May 3, 1986

The White House said today that President Reagan opposed the $1 trillion budget for 1987 that the Senate approved overwhelmingly early this morning. Mr. Reagan will continue to fight for his budget priorities, the White House said, even if it means using his veto power. The President strongly objects to provisions adding new revenue and limiting the military budget. But Senate leaders said that the substantial bipartisan support for the plan in the Senate meant the House was likely to approve a similar proposal and that the President was headed for a confrontation with Congress. House Eyes Revenue Some members of the House Budget Committee agreed that the Republican support for revenue increases in the Senate would open the way for the Democrats to add revenue in their proposal. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., Democrat of Massachusetts, said recently that he would not consider tax increases unless they were supported by Republicans in the Senate and House. House Budget Committee members have said they expect to reduce the military budget level significantly below the Senate.

The rapid spread of mandatory testing programs to identify employees who use illegal drugs is touching off a growing debate over whether private employers have the right to insist on such tests. Some lawyers who specialize in civil liberties cases contend that the matter is the most significant privacy issue of the decade. Labor unions are mounting legal challenges around the country in an effort to have the testing declared unconstitutional. They assert that the tests are unreliable and may be biased against black and Hispanic workers. Liberties Groups Opposed But so far most judges and legal scholars are siding with employers who maintain that guarantees of privacy and limits on improper searches and seizures contained in the United States Constitution do not apply to what the legal experts term reasonable programs of drug screening imposed by private companies. Most programs use urinalysis or blood tests to determine if employees or prospective employees have used illicit drugs.

Two police officers were found guilty yesterday of torturing a teen-age drug suspect with an electric stun gun at a Queens station house to force a confession. The two officers, Sgt. Richard Pike and Officer Jeffrey Gilbert, were the first of five officers to go on trial in connection with charges that several prisoners were assaulted with stun guns and beaten in separate incidents at the 106th Precinct station early last year. The accusations, which came as the Police Department faced other allegations of misconduct, including the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian on Park Avenue, rocked the department and led to a shakeup in which five top commanders retired. As the verdict was announced in State Supreme Court in Queens, Sergeant Pike, a tall, slim, 42-year-old man, and Officer Gilbert, a solidly built 34-year-old, gazed intently at the jury, which had deliberated for two full days after a month-long trial.

The United States Government today advised women of child-bearing age and all children not to travel to Poland because of the potential health hazards caused by the nuclear reactor accident in the Ukraine. The Canadian, Australian and British Embassies have already evacuated the children of their diplomats in Poland to Western Europe. West Germans Impound Milk In addition, the West German authorities ordered supplies of fresh milk from several dairy regions impounded because of radioactive contamination. The West German Foreign Ministry said there were reports that Rumania had declared a state of emergency because of radiation there and had urged people to stay indoors.

Most Japanese believe their country has become a global power and that, as such, it should be playing a broader role in international affairs, according to a poll conducted by the New York Times, CBS News and the Tokyo Broadcasting System. A majority of the Japanese surveyed, 55 percent, said they believed one of Japan's main obligations should be to provide more aid to poorer nations. According to the survey, 31 percent also felt their country's international responsibilities required it to work harder to reduce its large trade surpluses. The findings thus suggest significant support for two basic themes struck repeatedly by the Japanese Government in recent years - that it must do something soon about growing trade imbalances and that it must increase economic assistance to poor nations. Reluctance on Defense Spending But the Japanese, who were interviewed in person from April 4 through 6 in advance of the economic summit meeting, which starts Sunday, were far less receptive to the idea of increased military spending as another way of fulfilling global obligations. A stronger military is another stated priority of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. But only 12 percent thought that Japan should assume a larger share of its own defense.