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Last week the Congress also:

> Passed, by a 287-to-113 House vote, a $1.2 billion, fiveyear, bricks-and-mortar higher education bill to help the nation's 700 public and 1,300 private and church-connected colleges and universities build badly needed classrooms, libraries and laboratories. Different versions of the same measure were approved last year on the floors of both the Senate and the House, but got involved in a bitter House-Senate conference battle. While the conference committee changes were being considered in the House, the powerful National Education Association wired every Congressman, warning that the measure imperiled "America's traditional concept of separation of church and state." That killed the bill for the year. But this year the N.E.A. dropped its opposition, even lobbied for the bill. Prospects for Senate approval of this year's House version are considered hopeful.

> Approved, by a 47-44 Senate vote, a bill creating a National Service Corns --more popularly called the Domestic Peace Corps. The bill, which faces a dubious future in the House, authorizes expenditures of $5,000,000 during the current fiscal year and $10 million the next year. The initial enrollment is set at 1,000, with corps men and women to be paid $75 a month and furnished minimal housing, travel and living expenses.

> Voted, in the House Commerce Committee, to cut the President's proposed mental illness and retardation program by more than 70%, from $848 million to $238 million. The measure now goes to the House floor.

> Cleared, in the House Rules Committee, the $4.1 billion foreign aid bill (down $400 million from the Administration's original request) for debate beginning this week.

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