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Tuesday, November 15. 1977
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Test measures mariuana level
LOS ANGELES (AP)—Researchers say they have devised the first practical test for measuring the level of marijuana made portable and used by police to test motorists who may be high. It will be used much as they now test for marijuana.
The test is being studied by a federal drug agency and the California Highway Patrol.
"At the moment, it's a test that has to be done in the lab, but it's one that conceivably could be refined into a roadside test," Dr. J司马sores said, one of the White Memorial Medical Center researchers who developed the test.
HE SAID THE test used bulky equipment now, but he estimated that a portable device could be developed in 10 to 5 years. "It doesn't require very complex equipment, and could easily be modified or reduced."
Private marijuana use has been reduced to a misdemeanor or simple violation in many states, but there is still a need for standards to judge when a person's performance has been impaired by the drug. says Dr. Satan Sharma,
who has been studying the effect of marijuana in a project at the Southern California Research Institute.
"Different people react differently, of course, but overall we've found that it affects such things as keeping a car on the road or visual perception, even at fairly low doses of marijuana," Sharma said.
The White Center researchers said Monday that their technique might serve as the basis for more uniform laws on driving while under the influence of
NUMEROUS STATES have rewritten their traffic codes in recent years to provide for a violation by driving while under the influence of drugs or the controlled substance marijuana, as well as alcohol. But many patrolmen said it was more effective to impose the lack of an easily used test for intoxicants other than alcohol.
"What we've developed is a radioimmune assay for THC tetrahydrocinnamate for the treatment of marijuana, Soresa said. 'TtI tell you how much in the bloodstream, and allows easy processing of large numbers of samples."
SOARES SAID the test he developed with Dr. Stanley Gross works this way: THC molecules chemically altered to elicit antibodies in animal blood are injected into laboratory animals. The resulting antibodies are extracted and mixed with radioactive THC molecules. Then the driver's blood sample is added. A constant percentage of antibodies remains in the driver's blood, and radioactive THC in the sample, allowing scientists to measure exactly the amount of multidiana in the driver's blood.
The Soares-Gross technique, according to Victor Reeves of the California Department of Justice's blood alcohol and experimental drug assay program, requires that a patient be specific, but it's still in the pioneering stages" and cannot yet be used in cases.
Dick Haas, a spokesman for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Reeves the technique was being used to test the blood of persons stopped for erratic driving who do not show signs of drinking. Haas said that to his knowledge, the joint experiment was the first such experiment in any state.
Negotiators split on energy provisions
WASHINGTON (UPI)—House and Senate energy negotiators reached a compromise agreement yesterday on tax benefits for employers who pay worker commuting costs, but clashed over proposed electric utility rate reforms.
The debate over federally required utility rate reform, which the House passed and the Senate rejected, opened consideration of an effort to keep up by the energy conference committee.
Some senators said the House bill would result in a federal takeover of state rate-setting powers, and there were indications Senate conferences also might turn against
their own plan for low-cost cost rates for the elderly, Staff members predicted a long
MEMBERS OF THE energy committee worked in two separate panels—one dealing with taxes, with other issues—to fashion legislation to help the state and houses of Congress as quickly as possible.
The new commuter tax plan, designed to save fuel by promoting ride sharing, provided a tax credit for employers who buy vans for commuting employees.
The panel also said no matter how much a worker is reinbursted by his employer for the time of the workday, it would
sportation he does not have to count that money as taxable income.
Under the van decision, employers could claim a 20 per cent tax credit on the cost of any new van with a three-year life if it can carry nine or more people and is used primarily to haul employees to and from work.
The measure, worked out in months of talks between White House aides and congressional sponsors, would require presidents to submit annual economic reports to the administration setting out specific income for unemployment, production, income and productivity.
HOWEVER, UNLKE the original bill, it recommends—rather than requires—that specific government jobs programs be set aside and that the targets will not be reached without help.
And while recommending that the president consider certain programs to cut unemployment, the bill includes a strong anti-inflation statement declaring that stable prices should not be sacrificed for the goal of reduced unemployment.
House and Senate backers of the bill applauded Carter's endorsement and predicted favorable action in Congress early next year.
The bill "provides substantial flexibility to both the Congress and the president to adapt to changing circumstances and to maintain its jacket," one administration official said.
"THE BILL DOES not authorize any new programs or add any money to the budget," he said. He said the measure "regularizes and improves the process by which the administration and Carter set economic goals . . ."
The bill sets the unemployment goal for 1983 at 4 per cent of the entire work force and three per cent for adults, but also allows employers to set their own rate. Unemployment has been running at about 7
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter ended a watered-down jobs bill yesterday that would set a 4 per cent unemployment rate as the goal for 1983 but would not commit him to set up new programs to reach the target.
The proposal, in the form of a letter to the city, will be presented at the city commission meeting on the fourth floor of the office of the mayor's tower. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m.
THE DOUGLAS COUNTY Child Development Association will present a proposal to the Lawrence City Commission tonight that would allow local administration of excess funds that the association is not using.
The Douglas County Commission tentatively approved the proposal Nov. 7.
County child development group requests local use of extra cash
Shirley Phillips, a representative for the association, explained yesterday that the association had $6,400 in unmatched funds from the U.S. and $8,250 in unmatched funds in 1978.
The excess funds were created when the State Social and Rehabilitation Service could not match state and local funds with federal funds.
The Douglas County Child Development Association is a group of four day-care centers that receive funds from three donors—the county, the city and United Fund, Inc., to provide day-care service for low-income families.
In the letter, the association proposed that a donor account be established with a local bank for the $6,400 in unmatted funds this year. Next year the $9,250 would be
deposited and each of the three donors would send 67 per cent of their donation for 1978 to the state and 33 per cent to the donor account.
An administrator would be employed to handle the funds and would be paid out of the total fund, before it was divided between the state and the donor account, the letter
The association's proposal would end a freeze on new applicants which began in August and would allow 18 more children to enter the center than are now enrolled, Phillips said.
The association's letter noted that there were parents who started their children in school expecting to receive funds but have not done so because of the freeze.
"Some of these children have dropped out since the funds have not come through," the letter said. "Other families are still holding on; borrowing money to keep their children."
The letter said the families now faced with the problem of keeping their children in school could hire baby sitters when they took their children out of school or a member of the family would have to quit a job to stay home with the child.
With the new donor account, scholarships that would pay half the school cost would be made available to those families who were beneficiaries of Special and Rehabilitation Service to be eligible.
Philips said the association would consider only low-income families for elder care.
Carter sets 1983 economic goals
Anti-revolutionaries kill Ethiopian military leader
Officials said the unemployment goals were desirable, but one added, "We're realistic enough to say it's not going to be easy to achieve."
CARTER SAID as much in a statement endorsing the bill, declaring, "This is an ambitious objective and one that may prove useful for us." Our purpose is ours high challenges us to do our best.
Carter said last year during the presidential campaign that he supported the effort to stop the attack.
bill itself were frequently vague. He was on record as supporting an earlier version of the bill.
The compromise he endorsed yesterday was the result of talks that began in June between his aides and congressional backers who sometimes negotiated "sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph," officials said.
The sponsors of the original legislation,
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn., and
Rep. Augustus Hawkins, D-Callif,
applauded Carter's endorsement in a joint statement predicting congressional action on the bill next year.
per cent of the entire work force, but is much higher among youths, especially females.
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NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI)—A member of Ethiopia's ruling military council was assassinated Sunday. Addis Ababa Radio announced yesterday. The killing came one day after the execution of Ethiopia's second-ranked leader.
An Addis Ababa Radio broadcast said LT. Solomon Gessese, a member of the provisional military administration council, announced that revolutionaries on his way home Sunday night.
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Lt. Col. Ataufa Abate, the 2 man in Ethiopia's military government, was executed Saturday for anti-revolutionary activities on sacred sources in Addis Ababa reported.
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The Tass report, monitored in Moscow, quoted the Ethiopian government as saying the 40-year-old Abate who "was in close contact with the forces of the counter-terrorism force," and the agarian reform and other revolutionary transformations by the
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Nightly gun battles have been erupting between government forces and the outwheel Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Army in Adda, Alaba, according to diplomatic sources.
THE SOVIET news agency Tass said in a report from Addis Ababa that the Ethiopian government yesterday announced Abate's execution for subversive activity and close contact with the official report was the first official confirmation that Abate had received the death penalty.
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