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paperworkers’ pension funds tran-
sferred from a New York bank to one
in Georgia. (Lance still owns stock in
congressional elections, he has taken
stands that outrage many of his
fellow-partisans.
But he argues that, as a matter of
principle, “drawing a budget is the
basic responsibility of the party in
power.”.,. And he concedes that
politically, the opposition tactic
allows the Republicans to dramatize
their own preference for both lower
taxes and lower spending.
By withholding their votes, the
Republicans make it harder for
Carter to sustain his own budget
policy. If the divided Democrats are
unable to muster a major ity for the
budget resolution, the Republicans
could even find themselves dictating
the terms of a compromise.
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Low salaries are particularly hard
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majority of schoolteachers
- ’ One teacher in the Denton school
district, after working hard for 25
years, has only made it up to $13,000 a
year. She said that does not go as far
as her starting salary did 25 years
ago.
Part of the problem, perhaps, is that
guarantee payment of bills, but need
not.be told of changes in fees or
patient care.
.— Many contracts absolve the
nursing home from virtually any
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By JACK ANDERSON
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON - The only person
rivaling Billy Carter as a constant
source of embarrassment to the White
House is Bert-Lanee, the president’s
ill-starred choice as his original
budget director.
Like Brother Billy, there seems to
be no one Lance won’t do business
with. While Billy Carter waltzes
around the country with cronies of
Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi,
the jolly Georgia banker has been
thick as thieves with the Saudi
Arabians in various financial deals.
Recent revelations that Lance,
when chief executive officer of the
National Bank of Georgia, gave
price of gas delivered to the
United States. It also has a great
deal to do with the United States
eventually breaking the hold of
OPEC producers, as well as
providing partial solutions to the
problem of Mexican workers
flooding across the U.S. border.
"I am not advocating that the
United States buy Mexican gas at
any price,” said Kennedy. "But I
believe it is a mistake to take a
hard-line position at this time and
for these reasons.”
The two senators are arming
their arguments with a recent
analysis prepared for the Joint
Economic and Foreign Relations
Committee which indicates that
without Mexican gas exports to
the United States, Mexico would
be forced to reduce its crude oil
production by 1983.
That reduction would hamper
Mexico’s economic recovery and
cut the possiblity for the United
States to obtain a non-OPEC
By JANIE LEIGH FRANK
Staff Writer
Teacher unions in Texas are
probably light years away, and
Penton’s schoolteachers will not be in
the vanguard leading the way when
they do come.
But, plagued by countless
frustrations, many teachers in Denton ‘
are already in favor of collective
bargaining.
Talk of salaries and teachers’ rights
touches sensitivenerves. Teachers
find it increasingly hard to make ends
meet. Low salaries are particularly
hard on male teachers who must have
second and third jobs if they wish to
raise a family. The low pay is also
hard'on single women who are just
trying to support themselves. Many
teachers are leaving the profession in
search of better-paying jobs, as did
the teacher who quit to become a
cashier at Safeway.
Gerald Kline, one of those trying
to raise a family and teach at the
same time, works as a mechanic after
_ school and helps put up chain-link
—fences on weekends. Mike Harrison, a
*xyoung teacher who says his idealism
about public education is beginning to
fade, sells real estate and boards
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By WALTER R. MEARS
AP Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) - It is hardly
a battle cry, but with the New
Foundation, President Carter is
staking claim to the territory he
always has sought as politician and as
president — the middle.
The successful centrist usually is
short on drama, but long on votes.
And the program Carter has just
presented to Congress is no less a
political than an economic and
legislative blueprint.
The themes set now will carry.
Carter into the 1980 presidential
campaign. Indeed, his hold-the-line,
$582 billion federal budget covers
federal spending for all but the final
month of the 1980 campaign period.
Conservatives say it is too much
money, liberals complain at the cuts,
and Carter winds up in the middle.
The White House is wagering that is
where the voters are.
In national defense, Carter proposes
to press for a strategic arms
limitation treaty with the Soviet
Union, insisting he will not sign any
deal that does not guarantee U.S.
security. Such assurances not-
withstanding, SALT dismays the
right.
At the same time, he wants to in-
crease defense spending by 3 percent
while whittling down the budget for
some social programs dear to the
Democrats. ~
Carter also is positioned between
the two Democrats who loom as his
most likely challengers, if challengers
there be for the party’s 1980
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took off or his quick trip to • see it, includes more than just the
Mexico City, he probably did little
banking business from a union boss
who was on the verge of indictment
for embezzling union funds —and who
had retained two Atlanta attorneys to
use their supposed influence at the
White House and the Justice
Department to help him. His case was
too hot to handle that way, however,
and all the president’s friends were
able to achieve was a five-month
delay in the indictment.
The union boss is former paper-
workers president Joseph Tonelli, one
of the first major labor leaders to
back Jimmy Carter for president.
Finally indicted last July, Tonelli
pleaded guilty to embezzlement and
obstruction of justice.
Just six weeks before Tonelli ‘s
would undoubtedly have come to light. embarrassih
And the suggestion that Carter ministration.
for the low pay, but more and more
teachers are not accepting that. They
would like something more sub-
stantial.
Teachers in Denton start at $8,500 a
year, not much more than the
government’s official poverty level.
Through a complicated salary
structure, raises are granted
periodically after so many years of
experience. Degrees in addition to the
required bachelor’s also add to the
salary raises.
But after 18 years of experience, no
public education has not always been
regarded as a profession, one that
should command respect and at least
decent salaries, if not salaries com-
parable to private sector professions.
This is amazing considering the
responsibilities of teachers. We en-
trust these people with the futures of
our children. They teach the basic
skills people use for the rest of their
lives. They provide the foundations
for the people who become doctors,
lawyers, scientists, politicians — the
people responsible for running our
country and economy.
Most teachers are capable ofsuc-
ceeding in other professions, meaning
they are in public education, in spite
more of these automatic promotional of the low pay, by choice. They don’t
raises are forthcoming. While other . have to teach, and they bristle when
professions provide continuous op- they hear the phrase, “Those who can,
portunities for advancement, the do; those who can’t, teach." It is
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more than bolster his reputation
as a man of action.
The actual development of
trade between the United States,
any of the states, and Mexico is
really a matter of national
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sideration at the White House homes a bad name have been detailed
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By DAVID 8. BRODER
Syndicated Columnist
WASHINGTON — So far, almost all
the debate about the direction of
domestic policy outlined by President
Carter in his Budget and State of the
Union messages has been among the
. Democrats. But it would be a mistake
to think that the Republicans will have
no hand in the ultimate resolution of
the nation’s economic policy.
History suggests otherwise In 1977,
it was the Republicans in the House
and Senate who first voiced the oppo-
sition to Carter’s $50-rebate plan that
eventually led to its withdrawal. In
1978, it was Republican pressure for
deeper cuts- in individual and cor-
porate taxes that led to the basic
reshaping of Carter’s tax plans.
So it may be again this year.
There are two moves developing
among congressional Republicans
which could make life very difficult
for those in the administration who
have the responsibility of steering
Carter’s fiscal plan into law.
First, the Republicans are eager to
upset Carter’s plan to postpone any
new tax cuts until 1980, when he could
take an election-year initiative that
would surely win the voters’ approval.
There is enough nervousness about
a "tax revolt” among the jittery
junior Democrats who dominate the
House of Representatives that a GOP-
sponsored tax cut this year could once
again pre-empt Carter’s plan.
Inflation is pushing millions of
taxpayers into higher brackets, giving
force to the new version of the GOP
Kemp-Roth proposal for 10 percent
across-the-board rate reductions in
each of the next three years.
Payroll tax rates are scheduled to
increase in both 1980 and 1981 for
Social Security, and many Democrats
would probably join the GOP in
arguing against Carter’s injunction on
any rollback this year in those
scheduled increases.
Second, the serious intra-party
Democratic split on domestic spen-
ding priorities offers the Republicans
a chance for gamesmanship on the
budget, which they are not likely to
resist. The key vote on the budget will
come in May, when the Senate and
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of
Massachusetts, who wants action now
on the national health insurance
Carter would put off until the 1980s,
has complained of domestic spending
curbs in the new budget.
"It is a myth that we must choose
between compassion and com-
petence,” Carter countered in his
State of the Union address Tuesday
night. ,
Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. of
California, already exploring a I960
presidential bid, said Carter painted
an overly optimistic picture of the
nation’s economic future. Brown is
betting conservative with his call for a
constitutional amenment to limit
future federal spending.
Carter says that will not work, and
his message to Congress dismissed
"simplistic or extreme solutions” to
economic ailments. >
In the rhetoric of his New Foun-
dation message, Carter said it is myth
to argue that the nation must choose
between such poles as inflation and
recession at home, confrontation and
capitulation abroad.
There are middle- grounds that
avoid those extremes, he said.
That view, on programs and on
politics, puts Carter in a relatively
conservative position for a
Democratic president. But he never
posed as a liberal. In 1976, when
Republicans started describing him
as a big spending liberal; Carter was
quick to remind people that during his
campaign for presidential nom-
ination, a good many Democrats said
he was too conservative.
On one previous occasion, union by the Federal Trade Commission,
funds did wind up in the National Such as these:
Bank of Georgia. In February 1976, — Many homes won’t itemize a
supply of crude oil.
It would also serve to increase
the migration problem.
"Over the long run,” Kennedy
said, "only a Mexican govern-
ment which is sound and a
Mexican. society which is
prosperous and peaceful will
settle the migration issue.”
That’s what President Carter
will be working on in a couple of
' weeks when he makes an iden-
tical trek.
But thanks to the en-
couragement of a couple of U.S.
senators, Carter may be more
eager to deal with the Mexican
government than he normally
would have been.
Senators Edward Kennedy and
Frank Church have challenged
the president’s hard-line ap-
proach on oil relations with
Mexico and urged the ad-
ministration to break the current
deadlock in gas price talks that
has kept both sides in the dark for
more than a year now.
The administration, par-
ticularly Energy Secretary
James Schlesinger, has said that
Mexico is asking too high a price
for its gas.
Kennedy and Church, rightfully
so, declare that Carter and his
advisers are looking at the
situtation in too narrow a per-
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House must approve a congressional
budget resolution, specifying a
spending ceiling and dividing the
available funds among defense and
the major domestic programs.
Rep. Barber B. Conable Jr. (R-
N.Y.), the most influential
Republican strategist on fiscal issues,
says the Inclination among House
Republicans at this point is to
withhold their votes from the budget
resolution and thereby force Carter
"to deal with the liberals in his own
party.”
In past years, when House
Republicans have followed the same
strategy, Democrats have been hard-
horses in his spare time. Typical
second jobs among the men teachers
are selling insurance and real estate,
and second jobs are common.*-
Dianna Alagood, president of the
Denton Classroom Teachers
Association, puts it this way: a
teacher must have someone else or
some other job to be able to "support
the teaching habit.”
Another teacher said about other
professions, “I don’t care what it is,
you’re going to get paid more." Those
who had planned to commit their lives
to public education are having second
thoughts.
“A pat on the back doesn’t make it
at the grocery store,” said one. Those
pats were supposed to help make up
pressed to muster the 218 votes - Conable is not rigidly partisan on all
needed for/ passage, solely on their • issues. Indeed, in some instances, like
own side of the aisle. In 1977, they his support of public financing of
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Fund set up an $18 million trust ac- for “laundry,” "therapy” and,
count in Lance’s bank. The fund was vaguest of all, “miscellaneous."
under federal investigation at the — Patients are often billed for
time, and the Teamsters evidently felt essentials that should be part of the
it might be worthwhile-to do business basic fee, like soap, bed bars, crut-
with a good friend of the man who ches and aspirin.
might become president. — Patients usually have no choice in
Although, as we have emphasized, purchasing drugs; many suppliers
there is no evidence to show that the are owned by the nursing home
efforts to use Carter cronies to in- proprietor, and charge more.
probably because Tonelli was by then fluence the president ever amounted
under such dose scrutiny by federal to anything, the fact that such at-
actually failed on the first budget
resolution and had to rewrite it hastily
to save the situation.
It will be tougher this year, because
there are 11 fewer Democrats in the
House (277 instead of 288), and the
stringency of the Carter budget has
caused greater rifts within the
majority party.
The Conable strategy has its critics,
particularly among Senate
Republicans, who have chosen to take
a bipartisan approach to the
congressional budget process. They
believe their approach gives them
greater influence in shaping the
congressional budget.
preferential interest rates—te-the- indictment, tance phoned Tonelli
Carter family’s peanut business also about the possibility of doing some
besmirched the president’s hoped-for business with-the union boss, reliable
- "Mr. Clean image. sources told our associate Gary Cohn
Now we have uncovered evidence Tonelli later speculated that Lance
that Lance may have tried to wangle may have wanted millions in
Mexican gas issue
goes beyond price
When Texas Gov. Bill Clements The situation, as the senators
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