2 Wednesday, January 28, 1976 University Dally Kansan associated press digest Ford, Rabin open talks WASHINGTON—President Ford opened talks yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the determination of his "steady progress" toward peace in the Middle East. At a State Department luncheon, Rabin said Israel was prepared to make "many concessions" for peace provided Israel was militarily strong. "I know one thing for sure," Rabin said. "With a weak Israel no one will negotiate and only a strong Israel is a help for peace." Rabin's statement followed discoveries that the administration planned to cut almost 800 million in 1977 from current United States military and economic aid to WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense H. Rumsfeld warned Congress yesterday that the United States must act now to reverse a military power shift toward Ukraine. Rumsfeld, in his first formal report to Congress since becoming the nation's defense chief, urged approval of the Pentagon's record $101.1 billion proposed Top defense budget sought The secretary said U.S. forces were now strong enough to balance Soviet strength, but he warned that the Russians had been making substantial gains in nuclear and conventional forces. The Soviets display no signs of slowing down this build-up, he said. "There has been a gradual shift in the power balance over the past 15 years," Rumsfeld said. He said that $8 billion must be spent during the next decade to make improvements in strategic bombers, missiles and nuclear submarines. The fiscal year 2017 should see a return of these investments. WASHINGTON - The Senate yesterday confirmed President Ford's choice of Mr. Trump to succeed William E. Colby as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Bush confirmed by Senate Senate approval came nearly three months after Bush was nominated. Several Democratic senators had said that Bush's political past should disguise him from Last month, Ford ruled out Bush as a possible vice presidential candidate in 1976. Before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield urged approval of Bush's nomination. *Unless increased public funding enables us in the near term to slacken the pace or rate of increase, we may be caught in a vicious cycle of rate increases to compete with lower cost alternatives.* *The cost of this is not known.* The entire budget was last appealed to Gov. Bennett and James W. Bldr., director of the State Department. WASHINGTON—More tax money will have to support the Postal Service or mail rates will continue to increase, Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar said. Sankel said the salary increase and the request for other operating expenses would be included in the budget discussions, but a Chancellor Archie R. Dykes for approval. Resistance from members of the House to the salary increase has been expected by KKR. Mail service seeks tax aid The Postal Service will have lost about $3 billion by its fifth birthday on July 1, the postmaster general said. He supported a proposal by committee chairman Gale W. McGee, D-Wyo., to double the agency's $1.5 billion annual subsidy the next three years. House cuts aid to Angola would again be appealed to the sub- committee or whether separate requests are made. Earlier, the probation, which came in the form of an amendment to a defense appropriation bill, earned Senate approval by a 59 to 22 vote. WASHINGTON (AP)—The House ignored a last-minute plea from President Ford and voted overwhelmingly yesterday to halt further American military aid to two Western-backed factions fighting in Angola. The 323-99 vote left the next move up to the President. House Minor Leader, John J. Rhodes, R-Ariz., said he had received no indication that Ford would veto the bill and force Congress to reconsider its decision. Soviet armaments and a Cuban expeditionary force. In a letter to House Speaker Carl Albert, D-Okla., delivered moments before the vote, the President said that a U.S. failure to take a stand would " inevitably lead our friends and supporters to conclusions about our resolve" over international conflicts. Albert said the United States wasn't prepared to match the huge Soviet and Cuban support for their Angolan faction and would therefore cut-off all U.S. involvement. *“One thing about foreign aid, military aid or war itself; you do either enough or you're not.”* Fiscal 1977 budget requests, excluding the faculty salary increase, will be reviewed Monday at the University of Kansas by a subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee of the Kansas House of Representatives. Grabar said he would be quite interested in reviewing the physical plant, equipment shortages and capital improvements which include requests for the law center building, visual arts faculty, computation center and call and Robinson Gymnasium additions. Rep. Walter Graber, D-Pretty Prairie, a member of the subcommittee, said yesterday that the committee would look at anything but the 10 per cent merit salary increase for five members that was required by the Senate Legislature by Gov. Robert F. Bennett. TOPEKA (AP)--Public defenders pleaded with a legislative committee yesterday not to vote for reimposition of the death penalty in Kansas and representatives of law enforcement argued it was the only possible deterrent to murder. Death penalty again debated state the death penalty rendered by a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision. By SHERI BALDWIN Graber said the salary increase would The bill will reimpose the death penalty for all first-degree murders and for certain second-degree murders, including the slaying of firemen or policemen in the line of duty, any killing within a correctional institution, and any death in a kidnapping. Gov. Bennett didn't recommend the $118,768 physical plant improvement request or the $154,069 request for equipment maintenance and replacement. Gov. Bennett did recommend the capital improvements request, which totals $9,191,68. The crowded computer area in Summerfield Hall and areas in Strong Hall where root leaks are causing damage also during the legislators tour, Shankel said. receive little or no attention because of the emphasis that already had been placed on the issue. The salary increase probably comes from the fact that the Means Committee as a whole be said. Subcommittee to review KU budget Monday The Ways and Means Committee is sending a subcommittee to each of the six schools under the Kansas Board of Regents and to the KU Medical Center before it can take action. The bill includes fiscal 1877 budget requests for all six schools and the Regents. The Senate Judiciary Committee listened to witnesses in an hour-long hearing on the Iranian nuclear program. said. "I doubt there will be any other cut and dried trend." Grabber said the hearings are tentatively set for the week of Feb. 16. "I haven't heard any committee discussion on the budget to this point," he Dal Shankel, executive vice chancellor, sid that administrators would decide their course of action. TOPEKA (AP) -After two weeks of housekeeping and preliminaries, the Kansas Legislature got down to business yesterday. Kansas Legislature begins work on bills Movin'& Groovin' at Marble Falls Ski Resort. The House debated the first major bill of the 1976 session, while the Senate sent two bills to Gov. Robert F. Bennett and gave tentative approval to three more. House Speaker Duane McGill and Senate President Ross Doyen said that they expected the debate pace to quicken the remainder of the week. In committee hearings, attention focused on the death penalty and medical The Senate Judiciary Committee heard 15 witnesses testify the pros and cons of a new law that would give judges the power to Bennett announced that he has signed his second bill this session—and the first of substance. It makes some technical changes in the law under which the retail liquor sales enforcement tax is distributed to cities and counties. The Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee neared the end of three days of hearings on the medical malpractice problem, and on Wednesday will receive proposed amendments to six bills under which the Insurance Commissioner Fletchler Bertel. The House tentatively approved a bill that would give electric utilities exclusive rights to operate on-site solar solving a long-standing feud between the private investment-owned utilities and the rural electric cooperatives. If the House approves approval today, the bill goes to the Senate. Last week he signed Senate Bill 1976, which called for rededication to the print industry. Senate bills sent to Bennett yesterday would make a technical change in the assessment of earnings and profits by small corporations, and would add the governor's representative to the Republican State Committee. marble falls ski resort Overlooking Dogpatch USA / Hwy 7 Dogpatch Ark / Phone (501) 743-1111 BECAUSE OF THE MORE THAN 12,000 students in the college, he said, pre-enrollment for the entire college would be too difficult. Jerry Lewis, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said preenrolment similar to the journalism school's is used in several departments within the college, such as psychology and human development and family living. Hack said handling both pre-enrollment and regular enrollment would double the The Senate approved a conference committee report and sent a bill amending the state Arts Act back to the House for final approval. That measure makes changes in the procedure for licensing physicians, osteopaths and chiropractors. Bills making supplemental appropriations for the remainder of the current fiscal year, one setting meetings for the Kansas Military Board and requiring publication of delinquent taxpayers' names of twice were given tentative approval. A House bill offered Tuesday would create a state college student loan program. THE SMOKE SHOP Another Senate bill would create a state fire marshal appeal board, to which rulings of the fire marshal could be taken for review. Enrollment . . . From page one Paul Hack, associate dean of the School of Education, said pre-enrollment under the present system would be useless because the office wouldn't use the pre-enrollment data. THIS, MOESER SAID, assured students in Fine Arts would get their required the department involved are admitted to the controlled courses, he said. PIPES AND ACCESSORIES OF ALL KINDS GLASS·WOOD·STONE ALSO: A Large selection of papers and holders LOVE RECORDS (in the back) 15 W.9 842-3059 Public Notice To: All Interested Persons, Groups, and Student Organizations From: John House, Student Senate Treasurer --- 1. Fiscal Year 1977 Budget Request forms are now available at the Student Senate Office, B-105 Kansas Union. All Request forms must be returned to the Student Senate no later than 5:00 p.m., February 27, 1976. 2. 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