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Middle East fighting
U.S., Russia call for
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Leonid I. Brezhnev met yesterday in
Egyptian arid Israeli forces clashed Moscow for the second consecutive day
yesterday in big tank and aerial battles on the Mideast crisis,
along the Suez Canal, and the United ~ The proposed U.N. diplomatic
States and the Soviet Union called for a maneuver came with Israel claiming it
cease-fire along current battle lines. held 300 square miles of Syrian territory
Under the Soviet-U.S. proposal, and that it had grabbed a 19-mile by 25-
circulated among diplomats before a. mile area of Egypt proper.
special meeting last night of the United
Nations, fighting would stop 12 hours
after the council adopted the plan. The
proposal followed a White House
announcement that the Soviet Union and
the United States had agreed on a
common approach to peace in the
Middle East.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger
and Soviet Communist party leader
Student
By STEVE OSTROSKY
Collegian Staff Writer
New federal loan regulations and'cuts
in funding are making it harder for
college students to obtain financial aid
from the state.
Pennsylvania Higher
Assistance Agency scholarships and
state-guaranteed loans, which are
guaranteed by PHEAA, are the main
sources of state aid for students. S
The biggest problem now seems to be
in the state guaranteed loan program.
Many students from middle-income
News analysis
families are not qualifying for federally
subsidized loans because of new federal
regulations.
Previously, if a student’s parental in
come was less than $15,000, the federal
government paid the interest on the loan
while the student was in school.
But the Higher Education Amend
ments Act of 1972 requires all students
applying for a loan with federal interest
benefits to submit a needs analysis to
determine the expected family con
tribution.
Based on the expected family con
tribution, the school the student will at
tend decides the student’s need, recom
mends a loan amount to the student’s
bank and recommends to the federal
government how much interest it should
-pay.
For PHEAA loans, a Parent’s Con
fidential Statement must be submitted to
determine the expected contribution
from parents.
Ron Taylor of PHEAA said “We know
the difficulty in obtaining loans is a result
of the needs analysis.”
Taylor said there is a marked
decrease in the number of federally
subsidized loans approved throughout
the nation. Approved loans with federal
interest benefits have dropped by 50 per
cent from last year. In Pennsylvania $l9
million less than last year was given in
state-guaranteed loans this year.
And the situation is getting worse. In
April, May and June 1972, PHEAA
guaranteed about 19,800 student loans
totaling $25 million. In the same period
this year, the number of loans dropped to
4,900 with a value of $5.9 million,
representing a drop of about 75 per cent
in the number of loans and their value.
Also in June, there were 48 per cent
fewer first-time applications than in
June 1972.
Kenneth R. Reeher, executive director
of PHEAA, said the current trend in
dicates the number of loans will likely
Collegian
the
daily
In another development yesterday, the
Arab world continued its campaign to
halt U.S. aid to Israel with Kuwait
becoming the seventh Middle East
nation to cut off all U.S.-destined oil.
In the Sinai fighting, Egypt apparently
tried to cut off and trap an Israeli armor
operation on the west bank of the Suez
Canal, touching off major battles.
On the Suez front, both sides claimed
aid harder
be cut in half again this year.
'’Many students didn’t go to school this
year because they couldn’t get money,” -
Taylor said. "We know the answer is get
ting rid of the needs analysis.”
But Congress is not ready to take ac
tion on the guaranteed-loan program.
right now. Taylor said Congress will not
consider taking any action on loan rules
until next year.
Even then action may not be taken.
This summer the House and the Senate
held hearings on the loan-rules, but no ac
tion was taken.
Although some Congressmen favor
changing the loan regulations, other
members of Congress and the Nixon Ad
ministration feel no action should be
taken at this time.
Taylor said PHEAA is urging return to
the $15,000 cut-off point with-.which the
banks were happy.
Not only is it harder to receive a sub
sidized loan, but many banks are not
lending money to students if it is not
subsidized by the'federal government.
The main reason for this is that banks
can charge students only seven per cent
interest on state-guaranteed loans, in
stead of 8.75 per cent which the federal
government has to pay the banks on sub
sidized loans.
Reeher said every day another bank in
forms PHEAA it is not making any new
student loans.
Under a bill now in the State House
Education Committee, a $2 million
revolving fund would be set up to en
courage more banks to make non
federally subsidized loans.
Taylor said if a student could not get a
subsidized loan, PHEAA would pay the
interest to the bank and bill the student
for the interest. This proposal would help
relieve the lending institutions of paper
work involved with making student
loans.
But, Taylor said, “In the long run, it
will take federal legislation, eliminating
the needs analysis, to solve the
problem.”
PHEAA scholarships also are harder
to get this year than last because of a cut
in the scholarship budget.
Last year the state legislature gave
PHEAA $64 million for basic grants, $1.4
million for veterans scholarships and
$3.8 million for scholarships for victims
of last year’s flood.
This year the legislature kept the funds
for the basic and veterans scholarships
the same, while cutting out all money for
flood relief victims.
Taylor said next year’s budget' for
PHEAA scholarships has not yet been
determined. “If the number of loans go
down, then we wilj ask for more scholar-
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success. An Egyptian spokesman said
the west bank operation by the Israelis
was “completely besieged.” The Israeli
command acknowledged it had come
under ground and air attacks but said its
forces pressed on in a drive over an area
19 miles deep and 25 miles wide on the
west side of the Suez.
A Cairo military spokesman said
Egypt- was knocking out three Israeli
pontoon bridges over the Suez each time
they were repaired.
A report from the Sinai by Associated
Press correspondent Hugh A. Mulligan
indicated Egyptian armor on the east
bank was assaulting the canal doorway
Israel has opened for its thrust into
Egypt.
ship money,” he said.
But neither that nor talk about changes
in federal loan regulations is helping the
college student obtain financial aid this
year.
To act as
USG
A bill calling for a security advisory
board will be introduced to the
Undergraduate Student Government
Senate tonight despite an administration
veto of the proposal two weeks ago.
The board will be designed to include
student, faculty and administration
representatives who will work with the
Department of Safety, providing
“community input into pdlice services,”
according to USG Vice President Frank
Muraca. j
Muraca said he' sees the board as
serving two major purposes. It would
provide outside input into police law
enforcement and would act as a
sounding board and mediator should
conflicts arise between police and
students, he said.
Muraca said establishing a security
advisory board was one of his and Mark
Jinks’ campaign promises during the
USG elections last spring.
At that time, Muraca said, the
proposal was presented to Director of
University Safety David Stormer and
Vice President for Business Ralph Zilly.
He said they both reacted optimistically
and seemed in favor of the idea, saying a
board would be possible by this year.
Two weeks ago, however, Muraca said
when he went to Zilly to finalize the plans
and set up membership of the board he
was told the administration thinks the
board is unnecessary.
“There was a turn-around in support. I
was shocked and very disappointed to
hear the decision,” Muraca said.
Zilly told The Daily Collegian there
was never a joint plan to form a security
advisory board and the first time he
officially heard about the idea was when
Sunny and pleasant today, high 62.
Clear and cool tonight, low 39. Tuesday
mostly sunny and a bit warmer, Fygh 65.
continues;
cease-fire
to get
'sounding board,
requests security advisory
By GLENDA GEPHART
Collegian Staff Writer
Weather
Firings prompt ouster talk
Watergate escalates
WASHINGTON (AP)‘— The Watergate
crisis yfesterday escalated with
congressional talk of impeachment
proceedings as the House and Senate
prepared to confront President Nixonls
abrupt firing of special prosecutor
Archibald Cox.
The President’s Watergate lawyer, J.
Fred Buzhardt, said he was working on a
court presentation that he hopes will gain
approval from the federal judge who or
dered Nixon to surrender his Watergate
tapes. He predicted the impeachment
talk “will pretty much go away” when
the public understands what was in
volved in Nixon’s decision.
There were reports of possible mass
resignations from the Justice Depart
ment following the departure of its two
top men and their eight closest advisers.
A spokesman for Cox’s abolished
special prosecution force announced that
the investigating team was determined
to carry on under mantle of the
Justice Department. But that resolve
remained unconfirmed by acting Atty.
Gen. Robert H. Bork who is-to announce
the future of the Watergate probe
tomorrow.
Despite calls for impeachment
proceedings by more than 20 House
members, mostly liberal Democrats,
presidential adviser Melvin R. Laird
predicted Congress would await the out
come of a White House compromise plan.
The plan, to provide partial transcripts
wirephoto
“A great tank battle is raging on the
east bank,” Mulligan reported from a
captured Egyptian bunker on the west
bank after crossing the canal in a
halftrack.
“Tanks are burning all over the
place,” he said. “Israeli guns on Egypt’s
side of the canal are firing on Egyptian
forces deploying” on the east bank. He
said Israeli guns were “just picking off
tanks all over.”
On the west bank, where U.S.
intelligence says Israel has 300 tanks
and 12,000 men, the Egyptians were
“fighting anfl falling back, fighting and
falling back,” Mulligan said in a
telephone dispatch from a bunker seven
miles south of Ismailia.
In Cairo, Gen. Izzidin Mukhtar said
the Israeli force was “completely
besieged” and Egyptian fighters kept
knocking out the Israeli pontoon bridges
across the canal.
The Cairo command said its forces
had knocked out 70 tanks, 40 halftracks,
13 warplanes and 12 helicopters Sunday.
The Israeli command said it destroyed
60 Egyptian tanks and 17 Egyptian
planes.
Muraca came to him this term.
Zilly added he had read about the
proposal in the Collegian last spring
during the elections.
“He didn’t want a review board. He
wanted an on-going discussion program,
not a reactionary type of thing,” Zilly
said about his recent meeting with
Muraca.- r .
According to' Muraca himself, this
would be the exact function of the
proposed board. *
“Instead of acting as a reaction to
something, we would like the board to
act as a preventitive,” Muraca said.
Jinks described the board as acting as
a check and balance system on Safety.
He said police are to serve the
community and here at Penn State the
students are the community which
should have some input into the police
services.
“This is a student issue and the
students should know where they
Funding discrepancy hurts OD
ByJEFFDeBRAY
Collegian Senior Reporter
Funding for On Drugs, Inc. has been
delayed again.
A Friday meeting of the county Mental
Health-Mental Retardation Board, at
which action was expected to be taken on
the county’s social service budget, was
canceled by the county commissioners.
There is an apparent discrepancy
between the funds the county expected to
receive and the amount the county
actually has to spend at present for
social services.
The County Council on Drug and
Alcohol Abuse has been allocated $13,000
for the 1973-74 year, contingent upon the
commissioners allocating 10 per cent in
matched funds.
OD, a State College-based, 24-hour
drug crises, educational and referral
Monday, October 22, 1973
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Published by Students of The Pennsylvania Stafe University
of Watergate-related White House tape
recordings authenticated by a senior
senator, was rejected by Cox but ac
cepted at least initially by the
leaders of the Senate Watergate com
mittee.
Meanwhile, AFL-CIO President
George Meany was reported ready to
demand the President’s resignation or
impeachment and seek the support of his
13.4-million-member unions for a
congressional lobbying campaign.
An Associated Press spot check of
Republican state chairmen showed
many GOP officials surprised and con
cerned by Nixon’s actions but cautious
about impeachment talk. Democratic
leaders were more vehement, and
several urged Congress to take steps to
remove the President from office. ■*'’
, The President’s standing before the
courts remained" unresolved. A federal
court order demanding Nixon’s s’urren
der of the tapes and White House
documents relating to the scandal is now
in effect, but the President has indicated
he will ignore it.
Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica
presumably will decide soon whether to
hold Nixon in contempt of court. Sirica's
clerk, Todd Christofferson, said the
judge would be out of the city until
tomorrow but had instructed his staff by
telephone to research all available alter
natives.
FBI agents were withdrawn yesterday
after being posted outside the now
vacant offices of former Atty. Gen. Elliot
L. Richardson, his fired deputy William
D. Ruckelshaus and special prosecutor
Cox.
Richardson resigned Saturday rather
than fire Cox, who defied a presidential
order to drop his court proceedings
seeking the tapes and documents.
Ruckelshaus automatically succeeded
Richardson and was fired when he, too,
refused to dismiss Cox.
- The No. 3 man at the Justice Depart
ment, Solicitor General Bork, then
assumed the top law-enforcement office.
He earned out the firing of the special
prosecutor and dissolved the Watergate
prosecution force.
A day after the traumatic events, reac
tion in the House, where impeachment
proceedings must begin, showed at least
24 members calling for initiation of such
moves and another score saying im
peachment now would get serious con
sideration.
In the Senate, where an impeached
president would be tried, Nixon’s actions
found sparse support and outspoken op
position.
Rep. John B. Anderson of Illinois,
chairman of the House Republican
caucus, said Nixon’s actions over the
weekend would “precipitate a very
serious effort on the part of some
members to impeach the President.” He
said he was not yet prepared to take a
position on the issue.
The chairman of the powerful House
Rules Committee, Rep. Ray J. Madden,-
D-Ind., said the situation has become so
serious that congressional action is
necessary, but he stopped short of
mediator'
stand,” Muraca said. “Students would
feel safer knowing they had a security
advisory board and it would promote a
more open atmosphere between students
and police.”
‘Muraca, Jinks and Zilly, however, all
had compliments for the work Stormer
is doing with Safety.
“Stormer is doing a better job than
ever (with the department), but a board
is still needed,” Muraca said.
Zilly said if Muraca had brought in the
proposal for a security advisory board
three years ago he would have agreed to
it.
He added he feels the department is
“in the midst of exciting programs”
under the direction of Stormer.
“They (the board members) would
just tell us to do what we are doing
already,” Zilly said, “let Stormer do his
thing now.
“I hate to say (to Stormer) you’re
doing fine but we’re going to get an
service announced about two weeks ago
it would suspend all services Oct. 31.
OD President John Elliot said
Saturday an OD representative went to
Harrisburg last week to meet with the
Governor’s Council and Drug Abuse, to
try and get the funding situation
straightened out.
The county council has submitted a
proposal to the Governor’s council for
$85,000 for social service funds for the
county. The $85,000 would be contingent
on the commissioners allocating $10,060
in matched funds.
Elliot said the confusion has arisen
because two different budgets are being
discussed the assured $13,000 for the
county, and the additional $95,000 the
county has requested.
OD would have to be for
by the Governor’s Justice
recommending impeachment.
At least five Democrats on the 36-
member House Judiciary Committee
said they would support a move toward
impeachment. They include Rep. Robert
F. Drinan of- Massachusetts, who
already has introduced an impeachment
resolution.
“The first question before the
committee is the impeachability of the
President,” said Rep. Charles B.
Rangel, D-N.Y., Reps. Don Edwards, D-
Calif., Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y., and
John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., also backed
their panel’s consideration of the issue.
Rep. John J. McFall of California, the
House Democratic whip, said: "I
suppose we’ll have to take a serious look
at impeachment Tuesday,” when
Congress returns from its Veterans’ Day
holiday.
Rep. Ogden R. Reid, D-N.Y., a former
Republican who switched parties a year
and a half ago, called for immediate
initiation of impeachment proceedings,
saying: “No president is above the law,”
a phrase echoed by several of Reid’s
colleagues.
There was no clear position yet from
the Senate Watergate committee, which
the White House is counting on to uphold
the President’s compromise. Nixon said
Chairman Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., and
Vice Chairman Howard H. Baker Jr., R-
Tenn., had agreed to accept a
presidential summary of the tapes,
verified by Sen. John C. Stennis, D-Miss.
The agreement was called into
question when Ervin said he understood
he would receive verified transcripts of
Watergate-related conversations, a
position apparently now adopted by
Laird as Nixon’s No. 2 aide.
But Nixon’s firing of Cox wasn’t a part
of the agreement and raised the question
of how the committee and the Senate
would treat the dismissal of a special
prosecutor who was hired at the Senate’s
insistence and with the promise he would
be independent.
Sen. Edmund S. Muskis, D-Maine,
issued a statement saying the House
“should consider holding hearings on the
impeachment of the President” whose
-action “smacks of dictatorship and
threatens to destroy our system of
laws.”
But most senators contacted took a
more cautious approach when
impeachment was mentioned, although
they spoke harshly of the dismissals.
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana called Nixon’s
action “outrageous,” and Sen. Edward
M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said the firing of
Cox was “a reckless act of desperation”
by a man “bent on maintaining the
Watergate cover-up at any cost.”
On ■ another front, there were
indications that the nomination of Vice
President-designate Gerald R. Ford
might be held up in Congress, where it is
awaiting confirmation by both houses.
Ford issued a statement Saturday
supporting the President and said
yesterday he hoped the latest crisis
wouldn’t interfere with his confirmation
advisory board in to tell you to do it
better.”
Muraca said Zilly told him to come
back in a year with the board proposal.
“It’s silly to postpone it for a year,”
Muraca said.
Stormer said he feels at this time a
board might be inappropriate. He added,
however, he is not opposed to an
advisory board within the right
constraints.
The perception the USG officers now
have of the board is negative, Stormer
said. Board’s generally act in reaction to
citizens’ complaints and not in a review
capacity as is wanted, he said.
Stormer cited The President’s
Commission on Law Enforcement and
Administration of Justice (1967) as
showing civilian review boards of police
operations are generally ineffective and
where they-do not already exist are not
really needed.
Committee, .Elliot said the OD
representative was told by the
Governor’s council.
OD last year received a $20,000 grant
from the Governor’s council.
These latest developments came
several days after OD Training
Coordinator Barbara Wakshul said she
was assured, through the county
commissioners, that OD would have
funds to operate through the rest of the
year.
Elliot said an OD representative will
check with Richard Horman of the
Governor’s council today, in another
attempt to determine what can be done
about the funding.
He added that the commissioners
“have turned around 180 per cent” and
are being very helpful in trying to secure
funding for OD.