Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC March 1976 Daily Egyptian 1976 3-27-1976 The aiD ly Egyptian, March 27, 1976 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_March1976 Volume 57, Issue 125 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, March 27, 1976." (Mar 1976). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1976 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in March 1976 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. (jus ~ 'Bode ", ,, ' L'~ ( , ~ March '17, 197t-Vol. 57, No. 125 Gus sa 5 how many more ~1urdaY , inois University-- administrators will $114 million buy? - . SIU asks for $114 million appr prlatlon• • By Ray Urcbel is for SlU'{;. said William I. Hemann, Revenue Funds. SlU'{; would provide $9 the legislature to' get the $95 million DaUy Egyptian' Staff Writer financial affairs officer for the SlU million in income from tuition, Hemann request. • A $114 million appropriation request &ard of Trustees. said. for fISCal year 1971-which does not About $75.3 million of the SIU.{; Brown said, "We're putting in a bill The statewide IBHE recommen­ that Furman said he would fight Cor . include a tuition increase-will be sent request is to cover operational costs, dations called for a tuition increase at to the D1inois Legislature for the two Hemann said. The remainder will be I'm with them (the IBHE). BrOwn said state-5Upported institutions and for a he is in (be process oC deciding who will SIU campuses and the School of spent for awards and grants and for $95 million increase over the 1976 Medicine. • capital improvements, he said. The sponsor the bill in the Senate, although General Revenue Fund appropriation. he expects the bill to be introduced by James Brown, general secretary of IBHE approved a $70.8 million Wednesday. ' the SIU system, said Friday that the recommendation for SIU.{; at its However. Gov. Daniel Walker, who appropriation bill , which equals January meeting in Chicago. The - o'p~ a tuition increase, granted the Hemann said that althoUSh Walter previous funding recommendations by remaining $5 million consists of fIXed IBHE a $42 million increase in Gen~al has given the IBRE authority to the Dlinois Board of Higher Education agreements funded by the legislature, Revenue Funds during his budget allocate the additional $42 million in message to the Illinois General (lBHE ), calls for an increase in ~~~n:i~~~tirement ben~ts and tuition' General Revenue Funds', the rBHE has General Revenue Funds rather than Assembly March 3. not yet disbursed the funds between tiution hike. The appropriation bill requests that James Furman, executive director of community colleges and four-year A total of $75.8 million of the request $66 million be obtained from General the mHE, has said that he will fight in institutions. Thompson outlines -plan to reform Ethics Act By Bob Springer spend . on specific pieces of legislation / Dally Egyptian Staff Writer and individual lawmakers, 1'hompson said. He also favors registration of Republican gubernatorial candid~te employers of lobbyists. James R. Thompson threw a small Thompson said his position paper, dinner party for the media Thursday entitled "Ethics in Government." was night in which he served up what he neither an anti-Walker nor an anti- I called " tough and wide-sweeping" Howlett document. reforms to the Illinois Governmental One of the paper's provisions bars Ethics Act. state office holders from holding outside Thompson faces the Democratic jobs--a not issue in the Democratic candidate Secretary of State Michael J . gubernatorial primary battle which Howlett, in the general election Nov. 2. HQwlett won over Gov . Daniel Walker Thompson, 39, delivered a 17-page nearly two weeks ago. I position paper pro~osing fo' stiffer The man who gained notoriety by regulations to outhne economic busting crooked politicians as U.S. diS'e!osure, conflicts-of-interest and Attorney for the northern Illinois lobbyist actions at a news conference at district, Thompson said he "supposes" the Carbondale Ramada Inn. his Nov . 2 opponent would support the The stop here was the last of eight moonlighting restriction based on hops the former federal prosecutor Howlett's public statements that his made during a one-day blitz of the state. outside consulting position for a private Calling for the formation o( a seven- steel firm during 15 years in public office member board of ethics with power to "probably was a mistake." subpoena documents, initiate in- Thompson said he would put his vestigations and impose criminal proposals the General Assembly sancftons, Thompson criticized the ,in the form ofI. ab ill someli!ne during the present law as weak, vague and without ·Iawmakers' summer sessIOn. legal teeth. He said he has no specific sponsor for The bulk of Thompson's 10-point the bill yet, but will be consulting with reform plan deals with broadening the Republican leaders in the House and basis for mandatory public disclosure of Senate in the coming weeks. public officials' wealth and barring state In a qualifier to expansion of current employes from participating in potential .Iaw, Thompson said disclosure conflict-of-interest situatiOl'lS. I regulations should be "limired to public The paper also hits hard at lobbyists, officials who have policy making whose influence, Thompson said, has power." grown "tbrouah the ingratiating process He said some state employes, such as of informIng legislators." teachers or state troopers, who make The Lobbyists Registration Act of 1969 more than $20,000 annually- Ole present should be expanded to require not only level - which triggers mandatory James Thcmpson addresses media representatives at a news registration of lobbyists, but also outline disclosure-should be exe~pt from the conference Thursday evening at the Carbondale Ramada 1nn. (Staff bow much money individual lobbyists law if their positions do not entail photo by Carl Wagner) and the organizations they represent significant policy decisions. KissingeT ~ays Cuban situation not critical . WASHINGTON (AP)-8ecretary of proposed $65 million sale of six C-130 Soviet intervention," Kissinger said . reports that the Unired States has sent a State Henry A. Kissinger s aid Friday cargo planes to Egypt does not mean the He was reminded of the possibibity m~e to North Vietnam saying it is that II review of actions the P-&!ntagon Unired States inteDds to become Egypt's that some black nations in southern prepared in princi1>le ''t9 normalize­ might take against Cuba does n~ mean principal arms supplier. 6 Africa or sooe black nationalist groups relations with HanoI." a crisis is at hand or that a military As for Africa, Kissinger said it is in the might invite Cuban-80viet help to speed Kissinger 4s scheduled to travel to strike is planned. national interest to make sure that U.S. transition to majority rule m such a Africa in about four weeks and he said Kissinger said the review is intended 'commitment. to black majority rule in country as Rhodesia. be will probably use his visit to Zambia to ~ve weight to the warning that the southern Africa " is not perceived to Kissmger said those involved "have a m southern Africa to make a ' com­ UDlted States will not tolerate the result from military action by any real choice to make. If they want our prehensive statement of U.S. pollcy renewed use of Cuban and Soviet power outside power.': active support they ' cannot toward the region. to intervene with armed force in Kissinger said it is American policy simultaneously threaten us with extra­ southern Africa or anywhere else in the not to tolerate such military intervention continental power," he said. He said be will make a Statement while doing nothing to perpetuate the The secr.etary said the Unired States about U.S. policy toward the entire wQl'ld. African contmeat in another nation in "It is a general p'~autionary review white minority regime in Rhodesia. , supports early _resumption of and not a crisis sltuation."·Kissinger Critics in Congress have said this twin negotiations between the Rhodesian .Africa. ~ said. " We are~a~ !Ffing to call the goal is contradictory and will be im­ goverment and representatives-01 black On Thursday, William Greener. of­ attention of tHe~ Uruon and of Cuba possible to .achieve. nationalist gr oups with the goal of ficial spokesman for the ~rtment of to the serio\ls consequences of con­ Kissinger said these .two " unac­ assuring both majority rule and Defense, said the Joint CllIef! of StaH tem~ted action." ceptable choices" can be prevented protection of the rilJh..ts of the white- are taIring part in a review by the / Kissinger res~ded to questions at a from arising. r:- minority. National Securijy"'"CouncU of ''possibJe bearing in . whIch .be told the Senate ' " pur policy wm tie to promote After his appearance be~re the actions that might be taken against Foreign RellWons Committe that a majority rule and to prevent.CUban and Senate co~itt~ , Kissinger confIrmed Cuba." • , u.s. recognizes niilitary junta rule in Argentin~ BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP)- m\lllicipal governments. The United States recognized However, the junta said officers Soviet lingugt fired for defending Salcharov Argentina's new military junta Friday. appointed to public jobs would not be The junta designated the army paid the corresponding salary. In past MOSCOW (AP)-Igor A. Melchuk s&d Friday that, as he had expected, he ~ . ~mmanderl Gen. Jorge Videla, as .. military governments, some officers lost his job because of a letter he wrote to the New York Times defending Nobel p~t o.