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WASHINGTON (AP) With British help, tlement. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger is main- Gromyko assailed it at the United Nations on
taining the momentum of his breakthrough Tuesday as a piece of “political gimmickry.”
toward peace in Rhodesia despite bitter black- The British government, under Kissinger’s
White attacks on certain settlement terms. promptings, called yesterday for constitutional
The secretary, ever since returning from his telks for Rhodesia to be held within two weeks,
12-day political safari through Africa, has been probably at Livingston on the Rhodesian
demanding lightning action by all parties to get Zambian frontier The British, who remain
Rhodesian blacks and whites around a con- legally responsible for the breakaway Rhodesian
ference table. colony which defiantly proclaimed independence
His aim: to have a caretaker government, with' IT years ago, said all the parties had asked for
r a majority of blacks in it, chosen by the end of the convening of the parley.
' November and certainly no later than Christ- • Ivor Richard, top British envoy at U.N.
n, as headquarters, has been named-as presiding of-
Journalists who accompanied the secretary on ficer although he intends leaving as much of the
his mission were told by a senior U.S. official negotiating as possible to to the black and white
that such speed has been necessitated by Rhodesians themselves. .
Russian to wreck the projected set- The storm that seemed to threaten Kissinger s
Bii/doubles unemployment compensation tax
Senate extends benefits for govt, workers
w WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate
approved a bill yesterday doubling the
unemployment compensation tax on
employers and extending jobless
benefits to all state and local govern
ment workers.
The measure, passed on a 70 to 6 vote,
* also would close a big loophole in current
law by making it impossible for a person
to draw both a retirement check and full
unemployment benefits.
It now goes to a conference with the
House, which passed a different bill.
Both House and Senate pressed to
'"'inish their work and adjourn for the
'■ year tomorrow.
Congress failed to override President
Ford’s veto of a bill authorizing $lOO
million for research to develop
automobiles that would pollute less and
burn less fuel.
Officials
East voting
East One voter precinct, which
included most of the east campus, is
expected to be divided into two
precincts for the November elections.
Centre County commissioners
voted yesterday to make the division
in anticipation of a huge voter turn
out. The plan now must get county
court approval. Within its current
boundaries, East One has about 2,000
registered voters.
Previously, the East 1 precinct
included -all of East'Halls, all of
Pollock-Nittany Halls, and McElwain
and Mifflin Halls in the Center Halls
area.
Under the new division, East Halls
will have its own precinct desig
nated East 1, and a new precinct,
East ’4, will be created to include
Pollock-Nittany Halls, McElwain
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With the sun silhouetting her, Holly Landes (Ist-Recreation and Parks) leaps
from the 10-meter tower at the Natatorium, oblivious to the brisk temperatures.
The House overrode the veto on a 293
to 102 vote, but the Senate fell 10 votes
short of the necessary two-thirds
majority when it voted 41 to 35 to
override.
Ford has vetoed 59 bills since he
became president. Eleven vetoes have
been overriden.
In other congressional action:
The House approved a three-year
$4.8 billion extension of programs to help
economies of regions with high unem
ployment. Under the measure, which
now goes to the White House, areas
eligible for federal aid are those with
unemployment substantially above the
average national average for the
previous 24 months.
The Senate broke a week-long
stalemate and passed a bill to permit
courts to award attorneys’ fees to
and Mifflin Halls
“On election day, if we were to keep
the precinct the way it is, it could
prove to be unwieldly,” said Thomas
Gentzel, Centre County chief clerk.
“It may not be a permanent, ongoing
split, though, because for three out of
every four years we don’t need it.”
Should the proposed split be ap
proved, the county Democratic and
Republican chairmen will each ap
poinhtwo persons from the precinct to
fill committee positions. 1
Gentzel also said that not all the
East Halls dorms would be affected
by the change. Stewart, Hastings,
Snyder and Stone Halls are not part of
East One, but rather, are located in
College Township. All other East Hall
dorms are in State College, he said.
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private citizens who bring successful
suits to enforce their civil rights. The
measure, passed by a 57-15 vote, now
goes to the House.
Senate-House conferees reached
agreement on legislation that would
assure prompt payment tp persons
holding claims against the Penn Central
and other financially ailing railroads in
the Northeast. Both House and Senate
must approve it.
A special Senate committee
recommended that next year the Senate
reorganize its committee structure,
reducing the number of Senate com
mittees from 31 to 15.
The jobless benefit bill passed by the
Senate does not extend the benefits to
farm workers and many domestics. The
House version does.
Under present law, an employer pays
Palestinians overrun
by Syrian advance
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Syrian
tanks and gunners, firing artillery and
surface-to-surface missiles at a rate of
one every 15 seconds, overran two
Palestinian mountain positions
yesterday but the Palestinian defenders
held their main fronts.
The main battles raged about 17 miles
east of Beirut near the towns of Ham
manah and Qurnayel, the targets of a
two-pronged Syrian assault to cut the
Palestinians’ major supply line leading
to their main positions of Aintoura and
Mtein further north.
According to commanders at the
Palestinian field headquarters in Aley,
seven miles from the front, the Syrians
overran two of their positions at Hazarta
and Tarshish to advance to Ain El
Sahha, four miles east of Qurnayel.
The Syrians were attacking in a
spearhead along two main axes east
from Tarshish toward Quarnayel and
north from Sofar toward Hammana. If
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peace package for Rhodesia almost as soon as he
returned here did not unduly disturb the
secretary.
Even before he landed the senior American of
ficial reported that while Kissinger was
somewhat elated by his achievement, he was in
no way euphoric about the difficulties still to be
overcome. The process of peace-making, he was
said to believe, had only just begun with one cen
tral objective achieved.
That objective was the acceptance by
Rhodesia’s rebel premier, lan Smith, of the prin
ciple of black majority rule filus independence
for the country within two years.
Kissinger knew, according to the senior of
ficial, that the moment Smith spoke those words,
“the game was up” for the 270,000 white settlers.
may increase 20%
Student rebate legislation
folds like House of cards
The Congressional bill that would have given
rebates on personal income tax for educational
expenses is now all but officially dead.
The bill was passed by the Senate two weeks ago,
but members of the House and Senate must meet in
committee before a full House vote is taken.
Speaker of the House Carl Albert, D-Okla., was to
make appointments to the committee after the
Ways and Means Committee, which was in control
of the bill, gave him the authority to do so.
The last chance for House committee members to
be appointed was yesterday. Rep. Fortney H. Stark,
D-Calif., objected to a motion by A 1 Ullman, D-
Ariz., that would have authorized Albert to make
the appointments. Stark is a member of the Ways
and Means Committee, which Ullman chairs.
“We’ve been had,” said Chris Moyer, an assistant
to Rep. Larry Coughlin, D-Pa., “Ullman was just
going through the motions.” The motion to
authorize appointment of committee members is a
routine one, Moyer said, and no, one ever expects
any objection to it.
Photo by Ken Kasper
Even the committee meeting itself is is a mere
formality, since the full House could vote for the bill
regardless of what happened in committee. Moyer
said such a committee meeting would last “about
ten minutes.”
When the bill first came up in joint committee
meetings on the recent tax reform bill, House
committee members, lead by Ullman, objected to it
as part of the overall reform bill. They promised to
go to conference if the Senate would drop it from the
tax reform bill, and attach it to some other bill.
The Senate responded by attaching the bill as an
amendment for the Smith College Relief Bill a
minor bill which the House had already
unanimously passed. The Senate passed the bill by
voice vote, appointed their committee members,
and sent it to the House.
Since then, House Democratic leadership,
specifically Ullman, has let the bill die a slow death.
If the bill had gotten to the House floor, Moyer said,
an effective federal unemployment tax
of .5 per cent of the first $4,200 earned
annually by his workers. This results in
a federal tax of $2l per year per em
ploye.
The bill would raise the tax to .7 per
cent, effective next Jan. 1, and apply
that to the first $6,000 of wages after Jan.
1,1978. That would result in a $42 tax per
employe.
Weather
Sunny this morning, becoming partly
cloudy this afternoon and tonight. The
high today will be 65 and the low tonight
45. Mostly sunny on Friday with a high of
63.
they can capture the two towns and join
forces, they will have cut the main
supply route to Aintoura and Mtein with
the way clear to advance on them.
But it was apparent from a tour of the
front yesterday that the Palestinians,
backed by units of the Lebanese Arab
Army and other leftist forces, would be
able to put.up a fierce and prolonged
fight.
There was no truth to Christian claims
that their forces, pressing down on the
Palestinians on a third front from the
northwest, had captured Aintoura,
Mtein or Bhamdoun.
But in spite of the heavy shelling, the
fighting generally appeared to be far
less intense than claimed by Lebanon’s
rival military spokesmen.
And despite all the reports of
“ferocious battles,” neither side has yet
come close enough to the other to aim a
gun.
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Legislator's salaries
HARRISBURG (AP) State legislators were
awarded a $3,120 salary increase yesterday that
would boost their salaries to $18,720 a year.
The increase will take effect in 30 days, unless the
legislature returns early from its election recess to
rejector amend it.
The legislature rejected a plan earlier this week
to return to Harrisburg to debate the commission’s
report.
The Commonwealth Compensation Commisssion
unanimously adopted the 20 per cent increase, but
only after its three members recommended in
creases ranging from 14 to 24 per cent.
Only legislators taking office after the November
general election will receive the increases. The 25
senators who thus would be ineligible will receive
the $3,120 increase in their annual expense money
until their terms expire, the commission voted.
By ERIC YODER
Collegian Staff Writer
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donated by a student.
Legislators currently receive $7,500 in expenses.
Commission member David Kurtzman argued for
a 14 per cent increase. “Fifty-five per cent of the
legislature still is not fully devoted to legislative ac
tivities,” he said, quoting a questionnaire asking
each legislator if he had a second job.
Commission member Daniel Curran recom
mended a 24 per cent increase to create a “citizens
legislature,” instead of one consisting of the
wealthy or those whose second job benefits from
legislative service.
“That’s not excessive, it’s not even catchup,”
Curran said.
Earlier, commission chairman Harry Rossi noted
that Consumer Price Index rose 37 per cent since
the legislature received its last raise in 1972.
Rossi said state employes received a total of 44.8
per cent in pay increases.
approval was almost certain. The Senate would
have to vote on it again, but its passage there would
have been'definite, he added.
Supporters of the bill feel they have been double
crossed, since Ullman first promised to go to con
ference and then delayed any motion to appoint
committee members until it was practically too late
to act. Even then, there is little doubt that Ullman
prevailed upon Stark to object to the motion, which
requires unanimous consent.
The last hope for the bill is a rule that allows the
House Speaker to override a vote such as yester
day’s and go ahead with the appointments. Con
sidering the influence Ullman has over Albert in
this issue, this is not likely, Moyer said.
Exactly why Ullman has been opposing the bill is
not certain. One opinion is that he perceives the tax
break as benefiting the middle class most. Middle
class tax breaks traditionally have been a
Republican idea. This plan would benefit any
taxpayer in college or with a spouse or dependent in
college, however, and there is even a stipulation
that taxpayers earning more than $22,500 annually
would receive a smaller amount according to a
percentage scale.
The projected revenue loss to the treasury would
be another possible objection to the bill. Howe ever,
this loss would be made up in the future with taxes
paid by the additional college graduates, since they
make more money and pay more taxes than non
graduates.
Moyer said the bill’s death did, however, show
that there is a good deal of support for the idea in
both houses of Congress. Moyer believes the bill can
pass in the next season “if the leadership is a
little more responsive.” He mentioned retirements
and defeats in the November elections as vehicles
of leadership change.
In the meantime, Moyer suggested that students
write their congressmen or Ullman, expressing
their views on the bill. Students and student
organizations can also contact lobbying groups such
as the National Student Association in Washing
ton D. C.
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