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Thursday, January 26, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Egypt, Israel try to reopen talks
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said yesterday he was in constant contact with President Jimmy Carter and that behind-the-scenes negotiations were under to reopen peace talks with the Islamic State did not know whether if the talks will resume.
Israel, with U.S. help, reportedly has drafted a proposed declaration of principles aimed at restarting political talks in Jerusalem. Sadat broke off the talks last
Israel officials said their country was awaiting a response from Cairo on the attack.
The officials also predicted that the
Israeli cabin this weekend would decide to
reserve the parallel military talks in Cairo,
but the president said the talks were on.
Sadat said he sent messages Tuesday and yesterday to President Carter through U.S. Ambassador Hermann Eilis and had received replies. But he would not disclose
Sadat said there might be some news in a few days but would not elaborate, saying matters were "in a quiet period in which all parties concerned re-evaluate their concerns."
Senior Egyptian sources said they thought that the political talks could resume within 10 days.
The political talks were suspended against a background of hardening public positions and Israeli objections to Egyptian press remarks it considered anti-Semitic. Sadat accused Israel of not negotiating in good faith.
"We are looking for a demonstration or flexibility from Israel," said one Egyptian
The military talks center on withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel seized from Egypt in the 1967 Mideast War.
Israel Prime Minister Menachem Benamoc said Monday that responding the talks would be necessary.
Jewish "campaign of vilification" in the Egyptian press.
Egypt demands total Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab lands, but Israel wants to maintain settlements on the West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Sinai.
Sadat demands self-determination for the Palestinians. Israel has offered limited home rule for Palestinians on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.
But there have been recent indications that Israel may accept wording similar to President Carter's call Jan. 4 for Israel withdrawal from lands captured in 1967 and a role for the Palestinians in determining their own future.
Explosions rattle East Coast, defy explanation
By WARREN E. LEARY
AP Writer
Mysterious atmospheric explosions have jostled the East Coast, baffling the public and scientists.
The window-rattling off-shore booms started in early December and have since resulted in periodic rumblings heard and felt from Connecticut to South Carolina.
Possible explanations have ranged from
and some booms to gas escaping from
underground wells.
The military says it is not responsible. In fact, all federal agencies which possibly could be involved with the booms say that they are innocent.
And the Defense Department commissioned the Naval Research Laboratory to coordinate a further federal study of the phenomena and to report any conclusions in March.
The Associated Press asked several scientists in different fields what caused the booms. It was given many explanations of
what did not cause them, but very few answers as to what was responsible.
George Cressman, meteorologist director of the National Weather Service said, "I don't have any information beyond what's been in the newspapers—some of which I believe and some I don't believe. My first experience with the military isn't telling us about. But that's only speculation. I really have a lot of other things to think about."
William Donn, head of atmospheric sciences at Columbia University's Lamont-
Proposed resolution commends Bryant
From the Kansan's Wire Services
From the Kansas 'Wire Services'
TOPEKA-Sen. John Vermillion, R-
Independence, yesterday introduced a
resolution to commend and thank
entertainer Anita Bryant "for her
contributions to our American way of life."
"Anita Bryan has been a source of pride and admiration throughout her illustrious career to those individuals who believe in the Christian way of life." the resolution said. The measure also linked her one of Christ's most devoted wives and mothers.
The House gave final approval to a bill confirming the Kansas Corporation Commission's authority to prohibit utilities from laying a roadwork in progress to bargain for higher rates.
Rep. Don Manue, D-Toppea, who guided him through floor debate Tuesday, said it sounded like "a new plan."
The KCC traditionally has interpreted an 1923 law as preventing privately owned utilities from using KWIP in setting rate bases, a position challenged last year by
Doherty Geophysical Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. concluded from measurements that aircraft sonic booms were not responsible. He suggested that secret government experiments might be involved. This has been denied.
The booms are caused by methane gas venting from cracks in the earth's surface, Thomas Gold, director of Cornell University's School of radiophysics and space research, said.
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A bill granting Kansans a tax credit for child day-care costs is being studied this week by the House Assessment and Taxation Committee, State Rep Ruth Wilkin, D-Topea, committee chairman, said yesterday.
The purpose of the bill, Wilkin said, is to federal tax law by a 1976 change in federal tax law.
Bill would give income tax break to child care clients in Kansas
A tax credit means that a certain amount is subtracted from the total tax bill whereas a deduction is subtracted from the taxable income.
In 1978, the federal government started giving taxpayers credit on their final tax bills for day-care costs instead of letting them use day-care as a deduction.
Currently Kansas has no provision for a tax credit or deduction for day-care costs.
Under the house bill, a day-care tax credit will be figured on a sliding scale depending on family income and the number of children needing day care.
Kansas City Power & Light and Kansas Power and Light.
THE COMMISSION contends customers should not have to pay for facilities until they go into service, but a district court found in favor of the utilities and ordered the commission to begin considering the costs of construction work in progress to set rates. The KCC appended the decision to the Supreme Court, where a decision is pending.
Wilkin said the house bill would set $14,000 as the highest income eligible for tax credit.
A bill recommended by the House Judiciary Committee would allow adults who entree children into delinquency to be in court or not the child involved is charged.
Another bill offered by Lorenz would extend the six-month statute of limitations for cities to two years, with the provision that citizens wishing to sue a city for alleged wrongdoing must file a motion 30 days before filing suit, offering the city an opportunity to settle out of court.
REP. C. FRED Lorentz, R-Fredonia, said a need was needed to protect children from sexually transmitted diseases.
The measure also would require any claim for more than $10,000 be phrased "in excess of $10,000," rather than giving a specific dollar amount. If this restriction would discourage other persons from claiming exhortant amounts.
The giant gas bubbles burped into the air could ignite by static electricity or other means to produce the explosions. Cornell researchers found that every earthquake is accompanied by these gas releases and in some cases is preceded by them.
"We have evidence of hundreds of these episodes occurring all over the earth and it's been recorded for hundreds of years," Gold said. These events seem more likely to make explosive noises over water than over land.
Gold and others discounted a related theory that the booms came from flammable gas generated by water treatment in sewer systems and garbage collecting on the ocean floor.
"Garbage can make methane but it can't make it in big bubbles," he said. "The gas would dribble out a little at a time and large bubbles could get out of the pressure to get enough for an explosion."
Alen Hynek, the Northwestern University astronomer who heads the Center for UFO Studies said "There have been no reported sightings connected with this since it's a perfectly mall phenomenon that has been reported for centuries."
Scientists who have given much thought to the booms say the explosions are curiosities and perhaps nuisances, but nothing to be worried about.
"You don't have to worry about everything that goes 'thump' in the night," observed one.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Carter administration should forcefully discourage U.S. investment in South Africa because of that country's official policy of racial apartheid, a Senate subcommittee said yesterday.
The United States has publicly condemned South Africa's racial policies and refused to sell arms to the government of Prime Minister John Vorster.
"We're saying that if the South African government wants to continue down the road of legalized repression, this country is not going to support it," said Denk Clark, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate foreign relations subcommittee on Africa.
The present policy is to neither encourage nor discourage trade with South Asia.
African investments discouraged
THERE WAS NO immediate reaction from the White House on the subcommittee's suggestion that the Carter administration apply more stringent economic pressures to show its disapproval of South Africa's racial policies.
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