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Monday, April 10, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Bomb delay bothers W. Germany
BONN, West Germany (AP) — President Jimmy Carter's decision to defer the production of the neutron bomb spotlights West Germany's predicament in dealing with a weapon many military planes see as a threat to its defence against a Soviet-bomb invasion.
West Germany would be the first battleground in a Soviet-led armored blitz, most military strategists agree. Germany wants the neutron bomb to counter Communist military superiority, including Part 3's to a numerical advantage in tanks.
However, domestic political considerations forced the government to muffle its support, U.S. officials said the lukewarm official reaction to the neutron bomb in Western Europe was one reason Carter decided to delay production.
NO U.S. ally in Europe publicly called for production, and the parliaments of Norway and the Netherlands condemned the weapon.
Sources in Bonn said Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, a former defense minister, thought the prospect of the neutron weapon still could be used to squeeze concessions
from Moscow in the U.S.-Soviet talks in Vienna on reduction of forces in Europe.
But powerful members of Schmidt's Social Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Free Democrats, fear that the weapon will derail East-West arms trade. The war against destructive effects, could make nuclear war on the European battlefield more possible.
Schmidt's political opponents in the Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union support production and deployment of the bomb.
Pittsburgh produces VWs
PITTSBURGH (AP)--Volkswagen, which brought its funny-looking little car to the United States when the U.S. automakers motto was "Think Big," begins U.S. production today after a construction blitz that turned a mere shell into a working auto plant in less than a year.
The first of Volkswagen's U.S. produced Rabbit models is scheduled to roll off the assembly line at the almost completed Stanton plant 35 miles southeast of Pitto.
About 1,200 employees have been riveting, welding and stocking parts at the Westmoreland County facility for five years. The company is producing Red Rabbit need to be installed, and the car is expected
to be sent to the Volkswagen Museum in Walsburg, Germany.
HOWEVER, THE remaining 200,000 cars Volkswagen will produce in Pittsburgh annually will go to dealer showrooms as of the German company's push against challenges from Japanese and U.S. small cars.
The company did not locate in Pittsburgh by accident. There was competition for the plant by several areas that hoped it could be used in automobile companies in once-busy industrial industries.
the multimillion-dollar loan and tax abatement plan that brought Volkswagen to Pittsburgh was a complex arrangement that involves the state, the county, the
Chrysler Corp. two townships and two school districts.
About 4,500 persons are expected to work at the plan when it reaches full production capacity and is expected to reach a million. About 90 percent of the jobs are to be filled by persons who live in a $3-mile radius of the plant, and back-up development staff, and 1,000 miles of secondary roads in 17 counties.
Volkswagen hopes that the plant's production will help return the company to a dominant position in the American marketplace.
In 1971 Volkswagen's share of the U.S. market was 6 percent; it sold 570,000 cars. In 1972 the company's new car sales increased to 280,000 units, only 2 percent of the market.
Somali rebels attempt overthrow
NAIRIOB, Kenya (AP) -Young officers influenced by what the Russians call the new imperialists-Cubans and Russians—tried to overthrow the government of Somali leader Hussein Barre yesterday but were quickly crushed by loyal soldiers, Saad Barre announced.
The attempt came one month after Somalia's defeat in the Ogaden war against Ethiopian troops backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Odipomatic observers had predicted that Somali soldiers, influenced not by the new imperialists but embattered by the retreat, might strike out at Siad Barre.
Western diplomatic sources contacted by telephone in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, said gunfire broke out about 8:15 a.m. at the village of Afigoy, eight miles south of Mogadishu, on Saturday hours. The sources said small weapons fire and explosions were heard in the capital.
oceans. the government news agency in nearby Sudan said a number of Somali leaders were killed but did not say whether they were rebel or government supporters.
SIAD BARRE later announced on official radio, monitored in Kenya, that a few rebel officers and enlisted men were defeated by government soldiers. He said the insurgents were captured and would be tried according to Somali law.
No official casualty report was given, but the sources said there were indications of
Kansan jobs open
By early afternoon, the diplomatic sources said, pedestrian movement and traffic were back to normal in Mogadishu. The police were to patrol the streets with civilian police.
over since Somalia withdrew its troops from the Ogaden desert of eastern Ethiopia, diplomatic sources in Mogadishu have been warning of a possible coup attempt against the government of Said Barre, who himself took power in a 1989 military coup.
Applications are being taken for the positions of Kansan editor and business manager for the summer and fall semesters.
The Kansan Board will interview applicants next week.
Applications are available in 105 Fint Flight; the Student Senate office, 105B Kansas Unit; the dean of women's Office, 230 Strong Hall; and the dean of women's Office, 230 Strong Hall. Applications must be turned in by 9 p.m. Friday to 105 Fint.
KANSAN On Campus
Events
**TODAY:** The winning entries in the 11th annual K.U. PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST are on display today through April 23 in the Kansas University Gallery. Bill Sebley from Oklahoma State University presents a PHYSICIST EXPERIMENTAL LUMIUM lecture, "The Role of Defects in Device Research," at 4:30 p.m. in 332 Malto Hall.
TONIGHT: THE DISCUSSION CLUB meets at 6 in the English Room of the Union. ROBERT ENGAGASS, faculty curator of Baroque Art, lectures on "Rome Art Treasures" at 8 in the Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium. A COLLEGIUM MUSICIUM at is 8 in Spooner Hall. T.S. SAMMER and his husband, England, presents an English lecture, "The Old Life of Oxford in the 1930s: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and others," at 8 in the Jayhawk Room of the Union. RUIZ RAMON from Purdue University presents a Spanish lecture, "Methodological Principles for Reading Classical Spanish Theater," in Spanish at 8 in the University professor of chemistry, will lecture on "The Neurophysiology of the Brain and its Relation to Dreaming"; at 7:30 in the United Ministries Building.
TOMORROW: Ed Shauessy, drummer for "The Tonight Show," will conduct a PERSCULSION CLINIC all day in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall. The MALETTO will be at 3 p.m. on the southwest lawn of Malott Hall. THE STUDENT SENATE will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the UNIOT. RIGHT NIGHT for Maggie's renaissance: A Festival of the Arts will begin at 7 p.m. in Hashinger Hall. SUA will begin at 7 p.m. in Bass Hall. PARLOR B of the Union. The Science Fiction Club will meet at 7 p.m. in Parlor B of the Union. Any interested in dance is invited to attend the TAU SIGMA meeting at 7 p.m. in Robinson Gymnastica's Dance Studio. THE INTERNATIONAL CLUB will meet at 8 p.m. in the AEROHAWK FLYING CLUB will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union. HILELLE will meet at 8 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union. THE ECOLOGY CLUB will have its first meeting at 8 p.m. in the Union's Regional Room: SPHO Berkeley, will give an architecture lecture, "The Seat of Saint Peter: The Medievalization of Rome," at 8:30 p.m. in 139 Wescoe Hall.
CSU CHAIRMAN Franz Josef Strauss, also a former defense minister, said Saturday that failure to build the weapon led to the neutralization of Western Europe.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Harold Brown said that the neutron bomb would be a useful addition to the country's nuclear weapons but that its absence would not be critical.
Brown also said Carter's decision to delay production of the neutron bomb should force the Soviet Union to make arms concessions in return.
However, Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, yesterday called Carter's decision a political maneuver to allow continued development of the bomb.
The newspaper said Carter was defying mass protests and was continuing preparation for deployment of the weapon "under the camouflage of words."
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