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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Feb. 17, 1964
Work on Tax Cut Bill Pays Off
By Hale Montgomery United Press International
At one stage of Senate debate on the big tax cut bill, one senator advised several colleagues outside the chamber: "If I were you, I'd bring up my amendment right now before Johnson has a chance to hear about it."
The remark was a testimonial to the tireless efforts of the administration in helping to line up votes and ride herd on the bill during a week of crucial voting on more than 50 amendments.
A senator also referred to the 17-member senate finance committee as the 18-man committee—17 senators and President Johnson.
THE $11.8 billion tax cut bill was a combat-ready bill long before it reached the senate floor.
It had been tested for eight months in the House, wrung through two more months of Senate public hearings and perfected under the anxious maternal guidance of treasury experts during weeks of finance committee sessions.
What has emerged is essentially a politically balanced bill, acceptable to both organized labor and the vast majority of businessmen, and providing massive election-year tax cuts for virtually every U.S. citizen and business.
Most observers felt months ago that some form of President John F. Kennedy's tax program was sure to be passed this year. What then did Johnson do to accelerate the process?
HE SENT CONGREES a $97.9 billion "economy" budget keyed to tax cuts with government spending estimates held $500 million below the current fiscal year.
It provided a welcome thaw for the economy bloc in Congress, which had been frozen into a position of
opposing tax reduction if spending remained high. Conservatives were able to cite Johnson's budget restraint as justification for supporting tax cuts.
Johnson also utilized his experience and friendships gained through years as former senate democratic leader to maintain a relentless pressure on the finance committee and on the Senate to complete work on the bill.
DeGaulle A Challenge To West's Leaders
(Editor's Note: This is another in the series on "Great Decisions of 1964" in American foreign policy. The author has been chief European correspondent for United Press International for the past decade and has covered France since before World War II.)
By Joseph Grigg
PARIS—(UPI) -President Charles de Gaulle of France has flung down a global challenge to United States Leadership of the West.
He no longer is merely blocking the late President Kennedy's dream of an Atlantic community led by the United States.
By recognizing Red China, De Gaulle has set himself on a collision course with the United States that is likely to span the world.
On Jan. 27 he announced France had established diplomatic relations with Red China. Four days later at a news conference, he demanded neutralization of Southeast Asia in the East-West power struggle.
AT THE BEGINNING OF 1964 the French leader already was sharply at odds with Washington on nuclear policy, trade, the future of the Atlantic Alliance and the whole value and purpose of the United Nations.
Then, early in February, De Gaulle rejected almost disdainfully the idea of France joining British and American forces in keeping order in Cyprus.
The President sent messengers to the hill, made personal telephone pleas to Senate buddies and kept anywhere from three to six treasury tax experts sitting in the public galleries through most of the floor debate.
This meant a challenge to the very existence of SEATO, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization—the alliance drawn by the United States to stem communism in the Far East.
SOON DE GAULLE MAY throw down another challenge in Latin America, to which he has scheduled two trips this year. This time his weapons will be French cultural links with the Latin world, coupled with offers of economic aid and—in the background—the traditional Latin American obsession with "Yankee imperialism."
Why has-De Gaulle provoked a head-on policy collision with the United States by establishing relations with Red China?
In his Jan. 31 news conference he listed several reasons—the fact the Peking regime has been the effective government of the Chinese mainland for more than 15 years, the impossibility of ignoring indefinitely a nation of 700 million people and the impossibility of neutralizing Southeast Asia without agreement with Red China.
"Is there any need to say." De Gaulle told his news conference, "that as far as we are concerned
SENATE ADMINISTATION forces were successful in repulsing all major efforts to change the bill by spacing out their toughest tests over separate days, then lining up votes during the intervals.
uns decision implies not the slightest, degree of approval of the political system which dominates China at the moment?
IN FOLLOWING MANY other nations in establishing official relation with this state—as she has done with many other countries subjected to a similar regime—France simply recognizes the world as it is. She believes that sooner or later certain governments which still hang back will consider it right to follow her example."
"Neutrality," he added, "is the sole solution compatible with the peaceful life and progress of their populations."
With these words De Gaulle made it clear that his policy challenge confronts the United States not only in Europe or the Atlantic area, but that it now is a global one.
But already it was clear that the Kennedy dream of an Atlantic community had bogged down and that its chance of getting off the ground in 1964 were slim.
THE VISION HELD by the late president in his Paulskirche speech at Frankfurt last June of a vast military, political and economic association of 470 million people in the United States, Canada and Western Europe has failed to set the free West ablaze.
De Gaulle opposes it actively because it conflicts with his own "grand design" of a French-led Europe free from "domination" by either the United States or Russia.
The question today is not so much whether the dream of an Atlantic community can become reality in the near future but whether the existing Atlantic Alliance can survive.
The Atlantic alliance at the beginning of 1964 is in political, if not military, disarray.
AT THEIR NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) council session in December the ministers of the 15 member nations agreed, more or less by common accord, to sweep under the carpet all the troublesome issues dividing the alliance.
Official Bulletin
- Nuclear Policy. The United States and West Germany still are pushing ahead actively with a plan sponsored originally by Kennedy for a mixed-manned allied nuclear force of surface ships equipped with Polaris missiles. The British are lukewarm and will avoid any decision until after their forthcoming general elections. De Gaulle has rejected it outright.
Among them were:
Teaching Interviews: Feb. 18, Wellington.
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Bailey now.
Catholic Mass, 5 p.m., St. Lawrence Channel, 1910, Stratford, Rd.
Episcopal evening prayer, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
Sixteen student teams will compete each afternoon in three 30-minute matches. Eight teams with the best records in the preliminary rounds will enter the quarter- and semi-final single elimination matches at 3:15 and 4 p.m. March 15.
Thirty-two teams will begin "brainbuster sessions" for the third annual college bowl at 2:30 p.m., Feb. 23 and March 1 in the Kansas Union. The question-and-answer contest is similar to the college bowl television show.
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By three-vote margins, they defeated republican efforts to tie to the bill $450 million in excise levy cuts, to scale down the dividend credit "reform" and an amendment by Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoeh, D-Conn., to give up to $1.3 billion in tax relief for college expenses.
TOMORROW
Catholic Masses, 6:45 a.m., 5 p.m. St.
Lawrence Chapel, 1191 Street Room
1001 Room
The specimens are primarily valuable for extracts taken from the fatty protein coating that surrounds the nerves in the central nervous system. This is called the myelin sheath. This material is the major component of white matter in the human brain.
These weigh about 15 pounds apiece and come from whales caught off the Oregon coast by the crew of the trawler Tom and Al.
These particular specimens are from finback whales, which were more than 60 feet in length.
plained that whale brains are similar in structure to the human brains.
The myelin sheath is destroyed in human brains when a person falls victim to such diseases as multiplesclerosis. Consequently, scientists have found that whale brains are useful in the study of human diseases.
irritantly in Christian Fellowships, 8
pm. Forum Room, Kansas Union.
New Beginners' Inquiry Forum, 7 p.m.
St. Lawrence Center, 1915 Stratford.
Continued Beginners' Inquiry Forum, 8 p.m.
St. Lawrence Center.
Often, the outcome was decided by last-minute switches by some reliable party-line supporters, or a rush of some reluctant democratic votes lingering to the last in the loakrooms.
Kansas Union. "Resolved: God is Dead."
Mr. Richard Wolf. "H. Jones, Con; Mr.
Richard Wolf."
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 7:30 p.m. Forum Room, Kansas Union "Basis of Faith Series, No. 3, Atonement"—Richard Wolff.
College Bowl To Begin Bouts
ASC, 7 p.m., Sunflower Room, Kansas Union
George C. Buchan, resident in the Neuropathology Department, ex-
Western City Discussion, 9 p.m., Sta Lawrence Center.
SEATTLE, Wash.—(UPI) — The University of Washington has a lot of "brains" on campus but none can match the two that are being studied in the institution's School of Medicine.
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Episcopic Holy Communion, 9:30 p.m.
Danforth.
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Graduate Discussion Group, 7:30 p.m.
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