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Wednesday, December 4, 1974
University Daily Kansan
DIGEST
British defense cut
From the Associated Press
LONDON-Britain announced plans yesterday for an $11.2 billion cutback in defense spending over the next 10 years, aimed mainly at reducing commitments in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. The United Kingdom will also be announcing the results of a nine-month review of defense policy, called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "the lincipin of British security" and said Britain would concentrate on contributing land and air forces in the Mediterranean, sea and air forces to the eastern Atlantic and Channel areas, and to the general defense of the United Kingdom in its immediate approaches.
Secret canal accord
From the Associated Press
JERUSALEM--Foreign minister Yigal Allon said yesterday that Israel had a secret commitment from Egypt to let Israeli cargo pass through the Suez Canal once the waterway is reopened, probably next year.
He said the agreement was an unpublished part of the disengagement of forces pact signed last January. Alain said Egypt had agreed that ships flying the Israeli flag would be permitted through the canal after a further undisclosed peace step had been reached. Israel ships have never been allowed through the canal. It was completely blocked by war debris during the 1967 Middle East war.
Ford veto sustained
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The House yesterday failed to override President Gerald R. Ford's veto of a bill that would have provided $130 million in tax benefits for victims of several natural disasters that occurred in 1972. The vote was 249 to 150 in favor of overriding the veto, 17 votes short of the majority. The House also failed to provide for victims of such disasters as Hurricane Agnes; the Buffalo Creek, W. Va., dam failure, and the Rapid City, S.D. floods.
Tax relief endorsed
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Two members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers have endorsed general tax relief as a device to prod the nation out of recession if the economy can't recover on its own. Council chairman Alan Greenspan and William J. Fellner, in successive speeches to the National Economists Club, said tax relief should be considered the top priority if government stimulation of the economy becomes necessary. President Ford has proposed limited tax relief to cushion inflation's impact on the poor and to spur new investment by business.
WASHINGTON—Congress yesterday overwhelmedly overrode President Gerald R. Ford's veto of a bill to increase most teachers' educational benefits by 22.7 percent.
The vote in the House was 394 to 10. In the Senate the vote was 90 to 1.
retroactive to September, and Veterans Administration (VA) officials said the back payments probably would be in the hands of the veterans now in school in about 15 days. The first regular check with the increase will go out Jan. 1, they said.
The higher veterans payments are
Ford vetoed the bill, saying it was in-
finaryary and suggested an 18.2 per cent
Haldeman denies misusing CIA to stop Watergate investigation
Before Haldean resumed the stand, U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica disclosed he was considering taking the testimony of Richard M. Nixon by submitting written questions to the former President.
Spending his third day on the witness stand at the Watergate coverup trial, Haldeman said he had no memory of any plan to preempt the FBI from uncovering the building. House and the 1972 Nixon reelection committee to the original Watergate break-in.
Vet bill passed over Ford veto
Referring to a June 23, 1972, meeting with two top CIA officials, assistant special prosecutor Richard Ben-Venise asked.
From the Associated Press
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - White Writer
Chief of staff H. R. Haldeman under
under bitter cross-examination yesterday that he had ever intended to misuse the Central Intelligence Agency to cut short the initial FBI investigation into Watergate.
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WASHINGTON—House Democrat dealt another strong blow yesterday to the powers of Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur D. Mills just hours before he was hospitalized with an undisclosed alinement. There were indications that he might be removed from the post permanently.
This was the second blow in two days to the prerogatives of the committee.
House Democrats strike at powers of ill Wilbur Mills
From the Associated Press
The Democratic caucus voted to increase membership on the panel from 25 to 37, with 12 of the new total to be assigned to Republicans.
Monday the caucus stripped the Democratic contingent of the Ways and Means Committee of its role as nominator for congressmen for committee assignments.
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The former White House chief of staff answered loudly and with no hesitation, "I had no intention of exceeding the responsibilities of my job. I had no intention of defrauding and misusing the CIA or the FBI.
raise. He also objected to a new $0-a-year loan program for veterans and an increase in entitlement for undergraduate study from 36 months to 45 months.
"I had no intention of obstructing the"
"no intention to do anything improper."
"Isn't it a fact, Mr. Haldeman, that you did something you had no right under the law to do with government ... in a way to defraud the CIA and the FBI, to defraud the government of the United States for reasons which you knew were not to be in the national interest."
The bill allows Reservists and National Guardmen to get credit for education benefits for their six months initial active duty, and also provides on active duty for 12 months or more.
A Twentieth Century Fund task force recommended that veterans benefits be eliminated for peacekeeping veterans. The fund proposed that an individual fund be drawn to the limits of what he could draw on it as needed rather than be tied to the limits of a monthly check.
The bill increases monthly payments for fulltime institutional training from $220 to $270 for a single veteran, from $261 to $321 for a veteran with one dependent and from $265 with two dependents. The rate for each dependent over two is raised from 18 to $22.
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