News stories from Saturday November 21, 1981
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- Negotiations continued in Congress between House and Senate conferees on a compromise spending bill that would provide the budget cuts that President Reagan wants and avoid a presidential veto. The bill would provide operating funds for government agencies. The government technically ran out of money at 12:01 A.M. yesterday. Taking part in the negotiations was David Stockman, the budget director, who went to Capitol Hill at the invitation of Republican leaders. [New York Times]
- More cuts in federal aid to states are coming, despite outcries from state governments, President Reagan said. He said he plans further reductions to halt inflation and bring about his goal of a "New Federalism," in a White House interview. His administration's aim, the President said, is to "take the country back as far as the Constitution," a process he hopes will make state and local governments responsible for managing and financing many of the aid programs now run from Washington. [New York Times]
- A $10,000 payment to Richard Allen might have been made to him by a Japanese magazine for his role in arranging for an interview with Nancy Reagan, according to evidence found in Mr. Allen's safe during the Justice Department's renewed investigation of the payment, which orginally was said to be $1,000. [New York Times]
- Cuba provided a temporary haven for the 33 Haitians who drowned off the Florida coast last month when their 30-foot boat capsized, according to federal investigators. The officials said that the Haitians had spent nearly four weeks in Cuba, where they received supplies of food and other assistance that enabled them to continue their journey to the United States. A senior Justice Department official said that the department's investigators had concluded that "there was not a mother ship" involved in transporting the Haitians to Florida. [New York Times]
- A new phase in U.S.-Soviet relations that will be marked less by polemics and more by concrete discussions of arms control and other issues is expected by the Reagan administration, and it has told the allied governments of the prospective change. In briefings for diplomats and journalists, the administration has stressed that it believes there are good chances for progress in Soviet-American relations in specific areas. [New York Times]
- A huge iron cage in a Cairo courtroom held 23 of the 24 Moslem fundamentialists on the opening day of their military trial on charges of murder and conspiracy in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat on Oct. 6. One of the defendants is in a hospital. Four are charged specifically with murdering Mr. Sadat. [New York Times]