Friday, November 4, 1977
University Daily Kansan
U.S. praises Soviet nuclear plan
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The State Department said yesterday that a Soviet proposal to stop the production of nuclear material in all weapons seems consistent.
State Department spokesman Hadding Carter III spoke today about an inadvertently dropped section of a speech by the governor. Leond Brechmayr, at a congress in Moscow.
In the full account of the speech, distributed by the Soviet news agency, Tass, Breznevh proposed a halt in the production of "Happy Days" movies and the reduction of existing stockpiles.
"We think," said Carter, "that aspect of the speech is an interesting development and hope to learn more about Soviet thinking on these matters. The proposal to start gradual reduction of existing stockpiles and to move toward their eventual complete destruction, seems to be consistent with U.S. arms control objectives."
concrete arms limitation agreements was complex and difficult.
BUT HE SAID that translating this into
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance told reporters Wednesday the United States did not link arms reduction to the problems of Soviet dissidents.
"I do not think there is any linkage," he said. "I do not think in the past that there was a linkage."
Vance welcomed a Soviet offer to move toward a full ban on all nuclear testing as an option.
But at the same news conference, he said the United States viewed the possible trial of several prominent Soviet dissidents with great seriousness.
Vance said the United States had intervened, with respect to individuals in the country.
ALTHOUGH THE Soviet position on a comprehensive test ban of all nuclear explosions moved closer to the American position, Vance said several differences remain.
The United States prefers an indefinite
ban which could be canceled after four to five years, while the Soviet Union prefers a shorter cancellation period. There also is an apparent difference between the Soviet Union and the United States on how soon the ban would go into effect.
The United States and the Soviet Union have been negotiating a test ban on-and-off since 1956. Great Britain joined the talks in February, but the US has invited to join, but neither has done so.
vance made these other points:
He formally announced that the United
states was ending all shipments of material and spare parts that could be used by South Africa's police or military forces, and was likely to cause further damage to the commercial counselor from South Africa.
- He said President Jimmy Carter would push for an oil price freeze during his planned nation-wind trip which includes visits to four key OPEC members: Venezuela, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. "I think it will be catastrophic if there should be an increase at this point in energy prices," he said.
SALT II leaks criticized
Vance added, however, that the executive
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said yesterday that recent news leaks about the U.S.-Soviet strategic arms talks were “very unhelpful” and have drawn private protests from Moscow.
House rejects abortion proposal
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The Senate yesterday passed a proposal limiting federal funding of abortions for poor women to special cases, but the House, seeking tighter restrictions, rejected the measure 198-172.
The House action continues the fourmonth impasse on the controversial issue.
Rep. George Mahon, D-Tex, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, told his colleagues it was time to compromise on a plan that would not win further concessions from the Senate.
"This solution is not satisfactory to the House, not satisfactory to the Senate and certainly not acceptable to George Mahon, but we have the problem of trying to settle this issue because we can't go on forever," he said...
MAHON CALLED the measure "the best that we could work out, and you've got to do it."
The Senate had voted 62-27 to allow federal funding of abortions for a victim of rape or incest or for a woman whose life or health was threatened. The Senate, Henry Hyeh, R-III, of current law
that allows federally funded abortions only to save a baby, but don't think we can live with them or can the unborn live with us.
Hyde said allowing abortions in cases of rape and incest would invite massive fraud, and he called the Senate's health language "a great loophole."
Because of the House vote, Congress must work out another temporary method of funding the Labor Department and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, whose fiscal 1978 appropriations are tied to the abortion legislation.
THE SENATE, which favors fewer restrictions on abortion funding, voted twice yesterday, changing one word to make its own legislation more acceptable to House members.
The final provision changed the word "or" to "and," meaning a poor woman would
The change involved the provision allowing abortions when a woman's health is endangered. The Senate first voted 59-29 for federal funds provided "in those instances where severe or long-lasting effects were identified, would result if the pregnancy continued to term.
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If the Senate's decision ultimately became law, women eligible for Medicaid, the government's medical program for poor women may be expanded and undated abortion under these circumstances.
- If her life were endangered by pregnancy.
- If she were a victim of rape or incest, including cases where she did not seek treatment simply as a precaution against pregnancy, but waited until she was sure.
- If continuing a pregnancy would result in severe and long-lasting physical health problems.
The Senate, which has no women members, originally voted to fund abortions for the poor if the procedure were deemed medically necessary, a phrase opponents said was open to wide interpretation.
The House first voted to not allow any federally funded abortions, then made an exception for women whose lives were endangered by pregnancy.
The CIA broke its traditional no-comment
promise to call the allegations "absolutely
entirely true."
CIA linked to murder attempts
WASHINGTON (UPF) — The CIA last year made three attempts to kill Jamaica's leftist prime minister, Michael Manley, according to the magazine article published yesterday.
A spokesman for the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is assigned to oversee CIA operations, said the panel is making a preliminary inquiry into the allegations because it must check allegations of all sorts.
Manley, who was in Sweden, said he believes the CIA middled in Jamaican affairs last year. But he declined to link the agency directly to any plots on his life, saying only, "I can confirm not a shot was fired."
Reporters Ernest Volkman and John
Cummings, both of the Long Island, N.Y., newspaper Newsday, alleged in their December Penthouse article that the CIA murder plots against Manley were supposed to take place July 14 and Dec. 15, 1976, in Jamaica, and Sept. 23 in Toronto.
"IT WAS ONLY a combination of CIA inceptive, luck and circumstances that enabled Manley and his government to reach the truth, at worst, Manley's death," they said.
They quoted U.S. intelligence officials as estimating the agency spent at least $10 million on a combined operation aimed at rescuing individuals by doting the Caribbean island's economy.
They said they got their information from senior American intelligence sources and foreign agents for nations friendly to the United States.
The authors said Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, with President Gerald Ford's approval, decided to mount a secret war against Manley and his government for two reasons. Its increasingly friendly relations with Cuba and its threats to interfere with U.S.-Canadian bauxite supplies.
BAUTEX IS alumineum ore. Much of America's ores are mined in Tanzania.
Describing the alleged July 14 assassination plot, the article accused the agency of recruiting disaffected members of a mob to attack an army at a roadblock in the Jamaican interior.
"The soldiers looked nervous so Manley immediately began shouting orders at a major," it said. "Temporarily flustered, the major and his soldiers hesitated and Manley calmly sped away before anyone could react."
On Sept. 23, the article said, the CIA sent Cuban exiles to shoot Manley as he addressed a rally of expatriate Jamaicans in Toronto.
"Some of the leaks are of accurate information, and some inaccurate information." Vance told reporters after briefing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for three hours on the SALT II talks.
branch is not investigating the source of the leaks.
"I feel that when one is engaged in such delicate negotiations, it is very unpleasant, it is a very troublesome thing, to have to deal with these leaks."
Vance, underscoring Scoors concerns about diplomatic privacy, said the Russians "have indicated they consider it important to maintain our trust in these talks the way one normally would."
ADMINISTRATION officials have been particularly disturbed about details of the negotiations disclosed earlier this week by disarmament negotiator Paul Nitze, who was a member of the first strategic arms team during the Nixon administration.
Sen. George McGovern, D-S.D., said in a statement Wednesday: "I cannot help but react to an appalling act of recklessness and irresponsibility on the part of a supposedly responsible, prominent American and former government official. . .
"Now a former deputy assistant secretary of defense and member of our SALT delegation, who plainly should know better, is blaring out details of sensitive regulations on the use of Regressor on Mr. Nee's attitude on the topic. I think that it is unexcusable conduct."
Vance has been briefing regularly the Foreign Relations Committee and another group of senators led by Sen. Henry Hewlett on the status of U.S.-Soviet arms control negotiations.
Asked if he considered Congress a sieve because of the leaks, Vance replied sharply: "No. I don't consider Congress to be a sieve."
Sen. John Sparkman, D-Ala., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, interjected: "Nothing has leaked out of this committee. That is a good thing. A witness has the right to feel that what he says will be held in confidentiality."
"I appreciate that," Vance replied.
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Times-Star editor quits; editorial director named
KANAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—W. W. Baker, editor of the Kansas City Star and Times for the past 10 years, announced his resignation yesterday.
Baker, who was named president of the Kansas City Star Co. two years ago, said he had completed the task he agreed to undertake when the newspapers were sold to Capital Cities Communications in February.
In a separate announcement, Gerald Garcia Jr., a former editor at the Fort Worth, Texas, Star-Telegram, was named to the new position of director of editorial operations for the two newspapers. At the time of his appointment, Garcia was assistant morning edition editor of the Fort Worth newspaper.
BAKER, WHO HAS been on the Kansas City newspapers' staff for more than 30 years, said in a statement that he had assured the new owners that he would
"In my opinion, the transition has been completed and I have contributed as much as I could to the process," Baker said. "I have worked cooperatively with Jim Hale and with Capital Cities in spite of some differences in philosophy and procedure. I believe that we have the interest of the newspapers would best be served if I moved on."
remain as long as necessary to assist in a smooth transition of ownership.
"It was the efforts of men like Mr. Baker and others who carried on the tradition of the founder, the late William Rockill Nelson, that made the Star a great institution," he said, who possesses more integrity, honesty and compassion for his fellow man," Hale said.
BAKER, 56, said he had no definite plans for the future.
Hale, board chairman and chief executive of the Star, called Baker a man of the hour.
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