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Friday, February 27,1976
University Daily Kansan
associated press digest
Nixon trip called harmful
WASHINGTON—President Gerald L. Ford said yesterday that former President Nixon's China trip "probably was harmful" to his election campaign in
China.
The President cautioned that returns in the Tuesday primary hadn't yet been fully analyzed, but when they were, he said, "11 presence there will be evidence that
I would want to make this announcement for Ford placed heavy emphasis on Nikon's role as a private citizen in Peking.
"I think the weight of the evidence we have so far—we don't have all the evidence in—is that it (the simplest case) probably was harmful, but it is not, because at this time."
WASHINGTON - The commissioner of the Social Security Administration warned yesterday that his agency, which touches the life of virtually every American, may grind to a halt when Congress approves a $400-million overhaul of the massive Social Security computer system.
"We're going to break down," Commissioner James B. Cardwell told a Senate Annotorizations subcommittee. "Somebody has to start worrying about it."
Just as Social Security was threatened with a logjam of paperwork before computers came along, the 40-year-old agency now is in danger of being strangled into a state of emergency.
The problem has reached crisis proportions during the last 10 years as Congress added Medicare, Black Lung and Supplemental Security Income to the basic pension.
"Partly because of the rapid growth and the need to respond on short notice to legislative issues, SSA hasn't had the opportunity to devise and implement policies."
The straw that broke the computer's back was federalization of nearly four million state welfare recipients two years ago into the Supplemental Security Income program, which is experiencing a 24 per cent error rate in making payments to ineligible persons, overpaying some and underpaying others, he said.
Extension asked of court
WASHINGTON - Public interest groups asked the Supreme Court yesterday to permit the illegally constituted Federal Election Commission to continue
The groups said legislation to restructure the commission and to make it comply with the law "is progressing rapidly through Congress. If the court extends the stay for an additional 30 days, we believe the Congress will be able to complete its action within that period."
If the court fails to grant the extension, the FEC will cease awarding federal matching presidential campaign funds at midnight Monday.
The justices gave no indication when they would act. They meet today for one of their regularly scheduled closed conferences.
their regularly scheduled closed conferences.
Congress wasn't expected to pass legislation before the deadline.
Allowing the commission to die "would obviously have a serious and adverse impact on candidates" in the presidential primaries, the groups said.
Committee kills Regents bill
TOPEKA—The Senate Education Committee killed on voice vote yesterday a ballot that had her transferred control of Kansas community junior colleges to the state.
The vote to kill the measure introduced by the committee three weeks ago came after State Sen. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, argued the transfer of control from the state Board of Education was contrary to the state's long-range educational goals.
"I just think they are completely different types of institutions from the regents' institutions." Meyers said. "To put vocational-technical schools under the Board of Education and the junior colleges under the regents is just opposite to the aims of the 1922 Commission."
She referred to the state commission studying long-range plans for post-high school education in the state.
Carter's tax policies attacked by opponents
He said he would come out with a complete analysis of the tax system later on this year and that he believed it was imperative to simplify the tax structure.
BOSTON AP- Front runner Jimmy Carter took a day off from campaigning yesterday while three of his rivals in next week's Democratic presidential primary in Massachusetts attacked his stands on various issues.
Carter told a League of Women Voters audience in Boston on Monday he favored doing away with income tax deductions for interest paid on home mortgages and that he favored elimination of hundreds of other tax incentives.
Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz, the second placeholder in new Hampshire, said he disagreed with Carter's tax proposal, and his papers' revolution if it were impugned.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Int., accused the
peeling Republican gerrymandering and Sen.
Birch Bayh.
Jackson, D-Wash, devoted a news conference to attacking Carter's stand on the issue.
Bayh, who finished third in New Hampshire, attacked Carter for saying he wouldn't fight to repeal right-to-work laws, for favoring limited deregulation of natural gas and for opposing public services jobs and revenue sharing for states.
Jackson said Carter was threatening the destruction of the working and middle class American family with a proposal to increase income tax deduction on home mortuaries.
Meanwhile, GOP contender Ronald Reagan told a crowd of about 10,000 in St. Petersburg, Fla, that he was greatly impressed with what happened in New Hamshire.
Reagan said he thought the New Hampshire primary had answered the question about whether his campaign was built on a limited number of appeals to only a limited number of people.
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An estimated 5 million of the remaining recipients of the coupons would have their benefits reduced, while the poorest families would get more aid for groceries.
"We have, therefore, aced," Ast. Agriculture Secretary Richard L. Peltner told reporters. The full effect on the budget and the rolls wouldn't be felt until late next
Some 600,000 new participants would be attracted to the program, USDA officials
The program now reaches between 18.8 million and 19 million persons a month at cost to the federal government of $5.5 billion a year.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Agriculture Department proposed yesterday sweeping new regulations for the food stamp program that will help to reduce the outlays by at least 8.3 million persons.
The regulations, designed to go into effect in three steps beginning June 1, were ordered a week ago by President Ford in a speech on the war. The president took long to reform the program.
Fellner said that without the regulations the program would run $500 million short in September and that Ford refused to ask Congress for more money.
The public was given until March 29 to comment on the proposed new rules. A suit seeking an injunction against them was promised by a group of organizations headed by Food Research Action Center in New York
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Charles Bates, special agent in charge of the FBI office, said there was "no way we can tell if they are legitimate. But being a person is more important to persons we advised the people involved."
USDA cannot by regulation go ahead with its desire to end the automatic eligibility for food stamps of families where all members are on welfare. In some states this gives them more income than ineligible working families.
Under the proposals, eligibility for the program would be restricted to those with net incomes below the new official non-farm poverty line of, for example, $2,800 a year for one person and $5,500 for a four-person family.
Officials said the public could submit comments, suggestions or objections to the proposals to the Food Stamp Division, Food Distribution Agency of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250.
Proposed regulations cut food stamp rolls
Deadline for submitting applications is 5 p.m. Friday. March 5. Naismith Hall is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer; male/female.
Copies of the message were received by a newspaper and two radio stations in the San Francisco Bay area.
SLA threatens Hearst trial
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—The judge, attorneys and two witnesses in Patricia Hearst's bank robbery trial were threatened with death yesterday in a communique purportedly from the Symbionese Liberation Army, the FBI said.
The chief prosecutor in Miss Heart's trial, U.S. Atty. James L. Browning Jr., laughed off the threat, saying: "I hope they don't shoot me before the final arguments."
Upon hearing of the threat, chief defense attorney F. Lee Bailey commented, "Very
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