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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1978)
I Carter to help mid-income students WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres. Carter will announce a major program Wednesday to provide a reported $1.2 billion to college students from middle-income families because he fears a 71 percent jump in college costs has put their chances for higher edu cation in jeopardy. Hoping to stave off a move in Congress to give a $250 tax credit to the parents of all college stu dents, Carter will propose a com bination of grants and loans for the aid, said White House Press Sec retary Jody Powell. It was announced last month that Carter had set aside $700 S. African stock divestiture constitutional in Wisconsin The Wisconsin state attorney general Tuesday directed the University of Wisconsin-Madison to divest itself of stocks with firms doing business in South Africa. Atty. Gen. Bronson LaFollette ruled a state statute which effec tively prohibits the state system from investing in firms doing busi ness in South Africa is constitu tional and the system’s board of regents must now divest itself of such holdings. The Wisconsin Legislature passed a statute in 1971 prohibit ing discriminatory investments by state agencies. LaFollette said only those stocks purchased since that time need be sold. The University of Wisconsin had objected to earlier attempts at forced divestment saying the sta tute was unconstitutional because it interfered with interstate com merce and foreign relations. LaFollette found neither argu ment powerful. Citing a series of court cases supporting his view he said, ' The potential burden on in terstate commerce is so slight and the effect so speculative that it cannot be said to be clearly ex cessive in relation to the local in terest involved. ‘ Merely raising the spectre of possible interference with foreign relations is insufficient of itself to justify striking down otherwise valid state legislation, ” he added. The attorney general found Cubans assist Ethiopia in war MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Thousands of Cuban soldiers are steaming toward the Horn of Af rica aboard Soviet ships to help Ethiopia in its war against ethnic Somali rebels, diplomatic sources claimed on Tuesday. The reports said about 3,000 to 6,000 Cuban troops left their Caribbean homeland for Ethiopia sometime last week and would “triple or double” the number of Cubans said to be fighting in southeastern Ethiopia's disputed Ogaden Desert on the Somalia border. The sources said most of the Cuban troops are believed slated for a major role in Ethiopia’s long-expected counter-offensive to drive out ethnic Somali rebels who now control about 97 percent of the Ogaden and are trying to annex it to Somalia. f 'N PSYCHIC Advises on business. love & personal direction Jamil P O Box 10154 Eugene, Oregon 97401 Phone anytime: 342 2210 484 2441 V J adequate basis for the six-year old statute ruling, “the undertying state policy expressed in it is en tirely consistent with national pol icy against discrimination in em ployment and public accommoda tions.” While LaFollette said he ex pects the regents to "fully comply” with his directive, no formal action has yet been taken. Selling of the stocks would take place over a period of time un specified in state law. The “pru dent man” rule used by the state (and in Oregon) means the re gents would divest in a prudent manner to minimize any losses. A final decision on whether the regents were making adequate progress would have to be deter mined by a court. HELP STARVE A FEEDING BUREAUCRAT. Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Each year, you pay about 45% of your income to local, state and federal government in taxes Every dollar you earn from January through June goes to feed the bureaucrats And what do you get9 More taxes and more regulations Stifling regulations and taxes that drive prices up And government regulations often make more people poor The minimum wage, for example, puts young people and minorities out of work After all. would you rather be employed at $2 25 an hour, or unemployed at $2 65 an hour? We’re concerned about these problems and many others We believe that less government, not more, is the answer. Free people working together freely can accomplish more than millions of federal bureaucrats telling you what to do with your life. 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Address __ City_ State __Zip_ Occupation / School _ Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise 1601 114th S.E.. Suite 178 Bellevue. WA 98004 (206) 455-5038 L_ 12A million in contingency funds in his fiscal 1979 budget for the aid, but sources in the government and Congress said the aid package will total $1.2 billion. Nearly $1 billion will go to in crease the government’s $2.2 bill ion Basic Educational Oppor tunities Grants program, which is now targeted at low-income stu dents, the sources said. The rest will go in increased funding for the Guaranteed Student Loan pro gram and campus work-study pro grams. The package will raise the fam ily income limit from $25,000 to $40,000 for students to receive loans with the government sub sidizing the interest while they are still in school. The president and Health, Edu cation and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano Jr. will unveil the program Wednesday. Powell said the program will be targeted mostly at the middle class, but he did not specify what families Carter would include in the middle class. Most basic grants now go to students from families earning less than $10,000. The grants drop to a minimum of $50 as income and assets in crease. The cutoff point for a fam ily of four with one child in college is roughly $17,500 in income. At present, some 2.4 million students attending college next fall are expected to receive basic grants averaging just under $900 apiece. For fiscal 1979, Carter has proposed $4 billion for existing programs to help college students and has proposed raising the max imum grant from $1,600 to $1,800. He also has proposed making more students eligible.
