Daily Nebraskan Frlda Dr 6, 1985
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WASHINGTON Spurning a Re
publican cost-cutting drive, the House
proposed $10.6 billion for college aid
next year, including financial help for a
new generation of older, "non tradi
tional" students such as mothers re
turning to school.
A five-year extension of a variety of
federal aid programs for students, col
leges and universities through fiscal
1991 was passed and sent to the Senate
on a 350-67 roll-call vote Wednesday
night.
Action by the Senate on its own ver
sion of the spending authorization is
expected early next year.
The House bill contained a plan to
increase the maximum Pell Grant award,
the primary source of financial aid for
2.8 million low-income students, from
the current $2,100 a year to $2,300 for
the 1987-88 school year. Maximum
grants would rise gradually to $3, 1 00 by
the 1991-92 school year.
This feature rebuffed President
Reagan's proposal, outlined in his fis
cal 1986 budget plan, to slash federal
aid to college students by 25 percent
and to eliminate Pell Grants for more
than 800,000 needy students.
While the House increased the level
of the Pell Grants, it also voted to
tighten rules for obtaining federally
subsidized student loans in an effort to
discourage needless borrowing and
avoid nrodunnff "a class of indentured
students in bondage to their educa
tional debts."
Partly by requiring proof of need
from every student borrower not just
those from families with incomes of
more than $30,000 and by tightening
procedures for collecting defaulted
loans, the House shaved the spending
ceiling for college aid from $11.9 bil
lion this year to $10.6 billion in fiscal
1987, the first year covered by the new
bill.
In another major departure, the
House voted to make most students
attending school less than half-time
eligible for most student aid programs.
Congress begins work on Farm Bill
WASHINGTON House and Senate
conferees began negotiations on the
1985 farm bill Thursday under a Reagan
administration threat to veto the legis
lation if they don't rein in the cost of
agriculture subsidies.
In a letter from Agriculture Secre
tary John Block and budget director
James C. Miller III, Congress was put
on notice that President Reagan will
stick to his allowance of $50 billion for
crop programs during the next three
years.
The House version of the farm bill
has been estimated to cost $56 billion
through 1988 for commodity subsidies,
the Senate bill $58 billion. Both are far
above the $34.8 billion spending guide
line Congress set for itself earlier this
year, and could mean at least near
record farm spending for the near
future.
While saying both bills make some
progress toward the administration
goal of a more "market-oriented" farm
sector, Block and Miller said the legis
lation repeats some of the past failures
of farm policy.
"There is little disagreement that
our present farm policies have failed,"
they wrote. "In the past five years, net
farm income has stagnated, farm debt
has risen and farm exports have de
clined. At the same time, federal out
lays for our farm programs have more
than quadrupled."
Among "fundamental reforms" Rea
gan will demand before signing a farm
bill, the officials said, are cuts in farm
income subsidies beginning in 1987,
instead of the two- and five-year sub
sidy freezes called for in the Senate
and House bills, respectively.
Farm-state lawmakers who have
defended the subsidy freezes have
argued that while a more market-dependent
agriculture might be ultimate
ly desirable, the severe depression in
some rural areas, particularly the
Midwest, makes this the wrong time to
seek any reduction of farming's safety
net.
In Lincoln, a directory listing servi
ces to help financially strapped
farmers is being distributed to Lancaster
County farm families and to organiza
tions and businesses that serve
farmers.
The farm crisis directory is a con
densed version of a directory of com
munity services prepared by the Lincoln-Lancaster
Health Department.
It lists services directed at strug
gling farmers, such as health, voca
tional training, legal and financial
assistance and governmental.
E5 0 ws m s li fs A roundup of the day's happenin9s
William F. Buckley Jr. invited 700 of his friends,
including President Reagan and Charlton Heston, to share
chicken potpie Thursday and celebrate the 30th anniver
sary of the National Review, the conservative magazine he
founded.
Former Nebraska Democratic Party Chairwoman
DiAnna Schimek says she might seek her party's nomina
tion for state treasurer next year and intends to leave her
job as executive director of the Nebraska Civil Liberties
Union by January 1986.
The first copies of "The Simple Chinese Bible" in
Chinese and English are due from a printer in Peking on
March 1, 1986, with a 200,000-copy first press run.
French Premier Laurent Fabius' comment that
he was "personally troubled" by President Francois Mit
terrand's meeting with Polish leader Gen. Wojciech Jaru
zelski drew sharp criticism from the conservative French
newspaper Le Figaro. A premier doesn't have the right to
be "personally troubled in the face of a initiative of the
president," the paper-wrote. "He must either shut up, or
approve it, or resign."
Walter Pleate, the nation's oldest military veteran at
109, and who fought in the Spanish-American War, died in
Lebanon, Pa.
Violinist Isaac Stern has been named Musician of
The Year by the Musical America International Directory
of the Performing Arts.
A horse-drawn wagon carted a 20-foot Faser fir to
the steps of the White House, where Nancy Reagan
accepted it as this year's White House Christmas tree.
" His classmates say he's a gentle Goliath, but 315
pound high school wrestler Lyle "Pooh" Burrell of Mount
demons, Mich., is being kept off the mats for fear he
might hurt an opponent. Burrell weighed 5 pounds, 10
ounces at birth but he grew "because he likes to eat," says
his mom. He's nicknamed "Pooh" because when he was
born, she said, " 'This is my little Winnie the Pooh,' "
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Britain to withdraw from UNESCO
LONDON Britain announced Thursday it is withdrawing from
UNESCO because it said the 160-nation organization is inefficient, spend
thrift and "harmfully politicized."
Timonthy Raison, Foreign pSi ce minister for overseas development, said
Britain's membership in the 160-nation agency will end as of Dec. 31.
Britain was one of the founding members of the United Nations Educa
tional, Scientific and Cultural Organization, created in London in 1945.
Raison said Britain plans to retain observer status in the organization.
He said Britain would put the money it would have contributed to
UNESCO into bilateral programs going to the Third World, particularly
members cf the Commonwealth, the association of Britain and its former
colonies.
Broken Bow bank closes
LINCOLN The Security State Bank in Broken Bow, danced by a poor
farm economy and "liberal lending policies," was clcscd Thursday by the
Nebraska Department of Banking and Finance.
In a news release, State Banking Director Jamc3 C. Barbee said the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has been appointed receiver.
Security State became the 10th state-chartered commercial bank to be
closed by the department this year. It was the first bank closed since
Barbee became banking director in late September.
Barbee said his department was left with no choice but to close the
bank after the firm's board of directors was unable to secure a recapitali
zation of the bank.
A recent bank examination disclosed losses in the institution's agrri
cultural and commercial loan portfolios, which led to its insolvency,
Barbee said.
Cancer Institute flooded by calls
WASHINGTON News of a promising new cancer treatment at the
National Cancer Institute prompted a flood of calls to the federal center
Thursday from people desperate for a cure.
"What they're saving is, our mother, our brother, our sister is dying at
this very moment. We have nothing to lose. We want to be a candidate,"
said Carol Case, the institute's chief of public inquiries.
The callers want information about a new treatment, called adoptive
immunotherapy, that turns ordinary white blood cells into "killer cells"
that attack malignant tumors. The treatment ws announced Wednesday in
an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Government resumes disability reviews
WASHINGTON Still smarting from the bruising it took in its first
attempt, the government said Thursday it will resume culling Social
Security disability rolls of people whohave become physically able to hold
jobs.
But it said it will use a scalpel, not a meat cleaver, in It's new approach
to evaluating the medical condition of some 2.6 million people now
classified as physically disabled and unable to work. The program begins
next month.
New federal regulations will require proof of medical improvement
before disability benefit checks can be cut off.
Pollard documents on Arab defense
WASHINGTON The classified documents Navy analyst Jonathan Jay
Pollard is accused of selling to Israel included information on the radar
jamming techniques and electronic capabilites of Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
Egypt and other moderate Arab governments, according to an informed
U.S. official.
Some of the material dealt with counterterrorism, but the concentra
tion was on electronic equipment as well as the overall military postures
of the "friendly" countries, the official said Wednesday.
While the United States shares counterintelligence information on
Libya and other radical regimes with Israel under the strategic coopera
tion and other agreements, it withholds data on technical equipment
provided to Arab countries considered to be pro-American.
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