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Western Carolinian Volume 44 Number 18

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  • PAGE 14/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/JANUARY 25, 1979 Not certain on ERA N.C. wants feds to balance budget RALEIGH. N.C. AP—North Carolina took another step Wednesday toward joining the 22 states that have called tor a constitutional convention to write an amendment requiring Congress to balance the federal budget. Leaders in both the House and the Senate, as well as Governor Jim Hunt, have endorsed the move. University of North Carolina Law School professor Daniel Pollitt warned of the possible perils of such a convention. State of Union WASHINGTON AP—President Carter's State of the Union address shows what a difference a year makes. A year ago Carter was fighting unemployment; this year it's inflation. A year ago he was proposing tax cuts of $25 billion; this year he proposes cutting the federal deficit. His top domestic goal last year was passage of his energy legislation, much of it designed to produce higher fuel prices. Now he wants hosDital cost controls and increased competition among truckers, bus companies and railroads. The aim is to lower prices. Last year he promised to seek "substantial increases in funds for public jobs for our young people," but this year he is seeking cutbacks in summer youth employment programs to help cut the deficit. Last year Carter noted. "As 1 came into the Capitol tonight, I saw the farmers, my fellow farmers, standing outside in the snow." They were threatening to "strike" by not planting crops in protest against low prices. But virtually all of the so-called strikers eventually planted and harvested crops, and Tuesday night Carter declared, "Farm exports are setting all-time records, and farm income last year was up more than 25 percent." A year ago the Camp David summit was undreamed of. Tuesday night Carter indicated he was willing to call another one if needed to nail down a Middle East peace treaty. In last year's State of the Union speech, Carter stressed the idea of an open foreign policy: "In our foreign policy, the separation of people from government has been in the past a source of weakness. ...If we make a mistake in this administration, it will be on the side of frankness." Since then the Camp David summit was conducted in extraordinary secrecy, without which—administration officials have said repeatedly—the summit would have failed. And Carter's recognition of Peking and the severing of ties with Taiwan were sprung on the nation last month with no notice that such moves were imminent. Last year Carter made ratification of the Panama Canal treaties his No. 1 foreign policy goal in Congress and said he expected a new strategic arms agreement with the Soviets to be completed during the year. The canal treaties have long since been ratified, but Carter is still waiting for completion of the stretegic arms pact. When and if it comes, ratification will be Carter's new No. 1 foreign policy goal. COLOR PRINT PROCESSING ONE-DAY SERVICE ON COLOR PRINT FILMS (Bring film in by 1:00 p.m.) 12 Exposures $2.99 20 Exposures $4.49 24 Exposures $5.09 36 Exposures $7.19 Valley Photo Shop Cullowhee 293-5373 Application Photos 10/5.00 "There is the fear of the runaway convention," Pollitt said. "If the convention meets on budget matters, can they say abortion costs money, it's a budget matter, school busing costs money, it's a budget matter?" The Rev. W.W. Finlator, a Raleigh Baptist minister and official of the state civil liberties union, said the convention might also take up matters such as prayer in the schools, rights of gays and other emotion-packed issues. Resolutions from 34 states are required to force Congress to call such an unprecedented convention. The North Carolina resolution states that the request for a convention would be automatically rescinded if the convention took up other possible amendments. But Pollitt said, "If the convention were to run away, who's to stop it?" He urged tht the legislature call on Congress to propose the amendment itself instead of holding a convention, and said under questioning that Congress has proposed amendments in the past when calls for a convention neared the number of states needed. In other legislative action, Senator Robert Davis, D-Rowan, has kept his mouth shut about the Equal Rights Amendment so far, but he opened it Wednesday and gave encouragement to supporters. "I'm going to vote for it," Davis told the Associated Press. "It's been discussed a long time, but I've tried to keep quiet about it." Davis knows the discussion isn't over for him. "My wife is for it and my sister and mother are against it," he said. "I'm sure it'll be a subject of discussion over dinner this weekend." 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