Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 12-S m chigan DAILY Thursday, May 18, 1978 Twenty Pages Ann Arbor, Michigan Ten Cents House approves f ederal budget with tax cut WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal Jan. 1, three months after the beginning budget that makes room for a tax cut of the fiscal year, the impact for fiscal of $19.4 billion next year and reduces 1979 would be about $15 billion. spending slightly below earlier plans The budget resolution does not spell was narrowly approved by the House out exactly how the tax reduction yesterday. should be split between income taxes The House adopted the compromise and Social Security payroll taxes. budget, 201 to 198,after the Senate ac- Less than an hour after approving the cepted it Monday by voice vote. This budget, the Ilouse voted down a completes action on a tentative budget proposal to increase the national debt F resolution, not requiring the president's limit to accommodate the expected signature. deficits for the remainder of this year THIS TARGET budget for fiscal 1979, and next year. the federal bookkeeping year starting THE VOTE WAS 228 to 167 against a Oct. 1, 1978, calls for $498.8 billion in bill that would have increased the spending and $447.9 billion in revenues, present $752 billion limit expiring July resulting in a $50.9 billion deficit. 31, to $849.1 billion, expiring Sept. 30, The budget resolution will serve as a 1979. guide while lawmakers consider actual It was the second time this year the ~ spending and taxing bills. A second House refused to approve a new limit on resolution in September will set man- the borrowings the Treasury must y datory limits. make to-cover deficit financing. Han- President Carter, who originally dlers of the legislation presumably will Daily Photo by JOHN KNOX proposed a $25 billion tax cut, bowed to now seek a compromise figure. Finally floriparous increasing concern about inflation and Earlier yesterday, the House Ways congressional insistence in accepting and Means Committee reversed a prior the $19.4 billion total tax reduction. vote and rejected legislation that would Strong winds and a winter reluctant to leave can't keep the tulips dawn forever. SINCE THE TAX cut would begin See HOUSE, Page 7 Zaire revolt traps foreigners ByTheAssociatedPress Rebel tribesmen were reported gaining ground yesterday in southern Zaire, stranding 2,500 foreigners behind their lines, but a surprise ground-and- air rescue mission mounted by a U.S. firm managed to evacuate most Americans from the embattled area. In this capital city, more than 100,000 dancing and chanting Zaireans rallied in a stadium in support of President Mobutu Sese Seko's pre-West gover- nment and to denounce alleged Cuban and Soviet support for the rebels. THE CENTRAL government and rebel invaders, meanwhile, accused each other of murdering whites in the war zone. "Foreigners are being hunted in Kolwezi," Foreign Minister Henri Simonet told the Belgian Parliament in Brussels. He said this was the last message Belgian officials received from the rebel-held town in this Central African nation's southeastern copper belt. Belgian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alfred Cahen described the 2,000 Belgians, 400 French citizens and assorted other foreigners in the Kolwezi area as hostages of the rebels. VARIOUS REPORTS from diplomats here and from Belgian sources said between five and nine Europeans have been killed in the Kolwezi area - ap- parently all Belgians, except for one mounted by the construction firm miles from Kowelzi, picked up 77 em- Italian. Morrison-Knudson of Boise, Idaho, ployees and dependents and took them In a statement issued in Brussels, the which is building a power project near 60 miles to Musonoi. From there they rebel Congolese National Liberation Kolwezi and employs most of the were flown to Kananga, 400 miles from Front denied its forces had killed Americans in the area. the fighting. foreigners in the five-day-old invasion. A company spokesman said two em- Members of the organization said they THE STATE Department in plyees and one dependent were were protecting civilians and blamed Washington said civilian helicopters missing, and eight other Americans - any civilian deaths on "barbaric" and a truck convoy encountered no op- six missionaries, one tourist and an government forces. position as they made their way to the employee of a mining firm - also The American rescue operation was Morrison-Knudsen compound eight See ZAIRE, Page 2 City Clerk Weiss 'reassigrned' By DAN OBERDORFER City Administrator Sylvester Murray yesterday removed City Clerk Jerome Weiss from his position effective July 1. In a late afternoon announcement, Murray said; "Weiss has not sufficien- tly developed the command and executive capacity (to do his job) effec- tively." Weiss was reassigned to another city government position working on city elections, Under the arrangement, Weiss would receive a $5,000 pay cut from his current $23,950. THE DECISION to relieve Weiss was "dictated by me solely," Murray said. He added, however, that he had con- sulted with Mayor Louis Belcher and' other members of the Republican caucus before making the arrangement. Weiss, who has worked for City Hall for eight years, was appointed city clerk by Murray in 1973. Weiss said he was given no reason for the demotion. DURING HIS stint as city clerk, Weiss was criticized for his handling of the 1977 mayoral election in which for- mer Democratic Mayor Albert Wheeler won by a single vote over Republican Louis Belcher. When Belcher contested the results it was discovered that 20 Ann Arbor township residents had voted illegally and a new-election was held this spring. Belcher defeated Wheeler in that election by 179 votes. Belcher said the "township 20" scan- dal, as it came to be known, had "very little" effect on the decision to remove Weiss. HE ADDED that ,Weiss's demotion would have no effect on whether the punch card balloting system City Coun- cil approved Monday night would be ready for use in time for the August primaries. A spokeswoman for Murray's office said a replacement for Weiss had not been found. Someone will be named by July 1, she said.