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DETROIT FREE PRESS Thursdav. Nov. 25. '71 1VC Chances for Early Welfare Reform Are Dying in Senate Hill iSIf i A a Bill Long nance Committee appear to have the votes to strike the family-assistance plan the heart of welfare reform out of the bill or at least to water it down drastically. But the plan's backers always have asserted they can win on the floor, claiming a minimum of about 35 Demo-c a i and 20 Republican votes.

The real test, then, will be whether such a coalition can be preserved in the light of the temptations to play polities' over the issue in an election ocratic liberals and Republican moderates. Conservatives fighting the plan center their attacks on the provision which would extend aid to the working poor for the first time and thus double the welfare rolls. They also oppose the princi-ple of establishing a federally minimum a y-ment, even at the low level of $2,400. for a family of four in the Nixon bill. Democratic liberals want to boost the $2,400 payment at least to $3,000 at once and to $4,000, the poverty level for a family of four, soon.

year and with many Democratic presidential contenders in the Senate. Many Democratic liberals have made it clear they feel the Nixon welfare plan is too skimpy. Ribicoff and Sen. Fred R. Harris, have called press conferences to introduce rival plans which are much broader than the President's proposal.

The fate of the bill in the Senate apparently will be determined by whether a compromise can be worked out which will hold together Dem hold two weeks more of public hearings on the bill alter this session, then two or three weeks of executive meetings to vote on it next year. He said that under this schedule the Senate probably could start debate on it between Feb. 15 and March 1. But here again Long came up With a different version. He said the hearings probably would last a month or more and made no pledge they would be held this year.

He explained it is his hope to get the bill out of his committee by tion's welfare plan, said at once he knew of no commitment for his panel to finish its work on the bill this year. In an effort to resolve this, a meeting was arranged attended by Mansfield, Long and Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, a leader in the fight to enact welfare reform in the Senate. Afterward Ribicoff reported a commitment by Long not to delay the bill and to get It out of the Finance Committee as soon as possible.

Ribicoff said Long plans to Mansfield Ribicoff WASHINGTON AP)-Sen-ate action on welfare-reform legislation now has been put over until 1972 and there is doubt the bipartisan coalition backing it can hold together in a national election year. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield had persistently scheduled the bill for action this year, declaring that President Nixon is entitled to a vote on his top priority recommendation. The House passed it June 22. But Mansfield had to concede recently that it now is impossible for the Senate to act on the measure this year. HOWEVER, he sought to nail down early consideration of the much-disputed legislation in the 1972 session by announcing that the Finance Committee had agreed to report it out before the Senate adojurns this year.

But the Finance chairman, Sen. Russell B. Long, a bitter foe of the administra- March 1 but said he could not guarantee it. SUPPORTERS of welfare reform believe that the timing is all-important. They fear that the measure's chances may diminish next year the closer the floor debate gets to the national nominating conventions and the presidential campaign.

Conservatives in the Fi (f if ,1 ii VO WARD H' at vj ii ii i if ii ii i i 'Superstar' Banned In School feTlIPi save nooi Sfe STRIKING CONTEMPORARY 7- KWfl 3-PC. LIVING ROOM GROUP MMd BY JUDITH FRUTIG Frtt Prtu SUH WriHr The board of education in Evart, a small town near Cadillac, voted unanimously Tuesday night to ban from a ninth-grade musical production three songs from the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar." The songs are "I Don't Know How to Love and "Everything Will Be All They were to be included in a musical-ya-r i show at Evart High School. On Nov. 9, however, Evart principal Bill Wilder ordered them dropped from the show. INSTEAD, the show's adviser canceled the entire production and requested a meeting with superintendent of schools Jack Musser, who upheld Wilder's decision.

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