Senate lowers retirement age
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate voted Tuesday to let people retire at age 60 with two-thirds of the Social Security benefits they would get if they
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"A cursory examination of the University of Kansas catalog shows many courses for which academic credit is received far more open to question than those in the ROTC program," he said.
On Nov. 13, the Legislative Council, upon the report of Shutz' Committee, adopted a concurrent resolution giving continued support to the ROTC programs at all state colleges and universities. This will be presented in the 1970 legislature.
The wording of the resolution states that the ROTC program is a "necessary and proper part of the curriculum of the colleges and universities of the state of Kansas" and should be given full support by the legislature, the Board of Regents and all state schools. It also says that ROTC credits should continue to count toward graduation.
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Tonight's Student Union Activities Featured Speakers Forum has been cancelled because Jesse Jackson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is ill and will be unable to appear.
Donald  Crook, Wichita senior and chairman of the program, said the program will be rescheduled for early next semester.
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worked until they were 65. But it left it up to the President to decide when to put the provision into effect.
The United Mine Workers sought the change for the benefit of the union's members who felt that working in the mines was too demanding for men over 60. It could affect 3.5 million workers and cost the Social Security trust fund $500 million a year at first.
"On the basis of the progress we have not been making . . . I would suggest the Senate be prepared to stay here through Dec. 24." Mansfield said as debate droned past 7:30 p.m. "And if the President wants to call us back Dec. 26, I will join him wholeheartedly."
With at least eight amendments to go and Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., threatening a filibuster on one, Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield dropped his usual calm and snapped sharply at his colleagues.
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"deliberately interfered with the lawful protests of peaceful demonstrators against the Vietnam War."
"The disruptions in midtown Manhattan, resulting in injury to eight policemen, the breaking of 10 windows, and 48 arrests, were apparently premeditated by a small group," Lindsay said. "Their hit and run tactics cannot be tolerated in this city. They violate every ideal of free and peaceful expression that New Yorker's cherish."
The more militant groups threw rocks at exclusive stores, breaking six windows in Saks Fifth Avenue. "They didn't take anything," said a store spokesman. "They just maliciously broke the windows."
Other spots in Rockefeller Center where windows were broken included the Delta and Air France airline offices and the Chase Manhattan Bank.
In other actions as it neared a final vote in the massive tax reform bill which President Nixon threatened to veto, the Senate;
Voted 92 to 3 against a proposal by Sen. Albert E. Gore, D-Tenn., to deny $555 million worth of tax subsidies to railroads, firms which install pollution control devices and firms which rehabilitate apartment houses.
-Deleted, by a 65 to 25 vote, a provision in the bill intended to deny doctors the huge tax savings they can enjoy by incorporating themselves. Through that action, doctors can put as much as they wish of their earnings into tax-free pension funds for themselves and pay taxes only on the rest. Sen. Paul J. Fannin, R-Ariz. sponsored the successful amendment to allow the practice to continue.
—Rejected a plan to allow people to subtract half their political contributions of up to $50 from their taxes.
Finance Committee Chairman Russell B. Long, D-Da., teamed up with Gore—who has frequently been his opponent in the long
tax fight—against the proposal to let doctors continue to incorporate themselves for the tax benefits derived.
Both said the same senators who thought an increase in the $600 income tax personal exemption nto $800 was too big did not hesitate to vote this big tax break for doctors.
"This is a big tax avoidance device . . . This is one of the big tax loopholes we discovered," Long said.
By incorporating, doctors take advantage of the tax provision which does not tax the money corporations set aside for pension plans.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va,
sponsored the early retirement provision and said that although it would cost $500 million a year in the short run it would cost nothing in the long run since the benefits on early retirement would be reduced to reflect the longer period over which they would be paid.
Foreign aid bill squeaks past House
The law now lets people retire at age 62 with 80 per cent of full benefits. Wives receive 75 per cent of full benefits at 62.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Tuesday night, by a vote of only 200 to 195, approved a $1.6 billion foreign aid appropriation, the lowest in history and more than $1 billion below what President Nixon had sought.
Many Republicans deserted the President and the administration had to rely on Democrats to carry the day.
They almost lost a sizeable bloc of liberals who were angered over the inclusion of $104 million in extra military aid for South Korea and Nationalist China. But in the end most of the liberals, traditional supporters of the program, voted ave.
Despite the deep cuts already inflicted on the measure by the Appropriations Committee, administration forces had to pull out all stops to get it passed and sent to the Senate. A foreign aid bill has never been defeated in Congress.
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