August 3, 1977

NY Times/CBS News Poll finds that Amer people are deeply antagonistic to concept of public welfare yet strongly support what welfare programs do; responses suggest that public might oppose some facets of Pres Carter's welfare reform plan, which has not yet been fully detailed; finds 58% disapprove of most govt-sponsored welfare programs and 54% agree with statement that ‘most people who receive money from welfare could get along without it if they tried’; finds that about only people approving of welfare are blacks; entirely different answer pattern emerged when word welfare was dropped from questions; for example, 81% endorse Govt's ‘providing financial assistance for children raised in low-income homes where 1 parent is missing’; 81% favor Govt ‘helping poor people buy food for their families at cheaper prices’; 82% approve using taxes to ‘pay for health care for poor people’; graphs (M)

Carter reform pks faces stiff opposition from Repr Al Ullman, chmn of HR Ways and Means Com, with whom he meets on Aug 2; Ullman reptdly objects to way proposal would treat working poor and has suggested to Carter that unveiling be postponed until differences can be worked out; Carter reptdly may agree if Long, Sen Finance Com chmn, concurs; Carter, Ullman and Califano illus (M)

Sen, 58-39, rejects proposal for public financing of Sen election campaigns, handing Pres Carter another major setback for his pkg of election-law changes; majority leader Sen Robert Byrd, who had been predicting gradual gains in votes to cut off debate, votes to drop financing provisions; sharpest opposition comes from nearly solid Repub bloc led by Sen Howard Baker Jr (M)

Abp Makarios dies on Aug 3 at age 63; Cabinet mins called to Abp's palace; Govt announces that assembly leader Spyros Kyprianou will be acting head of state until next pres elections in Feb '78 (S)

Pres Carter proposes to discourage drug abuse in US, including excessive use of alcohol and tobacco (S)