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U.S., Vietnam delegates talk
PARIS—Representatives of the United States and Vietnam-’
opened formal negotiations Tuesday on the establishment of
diplomatic relations between the two governments. An agree
ment is expected quickly.
The two delegations, headed by Richard Holbrooke, U S.
assistant secretary of state for Southeast Asian affairs, and
Vietnam's Deputy Foreign Minister, Phan Hien, met for three
and-a-half hours in the newly-opened Vietnamese embassy.
They will meet again today.
Missile production kept rolling
WASHINGTON—Defense Secretary Harold Brown today
ordered the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile pro
duction line kept open for two more months
The action came about two weeks before the United States
and the Soviet Union are due to resume talks aimed at breaking
a deadlock over stragegic nuclear arms limitation proposals.
Pentagon spokesman Thomas Ross said Brown s order
has "very little” connection with the SALT impasse.
Solons surveyed on dope use
SALEM—Three of 63 Oregon legislators answering a
newspaper survey said they use marijuana.
The survey by the Capital Journal of Salem quoted 16 legis
lators as saying they have used marijuana at least once. The
three who said they now use marijuana did not want their names
made public.
Six legislators said marijuana can be bought at the Capitol.
Oregon decriminalized possession of marijuana in 1973.
House passes public jobs bill
WASHINGTON—Congress completed action Tuesday on
the first of Pres. Carter s economic stimulus programs when the
House agreed to authorize a $4-billion public works jobs prog
ram.
Sponsors said at least 300,000 jobs would be created in
public works projects such as construction of hospitals, jails,
schools and roads, and predicted thousands more jobs would be
; created indirectly
The House passed the bill by a vote of 335 to 77.
End to food stamp charge OKd
WASHINGTON—The Senate Agnculture Committee Tues
day approved Pres Carter's proposal to stop charging food
stamp recipients for the aid but then added about $130 million to
his plans for revampxng the program.
| Carter has said he would veto any measure exceeding the
$118 million his approach would add to the budget in 1979 His
approach would add nothing to costs next year
The program now costs about $5.4 billion, with about 5.37
million families receiving stamps each month.
Tuna fleet to stay in port
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The
American tuna fleet, idled for
months in a dispute over the kil
ling of porpoises, ended its prep
arations to put to sea Tuesday
because of renewed feuding with
environmentalists.
The Environmental Defense
Fund said its members could not
accept the compromise worked
out by Sen. Alan Cranston,
D-Calif., which would have put
observers on all fishing boats and
allowed 157,000 porpoises to be
killed in the next 20 months.
The Environmental Defense
Fund and tuna fisherman have
been working on a compromise
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agreement that Cranston could
present to Congress to amend
the 1972 Marine Mammals Pro
tection Act, which provides a
legal basis for limiting the number
of porpoises than can be killed
Fishermen have refused to sail
since February because of the
1977 limit of 59,060 porpoise
fatalities and total ban on killing
any of the eastern spinner
species imposed by the National
Marine Fisheries Service. Por
poises, air-breathing mammals
which swim with tuna, sometimes
are caught in fishing nets and
drown.
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Energy plan goes to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — White
House energy adviser James
Schlesinger gave Pres. Carter’s
energy program a formal send-off
in Congress on Tuesday, claim
ing most Americans will be able
to absorb the higher energy
costs.
While the President’s program
might have some initial adverse
effect on the economy,
Schlesinger said, its long-run im
pact would be minimal and would
avert a future economic crisis.
“Unless we get on with the job,
we re going to have a disaster,”
i ax deduction agreed on
WASHINGTON (AP) — House
and Senate conferees agreed
Tuesday r^a new standard de
duction that would cut taxes for
an estimated 47 million persons
but boost the taxes of some 1.7
million single persons.
The spokespersons for the two
chambers are working out a
compromise version of Pres.
Carter’s economic stimulus tax
bill, passed by the House and
Senate in different forms.
With no discussion, they
ratified the decision already made
by Carter and the Senate to drop
trfe $50 tax rebate payments
which the President originally
proposed and then scrapped on
grounds the recovering economy
did not need them.
The conferees wrote into the
compromise standard deductions
— used by those who do not
itemize their charitable gifts, local
taxes and other offsets to income
— ctf $2,200 for single persons
and $3,200 for couples filing
jointly.
Treasury specialists estimated
the result would be an average
saving of $121 for 47 million tax
payers, but that 1.7 million single
persons, who now can take a
larger standard deduction, would
lose an average of $54 each. The
losers would in general be single
persons with income above
$13,750.
Debate on the deduction
touched on the quirk in present
law known as the ‘‘marriage pen
alty.’ Because of the way deduc
tions now are set up, a man and
woman with comparable incbmes
and using the standard deduc
tions pay more tax if they are
married than if they share quar
ters without legal ties.
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Schlesinger told the Senate
Energy and Natural Resources
Committee.
Committee Chairman Henry
Jackson, D-Wash., predicted
favorable action on “most of
those parts of the program which
will come to this committee.” But
he said the administration must
first provide “convincing ans
wers” to how much actual energy
would be saved by the plan and
what it will cost the economy.
Schlesinger said that while the
higher energy co^ts called for by
the legislation would be passed
on to consumers in the form of
higher prices for a variety of pro
ducts, some of this will be offset
by an expected rise in per capita
income.
He also noted some of the
higher costs would be directly re
turned to Americans through the
program’s proposed system of di
rect tax rebates and tax incen
tives.
Schlesinger urged Congress to
consider the program — which
contains 103 separate pieces of
legislation — as “a complex
whole” and not to pick it apart
piece by piece or focus only on
the most controversial aspects.
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