European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Firms get Senate of on tax Cut Washington tap the Senate voted 74 to 20 thursday to retain business tax Breaks Worth billion in a tax Cut Mil designed to stimulate the president Carter had recommended deleting this provision along with the tax rebates or payments to about 200 million individual the Senate already had taken the re Bates out of the Bill but refused to eliminate the business tax Breaks despite arguments that it was inequitable to continue them while denying the rebate to the provisions authorizing the bit lion tax break Over a two year period allow businesses a Choice Between a larger credit for investment in productive equip ment or a new credit based on increased hiring trap denied in Texas fire fatal to 8 up the opera Tor of an old hotel apartment building in which at least eight persons burned to thursday challenged a police report that a window opening onto the fire escape Tad been nailed officials believe As Many As 18 persons remain buried beneath the rubble of the burned out a search for bodies was Elmo an attorney and presi of Johnson a rental said he inspected the building three Days bet orc tuesdays predawn the fire escape was Clear of debris and the window was Johnson a survivor told police he found a window to the fire escape on the top floor of the three Story building nailed shut and had to break it to escape the Johnson said he leased the Central hotel building a year ago and converted it to the Stella Maris renting from april 1977 a nibble of a doubt Ethel Harris plays wild her cats at her Home in after a judge dropped a charge that she had bitten a sheriffs Deputy when he came there to arrest her said it want possible As she didst have her false Teeth the judge dropped the charge after ruling the state had failed to prove the Deputy had a Legal right to be inside the stars and stripes Page s i 35 million on is due july 1 hike Washington a the nearly million americans who receive social Security or supplemental Security income will get a increase in benefits starting july the size of the automatic announced thursday by the department of education and reflects the Rise in the Cost of living during the 12 months that ended March larger checks will be going to Mil lion social Security recipients and Mil lion aged and disabled recipients of Federal supplemental Security income about million persons receive checks under both More each month this Means that the average retired single worker who now receives per month will get an additional each month beginning july the average elderly widow who now gets a month will get a cent in the maximum Benefit for a Man retiring this year at age 65 will go from a couple receiving a maximum supple mental Security income payments of will get a most states supplement the Federal ssi pay ments Ana must continue their supple ments at least at the same level As they did before the meatless dinner irks cattlemen Washington Lupi despite pro tests from the cattle Industry Over the bizarre the White Home thursday allowed a group accenting world hunger to serve a meatless meal to about 70 including members of we let them select the a White House spokesman said of the meal in the Roosevelt across from the Oval were not saying it should be a vegetarian the Center for science in the Public in Terest requested the combination Buffet supper at the White it is part of an Effort to focus attention on food shortages in the United states and around the Carter aides reply to soviet blast at program feel free Washington a president car lers chief spokesman responded thursday to pravda characterization of his eco nomic stimulus program As demagogic promises by saying the Carter administration has no fear of a free discussion of ideas no matter How misinformed or Ridic Ulous they might White House press Secretary Jody Powell responded to an article by news analyst Georgi Ratiani in the soviet communist party newspaper saying Carters economic program would provide Only an insignificant lax Ratiani wrote that the program would provide credits to create about jobs which will fill Only 6 per cent of the pc sent unsatisfied demand for work the writer said this meant Carter has failed to fulfil his demagogic promises to slim lain he responded we have Long maintained thai Tho Luvurt Union has the perfect right to say whatever it neither this administration nor this country has any fear of a free discussion of no matter How misinformed or ridiculous they might it is Worth pointing out that any Ameri can can say the same thing or worse of the president without fear of intimidation or harassment from the White Powell we certainly have no objections to the exercise of the right of free speech by the soviet we look Forward to the Day when the right of citizens to criticize his or her government is guaranteed everywhere in the the pravda commentary said the Carter program failed to come to grips adequately with inflation because the presi Dent did not dare to infringe the interests of big pravda added that having thanks to his demagogic 90 per cent of the negro votes and won the presi Carter has geared his economic strategy to meeting Trie interests of the big Gest which Are Well represented m his what is More important is that the president sharply increased arms spend ing this which brings nothing Good to the poor people and National but Means big gains for the biggest trusts of the military Industrial the article press Secretary Jody Powell said presi Dent Carter had no plans to attend the fun a member of the White House Public Liaison which approved the said invitations were Given to members of Congress and the senior staff at the White Barbara an official of the said the menu included Black bean Broccoli whole wheat Muf raw fresh fruit and herbs and Apple the american National cattlemen association sent a Telegram to Carter earlier in the week to object to the rather bizarre to just Analyse that verification Washington up Progress int coming easy in president Carters request that government announcements be writ ten in language everyone can this interesting communique came from the arms control and disarmament Agency announcing a Stream lining of its organization under the previous the verification and analysis Bureau had theoretical responsibility for All verification questions of interest to the arms control its separation from operational activities creates a bureaucratic Gap Between the area in Acda that handled Salt and for and the verification the verification and analysis Bureau in turn not Only included the verification division but also an operations Analy Sis division As Well As an economics Divi the verification divison was organizationally separated from other parts of the arms control Agency dealing with significant negotiations requiring the help of verification menu and told the president that by appearing to advocate a meatless diet you do damage to the meal we arc not advocating a vegetarian Gottlieb but we think a vegetarian diet is a very healthy one aspect of the she was to Point out that Grain was being led to cattle while it could be Given to people who Are the White House issued a formal slate Mcnol saying the purpose of the session is to focus attention on the problem of hunger and nutrition and stressed their was no intention of bestowing Blessing on meatless of time april 1947 in a move classified secret until the army has turned Over to the hungarian government sj3 million Worth of nazi seized Art objects and bars of High Grade april 1957 Secretary of stale John Foster Dulles bluntly told Russia that the seeks the liberation of the Cap Tive nations of Eastern Europe through an evolution to he said the pressures of Liberty Are rising within the soviet april 1967 a birthday cake dedicated to Adolf Hitler and displayed at a Farewell party Lor a departing american Soldier touched off an investigation by German police and military authorities in Lite cake bore the English inscription Happy Adolf from your is the sol Diers involved said it was a practical joke for the 77th anniversary of hitlers
