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An Independent •ewtinf Green, OMe Student Thursday, April 25, If74 Voice me BG news Volume 57 /Numb» 103 Nixon asks for $5.18 billion to fund foreign aid program WASHINGTON (AP) - President the President in a message requesting No funds were sought for foreign aid. a permanent settlement." Nixon asked Congress yesterday (or the aid for fiscal 1975. "Increased reconstruction in North Vietnam. Sen Robert P Griffin of Michigan, The $100 million special fund will be 95.18 billion in new foreign aid funds, foreign aid will be a vital complement Gerald L Warren, the deputy White the assistant Republican leader, said used "for new needs that may arise as including a $250 million economic boost to our diplomacy in maintaining the House press secretary, said economic the aid proposal was justified and the outlines of a peaceful settlement for Egypt and another $100 million that momentum toward a negotiated aid to Hanoi cannot be considered desirable in terms of building an take shape including provision for possibly could be used for Syria and the settlement which will serve the "until there is compliance'' with the enduring peace in the Middle East. peacekeeping forces, refugee aid or Palestine refugees. interests of both Israel and the Arab Pans Peace agreement. "So I believe it will be supported," settlement, and development "In the Middle East we have an nations." The President and Secretary of State he said. projects." opportunity to achieve a significant U.S. ASSISTANCE is no less critical Henry A Kissinger outlined the aid In asking $250 million in assistance Another $75 million was requested in breakthrough for world peace," said to South Vietnam. Cambodia and Laos package to congressional leaders in a for Egypt. Nixon said the funds would the form of development loan funds for at they try to make a difficult 90-minute breakfast meeting. After- be used "for the tasks which come with India transition from war to peace, he ward, House Speaker Carl Albert of peace "-clearing the Suez Canal, added. Oklahoma said economic aid for Egypt repairing damage in adjacent areas Stahl top speaker The Nixon request called specifically would be helpful for us, for the Middle and restoring Egyptian trade for 3907.5 million to the Middle East- East, for the Arab states-and for the The White House said no funds were Weather Israel 1350 million, Egypt $250 million. state of Israel. for military assistance. Journalism Week Jordan 3207.5 million, and 3100 million Albert added: "Of course the The $350 million for Israel is Saaay aid warmer today. Hlghi in a special requirements fund. continuance of Israel is a matter of designed. Nixon said, for Israel's la the upper its to low (•* Mostly He also sought 39398 million for national interest on our part " "continued ability to defend herself. fair tonight aad tomorrow. Lows toalght la the low 4*s. High* A talk by one of CBS-TVs top Stahl also will hold an informal Indochina in the form of $750 million for Vietnam. $110 million for SENATE DEMOCRATIC Leader THE $2$7.5 MILLION for Jordan, tomorrow la the mid aad apper Watergate reporters and an address rap session from 3:45-4:45 p.m. Ms. Chance of preclp'tatloa aear honoring the late Grove Patterson, Cambodia. $55 million for Laos, and an Mike Mansfield said he would consider Nixon said, will enable that country to Monday in the Faculty Lounge. maintain a position of moderation and zero today aad toalgh'.. former editor-in-chief of the Toledo Union for students and faculty. additional $28 million to administer the the proposal "with an open mind." He program. said he remains generally opposed to independence "which will be crucial to Blade, will kick off the fourth Grove Patterson, with an inter- annual Journalism Week, national reputation as a newspaper- Lesley Stahl. 32. is one of the man, will be honored in an address nation's top young female TV by Paul Williams Tuesday night. reporters A former assistant to New York WILLIAMS IS an associate Inflation forecast: dismal days Mayor John Lindsay, Stahl covered professor at the Ohio State Uni- the 1968 presidential campaign for versity School of Journalism, WASHINGTON (APi - Inflation in the second half of Proof that most of the forecasts are wrong and too Expressing his personal view about economic NBC-TV as a writer and reporter. teaching investigative reporting. the year will be worse than either the Nixon admini- low came when first-quarter GNP figures showed an policy, he said that he believes the federal budget has His work in that field has won him stration or private economists have predicted, the inflation rate higher than most economists have been too expansive over the past several years and the FOLLOWING the campaign, she numerous awards. government's top price controller said yesterday. forecast, he said Federal Reserve's monetary policy equally too worked for the NBC Huntley- As managing editor of the Sun John T. Dunlop, director of the Cost of Living Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary-designate William expansive. Brinkley report in London and then Newspapers in Omaha. Neb., he Council, also said he believes the inflation rate during E. Simon said at his Senate confirmation hearings WITH WAGE-PRICE controls due to expire at as a reporter and producer for headed the five-man team who the April-June quarter will be about the same as the that the decline in the GNP in the last three months midnight Tuesday, Dunlop said there is still hope that WHDH-TV in Boston wrote a series of in-depth articles 10.8 per cent surge of the January-March quarter. appeared to be just temporary, centered in auto, oil Congress will at least set up some kind of government She joined the CBS Washington on the financial operation of Boys' "Thertafter, it may go down, " he told reporters. and housing industries monitoring agency over inflation to replace the Cost Bureau in 1972 and has spent the last Town. The' series won both a But he said the nation's over-all price level will be A TAX CUT to stimulate production, he said, of Living Council. year covering the Watergate trials, Pulitzer Prize and the Sigma Delta higher than the 5 to 6 per cent increases forecast for "would be highly inflationary, it would stimulate At the same time, he said controls have done about hearings and related stories. Chi award for public service. the second half by the administration and most demand that is already excessive. Our problem today all they can do in restraining price increases, even Stahl will deliver the keynote Williams will speak at 7:30 p.m. in private economists. is one of shortages of supply, not demand. though the nation faces the worst explosion in prices address of the week at 8 p.m. the Alumni Room, Union. DUNLOP SAID he has suggested to administration He told Democratic senators favoring a tax cut that since the Korean war. Monday in the Grand Ballroom, Both lectures are free and open to economic advisors that the official inflation forecast it "might be good politics temporarily but it's lousy Dunlop said that expiration of controls on April 30 Union. At that time, the School of the public Other events during be raised. He referred to the inflation rate as economics." will not in itself lead to any large price increases, Journalism will award student Journalism Week will be announced calculated by the Gross National Product (GNP), the Dunlop, at his news conference, also opposed a tax since most of the economy has already been decontrolled. scholarships. in Tuesday's issue of the News. broadest measure of the economy. cut as inflationary. Council votes to maintain student dismissal policy By Mark Dodoih The Senate's resolution lets students For faculty on a full year's leave, Staff Reporter who otherwise are dropped "waste the "the department will require funds to spring away," said Dr. Virginia Platt, employ a visiting lecturer or instructor Academic Council unanimously professor of history. She cited the or two or more graduate assistants decided yesterday to maintain the great amount of vandalism going on in who will meet the teaching obligations current University student dismissal dormitories during the spring. created by the leave," said Dr. policy, rejecting a Faculty Senate She said spring quarter is very Herman. recommendation that no student be distracting for moat freshmen, adding, Dr. Herman added, "It may be dropped until completion of three "One cannot expect a student to necessary to postpone such leave until academic quarters. suddenly change his study habits, funds are available." Reasons for rejecting the Senate's particularly at that time." DR. CHARLES MOTT, chairman of proposal and alternatives to it were quantitative analysis and control, presented by council members. COUNSELLING students in danger expressed concern over possible in- "Three consecutive poor quarters is of academic dismissal to "encourage equalities in this program.