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Officials favor arm sales
From the Kansan's Wire Servi-
WASHINGTON-The nation's leading diplomatic and official officials told Congress yesterday that the pending sale of Israel to Saudi, Saudi Arabia and Egypt would enhance Israel's security, not imperil it.
From the Kansan's Wire Services
imperial secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, defense secretary Harold Brown and Air Force Gen. David Jones, acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the proposal a step toward peace in the Middle East and "vital important" to *u.S.* interests there.
The trio, testifying before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, opened the Carter administration's formal defense of the war plane sales. President Carter wants to sell 60 F-15 jetfights to Saudi Arabia, 75 F-16s and 15 F-19s to Israel and 50 less sophisticated F-4Es to Egypt
Saud Arabia. But Baker also said that Congress might not go along with the deal unless the Carter administration compromised on the number
MEANWHILE, SENATE Minority Leader Howard H. Baker, R-Tenn., said he approved of the most controversial element of the sales plan—the sale of the F-15 to
Tourists flock to palace after coup in Afghanistan
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From the Kansas's Wire Services KABUL, Afghanistan—The revolution that littered webs with bodies, rubble and the hulks of burned-out tanks has become a tourist attraction in this old caravan city of bazaars and minarets.
Where rebel and loyalist soldiers fought to the death just seven days ago, colorful tones of ordinary Afghanis shuffle into the presidential palace for a glimpse of what happened from which President Mohammad Musharraf ruled the country for five years.
THE CURIOUS thousands file past troops of the Communist-led Revolutionary Council, which last week deposed Dawd and killed him, his family and many of his supporters and past the charred remains of armored vehicles, now festooned with
garlands of flowers, erie reminders of the two days of death and destruction.
and mix of the planes, delivery dates and restrictions on their use.
AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES said as many as 10,300 persons might have been killed in casualty toll could now be independently reported that 200 were killed reported originally.
Under parliamentary procedures, Congress has 30 days to disapprove of an arms sale sent to Capitol Hill by the president. If Congress fails to act by May 28 on the current proposal, the deal will go through. The only way Congress can stop the sales is by passing resolutions of disapproval in both the House and Senate.
WHILE VANCE, Brown and Jones were defending the sales plan, several members of the Senate committee expressed concern that Israel security interests.
One day earlier, 22 of the 37 members of the House International Relations Committee had introduced a resolution to kill the entire sales deal.
Variance, nonetheless, characterize the ad-ministration theory that the sales women
"These sales will maintain essential links that permit us to play the fundamental role in achieving our goals."
Later yesterday, Vance flew to Mexico for a three-day official visit and consultations on bilateral and Western Hemisphere issues.
TYRE, Lebanon (AP)—Two French soldiers, a Sengalee soldier and a Palestinian were killed yesterday in a series of clashes between Moslem extremists and
4 killed in Middle East clash
A French army spokesman said, "I have never seen a battle so confused like it. There was shooting everywhere and everyone was shooting at everyone."
in New York, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution yesterday deploring attacks on U.N. forces in Lebanon and demanding respect for the peacekeepers.
The council also approved a request by Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim to increase the army from 30,000 to 60,000. In approving the additional manpower, the council called on Israel to complete its withdrawal from southern Lebanon without any further restrictions.
The U.N. force of French, Sengalee, Iranian, Nepalese, Swedish and Norwegian troops was sent in to supervise withdrawal of Israeli troops that invaded southern Lebanon during the war class after 38 Israelis were killed in a strike by Palestinian terrorists near Tel Aviv.
Israel said it made the invasion to sweep guerrilla forces from its northern flank.
Carter favors solar energy push
GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) - President Jimmy Carter marked the "Sun Day" yesterday by proposing increased funding to promote and develop a new national solar strategy.
Western trp, Carter visited a nine-month solar research facility in Goldau.
Before arriving, however Carter sprang a surprise announcement to reporters while on his way from Washington to Denver on Thursday, the team repeated the announcement in his speech.
Defense spending left untouched
CARTER SAID he had instructed the
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The House yesterday rejected attempts to either increase or decrease defense spending in a proposed $50 billion 1979 federal budget.
Barring further changes, it left standing the House Budget Committee's proposed figure of $4 billion in 1979 defense budget and that $2 billion actually would be spent in subsequent years.
The defense figure is $1 billion less than President Jimmy Carter proposed and $2.4 billion less than the Senate recently approved.
SENATEBIT THEN IT voted down 313-98 a proposal by
First the House rejected 2821424 an amendment proposed by Rep. Straiton, D-N.Y., to bring the amount up to the Senate figure.
Rep. Parren Mitchell, D-Md., to drill $4.8 billion from defense to domestic programs.
House leaders had feared that if either of the proposals had passed the overall budget might fail to win a majority and have to be sent back to committee to be rewritten. That
Stratton and other advocates of a higher defense figure warned that the Soviet Union had been building up its forces and noted that Carter promised NATO that the United States would increase its defenses 3 percent above the inflation level.
said security lay more in reducing unemployment and improving its social programs military hardwired
Earlier the House rejected 203-197 an proposal by Rep. Marjorie Holt, R-Md., to reduce the overall figure of $500 billion to $360 billion and 138 Republicans voted for Holt's proposal.
The proposal which was left standing provides only 2 percent real defense growth. THOSE URGING less defense spending argued it could be accomplished by removing fat from military programs without hurting national security. They also
The Senate recently approved a $499 billion budget for fiscal year 1979 which
When approved by both houses, the budget will guide Congress in passing specific bills this summer. Then it will be revised in September.
Figures within the budget on how much should be spent for different purposes are only recommendations, not binding on Congress.
Downpour floods New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS (UP)—Two persons were killed and thousands were stranded yesterday in flood waters spawned by a storm that broke through Day 9* with a storm of rain in five hours.
in some areas of the city. One-third of the police force also was kept on overtime.
Telephone in the central business district were out of service for several hours and New Orleans Public Service Inc. said, she the city's buses and streetcars quit running.
One man was electrocuted when he touched a street sign while standing in knee-deep water and police said a body was found. The Mississippi River from New Orleans.
gov. Edwin Edwards, acting on a request by newly installed Mayor Ernest Morial, placed the National Guard on alert to cope with flood waters that rose as high as 5 feet
"The streetcars are sitting there and people are driving their cars on the streetcar tracks to get through the water." Lymn Pendgrens, a business executive, said that the city's district said, "I talked to a guy out there who said his car is almost under water."
New Orleans if 6 feet below sea level and the sudden downpour overtaxed dozens of pumping stations used to keep floodwaters outside the 40 miles of levee ringing the city.
"They say it will take them three or four hours to catch up even after the rain stops," a New Orleans police spokesman said. "We have cars stranded all over the city and our tow wagons are working crazy to get them out."
A tornado watch was in effect most of the afternoon for rural areas north of New Orleans, but the heaviest rainfall appeared to be concentrated in the city.
Speculation for state post begins
TOPEKA (AP) -Speculation over who would be the next secretary of state for Kansas began immediately yesterday after Elwill M. Shanahan, announced she was resigning from office effective May 10 after 12 years of service.
Gov. Robert F. Bennett is likely to announce her successor before May 10, a spokesman for the governor said late yesterday.
Shanahan, a Republican, made the sur-
prist announcement after increasing speculation that she might step down before coming to terms with the company.
The timing of the resignation was im portant because it would give a potential Republican successor a jump for the office and would in part reinforce position in the November general election.
Bennett, a Republic himself, would be expected to appoint a fellow party member
Possible court test seen for restaurant liquor law
This would be about one month before the November election, when the Legislature intended county voters to go to the polls to decide whether to authorize consumption of liquor in restaurants. The authorization would be on a county-by-county basis.
MARTIN SAID the decision to test the new law said out of a Monday meeting between him, Attorney General Curt Schneider, William Schutte, the assistant attorney general who normally represents the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control,
TOPEKA (AP)—Attorneys for the state will both attack and defend the controversial new law authorizing the serving of unlawful inmates, a move authored by the attorney general's office.
It was envisioned that the attorney general's office would file suit against the defendant.
John Martin, first assistant attorney general, said Tuesday that it was possible that the case could be before the Kansas Court, with a decision the following month.
Schneider's office would argue that the new law is unconstitutional because it violates the Kansas Constitution's prohibition against the "open saloon."
The new law was enacted by the Legislature April 6. Gov Robert F. Bennett allowed the bill to become law without his signature, and the courts should decide the constitutional issue.
Under the new law, restaurants that can maintain at least 50 percent of their gross sales from food would be allowed to serve liquor with the meal.
In the past, he was considered the most likely Republican candidate for secretary of state, but now he is an independent.
It is speculated that Jack Brier, assistant secretary of state, would apply soon for the position.
SHOULD A COURT test come about, lawyers for the Department of Revenue
probably would represent the ABC and defend the new law, Martin said.
Brier said yesterday he was considering seeking the Republican nomination for governor.
Shanahan said the governor received her written resignation yesterday morning.
Shanahan said she would give serious consideration to endorsing Bier as her
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Department of Energy to shift $100 million to proposed spending in the next fiscal year from unspecified areas into solar, wind, hydroelectric and so-called "renewable energy" projects.
As originally drafted, the president's speech mentioned no precise figures on new spending goals for renewable energy projects.
Carter had noted in the prepared text, however, that his proposed spending for fiscal 1979 contained a 64 percent increase in money for development of solar power.
IN HIS SPEECH Carter announced he was ordering a new Cabinet-level study to develop solar strategy and raised solar energy potential counterweight to rising oil prices.
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FRENCH U.N. forces in southern Lebanon strengthened their positions yesterday after the fighting, which began with Israeli extremists ambushed a French natrol.
Twelve French soldiers were wounded in the fighting Tuesday night, and the spokesman, Capt. Jean Menegau, said 'manv zummen' were killed.
Menegeaux said the two-hour battle was the worst since the U.N. Security Council
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Among the wounded was Jean Germain Salvan, the 56-year-old commander of the 1,238 man French force, the largest and best fighter in the war. His insurgenting men, he will be replaced by Dominique Viard, Salvan's deputy commander at a military base in France, a French army spokesman said.
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"The Nguba Connection," at 8 p.m. on channels 11 and 19, is a documentary about the people of peanut farming in Georgia and Senegal, in west Africa. While peanut farmers in Georgia prosper, these people are often like eke out a living.
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John Wayne, Kirk Douglass and Hardy Keel star in a 1967 western, meanwhile, on channel, War of the World. The plot to hold up an armorplaced stage filled with gold dust. The movie is broadcast at 1:20 a.m. on the Channel 4.
Cavett's guest at 10 p.m. on channel 19
Gabriel Kapian is guest host on "Johnson Carson," at 10:30 p.m. on channels 4 and 27. *Crosby and Seidel Mondes and Brasil* 77 are also available.
Bob Barker, Jack Barry and Allen Lunden are guests on "The Tomorrow Show," at 12 midnight on channels 4 and 27.
Joan Rivers is guest hostess on *Mini Gritts*, meantime on channel One. Her show is based on her career Eric Jong (who wrote "How to Save Your Own Life") are also