U.S. Senate debates gay housing VASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Appropriations r~p 4rl mittee skirting the issue itself, yesterday set up a con itrence committee battle over the rights of homosexuals and giinarried couples by changing two words in a House-passed If loosing bill. , Vit issue: an amendment the House wrote into the measure ~which would forbid the use of federal money to carry out a new regulation giving. homosexuals and unmarried couples equal access to public housing with married peiple. After some back-and-forth debating, members of the Senate panel agreed not to vote on the amendment itself. It merely dropped the word "funds" from the measure and changed "appropriated" to "appropriations" then approved the full )m easure which carries $67.5 billion to finance HUD and other agencies next fiscal year. Anti-abortionists want abortion funding cut t, (11 ' WASHINGTON (AP) Anti-abortion forces asked the Supreme Court yesterday to kW Congress immediately end all federal spending for abortions not needed to save the lilies of mothers. 'Attorneys seeking the funding cut-off said le)would be in line with the high court's ridings Monday that states are not legally obligated to pay for the elective abortions of poor women. , While those decisions did not discuss federal funding, the same rationale is ex incted to apply. .Supreme Court action could come very s§pn on the request, which was made by two c9ngressmen and others who oppose abor tion-on-demand. :Their lawyers asked the court to set aside ; temporarily a ruling last October by a federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., that blocked enforcement of 'a law that would have ended 'federal funding of most abortions. I Congress passed the so-called Hyde amendment as part of an appropriations bill DA restriction approved Saccharin ba g !: 1, 0 -:‘NASHINGTON (UPI) I t The` House voted yesterday to dOick for at least one year the f Fpod and Drug Adminis -1 ration's proposed ban on ; - saccharin. 11 , Rejecting arguments the tA' j tlinioVe was unwise because of ~ new evidence linking the lartificial sweetener with "('lsocer, the House approved k' IR standing vote an g,.itylendment which would t , ?• 'Forbid the FDA from using , Vderal money to promulgate , fi a enforce the ban through ept. 30,1978. ..71rhe provision was attached to a -measure carrying $12.7 billion to fund the Agriculture 'Department and related Makencies for the new fiscal Mlytar starting Oct. 1. he House then approved 'I ~The overall bill 380 to 35, and '':strnt it to the Senate. Allhe amendment was 4ialionsored by Reps. Harold 1 1 .1snikmer, D-Mo., and Jamie IWhitten, D-Miss. ...FDA stirred a storm of '''',;;criticism in proposing to t„ (outlaw use of saccharin in the Itnanufacture of foods and beverages on the basis of 'Canadian tests showing the '?substance produced cancer in rats. The agency had closed out :Nits period for public comment *4ll June 14, and had hoped to the ban into effect by late -1- ; August. i pi * But new scientific evidence r prfaced during the weekend 1 NGBR . &ASSOC Realtors NOW RENTING for FALL 9 and 12 month leases Americana House 119 Locust Lane Colle g iate An ms 218 S. Sparks Si. IrMOLIIII East 235 F.. Fairmount Fairmount Hills 215 W. Fairmount Lamel lert ace 315.32' E. Bea% et ALL APTS. WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF CAMPUS Inquire at Kissinger, Leonard & Assoc. rental office. Lower Letel 245 S. Allen Si. 238.4600 for the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education and Welfare. US. District Judge John Dooling ruled'in a suit filed against the measure by a New York woman and Planned Parenthood of New York that the Hyde amendment was un constitutional because it treated poor women unequally. The judge said the amendment effectively took away abortion as an alternative to childbearing for poor women while wealthier women still had the alternative. Dooling's decision was appealed by HEW officials and, separately, by Rep. Henry Hyde, R-111., the author of the amendment, Sen. Jesse Helms, R-S.C., former Sen. James Buckley of New York and Isabella Per nicone, a private citizen. Both those appeals are pending before the Supreme Court, which has not yet decided to hear either. The anti-abortion forces want the court to let last year's Hyde amendment take effect while Dooling's ruling is being appealed. indicating saccharin caused bladder cancer in human males, so the FDA reopened the comment period for an additional two months. Thus the ban probably could not go into effect before September. , Whitten acknowledged the FDA still could rush the ban through before the beginning of the new fiscal year on Oct. 1, but said such action was unlikely since it would clearly contradict the intent of Congress. Proponents of the amendment argued the Canadian tests were not sufficient to prompt a ban because - such large concentrations , of the sweetener were used. But opponents said the new evidence of a human cancer risk made the Volkmer- Whitten move "a serious mistake." Rep. Paul Rogers, D-Fla urged the House to wait until COMPLIMENTS OF THE PENN STATE BOOKSTORE • I lisirmiiiiiiicessil Et' WEDNESDAY JUNE 22 1 1 1 1 112 KERN 7:30 & 9:30 $l OO I ea Just that little difference assures the matter must be taken up by House-Senate conferees for a compromise agreement because the wording in the two bills is different. There could be a fight even before that on the Senate floor, since there is a possibility some members will push for even stronger restrictions against ,homosexuals and unmarried couples. At the finance committee session, Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., sought adoption of the House's "anti-gay" language, arguing there is a waiting list for public housing and preference should be given to the traditional wife-husband "stable family relationships." "We certainly don't want to say that homosexuals have equal access with families to public housing," Proxmire said. And Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., whose state gained national n blocked his health subcommittee could hold hearings on a bill ordering an 18-month delay in the saccharin ban, including the new• evidence of human cancer. "We don't want the House members in a position of sticking their necks out before they know what's going on," said Rogers. Rep. L. H. Fountain, D- N.C., said he understood why some lawmakers would vole for the amendment "from a purely political point of view" because of pressure "from their saccharin-loving con stituents. "But it would be a serious mistake if we say to the FDA we in the Congress are the scientists of this country, and we're simply going to reverse you on a political• vote," Fountain argued. The bill also includes $1 million for further tests on saccharin's cancer-causing potential with a mandate that the FDA use dosage levels closer to the actual amount likely to be consumed by humans: Whitten said if definite proof is found in the next year that saccharin causes cancer in humans, Congress could rescind its action and allow the ban to go into effect. Up until the FDA an nounced plans to ban it, saccharin was the only ar tificial sweetener which could legally be used in diet foods. 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Clip and Save one coupon per customer LOUISE FLETCHER MAX VON SYDOW ' - "EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC" KITTY WINN • PAUL HENREID as The Cardinal • and JAMES EARL JONES Creative Associate ROSPO PALLENBERG • Directed by JOHN BOORMAN Produced by JOHN BOORMAN and RICHARD LEDERER Written by WILLIAM GOODHART Music Composed and Conducted by ENNIO MORRICONE Technicolor 0 Distributed by Warner Bros.® A Warner Communications Company Soundtrack available on Warner Bros Records and Tapes Read THE MAKING OF EXORCIST II THE HERETIC"Irom Warner Books Now showing 1:30-3:30-5:30 7:45-10:00 attention when Anita Bryant fought successfully for. repeal of a "gay rights" ordinance in Dade County, said the House amendment would not "deny gay rights" to homosexuals or persons living out of wedlock. The question, Chiles said, "is as a matter of public policy whether we should assist them with subsidized housing." Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., arguing that the amendment posed "some very deep constitutional questions," urged the committee to kill it. When Proxmire persisted, Weicker proposed the two-word language change and the panel adopted this approach without objection. • He said later the issue deserves "a quiet thoughtful discussion" and his amendment "is a technical change to permit that kind of discussion rather than some knee jerk reaction to a referendum in Florida." SANDWICHES i .....,,.... : . : .., _ ~.....,,,,:. : i .. i ...,.,,,,.;,,,......,,,.,.. (i;;44?.-:etezy—:."'' ....,•.;;;..„L...,, __ 2,.. „.;,....w ‘!•,,,,;....,:,,,01,....,,-,.....~.• ~::;-,,,.,41,4..75(.,„0,.7: '.. `...,...,Ti1 t 4,11 ' • ';."' l, 1.".,....-.-770.,,,,,, • CINEMA` • • 116 Heisler 54./,237-7667 The episode came six days after black student leaders called for -a period of mourning to coibmemorate the deaths of 618 blacks during six months of racial rioting which began June 16,1976, with the killings of two black children in the Soweto ghetto outside, Johannesburg. School attendance in the black townships throughout South Africa increased yester day, a survey showed, but has not reached pre-June 16 levels. Students at Soweto's Orlando High School continued a boycott of classes which began last Thursday to protest the detention of Sechaba "Dan" Montsitsi, leader of the Soweto Students Representative Council. RESTRICTED Under 1111.0. f•ler : 0) accompenr.ng PAllolor Aden Geardan Coupon Good Through Sunday Bargain Matinee Every Day $1.25 until 2:30 The Daily Collegian Wednesday, June 22, 1977—:, Korean bribe probe persists WASHINGTON (UPI) The wife of Louisiana Gov. Elwin Edwards testified in secret yesterday before congressional investigators probing allegations of South Korean bribery on Capitol Hill. Emerging from her session with investigators of the House Ethics Committee, Elaine Edwards laughed off reporters' questions aslo why she did not tell her husband when Tongsun Park. alleged paymaster of the South Korean influence pecid Hag effort, gave her $lO,OOO in cash in 1971. ' "Oh come on now," she said with a chuckle in declining to answer that question. "Nothing more has transpired since the last time we talked about Tongsun Park, therefore I have nothing more to say than I did the last time." Mrs. Edwards, whose husband was formerly in Congress, was questioned on the eve of public testimony before another congressional committee by Kim Hyung Wook a former Korean CIA director who has named Park as a KCIA agent. His appearance today will mark the first public testimony by a witness in the congressional probes of covert Korean activity in the United States. The Ethics Committee is investigating allegations that Park, a wealthy businessman formerly based in Washington, ran a covert South Korean effort to influence U.S. military and commercial policy, plying members of Congress with cash, gifts and favors in the early 19705. Park has left the country.
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