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Taxes
By HELEN THOMAS
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford believes Con
gress’ $24.8 billion tax cut bill
contains “some good things and
some very bad things.” He will
take several days deciding
whether to sign or veto it,
according to his spokesman.
Ford called his economic and
energy advisers to a Good
Friday meeting at the White
House. He met with several of
them Thursday to go over the
dozens of provisions of the tax
bill.
Ford has until April 8 to
decide whether to let the bill
become law. If he consents, the
government will begin in May
sending rebate checks of SIOO to
S2OO on 1974 income taxes to
most Americans. It also would
begin in May withholding less
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Sen. Nunn says tax cut
has some good and bad
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Sen.
Sam Nunn, D-Ga., says the
$24.8 billion tax cut bill now on
President Ford’s desk contains
“some good news and some bad
news for the American people.”
“If Congress and the execu
tive branch exercise strong
fiscal restraint in all levels of
federal spending, this tax bill
Fugitive captured
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) —
Susan Edith Saxe is a one-time
college honors student who was
on the FBl’s “10 Most Wanted”
list for a record five years. Her
days as a fugitive ended
because of policeman Joseph
Reid’s memory for faces.
Miss Saxe dropped out of
sight after she, Katherine
Power and three men allegedly
held up a Boston bank and shot
a policeman to death in 1970.
Thursday night, Reid saw her
walking along a city street and
recognized her from a new FBI
photograph and description.
He pulled over and asked for
identification. When she tried to
run away, he said, he arrested
her and took her to jail.
Miss Saxe, 26, was using the
name “Ailene A. Hellman,” but
police said they identified her
by fingerprints. “We did not
know she was in this area,” an
FBI spokesman said. “For
tunately, the officer was very
alert.”
Miss Saxe, of Albany, N.Y.,
and Miss Power, of Denver,
Colo., were on the FBl’s “Most
Wanted” list longer than any
other women. Miss Power is
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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla.—The hall monitor has been replaced by the waterboy as the most
important person at the Key Biscayne Elementary School since worried health officials
warned of a possibly dangerous water supply. Fountains at the school have been shut down
and students, such as Robert E. Lea, carry trucked-in water to classrooms in cups. (UPI)
What’ll Ford do with bill?
money for 1975 taxes.
That is a powerful political
incentive for Ford to sign the
bill, despite his objections to
many of its provisions.
The President told his experts
Thursday: “This is a tough
call.” He asked them to draw
up their recommendations.
White House Press Secretary
Ron Nessen told newsmen Ford
considered the bill a mixture of
good and bad things, and
Nessen and other officials
elaborated some of these:
—Ford had wanted only a sl6
billion tax cut to spur the
economy. Congress gave him
that and a little more. Its
version is a net increase in
taxation of $22.8 billion since it
contains, along with the cuts, $2
billion in tax increases for oil
companies.
—Ford opposes amendments
can provide the short-term
simulus needed to build confi
dence and the longer-term
foundation for solid recovery,”
Nunn said in a statement
Thursday.
“If, on the other hand,
Congress proceeds with the
authorization and appropria-
still at large.
They are accused of helping
three men hold up the State
Street Bank & Trust Co. in
Boston Sept. 23, 1970, and
shooting to death a policeman
during the holdup. The three
men were caught, but the girls
escaped.
Miss Saxe, described as once
a shy and quiet girl, first
attended Syracuse University
and then transferred to Bran
deis University in Waltham,
Mass. There she became
friends with Miss Power. They
were described as good stu
dents who both won awards for
scholastics and community
service.
Then, authorities say, die two
met three men. It was the
height of the anti-Vietnam
protest movement during the
American invasion of Cambodia
in 1970. The FBI says the five
formed an urban guerilla unit.
They say the girls were
involved in a number of crimes
with the men, including the
robbery of a government
armory and the theft of
ammunition.
in the bill which he fears will
contribute to pushing the
federal deficit over SIOO billion.
The bill’s one-time SSO payment
to Social Security recipients
will cost $1.7 billion, a White
House spokesman said, and
payments to the working poor
—which he called “really a
welfare proposal” —would cost
$1.5 billion.
—Ford wanted only a tax cut.
He thinks Congress should not
have used the bill as a vehicle
to partially repeal the oil
industry’s 60-year-old tax con
cession, the oil depletion
allowance. But a spokesman
said Ford doesn’t see this as a
major problem.
Ford is getting conflicting
advice as to whether to veto.
Assistant House Democratic
Leader John McFall of Califor
nia, who transmitted the bill to
tions now planned by various
committees, the tax bill will
simply add to our long-term
economic woes.”
Congress passed the tax cut
bill Thursday and sent it to
Ford. The President has until
April 8 to decide whether to
sign it or veto it.
Presidential Press Secretary
Ron Nessen said Ford has not
yet made up his mind on what
to do with the measure, but
feels he has the necessary votes
in Congress to sustain a veto, if
he decides to reject the tax cut.
Nunn also warned the federal
budget deficit for fiscal 1976
could be as high as $122 billion
unless Congress and the Ford
Administration work together to
hold down federal spending
programs.
Nunn said that in January
Ford proposed a deficit of $52
billion, which included a sl6
billion tax cut.
“Since that time, both execu
tive and congressional actions
—including anticipated expendi
tures as reported to the budget
committee —have raised, in my
opinion, that projected deficit to
a minimum of SBO billion,”
Nunn said.
“I consider the SBO billion
figure to be optimistic and not
realistic,” he said. “When all
the spending is added up, the
potential deficit for fiscal year
1976 could be as high as $122
billion.”
“A strong and perhaps
unprecedented effort by Con
gress and the executive branch
will be required to keep the
fiscal year 1976 deficit under
S9O billion,” Nunn said.
Ford under his signature, said:
“Our problems do not permit
delay or study. The bill needs
to be signed into law promptly.
“This is not the time to listen
to big business opposition or to
the advice of economic ad
visers, who have been proven
wrong time and again. It is
time to listen to the people.”
House GOP Leader John
Rhodes of Arizona told report
ers after meeting with Ford
Thursday: “He is certainly
considering very seriously
about vetoing this bill ... It’s
my opinion that there will be a
veto and I think there should be
a veto.”
Rep. John Anderson of
Illinois, third-ranking in the
House Republican leadership,
said he advised Ford to sign
the measure “but my advice
was in the minority of the
Republican leadership who met
with the President.”
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Jackie’s back
NEW YORK—Jacqueline Kennedy Onassls leaves Kennedy Airport for her Fifth Avenue
apartment after arriving from Europe. She had been in Paris since the burial of Aristotle
Onassis. (UPI)
She blames it on money troubles
ATLANTA (UPI) - Dr.
Joyce Brothers said Thursday
America’s economic troubles
are contributing to an ac
celerated divorce rate —
especially among older couples
who have been married for a
long time.
“It used to be that most
breakups of marriages oc
curred in the first year,” said
Dr. Brothers, a famed psy
chologist and columnist. “Now
they’re coming in the 20th or
25th year.”
Water
They’re trucking it in
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI)
— Pat Blomberg is freezing the
stuff into ice cubes on the
theory his highball will kill any
surviving germs. School kids
are making do with orange
juice. Bruce Hakanson says
he’ll complain to the Health
Department if he gets dysen
tery.
That’s Key Biscayne today,
where drinking fountains in
public buildings have been
turned off, residents have been
warned to boil all tap water
before drinking it and people
have been asked not to wash
their cars or water their lawns.
The problem, says Dade
County Health Director Milton
Saslaw, is low water pressure
on this coastal island near
Miami. If the pressure dips
below zero it could suck
impurities into the water
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WASHINGTON—President Ford held a Economic Energy
meeting in the Roosevelt Room at the White House to
review the tax legislation passed by the congress. Ford
Dr. Brothers was in Atlanta
to address a dental society
meeting.
She said half of all marriages
are nothing but “dismal
utilitarian conveniences” any
way.
“With economic conditions
being what they are now, a
married couple whose children
have grown up and gone out on
their own so that they no longer
have the children as a common
focus are finding it difficult to
take trips to Europe and do
system. Saslaw says it might
already be contaminated.
He said water pressure
Thursday on some parts of the
island was over the federal
minimum standard of 20 pounds
per square inch, but the
western side of the key had
pressure of only four pounds
per square inch.
Residents say the water looks
all right and most of them
aren’t taking any chances. But
some of the 35,000 residents
were skeptical.
“When I get dysentery I’ll
call my local Health Depart
ment,” said Hakanson. He said
he is still drinking water
straight from the faucet.
Blomberg is using the water
for ice cubes. “I think the
alcohol in my highball will kill
any surviving germs,” he said.
Caroline Coton said, “It looks
other things to avoid facing the
fact that they don’t like each
other,” she said.
But she said that in some
cases the hard economic
conditions are binding some
couples more tightly together.
Some husbands and wives are
finding their family relation
ships strengthened by the
financial difficulties that force
them to give up outside
recreational and entertainment
activities and spend more time
together at home.
perfectly crystal clear to me,
and it tastes fine, but, of
course, I’m boiling it anyway
like they are telling us to.”
Drinking fountains have been
turned off in most public
buildings, including the resort’s
elementary school, where
pupils were sold orange juice
by the container and given
water out of 20-gallon jugs
brought in from Miami.
Saslaw said the dip in
pressure is caused by the
seasonal increase in the is
land’s population, caused both
by tourists and part-time
residents.
The order to boil water
seemed to have no effect on the
island’s tourist industry, which
is enjoying a banner year
despite the nation’s troubled
economy.
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— Griffin Daily News Friday, March 28,1975
talks with (1-r) Arthur Burns, Chairman Federal Reserve
Bank, and Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisors. (UPI)
Baker
Writer on trial
MOSCOW (UPI) — Dissident writer Anatoly
Marchenko will go on trial Monday on charges of violating
conditions of exile, according to physicist Andrei
Sakharov.
Marchenko, best known for his book “My Testimony,”
was arrested Feb. 26 in Tarusa, 60 miles south of Moscow.
The 38-year-old author has served nine years in prison
camps since 1960.
He faces up to two years in jail on charges of failing to
report once a week to local police in Tarusa and to be at
home by 8 p.m. each day, Sakharov said Thursday.
Meany complains
WASHINGTON (UPI) - AFL-CIO President George
Meany says Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s foreign
policy has “produced disillusionment everywhere and
success nowhere.”
In a signed editorial in the union’s newspaper, the AFL
CIO News, Meany said Thursday the policy of detente was
“in ruins ... the wreckage is global.”
He said the U.S. shift to a neutral pose in the Middle
East represents an “unmistakable threat” to the Israelis,
leaving them with “half an ally” while the Arabs have the
full backing of the Soviet Union.
He called on President Ford to reassess U.S. policy in
the Middle East and “the entire Nixon-Kissinger policy of
detente, which has produced disillusionment everywhere
and success nowhere.”
Little can be done
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI) — Sen. Howard Baker, R-
Tenn., blames U.S. failure to honor commitments for
current Communist advances in Asia, but says there is
little that can be done now to reverse the trend.
“I think the United States may already have lost Cam
bodia and we may have seriously threatened the survival
of South Vietnam,” the senator told a Memphis State
University student group Thursday.
“I’m not sure there is anything we can do now except
send troops back in and that would be a mistake,” Baker
said.
Swing concerns America
WASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S. Ambassador Frank
Carlucci has called on Portuguese President Francisco
Da Costa Gomes to express American concern over the
leftward swing in the Portuguese cabinet, the State
Department said Thursday.
Department spokesman Robert Anderson said Carlucci
met with Gomes Tuesday night.
Kidnap ‘switch’
agreement reported
PARIS (UPI) — Airplanes
carrying the kidnaped French
ambassador to Somalia and two
prisoners to be exchanged for
his release flew today to Aden
after South Yemen agreed to
organize the switch, govern
ment officials said.
A Somali DC3 carrying
ambassador Jean Gueury, 57,
three kidnapers and a Somali
diplomat left for Aden from
Bosaso, Somalia, officials said.
A French military plane with
the two released prisoners and
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from Cairo at the same time,
the officials said.
French officials said they
hoped the exchange would go
through now that South Yemen,
after changing its position
several times, bowed to the
kidnapers’ requests and Fran
ce’s pleas to let the swap take
place in Aden.
All aboard were reported in
“good, if tired condition.”
Carlucci