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WASHINGTON (AP) - A House sub-
committee wound up its hearings on the
Social Security rescue bill yesterday,
but a Democratic leader cautioned that
the $168 billion package to save the
benefit system from default was not
assured of passage.
Despite an accelerated legislative
pace, House Democratic Whip Thomas
Foley of Washington told reporters, "I
don't think the matter is all wrapped
up, packaged and delivered."
A HOUSE WAYS and Means sub-
committee was waiting for a revised
forecast from the Social Security Ad-
ministration on the system's outlook for
the rest of tis decade.
Rep. J. Pickle (D-Texas), chairman
of the Social Security subcommittee,
has said he is worried that the bailout
plan - which would save the system
$168 billion over seven years and wipe
out two-thirds of its long-run deficit -
might still leave the system vulnerable
to a shortfall in the mid-1980s.
Several witnesses before the sub-
committee also warned that
calculations on Social Security's debts
did not tell the full extent of the
system's troubles.
MEANWHILE, THE top Republican
on the House Ways and Means Commit-
tee, Rep. Barber Conable Jr. of New
York, said an intense lobbying cam-
paign by federal workers' unions
against covering new federal em-
ployees under Social Security may have
backfired. .
"The average American is now made
more aware that federal employees are
not covered and the average American
is very annoyed by it," Conable said.
"Americans are wondering why the
people who make the decisions about
Social Security don't have to pay."
The Ways and Means subcommittee
was told by Edwin Hustead, former
chief actuary for the civil service
retirement system, that keeping new
federal employees out of that system
would not affect its unfunded liability of
$538 billion.
BUT HUSTEAD said that without
new employees entering the plan, the
$100 billion civil service retirement
fund would run dry in 20 to 25 years
"although benefits will be paid for over
75 years."
He said Congress should consider ac-
celerating its payments to the
retirement system to keep it going.
Nearly four dozen other witnesses
were testifying during the final
marathon hearing, including Gerald
Facciani of Cleveland, representing the
American Society of Pension Actuaries,
who said he believes the National
Commission on Social Security Reform
and Social Security's actuaries have
underestimated Social Security's long-
range deficit.
They also made no attempt to ad-
dress Medicare's problems, noted Fac-
ciani, who said the retirement age
should be raised to 68 by the year 2004.
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University atmospheric and oceanic science students Frank Marsik (left),
Paul Gross (center), and Jill Eriksen (right) check the charts during the
national weather predicting competition.
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Gross said the contest - which he
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For example, scientists have asser-
ted that by studying Venus, a planet
with a 700 degree temperature and a
nearly all carbon dioxide atmosphere,
scientists can learn how Venus
developed such a hostile climate, and
then apply that knowledge to the Ear-
th's carbon dixoide prblems called the
"green house effect."
Nagy said that this argument is not
necessarily a good way to argue for in-
terplanetary exploration, however, and
that space research is more an intellec-
tual exercise in what he terms a "pure
science."
"WE'RE TO draft space missions
which neither the US. nor the European
countriescould accomplish by them-
selves," Nagy said in an interview last
week. "Combining forces makes for a
valuable program in which something
better can be achieved." The missions
Correction
A photograph which ran on the front
page of yesterday's Daily was of Israeli
Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. The
Daily incorrectly identified the
photograph.
planned must not consist of anything
requiring a technological breakthrough
however.
"It's hoped that viable recommen-
dations can come out of the. commit-
tee's meetings, which. can possibly be
incorporated into the next federal
budget, so that a joint U.S. European
mission can become reality," Nagy
said.
Staying in the forefront of space
research would be advantageous for the
U.S., he said, cautioning that Reagan's
emphasis on defense does not
necessarily translate into more dollars
for the space program.
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