatest success, Lebanon's struggling central government saw its authority flouted on two fronts yesterday and freely admitted it was powerless to act in the face of superior force. In the south, the militiamen of Maj. Saad Haddad, whose forces are bankrolled and armed by Israel, completed a takeover of a 23-mile buffer zone leading north from the Israeli border. Lebanese Foreign Minister Oie Salem said bis government would not accept a "surrogate" state in the area. But he added that Israel held the area by "force of arms.

Israel might do whatever it wants in that area, we have very little control." In Beirut, where the Lebanese army took control of the Christian eastern TODAY'S FEATURES 22 12 23 22 Brenda Starr Suzy Television Winnie Winkle 11 9 16 8 27 Obituaries People BUI Reel Liz Smith Sports last Feb. 23 lifted a ban on dumping oxic chemicals at landfills, Sanderson said. The firm disposed of thousands of barrels of waste for industry before Jorsuch, under public pressure, reinstated the ban 14 days later. Jeffrey Diver, senior environmental ounsel for Chemical Waste Manage-nent, said the company had been tipped by an EPA official that the ban wjs ikely to be lifted, enabling it to re-are for the large-scale dumping of astes- Diver said 1.500 barrela were 15 17 21 22, 25 26 24 26 6.10 Dan Dorfman Editorial Page Entertainment Gasoline Alley Horoscope Jumble Ann Landers Marmaduke NewsBriefs Almanac 26 Biornythms 25 ErmaBombeck 26 Jimmy Biesfin 8 Bridge 22 Wm. F.Buckley Jr.

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