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Page 2 News In Brief Continued from Page 1 The Marianas are negotiat ing "free association" with Washington which would give them sovereignty, but the U.S. would handle their defense, foreign affairs, and economic aid. Officially the Marianas could not become a Common wealth until the U.N. disolved the trusteeship. Sources say this dissolution could take up to two years. ARAB STATES AGREE TO SUPPLY LEBANON WITH MISSLES Arab countries agreed to give Lebanon surface-to-air missies and other weapons to strengthen its southern bor der, as well as S2B million to rebuild towns destroyed by Israeli bombings, reported Cairo after a meeting of the Arab League defense council countries. Sources in Cairo said Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Iraq, Libya and the United Arab Emirates agreed upon S2B million for damages done to villages bombed by Israeli jets. National HOUSE VOTES TO DELAY OIL IMPORT TAX President Ford's economy and energy plans were set back for the second time this week when the House voted 309 to 114 to void the oil-import-fee increase an nounced last month to drive up fuel prices and drive down consumption. Nearly one third of the House republicans voted against the President as the margin was well beyond the necessary two-thirds needed to override a veto. But, now the vote goes to the Senate where the two-thirds vote needed has been hard to come by. The danger here is that the President supporters are threatening to filibuster, and that it takes a two-thrids vote to shut off a filibuster. If the bill were to pass, it would void the $1 million increase per barrel oil tarriff that the President ordered to go into effect last Saturday. Tt would also take away the President's power to enact such increases 90 days after implementation. President's Ford's plan calls for a rise of $1 per barrel on March 1 and another $1 rise April 1. SENATE CONFIRMS LEVI The Senate voted Wednes day to confirm Edward H. Levi as the new attorney general of the U.S. The vote went without debate after an unnamed Republican senator lifted his objection to block action on Levi. Levi, the 63-year old president of the University of Chicago succeeds former Sen. William B. Saxbe. DEFENSE BUDGET IS A RECORD HIGH With the stage set for a steady upturn in military spending, the Ford Admini stration proposed a $92.8 billion defense budget for 1975. The Administration also speculated that the defense budget may hit $l4O billion by the end of the decade. HOUSE BLOCKS FOOD STAMP PRICE INCREASE FOR REMAINDER OF 1975 Against the wishes of the Ford Administration, the House voted 374 to 38 to block a proposed food stamp price hike for the remainder of the year. The bill is expected to win Senate approval later this week. HOUSE COMMITTEE BACKS BUSINESS TAX SLASH The House Ways and Means Committee approved a $3.8 billion business tax cut Thursday as well as a $8.4 billion tax cut for what it calls low and middle income persons. For businesses the key items in the tax cut include: ♦Lifting the small business relief corporate surtax exemp tion level from $25,000 to $50,000. *An increase to 10 per cent on the investment tax credit from its present 7 percent. ♦Setting a SIOO million lid on the amount that the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. can gain with the increased level of investment credit. The Committee did reject a bid for a $1 billion tax break bv such giants as Chrysler Corporation, Lockheed Air craft Corporation and Pan Am World Airwavs. IVfiaflknUan r % 1 ' i& Enrollment Up at Guilford Enrollment is up at the Main Campus and Urban Center of Guilford College for the fall and spring semesters of 1974-75 as compared with the same two semesters of last academic year. Director of Admissions John Bell said enrollment in 1974-75 was 1,630 for fall semester, an increase of 46 students over the previous fall semester, and is 1,600 for the currnt spring semester, an increase of 67 over the last spring semester. Bell noted that Guilford College has been experiencing gradual increases in enroll ment for several semesters in succession over comparable previous semesters. And Bell is optimistic about the role of "good, liberal arts colleges" in the present and future education picture. "Although state universi ties are cheaper, people are still looking for good, small liberal arts colleges," he declared. "And I'm not sure that all such schools are having a decline. "The nation has moved away from the age of technology, and people no longer are looking for an education with such a narrow scope," he said. "Technical jobs can be obsolete over night, and a liberal arts background gives students more directions in which to move." Guilford College is geared to providing the student with a strong liberal arts background as well as focusing on a professional area. Guilford offers programs in pre-dentistry, pre-law, pre med, pre-ministry and pre vcterinary medicine, he said. Cooperative programs arc engineering with Georgia Tech, forestry and environ mental science with Duke University, medical techno logy with the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, and nursing with UNC-Greens boro. Bell also pointed out that Guilford now offers a degree in the Administration of Justice in a liberal arts context. "In all those programs we can combine the practical as well as the academic through seminars and internships, and that's important," he said. Off-campus seminars in clude Seminar West, a summertime study of geology in such locales as the Tetons, Snake River and Grand Canyon, and during the school year, trips to Puerto Rico, the Carolina coast and mountains, February 11, 1975 Philadelphia, Florida, Wash ington and New York City. Studis include contempo rary styles in religion, drama, art, geology, marine science, urban studies, national gov ernment, religion, ecology and education, Bell pointed out. Guilford also offers Semi nars Abroad, an intensive study of cultures in 12 European countries, each summer, and, in cooperation with UNC-Greensboro, sum mer schools in London, Greece, Germany, Italy, France and Cali, Colombia, South America, Bell said. MuMmtombUh UvnpMairfSiMlßliMv tad> Swiy ti Mim Rww •fOmAMMaritn 9 and 11 AJtt,
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