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House committee may reject plane sales
WASHINGTON ( AP) - There may
be enough votes in a House committee
to reject President Carter's proposed
sales of war planes to three Mideast
countries despite predictions to the
contrary by the panel's chairman, a
survey of lawmakers showed Tuesday.
Nineteen House members a bare --
majority of the 37- mem- ber House In-ternational
Relations Committee
said they will approve or are leaning in
favor of a resolution against the sale of
jet fighters to Saudi Arabia unless
Carter makes concessions for Israel.
The Carter" administration wants to
sell sophisticated, U. S.- ma- de F- 1- 5 war
planes to Saudi Arabia, 75 F- 1- 5s and 15
F- 1- 6s to Israel and 50 F-- 5s to Egypt a
$ 4.8 billion deal.
A House or Senate vote against any
one of the three sales the Saudi
Arabian transaction, for instance
would jeopardize the deal because
Carter has suggested he'll drop the
sales if Congress takes such action.
Under congressional procedures a
proposed arms sale by the executive
branch must be disapproved by both
houses within 30 calendar days of the
time the president sends it to Capitol
Hill.
Under parliamentary procedure, a
sale will go through unless Congress
rejects it within 30 days. The House and
Senate can halt such transactions only
by passing resolutions of disapproval in
both houses.
The Associated Press questioned
each member of the House committee,
Demonstrating his opposition to the City Council's decision Monday
night to widen West Broadway to four lanes, University medical
which began considering the war
planes deal on Monday.
Nineteen said they either will vote for
a resolution disapproving the sales, or
are inclined to do so, especially where
the administration's sale of 60
sophisticated F- 1- 5 jet fighters is con-cerned.
Only five said they now support or are
inclined to support Carter's sales to
Saudi Arabia as well as to Israel and
Egypt.
The remaining 13 said they're either
undecided at this time or are unwilling
to speculate on how they'll vote on
resolutions of disapproval that have
been introduced.
However, at least half a dozen, in-cluding
some who listed themselves as
being tentatively opposed to the Saudi
sale, said they would vote for it if
Carter makes concessions for Israel.
There seemed to be little
congressional resistance to the
proposed . sale of less sophisticated jet
fighters to Egypt.
student Ron Swinfard set tap this sign on his front lawn at 1116 W.
Broadway.
Rep. Clement J. Zablocki, D- W- is.,
chairman of the committee, had said
Friday he would get the 19 votes, with
the other four sure to come. But the
congressman said -- he's disappointed
that " more members don't have the
courage to say publicly they support the
sale."
Carter's aides have said privately
they are counting on the House com-mittee
to kill resolutions against the
jets sale so that the House and
therefore Congress cannot veto it.
Insight
Harvard
toughens
curriculum
By Edward B. Flske
N. Y. Times Service
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. In its first
major curriculum reform in more than
30 years,, the faculty of Harvard
University Tuesday approved con-siderably
stiffer course requirements
for a bachelor's degree.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences
approved a proposal by Dean Henry
Rosovsky to scrap the current " general
education" program and replace it with
a more structured " core curriculum" '
designed to guarantee that every
Harvard graduate will possess " basic
literacy in major forms, of intellectual
discourse."
The- - new curriculum reflects a
general trend toward, . more rigorous
graduation requirements.'
In essence; the report approved by
the faculty Tuesday, pots forth a new
definition of an " educated person," one
that differs both. fxpm.( thei cpnten- -
colleges jtno ore metnuu- uneiite- U
" distribution requirement" approach,
which says that students should take a
certain number of courses each in the
humanities, the social sciences and the
natural sciences.
The new definition approved by the
Harvard faculty states " an educated
person" must do the following: -
Be able to " think and write clearly
and effectively."
Have an " informed acquaintance"
with the five basic academic areas,
which are literature and the arts,
history, social and philosophical
analysis, science and mathematics,
and foreign languages and culture.
y Be able to use his or her ex-periences
in the context of " other
cultures and other times."
k-- Have " some understanding of, and
experience in thinking about, moral
and ethical problems."
s Have " achieved depth in some
field of knowledge."
Students will be required to select
about one- four- th of their undergraduate
programs from a list of 80 to 100 " core"
courses in the five academic areas.
They will also be required to
demonstrate competency in a foreign '
( See HARVARD, Page 16A)
M. U. seeks
$ 16 million
funds hike
By Jeff Gordon
Missourian staff writer
The University's Columbia campus is
seeking $ 115.9 million for general
operating budget and $ 22 million for
capital improvements in the 1979- 8- 0
fiscal year.
The requests, submitted in a letter
from Chancellor Herbert Schooling to
University President James Olson, are
$ 16 million more than the campus
would receive in 1978- 7- 9 under the
appropriations bill passed by the
Missouri General Assembly in its
session that ended Sunday. The bill
awaits Gov. Joseph Teasdale's
signature.
The top priority once again is a 10
percent increase in base salaries for
faculty and staff, an increase that
would cost $ 8.2 million to fund.
" Salary improvements for staff and
faculty continues as our number one
priority," Schooling said. " We believe
we should continue the program begun
last year which was designed to bring
salary levels to at least the . same
universities as they were in the middle
70s.
Schooling indicated that budget
( See SHIFTING, Page 13A)
House commences budget deliberations
WASHINGTON ( UPI) With a
warning from President Carter to veto
any " budget busting" legislation in
order to curb inflation, House leaders
Tuesday began steering a half trillion
dollar 1979 budget proposal through the
House.
Carter issued his warning at a
breakfast meeting with House and
Senate Democratic leaders, before the
House was scheduled to begin its'
budget debate. .
Speaker Thomas O'Neill said later
that the president stressed that curbing
inflation is his " No. 1" priority.
" We can anticipate vetoes on
anything that is budget busting,"
O'Neill told reporters.
Before the House with actual
voting not scheduled until Wednesday
was a $ 501 billion spending figure
proposed by the House Budget Com-mittee
for fiscal year 1979, which begins
" Oct. 1. As such things go this was not far
from the $ 500 billion proposed by the
president. The Senate recently called
for $ 499 billion.
In proposed " budget authority"
some of which would not be spent until
later years the House proposal of
$ 568 billion was almost identical to the
president's.
This is the first year that the
government is using a- - zero- ba- se
budgeting ( 2BB) policy, in response, to
a Carter campaign pledge.
ZBB is a procedure under which
proposed spending for a government
agency and program is justified from
scratch or zero each year, as
opposed to the previous procedure of
only justifying money for new
programs and agencies and
automatically approving prior
programs.
Last year federal agencies presented
their spending requests in both ZBB
form and in the traditional format used
since the4 days of George Washington.
The new method produced several
benefits, the White House said Tuesday,
but also confused many bureaucrats.
A 13- pa- ge report on the ZBB method
said it was impossible to give a dollars
and cents figure on the savings realized
by the new system, but said that ZBB
" got off to a good start" in the first year
of federal use.
The report acknowledged it was
" natural" that government agencies
" would encounter problems" in con-verting
to the new system.
Among them, the report said, was
" confusion" among federal employees
during the switchover period. Paper-work
also " increased markedly,"
The president cannot veto Congress'
budget resolution which will guide
the House and Senate in passing
specific bills this summer.
But he could veto specific bills to
implement it if he feels the total greatly
exceeds his own budget goals.
House leaders sought to discourage
floor amendments which would raise
the totals for example one to add $ 2
billion for defense and another to add $ 1
billion for veterans.
" The budget resolution is not and
should not become a Christmas tree of
goodies for everybody," Democratic
Leader Jim Wright of Texas said in a
letter to all members.
Last year the budget failed to pass
the House on its first try, when liberal
Democrats said too much had been
added on the floor for defense and
Repubicans said the deficit was too
high. The deficit figure before the
House this year is $ 58 billion.
House leaders hoped to maintain a
coalition admittedly shaky to
support their budget -- proposal, but
they said this could easily be lost if
parts of the budget are increased or
decreased on the floor.
A tuition tax credit is expected to be
another issue. The Budget Committee's
proposal does not provide for one, but
calls instead for expanding eligibility
for college education loans and grants.
Cong stole papers,
FBI official charges
ALEXANDRIA, Va. ( UPI) An
FBI man testified at an espionage
trial Tuesday that agents in-tercepted,
photographed and sent
right along nearly all the U. S.
documents the defendants allegedly
were tunneling to Communist
Vietnam. '
Agent William Fleshman Jr. of the
FBI's C15 counterintelligence squad
said he worked closely with another
star prosecution witness a female
CIA counterspy to crack the
alleged Vietnamese spy ring.
The government used Fleshman's
testimony to support that of Mrs.
Dung Krall, the paid CIA agent and
daughter of a former Viet Cong
- ambassador to Moscow.
Mrs. Krall testified that, acting as
the ring's courier as a double- age- nt
for U. S. intelligence, she got a
grocery bag full of U. S. documents
from defendant David Truong on one
occasion and a cardboard carton full
on another.
She said she delivered them to
Hanoi officials in Paris after the FBI
had . examined and photographed
them.
Truong, 32, an expatriate Viet-namese,
and Ronald Humphrey, 42,
, a U. S. Information Agency em-ployee,
have pleaded innocent to
( See FBI, Page 16A)
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Toughest decision, ex- presid- ent says
Nixon: Bombing Hanoi ' necessary'
By Bernard Gwertzman
N. Y.' Thnes Service
NEW YORK Richard M. Nixon
says that ' the decision to bomb the
Hanoi area during Christmas week of
1972 was his most difficult of the whole
war, but " it was also one of the most
clear- cu- t and necessary ones."
In the fourth of seven installments
from his memoirs, the former president'
provides some additional details on the
final stages of the diplomacy that led to
theVietnam cease- fir- e agreement
He relates how, with the backing of
his top adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, he --
not only ordered heavy bombing after
North Vietnam seemed to him to stall at
' the negotiating table, but also issued a
virtual ultimatum' to the South Viet--
namese government to accept
whatever terms Washington worked
out with Hanoi.
The outline of this dual approach was
already known, but Nixon's account
supplies his rationale.
He also says in the book that the Kent
State killings were a low point of his
presidency.
In October 1972, Kissinger and Le
Due Tho, the North Vietnamese
negotiator, secretly made considerable
. progress toward an agreement that,
would end the fighting and provide for
the withdrawal of the remaining
American forces and for the release of
prisoners. Kissinger, at a famous news
conference late that month, said,
" Peace is at hand."
. But in early December, the peace
talks in Paris ran into problems, as
Kissinger found it increasingly difficult
to reconcile the differences between
South and North Vietnam.
According to Nixon, on Dec. 13 Le
Due Tho " made it clear at the Vietnam
peace talks in Paris that he had no
intention of reaching an agreement."
Kissinger " and I completely agreed
on the cynicism and perfidy of the
North Vietnamese," he says. And he
says that Kissinger described the North
Vietnamese in obscene terms.
" I had reluctantly decided that we
had now reached the point where only
the strongest action would have any
effect in convincing Hanoi that
negotiating a fair settlement was a
better option for them than continuing
the war," he says. " Kissinger and I
agreed that this meant stepping up the
bombing."
Nixon says that on Dec. 14 he gave the .
order to resume attacks Dec. 17. The
date is interesting: On Dec. 16 ,
Kissinger called a news conference -- at
which he denounced the North Vit- name- se
but did not indicate that bombs
would fall the next day. ..
During the bombing, which lasted
until Dec. 29, no rationale was provided :
to the public, and Nixon tries
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to justify ; .
the decision in his memoirs.
" The order to renew bombing the.
week before Christmas was the most, -- '
difficult decision I made during thesj '
entire war," Nixon says." At the same ;.
time, however, it was also one of the ; --'
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