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Carter asks $3 billion in
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Carter
administration asked Congress
yesterday to provide nearly $3 billion in
aid for Israel and Egypt to bolster the
Middle East peace-making process.
An administration official told the
House subcommittee on the Middle East
that Egypt was an example of a major
success in overcoming serious economic
ills.
Egypt would get s7so' million in
economic assistance and $220 million
worth of surplus U.S. foodstuffs, while
Israel would receive $785 million in
economic assistance and $1 billion in
credits for the purchase of U.S. military
equipment.
Peanut building for sale
ATLANTA (UPI) The peanut
warehouse owned by President
Carter and his family in Plains, Ga.,
is up for sale, but the attorney-trustee
of the operation denied yesterday it
has anything to do with a Justice
Department investigation of finan
cing practices.
“The warehouse has been for sale
ever since (President) Carter ap
pointed me trustee,” said attorney
Charles Kirbo.
“I have discussed it (the possible
sale) with people but I am happy with
the lease arrangement I have with
Gold Kist,” he added. Gold Kist Inc.
is an Atlanta-based management
company Kirbo hired to run the
warehouse after he became trustee.
Kirbo emphasized the warehouse is
not on “the market” per se and has
not been “advertised.”
The Justice Department in
vestigation centers around the
financial affairs of former budget
director Bert Lance, a close friend of
the president, and former head of the
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The annual requests coincided with
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance’s
preparations for a new Camp David
meeting next week with Israeli Foreign
Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian
Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil.
State Department officials assert they
still have realistic hopes an Egyptian-
Israeli peace treaty will be signed in the
coming months.
“A major success story is shaping up
in Egypt,” Joseph Wheeler, assistant
administrator for the Agency for In
ternational Development, told the House
panel.
“Egypt sustained an 8 percent growth
rate during each of the past three years.
National Bank of Georgia. In that
capacity, Lance arranged loans of
$6.5 million to the warehouse
operation in 1975-76.
Investigators are trying to
determine whether any of the funds
found their way into Carter’s
presidential campaign.
Kirbo said yesterday the in
vestigation was not a factor in his
decision to sell the warehouse. He
said the operation has been for sale
all along, to the right buyer.
“I have had inquiries from foreign
buyers but I have not discussed it
with any of them,” said Kirbo. Asked
if he was opposed to selling the
warehouse to a foreigner, he replied,
“I don’t know. I don’t want to get into
that now because it is purely
hypothetical."
The peanut warehouse, begun by
Carter’s father, is held in a part
nership. Jimmy Carter has a 63
percent interest; his mother Lillian,
22 percent; and Billy Carter 15
percent.
Middle East aid
Prospects are good for continued rapid
growth.”
Wheeler said Egypt has made
remarkable progress in meeting its
balance of payments thanks to U.S. aid
and "fast disbursing Arab assistance.”
“All told,” he informed the House
panel, “Egyptian earnings from
workers remittances, petroleum ex
ports, tourism and the Suez Canal
doubled between 1976 and 1978 to a level
of about $4 billion.”
The United States has provided about
$l2 billion in aid to Israel since 1973, and
$4 billion to Egypt, according to Rep.
Lee Hamilton, chairman of the com
mittee.
Social Security housework credit possible
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Social Security System
could be made more fair to women by putting a dollar
value on their housework and crediting them with a
portion of it for their retirement, the Department of
Health Education and Welfare said yesterday.
In a report, HEW also said it might be fairer to
women if each couple’s Social Security benefits were
pooled instead of earned only by the husband. Or, the
report said, it might be better to simply guarantee
everyone a basic retirement payment.
The suggestions were contained in a report issued by
HEW in compliance with a 1977 law that ordered it to
look at ways to eliminate sex discrimination in the,
system.
The report listed options but did not make recom-
Traffic deaths top 50,000 for first time in 5 years
WASHINGTON (UPI) Highway
deaths topped 50,000 in 1978 for the first
time in the five years since the 55 miles
per hour speed limit was enacted,
federal safety officials reported
yesterday.
The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration said an estimated 50,145
people died in traffic accidents last year
almost 5 percent more than in 1977.
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Panel members Reps. Donald Pease,
D-Ohio, and Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., ex
pressed surprise the United States was
targeting $7O million to improve the
Cairo telephone system.
“Any modern society has to have a
telephone system,” Wheeler replied.
“The lack of it is deeply felt by Egyp
tians and foreigners who might wish to
invest. If it had a good telephone system,
Egypt could become a center of business
investment in the Middle East.”
Wheeler said Egypt has not yet earned
a favorable reputation which would
allow it to borrow large sums of money
from commercial banks.
mendations, which will be up to an advisory panel due
to issue another report in the fall.
When the Social Security System was established in
1935, the report notes, family life was more stable, with
marriages lasting longer and working wives more of a
rarity.
“A central issue is whether the system of depen
dents’ benefits designed decades ago adequately
serves today’s society,” the report said. “The present
Social Security structure works best in the case of a
life-long married couple where one spouse is a lifelong
homemaker.
“Many believe that Social Security should be
changed so that it accommodates the diversity of roles
and work patterns of men and women in today’s
In 1973, when the Arab oil embargo
caused long gas lines, traffic deaths
reached 54,052. After the fuel-conserving
55 mph limit went into effect the next
year, highway deaths declined
dramatically—by about 9,000.
The annual toll has been increasing
gradually since.
“We need greater compliance with the
55 mph speed limit law,” said highway
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ERA chances crippled
SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UPI) The
Illinois Senate yesterday rejected a
proposed rules change to simplify
passage of the Equal Rights
Amendment, crippling its chances in
Illinois for the next two years.
Senators turned down the rules
change, 24-31. Thirty votes were
needed for approval.
The shift would have lowered the
passage margin from a three-fifths to
a constitutional majority for U.S.
constitutional amendments. That
would have meant a drop of six votes,
from 36 to 30, in the 59-member
Senate.
safety administrator Joan Claybrook
Claybrook also urged motorists to
fasten seat belts, “the most effective
safety device available in today’s motor
vehicle.” Transportation Department
statistics indicated that by late last year,
only 14 percent of drivers used the belts.
Energy problems, compounded by the
ERA backers had considered the
rules change vote crucial to ERA’S
chances but vowed to continue
pushing for ratification.
A similar move was pending in the
177-member House, where a change
would lower the margin from 107 to 89
Gov. James R. Thompson said'he
was urging senators to vote for the
change. But Lt. Gov. Dave O’Neal
pledged to lobby against the ERA if
he thought lawmakers were being
pressured by Thompson and other
leaders.
society.”
The report said married women who work “get
substantially lower benefits than men workers both
because they frequently spend time out of the paid
labor force (or work, part-time) to perform
homemaker or childcare activities, and because
average wages for women are lower than for men.”
One limited option suggested by the report would be
to provide homemakers with Social Security earnings
credits based on a dollar value for their unpaid ser
vices in the home.
Such an arrangement could be financed, the report
said, through general government revenues, or by
requiring the homemakers to pay taxes.
cutoff of Iranian oil, prompted a
-renewed plea from President Carter this
week that Americans observe the speed
But a UPI survey showed yesterday
there is considerable support for
allowing higher speeds, particularly in
the West and Southwest where the.
federal limit has come under legislative
challenge.
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