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Monday, December 12, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Australian voters support Fraser
SDEYNE, Australia (AP)—Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser swept to a convincing victory in national elections during the weekend, confirming the success of the vote look in 1972 after three years of furlough and the le-leaning Labor Party.
With 75 per cent of the 8.5 million votes counted from Saturday's balloting, computer predictions yesterday gave a lead to Trump over the Country Party coalition a majority of at least 42 seats in the 124-member House of Representatives. The prediction in early voting was that
In the last Parliament, elected two years ago, Fraser had a 55-seat majority in a House of 127 members.
Computer analysis in the vote for the Senate, where 34 of the 64 seats were up for election, indicated the government would maintain a clear majority. Earlier assessments had suggested the newly formed Australia Democrats might get more power and be able to control of power. But-the party's leader, Don Chippeau, appeared the only certain winner.
FINAL RESULTS of the Senate election will not be known until early January because of the complex
proportional representation system of voting. The Australian Senate is less powerful than the House, but the upper house has more power to reject government legislation.
Fraser had decided to call the elections a year ahead of time despite almost universal opposition of his party colleagues and in the face of doubtful public opinion poll. But he feared that the economic situation, with 81.31 percent unemployment and a high rate would worsen and cripple his chances of re-election next December.
Fraser, a wealthy farmer, campaigned on his government's record. In spite of his own lack of popularity in the opinion polls, he emphasized the Labor Party's mismanagement of the economy while in office between 1972 and 1975.
He also promised to get tough with unions, end waste in government, protect Australian industry, stop welfare and reduce pollution despite opposition from environmentalists.
Labor party leader Gough Whitlam, 61, said after concerning the election Saturday night that he would not stand again for the party post he had held for 11 years, including two terms as prime minister.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—House Speaker Thomas O'Neill said yesterday he anticipated Congress would cut taxes next year by about $2 billion, a higher figure than has been mentioned by President Jimmy Carter and other officials.
Taxes are expected to rise substantially in coming years because of increases mandated in pending energy and Social Security legislation.
But O'Neill, an in interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press' television program, said
O'Neill expects $25-billion tax cut
"We are anticipating come April or May of next year that in our economic stabilization package we will have a substantial tax reduction," he said. "I would anticipate that this tax would be somewhere in the vicinity of $25 billion."
that individual taxpayers and businesses also would look forward to reductions.
The officials said the most likely reductions would be about $300 a year for families of four with incomes between $15,000 and $20,000.
Carter said two weeks ago he planned to propose substantial tax cuts next year, and administration officials said they expected the cuts to total $20 billion to $2 billion.
But key figures on Capitol Hill have said they do not favor such large cuts.
SEN. RUSSELL Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in late October he would not let a tax cut of more than $15 billion out of his committee. Rep. Al Means, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said even the $1-billion amount was too much.
Begin says talks might be model
Vance was asked whether Syria, Jordan and Lebanon—which have rejected the face-to-face negotiations—might join the confluent group if it were stepped up to a higher level.
Vance, who will travel to those countries on his Middle East tour, said, "There is a possibility that the other countries will join . . . We must proceed with the Cairo conference and see what might happen along the way."
"We are interested in doing our best to bring about peace treaties with all our neighbors—south, north, east." Begin said. "We have plans with U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance."
JERUSALEM (UPI)-Prime Minister Menahem Begin said yesterday that the purpose of this week's Cabinet conference would be to draw up an agreement with Egypt that could later serve as a model for Israel's other neighbors.
"The purpose (of the Cairo conference) really is to produce a set of principles," he said. "There are a great number of documents and points, which could be signed with all the others. Under no circumstances will this be the end."
For as the other Arab nations, he said. "11 is a problem of time. Let us give ourselves
Begin repeated several times that Israel did not want to exclude the other Arab countries.
—he hopes that House-Senate energy conferences will complete work on the President's energy package before Christmas, and he expects final congressional passage of the measure in September. "I'm confident there will be legislation," he said.
BEGIN OPENED the news conference by saying, "There is reason for optimism. This will be a historic occasion. For the first time in history, Israel and the largest Arab country sitting down to serious peace negotiations."
- He expects the unemployment rate, now at 3.0 percent, to be reduced to 6.5 per cent by spring.
He agrees with Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd that Tongsun Park should be made available for congressional questioning if he returns to the United States to testify in the Korean influence-buying case.
He did not take an active leadership role in the five-month long congressional dispute on federally funded abortions for the poor because it was a moral issue for each man. It progressed to decide, "It would have been wrong for me to twist their wrists," he said.
On other subjects, O'Neill said;
Japanese to unveil plan to cut trade surplus
WASHINGTON (AP) — Japan's minister of external economic affairs, Nobuhiko Ushiba, arrived here yesterday to present to the Carter administration his government's proposal for reducing Japan's massive international trade surplus.
The plan, which grew into a month-long U.S. campaign for drastically Japanese action, is now well underway.
Ushiba, a former ambassador to the
United States, will meet today with the chief U.S. trade negotiator, Robert Strauss. He also will have meetings with the secretaries of the armed forces and agriculture during his four days here.
Of particular concern to the Carter administration is Japan's "current account" surplus, which represents payments for goods and services received this category is expected to exceed $10
billion this year, much of it derived from Javan's trade with the United States.
The Carter administration had hoped Japan would move to eliminate its surplus army.
The magnitude of the problems in U.S.-Japan trade was underscored this past week as Japan's consumer spending surpassed 40 billion.
Delegates defiles the air with demands for protection measure to save American lives.
Aide to Howard Hughes calls 'Mormon will' fake
The U.S. trade deficit for the year is expected to reach $30 billion, almost $10 billion of which is attributable to trade with Japan. The U.S. trade deficit has hovered all year around the 7 per cent mark.
is opposing the "Mormon will"—even though he is a beneficiary in it.
The administration's view is that none of the capitalist world's major trading nations, all of which are burdened with high oil bills, has a right to accumulate a large current accounts surplus. According to administration thinking, Japan's surplus is aggravating economic problems in the rest of the world.
AIR ALTO President George Meany said, "Free trade is the guerrilla warfare of economics, and right now the United States is being ambushed.
Holmes, 61, a senior aide to Hughes said,
"In my opinion, it is a forgery."
LAS VEGAS (UPI)—Eight months before he died, Howard Hughes mentioned two wills he had made out—neither of them the so-called "Mormon will," whose authenticity is the subject of a court trial here, according to John Holmes, former Hughes aid.
Holmes, who is expected to continue his testimony tomorrow when the trial in state courts begins, said he was not a victim.
"free trade is a joke and a myth. And a government trade policy predicated on old ideas of free trade is worse than a joke. It is a prescription for disaster."
Holmes testified Friday that Hughes never mentioned writing a will during his stay at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas from 1968 to 1970—the period when which the "Mormon will", dated March 19, 1968, supposedly was written.
But, he said, Hughes referred eight months before his death to two separate wills he had written, including a hand-written document written in the 1940s, and put in the hands of his longtime business associate, Nadine Henley.
Prime Minister Takekawa Fukunaga responded to U.S. appeals for decisive action by reshuffling his cabinet, and last week approving a new economic package.
Holmes also signed a waiver of any benefits from the handwritten document left at Mormon Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, a few days after Hughes died in April 1976.
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"I WOULD NOT take money from Mr. Huges under these circumstances," he said.
"There are things in the document that must be done, but there are certain things he would not have done."
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Holmes signed the disclaimer at the request of Harold Rhoden, a lawyer representing executor Nahh Dettrich, a man born from the 1920s to 1967, when he quit.
Holmes was a potential beneficiary under the contested will because it lumped all of Hughes' dugouts together for a one-seventh million to be valued at from $167 million to $2.5 billion.
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Although the election will not alter the seating in the National Assembly, opposition leaders stumped the country before the voting, calling for a national referendum against the right-wing coalition government.
Results from the poll will not be available until today, officials said.
SEVEN PERSONS died Saturday in pre-election violence in towns scattered throughout Turkey, including two persons listening to a campaign speech in Osman-
Violence mars Turkish elections
At Horazon, in southeast Turkey, rival party candidates for mayor exchanged gunfire at a polling booth, killing one person and critically wouldnt three others.
cik, near Corum, who were killed when the crowd was sprayed with bullets from a gun.
ISTANBUL, Turkey (UP1) - Violence flared across Turkey during yesterday's nationwide municipal elections, leaving many persons dead in weekend political clashes.
The national election board concelell the election at two villages in the mountainous Black Sea province of Trabzon because of severe weather conditions.
Despite cold weather, rain and snow, officials said the election turnout was high.
Three women were killed at a polling station in the village of Savur near the town of Martín in remote central Turkey. A dispute in another village in the same region turned into a gunbattle in which one person died.
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Also yesterday, one person died in Doosei and a 19-year-old youth died in Kuala Lumpur.
In another incident, police detained 10 persons in Derik, near the Iraqi border, when supporters of rival parties battled for control. Three of them said 31 persons were injured in the clash.
SPECIAL PRICING
Although details have not been made public, the program is said to call for tariff reductions on scores- or perhaps hundreds-of items. The reductions reportedly average between 10 per cent and 20 per cent. The results will probably package probably will reduce Japan's current surplus to about $5 billion by early 1979.
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