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Thursday, February 17, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From our wire services
Carter rebate plan altered
WASHINGTON—The House Ways and Means Committee voted yesterday to deny President Carter's proposed $50 rebate to those making more than $30,000 and voted to give a smaller rebate to those making more than $25,000 a year.
and voted to give a smaller share to close financing. The committee voted 17 to 9 in favor of a proposal by Rep. William Cotter, D-Conn., to "phase out" the rebate gradually as family income rose from $25,000 to $30,000.
This would mean, for example, that someone making $27,500 would receive a rebate of $25 for each family member. In some cases, checks for as little as $1 or perhaps a few cents would be mailed to those making not quite $30,000.
Rabin won't talk with PLO
JERUSALEM-Israel is willing to join Middle East peace talks, but not with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said yesterday after meeting with Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance.
yesterday after meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vance told Israeli leaders on the first step of a Middle East fact-finding tour that the United States wanted peace talks by the second half of 1977, but would refuse to deal with the PLO as long as it didn't recognize Israel's right to exist.
"The answer is simply no." Rabain said of prospects that Israel would participate in talks involving Yasir Arafat's PLO.
Nun tried for manslaughter
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A Roman Catholic nun went on trial for manslaughter
westerday, charged with suffocating her newborn son.
yesterday, charged with suffocating her newborn son:
Sister Maude Murphy, 36, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph Order, had previously pleaded not guilty to the charges and waived her right to a jury trial.
She is free on $5,000 bail.
Heavenly Salvation陪我了 nun gave
Monroe County assistant district attorney Joseph Valentino said the nun gave birth to a boy in her room at the Burdy Our Lady of Lourdes parish convict last April 27, "after nine months of hiding her pregnancy, dolging questions and lying about going to the doctor."
Shortly after having the child, Valentino said, the man "unstr" a pair of pants down this baby's threat as far as she could" and then "wrapped the baby in a blue nighttown and discarded him in an orange waste-paper basket."
U.S.S.R. returns criticism
LONDON—The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are accusing the United States, Britain and the West in general of a long series of human rights violations ranging from torture in North Ireland and political repression of American permitting widespread unemployment that amounts to deprivation of basic civil rights.
This counter-offensive is designed to take some of the sting out of mounting Western protests against the treatment of dissidents in the Soviet bloc. For the moment the Communist "human rights" campaign is being conducted mainly in newspaper articles and speeches.
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The United States Reading Lab Mid-West Division is offering their famous speed reading course to a limited number of qualified people here in the Lawrence area. The average person who completes this course can read 10 times faster, and with substantially improved comprehension and better concentration.
This famous course has taught many thousands of people to read over 1000 words per minute with the ability to understand and retain what they have read much more effectively. Average graduates can read most novels in less than one hour.
For complete details about this famous speed reading course be sure to attend one of the free one hour orientation lectures that have been scheduled. These lectures are open to the public, above age 13 (persons under 18 should be accompanied by a parent, if possible.) and the course will be explained in complete detail, including class schedules, instruction procedures and a tuition that is much less than similar courses.
These meetings will be held on campus at the Lutheran Student Center, 15th and Iowa, on Wed., Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Fri., Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 19 at 10:30 a.m. and again at 1:30 p.m., Mon., Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. and **TWO FINAL MEETINGS**, Tues., Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—A pay raise for members of Congress, federal judges and high federal officials seemed certain yesterday to go into effect without a House vote after a move to put members on record individually failed.
Federal pay raises likely unless House votes soon
The attempt to bring the issue to the House floor for a vote would have required unanimous consent. It was blocked by Rep. Charles H. Wilson, D-Calif.
Members objecting to the pay raise, or to the no-vote method of enacting it, or both, vowed to continue their efforts to force a roll call. Some said they would try to block weekend adjournment of the House, scheduled for today.
But they acknowledged the odds against them were long. House Republican Leader John Rhodes, who sponsored the attempt to force a vote, said, "I am at a loss to know what else any body can do to get this to a vote."
Unless the House vote a disapproving resolution by midnight Saturday, the pay raise—for representatives and senators a $12,900 to $75,000 increase—goes into effect automatically. The Senate, by a 54-42 vote Feb. 2, has already in effect reused to block the raise. The Senate is in recess until Monday.
Some of the raises include: vice president, chief justice, House speaker, $5,500 to $7,500; associate justices of the Supreme Court; associate judges to $3,000 to $6,000; majority and minority leaders in Congress, $22,000 to $55,000; appeals court judges, $44,000 to
In addition to the raises for senators and representatives, the pending proposal would increase the compensation of high school graduates and teachers in top-level career government employees.
$87,500; district judges, $42,000 to $45,000.
In urging a House vote the pay raise,
the state has made a special respect for the intelligence of the American people that to believe that they will not see through this charade. . . We must face up to our responsibility and have a recorded voice.
$57,500: district judges. $42,000 to $54,500.
He later said he wouldn't necessarily oppose raises for judges and officials, but didn't think members of Congress should wait until the federal budget was balanced.
Rep. Wilson, a member of a subcommittee that voted down a resolution of disapproval, said of the efforts to force a judge to think there is some demagogue there."
Wilson said the matter was being handled under proper procedures and that "one of the purposes of the 1967 resolution is to prevent Congress from having to vote on its own pay raises."
Rep. Robert J. Lagomasrio, R-Calif,
said he went back to his district during the
recess that ended yesterday and "there was
a lot of activity," he said in talks about,
the proposed pay increase.
"Some defended the need, but not one wanted it to go through without a vote."
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said he favored the pay raise and would vote for it on a roll call, but doubted that it would pass if such a vote were held.
The pay raise came before Congress under the provisions of a 1967 act specifying that a special commission every four years review the compensation of members of Congress, federal judges and high officials and recommend needed adjustments.
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