Friday, February 10, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Note threatens another KC fire
KANSAS CITY, Mo (AP)—Officials say they are taking seriously a warning note, they found at the scene of an apparent arson early yesterday morning. The note said the next fire would be similar to a recent fire that left 20 dead.
Firemen found the note on the front door of a three-story abandoned apartment building that had apparently been set on fire. It read, "Notice-The next one will be similar to the Coates House fire."
fire. That blaze, almost two weeks ago at the 110-year-old hotel, killed at least $^{90}$
Three people were still reported missing last night and two of the 20 victims had not been identified.
Last night's fire was apparently set in a second-floor closet, according to Willie Beck, a police detective. He said the note, written in ink on notebook paper, had been sent to police laboratories for analysis.
THE NOTE WAS torn in half when found by firemen.
It took about an hour to bring yesterday's fire under control.
Begin decries arms sales
Deputy Defense Minister Mordechai Zippori told the Knesset, Israel's parliament, that Israel would try to get U.S. supporters to block the sale of jet fighters and other weapons requested by Satad during his six-day visit to the United States.
Bv the Associated Press
Canal treaties debate aggressive
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, in Switzerland on a fund-raising trip, said Wednesday that U.S. weapons sales to Egypt were negative development in the approach for peace.
Israel asked its U.S. supporters yesterday to lobby against U.S. weapons sales to Egypt. Meanwhile, the Carter administration was planning a more active role in the search for Arab-Arab peace as a result of the invasion of President Anwar Sadat's city to Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP)--The debate on the Panama Canal treaties had a fierce pace yesterday. Senators on opposing sides interrupted each other repeatedly to challenge assertions about the proposed treaties.
European Jewish leaders in Geneva yesterday, said Israel would never submit, surrender or succumb to Arab ultimatums in the Mideast peace negotiations.
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Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, D-Wa.-L, led the second day of a debate that is expected to last several weeks by com- plicants from both parties in connection to other foreign policy decisions.
"Rejection of the treaties would seriously impair our effectiveness in dealing with other nations and in undertaking important foreign policy initiatives," he said. "There can be no doubt that fashion to approve the treaties would require reoccupations for our overall foreign policy."
BYRD URGED HIS colleagues to view with great care those amendments that were "superficially attractive" but that he said could undermine the pending treaties.
in other action yesterday, President
Byrd and other supporters of the treaties were concerned that opponents might succeed in amending the treaties and forcing a reopening of the negotiations by attaching provisions unacceptable to the Panamanian government.
treaties unless his constituents wanted him to
Proposed intelligence bill to guide CIA, FBI acts
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate committee yesterday issued a blueprint for the gathering of U.S. intelligence that would prohibit the use of assassination terrorism and CIA efforts to overthrow what committee called democratic governments.
The blueprint, which probably will be subjected to months of hearings and debate, was issued by the Senate Intelligence Committee in an attempt to place greater emphasis on specific guidelines and restraints that would include criminal and civil penalties for violations.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—In the largest legal settlement for false advertising, the STP Corp. was fines $500,000 and agreed to retract statements of the oil company that its oil reserves were as much as 20 percent, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday.
STP to pay $500,000 fine for misleading advertising
But its authors immediately acknowledged that disagreement remained and that the blueprint would be taken with as too restrictive and too permissive.
In the settlement approved by a New York federal court, STP agreed to publish notices in newspapers and magazines to inform the public of its claims based on its advertising claims were unreliable.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., chairman of the committee, said the introduction of the blueprint meant that Congress wanted to give U.S. intelligence agencies a mandate so that they could work within the law.
MELCHER SAID he would back the treaties if they had amendments to ensure the defense of the canal and to assure that it is properly built. The Panamanians take it over in the year 2000.
The blueprint prohibits the paid use of journalists, missionaries, professors or students for intelligence gathering. It does not provide voluntary cooperation from such persons.
Jimmy Carter met separately with two senators in an attempt to secure their votes for the treaties. Afterward, Sens. Edward Zornicky, D-Neb., and John Melcher, D-Mont., both told reporters they still were not sure how they would vote.
Albert Kramer, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection, said the settlement was significant because, he said, in certain cases it was no longer sufficient for an advertiser simply to stop making deceptive advertising claims.
"Rather," he said, "the advertiser has a duty to undo the harm caused by correcting the former misleading statements. If a advertiser fails to correct or misleading information, we think that the advertiser has a legal obligation to "come cleanly to the public."
KRAMER SAID THE notices, which are scheduled to appear today in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times that are unique because they would tell readers that previous statements were in violation of the law.
Zorinsky said he was sympathetic to Carter's view but would not vote for the
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Israel rebuked for infringement of human rights
WASHINGTON (AP) -Israel, which already has received some U.S. criticism of its settlements in occupied Arab territories, was criticized again yesterday when the State Department accused it of violating the rights of Palestinians.
The criticism was part of the department's annual report on human rights in the 105 nations that receive economic assistance or U.S. weapons. The report also criticized the United States' strongest allies in violations, including corruption and torture.
The report was based on information supplied by U.S. embassies.
THE REPORT SAID ISAUD maintained a separate appearance of human rights, with the full presence of human rights.
However, the report disclosed evidence that military authorities did not extend the same rights to Palestinians who lived in territories occupied by Israel.
The report said that there were documented reports of the use of physical and psychological pressures during inpatient treatment, which was possibly used by individual interrogators.
The report also said Israeli police frequently searched the homes of suspected terrorists without a search warrant and often damaged property. Israel still occupies many territories from occupied territories when they were suspected of being terrorists, it said.
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