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DAILY NEWS, SATURDAY, NQVFMBFT? 1B77 Warns 'Fuel' 6 "SPG D)ii6' 8 By JEROME CAHILL Washington (News Bureau) Rep. Thomas L. Ashley (D-Ohio) warned yesterday that many House members will vote against an energy tax bill this year if House and Senate conferees try to rebate higher oil and gas taxes to the industry as production "incentives." Ashley, chairman of a special House committee on energy, told reporters that there was no way the House could which are earmarked for further exploration, he said. Ashleys comments came as House and Senate conferees, after two weeks of desultory sparring, prepared to buckle down next week to all-day, uninterrupted meetings 1 to work out acompro-mise in the five-part package of tax and conservation measures. The House approved: $50 billion in higher oil and gas taxes through, 1985 in its energy bill, more or less as President Carter proposed.

But the Senate approved only the special tax breaks and authorized its conferees to insist on additional incentives for the oil and gas industry as the price of accepting the higher taxes in the House bill. But many house members would oppose such a "plowback" as "a further swipe at the consumers' Ashley said. He added that it would be "very hard, very difficult" to win House approval of a tax bill that included industry plowbacks but no consumer rebates. The Ohio Democrat disclosed that he has urged President Carter, through Energy Secretary James P. Schlesinger, to make a strong defense of the House-passed energy bill a part of his address to the nation Tuesday night.

nine votes. Wed lose certainly 80 votes There wouldnt be a chance of a conference report being Ashley said the "consumer-oriented congressmen who help push Carters energy tax hikes through the House did so with the understanding that the proceeds would be rebated to consumers. "They are opposed philosophically and politically to a tax, the proceeds of except an energy package without wholesale revisions of the Senate-passed tax bill, which dispendes $42 billion in special credits or incentives without the major taxeraxes sought by President Carter. "Were we to. accede to the Senate tax bill, there wouldnt be a Ashley said.

"We wouldnt lose weoght or Profile of Disconfent rote Smmg By JOSEPH VOLZ Washington (News Bureau) -The Senate voted 59 to 28 yesterday to lift the limit on earnings for Social Security recipients when they reach the age of 70, starting in 1982. The measure, which means that per ment which also provides for a $4,500 earnings ceiling in 1978 and a $6,000 ceiling in 1979 came as the Senate continued work on abill to raise Social Security taxes substantially for 100 million American workers and even more so for their employers to finance the pension program for the next 75 years. The House approved a Social Securi- sons 70 and older would be permitted to earn unlimited wages and still collect full Social Security benefits, was sponsored by Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) as a compromise of a much more sweeping proposal by Sen. Barry Goldwater (Ariz.) to lift the earnings limit at age 65.

Under current law, Social Security recipients may earn only $3,000 annually between ages 65 and 72 or they start losing benefits. Those 72 and older have no limit. Under the limit, a recipient loses $1 in benefits for every $2 earned above $3,000. The decision on the Church amend- j0' sav Salisbury police officer maintains calm and fixed post outside Marimba House as 3,000 blacks demonstrate for majority rule. British Commissioner-designate Field Marshal Lord Carver is staying at Marimba House for talks.

Senate Bends on Funding in Abort Row Sen. Frank By FRANK VAN RIPER Washington (News Bureau) The Senate, bowing again in a test Sen. Barry Goldwater Church of wills with the House on abortion, agreed last night to continue funding for two major federal agencies, whose fate had been tied to when and how poor women would be allowed to receive federally funded incest. The House, which recessed today without awaiting the Senate action, has already approved a resolution permitting abortions only where the mother's life was endangered. The House-Senate deadlock on abortion has been going on for weeks.

Yesterday, with the help of House Appropriations Committee Chairman George H. Mahon the Senate capitulated on a number of abortion-related matters and dropped language it had previously approved that would have permitted poor women to receive federally funded abortions if having a child subjected them to serious mental or physical damage. But the House, despite Mahon's intercession, rebuffed the Senate Thursday night. It then reiterated its insistence on stringent abortion curbs by recessing yesterday afternoon before the Senate even took up the Labor-HEW continuing resolution that contained the more liberal abortion language. The effect of the Senate Appropriations Committee action was to threaten to cut off the paychecks to 275,000 federal workers in the two departments unless the House went along with the Senate version of the continuing abortions.

In approving by voice vote a continuing resolution to continue funding for the Departments of Labor and Health Education and Welfare, the Senate, in effect, agreed to set aside the abortion issue for three weeks until the House returns from a three-week recess. Sen. Edward Brooke who had fought orthemo re liberal abortion language, agreed at the last mu-nute not to tie such language to the continuing resolution. He warned that this was the last time the Senate would go along with such a delay, and that he hoped a compromise could be reached by month's end. "I hope the women in the country-uwill let their representatives in the House know how they feel in the meantime," Brooke said.

Brooke favors language that would allow poor women to recieve federally funded abortions if they were faced with either death or a "severe and long-lasting physical health damage," or if the pregnancy was the result of rape or ty tax bill last week which, like Gold-water's defeated amendment, would lift the earnings ceiling for all those 65 or over in 1982. Goldwater argued yesterday that it was "not morally right for the federal government to say we are not going to pay you your money unless you meet certain criteria." But Church contended that the Gold-water plan would add more than $2 billion a year to the already debt-ridden Social Security System, while his (Church's) plan would add only about $400 million. The Carter administration strongly opposes lifting the limit as too costly, but it now seems assured that a House-Senate conference committee wil have to do some lifting of the limit, though probably not as much as the House wants. The Senate also offered a tax break yesterday to state and local governments and non-profit organizations. Under an amendment sposored by Se.

John Danforth the percentage of tax increase that participating state and local governments and non-profit organizations would pay for their employes on Social Security would be limited over the next 10 years to a total of 197. Otherwise, unde the Senate's tax plan, the sum total of tax increase would amount to 227. Gas Station Ban Lifted Tokyo (UPI) The ministry of International Trade and Industry said yesterday that it has lifted a ban on the opening of new gas stations. The ban had been in effect since the Arab oil embargo oM973v" hj. i Israel to Free Greek Prelate Jerusalem Israel plans to release Archbishop Hilarion Capucci of the Greek Catholic Church from prison tomorrow.

He has served three years of a 12-year sentence for running guns to Arab guerrillas. Government sources said yesterday that the prelate will be deported to Italy under terms of a commutation signed by President Ephraim Katzir after Pope Paul sent a letter requesting Capucci's release on humanitarian grounds. A government official said Katzir had replied affirmatively to the Pope's request. Capucci's release was reported to be conditional on his leaving the region and not engaging in anti-Israel activities. The 55-year-old prelate, convicted of running arms and ammunition from Lebanon to Palestinian guerrillas in Israel, headed the list of prisoners whom Arab guerrillas several times attempted to swap for hostages.

Capucci was expected to be welcomed by representatives of Pope Paul when he arrives in Rome tomorrow. Israel radio said that, after a stay of two or three months in a Rome hospital, Capucci, whose health deteriorated following his imprisonment, will be assigned a church post in South Sees Suicide Cult In Micronesia Sydney, Australia (AP) A survey indicates that natives of American-administered Pacific Trust Territory islands are commiting suicide at a rate well above that of the United States and that self-destruction may have become the basis for a cult among young men. The survey, conducted by the Rev. Francis X. Hezel and published in the official bulletin of the South Pacific Commission, said that many young men in Micronesia are wearing T-shirts with nooses painted on the back.

The survey showed tha at least 23 and possibly 30 Micronesian islanders aged 18 to 26 killed themselves by hanging in 1975-76. All but two were males. The Rev. Hezel said that one possible reason for the suicides is a breakdown in social and family traditions, perhaps stemming from dependence on government to provide many necessities otlifevM jjv.