The House will consider the committee's action Wednesday. There are indications that even more money may be put into the bill before it is sent to the Senate.

Fighting in Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela, Jan. 21--Fighting erupted in Caracas today with the start of a general strike against the regime of President Marcos Perez Jimenez.

Reports reaching Washington said 20 persons were killed and 100 injured in street riots in Caracas, and 1,000 were arrested. They said the fighting occurred in a workers' area in an old section of the capital.

Rigid censorship in Venezuela held up direct word of the extent of the strike and accompanying violence.

The call for a general strike was issued by an underground organization calling itself the Patriotic Junta. Its appeal was aimed at forcing out perez Jimenez or at least gaining a voice in the government for the political opposition.

French Seize Arms

PARIS, Jan. 21--France today announced that it will seize any arms cargoes in Algerian waters that appear headed for rebels fighting the French army.

A Foreign Ministry spokeman made the statement at a news conference in a defense of the seizure Saturday of 150 tons of arms and munitions from the Yugoslav ship Slovenija.

In Belgrade, the semi-official news agency Yugopress declared the French government "permitted itself to make a precedent in international relations which could have far-reaching consequences.