Senate passes
fund legislation
for universities
~ HARRISBURG (AP) ---. The Senate
passed bills last night that authorize the
aid sought by the University and several
ether state-related universities and
ifistitutions.
Bills covering the University, Temple,
Pitt and Lincoln universities were ap
proved by overwhelming margins.
seven out of 11 bills were passed.
Three bills were defeated in the name of
economy while a fourth bill went down to
punish the University of Pennsylvania
for trying to save money by firing
unionized housecleaners.
ll The Senate acted on the measures
despite the fact there is still no money to
pay for them. The House is expected to
stick its neck out first and vote a
package of new taxes.
ni After debating the bills for over three
hours, the Senate quit for the night with
dine more bills to go. And senators made
clear they plan to reconsider today some
of the votes taken yesterday.
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,' Meanwhile, Senate Republicans still
gave little indication they will join with
seven dissident Democrats and try to
kill the new tax plans altogether.
At the last minute last night, Sen.
hichard Tilghman, R-Montgomery,
Withdrew his support from amendments
designed to trim about $2l million from
the aid for the University, Temple, Pitt
and Lincoln universities.
The Democrats had figured the
amendments in their no-tax plans. They
called for increasing class size and work
load for faculty members at the
universities.
But Tilghman said he consulted with
Democratic floor leader Henry
Messinger and they decided together the
proposals needed more study. They
would be unworkable since the
universities have already set their
schedules for the year, Tilghman said.
Sen. Edward Early, D-Allegheny, one
Funding called first step
University President John W. Oswald
said yesterday the state Senate passage
of the Penn State appropriations is only
the first step toward solving the budget
crisis.
"The action cannot be implemented,
of course, until the legislators find a way
of providing the money," Oswald said.
`.'ln the meantime, the University is
operating on borrowed funds and the
Hijack victims descend to freedom at Rhine-Main Airport, Frankfurt, Ger
,:: many, yesterday from the Lufthansa jet in which they were imprisoned. The
( only two Americans on board were Leo Santiago, 5 (left center, carried by Luf
i', thansa official), and his mother, Christina Maria Santiago, 44 (upper right, next
0 to them).
~, Later, medical officials carry Santiago away on a stretcher when she nearly
fainted shortly after stepping to the ground.
!Odyssey of terror' ends for hijack victims
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FRANKFURT, West Germany ( UPI)
- 4 Sobbing and drained, 82 men, women
'and children returned yesterday and
told how they had given up hope of
reaving their hijacked jetliner alive.
n Four of the 86 hostages freed in a
daring 7-minute West German corn-
Mando raid_ remained behind in
Mogadishu, Somalia, suffering from
shock.
d. A huge crowd applauded the returning
• hostages as they disembarked at Frank
furt airport after a 5-day, 7,000 mile
odyssey of terror.
Juergen Schumann, the captain of the
hijacked plane, was shot in front of the
hostages hours before the raid.
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of the no-tax band, offered the amend
ments anyway but they were defeated.
Sen. Robert Mellow, D-Lackawanna,
said• he was skeptical of Republican
intentions. He said they'll vote for the
appropriation bills but not for the taxes.
Republican floor leader Henry Hager
said his caucus has said all along it
would support aid for the colleges and
institutions.
Agreement with the dissident
Democrats on budget cuts will still
come, he said.
Amendments will be offered today to
reopen the budget, cut government
spending 3 per cent to last year's levels
and shift $3O million of the state police
appropriation back to the Motor License
Fund, Hager said. He predicted they will
pass, touching of a flood of belt
tightening amendments.
In yesterday's action, the Senate
rejected $17.7 million in aid for 'the
University of Pennsylvania by a 32-15
vote because of a labor dispute at the
school. The bill needed 34 votes to pass.
Sens. Joseph Smith and Charles
Dougherty, both from Philadelphia,
charged ,the school with union-busting
and elitism and urged that it be barred
from public funds.
The charges stem from the school's
decision this summer to replace 343
housekeepers with private contractors.
The school saved $769,000 on its 'annual
$4.5 million janitorial bill. • '
The housekeepers, many over 50 and
with the school 30 years, contended they
were fired after they voted to join the
Teamsters Union. The dispute is now
before the National Labor Relations
Board.
Also approved yesterday were $3.6
million for the Philadelphia
. College of
Osteopathic Medicine; $52,000 for the
Williamson Free School, Delaware
Comity; and $1.9 million for the Medical
College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
situation continues to be urgent."
Yesterday's Senate approval of the
appropriation bill, which was previously
passed by the State House, does not
provide for a source of Penn State's
$lOB.B million.
The state legislature has not voted on a
tax increase to provide the funds for
Penn State and the other state-related
universities.
"This was the worst moment," one
hostage said. "The captain was shot in
the head in front of our eyes, after being
forced by the gangster leader to kneel in
the middle of the aisle.
"From that moment on we had no
hope of being rescued."
Three of the hijackers were killed. A
fourth was seriously wounded and
hospitalized in Mogadishu.
In Stuttgart, Andreas Baader, leader
of the West German urban guerrilla
gang who staged the hijacking, and two
of his jailed cohorts committed suicide
in their prison cells after learning the
failure of the mission to free them.
The hijackers had demanded freedom
for 13 terrorists in German and Turkish
jails along with $15.5 million in ransom
for the lives of the hostages.
Baader, co-founder of the Baader-
Meinhof terrorist gang, who was jailed
for life for complicity in 5 murders and
59 attempted murders, shot himself to
death in his cell.
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' West German officials offered no
explanation as to how he came by a
pistol and ammunition.
Baader's girl firend, Gudrun Ennslin,
37, also serving life for murder, at
tempted murder and bombings, hanged
herself on the window of her cell.
Jan-Carl Raspe, 33, arrested with
Baader in June, 1972 and sentenced to
life imprisonment for murder and
bombings, also shot himself.
A fourth gang member, Irmgard
Moeller, 30, was in critical condition in a
hospital, after slashing her throat with a
bread knife.
The German .commando raid, drew
praise from leaders around the world,
including President Carter, who said the
West Germans "struck a blow for all of
us who are vulnerable to this kind of
terrorism."
Former Israeli Prime Minister Yit
zhak Rabin, who ordered a similar raid
to free 106 Jewish hostages at Uganda's
Entebbe airport July 4, 1976, said Israel
David Snell
Virginia Mohar
• Photos by Chip Connelly
Jim McClellan
83%
17%
Are you in favor of a
tax increase?
Poll shows tax support
By CATHY SLOBODZIAN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Results of a poll conducted by The Daily Collegian
indicate that 83 per cent of Centre Region residents are
willing to accept a tax hike in order to support the
University
The poll, a combination of telephone and man-on-the
street interviews, included the following questions:
Would you be willing to accept an increase in state
income tax, from 2 per cent to 2.3 per cent, so the state
can support state-related colleges and universities?
Would you be willing to accept a cut in state services
in order for the state to support those institutions?
Do you think state-related schools should be sup
ported by the state?
Of the people polled, 50.5 per cent were willing to
accept a cut in state services, 31.5 per cent were not.
Sixteen per cent qualified their answer by saying it
depended on which service was to be cut.
Of those polled, 52.5 per cent were Republican. A total
of 72.5 per cent were willing to accept the tax hike, 61.5
ner cent were also willing to accept cuts in state services.
Of ,the Democrats polled, 94.5 per cent were willing to
accept the tax hike. Concerning state services, 37 per cent
were willing to accept cuts, 34 per cent were not, while 23
per cent said it depended on which services were cut. Six
per cent had no opinion.
Virginia Mohar, 37, a bookkeeper, and Violet McLane,
58, a housewife, stressed their preference for the tax hike.
Both women are Democrats. .
White collar workers comprised 53 per cent of those
s i 4to t 1
viewed the German action "with great
admiration."
Israeli Premier Manahem Begin said
the raid was a "salvation in which all
free men rejoice."
The hostages were officially welcomed
by five cabinet ministers sent from Bonn
by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt.
The hostages said they had been asked
to withhold details of the actual
hijacking so as not to help other possible
terrorists.
The hostages described the terrorist
leader, "Mahmoud," as "cruel." They
said the other three hijackers were
relatively polite.
After killing Capt. Schumann, "Mah
moud" ordered a passenger to drag the
body to a rear toilet, hostages said.
The hostages said one especially
terrifying moment was when the
hijackers stuck pads of plastic explosive
on the cockpit floor and ordered the
women hostages to squat and the men to
stand with arms behind their necks.
50.5%
No
Opinion
Would you accept a cut
in state services to,, sup
port universities?
Legislators begin on
energy compromises
WASHINGTON (UPI) Proclaiming
themselves in a "compromising mood,"
House and Senate negotiators yesterday
started work on a final version of the
multi-billion dollar energy bill.
President Carter warned them that
the public will judge Congress this year
by whatever they produce, and he said
the measurement is a fair one.
Rep. Harley Staggers, D-W.Va., was
named chairman of the conference as it
settled into the first aspect of its job
reaching a compromise on conservation
aspects of the energy legislation.
Staggers said the conference would be
confined to issues and promised to seek a
replacement for anyone who "engages
in personalities."
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The House-Senate conference com
mittee wrangled four hours without
settling its first issue how far utilities
should be allowed to get into the home
insulation business.
The House version of an energy
conservation bill would let utilities make
loans for home "weatherization" and
actually do some of the installation of
such things as insulation, weather
stripping and storm windows.
The Senate version would prohibit
loans or installation by utilities, but
would have them advise homeowners on
energy efficiency, point them toward
available lenders and suppliers, and do
an "energy audit" of their homes.
Conferees turned down four proposals
to reconcile the differences and quit with
a fifth before it: to relax the Senate
prohibitions so utilities could install the
things they know best, such as more
efficieht furnance burners, and so they
could make loans in. a few cases, with
special permission or if they are already
in the lending business.
The staff was instructed to put the
proposal, by Sen. J. Bennett Johnston,
D-La., in writing overnight so the con
ference can consider it when it resumes
this afternoon.
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-Tex., coauthor
of a bill to deregulate natural gas, met
with Carter and said later he expects a
compromise on that issue between the
anti-deregulation stance at the White
House and his own view. .
Last week, the President blamed
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31.5%
Opinion
polled. Eighty-five per cent agreed to accept the tax hike,
58 per cent were willing to accept cuts in state services,
31.5 per cent were not and 10.5 per cent qualified their
answer. -
In the group of blue collar workers, housewives and
students, 80.5 per cent were willing to accept the tax hike,
40.5 per cent agreed to,take a cut in state services, 30 per
cent did not. Eight per cent had no opinion concerning
state service cuts, while 21.5 per cent qualified their an
swer.
Jim McClellan, 43, an employee of Bell Telephone and a
Republican, said he would rather take a cut in services
than a tax hike or an increase in tuition. McClellan said he
has a son enrolled in the University.
Of those polled, 67-per cent were over 30. Concerning the
tax hike, 82.5 per cent said they would accept it. Fifty-six
per cent said they would accept cuts in state services, 31.5
per cent would not and 12.5 percent qualified their an
swer. ..
Of those younger than 30, 84.5 per ceift were willing to
accept the tax increase. Forty per cent agreed to take
cuts in state services, 32 per cent did not, 24 per cent
qualified their answer and 4 per cent had no opinion.
David Snell, 49, the curator of the University Mineral
Museum and a Republican who "votes Democratic," said
he did not think the tax increase was necessary and
favored service cutbacks instead.
The names for the telephone poll were selected at
random from the list of registered voters at the Bellefonte
Court house. There are 27,202 registered voters in the
Centre Region.
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945%`•
16.5%
Should the state related
schools be state sup
ported?
'himself in part for the beating his energy
proposals took in the Senate.
He noted, however, that he would have
another chance to get his viewpoint
across when the energy legislation
reaches the conference committee.
According to House Speaker Thomas
O'Neill, Senqte, Democratic leader
Robert Byrd told Carter he hopes to
complete work on the energy legislation
in two or three weeks.
The two most explosive issues in the
energy package taxes and natural gas
deregulation were expected to be final
items the conference committee con
siders.
Schlesinger is
told to divest
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate
Energy Committee directed Energy
Secretary James Schlesinger yesterday
to get rid of stock he holds in a farming
enterprise that includes some natural,
gas wells.
The committee voted to give the
Cabinet member 90 days to dispose of
the stock.
The committee has jurisdiction over
Schlesinger's nomination. It approved
him, and he was subgequently cleared by
the Senate and took over his duties as
head of the newest Cabinet-level agency
in the •federal government, the Depart
ment of Energy. .
But he was asked at the time to review
his holdings in Newhall Land and
Farming Co. to see if those held a
potential conflict of interest.
Schlesinger said he and his wife hold
2,100 shares of the company, which has
150,000 acres of land that includes some
energy production.
Schlesinger said in a letter to the
committee Sept. 27 that he reviewed the
activities of the firm and found that on
the acreage it holds "there are some 90
producing wells, mostly natural gas."
The committee released the letter
yesterday.
5.5%
No
Opinion
Illustration by Valerie Marzanl