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Albany (ore.) democrat-herald. Wednesday, nov.25. 1981 11 VacatiooDimg 2 sides strive to sing same song on budget Reagan to combine dinner, family reunion SANTA BARBARA, Calif. AP) A vacationing President Reagan is combining a Thanksgiving Day dinner wtth a family reunion at his mountalntop ranch overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Reagan, who arrived here tats Monday night, plans no public appearances during his stay in California, which runs until Monday or perhaps Tuesday.

As snow mixed with rain fell Tuesday In Washington, the president and his wife, Nancy, rode horses under a mostly sunny Southern California sky with temperatures climbing into the middle 60s. ResffM also scent nart of Employees to get paid WASHINGTON (AP) The estimated 500,000 federal employees sent home Monday because of President Reagan's spending resolution showdown with Congress will be paid for the time they were off the job. The furloughs, in effect, will be wiped off the books, Donald J. Devine, director of the Office of Personnel Management said Tuesday, citing the cost of adjusting payrolls, time records, personnel files, and other paper work if the workers were Also, the group hopes to agree on a common set of budget numbers. Several legislators, Republicans and Democrats alike, expressed anger over the weekend when the Office of Management and Budget told them that a compromse spending package hammered out during long negotiations between House and Senate conferees exceeded the president's targets.

Congressional figures showed the agreement within Reagan's budget. In California, where Reagan is vacationing, deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes was asked Tuesday whether. Reagan still is willing to accept about half of the $8.5 billion cuts he had proposed in September. "I don't want to be very precise" while discussions continue on Capitol Hill, he said. "I think we'll just to see what evolves between now and Dec.

15." But White House counselor Edwin Meese III said Reagan's veto makes another confrontation in December less likely. "Now that the members of Congress, particularly the Democratic leadership in the House, know that he's serious, I think we'll have a different result." But, Meese added, Reagan stands ready to shut the government down again next month if Congress doesn't accept the president's spending ceiling in a new interim measure. WASHINGTON (AP) -Republican congressional leaders and top White House officials are trying to get evryone "singing the same song and usjng the same numbers" to avoid another confrontation and disruption of government operations when an interim spending measure expires Dec. 15. At the same time, however, administration officials are emphasizing that President Reagan's veto Monday of an emergency spending bill and his orders to shut down non-essential parts of the government were an indication of his resolve to slash the budget by more than $100 billion over the next two years.

Senate Republican leader Howard H.Baker Jr. of Tennessee called a group of legislators and administration officials to his Capitol office Tuesday to "get everybody on the same sheet, singing the same song and using the same numbers," said a Senate aide who asked not to be identified. The aide quoted Baker as telling the group, "We need to get a package that will be acceptable to the administration and get through Congress." Congress did Reagan's bidding Monday, sending him a measure putting the government back in business for three weeks and giving both sides room for further negotiation. The group that met in Baker's office hopes to use the day showing off the ranch to ABC-TV's Barbara Walters for a Thanksgiving Day program. The Reagan's guests for the holiday Include his older brother, Nell "Moon" Reagan, and his wife from Sas Diego; his daughter, Maureen, and her husband; nri his Haiwhfpr Pallv an the time to agree on strategy and a proposed package by the end of next week, the aide said.

The interim measure providing funds for executive branch agencies and the judiciary is necessary because Congress has passed and Reagan has signed only the regular appropriations bill that provides money for congressional operations. Part of the strategy will include getting final congressional action on some of the domestic spending bills before the Dec. 15 shrinking the size of the next interim measure. aspiring actress. His two sons, Michael and Ron, will not be able to attend.

Larry Speakes, deputy White House press secretary, said Tuesday that a Republicaa task force was elng formed with representatives of the White House and Congress to develop a short-term spending bill to replace the one that expires Dec. 15. AP LMrphotoc The president enjoys two favorite ranch pastimes: riding and chopping wood. Tides Going to sea' Get Senate panel's rewrite keeps tough truck-emission rules Check the tide tables and you itqusmtmi SPECIALS! won't be stranded when the tide goes out. Daily in your.

fltat) Bcmocrat-fealD Wooden Plant and FEIN STANDS 10 HoWttWO Reg. I i ii i II Cut-dower ARRANGEMENTS sso $8.50 Solon favors law to force CIA chief to use blind trust WASHINGTON (AP) If CIA Director William J. Casey will not put his stocks in a blind trust voluntarily, Congress should consider passing a law requiring him and other officials with sensitive economic information to do so, says a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sen. Patrick Leahy, said It is "a mistake for someone in a position like director of the CIA or other positions where you have unique information to be still actively involved In day-today investments." Casey, who has access to the government's secret data on internafional economic developments, has broken the precedent of the past two CIA directors and maintained control over his stock portfolio.

Leahy's comments came as tti Intelligence Committee'! acting chairman, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, refused Tuesday to expand the panel's investigation of Casey to include a review of the CIA director's stock transactions since taking office. series of "tax expenditures," ranging from the home-mortgage deduction to the oil-depletion allowance. The panel opened hearings on a bill to limit tax expenditures to 30 percent of revenues collected. In the current budget year, tax expenditures are around 40 percent of total revenues.

The Senate unanimously adopted a resolution denouncing the "villainous harassment" of exiled Soviet dissident leader Andrei D. Sakharov and declaring that the Kremlin must be held accountable for his fate. Sakharov and his wife, Yelena Bonner, began a hunger strike Sunday in the Volga River city of Gorky to protest the refusal of Soviet authorities to allow the fiancee of Mrs. Bonner's son to emigrate to the United States. Eighteen Senate Demrrats accused the administration of violating the law by not appointing a special prosecutor to investigate Richard V.

Allen's handling of $1,000 from a Japanese magazine. In a letter, the Democrats contended that the Justice Department has exceeded the preliminary investigation required to determine if a special prosecutor should be appointed. And administration sources said Attorney General William French Smith authorized forewarning Allen about a news story on a secret investigation into his handling of the $1,000 gift. produce 31 percent of the total carbon monoxide emissions from all motor vehicles. In high altitude cities such as Denver, each heavy truck emits as much pollution as 20 regular-sized vehicles, Hart added.

Hart said the senators should consider whether the EPA "should make an economic decision on a public health issue." Five Republicans joined the five Democrats In Tuesday's vote for Hart's amendment. Sen. James Abdnor, who originally voted against the proposal, changed his vote later Tuesday afternoon. TbemimifJefe also adopted both the. EPA's definition for light-duty trucks and Its emission standards for them.

Hart said that writing the standards Into law would prevent any rollback through regulation. In other congressional action Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Anne Gorsuch said the agency should transfer responsibilities for hazardous-waste transport and storage to the states when they are ready. She told a Senate Government Affairs subcommittee that the challenge to the EPA Is to write rules that make Its programs understandable and desirable (or states. The Senate Budget Committee began work on a bill to limit the fastest-growing part of the government a WASHINGTON (AP) Strict emission standards for heavy trucks would be retained under a Senate committee's rewrite of the Clean Air Act, despite an expected administration move to relax tiiem. The Semte Environment Committee voted 10-3 Tuesday to retain the hydrocarbon and 'irbon-monoxide emission for heayy trucks eow included in the act The standard requires a 90 percent reduction in hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions by 1984.

The administration Indicated in April that it was considering relaxing the standard to a 60 paccr Catalytic converters, such as those used on autos, would not have to be installed on trucks under Reagan's emission proposal. Despite Reagan administration objections, the committee also approved an amendment to remove the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to relax the standard. The administration had argued that the amendment, introduced by Sen. Gary Hart, would prevent govern-; mit flexibility and that changes would be made only after careful review. Hart said Tuesday that commercial trucks weighing at least 8,500 pounds are responsible for more pollution than their numbers would suggest.

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