The Michigan Daily-Thursday, February 10, 1983-Page 5 Social Security package may incur future deficit COMPUTER TERMINALS FOR RENT $60.00 per month TIPCO 455-8133 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. Subscribe to The Michigan Daily Daily Photo by ELIZABETH SCOTT 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. Mi l1 d ~1 - , ~ vI- CB! for NEW ORLE judge has told maximum pun court becauset him censor the report. There was punishment wo be ordered. THE REPO dealt with fed New Orleans civil rights vestigating the U.S. Distric tier, then sche trial of the s defense to b report. He or Sprog ~r contempt of couri review the script to see whether he ANS (AP) - A federal should ban it from broadcast. CBS CBS he will impose the refused. iishment for contempt of In a report filed Monday in the court the network refused to let record outlining his private conferen- script of a "60 Minutes" ces with CBS lawyers on Jan. 14-15, Duplantier said he "had never before no indication what the encountered such outrageous conduct ould be or when it would toward the judicial system." WHEN CBS refused to produce the )RT, televised Jan. 16, script, Duplantier issued an order Jan. eral charges that seven 14 that it not be broadcast. He was policement violated the quickly reversed by the 5th U.S. Circuit of blacks while in- Court of Appeals. Then he issued an or- murder of a policeman. der banning the broadcast in the Dallas t Judge Adrian Duplan- area, where the trial was scheduled to eduled to preside at the be held. That, too, was reversed. even, was asked by the Postponed for a month after the lock the "60 Minutes" broadcast, the trial is now scheduled rdered CBS to let him for March 7. r Shakespeare's PERICLES FEBRUARY 15, 8pm POWER CENTER Tickets available at PTP Ticket Office call 764-0450 m cited PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM presents I~ACTING COMPANY, ratedfirst By GEORGEA KOVANIS Mother nature may determine the weather, but a group of University students are doing a pretty good job of predicting what she chooses. The University's weather forecasting team, made up of twelve Atmospheric and Oceanic Science students, has been rated among the top three teams nationally since the University of Missouri began com- pptition in 1976. THIS YEAR, the team is currently ranked first in the country, above such schools as Pen State, Massachusets Institute of Technology, and team members ex- pect to place first when the com- petition is finished. "We'll finish first in the nation in cumulative team score," team cap- tain Paul Gross said. Twenty-two schools participate in the annual competition, in which students forecast the weather in varous cities across the country for eight two-week periods. Students must predict high and low tem- peratures, and the amount of precipitation. 1-GROSS SAID error points are assessed and the top five individual socres are combined to determine score for the team, which is then srankednationally. Individuals are U,also rated. University team member Julie y sion in nation r- .".. , , '. ol l Hoffman is currently ranked fourth in the nation, while other tea members' ratings range from 17th to 68th out of 350 competitors. "(The competition) is really great," Hoffman said. "I don't always think what I'm doing is right, but if I'm number four I must be doing something right." ONE COMPETITOR, freshman Steve Jascourt, said contest offers him a chance to settle a grudge: "I wasn't accepted by MIT, so I want to beat MIT," he said. Gross said the contest - which he called "NCAA weather forecasting," is intense but casual. "It's friendly but competitive," said graduate student Bruce Marcus. "If someone forecasts bad they get lots of grief; if someone forecasts good, they get lots of grief too.'' Most team members were en- thusiastic about the competition, but said it is sometimes frustrating. "The only time I get tired of (forecasting) is when I'm not doing well," said senior Jim Slota. "I guess you have to have meteorological men- tality to do this." The team has finished first three times since 1976, and has placed second and third once each. But there have been close calls in the past, Gross said. "Last year we lost to Kean College in New Jersey by .6 of a point." A____A__B__ $2 SAT & SUN SHOWS BEFORE 6 PM 'U' Prof. on space panel L2 INDIVIDUAL THEATRES S A "t "u 0 E NDS "VIDEODROME" TONIGHT! (R) AT 6:15, 8:05, 9:45 (Continued from Page 1) 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. NOON LUNCHEON Soup and Sandwich $1 Friday Feb. 11 Mark Van Putten Executive Director Great Lakes Natural Resource Center "Congressional Re-Authorization of the Clean Water Act". Guild House 802 Monroe Starts Friday! "WONDERFUL" N.Y. TIMES "EXHIL [RA TES" VILLAG :yQI:. 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