Friday, March 3, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Conferees accept retirement bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - House-Senate conferences agreed yesterday on a bill that would force private businesses to raise their mandatory retirement age from 65 to 70 and ban forced retirement of federal employees.
Under current law, three million federal workers are subject to mandatory retirement at age 70. That rule would end after Sept. 30 under the new legislation.
Congressional leaders said final passage of the bill should come this month and President Jimmy Carter was expected to sign it soon.
The provision under which private business cannot force an employee into retirement before age 70 would go into effect Jan. 1. The legislation grants employers the right to out-mandary age 65 retirement provisions in existing labor contracts.
THE MEASURE affects only private companies with 20 or more employees on the payroll. That covers about 70 percent of the labor force.
Currently, private sector workers are protected against age discrimination in hiring, job retention, pay and other work conditions only to age 65.
The proposed law does not change 65 as the age at which most people can begin collecting maximum Social Security benefits.
Conferences agreed to compromise on two controversial sections of the new legislation affecting highly paid business executives and college professors.
BUSINESSES would be allowed to continue the forced retirement at age 65 of high-level executives whose retirement benefits.
"We covered the most obvious episode in the story today," Rep. Bruce Caputo, R-N.Y., told reporters.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tongsan Park reportedly began giving details of an alleged influence-buy operation the day before it was announced, some members called the testimony ugly.
"It was a conspiracy of American businessmen, congressmen and Koreans to make blatantly improper payments over a sustained period with U.S. taxpayers' money," he said. "The details are revolting."
Rep. Millicent Fenwick, R-N.J., said,
"the whole thing is ugly."
Tongsun Park talks; story said to be ugly
SHE and CAPITU refused, because of the committee's secrecy rules, to reveal any of Park's testimony but said he gave payments on payments already disclosed publicly.
plumity.
"There's no new territory but there are new interpretations and they're ugly." Fenwick said.
In another development, the committee's special counsel, Leon Jaworski, said he met with Secretary of State Cyron Vance on the ethics committee's efforts to get South Korean officials' testimony but no agreement was reached.
South Korea has adamantly refused to turn over the officials. Asked about
Jaworski made the comment during a break in the ethics committee's third day of questioning Park on his alleged influence-buying in Congress.
JAWORKSI HAS said it was essential for the committee to get the testimony of not just Park but also other Korean officials, including former Ambassador Kim Dong Jo, to determine whether congressmen should be or participated in any other misconduct.
prospects for a breakthrough, Jawkowski
I said "I wouldn't even speculate on that."
The former ambassador and his wife are accused of trying to give envelopes stuffed with $100 bills to at least three congressmen.
The former ambassador broke silence last week with a Newsweek magazine interview to denounce the allegation as ridiculous.
He called a former embassy officer who made the accusation a liar and called a Capitol Hill secretary reckless for identifying a photograph of him as the man that unsuccessfully to give Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan., such an envelope.
Proponents of the business exemption said this would give young people more of a chance to climb the ladder to executive levels.
The conferees decided that the delay until 1982 would give colleges and universities time to adjust their tenure systems.
minus Social Security, would amount to $27,000 a year. To clarify these types of executives, we added the definite policy-making capacity that might fit this category.
Park talked to reporters briefly to deny an assertion by several committee members that he was getting increasingly evasive in the closed-door questioning.
Colleges and universities also could continue mandatory age 65 retirement policies for professors, but only until July 1, when the redundancy retirement age would be raised to 70.
The bill also orders the labor secretary to study the feasibility of a total ban on all retired retirement policies.
Senate committee rejects limit on city speed control
evasive evasive but that is not my intention, "Park said. 'My desire is to tell the complete truth.'
Bigger tax cuts weighed
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WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Senate Finance Committee voted yesterday to leavet her in its budget recommendations for a tax cut $10 billion larger than President Jimmy Carter's proposed $25 billion.
Berman proposed an amendment to the law that would limit local authorities' power to decide speed.
THE AMENDMENT was rejected on voice vote. The committee took no action on the bill itself, which would have increased the number of cities to sites cities to help maintain connecting links.
billion. The House Ways and Means Committee, however, held its budget plan to a level only slightly above Carter's.
TOPEKA (AP)—A proposal that the state secretary of transportation be stripped of the authority to set speed limits on state highways which pass through cities was rejected yesterday by the Senate Transportation and Utilities Committee.
In other action, the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee approved a bill yesterday requested by the Alcohol Beverage Control to halt the licensing of profit-making private clubs under a nonprofit designation. The measure would give
"I don't think it's right for the secretary of transportation to dictate how fast I can drive in my city on what are essentially city streets," Berman said.
The proposed change was made by Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, who said he thought local officials should decide speed limits on connecting links.
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The recommendations indicate that the committees generally approve of the overall amount in Carter's plan but are divided over how much to support the president's specific proposals.
Although neither committee is required to tell the budget committee exactly how the cuts would be made, deliberations in both panels indicated their inclination to continue the $700 million jobs tax credit Carter wants to kill.
Soviet aid to Ethiopians in Somalian war verified
WASHINGTON (AP) -Cyrus R. Vance, secretary of state, confirmed yesterday that two Soviet generals were helping to direct Ethiopian and Cuban forces in the war with
Vance also told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there were from 35,000 to 37,000 Cubans in Africa, of which about 11,000 were aiding Ethiopia.
President Jimmy Carter said he had a firm commitment from Mengistu Haile Miiram, the leader of Ethiopia, and from the Soviet Union that the combined Ethiopian-Cuban force would cross the border into Somalia in pursuit of military aid.
Somalia claims areas of both Ethiopia and Kenya that are inhabited by ethnic Somali.
Carter also told visiting officials from Kenya that the United States would deliver F-5 fighter planes to their country in about a month.
IN TALKING WITH the Kenyans, Carter said Britain and other Western powers would consult with each other to guarantee that Kenya had adequate defense abilities
Meanwhile, Mengi乌斯 was quoted by the BAC as confirming for the first time—that Cubans were fighting alongside Ethiopian forces over the disputed Ethiopian Ogaden.
In his testimony, Vance said that the attackers were from Iran, which is about 23,000, in Angola.
Vance called for the withdrawal of all outside forces from the conflict over the Ogaden region and for respect of internationally recognized boundaries.
U. S. intelligence estimates have placed the number of Soviet advisers in Ethiopia at 1,000, including a Russian general.
THE SOVIET PRESENCE, he said, affects the political tone of U.S.-Soviet relations, but he insisted there was no link between Soviet activity on Africa's front and negotiations under way to reach a new treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons.
Those talks, he said, have been marked by substantial progress in the past few months and only a few issues stand in the way of a settlement.
Administration officials headed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. national security adviser, warned the Soviet Union Wednesday that it could have an impact on the weapons negotiations.
vance's low-keyed presentation appeared designed to blunt that warning.
He also testified before the panel on the administration's proposed $5.8 billion credit program.
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