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Wednesday, January 26, 1977
University Daily Kansas
News Digest
From our wire services
State Dept. denies conflict
WASHINGTON—State Department spokesmen tried to clear up an apparent conflict between statements made by President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance Tuesday by saying that contacts with the Soviet Union over ending nuclear testing have been unofficial and indirect.
The White House said yesterday the Russians had not answered Carter's request for a multifacial end to worldwide arms sales, although other countries had
The President said he would not let the controversy over the Russian Backfire bomber and the U.S. Cruise missile stand in the way of an agreement.
Carter said Sunday that inquiries had been sent to the Russians about his "two-stage evolution" of arms control, including "a fairly rapid ratification" of limits on bombers, missiles and multiple warheads as well as efforts to eliminate all nuclear weapons testing.
Vance said Monday that there had been no Soviet response and that Backfire and cruise missiles were still very much a part of the SALT negotiations.
Yesterday, Department spokesman said that the Soviet response had been unofficial and indirect and that there was no contradiction between Vance and
"The President's remarks were meant to say that Cruise and Backfire would not be the issues that would sink the SALT talks. Mr. Vance agrees with that," the spokesman said.
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to decide whether denial of sick pay and seniority rights to women who take maternity leave is sex discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
discrimination under the 1904 Civil Rights Act. The court will hear arguments, probably next fall or winter, in two cases involving this issue. One involves the Nashville Gas Company in Tennessee, the other a school district in Richmond, Calif.
other a school district in Arkansas, Court Both appeals differ from the recent General Electric case in which the court ruled that exclusion of pregnancy from employer disability insurance plans does not violate federal law.
Carter asks for gas bill
WASHINGTON—President Carter asked Democratic congressional leaders yesterday to push for emergency legislation to cope with "a very serious problem with natural gas."
Rep. John Brademus, D-Indiana, the House whip, emerged from the White House meeting to say Carter asked for legislation to permit emergency sales of natural gas and to provide for some mingling of interstate and intrastate natural gas sales. The latter category is not subject to price controls.
Congressional staffers had disclosed Monday that Carter's aides were considering temporarily taking the federal lid off interstate natural gas prices in an effort to cope with a shortage that has closed schools and caused layoffs of as many as 500,000 workers.
Spanish Communists strike
MADRID-Tension that could endanger King Juan Carlos' blueprint for democracy heightened yesterday in Spain when thousands of Communist-led workers struck to protest the killing of four persons in a Communist law office. The machine-gunning followed the kidnapping Monday of Spain's highest military officer.
The Los Angeles Times reported the near-unanimous view among Spanish editorialists and foreign diplomats acts of violence were armed at a terrorist attack in Los Angeles that defensely killed a woman.
Juan Carlos needs the army's support and moved to get it recently by replacing archconservative officers. More violence was feared as unions scheduled a
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter's $31 billion economic program may include a $50 cash payment for most Americans, including the nontaxpaying poor, Bert Lance, Carter's budget director, said yesterday.
Carter may give $50 cash rebates
Lance said the payments would be in the form of a tax rebate for each personal exemption claimed by taxpayers for 1976. People receiving Social Security benefits and low-income people who don't pay taxes would also receive payments.
Lance said Carter also has decided to ask Congress to raise the investment tax credit from 10 to 12 per cent to encourage business.
the AFL-CIO criticized Carter's emphasis, saying they would try to focus the legislative package on job creation and minimize tax relief, especially to business.
However, some liberal Democrats and
Congressional leaders who met with Coverer said he called his program "the best way to represent our country."
Rep. John Brademas, House majority whip, said Carter pledged "to meet Congress more than halfway" on his programs.
Lance told reporters it may be impossible to provide payments to all the poor, especially those who have incomes below $4,000, because the administrative costs could almost be as high as the payments themselves.
"We will try to reach all we can. Uncomfortable we may be some we can't reach we said.
According to Lance's outline of the rebate plan, a family of four that has an income of $10,000 would receive a tax rebate of about $6,000; a family of three, the rebate would be about $2,500.
But Lance said that final details aren't worked out and that the amount a family at a given income level would receive hasn't changed. But Lance said that probably will receive rebates, he said.
Lance said he hopes parts of the program will be approved by Congress by April, but wouldn't say when payments actually may be mailed.
The rebates and cash payments would total about $1 billion this year, Lance said. Carter earlier said the rebates would be between $7 billion and $1 billion.
Besides tax rebates and help for business, Lance said, the package will include the jobs programs and permanent tax reductions Carter proposed earlier.
Carter's total income stimulus program, which must be approved by Congress before it is effective, would be about $31 billion, slightly larger than first proposed. About $15.8 billion would be for 1977 and $15.5 billion would be for 1978. Lance said.
Carter is expected to disclose additional details in a message to Congress in the next month.
Kansas crop values down
TOPEKA (AP) -The value of crop, production in Kanasas last year was down 11 per cent from 1975, to $2,007 billion, the state-owned forestry report Reporting Service said yesterday.
Lower prices were given as the reason.
Estimated value of the state's wheat production was $32.25 million, down 22 per cent from 1978 and 24 per cent between the 1974 level.
The service called the wheat value decline "a direct result of the low prices posted for the 1976 crop."
Wheat brought an average of $2.75 per bushel in 1976 compared with $3.42 in 1975 and $3.59 in 1980.
Value of sorghum grain in Kansas was $324 million, down 1 per cent from 1975 and down 9 per cent from 1974. Sorghum prices are expected to average about $1.96 a bushel, compared with $2.27 for the 1975 cron.
Corn production valuation was set at $391 million, 14 per cent lower than 1975 and one per cent below the prices of two years ago.
the price of each item is expected to average
$2.30 a bushel, compared with $2.50 in 1975.
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