News stories from Saturday August 28, 1982
Summaries of the stories the major media outlets considered to be of particular importance on this date:
- The President vetoed the supplemental appropriations bill providing $14.1 billion to operate the government until Sept. 30 and set the stage for another budgetary confrontation with Congress. Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, said that Mr. Reagan had approved "a temporary emergency regulatory change" to meet an August military payroll by using money normally withheld from paychecks for income and Social Security taxes. Democratic leaders said they would make a strong effort to override the expected veto, rather than obey the President's request to draft a new bill with $1 billion less in spending. [New York Times]
- New Medicaid rules are restricting the federal-state program established 17 years ago to finance medical care for the poor. State Medicaid officials across the country are using new authority to restrict eligibility, reduce benefits, charge for services and limit reimbursement to hospitals and nursing homes. [New York Times]
- Republican financing for House races has given G.O.P. candidates a big advantage over the Democrats, according to Federal Election Commission reports filed by 769 congressional candidates. Democratic candidates reported raising more money collectively than Republican candidates, by $24.4 million to $22.9 million. But this seeming Democratic edge was the resuit of Democrats having more incumbents who raise more money than challengers. [New York Times]
- A suspect in the Nat Masselli murder surrendered at the Bronx District Attorney's office. Salvatore Odierno, 67 years old, of Valley Stream, N.Y, was arraigned on a second-degree murder charge. Mr. Masselli, 31, who was slain Wednesday night, was the son of a witness in a federal investigation of Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan. Mr. Odierno is one of three suspects being sought by the police. The police said there were "hundreds of witnesses" to the shooting. [New York Times]
- Atlantic City's hopes for renewal, which accompanied the establishment of casino gambling there four years ago, remain largely unfulfilled. While the casino industry's revenues have been high and the elderly and disabled of New Jersey have received the promised aid from those revenues, the city has so far enjoyed only a small share of the treasure. [New York Times]
- The P.L.O. has been destroyed as a fighting force, despite being capable of individual terrorist acts, Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel said in an interview in which he discussed the results of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the prospects for peace in the area. He said that despite some disappointments with the Reagan administration, he regarded President Reagan as "a wonderful friend of the State of Israel." [New York Times]
- A tumultuous welcome in Tunisia greeted about 1,100 Palestinian troops who arrived in Bizerte after a six-day sea voyage from west Beirut. President Habib Bourguiba led the thousands of Tunisians who turned out to greet the Palestinians. The arrival of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was said to be imminent. A government residence was said to have been set aside for him. [New York Times]
- A Honduran-Nicaraguan war appears inevitable, a member of the Nicaraguan junta said, because of what he described as the Reagan administration's policy of trying to destabilize the Sandinist government. [New York Times]