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Tuesday, March 25, 1975
University Daily Kansan
11th Viet province falls
SAIGON—Communitist-led tanks and troops cut off the northern quarter of South Vietnam Monday and isolated Dai Nang, where U.S. Marines first landed 10 years ago. The developments brought renewed calls for President Nguyen Van Thien to quit.
The Communist-led advance meant the fall of the 10th and 11th of South Vietnam's 44 provinces and put North Vietnamese and Viet Cong in control of about 40 per cent of the country's 66,000-square-mile territory and 15 per cent of its two million population.
Rough seas take refugees
SAIGON - The Saigon command announced Monday that a small cargo carrying about 100 refugees from the besieged city of Hue capsized in rough seas and that about half of the passengers apparently drowned. First reports that said 3,000 had drowned were erroneous.
11. Col. Le. Trung Hien, chief spokesman for the South Vietnamese state, said that at least 45 survivors were rescued by other boats and landings.
Aid proposed for utilities
WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. Morton proposed Monday that the government subsidize the electric power in-
frastructure on a temporary basis.
Morton, who is chairman of President Ford's Cabinet-level Energy Policy Council, said the administration was considering a variety of subsidy proposals but warned that they must be limited and temporary to avoid even greater federal intrusion or even a federal take-over.
An Interior Department spokesman said Morton's speech appeared to be the administration's first public proposal of direct federal subsidies.
Atlanta wind takes 3 lives
ATLANTA-A tornado that whipped through Atlanta during the morning rush hour Monday took three lives, injured dozens of other persons and caused extensive damage to the Georgia governor's mansion.
At least 50 persons were treated at hospitals and dozens of others suffered cuts and bruises as the twister lifted roofs, flattened buildings
Some 200 state troopers were called in to help looting and relieve traffic congestion as Mayor Maynard Jackson declared a state of
U.S. to reassess Mideast policy; Israelis ready for possible war
WASHINGTON (AP)—Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said Monday that a reassessment of U.S. policy in the Middle East "is not a question of cutting off any
President Ford earlier told congressional leaders that the United States was beginning a reassessment of Middle East policy in the wake of a breakdown in Kissinger's role, and he also expressed hope that. Kissinger's step-by-step diplomacy may yet resume.
But Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared that Israel was ready for war if necessary. He won overhelping backing from the Israeli parliament Monday for his tough stand in the shattered Middle East peace talks.
Speculation in Washington increased that the U.S. policy of supporting Israel with nuclear weapons was in line with the world's views.
Kissinger said, "Reassessment means we are facing a new situation of some part."
He said it was "inevitable in such a situation that the President order a review to see what is the best policy for the United States to follow."
Rabin told the hushed parliament that Israel was "alert to the peril" of renewed fighting with its Arab neighbors but it was not so in the eyes as a fatal and inevitable necessity."
The legislators then approved by a 92-4 vote a resolution blaming Egypt for the collapse of Kissinger's effort to mediate a rival disengagement of the bellergers.
Earlier, 21 congressional leaders from both parties met with Ford and Kissinger at the White House and gave their unanimous support to U.S. Middle East policy.
Kissinger spoke to newsman after an afternoon briefing to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the breakdown in his step-by-step negotiation effort.
The bill was passed by the House by a narrow margin, 193 to 185. Then the senate passed it by a voice vote with only a few senators present.
WASHINGTON (AP)—A compromise $3.7 billion foreign aid appropriation bill containing more than $1 billion for the budget to progress Monday and sent to President Ford.
The $3.7 billion includes $2.8 billion for economic and military aid and $854 million for related programs including the Peace and three international development banks.
Foreign aid approved
The bill was cut $2.8 billion below administration requests for the fiscal year ending June 30. This was the biggest cut in the history of the foreign aid program.
The $2.8 billion includes $2 billion on the economic aid for about 70 countries, $475 million military aid for about 50 countries and $186 million military sale credit loans for Israel.
In the house, one opponent to the bill, Robert E. Bauman, R-Md., contended
Budget...
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The report suggests not what should be cut but what lower priority items could be added.
tutional duty to review the budget to see that the taxpayers are getting their money's
"I don't know which, or whether any, of these cuts will be introduced at that time," he said. "We're studying all of them as possibilities."
James Drury, director of the Legislative Research Department and KU professor of political science, said the list of budget cuts he suggested would be a significant legislators whom he refused to identify.
The appropriations bill containing the KU budget probably won't be considered by the full house until near the end of the session in mid-April. Louis said.
"Almost every case is different," he said. "The cuts weren't aimed at any particular program. These weren't policy questions. They were more technical."
There were no specific criteria used in determining which budget items would be recommended for reduction, he said. Drury explained that they could logically and easily be made.
The largest budget cuts were suggested in the State Department of Social and Rehabilitational Services. About $600,000 could be cut from the department's desistance expenditures and are being reduced by expenses could be reduced by $35,881, according to the report.
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"We may be financing war on both sides with this bill." Bauman said.
action should have been delayed to study the bill's impact on the Middle East in the wake of the collapse of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's efforts to get a peace settlement.
Kissinger had asked for U.S. reconstruction aid for all sides in the Middle East but primarily for Israel and Egypt, in connection with his peace efforts.
The Mideast aid that was approved includes $300 million for military credit sales and $23.5 million for reconstruction money for Israel; $250 million reconstruction aid for Lebanon; $200 million Jordan; and a $100 million contingency fund for Palestinian and other projects.
The bill also includes $440 million reconstruction aid to war-torn Indochina but no military aid to either Cambodia or South Vietnam.
President Ford asked for $222 million emergency military aid for the two countries. Congressional action on $28.5 million for Cambodia which was cut from Ford's $222 million request has been delayed until after the Easter recess. Ford's $300 million aid request for South Vietnam has not yet started through the legislative process.
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