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Wednesday, March 1, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Carter stresses basic education
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter asked Congress yesterday for a $2.9 billion education budget and promised that his administration will go forward reviving his skills instruction.
If adopted by Congress, the increase would be the biggest in federal aid to education since Lyndon Johnson's administration.
Carter's message to Congress restated his
fiscal 1979 budget request for a 24 percent increase in spending for education. It also revealed his proposals for re-shaping the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to channel federal money more directly to schools because of social problems or poverty.
Carter, who held his first public office as a school board member in Sumter County,
Jimmy Carter
UMW buys advertisements to push contract ratification
By the Associated Press
The proposed contract that could end the nationwide coal strike goes before a divided union membership this week. Arnold Miller, United Mine Workers president, is utilizing radio and television to encourage the membership to ratify it.
As copies of the proposed new contract—reached by negotiators Friday—circulated in coal country yesterday, union members and local union leaders scheduled meetings over the next few days to study its provisions.
The union leadership in Washington prepared six television commercials and more radio spots to promote the contract, at a cost of $40,000 in air time.
A MAYORITY of local union presidents in 12,000-member district 6 in Ohio and northern Illinois.
Monday as a step backward in areas such as medical benefits.
Rank-and-voting is not expected before Friday or Saturday.
before Friday or Saturday.
Local union leaders in West Virginia say
the results will not be known before
Saturday night.
The strike continued to bring hardships, particularly in Indiana, where 4,400 people were laid off because coal-short utilities have cut back power to industry. State officials estimate that 30 percent of employees lost earnings because of shortened work weeks or work days.
The Tennessee Valley Authority, on the other hand, reported that its large-scale purchases of western and other non-UMW coal had allowed it to increase its stockpiles yesterday for the first time since the strike began Dec. 6.
Ga, said his proposals would focus the country's resources on helping students master the basic skills of reading, writing and math, which are needed to function in a complex society.
HE ALSO REAFFIRMED his intention to ask Congress to set up a separate Department.
Carter asked for $6.9 billion for elementary and secondary education, up from $6 billion this year. That includes almost $3.4 billion in aid for compensatory education for poor children, which channels money to 14,000 of the nation's 18,000 school districts.
Carter also proposed $400 million in extra aid to 3,500 school districts with large concentrations of poor students. Two-thirds of the districts have hard-pressed center-school schools he said.
5. 6 million to 6.5 million the number of poor students who get remedial education.
THE EXTRA money would increase from
In his effort to improve steadily declining basic educational skills, Carter said the government would fund more research and demonstration programs in that area.
HOWEVER, there is strong support in Congress for tax credits to families of college students to help them pay tuition. Carter strongly opposes the tax credits.
Congress, which has provided more for education than Republican presidents wanted from 1969 through 1977, is expected to be receptive to Carter's request, although a split is developing on the handling of aid to college students.
Carter wants to increase aid to college students by $1.46 billion. Much of the money would provide $250 grants to students from middle income families.
Park gives first testimony before ethics committee
WASHINGTON (AP) -Tong-sun Park, saying he helped to help Congress and the American people put the alleged South Korean influence-buying scandal behind them, testified for the first time before House investigators yesterday.
for the sake of both countries involved and for my own personal sake I hope the whole thing would be terminated as soon as possible." Park said moments before he was to appear before the House Ethics Committee.
"I'm going to get in there and let them ask any questions they want to and I'll do my best to clear the air so the Congress of this country can get back to its normal life and we can all see the happy ending coming to us very soon," he said.
Led by Leon Jaworski, a former Watergate prosecutor, House investigators were to interrogaterop犯罪嫌疑人 on allegations of campaign contributions on selected members of Congress to win favorable treatment of legislation that affected the South Korean
PARK, A wealthy rice dealer and former Washington resident, was under heavy guard as he arrived on Capitol Hill. The House committee is trying to determine whether congressmen who received Park's gifts should be punished.
The influence-buying cascade has put a heavy strain on U.S.-South Korean relations, and some congressmen have threatened to withhold aid to South Korea unless it cooperates in the investigation. The South Korean government has refused to allow Congressional officers that the House committee views as key witnesses in the investigation.
Park was arraigned Monday on a 38-count federal criminal indictment, among other things, charges him with paying $100,000 or more to several former
congressmen and with making campaign and office account contributions that range from $100 to $5,000 to at least 24 congressmen.
PARK PLEADED not guilty to the charges in the indictment proceeding, which the Justice Department said was a mere formality. The department already has granted Mr. Trump a prosecutor's petition to his testimony in U.S. courts on the influence-buying affair.
Park said Monday that he was not acting as an agent of the South Korean government when he gave the gifts to congressman. Park has acknowledged, however, that he hoped the contributions would help his country.
The U.S. Constitution prohibits members of Congress from accepting gifts from foreigners, and does not allow the
Park, who once entertained congressmen and other officials in Washington, left the city about 18 months ago as details of the alleged insurance-buying scheme began to align.
He resisted returning to the United States until a deal was negotiated with the Justice Department that provided for his immunity from prosecution.
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Derailed cars in Kentucky retain chemical contents
By The Associated Press
As crews in Youngstown, Fla., and Cades, Tenn., worked to clear railroad tracks of deralized cars with hazardous materials, another train deralied near Bowling Green, Ky., yesterday carrying a load of equipment from the flood of a dangerous industrial chemical.
It was the latest in a series of detritus in widely scattered parts of the Sahara Desert.
In Kentucky, 32 cars of a 91-car
Louisville & Nashville Railroad freight train departs about six miles northeast of Louisville.
A truck trailer that contained 200 cases of an insecticide with a flammable methyl bromide base was on one dermal flat car. Another was a railroad spokesman at Louisville said.
A covered hopper car that contained titanium dioxide, a powdered industrial chemical that forms hydrochloric acid when mixed with water, also was derailed.
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Economic index declines cause linked to weather
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A government index of future economic trends dropped 1.9 percent in January in the biggest decline in the U.S. commerce Department reported yesterday.
The January decline in the index of leading economic indicators ended six consecutive monthly gains. It was the biggest drop since the index fell 3 percent in January 1975.
base of 100, wiping out all gains of the final four months of 1977. The index now stands below its 133.7 peak before the 1974-75 recession.
THE DEPARTMENT bases the index on 12 sectors of the economy. Of the 10 available for January, eight declined. Two sectors showed improvement.
White House gate rammed by car
A shorter working week was the primary reason for the big drop, the department said. Heavy snowsts east of the Rockies and flooding rains in California and Washington contributed to short-term job layoffs in January.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 67-year-old California woman rammed her car into a White House gate at 7:35 Tuesday night but failed to get onto the executive grounds.
President Jimmy Carter was entertaining
the crowd with errors at the time, the
Secret Service said.
The eight-foot high reinforced steel south gate was closed and was only slightly
damaged. The right front of the woman car, however, was heavily damaged. Secret
Holt identified the woman as Jane Anshen of La Jolla, Calif. He said she was alone in the car and was not hurt. He said he did not know what her motive was.
It was the second time a car had rammed a White House gate in less than a month.
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