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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1977
Budget, energy, treaty issues await Congress
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress has
mid-October as an adjournment
for the year. However, there
enough major issues awaiting
lawmakers when they return from
their August recess Wednesday to
keep them in session until January.
The most immediate need is final
adoption of a budget resolution
which sets spending limits for fiscal
year 1978 which starts Oct. 1.
A 1974 law says the resolution
must be in effect by Sept. 15.
Of greater public interest is the
Panama Canal treaty and President
Carter s major lobbying effort to get
Senate ratification. The two treaties
are to be signed Wednesday.
Sen. James Allen, D-Ala., chair-
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WASHINGTON — Wife beating
become so serious the federal
'eminent is almost tripling funds
pay for shelters, hot lines and
nseling for battered women.
'he government is taking a hand
i problem that apparently has
n widely misunderstood by
sicians, the victims’ families and
women themselves, the Law
prcement Assistance Admin.is-
ioii (LEAA) reported yesterday,
he LEAA said it is helping fi-
jce 12 programs of counseling
seven others providing shelters
[phone lines to give women ad-
The programs received $1.3 mil
lion over the past three years, a
spokesman told UPI, but “as an in
dication of more LEAA emphasis,
we are putting aside $1 million for
the next fiscal year.”
Legislation being considered by
Congress would provide $60 million
over the next three years for
emergency shelters and counseling
for victims of domestic violence.
“When we say battered wives,
we re talking about close to five mil
lion women a year who suffer in
juries at the hands of their hus
bands,” Rep. James Howard,
D-N.J., said last week.
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The new LEAA report said many
physicians fail to understand the
problem.
One woman was quoted as say
ing, “I told my gynecologist that my
husband was extremely violent and
I was mortally afraid of him. Guess
what the doctor said?I should relax
more. He prescribed tranquilizers.”
Peggy McGarry, director of a
“woman against abuse” project in
Philadelphia, said, “Almost univer
sally, doctors prescribe tranquiliz
ers. We’ve taken hundreds of tran
quilizers from women who arrive at
our shelter.”
McGarry said some well meaning
persons advise women to stay with
abusive husbands for their chil
dren’s sake.
“It’s outrageous,” she said. “You
should see what happens to the
children.”
P.J. Marschner, director of the
Center for Women Policy Studies in
Washington, believes it is important
to break a “cycle” in which some
sons of wife-beaters grow up to be
wife-beaters.
“Kids in these families are a big
problem,” she said. “The boys are
incredibly aggressive, mimicking
their fathers in the way they act
toward women.”
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open hearings on the treaties
Thursday with Ronald Reagan, a foe
of the pact, as the first witness.
Senate Democratic leader Robert
Byrd is still pondering whether to
put off the canal issue until next
year to avoid threatened filibusters
that would block work on the
House-passed energy bill, which
congressional leaders promised Car
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All but four of the 13 regular ap
propriations bills needed to keep
the government operating in the
new fiscal year have been sent to
the White House. Under the 1974
budget law, work on the remaining
four must be completed by Sept.
12.
The House must decide what to
do about the most sensitive of the
pending money measures, the $60.1
billion Labor-HEW bill with its
abortion issue. The House voted to
stand by its ban on the use of federal
funds for abortions which the Se
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to allow such funding under certain
conditions.
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has held up final action on the
$111.1 billion defense money bill.
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bomber money after Carter ordered
a halt in the production but the
House had earlier put the funds in
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aid to nations not meeting recog
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pledged to push through the House
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