European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 28 the stars and stripes saturday october 12, 1985 Senate approves $2 trillion plus debt ceiling Washington a ending eight Days of wrangling Over a balanced budget plan the Senate agreed thursday night to raise the National debt limit to More than $2 trillion. By 51-37, the Senate voted to increase the government s line of credit from $1.824 trillion to $2.078 trillion enough to meet the government s borrowing needs for the next year. The action came after the Senate completed a series of revisions to the balanced budget plan that was attached to the debt limit legislation on wednesday. The House in effect agreed to the debt limit increase when it passed a budget Blue print on aug. 1, but the addition of the budget plan in the Senate will require fur ther action. The Senate has been tied up since last week on the debt and budget issues which forced an extraordinary weekend session prompted hard feelings Between republicans and democrats and Between the re publican leadership and the Treasury department. Earlier thursday Senate majority Leader Robert Dole r-kan., angrily accused the Treasury department of undermining efforts to pass he balanced budget plan and displaying no guts with an emergency $5 billion auction that cased the govern ment s credit crisis. What they be done is give the House plenty of time to try and kill the package Dole said. The Senate went Back to work on Fine tuning the measure passed wednesday to set statutory limits on Federal deficits in order to achieve a balanced budget by fiscal year 1991. On thursday the Senate turned aside a series of democratic amendments aimed at forcing deficit reductions through cuts in spending for defense and social Security and through tax increases. Sen. Bill Bradley d-n.j., offered an amendment to raise $70 billion Over five years by increasing the Federal excise tax on gasoline and motor fuels from 9 cents a gallon to 18 cents. How serious can this body be about deficit reduction if one Day after voting for a balanced budget it then votes not to do any thing about social Security defense or revenues Bradley said. Bradley s gasoline tax amendment was tabled in effect killed on an 89-9 vote. The balanced budget plan has been attached to legislation raising the govern ment s borrowing authority the National debt limit to More than $2 trillion. The government has reached its borrowing Ceil ing of $1.824 trillion and Dole was using the threat of government checks bouncing to Spur action on the budget plan. However with no Cash on hand and con Gress delaying the borrowing authority in crease the Treasury department turned for the first time to the borrowing authority of the Federal financing Bank to cover a $5 billion auction of notes. The Bank was created in 1973 to manage the government s debt. Wednesday s auction has cased the government Back from the fiscal Brink at least into next week. Dole said the Treasury probably pulled the plug on us and said he would seek to prevent the Federal financing Bank from taking similar action in the future. House democratic leaders have indicated they favor letting the Federal financing Bank use up to the full Sis billion in Bor rowing authority the Agency has. The Treasury department effectively undermined the efforts we be been working on in the Senate the last several Days Dole said later on the Senate floor. Treasury department officials said that with Congress failure to pass a new debt ceiling the Bank was the Only alternative to prevent a government default. Under a default the Treasury would have notified the Federal Reserve its banker to Stop honouring government checks halting the payment of everything from monthly social Security checks to Mil lion Dollar reimbursements to defense con tractors. Hijackers from Page 1 an extradition request. The United states and Italy signed an extradition treaty in september 1984. But Italy does not have capital punishment and it has previously rejected requests to extra Dite suspects if they risked receiving the death penalty. Secretary of slate George Shultz inter viewed on the Abc to today program raised the possibility that the hijackers might be prosecuted in both countries. The important thing Here is that both governments want to see these people. Brought to Justice Shultz said. We have full Confidence in the italian system of Justice and i m sure they have full Confidence in ours and it May turn out that these murderers will be tried in both countries he said. Shutlz said he was not sure a formal extradition request had been hied but added we Are moving on that ver  the Palestine liberation organization vigorously condemned Friday night the us. Interception of the egyptian plane carrying the Achille Lauro hijackers As a Fla Grant act of piracy and demanded the re lease of the plane and its passengers. The Plo executive committee in a statement at its Tunis Tunisia Headquarters held president Reagan responsible for the lives of the passengers on the air liner. A similar communique issued in Dakar Senegal where Plo chairman Yasser Arafat is Vissing confirmed that the plane s passengers included negotiator Mohammed Abbas Abu Abbas committee member and head of the pro Arafat Wing of the Palestine liberation front. The hijackers arc said to be Palestine liberation front members. Israeli sources said the other official is Hani Al Hassa the senior aide to Arafat. The egyptian plane that brought the hijackers to Italy took off Friday night and headed for Rome. Two italian fighter planes escorted the Boeing 737 As it left. Police sources speaking on condition of anonymity said the aircraft carried 19 peo ple including Crew egyptian Security office s and the two Plo officials. They said the plane was destined for Rome s Ciampi no military Airport. Plo from Page 1 the next decade and the palestinians will still suffer he said. Frangi also strongly criticized the . Move in forcing the four hijackers into ital Ian authorities hands. The americans had no justification to Nab these four idiots and take them to Italy Frangi said. Frangi who is also an author was inter viewed at the Frankfurt Book fair. Earlier Friday in Beirut Lebanon an Anonymous caller claiming to speak for the Palestine liberation front threatened to strike at . Interests around the world if any harm befalls the detained hijackers. The Telephone caller also urged the italian government to free the four hijackers and two Palestine liberation front leaders arrested after . Navy jets intercepted the egyptian air plane flying them to Tunisia. An Anonymous caller also claimed responsibility for monday s hijacking in the name of the Palestine liberation front. Sex brazilian president Dies Rio de Janeiro Brazil a Emilio Ganas Tazu Medici the hard line right is military president who ruled Brazil from 1969-1974. Has died at the age of 79. The air Force Hospital where Medici had lain in critical condition for 10 Days said the. Cause of death was kidney respiratory and circulatory failure. The armed palestinian pirates commandeered the Achille Lauro off Egypt on monday and held More than 500 Passen Gers and Crew hostage for two Days. Egypt put the hijackers and two Plo officials aboard an egyptian Boeing 737 thursday for a flight out of the country. As the plane was Over the Mediterranean on its Way to Tunisia where the Plo has its Headquarters . Navy f-14 fighters took off from the Saratoga to meet it. The president directed that . Forces intercept the aircraft As part of a . Policy of apprehension prosecution and punishment of terrorists Speakes said thursday this operation was conducted without firing a  defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger said that during the flight from Cairo the tunisian government apparently heed ing a . Request to deny Sanctuary to the hijackers refused the egyptian plane permission to land. The hijackers also re Quested permission to land in Athens Greece before they accepted our intercept and agreed to be taken to the nato base at Simonella Weinberger said. The Airliner touched Down at Sicily s is Gonella Airport at 12 30 . 7 30 . Thursday not and was surrounded by cheering from Page 1 escape opens a new chapter in the . Approach to terrorism. We assume that the italians will show the same courage in dealing with this Issue that they have demonstrated in handling their own internal terrorism  reflecting the mood of Many Congress men rep. Daniel a. Mica d-fla., said the capture was  i Hope they Are Given the swiftest Possi ble trial. I Hope it s fair. I Hope they Are All executed he said. It s something we be needed for a Long time Senate majority Leader Robert Dole r-kan., said thursday. Asked if he approved of the use of Mili tary aircraft to Stop a commercial Airliner Dole said in this Case 1 think it was Worth whatever risk might have been involved. The important thing is we be been Able to Nail some of these  he called the action a signal to those who would terrorize and commit violence that they re not always going to get  sen. Richard Lugar r-ind., the chairman of the foreign relations committee said i strongly support this bold and decisive action. The United states will not Bow to terrorism. The president has done what he promised. If legitimate government authorities cannot or will not satisfy our demands for Justice is will take All due  it s a glorious Day in american history said rep. Robert k. Dornan a Calif. The president is finally living up to his rhetoric. I think it s the beginning of the end of unbridled  for Many americans the capture marked a turnaround from a series of frustrating hostage episodes such As iranian students holding americans at the embassy in Tehran for More than a year and More recently the hijacking of a Twa jetliner to Beirut. In most such cases the instigators escaped prosecution. Against that background the capture of the sea pirates struck a responsive chord among americans interviewed Friday morning in Midtown new York City. I think it s great. They Are muggers and murderers and they Are mugging and Mur Dering us and we were getting pushed around too much said Anne Anderson a Secretary at a Magazine office. They should be tried for murder and what we really should do is string them  i think it s great. They should shoot the Guys said Vincent Montalvo an electrician. They re  it s about time that the Reagan administration did something to combat terror ism said Todd Bentley a Model. This is a Good Chance to show terrorists All Over the world that we will not stand for  it s Good. It s got to Start somewhere said a retired Man from Wisconsin. His wife said they were afraid to give their names because they terrorists Are every where Don t you think meanwhile an Arab american group described the military operation As a hijacking but a zionist american group roundly praised the move. Elite . And italian troops officials said. Italian foreign minister Giulio Andreotto said Italy would Likely release the Plo members who accompanied the pirates on the Jet. The pirates had demanded the release of so palestinians held in israeli prisons and they threatened to kill the passengers one by one and blow up the cruise ship if their demands were not met. According to the Achille Lauro s Captain and Western diplomats who boarded the cruise ship at port said the pirates shot Leon Klinghoffer of new York and dumped the his body into the Ocean tuesday. The hijackers said in radio reports from aboard the ship monitored in Syria and Bei rut Lebanon on tuesday that they had killed at least one person but the Captain later said Over the snip s radio that everyone was All right. Temperatures l is 71 51 71 35 44 59 1 54 7154 to n to57 82 it 55it 73 50 a52 m 72 80 57 81 42 47 58 82 58 72 63 8230 a 37 49 50 62 33 3 23 53 23 s3 75 m 73 85 5� to 71 76 39 45 51 7164 81 Albany Albuquerque Anchorage Alln la Atlantic Cit Baltimore Billing Birmingham Boll Boston Buffalo Burlington Charleston. . Charleston . 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