FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6,_1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY rinif. +i.v. rf~ fu' PrrYviu'u, Senate Refuses To Cut Poverty Appropriation UN DEBATES WAR: Nationalist China, Thailand Hit -Associated Press PRESIDENT JOHNSON TODAY held a press conference with reporters to discuss his request for higher taxes. Johnson said "it is neither necessary nor wise" for Congress to postpone action on a tax hike until federal spending cuts have been determined. LBJ Asks Tax Hike Before Spending Cut WASHINGTON (A)-The Sen- ate rejected yesterday President Johnson's proposal to cut back antipoverty program funds by $198 million. Instead, they voted a measure providing a two-year extension of the program which faces an uncertain outlook in the House. The bill would authorize ap- propriations up to $2.25 billion for the Office of Economic Oppor- tunity in the current fiscal year, and $2.4 billion in the year start- ing next July 1. The Senate voted 50 to 36 against a Republican move to cut the current year's authoriza- tion to the $2.06 billion proposed by Johnson, and then passed the bill 60 to 21. Kennedy Programis Much.of the $198 million which} Johnson wanted was returned by the Senate Labor Committee to new or expanded programs spon- sored by Sens. Robert F. Kennedy (D-NY), and Edward M. Kenne- dy (D-Mass) who flew back from the World Series in Boston to: opppose deletion of the added, money. These include : -A $35-million day-care pro-{ gram for children on welfare, making it possible for their moth- ers to take jobs. -$83 million for a special im- pact program to improve condi- tions in slum areas with a high concentration of impoverished families. -$40 million extra for com- munity action for family plan- ning, additional health services and extra assistance for the elderly poor. -$25 million for aid. to small business firms in low-income areas. -$3 million for VISTA-Volun- teers in Service to America. -$2 million for .migrant work- ers. Continue Others In addition to the new projects, all of the present antipoverty pro-< grams would be financed by thet bill, including the Job Corps, the Neighborhood Youth Corps, Com- munity Action which covers such programs as Head Start, rural loans and aid to migrant workers. Eliminated from the bill was a $2.8-billion emergency job plan for unemployed and low-income persons, which the Johnson ad- ministration opposed. In the House, the Education and Labor Committee has been work- ing on its own version of anti- poverty legislation. Administration leaders expect a strong fight when it reaches the floor. Demand To Halt Viet UNITED NATIONS (AP)-Nation- "Such pressures do not, there-CWi alist China and Thailand yester- fore, have the effect of bringing do day deplored the rising clamor for the war in Vietnam to a speedy bo a halt in the U.S. bombing of conclusion: on the contrary, they m' North Vietnam. They told the UN can only prolong the conflict and an General Assembly that the de- delay a peaceful settlement."Y mands only encourage the Coin- Foreign Minister Thanat Kho- ko inunists to continue the Vietnam- !ian of Thailand hit at "the go ese war. strong advocacies by some quarters pe But Communist Yugoslavia and that the aggressors should be ap- dii Mongolia immediately joined in peased" and "their life and prop- ter the anti-bombing campaign. That erty should not be molested by ub made a total of 25 countries de- ara obn. manding an end to the bombing aerial bombing." out of 59 that spoke in the 122- Meanwhile, he said, Hanoi con- th he sid, anoi fro: nation assembly's general debate. tinues to disdain' any prospect of tr The list included eight Com- meaningful negotiations except on sid munist countries, seven countries its in Africa and Asia, three in Latin own terms and thinks it canva America, two Nordic neutirals and five U.S. allies in the North At- lantic Treaty Organization-Bel- gium. Canada, France, Denmark W orld News and Norway. -Associated Press NATIONALIST CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER Wei Tao-ming yesterday told the United Nations General Assembly that demands to end U.S. bombing in Vietnam only serve to incite the enemy. LABOR OPPOSES: Wilson To Continune Roundup WASHINGTON (P) - President Johnson argued yesterday that it is neither necessary nor wise for Congress to postpone action on his request for an income tax sur- charge until federal spending lev- els are decided upon. Meantime, the administration ordered a freeze on $350 million worth of federal spending and the House Appropriations Committee reported a modest start in its ef- fort to recapture some of the money Congress has poured out. With many members of the House demanding a spending reduction of at least $5 billion, there has been a debate whether the reduc- tions should be pinpointed by Con- gress or whether the final decisions should be left to the President. Calls Conference Johnson, at a news conference called solely to discuss the taxes- spending Issue, said the entire nation, would pay a burdensome inflation tax "if it fails to face up to its responsibilities" in handling' tax and appropriation legislation. Johnson spoke shortly after Sec- retary of Defense Robert S. Mc- Namara issued a stop order on $350 million in military construc- tion contracts "because of the un- certain state of federal finances." The action carne two days after the House Ways and Means Com- mittee shelved further consider- ation of Johnson's request for a 10 per cent surcharge on income 4 taxes-at least until Congress and the President reach an under- standing on how to reduce fed- eral spending. Committee Effort At the same time, the House Appropriations Committee stepped, up an effort to cut down on new appropriations and to recapture some of the money already voted by Congress this year. A subcommittee in charge of finances for the Interior Depart- ment has voted to cancel around $100 million of the $1.38 billion Congress allowed the department earlier this year. Another subcommittee hoping to pull back some of the $7.54 bil- lion given the Treasury and Post Office departments tentatively has agreed on some restrictions. But Chairman Tom Steed (D-Okla), said the cutbacks won't be sen- sational. A third subcommittee is weigh- ing how it can make cuts in the $276 million recently voted to operate the- legislative department and related agencies.' That leaves only one more area in which sizeable reductions might be considered-the $69.6 billion al- ready appropriated for the Defense Department. With the cost of the war in Vietnam rising and another emer- gency defense bill in the offing, it isn't likely that major slashes will be proposed in military pro- grams, although some Defense Department nonwar activities may be cut back. There is little probability that the committee will be able between now and Oct. 23 to bring to the House a rescinding bill that would result in deep cuts in federal spending. That is the day on which a temporary law financing many federal agencies expires. There is growing support in the House for a Republican-backed drive to tie to the.next temporary bill a directive to President John- son to. do his own cutting, to the tune of at least $5 billion. U.S. War SCARBOROUGH, England (R- Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government will continue to sup- port President Johnson's present policy in Vietnam despite a Labor party vote demanding Britain's dissociation from the U.S. Authoritative word of the Brit- ish leader's intentions emerged from his aides yesterday with em- phasis on one qualification: If the U.S. were to escalate thez war and so create a new situation, the British government would have to reconsider and perhaps be unable to avoid public disso- ciation. - This has been made extremely clear to the Johnson administra- tion several times, informants said. The party convention Wednes- day spurned fervent pleas from Foreign Secretary George Brown when it voted 2,752,000 to 2,613- 000 for a resolution calling on the government "to dissociate itself from the policy of the U.S. govei'n- Bombing n the war "if it manages to sow ubts, dissension and disruption th within and among nations hich stand in its way to conquest .d domination." Yugoslav Foreign Secretary Mar- Nikezic urged that the U.S. vernment "take the first indis- nsable step; that.- is, uncon- tionally to cease bombing the rritory of the Democratic Rep- lic of Vietnam." The U.S. has declined to stop e bombing without a clear sign om North Vietnam that nego- ations would follow with neither de taking any military ad- ntage. Support ament in Vietnam" and to seek with other countries an American bombing halt over North Vietnam "immediately, permanently and unconditionally." The Labor government consti- tutionally is not bound to obey a convention decision. These serve only as guidance. Wilson's govern- ment is answerable to Parliament. The party last year voted, with' a 1,207,000 margin, for a resolu- tion calling for a-halt of American bomb attacks on North Vietnam as a step toward creating a clim- ate for peacemaking. The government took absolutely no action on it. The Laborites did support Wil- son's bid to join the European Common Market but a substantial minority demanded stronger safe- guards for British interests. This emerged from a series of votes' after Brown had told the' 6,000 delegates: "I do not want the world to go on polarized between the two vast giant American and Russian superpowers." Soviet Walks Out Soviet Ambassador Platon D. Morozov walked out on the Chi- nese Nationalist speech. Other Communist delegates had not even shown up for it, and the assembly's Communist president, Romanian Foreign Minister Cor- nelia Manescu, had turned the chair over to a vice president, Or- lando Montenegro Medrano of Nicaragua. Foreign Minister Wei Tao-ming of Nationalist China told the as- sembly chairman that Mao Tse- tung of the Chinese Communist party and President Ho Chi Minh of North Vietnam "are not inte- rested in peace" because "they believe they are already on the way to victory" in Vietnam. ''orced to Quit' "The pressures that have been exerted on the United States gov- ernment for the cessation of bomb- ing and for the unconditional withdrawal of troops," he said, "can only encourage the belief that the United States will sooner or later be forced by world opinion to quit Vietnam. By The Associated Press' SAIGON-Intensified air strikes and a rising number of allied ground sweeps reflected yesterday the grinding pace of war in which American casualties have -now ex- ceeded 100,000. The roll of U.S. casualties climb- ed to 101,034 since the first Amer- ican combat death in 1961. Up- dated figures show 13,643 killed, 86,635 wounded and 756 missing. -HONG KONG-Communist 'ter- rorists resumed planting bombs in Hong Kong yesterday, ending British hopes that Communist Chinese had abandoned their cam- paign of terror. More than 34 bombs were taken from one in- dustrial area. The two major Communist newspapers, Ta Kung, Pao and Wen Wei Pao, resumed attacks meanwhile ,on British authorities, calling them "fascist" and saying they murdered a Chinese during Communist China's National Day celebrations Oct. 1. * *T*A TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-Astronaut U C. C. Williams was killed yester- day when a T38 jet plane crashed and burned in a wooded areas near Miccosukee, Fla., space officials at Cape Kennedy said. Williams, a Marine Corps cap- tain from Mobile, Ala., was the eighth astronaut to die in the past three years. Three others have died in jet crashes. .* * *' WASHINGTON -King Hussein of Jordan, armed with Soviet promises for economic and mili- tary aid, is expected to come to ashingthn to press for American assistance, U.S. officials said yes- terday. There is as yet no firm word from Amman, capital of Jordan, on when Hussein might come. But there are strong indications that the king wants to plead the Arab cause before the UN General As- sembly and use this opportunity for talks In Washington, the of- ficials said. GUL i TONIGHT at 7:00 & 9:45 The Iron Horse dir. John:Ford, 1924 The uncut version of Ford's monumental epic of the "Winning of the West;" from one of America's greatest Western directors. 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