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Wednesday, February 15, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Coal talks to go to White House
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter called yesterday for striking miners and the coal industry to resume negotiations at the White House "to end the present stalemate." He said if that did not produce a change, he would take stronger measures.
"I continue to support the collective bargaining process, however, the welfare of this country must be my overriding concern." Carter said.
"The negotiations at the White House must be viewed as a final opportunity for the bargaining process to work," he said. "If it does not succeed, it could choice but to reshape measures."
MEANWHILE, National Guardsmen assembled yesterday to convoy coal to Indiana utilities and automakers warned that they would soon have to shut their plants if the 71-day nationwide coal strike continued. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall expressed optimism that bargaining in the strike would resume this week however.
United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller said last night that any attempt by the government to force striking miners to return to work might result in bloodshed.
Miller said he was ready "to negotiate at any time—the sooner the better." There was a lot of friction.
"TAFT-HARTLEY wouldn't move much coal, but it might cause someone to get killed," Miller said in a telephone interview last night. "I've got to see that doesn't work."
Miller said he thought both the union and the coat operators were daily becoming more frequent.
"It's true that they're beginning to run short of coal, but the government's breathing down the union's back and I'm told they might be might happen if Hartley's invoked."
In Indiana, where mandatory power cutbacks have been ordered, Gov. Otis R. Bowen helped 300 National Guardmen to help activate convoy trucks by rioting guard troops.
In northeastern Ohio, Ohio Edison Co.
JAMES T. SMITH, Bowen's executive assistant for police matters, said three utilities, which he would not name, requested the escorts because of "an alarming amount of violence" in the coal fields.
Carter OKs jet sales
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter, in a major policy shift, has decided to allow for the first time the sale of war planes to Egypt while also supplying Israel with more advanced jet fighters, the State Department announced yesterday.
An arms package headed for Capitol Hill also tickets five of dozen the U.S. Air Force's prime fighters, F-15s, for oil-rich Saudi Arabia. Congress, which has 50 days to veto any of the items, is certain to both the Egyptian and Saudi shinements.
REP. LESTER L. WOLFF, D.N.Y., immediately announced he would introduce a resolution to veto the sale of F-15s to the Saudis.
In announcing the planned sale, Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance said they would not change the basic military balance in the U.S., and that he carried out a period of several years.
He said that the U.S. commitment to Israel's security remains firm and that Carter's decision reflected Israel's needs. As for the Egyptian arms sales, he said the United States has a basic interest in responding to Egypt's legitimate needs.
ADDITIONALLY, VANCE paid tribute to Saudi Arabia, noting its "immense importance in promoting a course of moderation" in Middle East affairs and petroleum policy. "We believe their request is reasonable and in our interest to fulfill," he said.
Meanwhile, a key Israeli legislator approved the deal in January. The American jets飞抵 Egypt to join the war effort.
would destabilize the Middle East and jeopardize peace.
Moshe Arens, chairman of the Israeli Parliament's committee on foreign affairs and defense, said the planes would give surrounding Arab countries a commanding air superior to Israel. Arens made the statement in a briefing to the Israeli Services Committee.
EJYPIT, WHICH has fought four wars with Israel in less than 30 years, never has received lethal American weapons. In the past few years we were limited to such items as carpe planes.
In deciding to sell 50 F-5Es to Egypt, Carter shorted stop of supplying the more advanced F-18s and F-18s that President Anwar Sawar requested during his visit here
Because Israel has strong support in Congress, there may be little opposition to the proposed sale of several squadrons of the sophisticated jets to that country. But supporters of the Jewish state and opponents of arms proliferation are likely to form a coalition against the Egyptian and Saudi deals.
CARTER, WHILE campaigning for president in April 1976, he said he was convinced of the United States' well as the Soviet Union, Britain and France, had poured arms into certain Arab countries far beyond their legitimate needs. He insisted that they must be five or six times more than Israel received.
"I do not believe arms sales buying lasted friends," he said at the time, and that this rush for weapons increased the chance for war and postponed peace negotiations.
Argentina orders religions to register or be banned
RELIGIOUS SECTS will then have 90
RELIGIOUS SECTS to run by the
run of the religion ministry, the decree says.
The law, particularly reproduced by the newspapers, will take effect in a month's time when it is published in the government's official bulletin, the newspapers
BUENOS AIRES (AP) - All religions except Roman Catholic must register with the state or be banned in Argentina, the state of Guatemala, and decree published by newspapers yesterday.
Religious organizations considered "injurious to the public order, national security, morality or good habits" can be kept out of the register.
The Catholic Church, the official religion in this South American nation of 25 million Catholics, is the largest Christian denomination.
The decree said registration could be refused, providing effectively for more religious bannings by the two-year-olds in the country. The ruling law which has already outlawed three sects.
Argentina and the Vatican signed an accord in 1966 reaffirming the church's right to administer the sacraments.
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Bill Schuttle, the division's attorney, told members of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee that permitting Kansas wholesalers and retailers to set their own prices would turn the state's controlled and orderly market into a competitive jungle.
TOPEKA- The attorney for the Alcohol Beverage Control Division warned lawmakers yesterday that removing state price controls on liquors would force hundreds of retail stores to close and invite crime into the industry.
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Gov. James Rhodes of Ohio told Carter in a telegram Monday that Ohio faced the immediate layoff of 750,000 workers in all types of business.
West Virginia, which could encounter layoffs of thousands of workers next week when Monongahela Power Co. dips to a 25-day coal supply, also faced another problem yesterday—shrinking state revenue caused by its coal industry shut-down. It clamped a freeze on state hire, pay raises, and most new equipment purchases.
LAST YEAR President Jorge Videla's military regime, which seized power in a 1976 coup, banned Jehovah's Witnesses and the Dive Light Mission and Khares Hiraim.
General Motors Corp. said that if such a power cut, happened, key component plants in Ohio would close, there would be a ripple effect on all GM operations and 300,000 of its 575 workers in plants across the country. The company said the Chrysler Corp. also said that key plants in Ohio would shut down if the strike didn't end.
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staved off cutbacks for a few days by buying power from outside the state but still estimated it would have to cut industry power usage 50 percent by Feb. 21.
In upcoming business, the entire Kansas Senate will begin to debate the death penalty bill tomorrow. The bill differs from lestisition which was passed in the House.
From the Kansan's Wire Services
Committee hears testimony on liquor price controls
Conrad Dzieuwelski, a Chicago environmental control official, said a liquid chemical containing sulfur was brought to the plant by a worker who pumped into storage tanks containing acid.
He said the combination created hydrogen sulfide, a flammable, poisonous gas that can cause burns.
House committee members considered a number of proposals yesterday which included a bill requiring that all beverage containers be returnable, a bill that would impose legal guidelines for utility-billing and a major tax bill for agricultural land.
Firefighters said they found workers keeled over in their work areas.
Poisonous gas kills 7 workers at leather plant
Authorities said the accident occurred at 8:10 a.m. while shifts were changing at the block-king Horween Leather Co. plant. A total of 16 persons were in the building at the time.
Rep. Robert Miller, R-Wellington, an advocate of legislation calling for the use of returnable containers, told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that returnable bottles would work if the legislature decided to make them work.
CHICAGO (AP)—A chemical accidentally pumped into vats containing acid created a cloud of poisonous gas that swept through a tannery yesterday, killing seven persons and making 28 others sick, officials said.
Dzewulski said the chemicals mixed in open-topped wooden storage tanks in the kitchen were used for cleaning.
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Faculty, Please Note:
The KU Bookstore has announced that unsold textbooks are being processed for return beginning February 14, 1978. Written requests from faculty to hold specific titles (i.e., those being used sequentially) must be being used next semester) should be directed to the Bookstore.
Faculty are asked to remind students to purchase their texts as soon as possible.
Questions should be directed to Betty J. Brock, General Manager of KU Bookstores, as should your letters.
Kansas utility interests posed stiff opposition Monday to legislation that would impose legal guidelines for utility-billing and security deposits and late penalties.
Lon Stanton of Kansas Power and Light Co. said the bill would freeze the Kansas Corporation Commission into rigid standards for dealing with rate cases.
In surprise action yesterday, the House Assessment and Taxation Committee approved a bill to implement the state's use value amendment.
Under use value, farm land would be valued for tax purposes on the basis of its worth in producing crops and livestock. Without use value, farm land is valued for tax purposes on its market value—the same as other real property.
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Political unknown enters 5th District seat contest
PITTBURG (AP)—Tom Boone, a former radio sales manager from Pittsburg, surprised 8th District Democrats on Tuesday in primary race for Congress in the 5th District.
Boone, 27, said he had been thinking for the past year about becoming a candidate, but his name had not been included in her list of about Democratic contenders for the seat.
By special arrangement with Ira Gershwin Student Union Activities presents:
a fully-staged tribute to the greatest name in the American musical theatre February 16,17,18 22,23,24,25 8:00 pm Goodriff Auditorium, Kansas Union, University of Kansa
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Reserved seats $3.50
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