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Record military budget
is approved by Senate
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Reagan’s military
budget — a record-shattering
$136.5 billion — has won the
near-unanimous Senate
support reserved for times of
war
The Senate approved the
huge weapons and manpower
bill, 92-1, Thursday without
major changes and with no
attempt to roll back Reagan's
ambitious high-cost program
to beef up US. military
strength.
Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore.,
cast the only dissenting vote
and said in a statement, “The
unprecedented scope of this
bill — the largest increase in
military spending in the
nation's history — threatens
to make meaningless the
difficult cuts we have already
achieved in government
spending.”
The bill was sent to the
House, where the Armed
Services Committee has ap-
proved a $135.6 billion bill, weapons.
only $450 million under the
administration’s request.
The bill passed Thursday
was part of Reagan’s overall
defense request of $222.2
billion for fiscal 1982. Its
$136.5 billion would go for
procurement, manpower,
operations, maintenance and
research and development.
Separate legislation, still in
committee, will provide the
remainder — for military
construction and nuclear
weapons.
The $73.2 billion in the bill
for weapons procurement
alone is $20.8 billion more
than Congress approved last
year.
It includes $2.4 billion for
the MX missile, $2.2 billion
for a new manned bomber,
funds for two battleships, a
nuclear aircraft carrier,
submarines, cruisers and
other naval vessels, new
missiles, aircraft, main
battle tanks and other
It would set a manpower
ceiling of 3,041,000 for the
active services, the National
Guard and the reserves —
slightly less than the 3,046,300
requested by the Pentagon.
The Senate went beyond the
administration's request by
voting the go-ahead for two
space weapons — laser
beams and a missile tracking
system.
The Senate approved, 91-3,
$50 million for research and
development of laser
weapons using intense light
beams to destroy objects over
long distances.
It then approved, by voice
vote, $31.2 million for
research and development of
SOFAS, a system of optical
probes in space that can seek
out enemy intercontinental
missiles.
Authorization for research
and development normally is
the first step in creation of a
new weapon system.
Soyuz-40 off into space
with Romanian aboard
MOSCOW (UPI) - The
Soviet Union fired its new
Soyuz-40 space capsule into
Earth orbit with two cos-
monauts aboard, including
the first Romanian ever to
travel through space.
The space capsule blasted
off the Baikonur
Cosmodrome Thursday night
and was slowly moving into
position for docking late
today with the U.S.S.R's
Salyut-6 space laboratory,
where two other Russian
cosmonauts await them.
The new spacecraft was
commanded by Leonid
Popov, a former fighter pilot
whose first orbital flight was
the recordsetting 185-day
mission last year that whirled
him and a companion through
more than 72 million miles of
space.
Popov’s companion in orbit
was Romania's Dumitru
Prunariu, 28, an engineer
who holds the rank of
researchercosmonaut. This
was his first space flight.
Romania was the last of the
nine socialist countries
enrolled in the U.S.S.R.'s
Interkosmos program to put
i man in space. Prunariu’s
flight expanded the list of
zero-gravitv veterans to
include citizens of the United
States, the Soviet Union, its
six Warsaw Pact allies,
Vietnam, Cuba and Mongolia.
The launch originally was
scheduled for May 8, ap-
parently timed for just before
Victory Day, the annual
celebration of Germany’s
defeat in World War II and an
occasion for military
displays. But something went
amiss and the rocket’s sche-
duled liftoff was successively
postponed to May 10, to May
12 and finally to Thursday
night.
ROME (UPI) - Pope John
Paul II battled pain today and
received massive doses of
antibiotics in his an-
tiseptically sealed hospital
room, but doctors said the
pontiff eventually must
undergo two more operations
to recover from the bullets
fired by a Turkish terrorist.
Doctors reported the pope
was recovering “in a
satisfactory manner"
although he was somewhat
depressed
In St. Peter's Square near
the spot where John Paul, 60.
was shot Wednesday, up to
40,000 people, many holding
candles, gathered Thursday
night to sing hymns and pray
for his recovery
“It was a demonstration of
love to cancel out all expres-
sions of hatred," said Car-
dinal Ugo Poletti, who led the
prayers against the
background of the pontiff’s
empty chair
In the southeastern Turkish
village of Yesiltepe, the
mother of Mehmet Ah Agca,
23, the accused gunman, said
her family was shunned as
outcasts by fellow villagers
because of the assassination
attempt against the leader of
he world s 755 million Roman
Catholics
‘We are amazed at what he
has done,” Muzayyen Agca,
50, said in the one-room hovel
that houses her family.
Cardinal Carlo Con-
falonieri, who visited John
Paul in his hospital room
Thursday, said the pope
displayed “forgiveness
toward the one who placed
him in this trial."
Two American women
wounded in the attack, Anne
Odre, 58, of Ruffalo, N.Y.,
was listed in critical con-
dition after chest surgery,
and Rose Hall, 21, a resident
of F rankfurt, Germany, from
Ayer, Mass., had a smashed
elbow from a stray bullet, but
was reported not in danger.
The pain racking the pope
was evident to the steady
stream of visitors to his
glassenclosed, air-filtered
recovery room, but he did not
come lain.
IAS VEGAS, Nev. (UPI) —
Roy I,. Williams, a powerful
Teamsters leader facing a
government lawsuit and
possible indictment, is on the
verge of becoming the head of
the largest labor union in the
United States.
Williams, 66, is expected to
emerge as the successor to
the late Frank Fitzsimmons
at a meeting today of the 2-
million-member union's
general executive board
Technically, the 20 union
leaders that meet today in the
partially closed Jockey Club
Resort and Casino will choose
only an interim president to
serve until the Teamsters’
convention June 1-5 in the I.as
Vegas Convention Center
But the choice for the in-
terim post is considered
virtually assured of election
by the 2,000 delegates to the
full $156,000-a-year union
presidency that will last until
1986.
Teamsters’ first Vice
President George Mock of
Sacramento, Calif., who
automatically became
president for a 10-day period
under the union constitution
when Fitzsimmons died May
6, was to preside over the
board meeting.
Observers say the only real
competition faced by
Williams had come from
Jackie Presser of Cleveland,
the head of the Teamsters'
Ohio Conference.
But several weeks ago,
Presser endorsed Williams
amid speculation Presser
might get a promotion from
his current post in return
while he bides his time for the
international leadership.
The most likely post men-
tioned for Presser is head of
the 14-state Central Con-
ference of Teamsters — the
job Williams holds now.
Williams, who started out
as a trucker when he was 20
and hails from Kansas City,
is being sued by the govern-
ment for damages for alleged
mismanagement of assets of
the Teamsters Central States
Pension Fund.
Williams, Fitzsimmons and
other fund trustees resigned
in 1977 under I^abor Depart-
ment pressure after an in-
vestigation was conducted
into huge loans that the fund
made to several Las Vegas
hotels and casinos.
Adding to Williams
troubles with the govern-
ment, the Justice Depart-
ment this week said it was
considering whether to indict
him for the alleged illegal
influencing of a senator over
trucking deregulation
legislation.
A congressional committee
also is expected to release a
report shortly on its in-
vestigation of Teamsters’
connections with organized
crime leaders.
Williams has
acknowledged he has known
reputed Kansas City un-
derworld boss Nicholas
Civella for 30 years.
Williams invoked the Fifth
Amendment 23 times last
August when called before
the Senate permanent in-
vestigations subcommittee to
answer questions about ties
to Civella and other
organized-crime leaders
Leonardo da Vinci
conceived the idea of contact
lenses in 1508. but his theory
wasn’t tested until 1890
Nation gets boost
in April production
WASHINGTON (UPI, 1
The nation’s factories in- re^ate promotions, wnicn
creased their production in encoura8e sales and spur
April, despite the long coal producti°r>, generally ended
strike and the end of most ln late *March Chrysler
sales-boosting auto rebate contlnues to offer a $50
promotions, the Federal payrnenl to anyone who
Reserve reported today samples their vehicles.
Industrial production rose ^tput of consumer goods
“I asked him if the
reduction of pain was a hope
or if it was a reality, and he
said it was a hope, so he is in
pain, said Dr. F’rancesco
Crucitti, one of the surgeons
who operated on the pope for
nearly 4hours.
He described the pope as a
“little depressed ”
A medical bulletin signed
by John Paul’s three
surgeons and personal
physician said his condition
was developing “in a
satisfactory manner " The
pope was given massive
doses of antibiotics to ward
off infection and was fed
intravenously
But the doctors said John
Paul faces further two opera-
tions, one to restore bowel
functions that for the time
being have been bypassed * -
enable his intestinal wounds
to heal, and the second to
reset shattered bones in his
left index finger He also was
wounded in the right arm
A clearer picture of the
terrorist who fired at the
prelate from less than 15 feet
away with a 9mm Browning
pistol and the pontiff's
narrow escape from death
began to emerge today.
At police headquarters
across the town from the
pontiff’s antiseptic hospital
ward, the suspected gunman
was interrogated by police,
who sought to detemune links
to an international terrorist
network
tine policeman described
the surly, steely-eyed Agca,
who fled from a death sere
tence in a Turkish jail for
murdering an editor, as "a
terrorist with a capital T.”
Dr Giancalo Castiglione
said one of the bullets fired by
the gunman went through the
pope s abdomen — missing
major blood vessels by a tiny
fraction
Had it hit one of those he
would have bled to death,”
Castiglione said.
Doctors warned of the risk
of infection following the
operation to repair the in-
testinal wounds “At the
moment, we can be neither
optimistic nor pessimistic,"
he said.
The third surgeon, Dr
Alfredo Weil-Mann, said
"Only in a week s time will
we be able to judge if the pope
is out of danger."
0.4 percent in April, a sign of
continuing second quarter
economic growth — and
would have gone up 0.7
percent except for the effects
of the coal strike, the Fed
reported.
Auto production accounted
for about 0.1 percent of the
April growth even though
rose 0.8 percent, as auto
assemblies increased about 5
percent to an annual rate of
6 8 million units. Production
of home goods “edged off, but
output of consumer non-
durable goods advanced
further, ’ the F’ed reported.
Durable goods production
was up nearly 1 percent.
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