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By TIM KONSKI
DailY Collegian Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG Programs that
counsel and shelter rape:victims may
receive financial help from two bills
referred Monday to the state Senate.
The Senate Judiciary ComMittee
recommended bills 744 and 745, both of
`which would fund rape crisis 'centers by
increasing the state marriage license fee
from $3 to $8 and by collecting $lO from
1 1 any, person who pleads guilty or is'N
convicted of a crime.
, The bills also would create an Office
on Crime Victims that would coordinate
programs that provide assistance to
rape and domestic violence victims.
The bill's chief sponsor, Sen. Michael
O'Pake. D-Berks, said the legislation
Ai was initiated because "I think it's time
Pennsylvania makes a commitment
' about helping victims of rape and
domestic violence.". " , -
He said the 2,300 rape victims treated
at crisis centers throught the state in the
first half of 1979 "prove that this corn
,* mitynent should bq accepted quickly and
effectively."
• Patrick Beatty,'an aide to O'Pake, the
judiciary' committee chairman, said the
bills were suggeted by seven statewide
rape counseling groups that must an
nually apply for funds.
"Right now, this funding process takes
away time these groups could be using to
provide more comprehensive assistance
to rape victims," Beatty said.
"These bills will create a government
office that wilt" handle the funding
process for the rape service programs
and guarantee that they receive an
4nnual state subsidy," he said.
At the committee meeting O'Pake said
the legislation would channel $l.B million
to the state's. 26 Tape and 19 domestic
violerthe centers.
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WASHINGTON,( UPI) :--,President Carter has
asked aides to prepare a . series of options,
possibly involving an increased U.S. military
%resence abroad, in an effort to defuse the crisis
ver Soviet combat troops in Cuba, ran ad
ministratioh source said yesterday.
The administration is arranging fot Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to meet top
administration officials in Washington later this
week or next to continue-U.S.-Soviet diScussions
, a pbout the troops.
I ' The source expanded on remarks by White
House press secretary Jody Powell Monday that
"decisions, have been taken" by
_the National
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University electrical engineering staff, checks out the scenery in the mall.
r Fred, a participant in the State College Area High School's Alternative Pro
gram, will get art credit for his camera work.
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Center will get 75 percent of funds from Senate bills
However, he said funding would be
limited to 75 percent of each center's
need, leaving the group responsible for
collecting 25 percent of its funds from
local sources.
Cathryn Power, spokesperson for the
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape,
said the legislation is "unequitable"
because it would earmark about $30,000
for each program without first con
sidering the financial needs of each
group.
"The effectiveness of this funding
depends of the type of program," she
said. "Obviously, a rape crisis center,
which offers limited services, can use
the $30,000 effectively. But the money
Senate bills could affect services
By ELYSE CHILAND
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Pennsylvania Senate bills 744 and 745 could either increase
or decrease the paperwork for funding requests and, sub
sequently, affect services offered by rape crisis and domestic
counseling centers, the county Rape Abuse Services coor
dinator said yesterday.
"What kinds of obstacles to providing services will this kind
of bureaucratic mish-mash create?" Jacqueline Stutts asked
in reference to the proposed Office on Crime Victims.
If a lengthy annual funding review of 'each of the 26 state
rape crisis centers and 19 domestic counseling centers is or
dered by this office, even more time may be taken away from
the administrators and volunteers of the centers, she said.
"I just went through six weeks of having to write proposals
for a grant for continuation funding," Stutts said. "We have to
go through a constant assessment and documentation of the
kinds of calls we're getting, where they are coming from, the
age levels involved, and all those kinds of things to satisfy any
of the funding policies that we look at."
The Rape and Abuse Services division of the Centre County
Women's Resource Center is funded primarily locally by fund
raisers and donations, Stutts said. A governor's continuation
grant, of which 75 percent of the total grant will be funded by
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Security Council's presidentiil review com
mittee on the Soviet troop - issue.
The source, who requested anonymity, said
Secretary. of State Cyrus Vance Monday chaired
a meeting of the presidential review committee
of the National Security Council which reviewed
the Cuban situation.
. During Monday's session, attended by
President Carter, Vance reviewed his meetings
with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin.
Carter asked the National Security Council to
suggest possible solutions, and examine in detail
the ramifications of any action.
Further administration discussions are ex-
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O'Neill makes predictions
Kennedy's plans
WASHINGTON ( AP) House
Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said
yesterday that recent comments by Sen.
Edward M. Kennedy have convinced
him that Kennedy is considering a race
for the 1980 presidential nomination.
In a related statement, Democratic
National Chairman John C:• White said a
primary battle between Kennedy and
President Carter would not necessarily
split the party. He predicted Democrats
could unite behind the victor.
White added that Carter is under some
pressure to officially declare his can
didacy soon, a formality that would
allow Carter to get commitments of
support from important groups before
Kennedy can present himself as an
option.
O'Neill's statement yesterday
represented a quick turnabout from his
earlier predictions that Kennedy would
not seek the Democratic nomination.
Over the weekend, O'Neill said he had
According to HEW Secretary
Education bill stands good chance
WASHINGTON (UPI) Health, Education and
Welfare Secretary Patricia Harris said yesterday that
a bill to create a separate department of education has
a good chance of congressional passage, and she
predicted the new agency will get started within six
months of enactment.
The bill now is awaiting a final vote in each house. A
The proposal is a major part of President Carter's conference committee of the House and Senate passed
government reorganization plan. It would create a new the legislation last week; removing several con
-114 billion department from the U.S. Office of troversial amendments attached by House con
iucation, which now falls under the huge HEW urn- servatives.
'ella.
The proposal has split the teaching profession. The
National Education Association is strongly in favor of
the plan,. while the rival American Federation of
Teachers is opposed.
Janis Burger
AFT officials fear the NEA will' have too much in
fluence with the new department. The NEA is largely
won't mean much to a domestic violence
shelter which offers 'round-the-clock
service."
She said the centers need extensive
funding because "they're going out of
business and can't afford to train staff
members adequately."
Beatty, however, said funds would be
distributed fairly because the bills state
that the Office on Crime Victiins would
annually determine each center's need.
"There is nothing in the bills that says
the money will be distributed equally,"
he said. "Each year, the Office on Crime
Victims will determine each center's
need and, from the information we
receive, we'll be able to provide for 75
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pected before Carter decides on a course of
action.
Meantime, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's
national security adviser, told a group of Pen
tagon -correspondents that the administration
thinks the United States needs to compete more
effectively abroad with the Soviet Union in the
long run.
"We need to compete with the Soviets where
the Soviets impose a competition on us directly
or indirectly," Brzezinski said.
He said the administration believes the United
States should do more to build up its defenses
the state Commission on Crime and Delinquency and 25 per
cent by the Centre County United Way, will "most likely" be
awarded to the center by Oct. 1, she said.
Services provided by the center focus primarily on its 24-
hour crisis line.
"We have volunteers established on a 24-hour basis," Stutts
said. These volunteers not only provide verbal crisis in
tervention, but also make arrangements for victims whb need
to be taken to the hospital, the police or emergency housing.
Volunteers may also be asked to attend court hearings if the
.victim decides to prosecute, she said.
"The women's center also maintains, however inadequate, a
list of emergency private housing that we can take victims to,"
Stutts said. "The list is very skimpy though; people get burned
out easily."
The state Coalition Against Rape representative for Centre
County, Karla Kiefer, said situations such as inadequate
emergency housing prove "there's definitely a need for more
funding of rape crisis centers."
As for whether or not the creation of an Office on Crime
Victims will increase or decrease bureaucratic red tape,
Kiefer said the situation "could go either way."
"strong feelings" that Kennedy would
not run
, Kennedy responded Monday night that
while O'Neill is "a good friend, ... I've
expressed my thoughts. My views are
probably the ones to think about." The
Massachusetts senator said several
times last week that he is not ruling out
the possibility of running for the
nomination.
"I would have to say he is giving it
consideration," O'Neill told reporters
after Kennedy made his latest
pronouncement.
, O'Neill added that he believes Ken
nedy will have to make a decision by
December, before the presidential
primary elections begin.
White's statement that a Kennedy-
Carter battle would not necessarily split
the party marked a similar reversal.
The Democratic Party chairman had
said earlier that a Kennedy effort to
unseat Carter in the primaries would
percent of their funding as required."
State Attorney General Edward G.
Biester Jr. last week announced his
support for the legislation because "for
too long victims of rape and domestic
abuse have not received from the justice
system the kind of necessary assistance
that they require."
"The commonwealth has a respon
sibility ' to assure that everything
possible is done to assist crime victims,"
he said.
He said the Justice Department is also
financially committed to helping rape
victims and, since 1976, has awarded
$925,000 to 700 victims through its crime
victims compensation board.
represented in rural and suburban school districts. The
AFT's strength lies in the nation's cities.
Carter pledged to create the department during the
1976 presidential campaign. It would become the 13th
Cabinet level agency.
The amendments included a prohibition against
school busing to achieve racial balance, barring
federally funded abortions and permitting prayer in
schools.
Because the original vote in the House was so close
210-206 —the bill's future is not as clear as in the Senate,
where the bill cleared by a huge majority.
Harris, speaking yesterday to a group of women's
college presidents, said the proposal "faces almost
Behind closed doors
Only the shadow knows who lurks behind a door leading to the old sorority in
itiation room in the basement of Simmons Hall.
and again stressed the need for the Senate to
ratify the SALT agreement.
The White House, the administration source
said, intends to move ahead with a "rapid
deployment force" of 100,000 men which could
intervene in world 'trouble spots outside the
NATO area the Caribbean, Persian Gulf, the
Middle East or Asia.
The source said the United States could be
expected to pre-position more military equip
ment overseas, mount training exercises
abroad, and step up foreign port calls by U.S.
warships.
probed
virtually assure victory for the
Republican candidate in the general
election.
But White took a different tack after
meeting yesterday morning with Carter
and Democratic congressional leaders
at the White House.
"It would be a classic struggle," White
said, but he added that such a clash
"doesn't have to" split the party.
He said if Kennedy runs, "we'll fight it
on the issues, and unify and support each
other strongly. It could work out very
well."
White said some of Carter's political
advisers met Monday night to discuss
strategy, but reached no agreement on
when he should announce.
Rosalynn Carter, asked yesterday
about her husband's chances in the
upcoming primaries, predicted he would
"win all of them."
She refused to speculate about a
Kennedy candidacy, but added 'that
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The source declined to discuss the specifics of
Vance's negotiations with Dobrynin, but he said
the brigade turned up in Cuba some time during
the Nixon or Ford administrations when the
United States was distracted by the Vietnam
War and its aftermath.
The source said Soviet descriptions of the
brigade as a . training unit should be viewed with
skepticism.
He said the unit conformed in command
structure and equipment to other known Soviet
combat brigades, although the unit could also
have a training function in Cuba.
Carter "always runs" as though he has
opposition.
"You will whip him?" a reporter
asked.
"That's right," Mrs. Carter replied.
certain passage by the Senate, and very good prospects
in the House.
"So we expect to have a new department of education
within six months after passage of the bill," she said.
Correction
A statement in yesterday's Collegian about the
printing of secrets about the hydrogen bomb was
erroneously attributed to Thomas T. Thwaites.
Cool for a day
Partly cloudy, windy and noticeably cooler today
'with a high of 62. The wind will diminish and the skies
will clear tonight, with the temperature dropping to a
fall-like 41. After a cool start, tomorrow will be sunny
and a little warmer, with'some high clouds moving in by
afternoon. The high will be 69.
Photo byßlck Graft
John C. White