Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1977-06-10
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Friday June 10, 1977 Vol. 110, No.5 Iowa City's © 1977, Student Publications, Inc. 10 cents Morning newspaper '1 House weakens energy plan I WASHINGTON (UPI) - House f89 rebate. for example. A 1985 model the shambles ~e Carter program was in : fail to get a certain fuel mileage. Amid committees Thursday killed or weakened rated at 38.5 would get a $493 rebate. "I have a feeling that what Is left would charges by Rep. Bill Frenzel. R·Minn .• several key ~rts of President Carter's Carter proposed to return the gasoline not be enough to be meaningful. The fuel that idea is "fairly absurd... totally energy plan. eliminating his proposal to tax in the fonn of income tax rebates at efficient car rebate has been shot down. unworkable" and unfair. Mlkva with hike gasoline taxes and abbreviating his the end of the year. Opponents said that The guzzler tax has been watered down drew his idea. "gas guzzler" car tax. combination would not save appreciable substantially. There are not enough Carter's original gas-guzzler proposal It was the first major congressional amounts of fuel. which is the main Idea of carrots and not enough sticks." l08t 23-14 vote. but the committee then test on the energy taxes Carter proposed. the Carter program. Mikva tried unsuccessfully to persuade passed a compromise far short of his and he l08t Beveral rounds. Rep. Abner Mikva, D-Ill .• summarized the committee to tax existing cars that goals. Most of the action was in the House Ways and Means Committee which: - Killed a proposal to hike gasoline taxes a nickel each year gasoline con State medicaid penalty stands swnption failed to meet conservation goals. The vote was 'll to 10. It also By GREG SMITH Doderer agreed with Rep. Tom Harkin. next few days and inspects the 10 homes rejected 2S to 11 a compromise, one-time. and R. STUART TARR D-Iowa , that the state administration is that were missed. threecent tax for 1978. Staff Writers at fault. Small said. "If the feds persist in going - Decided on a 24-13 vote to implement Harkin accused Gov. Ray Wednesday through with this, I imagine that the state Carter's idea for taxing gas guzzling If the f3.1 million penalty levied of "sIip.ehod management" for failing to would have to make up the lost funds." cars. but put off the effective date for a against the Iowa medicaid program by ensure the review of all the nursing He aiso said the funds will be restored if No gatflcrashing year and weakened the tax on 1979 the federal Health. Education and homes in Iowa. the 10 homes are inspected. models and in later years. Welfare department (HEW) stands. the Harkin also commented that the state "If we can't solve this problem. I don't Australlau Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, rigbt, cbats with Maj. Gen. Ziaur - Killed the rebate Carter proposed effect on the area's medicaid recipients would have to subsidize the medicaid know how we can solve more difficult Rahman of Bangladesb in London Wednesday as they attend the opening session of tile giving to buyers of cars which get good and elderly could be serious. ad payments if the federal money is ones." Small said. Commonwealth Summit Conference, representing one-quarter of all the people in the gas mileage. The vote was 31 to 5. ministrators at local nursing and care withheld. Although HEW secretary Joseph world. The conference opened with the antics of Uganda'. President Idl Amln over At about the same time. the energy facilities said Thursday. Ray responded by saying that Harkin Califano imposed the penalties. he is shadowing warnings of racial conflict in other pans of Africa. Unwanted by fellow subcommittee of the House Commerce The penalty was levied against the was joining the federal bureaucracy to urging Congress to loosen the members of tile Commonwealth at the week-long talks, Amln threatened to rush tbe Committee voted to reject the program for not meeting the requirements and to restore the money conference site. penalize the state, and that It appeared Presldent's proposal for a new lid on requirements mandated by HEW. Iowa that Harkin had decided to run the state that he has not yet taken away . natural gas prices. The committee and 19 other states have falled to do legislature. HEW is sensitive to charges that it is decided 12 to 10 to substitute a proposal adequate reviews of the medicaid Doderer called the governor's response not enforcing Its rules. It was recently Amin returns home; by Rep. Robert Krueger, D-Tex., phasing recipients and ,142 million of federal "juvenile political". She accused Ray of criticized by the General Accounting out controls on natural gas prices as a fundi may be lost to those states' dragging his feet and of trying to protect Office for not imposing penalties. spur to added production. programs. the executive department. She agreed Some state officials believe that hide 'and seek a hoax Carter proposed allowing newly However, several Iowa officials have with Harkin that the state would have to Califano may be trying to pressure produced gas to reach ,1.75 per thousand said that the state will ~upplement the supplement the federal funds if the Congress to change the law by creating a NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) - Uganda's to Britain to reopen its embassy in' Kam cubic feet. Krueg~r would immediately funds if the f3.~ million is lost. penalty is Imposed. strong protest to the penalties in the President ldi Amln Thursday ended his pala, warned that anyone who bought lift the current federal ceiling of '1.43 for As of Thursday. the State Department Doderer said she believes the funds new onshore gas and gradually phase out game of International hide-and-seek with British goods did so "at their own risk" of Social Services in Des Moines had not will be restored If the state gets out in the See MEDICAID, pale two. the British Commonwealth, admitting It and said he was going on a honeymoon. controls on new offshore gas. which is received a formal note from HEW on was all a hoax to disguise what he said The bizarre mystery of Amin's most of current new-gas production. what Iowa will have to do to meet the was a secret meeting with Mrican whereabouts began three days ago when The Ways and Means Committee. requirements to have the funds restored. revolutionaries. Uganda Radio announced that the un which handled major tax components of The penalty was apparently assessed Radio Uganda also announced that an predictable dictator was en route to the President's energy program. reject because the state failed to inspect 10 of unnamed Briton had been arrested on London to gate-crash the Commonwealth ed Carter's plea that his package be left the 410 nursing homes in Iowa . spying charges dUring Amln's absence Conference from which he had been intact. Penny Bjornstad. director of State and "will be executed by firing squad if excluded. Chairman All Ullman. [).Ore .• said the Social Services, in Des Moines, said found guilty." He was reported aboard a borrowed compromise was a reasonable way to "Until we are officially notified. we can The report Increased fears that AmIn. military jet flying over Dublin, Brussels encourage Americans to buy more fuel only speculate what will have to be done. who barred 300 Britons from leaving and Paris and later was reported to have efficient cars, without "disruptions and "Right now. knowing only what I have Uganda on Wednesday. might follow stopped in a "friendly African country" unemployment" through higher taxe$ read in the papers, we will have to come through on his threat to do "something to plan his arrival in London. and possibly lower car sales generally. into compliance with total review of all serious" against the Britons. The radio Earlier Thursday. the radio said that Rep. Otis Pike. D-N.Y., said, "I don't recipients of medicaid. We will learn also accused other unnamed Britons of AmIn actually had arrived in London and think we are getting anywhere. We about any other Infractions as soon as we "subversive activities." coupled that news with the warning he should be biting bullets and we are are officially notified." The Radio broadcast a series of vague would do "something serious" against gwnming marshmallows." State Sen. Minnette Doderer. D-Iowa warnings in which AmIn thanked France the Britons in Uganda unless the &-foot.... Carter's proposed rebate was killed 31 City, and State Rep. Art Small. D-Iowa for helping him carry out his hoax. told 250-pound dictator was carried shoulder to 5. He would have given the buyer of a City. both think that the funds will be France to stop helping Britain. appealed high through the streets of London. 1978 model rated at 20 miles a gallon an restored if the 10 homes are inspected. Med facul~y quittings cause uneasiness Tho o.iIy ~John o.nIdc Jr. By TOM MAPP mo~ resignations from the department. "It is difficult for .those who are in the physicians and 42 to 43 residents. he said. 'Indian images I Staff Writer Eckstein acknowledged that the middle to put a finger on the trouble," With decreases in the two departments number of resignations from Denbesten said. When there are a concern was voiced as to how much Jo Keeling. a c:urator of the "lJIdlan Images" exhibit now OD display at the Black A recent rash of resignations from the anesthesiology is unusual, but he couldn't nwnber of resigna tions it is difficult to service may be provided to surgery Hawk mini-park , Is shown here with "Yellow Sbawl," by Willard Midgette.