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Wednesday, April 23.1980
Capsules
From the Kansan's Wire Services
Competitive oil demand forecast
WASHINGTON—CIA Director Stanfield Turner said yesterday that potentially "vicious" competition would develop over the next decade for a division of the CIA.
In a rare public forecast of the international energy outlook, Turner preoccupies itself with oil over the next few years, putting increased pressure on already tight MIDI oil supply.
Asked if a major cutoff of Middle Eastern oil to the United States was likely during the 1800s, the CIA chief said it "certainly can happen."
ighing oil supply.
Turner said that before the end of 1980, Soviet oil production—11.7 million barrels last year—will peak.
As the Soviets begin looking for new sources of supply, Russian leaders will be forced to make "extremely painful" economic, political and military choices.
Even without a war or crisis in the Middle East, Turner said, there would be a shortage of oil on the world market during the 1980s.
He said, "Moscow is already making the point that Middle Eastern oil is not the exclusive preserve of the West."
Former Liberian officials killed
MONROVIA. Liberia - A firing squad of riflemen and machine-gunners escorted by thousands of liberian soldiers and civilians executed 13 top officers of the National Guard.
Those shot included former Foreign Minister Cecil Dennis and Frank Tolbert, older brother of assassinated President William Tobler, as well as the chief justice, the speaker of the House and the chairman of the party that for a century governed Liberia, lone America's closest African friend.
They had been sentenced to death by a five-man military tribunal that declared them guilty of high treason, rampant corruption and gross violation of human rights. They had been allowed no defense counsel and were given no details of the charges against them.
The executions may have been the opening round of a bloody purge of the regime by the military men, led by Master Sig. Samuel K. Doe, who topped the executioners' ranks.
Seventy-one other former officials have been brought before the tribunal on the same charges and face possible death sentences.
March prices rose 1..4 percent
WASHINGTON - Inflation surged in March at a near record 18 percent annual rate for a third straight month as consumer prices advanced sharply across a broad range of goods, from food to clothing, the government reported yesterday.
The steep 1.4 percent rise in consumer prices during March, matching the January and February increases, came even as the economy was believed to have entered a recession. However, government and private economists said the downturn would not ease inflationary pressures at the consumer level for several months.
March price increases for gasoline, other energy products and medical care were the smallest this year. At the same time, inflation worsened in other areas, suggesting that sharp prices limited mainly to energy and interest rates were now spilling over into the rest of the economy.
Food prices jumped 1 percent after two months of virtually no change. Housing costs registered the biggest increase in at least 13 years. Price increases for clothing were the largest since at least 1947, and the rise in entertainment costs was the largest in nearly six years.
R. Robert Russell, director of the president's Council on Wage and Price Stability, told a congressional committee that the Carter administration still was looking for a "marked decline" in the rate to about 10 percent a year this summer.
House approves draft plan
WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives gave its approval yesterday to President Carter's plan to register millions of young men for the draft this
The House passed a measure to supply $13.1 million to revitalize the dormant Selective Service System and clear the way for registration of about 4 million young men.
House approval of the draft registration proposal came on a preliminary vote before House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill had predicted the measure would pass.
Although the House approved the registration plan, it would take further congressional action to institute an actual draft.
Under Carter's plan, young men born in 1960 and 1961 would be required to register for the draft at post offices across the country.
Carter's registration request had sparked anti-draft protest demonstrations reminiscent of but less volatile than those of the Vietnam War years, but the vote brought no response from the House galleries, where there appeared to be anti-draft age visitors watching the legislators.
The registration question now goes to the Senate, where Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., has vowed to try to filibuster it to death.
Tanker sinks passenger ferry
MANILA, Philippines—An inter-island passenger-cargo ferry, with at least 878 persons aboard sank in the central Philippine last night after a collision with an oil tanker, but the tanker and a sister ship reported rescuing 817 survivors.
Pelrod Limbad, a dispatcher for the Philippine National Oil Co., said the two tankers also recovered 17 bodies from the shark-infested Tailas Strait.
Rescue officials in Manila said they were told the ferry, the Don Juan, carried 878 passengers and crew members. But the ship's owner, the Negros Navigation Co., told the Philippine News Agency there were 802 passengers and 88 crew members, and a total of 890.
There was no indication that any foreigners were aboard.
southern bank in 1,800 to 2,400 feet of water in the strait 130 miles southwestern. It was it rammed by the national oil company's tanker Tacolban City, the news agency reported.
Listes list the worst peace-time marine disaster in this century as the ashes of 1912, and Haiti. It struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic on April 14, 1912, and I S.J. Crane died in the crash.
The news agency said the Don Jona, about 300 feet long and 1,327 feet, was placed in a side between two hatchles on a run to Racelo City, in the central Philippines.
Titan II leak causes evacuation
POTIN--A small cloud of poison vapor hovered over an Air Force Titan I missile silo for eight hours yesterday after fuel oxidizer leaked from a missile topped with a nuclear warhead, officials said. A total of 16 nearby farms were evacuated.
A maintenance crew sent to the site in rural south-central Kansas traced the leak, then drilled a hole in the fuel on the missile's second stage, said a spokesman at McCann Air Force Base.
The leak, described as a "small stream of oxidizer," was stopped yesterday afternoon when the crew removed and replaced a valve part.
A Force information office said that the Air Force would continue to monitor and that it was preparing to propellant from the missile and replace it.
Residents were allowed to return to their homes late in the afternoon.
Weather...
Temperature will be cooler today with increasing cloudiness, according to
the weather report. The high will be in the upper 60%, with winds north-
westerly at 10-20 mph.
Skies tonight will be cloudy with a chance of showers. The low will be about 45.
Tomorrow's temperatures will be much cooler, with the high at about 60.
Republicans filling local Kansas House ballot
Two years ago, Douglas County Republicans lost two of three state election races. But things are looking up this year, they say.
Staff Reporter
By BLAKE GUMPRECHT
Already, local Republicans appear to have found someone to fill every place on the ballot in the four Kansas candidates races. In some cases, candidates or an alternate in each district.
But as the June 20 filing deadline draws closer, the races are beginning to take shape.
"I feel much more positive now than I did a few years ago," Longstrom, chairman of the committee, said yesterday. "We were very disappointed in (1978) but I really think this is going to be a good year."
ONLY THE spot for Douglas County's state Senate seat remains on the GOP side. Democrat Arnold Berman now occupies the seat.
Lawrence City Commissioner Barkley Clark, Douglas County Commissioner Beverly Bradley and Mary Lou Humphrey, state coordinator for Rep. John Anderson's presidential campaign, had all considered changing Berman but have decided not to run.
Meanwhile, Douglas County Democrats have not yet found any candidates for the two legislative slots not currently held by Democrats.
Races in the 45th District and the county's new 46th District promise to be two of the
hottest this fall. As many as seven candidates may run for the two seats.
Two Republicans are expected to challenge incumbent Rep. John Solbach (Dem.) in the 46th District.
KU's Glenn McGonnie, 63, director of physics and astronomy labs, announced this month that he would seek the seat. He is rejoined University at the conclusion of this semester.
KEN SYNTAY, a 21-year-old part-time political science student and local realtor, also is expected to run, according to him, that he will not officially announced his candidacy.
Snyder, who has registered a campaign organization with the state so he can receive contributions, said yesterday that he would decide whether to run in about two weeks.
Snyder has been active in state politics since junior high school, working on the campaigns of Rep. Larry Winn and former Gov. Bill Clinton among others. He was a full-time student until graduation.
Langstrom said that Snyder would have the edge in the August Republican primary if he decided to run.
"He's been very active and I think he's the stronger of the two candidates." he said.
Although no candidates have officially announced in the 48th District, as many as three Democrats may run.
STATE REP. Betty Jo Charlton, who represents the 44th District, is expected to run, according to David Berkowitz.
chairman of the county's Democratic Party
chairman of the county's Democratic Party. Charlson's district was changed by the governor, which shifted district lines and gave Douglas County a fourth representative.
Lawrence City Commissioner Donald Bins and Jim Supa, also have considered the race. Supa lost two years ago by 2013 against Lawrence's only Republic representative.
Binns said yesterday that he would decide in about a week.
On the GP side, Willie Amison, who was narrowly defeated by Mike Glover in the 44th District two years ago, may run.
"Willie wants to run again," Lungstrum said. "There's a very good chance he will." IF AMISON does not run, Lungstrum
said, Bill Halverson, Lawrence senior and Douglas County coordinator for Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign, probably would enter the race.
Democrats have yet to announce candidates for the remaining two House races, the 43rd and 44th District races.
Vogel is expected to decide early next month whether to seek a 100% term in his lawsuit against the insurance broker Dave Miller is expected to run in the Kirk District, which was KU's first major client.
Two Republican-Lawrence attorney Wint Winter, Jr. and Douglas County State Lieutenant Andre Armbrister have announced their candidacy in the 4th District.
City to reconsider alley paving
The city commission voted last month to reconsider their approval of a plan to pave streets between Ohio and Louisiana street 1276 in New Orleans at the request of six local property owners.
The apartment owners and other nearby residents had requested the paving, saying there was a problem with dust and traffic.
dwellings moving into a single-family area, causing a problem and then expecting the single-family owners to subsidize them."
The owners said they were not aware that the paving was being considered when the city commission voted on the plan last week.
Commissioner Don Binns said, 'I'm getting a little tired of these multiple-family
Bonny deNoyelles, 1732 Louisiana St., said the paving would benefit only the apartment owners at the end of the alley.
The commission also voted to defer until next week consideration of a proposal by 12 lawrence realtors.
The realtors requested that the commission approve the sale of industrial revenue bonds to create a $25 million pool of funds to help people finance home mortgages.
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