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CjLjMjIA, LSJ. 65211 76th Year No. 114 Good Morning! It's Thursday, January 26, 1983 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents Reagan calls for bipartisan panel to trim deficit WASHINGTON ( UPI) Presi-dent Reagan Wednesday night pro-posed that a bipartisan panel decide how to cut the budget deficit by $ 100 billion, saying that simply raising taxes is a " Band- ai- d solution" that threatens economic recovery. In his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, he said the panel of congressional leaders and administration representatives could negotiate deficit cuts to be im-plemented over the next three years as a " down payment" on the nation-al debt. A Reagan aide said the target would be reached by making rela-tively non- controvers- ial spending cuts, closing tax loopholes and elimi-nating waste uncovered by a com-mission headed by businessman J Peter Grace Congressional leaders, including House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, agreed in principle to the panel, said the official, who adamantly denied the group is a " commission " He called it a " negotiating team " Reagan said he asked O'Neill and Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker to designate representatives to meet with administration officials " to try to reach prompt agreement on a bipartisan deficit reduction plan . . . What I have proposed is that we first see if we can agree on a down payment" Warning that " a down payment alone is not enough to break us out of a deficit problem" Reagan proposed " structural reforms" to slow spend-ing Those reforms included tax re-form and approval of the line item veto that would allow the president to selectively veto parts of a bill without voiding the whole thing. Reagan previously rejected calls for a commission made up of mem-bers outside of government The president asked Treasury Sec-retary Donald Regan to come up with " a plan for action to simplify the entire tax code" by the end of the year to make the tax system fairer and broader based. While offering cooperation on Rea-gan's call for bipartisan action on the deficit, O'Neill urged Reagan to publicly declare the defense budget will not be a " sacred cow." The Reagan aide said the presi-dent who is expected to propose a 14 percent increase in Pentagon spend-ing for fiscal 1985, " is obviously not gong to change his position on the importance of a defense buildup," but may adopt some Grace commis-sion recommendations to cut Penta-gon waste. Reagan was reported to have re-jected the commission idea, support-ed by some of his own aides, a week ago on grounds that any criticism of his spending and tax policies could only embarrass him in an election year Reagan, however, has been enam-ored of commissions in the past year, using panels made up of prom-inent Republicans and Democrats to help him tread political minefields like Social Security reform, the MX missile, hunger in America and poli-cy m Central America Reagan has adamantly resisted ad-vice from aides that he raise taxes to cover the deficit political embar-rassment given his 1980 promise to achieve a balanced budget Instead, the Reagan line on fighting the defi-- cit has been to cut spending more, although a relatively small $ 5 billion or so is targeted for cuts in the electio-n- year budget request he gives Congress next week. The deficit was $ 195 4 billion in fis-cal 1983 and is expected to exceed $ 180 billion m fiscal 1984, with future deficits forecast m the same neigh-- borhood through the rest of the de-cade The administration official said half the $ 100 billion deficit- reductio- n would be accounted for in the budget request While the amount may seem like a lot he said, it might be achievable because many of the items have been agreed to in con-gressional committees but held up by disputes over farther reaching plans The idea," he said, is to set if we can relatively quicklv find out if it's possible to come to agreement on a number of small matters that acid up to a lot of money. " Bright future Anderson- Haye- s board members are optimistic By Scott Williams MIsowian U writer The number of resignations rose to suf at the Anderson- Haye- s Day Care Center Wednesday mght, but mem-bers of. the center's board of direc-tors expressed optimism about its future. Chairwoman Cynthia Jefferson re-signed at a meeting of six of the. re-maining 11 board members, and said later that the board had made the mistake of mixing friendship with business " The function of the board ' is busi-ness," she said. " Hiring and firing should be left to the director." Jefferson's move came after con-troversy over the rehiring of Alma Lynn Tapp, the center's head teach-er. Tapp had been fired by Vanda Rice, the center's former executive director, for allegedly forging par-ents' signatures on field trip permis-sion forms and for using ice cream without permission at a student's gang- awa- y party. Tapp, who is black, later charged that Rice, who is white, was preju-diced against her. Rice resigned on Jan. 12, the day after the board reinstated Tapp The board also put both Rice and Tapp on probation for 90 days and planned to have their performances reviewed by an outside consultant Board member the Rev. Raymond Prince expressed hope that the oper-ations of the board of directors would get back to normal within a month. " Now that the wind has blown away the stalematers, we can get down to busness," he said after the meeting " We're ready to go on now. The people left on the board arje will-- rn? 3?' fltiaaaaaVfkS m it .' AtAgJ.? Lt1iyKJjlgJJJJVM. r4JJWlg33 ,. WaaBaHiBIH ii Mflrf bjjih sWm JBRa. iBBBBHRBBBmBB ' oBflBHHsS aflBP" BhBBB BS BiWKnHnilCvk- SBIIfliB- i Kr THC" BB -- MKBp. iPBiwiBBMiiBSBHMfflB iszQwIBjhBbB W ( BBIBI i? iF i ' BBWBBiHB '" - ' KtKxi, '-.-! i- KaMflM I mBKOBpf3Ei ji-. iiuj- Mn B1HBBB v? h - igaBfBTMBIIBIBIBBBB BBBBBy - JIfflBBJSBBEl, 75iBBBB BBBftfe ' BBBBBBBBBbBbBbBBIbBBI -- ' BBiBBBBBBBHBHnRE-- ' 7 - Vt S9Jw9nHiiiBBBBBlllkjnSBBBBBBBJBJWBBBBBBBBMBBKl 9 - C4SBIbBL oHHBWHHSnlBBB" BDBCBHBiBBBBBBE . I'UlJf'IIBBBBWfcll'WyOIMBBBMMlBBMl n V ' Jill MHJJMPjMbWIJJbMb1JJHBBBPJJBBH BBBBBnBH'' - . yjgaBBJJBBjBBBJJBJJJJB TTrtT" JBlBMliTBBBBBnTttBBBl" BMBlBBffi BBBBBBsBGfllBBflBBSlBBBlBSBBBBw T IBllflBlBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBlBBBBBBBBBBB KflBjllBBmlBSBBBflBBBlBBBBBBBttafliJBBBBBBBBBBBBBBhv XBbWwBBbBBbW'' 3BBBBbBBBBBBBBBbBbB BBBBBBfBHBBBttlHBBBHHIBBBBBBBBBBBlBBBBBBBBBBBBlBBBBBBBBnJBBBBBM BBBVBBBBBBBBBBBBBHBBBflBBBBBBlBBlBBBHBBBBfl BBBBBBBBBBaBBBBBBBBBBBBBHBRBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBr BBBBBBBflBBBSBBBBBBBBBBBBBBHBBBBBBI BlBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBHiBBBBBBBBBBflBBBBlBBBBVBBBBBMBBBBBBBBK -- BBBBBBBBBBBBBbFBbBbBBBBBBBBBBbIIbbI BBBBBHBaBBBBflBBflBBBBBBflBBBBBBflllBBBBflBBBflBBBBBW : BBBBBBBBBBBBBBrlBBBBBBllBBBBBB hi i I i H i ii BobtrtS Gross Alma Lynn Tapp, second from left, during the meeting Wednesday at the Anderson- Haye- s Day Care Center. ing to meet the challenge. Come back in a month and see how much things have changed." Tapp said she felt good about the outlook for the center, located at 403 Park Ave. She added that both the center's staff and parents of children enrolled there have expressed confi-dence in her ability to run the facili-ty. Tapp will serve as acting director until a permanent director can be lured. Pnnce said only two students have left the center since the dispute be-gan. Jefferson was one of the par-ents who withdrew her child from the center. Pnnce said 49 children are enrolled at there. The board also formed two com-mittees Wednesday night, one to rec-ommend applicants to the board for a vacant teaching position and an-other to search for a bookkeeper. The four vacancies on the board of directors also will be filled soon, he said. In addition to Jefferson's resig-nation, the board received one from Jean Cunningham on Jan. 14 She quit because she believed the board was no longer concerned with the standards of care for the children. Mary Mick, administrative assis-tant quit Tuesday night which came as a surprise to several board mem-bers who had believed Mick was quite happy with her job Some staff members at the center felt the board's decision to rehire Tapp undermined the Rice's ability to be effective as director. Earlier this month, teachers Paula Keves and Marilyn Taylor resigned be-cause of the board's decision Although Jefferson leaves behind an intense dispute, she is not bitter about what happened. " You dont know people until you work with them," she said. " Friendship and business some- tun- es don't mix. My part is done ' ' " I soil like Alma," she added Georgian bites back with mail rattlesnake WAYCROSS, Ga. A federal court jury Wednesday convicted a man of mailing a live 3- foot- longr-attlesnake to his wife's for-mer husband, who had just gained custody of the couple's teenage daughter. James Tillman Carter, 43, of Alma, had been accused of mail-ing an Eastern diamondback rat-tlesnake to Joey V. Tanner, of NicboDs, with the intent to harm or kill him. The jury deliberated less than Wt boors before finding Carter guilty of mailing an injurious ar-ticle. VS. District Judge B. Av-- 1 ant Edenfield was expected to set I sentencing within 30days. I The package was delivered Oct I 25 to Tanner's home 15 days af-- I ter he was awarded custody of a I teenage daughter from his for-- I mer marriage. The gui had been B Kvmg in the Carter household for B about IS years. R Daring testimony Tuesday, Tannersaid he used a knife to cut H open the package, which con tained a taped sboebox. He said he placed the box across his knee and opened it. " I saw the snake looking right at me," he said. " I jumped up and threw it ( the sncebox) against the wall as hard as I could. He got away from me two or three tunes because he was madand I was shaking." Tanner killed the snake with a pitchfork after struggling with it for about a half hour. The snake, whose rattles had been cut off be-fore being mailed, was packed in a jar and introduced as evidence during the trial. " Carter denied mailing the snake, but Tanner testified that Carter telephoned nun two days after the custody bearing and told nun be bad " a few days left to live." A document analyst for the US. Postal Service crime lab also testified that fingerprints found on the package s inner wrapping matched Carter's prints. Democrats have a different view of the nation WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Demo-crats challenged President Reagan's rosy State of the Union address Wednesday night, while Republican allies said the president has much to crow about. ' Our view of the state of the union is different from the president's," House Speaker Thomas O'Neill said in a pre- tape- d Democratic response ' In case after case, we find this ad-ministration's policies unfair to working men and women, to the el-der!' and to our children " Sen Darnel Moymhan, D- N- Y., warned, " With $ 200 billion deficits Iooming, in David Stockman's words, as far as the eye can sec it is fantasy to suggest that our prob-lems are behind us " But Senate Republican leader Howard Baker said Reagan has kept the central promises he made at the start of his administration to slow federal spending, ease taxes, rebuild US defenses, and restore national resolve in foreign policy Presidential hopeful Sen Gary Hart, D- Co- lo , called the speech an-other political sleight of hand by the president lake a juggler, he tries to keep our attention riveted on his suc- - cess so we won't notice the real fail-ures " But Rep Guy Vander Jagt R- Mi- ch, said Reagan's address to a joint session of Congress launches a campaign that will end o 6 with substantial GOP victories Sen Bob Dole, R- K- an . prais.-- d Reagan's call for a bipartisan stui' of the deficit problem to determine how $ 100 billion can be cut in tha e years He deserves full credit for tak, r. the lead on the deficit issue he's out front and leading the charge. Dole said Support builds for lottery bill By James V Grtmaldi State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY - Increased pressure from the House speaker has forced a House committee to ac-celerate its process for considering a state- operate- d lottery On Wednesday the House Revenue and Economics Committee, which is a crucial testing point for the lottery issue, advanced its hearing by a week to listen to testimony The move by committee Chairwoman Karen Benson, D- Kan- sas City, came at the behest of Speaker Bob Gnffin Since the Senate Miscellaneous Bills Committee approved the lot-tery a week ago, interest in the House revenue committee's opinion on the subjecthas been increasing The Senate bill, sponsored by Sen Ed Dirck, ISt Ann, now goes to the Senate, which is expected to consid-er the issue sometime m the next two weeks But the proposed lottery's most difficult barrier, legislators say, is the House Revenue and Economics Committee. Both sides have applied pressure on committee members to make a decision It is difficult to tell how the com-mittee will vote on the issue, Benson said. On Wednesday, questioning in a hearing of both the sponsors of five House lottery bills and religious lob-byists opposing the bills was rigor-ous The committee will not vote on the issue until Feb 8, Benson said Church groups, especially the Mis-souri Baptist Convention, have been applying pressure on revenue com-mittee members to reject the mea-sure, legislators said. Wednesday's hearing turned up little new information on the lottery, which at the most would raise $ 100 million a year, according to projec-tions The Baptist group and Missouri Catholic Conference lobbyists ap-peared before each committee The Baptists said that a lottery is a di-version from real solutions to the state's financial problems You'll find many leaders in black caucus By Beth Lazarus SUIe capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY Sen. John Bass, D- S- t Louis, defines a caucus as a group with common interests and political strengths. If Bass' definition is correct, Mis-souri's black caucus may not be a caucus at all, but merely 14 legis-lators with one thing m common. They're black. Rep. Fred Williams, D- S- t. Louis, says that power struggles are par-tially to blame for the lack of cohe-sion in the black caucus. " We have too many chiefs and not enough Indians," Williams says. " We're all trying to be leaders, and we don't have enoughfollowers." Williams says mere is no reason why any delegate should be expected to take a subservient role. " There are enough issues for everyone to playa role." However, a lack of issues isn't the problem. The conflict stems from the traditional rivalries of subgroups within the caucus. Historically, the black caucus has been divided into three mam fac-tions, Williams says. One of them is a, Kansas City group; the other two are comprised of St Louis lawmak- - 3 DGagpcam? ers with slightly different politics. Williams says the Kansas City fac-tion is a more unified group because those delegates are part of one politi-cal organization Freedom Inc. The existence of Freedom Inc., coupled with the Kansas City dele-gation's small size, has kept it to-gether, Williams says. Mary Groves Bland, D- Kans- as dry, agrees mat she and the other Kansas City representatives are a unified foursome. " We are the freedom team. That in itself is a unity." Bland also main-tains that relations are good between the Kansas City and St Louis poli-ticians. But the picture isnt quite so rosy on the other side of the state. The re-cent conflict between Reps. Qmncy Troupe and Louis Ford, both Demo-crats from St Louis, may illustrate a much larger rift among the city's black legislators. Witnesses said Troupe, the chair-man of the black caucus and a mem-ber of the St Louis Freedom Inc., assaulted Ford in House Speaker Bob Griffin's office. Troupe and Ford were to iron out their differ-ences at the meeting. But it only ex-aggerated differences and height-ened tension within the caucus. By trying to refrain from siding with either St Louis faction, Wil-liams has often found himself in the center of the conflict He was me-diating the discussion between the two legislators before the altercation began Williams attributes the disharmo-ny among St. Louis representatives to a few key factors " In St. Louis, there's a larger delegation. There's Freedom Inc. and there's a group the media call the Congressman Clay camp." The latter is a reference to those who support Congressman William Clay. State Rep William Clay Jr., the son of Congressman Clay, says be feels the animosity aimed at his father. " They resent the fact that my fa-ther wields political power in the city," Clay says. " I know there's re-sentment; it's there for me, too." After his arrival. Clay says, he asked if it wouldn't benefit the cau-cus to vote as a bloc. But the re-sponse wasn't very positive. " That's iust not the way things are done here," he says. But what appears to be a lack of direction may actually be a signal marking the changing roles of black legislators There is soil a lot of injustice in the American way, says Bass " American history is a history of preferences " But Bland, the Kansas City Demo-crat, says those preferences like the issues before the legislature aren't black and white any more The issues of today, she says, are the issues of all of Missouri's oppressed The oppressed are not just the state's blacks, but other minorities women, the handicapped and the aged. " Equality means equality for all people." Bland maintains that the duty of black lawmakers is much broader than it was 20years ago. Clay agrees. " I want to get away from the race issue entirely. I want to represent all of my constituents, not just black ones and not just white ones." Yet the struggle for power contin-ues even though caucus members recognize that it saps their collective strength. Perhaps Williams puts it best " There arent enough of us to be divided." j
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Item.Transcript | CjLjMjIA, LSJ. 65211 76th Year No. 114 Good Morning! It's Thursday, January 26, 1983 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents Reagan calls for bipartisan panel to trim deficit WASHINGTON ( UPI) Presi-dent Reagan Wednesday night pro-posed that a bipartisan panel decide how to cut the budget deficit by $ 100 billion, saying that simply raising taxes is a " Band- ai- d solution" that threatens economic recovery. In his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, he said the panel of congressional leaders and administration representatives could negotiate deficit cuts to be im-plemented over the next three years as a " down payment" on the nation-al debt. A Reagan aide said the target would be reached by making rela-tively non- controvers- ial spending cuts, closing tax loopholes and elimi-nating waste uncovered by a com-mission headed by businessman J Peter Grace Congressional leaders, including House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, agreed in principle to the panel, said the official, who adamantly denied the group is a " commission " He called it a " negotiating team " Reagan said he asked O'Neill and Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker to designate representatives to meet with administration officials " to try to reach prompt agreement on a bipartisan deficit reduction plan . . . What I have proposed is that we first see if we can agree on a down payment" Warning that " a down payment alone is not enough to break us out of a deficit problem" Reagan proposed " structural reforms" to slow spend-ing Those reforms included tax re-form and approval of the line item veto that would allow the president to selectively veto parts of a bill without voiding the whole thing. Reagan previously rejected calls for a commission made up of mem-bers outside of government The president asked Treasury Sec-retary Donald Regan to come up with " a plan for action to simplify the entire tax code" by the end of the year to make the tax system fairer and broader based. While offering cooperation on Rea-gan's call for bipartisan action on the deficit, O'Neill urged Reagan to publicly declare the defense budget will not be a " sacred cow." The Reagan aide said the presi-dent who is expected to propose a 14 percent increase in Pentagon spend-ing for fiscal 1985, " is obviously not gong to change his position on the importance of a defense buildup," but may adopt some Grace commis-sion recommendations to cut Penta-gon waste. Reagan was reported to have re-jected the commission idea, support-ed by some of his own aides, a week ago on grounds that any criticism of his spending and tax policies could only embarrass him in an election year Reagan, however, has been enam-ored of commissions in the past year, using panels made up of prom-inent Republicans and Democrats to help him tread political minefields like Social Security reform, the MX missile, hunger in America and poli-cy m Central America Reagan has adamantly resisted ad-vice from aides that he raise taxes to cover the deficit political embar-rassment given his 1980 promise to achieve a balanced budget Instead, the Reagan line on fighting the defi-- cit has been to cut spending more, although a relatively small $ 5 billion or so is targeted for cuts in the electio-n- year budget request he gives Congress next week. The deficit was $ 195 4 billion in fis-cal 1983 and is expected to exceed $ 180 billion m fiscal 1984, with future deficits forecast m the same neigh-- borhood through the rest of the de-cade The administration official said half the $ 100 billion deficit- reductio- n would be accounted for in the budget request While the amount may seem like a lot he said, it might be achievable because many of the items have been agreed to in con-gressional committees but held up by disputes over farther reaching plans The idea," he said, is to set if we can relatively quicklv find out if it's possible to come to agreement on a number of small matters that acid up to a lot of money. " Bright future Anderson- Haye- s board members are optimistic By Scott Williams MIsowian U writer The number of resignations rose to suf at the Anderson- Haye- s Day Care Center Wednesday mght, but mem-bers of. the center's board of direc-tors expressed optimism about its future. Chairwoman Cynthia Jefferson re-signed at a meeting of six of the. re-maining 11 board members, and said later that the board had made the mistake of mixing friendship with business " The function of the board ' is busi-ness," she said. " Hiring and firing should be left to the director." Jefferson's move came after con-troversy over the rehiring of Alma Lynn Tapp, the center's head teach-er. Tapp had been fired by Vanda Rice, the center's former executive director, for allegedly forging par-ents' signatures on field trip permis-sion forms and for using ice cream without permission at a student's gang- awa- y party. Tapp, who is black, later charged that Rice, who is white, was preju-diced against her. Rice resigned on Jan. 12, the day after the board reinstated Tapp The board also put both Rice and Tapp on probation for 90 days and planned to have their performances reviewed by an outside consultant Board member the Rev. Raymond Prince expressed hope that the oper-ations of the board of directors would get back to normal within a month. " Now that the wind has blown away the stalematers, we can get down to busness," he said after the meeting " We're ready to go on now. The people left on the board arje will-- rn? 3?' fltiaaaaaVfkS m it .' AtAgJ.? Lt1iyKJjlgJJJJVM. r4JJWlg33 ,. WaaBaHiBIH ii Mflrf bjjih sWm JBRa. iBBBBHRBBBmBB ' oBflBHHsS aflBP" BhBBB BS BiWKnHnilCvk- SBIIfliB- i Kr THC" BB -- MKBp. iPBiwiBBMiiBSBHMfflB iszQwIBjhBbB W ( BBIBI i? iF i ' BBWBBiHB '" - ' KtKxi, '-.-! i- KaMflM I mBKOBpf3Ei ji-. iiuj- Mn B1HBBB v? h - igaBfBTMBIIBIBIBBBB BBBBBy - JIfflBBJSBBEl, 75iBBBB BBBftfe ' BBBBBBBBBbBbBbBBIbBBI -- ' BBiBBBBBBBHBHnRE-- ' 7 - Vt S9Jw9nHiiiBBBBBlllkjnSBBBBBBBJBJWBBBBBBBBMBBKl 9 - C4SBIbBL oHHBWHHSnlBBB" BDBCBHBiBBBBBBE . 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Tapp said she felt good about the outlook for the center, located at 403 Park Ave. She added that both the center's staff and parents of children enrolled there have expressed confi-dence in her ability to run the facili-ty. Tapp will serve as acting director until a permanent director can be lured. Pnnce said only two students have left the center since the dispute be-gan. Jefferson was one of the par-ents who withdrew her child from the center. Pnnce said 49 children are enrolled at there. The board also formed two com-mittees Wednesday night, one to rec-ommend applicants to the board for a vacant teaching position and an-other to search for a bookkeeper. The four vacancies on the board of directors also will be filled soon, he said. In addition to Jefferson's resig-nation, the board received one from Jean Cunningham on Jan. 14 She quit because she believed the board was no longer concerned with the standards of care for the children. Mary Mick, administrative assis-tant quit Tuesday night which came as a surprise to several board mem-bers who had believed Mick was quite happy with her job Some staff members at the center felt the board's decision to rehire Tapp undermined the Rice's ability to be effective as director. Earlier this month, teachers Paula Keves and Marilyn Taylor resigned be-cause of the board's decision Although Jefferson leaves behind an intense dispute, she is not bitter about what happened. " You dont know people until you work with them," she said. " Friendship and business some- tun- es don't mix. My part is done ' ' " I soil like Alma," she added Georgian bites back with mail rattlesnake WAYCROSS, Ga. A federal court jury Wednesday convicted a man of mailing a live 3- foot- longr-attlesnake to his wife's for-mer husband, who had just gained custody of the couple's teenage daughter. James Tillman Carter, 43, of Alma, had been accused of mail-ing an Eastern diamondback rat-tlesnake to Joey V. Tanner, of NicboDs, with the intent to harm or kill him. The jury deliberated less than Wt boors before finding Carter guilty of mailing an injurious ar-ticle. VS. District Judge B. Av-- 1 ant Edenfield was expected to set I sentencing within 30days. I The package was delivered Oct I 25 to Tanner's home 15 days af-- I ter he was awarded custody of a I teenage daughter from his for-- I mer marriage. The gui had been B Kvmg in the Carter household for B about IS years. R Daring testimony Tuesday, Tannersaid he used a knife to cut H open the package, which con tained a taped sboebox. He said he placed the box across his knee and opened it. " I saw the snake looking right at me," he said. " I jumped up and threw it ( the sncebox) against the wall as hard as I could. He got away from me two or three tunes because he was madand I was shaking." Tanner killed the snake with a pitchfork after struggling with it for about a half hour. The snake, whose rattles had been cut off be-fore being mailed, was packed in a jar and introduced as evidence during the trial. " Carter denied mailing the snake, but Tanner testified that Carter telephoned nun two days after the custody bearing and told nun be bad " a few days left to live." A document analyst for the US. Postal Service crime lab also testified that fingerprints found on the package s inner wrapping matched Carter's prints. Democrats have a different view of the nation WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Demo-crats challenged President Reagan's rosy State of the Union address Wednesday night, while Republican allies said the president has much to crow about. ' Our view of the state of the union is different from the president's," House Speaker Thomas O'Neill said in a pre- tape- d Democratic response ' In case after case, we find this ad-ministration's policies unfair to working men and women, to the el-der!' and to our children " Sen Darnel Moymhan, D- N- Y., warned, " With $ 200 billion deficits Iooming, in David Stockman's words, as far as the eye can sec it is fantasy to suggest that our prob-lems are behind us " But Senate Republican leader Howard Baker said Reagan has kept the central promises he made at the start of his administration to slow federal spending, ease taxes, rebuild US defenses, and restore national resolve in foreign policy Presidential hopeful Sen Gary Hart, D- Co- lo , called the speech an-other political sleight of hand by the president lake a juggler, he tries to keep our attention riveted on his suc- - cess so we won't notice the real fail-ures " But Rep Guy Vander Jagt R- Mi- ch, said Reagan's address to a joint session of Congress launches a campaign that will end o 6 with substantial GOP victories Sen Bob Dole, R- K- an . prais.-- d Reagan's call for a bipartisan stui' of the deficit problem to determine how $ 100 billion can be cut in tha e years He deserves full credit for tak, r. the lead on the deficit issue he's out front and leading the charge. Dole said Support builds for lottery bill By James V Grtmaldi State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY - Increased pressure from the House speaker has forced a House committee to ac-celerate its process for considering a state- operate- d lottery On Wednesday the House Revenue and Economics Committee, which is a crucial testing point for the lottery issue, advanced its hearing by a week to listen to testimony The move by committee Chairwoman Karen Benson, D- Kan- sas City, came at the behest of Speaker Bob Gnffin Since the Senate Miscellaneous Bills Committee approved the lot-tery a week ago, interest in the House revenue committee's opinion on the subjecthas been increasing The Senate bill, sponsored by Sen Ed Dirck, ISt Ann, now goes to the Senate, which is expected to consid-er the issue sometime m the next two weeks But the proposed lottery's most difficult barrier, legislators say, is the House Revenue and Economics Committee. Both sides have applied pressure on committee members to make a decision It is difficult to tell how the com-mittee will vote on the issue, Benson said. On Wednesday, questioning in a hearing of both the sponsors of five House lottery bills and religious lob-byists opposing the bills was rigor-ous The committee will not vote on the issue until Feb 8, Benson said Church groups, especially the Mis-souri Baptist Convention, have been applying pressure on revenue com-mittee members to reject the mea-sure, legislators said. Wednesday's hearing turned up little new information on the lottery, which at the most would raise $ 100 million a year, according to projec-tions The Baptist group and Missouri Catholic Conference lobbyists ap-peared before each committee The Baptists said that a lottery is a di-version from real solutions to the state's financial problems You'll find many leaders in black caucus By Beth Lazarus SUIe capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY Sen. John Bass, D- S- t Louis, defines a caucus as a group with common interests and political strengths. If Bass' definition is correct, Mis-souri's black caucus may not be a caucus at all, but merely 14 legis-lators with one thing m common. They're black. Rep. Fred Williams, D- S- t. Louis, says that power struggles are par-tially to blame for the lack of cohe-sion in the black caucus. " We have too many chiefs and not enough Indians," Williams says. " We're all trying to be leaders, and we don't have enoughfollowers." Williams says mere is no reason why any delegate should be expected to take a subservient role. " There are enough issues for everyone to playa role." However, a lack of issues isn't the problem. The conflict stems from the traditional rivalries of subgroups within the caucus. Historically, the black caucus has been divided into three mam fac-tions, Williams says. One of them is a, Kansas City group; the other two are comprised of St Louis lawmak- - 3 DGagpcam? ers with slightly different politics. Williams says the Kansas City fac-tion is a more unified group because those delegates are part of one politi-cal organization Freedom Inc. The existence of Freedom Inc., coupled with the Kansas City dele-gation's small size, has kept it to-gether, Williams says. Mary Groves Bland, D- Kans- as dry, agrees mat she and the other Kansas City representatives are a unified foursome. " We are the freedom team. That in itself is a unity." Bland also main-tains that relations are good between the Kansas City and St Louis poli-ticians. But the picture isnt quite so rosy on the other side of the state. The re-cent conflict between Reps. Qmncy Troupe and Louis Ford, both Demo-crats from St Louis, may illustrate a much larger rift among the city's black legislators. Witnesses said Troupe, the chair-man of the black caucus and a mem-ber of the St Louis Freedom Inc., assaulted Ford in House Speaker Bob Griffin's office. Troupe and Ford were to iron out their differ-ences at the meeting. But it only ex-aggerated differences and height-ened tension within the caucus. By trying to refrain from siding with either St Louis faction, Wil-liams has often found himself in the center of the conflict He was me-diating the discussion between the two legislators before the altercation began Williams attributes the disharmo-ny among St. Louis representatives to a few key factors " In St. Louis, there's a larger delegation. There's Freedom Inc. and there's a group the media call the Congressman Clay camp." The latter is a reference to those who support Congressman William Clay. State Rep William Clay Jr., the son of Congressman Clay, says be feels the animosity aimed at his father. " They resent the fact that my fa-ther wields political power in the city," Clay says. " I know there's re-sentment; it's there for me, too." After his arrival. Clay says, he asked if it wouldn't benefit the cau-cus to vote as a bloc. But the re-sponse wasn't very positive. " That's iust not the way things are done here," he says. But what appears to be a lack of direction may actually be a signal marking the changing roles of black legislators There is soil a lot of injustice in the American way, says Bass " American history is a history of preferences " But Bland, the Kansas City Demo-crat, says those preferences like the issues before the legislature aren't black and white any more The issues of today, she says, are the issues of all of Missouri's oppressed The oppressed are not just the state's blacks, but other minorities women, the handicapped and the aged. " Equality means equality for all people." Bland maintains that the duty of black lawmakers is much broader than it was 20years ago. Clay agrees. " I want to get away from the race issue entirely. I want to represent all of my constituents, not just black ones and not just white ones." Yet the struggle for power contin-ues even though caucus members recognize that it saps their collective strength. Perhaps Williams puts it best " There arent enough of us to be divided." j |