European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 6. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 3 Battle brews Over clean water act lawmakers confident Bill will pass Washington a president Reagan and leaders of inc icel la Congress squared off Over the weekend for on Early Ballac Over major environmental legislation that Reagan describes As budget busting but that inc lawmakers arc vowing to pass. Congressional leaders say they will hand Reagan a big Early session defeat by speedily refuting the clean water act designed to clean up the nation s Waterways but vetoed by the president Las year As Loo costly. It is just a question of priorities. It is Well within the budget,1 said new House speaker Jim Wright a Texas in an interview sunday on Abc to s this week with David  House Republican Leader Robert Michel joining Wright on the program said there is no question about it being  bus he added Hal the ques Tion is the amount of Money that will be in inc legis lation. Bui Reagan in his saturday radio address warned Congress Hal he s not softening his stance i was disappointed to hear that the new democratic leadership had declared that their first priority is to pass the budget busting clean water Bill that i vetoed last year he said adding that he is in favor of clean water but the Only thine clean in this Bill is its name it spends billions More than is  Wright however said on sunday it is interesting Hal or. Reagan has said the democrats want to spend Loo much on clean water. Every Republican in the House and the Senate voted for the  Quinlin Burdick d-n.d., who this week becomes environment committee chairman in the democratic controlled Senate pledged in an earlier interview to Lead a veto override Effort if inc Bill gets vetoed again. We intend o push this Bill through the Congress and Back onto the president s desk As soon As Possi ble he said the legislation the product of four years of House Senate negotiations would reauthorize and expand the clean water act the 1972 Law credited with making Long strides toward the goal of rendering . Water ways fish Abl and drinkable. The current dispute centers on How much Money the Federal government will continue la give slates to help pay for constructing expensive sewage and waste water treatment facilities. A Bill authori2ing $18 billion in such Aid through 1994 was passed without dissent 40h-0 in inc House 96-0 in the Senate last october shortly be fore the 99lh Congress adjourned. It was vetoed two Days after the nov. 4 elections by Reagan who had asked Congress to limit stale assist Ance to 16 billion and terminate the Aid program in 1989 As a Way of helping Cut huge Federal budget deficits. The veto was a mistake both  and politically says sen. George Mitchell a Mininc on of 60 Senate co sponsors of a new identical Bill. That measure is to be introduced when Congress convenes tuesday the same Day Fin identical Bill Wilt be introduced in the House by Public works chairman James Howard . Howard s schedule Calls for House passage thurs Day. Senate supporters say they Hope to gel a floor votes Early As next week which would be lightning Quick by Senate standards. It s going to pass very fast Mitchell said. Allan Hendrickse Leader of Smith Africa s coloured leads supporters into let tit w during � protest i a Whites Only teach. Protest swim held at s. African Beach port Elizabeth South Africa  the Leader of the coloured Branch of parliament and 100 mixed race supporters look a protest swim at a Whites Only Beach sunday without Inci Dent. A right Wing White political parly had said it would seek to have police arrest anyone violating the Whites Only designation under South Africa s separate amenities act. Although members of the group and  police watched the swim they did not intervene. The weather was overcast and blustery sunday and there were no while Sun bathers at King s Beach when Allan Hendrickse and his followers surged across the Esplanade and romped through the Sand the usual whiles Only signs were missing from inc Beach. Beach manager Johan Crafford was quoted saturday a saying Mast of the apartheid signs had been removed by vandals in the just week. This is god s Beach  said when he emerged from the surf after about 30 minutes. Hendrickse who leads the coloured labor party told the throng of journalists at the Beach  his party would pull out of parliament if the group areas act is not changed. The Law is one of the main pillars of South Africa s Salem of racial separation apartheid. It divides the country by race allocating More than 80 percent to Whites. The act controls Whites asians and col a rods As people of mixed race arc called in South Africa. Blacks Are governed by other taws. The South african parliament has sep Arate Chambers for Whites asians and people of mixed race. Blacks have no representation on the National level. The White House appears to be in a no win Situa Tion if Reagan vetoes the Hill the White House would be an underdog in an override fight because even,1 stale has Money on the line. This is not lost on the administration which last week offered a Compromise 112 billion in Grants to the states. It s inadequate was Mitchell s reaction it was obviously offered Only because of the certainty that the president s Volo will be  on the House Side Howard s spokesman David smaller said i Don t Sec much Hope for Hal judging from the atmosphere around Here from what i Hearthe members  lawmakers Point out that Reagan has already won one major Concession the Aid program is scheduled Tobe terminated under both the Bill and the while House offer. Bui lawmakers say that $18 million already is a Compromise figure Dawn from the $21 billion sought by the House. And they argue that $18 billion is Only a Down payment on the Loo billion or so the Environ mental Protection Agency estimates the United slates must spend by year 2000 to Complete the cleanup Effort. The legislation contains several initiatives that Aronni in dispute. These include Steps to combat the run off from streets farms and mines that is blamed for about half the polluted water in America. The Bill also directs an attack against concentrations of toxics in some bodies of water As Well As trying Loc lose a loophole in Industrial waste control that allows some hazardous materials to be dumped in sewers. Missionary imprisoned in Zambia Lusaka. Zambia a an elderly american missionary has been detained by zambian authorities and locked up in Lusaka s overcrowded vermin infested Kampala remand prison the . Embassy in Lusaka confirmed sunday. . Consul Kenneth Hill Idun fied inc Man As Robert brain of the african evangelical Fellowship. The Consul said he was still awaiting details on brain s age Hometown and confirmation on the spelling of his name he said he would have additional de tails after receiving a report from another . Official who visited brain. At tempts to Contact the Mission in Lusaka were unsuccessful. Hill said he had no information on the Mission but he thought it was affiliate with a protestant group based in the United slates. Brain was detained on Friday Hill said. A British tourist who was released from Kampala prison on Friday night and flown to Harare the capital of neigh Boring Zimbabwe said the american appeared to be in his 60s. He was coming in and i was going out so 1 did t get much of a Chance o learn More Aboul him said Chris Ben Nett 27, of London who was detained for three weeks with two other men a alleged South african spies. The others were australian Graham Crown her 24,and new pc Stander Chris Martin 28. Bennett Crowther and Martin were among scores of foreigners detained in de Cember following widespread rioting against increased food prices which swept Zambia s major cities leaving 15 dead. Documentary Filmer Dies new York a David Maysles a film maker who documented inc music of the rolling stones am Ihu Art of Christo died saturday. He was 54