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Stateside protests Force health officials i i f i Orner in Inow nov Tanto revoke welfare Cut order named after Bishop Tutu Corne new have Washington a stung by a political juror the Reagan administration on Friday swiftly rescinded an order reducing welfare benefits for elderly Blind and disabled people receiving hot meals blankets shelter and other free Aid from charitable groups. Otis r. Bowen Secretary of health and human serv ices announced that the order would be revoked immediately Wilh the expectation that Congress would soon approve Long term legislation Banning such cuts in welfare benefits. It was never our intention that these most fragile of americans be harmed by this lapse in the legislative process and none will be Bowen said. The administration acted a few hours after disclosure of the social Security administration s order in Friday s editions of the new York times. The report prompted protests from congressional democrats and republicans that the order was an absolute outrage and terminal  this is 9 metaphor for the entire Way the administration has dealt with the poor for the last seven  said rep. Thomas j. Downey . This administration is on its Way out and Good riddance but what a Way to go said sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan . Rep. Marge Roukema a no who wrote president Reagan a letter of protest said she had assurances from Joseph a Wright jr., the Deputy director of the office of management and budget that the benefits Cut would be overruled. Shortly afterwards Bowen said he had withdrawn the directive that had been issued last month by the social Security administration. Health and human services oversees the social Security administration. The Short lived order which look effect on oct. 1 but was never publicly announced applied to the Esti mated 4.3 million elderly Blind and disabled Ameri cans who receive monthly government checks under the supplemental Security income program. Most of them have Hole or no other income and Many Are unable to provide for themselves. The order required that non Cash assistance from churches and other private non profit charitable organizations be assessed at its Market value counted As income and deducted Dollar for Dollar from ssi payments. Maximum Federal benefits under the ssi program Are $340 a month for individuals and �510 monthly for couples. According to one estimate the new social Security policy would have resulted in monthly welfare benefits cuts by As much As 1113 for individuals and $170 for couples. In determining eligibility for ssi payments the government before the order was issued disregarded such in kind assistance As hot meals served at soup kitchens or gifts of groceries donated fuel Oil and firewood fans portable Heaters blankets storm doors and temporary shelter for the homeless in Church basements. The Law which had exempted this charitable assist Ance since May 1983, expired last sept. 30, but Moynihan and Downey said Congress had made Clear its intention to extend the exemption soon. Legislation to accomplish this was approved late thursday by the House ways and Means committee and on Friday by the Senate finance committee. Early floor action was expected in both Chambers. Despite repeated Telephone Calls. Social Security officials could not be reached for comment Moynihan complained that he was Unak to Tele phone social Security commissioner Dorcas Hardy who he said was hiding in Rural Vermont. Chuck Kline a Bowen spokesman said the social Security order was perplexing because the Reagan administration s proposed fiscal 1988 budget contained a request for permanent Extension of the exemption for non Cash Assisi acc to the disabled. We were on the Side of the Angels and now we be come up looking like the Grinch who stole  Kline  of social Security s Bhart lived rules change Drew a fast reaction from sen. I aul Simon of Illinois a candidate for the 1988 democratic presiden tial nomination. As the hand of private Charity Gius. Iho hand of an insensitive government takes away Simon said. And they do it just As Winter Mars. This country needs a government that cares. We need a change in  Moynihan said to reporter Hij the action was a deliberate attempt to circumvent congressional intent. New Haven Conn. A a downtown inter Section has been officially named for anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa to protest a local devel oper s refusal to cancel a trip to inc racially divided country. Signs have been erected marking the Comer of col lege and Chapel streets near Yale University As Bishop Tutu Corner. The intersection is near the office of Joel Schiavone. Who helped develop the area into the City s entertain ment District. When he comes into work every Day of every week he will have to pass that sign to remind him that he took that  said Frank a. Carano president of the new Haven labor Council and co chairman of the free South Africa coalition. Explosives loaded truck has faulty brakes hitch Gunnison Colo. A a truck trailer bound from Utah to Virginia Wilh 5.000 pounds of . Army explosives was found to have no brakes and a faulty hitch when stopped for a random safety inspection police say. The trailer owned by Knox trucking of grand Prai Rie Texas also had a tire rubbing against its Frame said Gunnison police chief Tom Yates. The trailer hitch would be broken before very Long or the trailer would be caught fire yaws said. The safely defects were detected at a checkpoint along . 50 at Sapinoro 18 Miles West of Gunnison while the truck was in route from Toote Utah to Yorktown a. The truck was Nii d for an overweight Load when it entered Colorado earlier wednesday hut it did not receive a safely inspection Hirn said Phil Vas flue port of a nary division  f in Denver. Knox trucking will be cited for an overweight Load and Safcik Mola icons Vasqucz said