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Monday, October 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Panama votes on treaties
PANAMA CITY (AP)—Panamanians crowded polls in schools, churches and stores throughout the country yesterday in a national referendum that was expected to endorse the Panama Canal treaties negotiated with the United States.
The ballots will be tallied by hand at the legislative palace. A simple majority is needed to pass the treaties. The government would announce the official count Thursday.
massive turnout and that he felt certain the vote would be favorable.
"I'VE ALWAYS been very certain about how this will end up. Ive never been inside."
"I've been waiting all my life, for 48 years, to walk to this plebiscite," he said, as he strolled a few blocks with his wife, Raquel, and their four children to a school to vote. Thousands of Pananarians cheered him as he arrived.
Torrijos, who seized power in 1969, said 13 years of negotiations had focused world attention on Panama and convinced the world that "we may not have the strength to defend the canal, but we have the strength to destroy it."
The canal's future was the first nationwide political issue debated publicly since the Torrijos coup. He and his government campaigned for the treaties but encouraged opponents to speak out, even buying televisions and television time for antitrust appeals.
Treaty opponents, led by the 30-member Independent Lawyers Movement and leftist students, predicted vote fraud. The lawyers had argued that court distribution lists made it easy to duplicate votes.
VOTERS WERE fingerprinted and required to present national identification cards, encased in plastic, which were punched as they passed an election table
outside the voting booths. Their names were recorded, and they were given an envelope to return.
Three dozen international observers invited by Fortorjos were here to witness the meeting.
The treaties, signed Sept. 7 in Washington by Torriosjos and President Jimmy Carter, also must be ratified by a two-thirds vote of Senate, where they face stiff opposition.
The main document provides for U.S. surrender of the American-built waterway to Panama by the year 2000. A companion treaty declares the canal a neutral zone and allows U.S. military intervention if its security is threatened.
Torrios jaws U.S. senators should realize the treaty "goes beyond their electoral district. They're playing with the luck of maritime navigation all over the world."
Humphrey returns to Washington
WASHINGTON (AP)-Hubert H. Humphrey returned to the capital for the first time yesterday since doctors declared his cancer imperable, getting a taxi ride aboard Air Force One with President Jimmy Carter.
Humphrey said he was ready "to raise as much trouble as I can."
When they landed at Andrews Air Force Base, Carter signed a bill naming the headquarters building of the Department of Education and Welfare for Humphrey.
Carter capped a two and one-half day cross-country tour with a simple ceremony at the Minnesota airport for the senator has served as mayor of Minneapolis, vice president of the United States and the Democratic Party's presidential candidate in 1968.
"This is a great honor for our government and the Department of Health, Education and Care."
VICE PRESIDENT Walter F. Mondale and his wife had boarded the plane at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
On the runway, a crowd of about 40 Humphrey staffers and their families applauded as Humphrey, gaud and walking with a hall, came to them to shake hands.
Energy forum scheduled
A public forum on "Energy and the
Future" will take place at 30 tonight in the
Lincoln Public Library (109th Street,
Washington, D.C.).
the speakers will be Mayor Marine Argensterian, Tom Dean, professor of architecture and urban design, and Bill Ucassus Power and Light energy consultant.
The forum, sponsored by the Douglas County chapter of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), is being held in observance of U.N. Day, an annual celebration of the anniversary of the U.N.
*THE IDEA OF the organization is to help citizens be informed, to have ideas and to speak for them.*
The local chapter of UNA-USA meets several times a year. Stene said future topics would be human rights and disarmament.
"We can increase our influence in the United Nations and in Washington if the UNA-USA can show increasing interest and engagement in international issues being voted on," Stene said.
The local chapter offers reduced student membership dues of $5 to encourage student participation, Stene said. Regular membership dues are $10.
"The Geneva conference is to deal with substantive matters and the substance is
Saudi minister advocates PLO presence at Geneva
NEW YORK (UPI)—Prince Saad al- Faisal, foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, said yesterday that if the Israelis wanted peace in the Middle East, they would have to accept the Palestinians and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) across the bargaining table in the proposed Geneva conference.
Staff Writer
H. L. Mitchell, lifetime Socialist and labor leader, said yesterday that he considered himself to be one of the "grandfathers" of the National Farm Labor Union movement
Mitchell, president of the first National Farm Labor Union affiliated with the AFL-CIO from 1946 to 1960, said that many of history's labor problems still exist today.
really peace and not to get together for an exercise in debate. If the Israeli want peace and are sincere in their pursuit of peace, he should make sure that he in order to achieve that peace," he said.
By BRUCE WELLS
"THIS IS ONE of the grets; days of my life to be able to come back to Minnesota to join with the greatest American that I know, the No. 1 Democrat in our country, and a man who has been admired and is admired throughout the world," Carter said.
Humphrey will make his first appearance on the Senate floor in more than two months at 2 p.m. next Tuesday, and that event also probably will be occasion for a ceremony.
"Small farmers still have to buy more land, or new machinery, or get other jobs if they're going to make it," he said. "Migrant farmers have the problems they have always had."
After shaking hands all-around, the highway flew with Carter in a helicopter to New York.
the prince, who will confer with President Jimmy Carter at the White House tonight, made his comments in a television interview on CRIS'S "Face the Nation."
The 71-year-old Socialist was a friend and associate of the late Socialist leader Norman Thomas. In 1894, he helped found the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the nation's first interacial organizations.
Humphrey was told his cancer was inoperable after he had surgery in Minneapolis.
Farmers union founder to speak on U.S. history
Mitchell will discuss "The Understory of
the City," at 7 p.m. in Room 112 of Blake Hall.
At the Minneapolis airport, Carter spoke of the man known as "the Hanov Warrior."
"I know no one who exemplifies what our nation stands for better than he."
In his presentation, Mitchell will show a seven-minute "March of Time" film, "The Land of Cotton, Issues of August, 1936." He will speak on topics that deal primarily with the plight of the small tenant farmers and southern labor unions in America.
"WE WERE KIND of the grandfathers of the movement that exists now," he said.
"It is these ideals, these attitudes, that I share so much with the President," Humphrey said. "A great faith in the nation, in our people, a faith in our institutions of government, and a knowing that we have to get to work it and never give in and never give up."
Mittell said his organization had to fight a Louisiana court's decision based on his report of the strike. The report striked at Mr. Obama's right to "join together and act in concert."
He added that he met Nixon in 1949, when nixon, a congressman, went investigating a bombing in New York.
Humphrey was released recently from a Minnesota hospital where he underwent that
James Titus, professor of political science, said that Mitchell was one of the most respected labor militants of the South for 35 years.
"I am happy to report to you that I feel so much better," he said. "Everything, of course, is relative. But I am doing mighty good considering what we have been there getting back to Washington is doing great. That is what my doctors have told me.
Mitchell said he held no great affection for former-President Richard M. Nixon.
The decision was reversed by the U.S.
Supreme Court in 1955. Mitchell said.
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The House bill would add six million federal, state and local government workers to the Social Security system as of January 2013.
Energy, Social Security on Congressional agenda
The purpose of the workshop is to encourage freshmen and sophomore women to major in science, mathematics and work with students in the KKW workshop coordinator, said recently.
JUST HOW this would be done is not clear, however. Reps. Gladys Spellman, D-Md., and Joseph Fisher, D-Va., whose districts include many government workers, are expected to try to eliminate this section of the bill.
The $40-billion package of tax credits for energy conservation and production won approval Friday from the Senate Finance Committee and is scheduled for Senate debate from tomorrow through the end of the week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will debate the tax part of President Jimmy Carter's energy package this week, and the House will consider a proposal to finance the Social Security system.
The bill is a substitute for the energy taxes Carter initially proposed to force conservation and reduce U.S. reliance on oil
But regardless of what the Senate does, the legislation will be sent to a joint House-Senate committee that already has begun work on a compromise between the different energy bills passed by each house.
No general financing from the Treasury would be p>vided to bail out the funds, but the bill would permit temporary debt restructuring.
The House bill would force energy conservation by raising taxes, but the finance committee bill would reward those who conserve and provide greater incentives for increased energy production.
The tax part of the final compromise energy bill probably will include some of the taxes passed by the House and some of the Senate.
They would substitute a study to work out the details for an eventual merging of the various government retirement income programs.
ALTHOUGH THE House passed Carter's energy package almost intact, the Senate has made drastic revisions.
The Social Security proposal that the House will take up is aimed at reselling the financial problems of the system, which are often in crisis.
A women's science careers workshop, funded by the National Science Foundation, will be held today and tomorrow at the Kansas Union.
This workshop is the second that the foundation has funded at the University of Kansas. The first was in 1972 and was attended by school high school women interested in the sciences.
Women interested in attending may contact the dean of women's office in 220
A different proposal to answer the Social Security system's financial problems is before the Senate Finance Committee. Under that bill, Social Security taxes would be raised by $285 on employers and middle and upper-income workers on employers and middle and upper-income workers.
Unless action is taken, the system's trust fund for disability
"We have noticed that this program did make a difference in the number of women who participated."
benefits will be exhausted in 1979, and a second one covering old age and survivors' insurance will run out of money in 1983.
She said that women with high ACT scores had been invited specially to attend the workshop but that it was open to all freshmen and sophomore women,
Sciences workshop to acquaint women with career options
Employers and employees now pay the same $965 maximum as workers. But the finance committee proposal would end that so-called parity by raising an employer's share to as much as $2,88 by 1985. The amount paid by employers also would increase, but not as much. The House bill would retain the employer-employee parity.
Congress originally hoped to adjourn this month, but the timetable has been changed to clean up unfinished business.
Julie Lutz, assistant professor of astronomy at Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., will be the Workshop's keynote speaker.
Winn lists spin-off benefits from U.S. space program
Winn's remarks followed the dedication of the Larry Winn Jr. Congressional Space Exhibit at the University of Kansas. The exhibit is a collection of personal and institutional artifacts related to the space program and several items on loan from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Houston and from the Smithsonian Institution in New York. There are also on permanent exhibit in the University's Space Technology Center in Nichols Hall.
Listing a number of spin-off benefits as results of the nation's space program, U.S. Rep. Larry Winn, R-Kan, Saturday reaffirmed his support for the program.
Examples of spin-off benefits are
weather-monitoring satellites and satellites
monitoring land use and resources, Winn said.
"They improve the quality of life for all people and they are all direct or indirect results of a quest of knowledge of the universe." he said.
Winn said that individual programs of the space administration should be approved because of merit and that those not up to par should be rejected.
But he said that just because programs may not appear to have immediate application to society's problems, they should not be condemned.
Winn, a KU graduate, collected the more than 75 items in the display during his years as a member of the House Science and Engineering Committee of the Science and Astronautics Committee.
A Kansas City, Mo., man was wounded Saturday night in Lawrence when he was robbed at knifepoint as he was walking to a store where his daughter was tavern, Lawrence police said yesterday.
Man robbed and wounded
asking for a cigarette, knocked down Roberts and took his wallet.
Raymond Roberts told police that a black man at 6-foot-4 approached him near the apartment building.
Roberts reportedly struggled with the robber, who pulled a knife, cut Robbers on the arm and fled. A total of $3 was missing from the wallet, which was left behind.
Roberts was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Police said that Roberts was taking care of the injured.