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Senate condemns South African
government
WASHINGTQN (AP) - The Senate take effective mea
Foreign Relations Committee approved Repubic of South Af
yesterday a resolution condemning the SENS. CLIFFOR
racial policies of the government of and Jacob Javits )(I
South Africa. the language on t
Citing recent moves by the South calling for action a
Africagovernment against critics of its rather than the po
domestic policies, the resolution nment.
declared "Congress strongly denounces The full Senate w
the above acts committed by the gover- quick approval to ti
nment of the Republic of South Africa has the backing
which suppress the expression of ministration.
political thought and violate the rights Sen. Dick Clark
of the individual." of the Africa subcon
The resolution was similar to one the resolution in co
adopted on Monday by the House. was similar to stat
However, the committee deleted a practices in such b
phrase which urged the President to tries as Uganda, El
s racial policies
asures "against the
frica."
LD CASE (R-N.J.)
R-N.Y.) objected to
he grounds it was
against the country
licies of its gover-
as expected to give
he resolution, which
of the Carter ad-
D-Iowa), chairman
mmittee, introduced
mmittee and said it
tement condemning
black African coun-
thiopia and Mozam-
bique.
IN POINTING that out, Clark noted
some critics have contended that
Congress and the administration are
quicker to condemn policies of white
African regimes than those of black
governments.
During the debate in the House,
which approved the resolution by a vote
of 347 to 54, Rep. John Ashbrook (R-
Ohio) referred to repressive policies of
black African governments and asked,
"Is South Africa alone in repressing
freedoms in Africa?
"To single out one nation, when there
are probably 20 or 30 other nations in
Africa alone-and we are only talking
about one continent-that would richly
deserve to have their names and dates
and incidents censured, seems to me to
be wrong."
The resolution cited the death of
black South African activist Steve Biko,
and recent repressive measures again-
st critics of the government's racial
policies, including the closing of several
newspapers and detention of a number
of people.
At the United Nations, the United
States supported a resolution condem-
ning South Africa's resort to repressive
policies, but blocked moves to impose
economic and military sanctions. The
Carter administration has said it will
support an arms embargo directed at
South Africa.
Committee debates energy plan
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A House-
Senate energy conference committee
voted tentatively yesterday to ban most
new power plants from burning either
oil or natural gas.
Similar provisions' have been ap-
proved by both chambers as part of
President Carter's plan to force in-
dustries to convert to coal.
THE PROHIBITION likely would be
coupled with a tax on at least some use
of these scarce fuels by existing power
plants and factories. Such a tax also has
been passed by both chambers.
The conference committee took up
the coal parts of the President's energy
program after completing action on a
wide variety of energy conservation
measures.
Although readily agreeing to the pro-
posed oil and gas ban on newpower
)lants-generally those built after last
April 20-the conferees still must
resolve differences on what to do about
existing plants that use these fuels.
THE HOUSE-PASSED bill contains
, tougher non-tax provisions aimed at
forcing such plants to convert to coal
than does the Senate version.
Rep. Harley Staggers (D-W.Va.),
conference chairman, claimed that in
turniing to the coal conversion
legislation, the sluggish neogotiating
panel appears finally to be making
some headway toward producing a
cQmpromise national energy bill.'
He predicted that the final bill would
be completed within two weeks-so that
President Carter would not have to
cancel his planned four-continent trip
scheduled to begin Nov. 22.
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CARTER HAS said he will remain in
town if Congress has not finished work
on an energy bill by then.
But other congressional leaders were
not so optimistic. Senate Finance
Committee Chairman Russell Long
(D-La.) predicted it would take the
panel about three weeks to agree on out
tax aspects of the energy bill.
And House Ways and Means Commit-
tee Chairman Al Ullman (D-Ore.) said
remaining House and Senate differen-
ces on key energy issues could hold the
conferees in session until Christmas.
CONFEREES FAILED again
yesterday to agree on how to deal with
cars that give poor fuel economy. The
Senate voted to ban, beginning in 1980,
cars getting less than 16 miles to a
gallon of gasoline. The House passed
the President's proposed tax on fuel-
wasting vehicles.
After debating the rival approaches
for several days, the conference com-
mittee agreed to put off a final decision
until later, when it will be working on
tax measures.
Then the panel will choose between
the two alternatives or, possibly, con-
sider some form of combination tax and
ban as a compromise.
IN ADDITION to the tax on heavy
cars, the House also has passed the
President's proposal for new taxed on
crude oil and on industrial use of oil and
natural gas.
The Senate energy tax bill passed 52
to 35 Monday contains only a scaled-
down version of the industrial oil-gas
tax and ignores the other two tax
proposals completely in a bill laden
with some $42 billion in tax breaks for
energy conservation and production.
In another congressional energy
development yesterday, the Senate
joined the House in voting to require
President Carter to spend $80 million in
the current fiscal year to keep alive the
Clinch River breeder reactor project at
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The Senate put the project-into a $6.8
billion funding bill to pay for a variety
of federal programs. The House has
taken similar action.
The legislation would require Carter
to spend the funds even if he should veto
a related bill now on his desk
authorizing money for the breeder
program. Carter wants to scrap the
project.
Blood donors circulate through
Red Cross drive at Markley
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collecting enough blood to go around,"
said Charlotte Wyborny, the nurse in
charge.
The fluorescent lights in Markley's
"north pit (where yesterday's drive
took place) were burning at peak
capacity, and 18 slippery plastic
hospital beds, hardly wide enough for
an atrophying frame, were cramped in
every corner - giving the impression
of a make-shift emergency room.
NURSES in sterile white suits pran-
ced back and forth watching over their
weakening patients as new arrivals.
looked on from a line which had formed
at the side of the room.
"I'm nervous, not scared," Belcik
said as he waited in the line. "Basically
I came down here because my friends
on Butler Hall pressured me into it, and
cLuha n on rmPediag
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because of the ulterior motives: the hall
that has the biggest percentage of
donors wins a free keg of beer from the
dorm government," he said. "Also, I
think it's a real good idea."
Many of the others had given blood
previously. LSA freshperson Jan Don-
aldson said she has learned to over-
come her fears since the first time she
gave blood. "I just think its something
you can't be selfish about and if my
family ever needed it ... Well, let's hope
they don't," she said.
KATE FARRELL, a senior who has
run the student end of the annual drive
for the past several years, has given
blood numerous times.
"The first time, my arm wouldn't
stop bleeding. All the nurses came
rushing over to help out," she said.
'When I got up, I fainted. I'm sure it was
psychosomatic.
"Depending on the time of the day
and the heat of the room, fainting can
be a real problem," Farrell said. "They
seem to come in bunches; either no one
is or everyone is."
Wriggle while you work
Letting his life hang by a single pulley, Wayne Allen, a Washington escape ar-
tist, wriggles his way out of a strait jacket while he is suspendedl in a theater.
Tough spot, Wayne. We'd rather take our midterms.
O'Neil expects agreement on
A
rapidly."
This quick return to right-side
dominance has many results, McLuhan
said, and they involve everything from
employment to political campaigns.
"To go out job hunting is
meaningless, jobs are meaningless
anything a factory can do can be put on
a computer program ... today's execu-
tives are role-players; they don't have
jobs, they have roles that combine
numerous jobs," he said.
"TV is a very heavy drug; it's
heavier than heroin. It is an inner trip
- the energy that pours out of the'tube
goes directly into the eyes ... it
physically causes injury to the eye ...
TV viewing requires special exercises
like the trampoline for the eye, because
it leads to dyslexia.
"Politics are obsolete," he said. "No
more candidates, no more party, just
charisma ... TV is the end of politics, all
you have left is image."
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WASHINGTON (AP) - House
Speaker Thomas O'Neill, saying
conferees were near an agreement
on government funding of poor wo-
men's abortions, urged them yester-
day to quickly end their long dispute.
O'Neill said the two sides "missed
by a rim" settling the question when
they met on Monday.
"I HAVE HOPES that they will
come to an agreement because if
they don't, there'll have to be another
continuing resolution" to continue
funding various government agen-
cies, he told reporters at his daily
briefing.
"It would have to be for a period of
three or four months and then, I
suppose, this would come up-again,"
he said. Congress passed such a
continuing resolution on Oct. 13 when
conferees were unable to reach an
agreement bul that funding expired
Monday.
The disagreement over when the
government will pay for abortions
under Medicaid and Social Services
~programs is preventing enactment of
a $60.2 billion funding bill for the
Department of Labor, the Depart-
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare and some smaller agencies.
ALTHOUGH paychecks to the thou-
sands of federal employes who work
in the affected agencies could be cut
off, O'Neill, Senate Majority Leader
Robert Byrd and other congressional
leaders have already issued assur-
ances that there will be no payless
paydays.
Government funding for welfare
and unemployment benefits also
could be affected although the de-
partments say they have enough
funds to continue these payments for
some time..'
During Monday's talks, the Senate
offered a compromise which would
allow the government to pay for
abortions when a woman's life would
bb jeopardized or serious physical
health damage to the woman would
result if the pregnancy was carried to
THIS PROPOSAL would have al-
lowed payments for medical proce-
dures used to treat rape and incest
victims, for drugs and devices used
to prevent pregnancy or for medical
procedures used to end an ectopic
pregnancy.
At the same time, it would have
met House demands that there be no
exceptions covering the health of the
fetus or the mental health of the
women involved.
But the House members still
rejected the proposal. Some argued
the proposal would lead to govern-
ment payments for abortion on
demand, a charge disputed by the
Senate members.
House members were warned the
Senate could go no further in offer-
ing a compromise. The overnight
recess was looked upon as a chance
for the House members to study the
proposal in detail and come up with
some suggestions.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President
Carter has agreed to provide about
$1.5 billion in the next three years to
ease soaring welfare costs for states
and cities across the nation, Sen.
Daniel Moynihan said yesterday.
The proposal, which requires con-
gressional approval, could be a
major incentive in promoting adop-
tion of Carter's proposed overhaul of
the welfare system the New York
Democrat said.
THE WHITE House had no imme-
diate comment on the report.
Moynihan said the plan calls for
$374 million to be apportioned among
the states this year. The appropria-
tion was tacked onto a proposed
revision in Social Security legislation
THE AGREEMENT was workec
out early yesterday at a meeting
between Moynihan, Sen. Russe
Long (D-La.), chairman of th
Senate Finance Committee, an
Joseph Califano, the secretary
Health, Education and Welfare. Cal'
fano submitted it to Carter later i
the day.
A primary purpose would be t
soothe the complaints of governor
big city mayors and county official
who have said they can't wait unt
1981 to get fiscal relief. Carter'
complex welfare overhaul packag
would not take effect until 1981 eve
if approved in the next session
Congress in 1978.,
State and local governments pa