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mi TTT t'rryyi rTT TT TTT TT'J TTTTT 9 TT VT 'T TTTT yyyyyyyyyTf TTft TMff Ty TM 9 TyrT fk' Page 8 Bennington Banner Tuesday, April 5, 1983 Controversy and confrontation face Congress in coming weeks WASHINGTON (UPI) Congress returns to work today facing almost-certain showdowns with President Reagan on the budget, defense spending, military assistance to El Salvador, taxes, a pet nomination and possibly basing of the MX missile. A 10-day break for the Easter holidays is over and Congress is assembling for the second stage of the session, one which threatens to provide nearly endless controversy and confrontation. The first stage, lasting from January through almost the end of March, was a relatively smooth period. It produced two measures which eventually might go down as the major accomplishments of the session a $4.6 billion jobs bill and a landmark reform of the Social Security system. In the process of moving these two bills to enactment, Congress temporarily put aside issues which must now be faced.

But little action is expected this week. The House agenda lists no bills and the Senates schedule is uncertain. Here are some of the issues that could touch off sparks in the weeks ahead: Budget and defense House Democrats, flexing greater numbers and party loyalty, rubber-stamped their own budget of $863.6 percent tax withholding on interest and dividends. The Senate is committed to considering it beginning April 15. Adelman Sometime soon, the Senate has to consider the nomination of Kenneth Adelman as director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

He is in plenty of trouble despite Reagans steadfast support and the nomination could spark a filibuster. MX missile In the near future after getting the recommendation of a special commission, Reagan will propose a basing system for the MX missile. Congress will then have 45 days to approve or reject the proposal. Military assistance to El Salvador Reagan wants to shift to El Salvador $90 million now earmarked for other countries. The Senate foreign aid appropriations subcommittee approved the amount but the Senate Foreign Relations committee cut it in half.

Both attached conditions. But the entire proposal can be scuttled by the House appropriations panel which deals with foreign affairs. Rejections by this subcommittee would prohibit Reagan from carrying out the shift. Withholding Congress, pressed by majorities in the Senate and House, has to deal with legislation repealing the 10 for domestic programs and included $30 billion in new tax revenues. The administration hopes to recoup in the Republican-controlled Senate and Reagan remains adamant in his demands for the increase in defense spending and his opposition to new taxes.

The Senate is certain to jigger the House version but all the signals indicate that Reagan cannot get what he wants in defense spending. Reagan plans to meet in the next few days with members of the Senate Budget committee, which begins drafting its resolution Wednesday. "The meeting will be on the overall body (of the budget) but specifically on defense, deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said Monday. Will MX succeed this time? land-based deterrent for many years and there was a tendency to kick the can down the road and not pay enough attention to its problems, percent to 4 percent, added $26 billion billion with a deficit of $174 billion. The' budget cut Reagans proposed increase in defense spending from 10 i Portrait of a Circle Calling Service enthusiast: Circle Calling could help us stay in close touch with all our friends who dont live right here in town." Portrait of a Green Mountain State Service enthusiast: This service sounds great! 1 could afford to call my old college buddies all over the state!" Portrait of a Selective Calling Service customer: From Middlebury, I can afford to call my grandchildren in Brandon and Vergennes more often!" WASHINGTON (UPI) President Reagan has a better chancebf' winning the go-ahead for production of the MX missile in the current Congress than he did with the lame-duck session in December, a congressional staffer says.

The president has the upper hand now. I really think its going to be an uphill battle (to kill the MX), the staffer, who asked not to be identified, said Monday. He also predicted Monday that Congress would go along with production funds for the Pershing-2 missile because it has undergone five successful test flights since funds were withheld last year. The staffer cited two reasons that the MX stands a better chance in the 98th Congress than it did in the 97th Congress. He said the Senate will be apt to support the president on the issue and Rep.

Les Aspin, a strong opponent in the House, apparently has changed his attitude. Congress in December denied President Reagan the nearly $1 billion he wanted to begin production of the MX missile and told him to come up with a new basing plan. Reagan had wanted to base the missiles in a Dense Pack formation in Wyoming, but criticism of the plan was widespread and became a major factor in Congress vote against production money. Dense Pack, designed to protect U.S. retaliatory capability, calls for basing 100 MX missiles in closely spaced silos in Wyoming on the theory that the first exploding Soviet warhead would destroy later-arriving warheads or divert them from course, leaving MX intact.

After Congress refused production money in December, Reagan appointed a bipartisan commission headed by Brent Scowcroft, a former general who was national security adviser to President Gerald Ford, to explore deployment options. The MX is supposed to be operational by 1986. Sources said the commission will recommend that 100 MX missiles be i existing Minuteman silos i with development work to, begin immediately on small, mobile, single-warhead missile nicknamed Midgetman. The commission report leaves up to research to determine exactly how the small missile would be based. The small missile concept is seen as a way to avoid the kinds of destabilizing, multi-warhead weapons systems that are hampering arms control, particularly the fear on both sides of a successful first strike by the other side.

An aide to Aspin said the congressman personally would just as soon chuck the MX but has conceded it cannot be defeated on its merits in Congress. He said Aspin is willing to accept a small number of MX missiles, perhaps 100, in a compromise that would include a shift to small missiles of the type apparently to be recommended by the Scowcroft Commission. Reagan will begin a series of meetings with defense strategists this week to stake out a new position on how to base the powerful missile, deputy press secretary Larry Speakes said Monday. Speakes said Reagan is not bound at all by the recommendations of the special panel he created Jan. 3 to settle the MX basing puzzle, but the proposal will carry heavy weight in White House considerations.

Ronald Lehman, deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic and theater nuclear forces, said the United States was satisfied with its Do hot tubs act to lower sperm count? WEST HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) A physician says men who use hot tubs may suffer lowered sperm counts leading to temporary infertility. Dr. Kenneth Cohen cautioned his theory was based on only one case a man in his 30s who complained of infertility. Cohen is associate chief of staff at West Haven Veterans Hospital.

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