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The Michigan Daily-
ST RICT ABOR TION BILL PASSED

-Friday, Mo'y 22, 1981-Page 3

Senate OKs funding ban

WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Senate, lining up with
the House, yesterday approved the most far-reaching
ban on federal funds for abortions ever enacted by
Congress.
The provision, which would forbid the use of federal
funds for abortions except if the life of the woman
was endangered, already has been approved by the
House, assuring it will go into law.
THE SO-CALLED Helms-Hyde amendment was
attached 52-43 to the 1981 supplemental spending bill.
But the Senate refused to go along with the House,
-which also approved a provision forbidding the use of
federal funds for any abortion.

Sen. Rober Jepsen (R-Iowa), who planned to spon-
sor the more restrictive provision, told the Senate he
supported the use of federal funds for abortions when
the woman's life is endangered.
THE HYDE amendment, named after Rep. Henry
Hyde (R-Ill.);has been passed in various forms since
1976. Currently, it bars the use of federal funds for
abortions except in cases where the woman's life is in
danger or where the pregnancy is due to rape or in-
cest. The vote Thursday eliminates rape and incest
as exceptions.
Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) issued a veiled threat to
those who voted against the amendment. "For those
who traditionally have been pro-lifers, their vote will
he attentively watched on this motion," he said.

Sens. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) and Lowell Weicker
(R-Conn.) sharply attacked those who oppose abor-
tion on religious grounds.
"I find growing in this country," Packwood said
quietly at his desk, "a spirit of intolerance, of almost
religious moralism, a feeling that 'God speaks to me.
I will tell you what he says. Tough luck if you're not
on the same wave length.' "
"There is growing in this country a Cotton Mather
mentality," Packwood said, referring to the Puritan
New England preacher who took part in the Salem
witch trials in the late 1600s. It is "narrow, un-
forgiving" and smacks of "witch burning," Pack-
wood added.

Vietnam: Life after the dollar

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam
(AP)-Past the twisted ruins of
America's "Pentagon East," past cat-
tle grazing on a field where the
monument to South Vietnam's war
dead had stood, down the drowsy street
once mad with people swarming into
the U.S. Embassy to ride the last
helicopter out.
The car passes under a red banner
strung above a street of this city, once
known as Saigon. It says: "Long live
the victorious day of April 30, 1975."

As it happens, it is April 30, 1981-six
years to the day after communist forces
captured the city, drove out the
Americans, and brought the war to an
end.
After a decade and a half of
escalating U.S. involvement, when
millions of soldiers, advisers, contrac-
tors and humanitarians poured into
Vietnam on a variety of missions, it is a
strange feeling to be perhaps the only
American here-standing for
revolutionary hymns, listening to

speeches lauding the victory over
"American imperialism," and ex-
changing smiles with leaders who once
were dangerous, jungle-wise guerrillas.
It is even more striking for someone
who had been in Vietnam during the
American era that so little seems to
have endured. Even the celebration of
the April 30 victory is muted, lacking
the mass displays that mark such oc-
casions in communist societies.
Americans are probably better liked
here now than during the 1960s and

early 1970s, if only because many
regret the end of the dollar bonanza.
The Soviets, having replaced
Americans as the superpower
foreigners in Vietnam, are often
referred to with some contempt as
"Americans without dollars."
"I love the Americans, so I change
their money on the black market for 25
dong to the dollar," says one pedicab
driver. "The Russions are no damn
good. I get theirs for 20 dong." The
See VIETNAM, Page 6

/ Food stamp changes
/, may hurt students

By PAM FICKINGER
Few University students currently
receive food stamps and, if President
Reagan has his way on Capitol Hill,
even fewer will be eligible for the aid in
the future.
According to Linda King, food stamp
coordinator for Washtenaw County,
about 2,000 Ann Arbor residents receive
food stamps. But because of stringent
eligibility requirements, few of those
recipients are students, King said.
SHE SAID a new federal regulation
imposed last year created special
eligibility requirements that students
must meet in order to qualify for food
stamps. As a result of that amendment
to the Food Stamp Act - designed to
make it harder for dependent students
to cheat the system - the number of
students nationwide receiving the
stamps dropped dramatically from
202,000 in 1979 to only 47,000 in 1980.
PRESIDENT REAGAN, also con-
cerned about fraud in the program,
wants to further tighten eligibility
requirements; this would make the
program inaccessible to almost all
students, some officials say.
Currently, to qualify for food stamps
- as a result of the 1980 amendment -
students must be physically or men-
tally disabled, be part of the Work In-
centive Program, be employed at least
20 hours per week through a work-study
program, or be the head of a household
with at least one dependent.
IN MICHIGAN, students must meet
these special - requirements just to
qualify for consideration with other

state residents. These requirements
make the vast majority of students
ineligible, local officials say.
Yet, at a time when the government
is making it more difficult for persons
to qualify for the aid, studies indicate
that about half of the households that
are eligible never apply.
A 1976 study by the University's In-
stitute for Social Research offered
several explanations for the apparent
reluctance of some families to apply:
"Eligible families don't know about the
potential benefits from the program;
people aren't willing to endure the
stigma attached to receiving welfare;
benefit levels are too low to make it
worthwhile for a family to expend the
time and energy needed to obtain the
stamps; eligible families do not have
the necessary transportation to enable
them to acquire their food stamps; an-
so forth."
OFFICIALS WHO administer the
food stamp program in Lansing say
that some of those persons who do apply
for and receive food stamps abuse the
aid. They say that most of the abuse
comes in the form of duplicated aid -
that is, persons who illegally apply
twice and receive double aid.
Local storeowners have complained
of another kind of abuse. They claim
that some recipients use their stamps to
buy small items costing less than $1.
Then, when they get change back from
the stamp, they use it to buy restricted
items such as cigarettes and liquor
which cannot be purchased with food
stamps. - - # :

Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM
Contemporary design
A UNIQUE VIEW of the hallway on the second floor of the School of Art. The
converging lines of cement crevices contrast with the shadowed bands
shown on the wall. Notice also the jutting rungs off the coat rack. Clearly a
study for any student of art.,

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