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Thursday, November 10, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Burns pessimistic on economy criticizes Congress on inflation
WASHINGTON  (UPI) —Chairman Arthur Burns of the Federal Reserve board criticized Congress yesterday for passing inflationary legislation and said the nation's economy will show little improvement during the next year.
In a rare Capitol Hill appearance, the influential Burns also told the Senate Banking Committee the Fed had decided to tighten credit somewhat over the next year and tax cuts for individuals and business may not be practical.
The White House has been critical of Burns' tight money policy. Administration officials say it could choke off economic expansion.
There has been speculation that President Jimmy Carter may select a new Fed chairman when Burns" four year term expires Jan. 31. The two men are at severe odds over monetary policy and the economy in general.
Burns, 73, said that newspaper stories about a war between him and Carter was a "product of journalistic imagination."
"IM NOT AWARE of any confrontation," he said. "I don't think any confrontation exists."
At the end of the hearing, Sen. William Proximite, D-Wis., the committee chairman and a Burns opponent, praised the Fed chairman as impressive, intelligent and skilled, but said he still disagreed with his policies.
Burns touched on dozens of economic issues during his three hours of testimony.
His opinions carry great weight because because of the country's central bank, is responsible for making sure the United States has an adequate supply of money.
- SOCIAL SECURITY tax increases, approved in separate bills by both houses of Congress, will run up business costs, reduce disposable income for individuals and businesses significantly." In raising Social Security taxes, increasing unemployment compensation taxes and also raising the minimum wage, he said. "Congress has literally been legislating inflation." In the short term, he said, it would take enormous tax cuts to make up for these increases—larger than any tax increase in the country should pinn for longer range tax reductions along with expenditure reductions.
- “Roll”) economic growth during the next year should be about 4.5 per cent; inflation should grow in the range of 6 per cent to 8.5 per cent; and unemployment should dip from the 7 per cent level to a very low level – should not be a very good performance.”
- It would be "most unfortunate" if Carter proposes a change in the preferential tax treatment of capital gains in his tax reform package. There already is a "good deal of unease, uncertainty and anxiety" within the business community over administration economic policy.
Title IX enforcement to get teeth
By CAROL R. RICHARDS Gannett News Service
WASHINGTON—The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) will take staff district and 100 colleges that have refused to promise to halt sex discrimination; it was learned yesterday. The 500 schools and colleges were not available.
HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. will announce in a few days that HEW's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) is notifying the school districts and colleges that they must appear at hearings to explain why they have failed to file assurances of compliance with the 1972 education law's Title IX, which bans sex discrimination in the schools.
more chance before the enforcement process is begun against them.
THE MAJORITY of the nation's 19,900 school districts, colleges and universities have filed the required assurances with HEW, although eight months ago two-thirds of them had not. The sudden influx of assurances is the result of action by OCR, which has made active enforcement of laws banning discrimination due to race, sex or handicap.
The 500 educational units will have a chance during the hearings to file assurances; those that refuse will be denied new federal money. Since more than $1 billion in new funds is in the pipeline for elementary and secondary schools alone, the deprivation could be substantial for some.
The $1 billion is included in the Labor-HEW appropriations bill now deadlocked in Congress by House-Senate differences over a tax provision. The federal funds for abortions for Medicaid.
HEW OFFICIALS insist it is only a coincidence that the upcoming Title IX enforcement action is occurring soon after a major women's rights group accused HEW of being "lackadaisalis" in enforcing sex discrimination law. The group, the Project on Equal Education Rights in the United States (OPER) requested only one-fifth of the 871 discrimination complaints it received, and did almost nothing to enforce the law.
The PEER report's criticism was directed at the office of Civil Rights as it operated during the Nixon and Ford admittance. It said during a press conference yesterday.
By the Associated Press
"I was not here and the present leadership of OCR was not here then," he said. "I hope we have made some improvements. I don't know if that is as we could. We intend to enforce Title IX."
Blizzard strikes Midwest cripples parts of 5 states
Winds gutted up to 80 miles an hour, and even snowplows were inmobilized in some
Ten inches of snow were recorded in Minnesota, where much of the western and central parts of the state were immobilized. Snow turned down trees, causing large power upgrades.
An early blizzard whistled out of the Rockies and dumped more than nine inches of snow on the northern Midwest yesterday, stranding hundreds of motorists and forcing schools and shops to close in parts of Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas and Nebraska.
The storm was the worst on record for this time of year, the National Weather Service in Fargo, N.D., said. Temperatures have been so high that a storm-drafted storm had such high winds and deep snow.
The Iowa National Guard was mobilized to use tracked vehicles to try to rescue hundreds of persons stranded in stalled cars and isolated homes in northwest Iowa.
The guard help was requested by the
Woodbury County Sheriff's office, which had been fighting an all-day battle to rescue the
People were advised to stay off the roads in the western nortes of Minnesota.
The storm brought stinging sheets of snow driven by winds gusting up to 80 mph. Temperatures ranged through the upper 20s and low 30s throughout much of the north-central part of the nation. And the strong winds made it feel even colder.
John Graf, meteorologist in charge of the National Weather Service office in Minneapolis, said "very critical" conditions because of the slow-moving storm patterns.
Some educational institutions have notified HEW that they do not intend to comply with Title IX and are willing sacrifice federal aid in that cause. OCR officials suspect, however, that many of the 500 laggards are ignoring HEW's letters because they think HEW is not serious about enforcement.
In a telephone briefing for the state Emergency Services Division, Graf said the storm was virtually stalled and there will be "very sluggish" recovery. He said it would be at least Thursday morning before construction begins, and Thursday before the storm passes through the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, at the eastern edge of Minnesota.
Israeli reprisal kills 63
Bv the Associated Press
Susan Ford to appear on television
Israeli warplanes streaked across the southern Lebanese border early yesterday, pounding Palestinian strongholds in reprisal for gunner rocket attacks that killed six people last week. Lebanese officials said the Israeli foray killed 63 persons and wounded 82.
Israel's deputy defense minister, Mordechai Zippori, at a funeral for one of the Israeli victims, said that the guerrillas "will pay the full price for their actions" and that the Israeli blood is not for the taking. "He vowed 'never to give the murders any rest.'"
HOLLYWOOD (UPI)—Susan Ford, daughter of former President Gerald Ford, will make her television debut in January as a regular on a daily, hour-long syndicated variety program hosted by Jim Nabors, it was announced yesterday.
ABU JHAD, a Palestinian guerrilla commander supervising rescue operations in the nearly flattened town of Azizie, six miles north of the border, said "Not a single guerrilla has been killed and most of the casualties are women and children."
The shop will be a combination of variety interviews and audience participation, Boyd
Shanan Boyd, a spokesman for the program, said the 20-year-old Ford would conduct celebrity interviews, do occult spot features and work with the audience.
But a Palestinian spokesman said later that three members of a guerrilla anti-aircraft battery "were killed while trying to resuise the raiding jets."
Ford enrolled at the University of Kansas last spring but dropped out before the end of
Half a dozen Palestinian women wailed nysterically, pulling their hair and tearing off the bandage.
Gordon's SHOE PENTED
serving the nearby Burj al Shimali refugee camp.
For men & women...
HOWEVER, a State Department spokesman said the department had urged drug companies to show restraint.
THE BODIES of nine children, between 5 and 12 years old, lay under bloody sheets in the Palestinian women' s crib, the Palestinian women chanted: "Why have they killed our innocent babies? The wrath of God!
criminal encouragement of Israel by the United States."
It was the first Israeli air raid announced in nearly two years, and the first time the government of Menahen Begin has openly sold its military muscles since it took office June 20.
TOUGH AS ALL OUTDOORS
BOMB CRATERS 10 yards wide could be seen in villages and camps hit by the Israeli jets. Refugees said as many as 12 Israeli soldiers were killed in their bomb during the early morning raid.
A spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization said the said was "a direct action by Palestinian Hamas".
He said the State Department, in a statement Tuesday, failed to condemn Israel for previous attacks against civilians in Gaza and Lebanon and to condemn Palestinian rocketing of Israel.
Anger and sorrow also ran through the Israeli town of Nahariyya, that 33-year-old housewife Rikva Lupu, mother of two, was killed by a Palestinian rocket Tuesday. Zippori attended her funeral Wednesday and took his touch stance there.
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Military sources said Israeli border troops were on heightened alert. But the military denied Beirut reports that tanks and naval vessels were involved in the reprisals.
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