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.
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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.
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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.