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...cuts it wanted. The final amount was only $3.5 billion more than that approved by the House. But the Senate conferees, notably at the stubborn insistence of Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, succeeded in including the credit on new homes, the $50 Social Security payment and the retention, at least temporarily, of oil depletion for smaller companies. None of those items were in the House bill...
Economist Murray Weidenbaum, a Republican, urges Congress to cut taxes quickly in order to stimulate demand and employment. "The Ways and Means proposal for a $100 to $200 rebate is peanuts," he says. "It's not enough to enable anybody to put a down payment on a big-ticket item. There was nothing wrong with Ford's idea for rebates of up to $1,000." Weidenbaum also recommends that the Government speed the flow of federal contracts: "Order today what is supposed to be ordered next month." Like Bunting, he is afraid that if Congress waits too long...
Gray Area. The $25,000 or $50,000 question remains: Is checkbook journalism justifiable? CBS Public Affairs Vice President Robert Chandler defends payment for material that is a "memoir" rather than "hard news." Since the '50s, he points out, CBS has paid former Presidents Eisenhower and Johnson, Authors Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Walter Lippmann and convicted Watergate Conspirator G. Gordon Liddy to "reminisce" about the past. Argues Chandler, CBS is "paying for memoirs that are the electronic equivalent of a long magazine piece-or a marathon Play boy interview...
Residents of the MIT-owned Eastgate and Westgate apartments in Cambridge are continuing a partial rent strike because of MIT's demand for payment of a rent increase...
...late fees are not paid and accounts not brought up to date, registration cards are withheld from students until outstanding balances are paid he said, adding that if tenants continue to withhold payment of the rent increase the may be barred from registering for the summer or fall term...