Tuesday, February 28,1978
University Daily Kansan
Canal amendments defeated
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Panama Canal treaties survived a crucial test yesterday when the Senate killed an amendment that would have been included in the Canal Treaty. It was placed in the Canal 30 years after the waterway is turned over to the Panamanians.
The amendment, which provided the first test of strength on a substantive issue since the debate on the treaties began, was tabled by a vote of 55-34.
vote of 383-4
The Senate also rejected 58-26 an amending saying that the English-language version of the treaties would take precedence over the Spanish-language version if there were any disagreement between the two.
SEN. ORRIN Hatch, R-Ultah, sponsor of the language amendment, argued there were 200-300 "amnigusties and difficulties" between the English and Spanish versions of
the treaty.
Paul Sarbanes, D-Md., said State department language experts went over the English and Spanish versions and the two texts were brought into harmony.
texts work in their earlier development, Sen. Robert T. Stafford, R-I, announced he would support the treaty if it contained an amendment that incorporated an understanding between President Carter and pianician leader Omar Torriones on U.S. rights in the Canal Zone after the waterway is turned over to Panama.
Busing costs left to local districts
From the Kansan's Wire Services
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court, denying an appeal from the state of Kentucky, said in effect that the federal government did not have to pay the costs of court-ordered busing to achieve racially desegregated public schools.
The justice rejected without comment an appeal by Kentucky Gov. Julian M. Carroll seeking permission to ask for federal help in paying for busing in the Louisville area, one of hundreds of school districts across the nation carrying out court-ordered busing.
The court's action bars, at least for now, any hope other state and local school districts may have had to get such federal help.
A racial desegregation plan in effect since 1975 for schools in Louisville and surrounding Jefferson County has made necessary the daily busing of about 23,000 students.
"The DRAIN on state and local funds is real and devastating," Carroll's appeal said.
The governor had challenged the constitutionality of three federal laws
prohibiting federal funding of busing for desegregation.
In urging the court to turn down Kentucky's argument, the Carter administration argued that the foil would have no obligation help define depreciation costs.
deprison, other action, the Supreme Court let a rule that陪审 all 16- and 17-year-old males convicted as adults in Oklahoma during 1941-72 were entitled to a review because most girls their age received more lenient treatment.
lefthand branch.
The appeal was an offshoot of a decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nullifying a 1969 Oklahoma law allowing males of those ages to be tried as adults while females the same age were, for the most part, prosecuted under juvenile laws.
The circuit court initially decided that the ruling should not be retroactive. But in 1975, the panel decided basic fairness required overturning all convictions of males 18 and 17 between 1969 and 1992. Then it told upwardly back to 1941 had the same discriminatory effect against males and made its ruling effective for the entire 32-year period.
Saccharin products backed in new study
WASHINGTON (AP)—If you saccharin keeps a person from gaining weight, the long-term cancer risk from the artificial sweetener is far less than the increased health risks caused by excess weight, according to a statistical analysis.
OCHEN CAUTIONED that his statistical conclusions were based upon the limited sacchir-bladder cancer risk data now available and that the results could change as continuing studies provide more information.
"The conclusion also depends upon the extent to which saccharin helps prevent tooth decay."
Bernard L. Cohen, a University of Pittsburgh physicist specializing in risk assessment, said yesterday that preliminary data indicated that the benefits of drinking a saccharin-sweetened diet soft drink exceeded the risk, if the drink prevented a person from taking just one additional calorie.
"If you have a diet drink instead of a piece of pie, then there is a benefit," he said. "If you use a diet drink as an excuse to eat the pie, then you lose the benefit."
IN A REPORT in the current issue of Science magazine, Cohen concludes that drinking a diet soda daily during an entire life-time cuts life expectancy by nine seconds per 12-cuence serving. This compares with a decreased life expectance of 12 minutes for every cigarette smoked, he added.
Cohen said health statistics indicated that a 45-year-old man approximately 10 percent overweight had a decreased life expectancy when compared to a 35-year-old man with excess weight is increased risk of heart
U.S. negotiates commodity loan with Egyptians
CAIRO (UPI)—The United States has agreed to provide Egypt with $250 million to finance the import of essential commodities and oil, for the year, the American embassy said yesterday.
The loan agreement, an embassy statement said, was signed by Egyptian Economy Minister Hamed El-Sayeh and U.S. Ambassador Hermann F. Ellts.
American assistance to Egypt this year will amount to nearly $1 billion. The statement said the program would aid the program and aid program undertaken by the American government.
The majority of the loan is repayable over 40 years with a 10-year grace period and bears an annual interest rate of 2 percent during the grace period and 3 percent after.
It brought the total value of U.S. assistance for priority imports of equipment and spare parts to upgrade the Egyptian economy to $1.15 billion since 1975, the
Of this total, $650-million worth of commodities and related services have already been purchased under the program and are either in Egypt or on the way.
and blood vessel disease, stroke, high blood pressures and such diseases, as diabetes.
COHEN CALCULATED that drinking a diet beverage, which usually contained less than one calorie, was approximately equal to drinking a diet beverage in calorie by a person 10 percent overweight.
"A nondiet drink contains about 100 calories, so if all other things were unchanged, the substitution of diet for nondiet drinks would increase life expectancy by 100 times more than the cancer risk reduced it." Cohen said in the study.
LARGE DOSES of saccharin have been shown to cause bladder cancer in male rats. A Canadian study of 632 human bladder cancer cases also found that saccharin caused bladder cancer in males. Cohen based his human risk figures on this study.
LACTUAL WEEK treat opponents failed in a procedure maneuver aimed at reversing the order in which the Senate took up the treaties. By a 67-30 vote the Senate refused to consider a pact aimed at ensuring the neutrality of the Canal Zone ahead of the agreement providing for the United States to relinquish the waterway to Panama.
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Sen. James B. Allen, D-Ala., chief sponsor of the amendment, had argued that authority to keep troops in the Canal Zone would be reduced if security reasons he said. He said the treaty's security provisions, including the requirement for withdrawn all troops by the year 2000, would give us the right to use the means to defend and waterway.
YOUNGSTOWN, Fla. (AP)—The deadly chlorine gas that escaped Sunday from a ruptured railway car and brought quick but tortured deaths to eight persons headed toward another small town where all 260 residents from their homes.
Officials said the residents of Fountain, about 20 miles north of Youngstown in the Florida Panhandle, were evacuated about 5 a.m. Saturday by pushing a cloud of the gas toward the town.
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"We took them to Mariana about 20 miles to the north purely as a precaution," O.J. Gilbert, a Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant, said yesterday.
Officials said the liquid chlorine was slowly but continually seeping from the bottle.
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Meanwhile, a team of disaster troubleshooters halted efforts yesterday to
neutralize the deadly chlorine in the ruptured tank car.
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The operation was put off until today because the specially trained crew didn't have equipment needed for the delicate operation, Dan Tullis, who heads the private Jacksonville-based disaster team, said.
It also was discovered that the ruptured tank car contained about twice as much chlorine as had been estimated. Tulis said the team had thought the car contained about one-third of its 30-ton capacity, but discovered that about 20 tons of the liquid chlorine remained in the ruptured tank car.
tank car, the chlorine is fairly stable in the tank car, Tullis said, because of cool temperatures and mild winds and little of the chemical is vaporizing.
Three of the 40 dermal cars posed problems for cleanup operations. One of them was leaking propane, another car was loaded with more chlorine and one contained ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in explosives.
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