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Fridav. March 21. 1980
University Daily Kansan
-UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN-
Capsules From the Kansas's Wire Services
Bush. Kennedy behind in East
ALBANY, N.Y.—Even on the home turf of native Easterners Edward M. Kennedy and George Bush, the largest part of the biggest delegate total so far this year—in New York and Connecticut—is likely to go to President Carter and Ronald Reagan.
A total of 338 delegates to the Democratic National Convention and 158 Republican convention delegates will be chosen in Tuesday's primaries.
Hillman has been campaigning heavily in New York since before he lost the historic 1964 election, and has only primary victory in his home state. Carter has won seven primaries only
Bush has campaigned almost constantly in Connecticut knowing that a severe loss in that state, where he was reared and his family was long active politically, would be regarded as the end of the road for his candidacy for the GOP nomination.
Committee urges spending cuts
WASHINGTON—The House Budget Committee, cutting spending even deeper than its chairman had recommended, proposed yesterday a 118th fiscal budget.
The committee approved the proposed $611.8 billion budget on an 11-6 vote, with only liberal Democrats opposing the spending package.
The proposed budget, which now goes to the full House, recommends a $1. billion cut in the military spending level proposed by President Carter. It also suggests an end to Saturday mail deliveries and other spending cuts totaling more than $16 billion.
The committee's Republican minority joined with moderate Democrats to approve the spending package after the panel endorsed a GOP plan to use the $10.3 billion from Carter's import fee on gasoline for a "productivity" tax cut to encourage business investment.
The panel went beyond the cuts recommended by its chairman, Rep. Robert N. Glaimo, D-Dem, in supporting elimination of all $200 million for government spending.
Connallu wonders endorsement
MANHATTAN—Former Texas Gov. John Connally said yesterday that his endorsement for president would soon be announced, but that whomever he selected will be the winner.
Speaking at a Landon Lecture at Kansas State University, Connally said, "I haven't tended any once yet. I probably will do so within a few days." He then noted that the lecture was proposed by
Connally also told reporters that new economic policies proposed by President Carter could force a depression if pursued.
Connally said that the president's war on inflation was "woefully inadequate" and would not stem the tides of inflation.
Carter has not actually reduced overall federal spending during the 1980-81 budgetary period, but has only rearranged the fixtures. Connally charged
Carter's record will give Republicans an excellent chance to capture the Senate and improve their numbers in the House in the upcoming election,
Commonly warned that if what he called weaknesses in American industrial, economic, military and energy positions were left unchanged, this nation's role would have been severely reduced.
Senators study waste storage
TOPEKA-A federal nuclear waste official yesterday told a Senate panel that the salt mine near Lyons were more than sufficient to safely store it.
R. Dale Smith, chief of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's low-level waste branch, compared the salt mines, where waste could be buried a thousand feet underground, to the shallow land burial technique used by the only three low-level radioactive waste dumps currently operating in the country.
At those dumps, low-level wastes are buried in 10-feet deep trenches and covered with dirt, he said.
Rickano Corp. has filed an application with the state for permission to store low-level radiative industrial wastes in the salt mines.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is considering a House-passed bill that would give lawmakers power over licenses for low-level waste dumps. Currently, the dumping of high-level radioactive waste is the responsibility of a federal agency and the state has no say about it.
Smith assured the committee that if Rickano were granted a license, it could not later be changed to allow dumping of more dangerous, high-level water.
Bill encourages methane use
WASHINGTON—Running fleets of vehicles like cars or delivery trucks on liquid natural gas instead could save up to a million barrels of oil a day, and avoid accidents.
But, Glickman, D-Kan., said, the value of LNG, or methane, in reduced oil consumption has been overlooked. He was joined by a dozen other congressmen in proposing legislation to encourage the development of methane as a vehicle fuel.
our unit would provide $15 million in federal funds over a three-year period for research and development of methane for vehicle use, including work in the area of safety, and for partial financing of some 90 demonstration projects across the nation.
American Gas Association President George Lawrence said that, compared to gasoline, liquid natural gas as a vehicle fuel has lower pollution levels, higher octane rating and double the miles-per-gallon, all at less than half the mileage that about $1,200 to convert a standard car to on液 natural gas, he said.
Wichita 'poet' continues threats
WICHITA-Police continued searching yesterday for a mysterious man called the "post" who has harassed and threatened a 49-year-old woman with stunner gas.
KAKE television Wednesday received a letter for the second time this month from a man about whom police have sketchy details. A letter was mailed to the station two weeks ago and contained threats aimed at the woman, Ruth Finley, and two politicians, Capt. Mike Hill and Capt. Bernie Drowkeyt, who were arrested.
The man described to be between 45 and 50 years old, has written more than 24 letters since the first of the year. Three letters have been mailed to the police department since the television station received its first one, Hill said.
Finley's husband said neither he nor his wife wanted to discuss the case because they did not want the "poet" to know anything else about them.
Krypton gas escapes from plant
Yesterday's incident, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission termed "very mindful" came hours after 590 angry area residents screamed curses at the officers.
HARISBURG, Pa.-Operators of the crippled Three Mile Island nuclear plant suspect cleanup activities "kicked up" nuclear particles, causing the latest release of a small amount of radioactive gas over the Pennsylvania countryside.
"It represents no potential hazard to the off-site population," John Collins, the senior NRC official at Three Mile Island, assured resident of the latest report.
Metropolitan-Edison Co. spokesman David Klusick said technicians suspected cleanup activities inside the crippled reactor's auxiliary building were to blame for the release, which began at 1 a.m. yesterday and lasted for seven hours.
"We think there is a good possibility that cleanup projects in the auxiliary building kicked up some radioactive particulates that led to increase in air pollution," he said.
Weather...
Sunny, breezy and mild weather in the 60s will accompany 10-20 mph southly winds today according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
will be covered by party counsel with the high risk in the ind.
The extended forecast calls for a chance of showers on Sunday
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—A judge sent 62 more striking firefighters to jail Thursday and prosecutors filed contempt citations against more than 700 other firemen for violating a no-strike order in the city's nearly 900 union firefighters.
62 more firefighters jailed in KC
The court action brought to the number imprisoned so far in the festering dispute. No hearings were scheduled on the new contempt citations filed late Thursday.
that he believed the city and firefighters could agree on a program to re-employ the 42 firefighters dismissed during an earlier work slowdown.
Meanwhile, three men—two firefighters and a retired fighter—were accused of stealing firearms from the police, nounced plans to have supervisors from other departments join police in fighting
In the meantime, some striking firemen are working on a plan to temporarily return to duty when major fires break out within the city, a union spokesman said yesterday.
"The city's senseless gamble with lives of Kansas Cains makes them innocent victims if fire breaks out and trained rescues are not available." Racuallus charred.
Local and national officials of the International Association of Firefighters said groups of union members would be formed in alarm at fires that appealed to threaten lives.
Firefighters have opened four "life safety stations," and are monitoring fire calls and will respond to alarms threatening lives, equipment or property. The International Association of Firefighters.
Missouri Gov. Joseph P. Teasale, who
took to Kansas City Wednesday to offer
his help in the four-day-old strike, said after a meeting with union attorneys yesterday
HOWEVER, THE president of the union local said the terms outlined by Teasale for requalification of the fired men were not acceptable.
"We are down to whether we can get eight people re-employed," Teasdale told reporters after the meeting.
City officials met with the governor a short time later, and Personnel Director Thomas Lewinson told reporters. "I don't know if we are no closer to a settlement that I know of."
Lewinson also said he told the governor termination officials that he had taken the job. Mr. Jobson would be mailed today. He said previously that the notices were irreovable once they were posted.
The personnel director said 60 to 70 firefighters had resigned in the past few days and he urged others in jeopardy of the fire department to join the firefighters who resigned were eligible for re-employment without going through the requalification process, which has been described as a stumbling block for the 42 firefighters because of the 45-year age limit on applications.
"The basic issue here, " Treadsaid said, "is that somebody is going to die in this combat zone. This is a situation that to the people involved. I think this long emotional dispute has caused people on both sides to lose sight of the public in Kansas and the nation as a whole." Sidees said that there has been in many months.
The men were also fined $300 each and ordered to pay $18 a day for meals while they remained in custody.
JACKSON COUNTY Circuit Judge
Court of Appeals contended that jail terms for court contempt of court yesterday afternoon. He had sentenced 21 on similar charged earlier in the day and 16 on
A lawyer said later that one of the releases had been released because health reasons and a release because city records showed mistakenly that they were working Monday with the company.
"I feel ashamed of what we are doing here in the city," he said, "to be firefighters. 'It is a shame that the city is prosecuting those men who have put their lives on the line not once, not twice, but every time."
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR John Gibson said content matters for 50 other cases, he gave postpone to today until Monday to give postponement to paper work in the case. Citations have issued for about 300 of the nearly 900 union members said he planned to issue more content matters.
Two firefighters and a retired fireman were charged with felonies yesterday in connection with two grass fires set in the city Wednesday.
Firefighters Frank J. Tierney, 33, andeward R. Philip, 53, spent postponed nights in which they were charged with a fire Wednesday night on the city's south wall.
DALTON W. McNabb, 49, who told police he was a retired fireman, was charged in Clay County with setting a fire Wednesday and on the north side. Bond was set at $1,000.
A striking firefighter, Christopher Gussman, 34, was arrested for disorderly conduct and interfering with a police officer in a scuffled scuffle with a police outside a city fire station. The policeman was one of some 500 officers who have been filling in for the suspect.
Teadale met with city officials and union leaders Wednesday night in Kansas City and said he would remain in the city until the strike was settled. Aides had received a report yesterday morning, and had a series of meetings scheduled during the afternoon.
MEMBERS OF Local 42 of the International Association of Fire Fighters walked off the job Monday evening after the firefighters were dismissed by firefighters dismissed during the last slowdown. Union officials have said firemen would not return until the 42 men are
City police, aided by nounion fire,
department personnel), continued to provide:
fire protection, while National Guard troop
provided security at the city's fire stations.
World Court hears hostage case
Police Chief Norman Caron told the City, council yesterday that there had been 68 fires in the previous 24 hours, compared with 21 for the same date last year. Police said there were 14 confirmed arson fires and 35 others. The city's average a year of 19 arson fires per day.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP)—The U.S. government, appealing for an urgent U.N. investigation, hosted hostages, wagered yesterday that Iran might increase its defensibility and merely undermine world peace.
"No one in this courtroom has any way of knowing whether the Ayatollah Khomeini will continue to hold the hostages in captivity, or to hold the year for a or decade," he said.
"The signals which now are coming out of In-terior China are alarming," hostages may continue indefinitely. Robert B. Owen, State Department legal adviser, told the International Court of Justice on Friday.
OWEN DID not elaborate on what the leaders were referring to the disagreements and indecision among Iranian leaders about whether and when the hostages might be freed.
Concluding the United States' case, which first was put before the court Nov. 29, Owen said tenuous U.S. hopes for a quick release of the student. "I don't know when a U.N. investigative commission
visiting Tehran was frustrated in its mediation mission.
HE SAID the court, the main legal arm of the United Nations, was the most promising hope for the ultimate release of Haiti, and he called for a swift final judgment.
If it becomes clear that a country like Iran can seize diplomatic agents and hold them hostage for indefinite periods of time in order to coerce desired political action, it will be a complete unraveling of the fabric of a successful international relations." Owens said.
Owen's presentation to the 15-member court ended three days prior to the hearing. The D.J.S. case detail. The court now will consider the case in private and will issue a judgment, but it probably cannot be done.
hostages, who have spent 138 days in the hands of young Moslem militants holding the U.S. Embassy.
Signs grew in Tehran, meanwhile, of definite delays in any action to free the
Revolutionary leader Khomeini said that the new Iranian Parliament must decide the hostages' fate, but vote counting in last Friday's first round of parliamentary elections was going more slowly than anticipated, pointing to new delays in the election process. The Iranian officials had said the question would probably be taken up in mid-May.
The ruling Revolutionary Council named a commission to investigate the allegations, and President Abolbadass Bani-Sadt met yesterday with Khomeini to discuss them.
HOMENI, in a Persian new year holiday, was one of the groups have caused group of fraud in last Friday's voting. Such loud complaining before the rest of the world is anti-Islamic.
Afterward, Bani-Sadr told the Iranian news agency Nars News that nullifying the entire election was out of the question and that the vote was only in those towns where fraud was proved.
IN WASHINGTON, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, apparently concerned over increasing public anger among U.S. politicians, told reporters that American attempt to end the crisis by sending a bomb to create an explosion in the entire Middle East.
Waldheim also said, however, that he had received indications in recent days that the crisis would be resolved regardless of the election outcome. He did not elaborate.
RepublicanSen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, in a statement Wednesday endorsed Senator Mike Pence and Baker, called on the Carter administration to prepare for a naval blockade of Iran and Iraq.
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