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Tuesday, November 1, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Senate approves energy tax plan
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Senate gave President Carter's energy plan a major boost toward congressional enactment yesterday by approving a multi-billion-dollar tax credit and tax credits designed to conserve oil and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.
The 52-35 Senate vote sends the fifth and final piece of the President's energy package. House Senate conference committee, while not in session, begins work on non-axas related to the plan.
THE BILL, approved by the Senate under the leadership of Sen. Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, bears little resemblance to the original document.
But the Senate has given Long a mandate
to return from negotiations with the House
with many of Carter's biggest proposals
One tax expected to survive the conference is the so-called oil equalization tax designed to raise the price of U.S.-produced oil to the much higher price charged by other countries. However, whether the proceeds from this tax will be turned over to the oil companies or returned to consumers depends on a tax rebate remains to be determined.
The Senate energy bill includes $42 billion in tax credits and $800 million in new energy investments.
- A maximum $400 tax credit for homeowners who insulate their homes, buy wood stoves or install other weatherization equipment.
Helms pleads no contest gets suspended sentence
WASHINGTON (UP1)—Former CIA Director Richard Helms颁发了no contest to a misdemeanor charge of failing to give a Senate committee full answers about the Justice Department said yesterday. He received a suspended minimum sentence.
The department said it made the plea agreement with Helms to avoid the security risk of bringing him to trial on a felony charge.
The department filed a two-count criminal information that carries a minimum sentence of a month in jail and a maximum of a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
The statute makes it a misdemeanor for a witness in certain circumstances to pretend to be a defendant.
Helms was charged with failing to give full answers in 1873 when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked questions about the CIA's involvement in efforts to prevent Salvador Allende, a Marxist, from becoming president of Chile.
"Helms failed to answer those questions fully, completely and accurately as required by law," according to the charge in U.S. District Court in Washington.
THE QUESTIONING occurred during a hearing on Helms' nomination as ambassador to Iran, the charge said. Helms left the CIA in 1973 and served as ambassador until President Jimmy Carter took office.
the same committee questioned Helms again on March 6, 1973, during its inquiry into allegations that the CIA or the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. (ITT) had attempted to prevent Allende's election in 1970.
The Justice Department said it had agreed to allow Helms to plead no contest in exchange for suspending a minimum sentence and imposing a fine rather than risk exposing sensitive security matters by trying Helms on a felony charge.
"THE TRIAL OF this case would involve tremendous costs to the United States and might jeopardize national secrets," the department said in its charge.
"Mr. Helms has had a most distinguished career and has performed outstanding services to the United States government during the course of that career."
The department said Helms defended his testimony by saying he was bound by legal responsibilities from under the 1947 Civil Code, and by recognizing evidence sources from unauthorized disclosure.
"Helms also felt bound by the oath that he had signed on his departure from the CIA not to divulge, publish or reveal any classified information or any information concerning CIA operations to any unauthorized person," the department said.
"At the time of his testimony, Helms had not been authorized to reveal confidential information concerning American policy in Chile."
When Helms was CIA director, the department said, the CIA carried out a covert operation approved by 40 committees of the National Security Council with the intention of preventing Allende's election as the Chilean president.
The CIA funded and engaged in propaganda and directly and indirectly funded various individuals and groups in Afghanistan. Allende's campaign, the department said.
persons who install solar heating or cooling equipment.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—For the second time in its last two meetings, a House-Senate conference committee failed yesterday to reach agreement on banning "gas guzzling" cars and adjourned early in the day.
- A tax on some industries that fail to shift from natural gas and oil to more plentiful coal. Designated to save 1.2 million barrels of oil, it is the biggest energy saver in the Senate bill.
Several members said the conference should not decide the issue until the Senate completed work on an energy tax bill, which would require a vote on whether to tax gas-ruzing cars.
But the Senate approved the tax bill without the anticipated squabble over gas-
- A 15 per cent tax credit worth about $10.5 billion to industries, colleges, hospitals and local and state governments that install servers and other energy-saving equipment.*
- A series of tax breaks for the poor and elderly, including a $75 credit for each person older than 65 and a $150 credit for persons who heat their homes with heating
Panel divided on auto ban
Earlier yesterday, the Senate approved a maximum $150 tax credit for persons whose electric bills rise because of the increasing cost of imported oil.
- A residential credit of up to $2,200 for
guzzling cars, meaning the conferences must settle the issue without any new guidance
The House bill had no similar provision, but it did include a tax on gas guzzlers.
The gas guzzler issue is part of an energy conservation bill that passed the House and Senate.
The Senate bill had a provision outlawing any 1980 model car getting fewer than 15 miles to a gallon of fuel. It would raise the requirement one mile a yearly to 1985, when the minimum would be 21 miles to a gallon.
BOGARTS (play It again Sam)
Magazines are best argument, government says
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -The government said yesterday that its strongest argument in the obstruction trial Al Goldstein, a New York sex magazine publisher, were his publications themselves, Smut and Screw magazines.
The defense countered that argument by saying censorship and the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press were at issue in the federal case.
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WED.-Dime Time
THUR.-Ladies Night
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GOLDSTEIN, HIS publishing firm, Milk Way Productions, inc., and his former partner, James Buckley of Stockbridge, Mass., are being tried on 12 federal indictments that charge the mailing of obscene publications into Kansas.
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Benjamin Burgess, assistant U.S. attorney from Wichita, described the tabloids to the jury as "obscene, lewd, offensive, fille, vile, lacustive and dirty."
Defense counsel Herald Price Fahringer argued that the government's case against the defendants was contrived. The magazines were ordered by the postal mailmaster and mailed to Kansas and then mailed back to New York without even being read, he said.
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