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Wednesday, January 18, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Peace talks open in Middle East
JERUSALEM (AP) - New Middle East peace talks opened yesterday with an Egyptian demand for an equal house for Muslims in Jordan, Israel's call for concession and compromise.
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, staking out the middle ground, said the common goal of Egypt, Israel and the United States "and those absent today" Jordan, Syria, and the Soviet Union—was a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement.
THE STRONGLY worded statement by Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel contrasted with the Israeli call for compromise, highlighting the sharp differences between them, the legacy of the 30-year dispute.
Later, at a news conference, Israa
Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan said everything was negligible. Every Egyptian proposal including Palestinian statehood would receive consideration, he said.
"The only we thing we do not accept is a kind of ultimatum—take it or leave it," he said.
THERE IS no deadlock, but that doesn't mean we are all doing wonderfully well."
The United States, claiming its mantle as mediator, gave qualified support to Palestinians self-determination but also said Israel was entitled to secure borders and
The public speech-making by Kamel, Dayan and Vance, in a spacious hotel ballroom festooned with flags and floral arrangements, lasted only 17 minutes.
Afterwards, at an even briefer closed session, Egypt and Israel exchanged position papers on the Palestinian dispute and adjourned to a settlement and adjourned for the day.
KAMEL DECLINED without explanation
DECLINED news conference with Dayan and Vance
Dayan had a conference on his own and told reporters the Israeli and Egyptian position papers showed sharp disputes. He said these main differences required study to define what was identical, what was not identical, and why they could relatively easily reach agreement.
The ex-general pointed to at least one narrowed gap, saying that had been
"change—and even a major one" in Egypt's position on the agenda for talks. He did not elaborate but seemed to refer to the U.S.-engineered compromise that glossed over such thorny issues as the Palestinians in the formal agenda.
A U.S. spokesman said the two sides had shown a willingness to get down to substantive issues. It is Vance's view that it is important to hold a firm, factious, with occausual suspensions.
Vance, who will remain at the talks until Friday, hailed the courage and wisdom of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Magenhem "in swearing the sievers the barriers that for so long separated Arabs from Israelis."
Saudis offer to buy West Bank and Gaza
BEIRUT (AP) — King Khaled and Crown Prince Fahd of oil-rich Saudi Arabia have offered to buy the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip from Israel to establish a Palestinian state, an Arab publication said yesterday.
The Saudi leaders made the offer to President Carter during his visit earlier this month to Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil exporter, according to the Middle East Reporter, a usually well-informed daily digest of Arab affairs.
"The SAUDIS made it plain to the American president they are prepared to pay as much as is required to establish a homeland for the Palestinian nation, even if that means buying the West Bank and Gaza from Israel," it said.
It quoted Khaled and Fahd as telling Carter, "You try to solve the Palestinian
problem, and we are ready to give you all the oil you want."
In Jerusalem, U.S. State Department spokesman Hadding Carter said no such idea had ever been proposed to the United States. He is in Jerusalem with Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who is attending peace negotiations between Israel and Egypt.
In Washington, White House press secretary Jody Powell, who attended some of the meetings between U.S. and Saudi Arabia, said he was unaware of any such offer.
"I HEARD neither King Khaled nor Powell make such a statement. Powell said."
The Arab publication also said the Saudi leaders told Carter they would raise their country's oil production to any possibly high level, and about the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Rights for mental patients sought by local legislator
From the Kansan's Wire Services
State Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence,
introduced legislation that would permit
the governor to appoint a commissioner.
TOPEKA-Bills to allow mental patients access to their own records and to permit state income tax credits for a percentage of tuition paid to eligible educational institutions were among the 20 received in the Kansas Senate and House yesterday.
However, the patient could then seek a court order allowing him to see the
Under the bill, a therapist or mental health facility could refuse to disclose the records only if it seemed likely that the content would cause the patient to hurt others.
In addition, Glover's bill would require hearings for patients who think that the contents of their records are inaccurate, misleading or a violation of their rights. Again, district courts would be empowered to make the final determination.
Under the measure, "patient" is defined as any person diagnosed or treated for a mental or emotional condition by a mental health facility or therapist.
Glover said the term included former patients, court appointed guardians of incapacitated patients, administrators or estates and authorized patient corporations.
A bill introduced by State Rep. Charles Laird, D-Topeka, would allow state tax credits for a percentage of tuition paid to eligible colleges and universities, vocational, secondary and elementary schools.
The credit would equal 50 percent of tuition for the taxpayer or a dependent, but other students may receive a lower rate.
Nor, Laird said, could the credit be claimed on the state income tax form for any tuition payment deducted to adjust gross income for federal tax purposes.
The Kansas Senate also met briefly yesterday and received a bill that would require that the state issue grants for unauthorized persons who own and farm 10 or more acres.
If the bill becomes law, persons who want water for commercial and industrial uses in rural areas would have to buy it from someone who had the rights.
The requirement offered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Rep.
The Legislature is beginning the second week of its 1978 session.
THE PUBLICATION attributed its report to reliable travelers it said arrived in Beirut from Saudi Arabia on Monday, but it did not name them.
It said the travelers quoted Saudi officials as saying the worst crisis in the history of Saudi-America relations had developed because the United States and Saudi Arabia were so far apart in their positions on a Middle East peace settlement.
The Saudis are insisting on total Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Arab lands conquered in the 1967 Arab-Iraki war, and the Arab sector of Jerusalem, the report said.
The publication said the Saudis rejected Israeli Prime Minister Menahen Begin's offer of limited autonomy for the 1.1 million Palestinians living on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, regions occupied by Israel since June 1967.
Judge permits KBI to retain secret files
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (UPI)—A federal judge has dismissed his lawsuit seeking release of 73 secret files compiled on innocent citizens by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
The files have been sealed for two years during the stalled legal battle in which the Kansas Civil Liberties Union, Washburn University student Diana Gurley of Topena University, sought to force the KBI to provide the files to persons they involved.
SHORTLY AFTER he took office in early 1975, Attorney General Curt Schnerle learned the old Intelligence and Organized Crime Unit of the KBI had compiled and saved the intelligence of those who noed noirs, including Schneider and former Gov. Robert Docking.
After a confidential examination of 532 records, Assistant Attorney General Donald Hoffman and former Supreme Court Justice Warren Scalia have been having no legitimate law enforcement action.
U. S. District Judge Earl O'Connor yesterday made public an order issued Friday dismissing a judge on the October 25th and Schneider and KBI Director William Albot not to destroy the files pending a further order of the court, which fires intact pending an appeal by the KCLU.
SCHINEIDER ORDERED the 73 .de-
strored an action blocked by the suit.
KCLU Executive Director Jan Price said yesterday that the organization would appeal the case to the federal appeals court in Denver.
"We think we really have a good case," she said.
THE SUIT sought to stop destruction of
the files, contending they constituted invasion of privacy to the persons named in the files. The plaintiffs asked the court to provide evidence that individuals whose names appeared in the records so they could examine them and determine whether they should suing the state government.
O'Connor denied a contention of the KCLU that the plaintiffs were denied their constitutional right of access to the courts because such a contention must hinge on the availability of judicial machinery, not a nebulous "right to know" cited by the group.
"WERE WE to accept plaintiffs' theory of relief, we would be establishing a rule that any person who fails to comply with firmative obligation to seek out potential plaintiffs and invite them to file suit," the judge said. "No such rule exists and this action is not to stretch the law to a legal absurdity."
In addition, O'Connor rejected the contention that the group had standing in court. He said the plaintiffs failed to prove that they had suffered sufficient injury and failed to show that the injury was covered by the constitutional guarantees cited.
When Schneider first disclosed the existence of the files, he said a slim dossier existed on himself, while the file on Docking was kept in the archives and no further ever was disclosed officially about other files, there was speculation that they could contain items ranging from persons involved in long-past university campus incidents. Official officials caught in alleged insecundes.
The records current are in a locked four-drawer file cabinet in locked six-by-eight-fold file cabinet.
Committee asks questions on nursing homes
TOPEKA, (AP)—Members of the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee will wait until next Monday for answers to questions programs for supervision of nursing homes.
The questions were asked Monday of Dwight Metzler, secretary of health and environment. Metzler had been asked to return responses within 24 hours. But Rep. Fred Weaver, D-Baxter Springs, chairman wanted more time to answer the answers.
Weaver introduced legislation yesterday to drive diretputable operators from the multi-company system.
THE QUESTIONS were posed by Rep. Joseph Hoagland, R-Overland Park. They dealt with such items as the status of unlicensed homes operating in Kansas, allegations by local health departments of nursing home problems, and the status of nursing homes run by people, who have had operations operating other nursing homes.
He introduced his motion after Metzler told him that there was no way the state could prevent nursing home operators who provide access to their licenses from obtaining new ones.
The questions were based on points raised
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Weaver said the committee wanted to see better management programs.
"I should make it clear, however, that I don't buy the idea that all nursing home operators are 'bums.' "Weaver said. "It is small in minority that causes problems."
Weaver said he also was interested in bringing about less petty harassment of his students.
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Earlier yesterday, Weaver introduced a bill that would deny a license for operation of a nursing home in Kansas to anyone who had not been certified to comply with regulations, standards and
"There have been complaints about needless regulations," he said.
IN RELATED action, Rep. Michael Glover, D-Lawrence, said he would ask Attorney General Curt Schneider to investigate allegations that some unlicensed nursing homes were operating in the state. He said he also would check on the use of fetal monitoring equipment that would rob convicted felons from waking or running nursing homes in Kansas.
rules relating to the health and welfare of nursing home residents.
Weaver said that introduction of his bill was not a product of Métzler's appearance Monday. "I've had this bill under preparation for several months," Weaver said.
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Court declaration sought on state malpractice law
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Dr. Liggett was enjoined from practicing medicine without malpractice insurance by the Barton County District Court, but Judge Frederick W. Woleslaxten stayed his order to allow Liggett to practice medicine during the course of the appeal.
TOPEKA, (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court was asked yesterday to declare the state medical malpractice insurance law under the Affordable Care Act to buy coverage whether they want it or not.
WHAT IS happening is this—how far can state police go to protect individual voters?
He told the high court the requirement infringed on the rights of doctors who did not want to buy malpractice insurance and simply equally to all health care providers.
Michael Holland, a Russell attorney, appealed to the high court a decision barring Dr. Byron R. Lagget of Great Bend from practicing medicine until he buys malpractice insurance. Holland said the requirement abridged the freedom of doctors.
He rejected the argument that the availability of insurance helped relieve insurers' costs.
Under state law, all physicians must buy $100,000 worth of malpractice insurance or $300,000 aggregate coverage for any series of cases brought in a single year.
HOLLAND challenged the constitutionality of the law, saying the requirement had nothing to do with a doctor's medical ability.
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