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Thirty-four per cent of the individuals polled favored loosening eligibility requirements for federal student aid, while only 9 per cent favored a $250 reduction in taxes for each dependent's tuition. The tax credit plan is similar to the bill the House approved, which Carter has said he will veto if it reaches his desk...
...Block survey, 14 per cent of those polled said they supported the tax credit plan if it is limited to families with incomes under $25,000. Twenty per cent favored giving the $1.5 billion directly to colleges to help them keep tuition costs down, while 16 per cent supported none of the plans, and 7 per cent had no opinion...
...front runner, Secretary of State Paul Guzzi '64, in the race for the Democratic nomination. A poll taken about a month ago by Pat Caddell '72, President Carter's favorite pollster, showed Guzzi had three times more support than Tsongas, and that the Congressman was even 1 per cent behind the other major candidate, Boston School Committee member Kathleen Sullivan Alioto. Tsongas's own poll, taken slightly after the Caddell poll, shows him to be in second place, but still well behind Guzzi...
...favors using light water reactors, the type being built at Seabrook, N.H., because he believes the energy alternative--coal-- is worse. Even though the problem of how to dispose of the radioactive waste from such reactors has not been solved, Tsongas said using coal to replace the 30 per cent of total energy now supplied by nuclear power would be disastrous, raising the chance that it could bring about harmful climactic changes...
...report issued last week by the National Association of Private Colleges and Universities noted that the number of schools facing financial difficulties increased from 20 per cent in 1975-76, to 34 per cent...