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Wednesday, March 5. 1980
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From the Kansas's Wire Services
Vance takes blame for 'foul-up'
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance took responsibility for a U.N. resolution that was critical of Israel's occupation of Jerusalem.
The U.S. vote in favor of the resolution touched off a diplomatic and political furor. President Carter issued a statement Monday night saying the vote had been an error and was cast with the mistaken belief that references to Jerusalem had been deleted.
State Department spokesman Hodder Carling said yesterday that Vance was taking responsibility for the "foul-up" and that President Carter's instructions on how to vote on the issue were not transmitted correctly to Donald McHenry, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Following Saturday's U.N. vote, the Israeli cabinet, meeting in Jerusalem, formally rejected the Security Council resolution, which called for dismantling all old and new Jewish settlements in occupied Arab territory. The Israeli cabinet expressed dismay over the U.S. vote.
Prime rate hits record high
NEW YORK—With businesses still lining up to borrow money despite high interest rates, major banks yesterday raised their prime lending rates to a record 4.1%.
The increase, first announced by the Chase Manhattan Bank and matched by nearly every major bank, came in response to new signs that the Federal
"The Federal Reserve is now telling us it is aiming for a recession," said William Gibson, an economist with the Wall Street firm of Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. "It's trying to do whatever it takes to slow down the economy."
The prime charge is charged by banks on loans to their credit-worthy corporate borrowers. It stood at 15 % per cent in 2019 when the Federal Reserve raised its interest rate.
Other industrial and commercial borrowers pay more than the prime rate, in some cases more than 28 percent. But the demand for loans has grown recently.
The prime rate does not directly affect rates on consumer loans, but is watched as an indicator of short-term interest rates.
... change in rates this week came after the Federal Reserve acted to reduce the amount of reserves available to banks, and thereby reduce the amount of money lending.
Khomeini consents to meeting
Ayatollah Ruhbalah Khomeni yesterday overruled franilian militants holding American hostages inside the U. E. Embassy in Tehran, consenting to a meeting between the approximately 50 captives and a U.N. commission investigating the recourse of the elongated sheb. President Abbasban Rani Said said.
The militants said earlier they would not let the five-member panel see the hostages, who began their fifth month in captivity yesterday.
The militants have followed Khomeini's directives in the past. A spokesman for them, contacted by telephone after the council meeting, said they had not been informed of any developments.
Tehran observers had said earlier that the panel members might leave Iran as early as today if they were not allowed to see the hostages.
KPL files for rate increase
TOPEKA-Kansas Power and Light Co. filed application with the Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday for a $37.7 million rate increase.
If approved in the company, the increase would raise retail electric rates for KPI, customers by 17.3 percent.
The residential customer using 750 kilowatt hours of electricity each month would see his monthly bill go up by about $5.80. KPL uses that usage as a guide for pricing. (KPC)
The Topeka-based utility serves 270,000 retail electrical customers in 284 communities of Kansas, including Admonter, Abilene, Emporia, Hutchinson, Mansfield, Monroe, Nebraska, and Wichita Falls.
Tom Taylor, KCC spokesman, said the commission planned to hear the KPL case in late April or early May.
It was the second major rate increase application filed with the commission in 24 hours, with three more expected soon.
The reason for the increase applications is the scheduled coming-on-line May 1 of the second generation unit at the Jeffrey Energy Center near SL Marys and St. Paul's Church in Burlington, VT.
Bill to raise state waaes killed
TOPEKA—The Senate Labor and Industry Committee yesterday killed a bill that would have raised the state's minimum wage from $1.60 to $2.40 an hour.
The painet, headed by State Sen. John Verrillion, K-Independent, defeated the bill in a unanimous decision to break a tie. The bill was amended to state Sen. Barrerman, A Bernard Lawmeyer and
The bill would have raised the minimum wage on jobs not covered by federal pay standards by 80 cents an hour. It also would have reduced the regular work/week from 46 to 40 hours, with any time over 40 hours eligible for overtime compensation.
Opponents of the measure, including the Kansas Association of Commerce and Industry, said they thought the bill would hurt small businesses and "fan
Warmth saves Florida fruit
OHLANDO, F. a.-A surprise late-winter cold snap lifted in time to spare
prove that the nation of the orange's accession to a Florida citrus
region has survived.
As temperature readings stayed above the damaging mid-20s, growers said it appeared that much of the crop was unharmed. They said the price of a glass of water at $14.99 per gallon was about the same.
Although things in the 34-county citrus district seemed better than expected, growers and state inspection teams were out checking black-baked blooms from the market.
Readings dipped near 20 degrees in some areas early in the coldest weather ever to hit the state so late in the year. The cold map was part of a heat advisory issued by the National Weather Service.
Ice and slush found in the premium Valencia crop—vital for the taste and color of frozen concentrated orange juice—was the greatest immediate concern of the 82 billion citrus industry. Cell damage and dehydration could mean a increase in the yield of juice the rapidly maturing crop of 88 million Valencia oranges.
Pupils ask state to honor fish
Members of the school group, appearing before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, said surveys had shown the catfish was the most popular fish among Kansas fishermen. They also extolled the table qualities of channel catfish meat.
No one appeared in opposition to the proposal.
TOPEKA—The channel catfish should be given official status as Kansaas state fish, a group of six-th Grade students from Rosevelt School in Hutchinson
If the children's efforts are successful, the channel cat would join a list of items that have won official "state" designation from the Legislature.
These include the state song, "home on the Range"; state march, "The Kansas March"; state tree, the cottonwood; state bird, the western meadowlark; state flower, the native sunflower; state animal, the American buffalo; and the state insect, the honeybee.
Weather...
It will be cold and cloudy today with a high in the mid 30s, according to the National Weather Service in Windsock. Winds today will be from the north at 10 to 20 mph. The low tonight will be around 10. The high tomorrnow will be in the lower 30s.
The extended forecast calls for rain or snow on Friday with partly cloudy skies on Saturday and Sunday. Hights for the period will be in the 40s and lows
Reagan, Bush get slim victories
BOSTON (AP) - Ronald Reagan defeated Rep. John Anderson in Vermont's presidential early today by a margin so razor-thin that it was subject to an unofficial, morning-after recount. George Bush held an equally slender amateur match, as Anderson mounted a pair of surprisingly stiff GOP primary challenges.
Reagan tied Anderson by 618 votes with 99 percent of Vermont's towns reported. Bush tied Anderson by just more than 1,000 votes of the precincts counted in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Democrats gave Sen. Edward Kennedy a landside victory over President Carter, but Carter swamped Kennedy in Vermont.
The News Election Service, a votabulating service organized by major news agencies and networks, said it would "prepare for an event today because the margin was so small."
The Vermont vote was so close that several news organizations—including the Associated Press—called Anderson the
victor, or Reagan, only to pull back when final returns showed such a narrow margin.
Though trailing narrowly, Anderson was the big gainer in a two primary day. After campaigning as a liberal outlawer, he confrontedentials as a contender in contests to come.
Kennedy was gaining almost two-thirds of Massachusetts' Democratic vote. He told a Boston victory rally that his victory proved the voters' will not tolerate an inflation rate of 28 percent and an interest rate of 17 percent, wagering the wage-freeze price he advocates.
Even as Carter conceded his first defeat to Kennedy, spokesman Jody Powell said Massachusetts "wast a real test" because it was the senator's home state.
Anderson validated his claim that the Republican race has not narrowed to a two-candidate affair between Rush and Bush.
With more than 90 percent of the Massachusetts precincts counted, Anderson and Bush were each gaining 31 percent of the vote, and Reagan 29 percent.
In Vermont, Reagan had 31 percent, Anderson 30 percent and Bush 22 percent.
That left the candidates short of the 40 percent required to win any delegates. They will be chosen later at a state party convention.
The three GOP leaders were to divide about equally most of Massachusetts' 42 Republican delegates.
Reagan and Bush, who had struggled for the relentless mantle of Republican leadership in recent years, could clear leader. This could make it easier for President Ronald R. Ford to enter the presidential race.
Anderson's support was buoyed by a bait, turnout of independent voters in the Republican primaries in both states. That won't be available to him later in closed primaries where only registered Republicans can vote.
With 91 percent of Massachusetts' precincts reporting, the Democratic contest stood:
Kennedy 521,766, or 66 percent.
Carter 229,856, or 29 percent.
California Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. 27,529 or 3 percent.
or 5 percent. The rest were uncommitted.
Kennedy stood to win 77 of Massachusetts' 111 Democratic convention delegates. Carter was leading for the other 34.
On the Republican side, the Massachusetts numbers read:
Anderson 107,072, or 31 percent.
Reagan 100,041, or 29 percent.
Bush 100,000, or 5 percent
Anderson 107,072, or 31 percent.
Tennessee Sen. Howard Baker 17,300 or 5 percent.
Five other candidates had scattered. support
Carter 28,622, or 74 percent.
Kennedy 0.896, or 25 percent.
The returns from Vermont stood this way with 98 percent of the 265 towns reporting in the Democratic primary:
In Vermont's Republican primary, it was:
Ronan 19.41, or 21 percent.
Reagan 19,441, or 31 percent.
Anderson 18,825, or 30 percent.
Bush 14,006,or 23 percent. Baker 7.936,or 13 percent.
Three other entrants were far behind them.
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