Ford's '77 fiscal plan defeated
Seriate votes tax cut extension
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate
voted yesterday to extend 1975's federal
tax cuts into the first six months of 1976
after efforts to reach a compromise with
President Ford' over a fiscal 1977
spendingceiling failed.
A final! GOP effort to attach Ford's
proposed $395 billion ceiling failed 66-27,
and a presidential veto appeared
inevitable.
Final passage was by a vote of 73-19,
far more than the two-thirds majority
needed to override any Ford veto.
The Senate bill was sent now to a
House-Senate Conference Committee to
iron out minor differences, and final
passage by both houses was expected
quickly, possibly today. Ford was ex
pected to veto the bill immediately, in
time for an override vote before
Congress leaves town for the year on
Friday. .
Study offers transit improvenvnts
By JOHN MATTA even death: are more likely, to occur," large amount of 'through' traffic using
Collegian Staff Writer the report continues. , campus roads, according to the report. '
The University Park Campus Trans- "Walking is by far the principal mode Another problem identified in the
portation Study is trying to improve the of travel within the campus, with almost report is a shortage of parking places.
campus traffic dilemma with practical 95 per cent of the trips between campus "Several areas of the campus are
'solutions to present and future traffic buildings being made as pedestrians," deficient from the staapoint of 'con
problems, according to its developers. the report says. venient' parking space! supply," the
The plan analyzes transportation "Students moving between classes ... report says. Illegal student parking in
facilities and operations- and recom- form' major pedestrian concentrations faculty and staff parking lots compounds
mends improvements. throughout much of the campus," the the problem, it reports.
The ml.)st pressing problems observed report notes. The ljniversity has I roughly 8,700
at the campus are pedestrian-vehicle Pedestrian-vehicle conflicts are parking spaces. About 5,540 spaces are
conflicts! 'and parking shortages, the numerous, according to the report, resetved for staff faculty and visitors.
report says.because many of the paths that people Students are providedlapprokirnately
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--' Exces ive walking distances between walk take cross roadways. .
f 3,l6o , spaces 2,035 for on campus
some ctivities and congestion at The report says the • biggest residence and 1,125 spaces for students
campus entry-exit points during peak pedestrian-vehicle conflicts are along living off campus. -
traffic periods were other problems College Avenue between Atherton Street The report estimates that there is !.9
identified in the report. and Shortlidge Road; along iPollock shortage of about 210 parking spaces for
There is, high potential for accidents Road between Burrov.ies Road and the students who commute and a shortage of
between vehicles, and between vehicles Undergraduate Library; along • Short- roughly 230 spaces for the students living
and pedestrians, the report says. lidge Road over , most of IN length; off campus. ••,,'- .
But It appears that the occurrence of along Curtin and Burro es' Roads There is also a need for an additional
accidents . has been tempered by between Pollock Hoed and the 585 parking spaces for faculty, staff and
awareness of drivers. Natatorium and Bigler Road near East visitors, the report says.
"As , volumes increase, however, Halls. I ' The Keller Conference Center-Nittany
accidents involving serious injuries, or , "Contributing to these conflicts is the Lion Inn area needs amther 230 Parking
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Writer criticizes news quality
By LEON POLLOM
Collegian Staff Writer
The message given to a near
capacity crowd at the HUB Ballroom
last night was a dismal one: The
American news media are failing
miserably.
Ben Bagdikian, a Pulitzer Prize
winner - with more than 30 years ex
perience in journalism said corporate
interests and political favors have
become more important to the press
than informing the people.
••• "Most publishers and station
managers, when given the choice
between political Savors and the First
Amendment, will take the political
favors," Bagdikian said.
He said the head of CBS is reported
to have made a deal with the White
Houe to stop broadcasting anti-
Nixon editorials. In addition,
Bagdikian said, NBC provided the
FBI with press passes so agents could
infiltrate the press corps during -a
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The Only amendment added to the bill
prior to its passage was one by Sen.
Vance Hartke, D-Ind., to extend for six
months the special, five per cent tax
credit for purchase of new houses bullt
or under construction prior to MarCh 26,
1975. F t xtension of the maximum $2,000
credit passed 47-44.
Effoits were made throughout the day
to formulate compromise langdage that
would allow Ford to sign the bill, but
Democrats said they thought they had
the votes to override a veto if it came to
that.
' However, Democrats never were
willing to enact a specific dollar figure
nor to commit themselves by law to
cutting one dollar from the budget for
every dollarf of tax cuts. For his part,
Ford never was willing to accept
language saying Congress would
"consider" a dollar-for-dollar cut.
Sen. William V. Roth, R-Del., who was
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Democratic national conyention.
"Publishers and lfroadcasting
executives ignored the attacks on
freedom of the press during the Nixon
years," he said. •
One such attack was the attempt to
censor the Pentagon Pttpers before
they were printed, lit said. Another
was the threat to disc i. nhnlie funds to
the Public Broadcasting S3tstem if it
did not broadcast a sympathetic view
of the Nixon adniinistration,
Bagdikian said.
Even after WatergatC and the at
tempts to control the media, 93 per
cent of the publishers and station
managers supported Nixon,le said.
The New York Times and the
Washington Post are considered to be
examples of the Arherican press, he
said, but in reality the news most
people are exposed to is inadequate.
"Most people are provided with
to have offered any compromise
amendment, ariMiunced to the Senate
just prior to the final vote, "I regret that
our efforts to find a compromise on
language have failed!' •
Sen. Henry Bellmon, R-Clkla., who had
broken ranks with Ford buf who con
tjpued to work for a compromise, said,
think the President got some very bad
advice."
Like the overwhelming majority of
Democrats, Bellmon said it would be 'a
very serious mistake" to bypass the new
congressional budget process.
Even Sen. JameS Alle D-Ala., a
staunch fiscal conservative, supported
the new congressional budget process
and said he felt that the new Senate
Budget Committee was basically con
servative and worthy of support.
Bellrson has proposed that Congress
pass a \esolution pledging to hold down
newspapers and broadcasting 1
stations that provide little insight into '
What is happening today," Ugdikian
said. I .
• "If you judge a paper on the way lip !
informs and serves the community,
most papers are bad.'.' '': ;
Polls have shown that large per
centages Icif the American; pegple
support the nationalization &energy
resources and employe ownership of
corporations, he said. But there is
massive silence on the part of
newspapers and politidans on these
issues, Bagdikian said.
"One reason for the 'silence," he
said, "is that newspapers are large .
corporations themselves." • ,
—Unless he public shows concern, I
Etagdikian: warned, "we are in danger_
of our news media becoming a by-
Product ofForporate interests. ' 1
He complained ' that newspaper
chains are forming "news
conglomeates". "Fifty.of the largest .
newspaper chains have two-thirds of
the n'ation's readers," he s aid.
As newspapers begin to act like
'large corations, their primary
concern i in maximizing profits and
investing n new businesses, he said.
If moneygets tight, the first thing cut
is the news.budgets, a he said. I
"We used to think we in America
had open government. But now it is,
clear that that means our govern
ment can open our, mail, filings
cabinets, .....he said.
"We were lucky with Watergate.
We were! lucky, that I a few good
journalists . . and 1 journalist
organizations uncovered o the story,"
he said. Because "onlyla tiny fraction,
of journalists decided to do! anything
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about it."
Attempts are under Way to forbid
the reporting of arrehts, earrings
and trialt, he , said. Ther is some
merit in protecting the rights of the
accused, he said, but it is n essary to,
allow tie reportirig . f court:
proceedings. '
"If ith' d been forbid to report
on the roceedirgs of atergate,
including the Vice-presid is of the
United tes, the e gang woilici
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be in the •te House w f 'l he said.
Bag ' an said the United States
depends ore,on thepress than any
other corntry beca it : Ott=
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much on the public fonr na
policy. . 1 ! -
"We need an informed public to
provide ... ." he
s taid, • " but the
press is failing to keep tabs on the
gov' ... :..t and prOvides that in
formatio
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the itch 'to meddle i 5 gone,
is gone," he said.
spending next year, but without any
specific spending ceiling.' Sen. Robert
Dole, R-Kan., said Budget Director
James 'Lynn was asked about the
Bellmon proposal during a meeting of
the Senate GOP Policy Committee, but
"it didn't gab him too much."
Senate Democratic leader Mike
Mansfield said Democrats remain
confident they can override a
presidential veto' of the bill, but Mans
field said he could support the 13ellmon
resolution.
"I hope it will be possible to achieve a
compromise," Mansfield said. "There's
no reason why It could not be worked out
among reasonable people."
Mansfield said the tax bill would
probably go to Ford by Wednesday and
added that he will personally ask Ford to
act immediately so that if vetoes it,
Congress can vote to override before
adjournment by'the end of the week.
spaces, the report says. Old Main could
use an additional' 235 spaces and central
campus is short by 120 parking spaces,
according to the report.
"The University, recognizing. that not
all of the campus population is present
simultaneously, intentionally . over
subscribes parking registrations by
approximazly 35 per cent, overall.
Actual over-subscriptkin in some lots
exceeds 100 per cent," the report says.
However, the average occupancy of _
spaces is 86 per tent.
"This level of occupancy approaches
the 'effective' capacity normally:
assumed for parking facilitiei," ac
,cording to the report.
Except near the.Nittany Lion Inn and
the Keller Conference Center, the report
says, current parking spa'roblems
"can be corrected through operational
adjustments."
These adjustments would include
restriping some parking lots to- provide
spaces for small cars and redesignating
some- faculty and staff areas for
students.
Indochinese check out
FT. INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. (AP) —.
The last of 22,033 Indochina refugees
checked out of a resettlement Camp here
yesterday, on' their way, to new lives in
various pails of the United States.
The final refugee camp residents were
members of two families, including one
of 27 relatives and another ofnine.
The closing of Indiantown Gap leaves
only one refugee center,. Ft. Chaffee,
Ark.,lstill in operation. Two others at Ft.
Pendleton; Calif. and Eglin Air Force
Base in Florida closed down earlier.
Chaffee is ; scheduled to close on
Saturday.
Nguyen Van Tra, 27, said he and the
other 26 members of his family were on
their way to Foley, Ala., near Mobile, to
work as fishermen the same line of
work they had in Vietnim.
Speaking through an interpretor, Tra
said they expected to outdo American
fishermen, whom he thinks aren't
willing to put in the long hours Viet
nameie work:
Members of the smaller family,,
heeded by Hoang Van Dan, are also
going south ti) become fishermen. Dan's
family will settle at Baldwin, La.
Beirut fighting mars truce
BEIRUT, Lebanon CAP) Sporadic
shooting marred the first few hours of
Lebanon's 15th cease-fire agreement
Monday bet Ween Christian and Moslem
factions struggling for control of this
Arab capital: i
Moslemlguerrillas in red berets used
bullhorns to urge their comrades to stop
firing and Christian gunmen in the
en
circled 25-story Holicay Inn waited for
army troops-to move in to set up a buffer
lone.
Security officials reported four .dead.
six wounded and seven fires burning in
downtown Beirut a vastly reduced
casualty toll from house-to-ho*ne
.fighting the previous days. !
"The night will be decisive for peace
or war,"sar i a spokesman for left-wing
'Nasserite ilitiamen occupying 4he
downtown hotel district.
Lebanon's! eight-month-old civil war
has a long history of - tiruce failures. Some
lof the cease-fires have only lasted a few .
egs,
leans, .of r have produced lulls -of
iseveral w .-
But , alWa the government's failure
to reasserts HS authority over private
armies , iif ; Christians, Moslems- and
Palestinianl guerrillas has led to a
resumption Of the conflict.
The late* accord called for internal
security forces to replace gunmen in the
high-rise hotel district while a 850-man"
asmy strike force niqvedAsslo a wmees
land buffer' zone betemsei arid
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A RAIN SLICKED Allen Street seems quite desolate save for this lone car and a
holiday shopper browsing in some veryun-Christm ai like weather.
Both amilies are from fishing villages
in Viettiarri; both are Catholic and are
being sponsored by Catholic parisbes in
Louisiana and Alabama.
The two families were among 93
Vietnamese refugees who departed
yesterday. The other 57 left early in the
day without fanfare.
More than half of Tra's family were
children, who sat or played on stacks of
d boxes full of belongings as the
talked with reporters, and
in 40-degree weather.
y members ranged in age from
onths to 75 years. The three-
shivere
Fam*
three
ld boy, Nguyen Hung Tan, is one
I - fugee family babies born at the .
•wn Gap post hospital or at the
Hershey Medical Center. All 129
rn American citizens.
month
of 129r 1
Indiant,
nearby
hours of interviews and
ing, the Vietnamese watched as
efugee center sign was
~ n iously removed from an Army
rters building. They then got in
I , or a trip. to Harrisburg Inter-
Airport and a flight to New
cerem
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nation
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to the
New Orleans they will travel on
new honiEs in Louisiana and
• n neighborhoods. But the troops
•win getting started.
tfall, a spokesman for the right
i'halange party said security
only replaced Christian
! en in the unfinished Hilton
Christi
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force
militi
Hotel. He confirmed Phalangists were
still i ,cupying the Holiday Inn and the
Starco office center, abutting thecity's
Jewi quarter.
"The cease-fire is not working very
well," he conceded.'"The Moslems are
still shooting at us, but we hope they will
step."
A spbkesman for tOe Moslem side said
no a y troops or security men had
aril to take over positims held by
'tes,` Lebanese Cominunists,
Druze Socialists and radical Palestinian
gue as.
He eported, the Moslems still oc
cupi most &the Jewish quarter, the
Phoe cia and St. Georges Hotels, and
eMir. ed Christians in the Holiday Inn.
Isolated clashes also were reported
, continiiin,g in the northerri city of Tripoli.
Setcurlty officials said efforts to im
plement the cease-rue there were im
peded by a wave of kidnaping as both
sides sought hostages. Mass abductions
are a common tactic of both sides during
cease-fireperioth.
' A spokesman r for the Arab Socialist
Union„' one of the Moslem factions in'. ,
volved in the current roUrtitefightime n
said leftist forces shield obey the
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Alabama.
None of the refugees appeared to
speak English, although most of them
❑ad been here since shortly after the
camp opened last May.
"We did have a chance to study
English here, but in order to learr
English, you have to be happy and WE
weret, very sad because we left our
country," Tra said through interpretor
Larry Flood.
But Flood said the children and most
of the adults actually do speak some
English.
"Some of the kids learned English
pretty well ... and they will talk to you.
But the adults don't want to appear
stupid, especially when the press is
around," Flood said.
Nguyen Thi Tro, a pretty 14-year-old
girl, said she will miss Pennsylvania's
snow when she goes to Alabama.
' It's.4paly snowed once here this year,
and then only a few inches earlier this
month, but it was another first for the
children.
' 1 "We liked it very much, the first time
we saw it ... we had a snowball fight,"
Miss Tro said through an interpretor.
cease-fire but the truce would depend on
the Phalangists getting out of the hotel
area.
A Phalangist party spokesman said its
forces would withdraw when it was clear
the government had established "full
control of security in the area."
Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim
Kh - addam had been expected to arrive
here yesterday for his third mediation
attempt in the Lebanese crisis. He ap
parently canceled the visit when he got
word of the new cease-fire accord.
NearlyB,ooo persons have been killed
and Lebanon's economy his been ruined
since Christian-Moslem warfare . began
last April. The fighting is over Moslem
demands for poljtical and economic
reforms and reluctance by the 40 per
cent Christian minority to grant them
until the government clamps down on
the Palestinian guerrillas.
OUR OLD MAN WINTER RETURNS!
Morning clouds and a few early morning
snow flurries, sunshine returning dining
'the afternoon. Temperatures 20 degrees
colder than yesterday. High 35- Clear
skies and much colder tonight. Low 20.
Variable cloudiness, breezy and cold
WeiMitsday with a few snow flurries.
ffigh 32.
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