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Wednesday, February 20, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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From the Kansan's Wire Services
Court allows welfare abortions
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the federal government to pay for most abortions by women on welfare—at least until the court said it would limit abortions.
In a one-sentence order, the juices refused to sidetrack a federal judge's order forcing the government to pay for medically necessary abortions for poor women. U.S. District Judge John Doining's broad definition of "medically aborted" women requires that health care to include the best interests of a woman's mental and social well-being.
Last month in New York City Dooling struck down as unconstitutional the so-called Hyde amendment, a congressional restriction on Medicaid spending for abortions. The restriction is named after its original sponsor, Rep. Henry Hyde R.J.I
The spending restriction makes money for abortions available only to women whose lives are endangered by their pregnancies and women who are the
The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights bailed the court's action.
Volcker to tighten money supply
WASHINGTON — Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said yesterday that rapid growth of the nation's money supply had been fueling inflation in the United States, and he vowed the growth would stop even though it mounts extremely high interest rates.
He also said there was not my evidence that the economy had been "burlastly squeezed" by high interest rates. On Friday, the board raised its key bank credit rating to "B+".
Volker told the House Banking Committee that he might favor legislation to curb federal spending by limiting it to a limited share of the nation's gross domestic product.
He announced lower targets for growth of the money supply in 1800 than in 1979. They include growth in the basic money supply, now known as M-1A of between 3.5 percent and 6 percent, with a midpoint of 4.75 percent. The basic money supply last year by 5.3 percent.
High interest rates are supposed to slow growth of the money supply by making borrowing more expensive for business and consumers. As borrowing becomes less expensive,
Mud. floods swamp California
Mudslides and flooding spread farther across Southern California yesterday, where a week of storms had already dumped a foot of rain and caused $100
With at least 18 persons dead in California, thousands homeless and dams overflowing in some parts of the state, rain fell relictently for a seventh day.
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. cut short a presidential campaign swing in New England to return home and declare four more counties disaster
Brown, who said his own home in Laurel Canyon was like a swimming pool on the inside, estimated the damage in his state at $100 million.
Fashionable homes were sliding down hillsides giving way in the rain. Roads were blocked, travelers stranded.
California authorities said 769 homes had been damaged, with 27 destroyed, most of them in Los Angeles County.
Homes in the exclusive seaside area of Malibu were threatened by oozing and erosion from heavy surf, which sent one house topping into the ocean
Farmers ease lobbuing tactics
WASHINGTON—Farmers wanting higher crop prices and continued incentives for gasoline are getting good reception in Congress with their toned-down lobbying this year, American Agriculture Movement Chairman Marvin Meke said yesterday.
"They're glad to see us come with our hats and nothing else." Meek said as the AAM opened a two-day convention in Washington to be followed by weeks of activities.
"We put 50,000 farmers up here the first year and 30,000 farmers and 1,200 tractors last year." Meek told hundreds of AAM members as the convention opened. "Behind the congressmen haven't listened. So now we're going to try to slide in. We're going to work with them, lobby them, answer their questions."
Even as the convention opened AAM farmers were buttonholing lawmakers to win support for extension of the four cents-a-gallon fuel tax exemption.
But Meeks said 'the AAM's primary goal remains the same as it has been since the organization was founded three years ago- to achieve 100 percent per capita income.'
Bush-Reagan debate protested
CONCORD, N.H.-Hen. Bob Dole yesterday abandoned his plan to seek a court injunction halting a two-man debate between George Bush and Ronald Reagan. He sought instead to have the debate this Saturday night broadened to include himself.
The Dole camp had threatened last weekend to go to court in New Hampshire to force the debate's sponsor, the Nashn H N. H. Telegraph, to open the forum to him.
Reps. John Anderson and Phil Crane淀粉 of Illinois and Sen. Howard Baker of Campsie also have protected the two-man format. Anderson called on the council to reconsider its status.
Corrone Jones, a Concord, N. H., lawyer who is Dole's state campaign chairman, said that Federal Electoral Commission rules required all corporations, but not unions.
All seven candidates stumping for in New Hampshire's Feb. 26 GOP presidential primary are scheduled to engage in a debate in Manhattan.
Ma Bell aets 11 percent boost
TOPEKA—The Kansas Corporation Commission granted $28.8 million of a request for $47.3 million rate increase by Southwestern yesterday. The request was made on Friday, September 16.
The KCC also held the pay telephone phone rate at the current 10 cents a call. The command had urged that the pay-bohne cost call to 20 cents.
Under the CDC's orders, businesses that have been rated B or C increase their fee and then on such monopoly service as basic residential and business phone service as the company had originally
The rate case originally began in December 1978, then was amended in May and November of 1979. Three weeks of hearings were held in December and
LIBERAL - A brick damp street in Kansas and an overalzous television crew in England helped provide dramatic finales in the annual Shrove Tuesday strenuously played.
BBC trims vancake runners
The dozen Olney women wearing skirts, aprons and scarves ran with their skillets and pancakes over the 415-yard, cobbled course all according to centuries of tradition. While her Kansas counterparts slept, the English women in Iowa watched the High Street-South, past the Swan pub and onto narrow, twisting Church Street.
But five yards short of the finish line a British Broadcasting Corp. station wagon filming the race stopped. So did the racers.
Fans rushed onto the narrow lane to congratulate and surround the racers who tried to squeeze past the BBC crew, which claimed it had permission to enter. The crowd was silent.
In America, hours later, Sheila Turain, a 26-year-old farmwife who holds the record of 58.3 seconds, paced her contestants with a time of 1:03.55.
Mrs. Turner lost her footing on the slippery bricks at the finish and sprawled across the line, skinning her knees.
Weather...
Skies will be partly cloudy with easterly winds 5 to 15 mph and a high near 22, according to the KU Weather Service. It will be mostly cloudy by mid-morning.
Tonight will be cloudy with rain, possibly heavy at times, and a chance of underflooding winds. Winds will be from the northeast at 8 to 12 mph. The
Bani-Sadr appointed Iranian military head
Iran's Ayatollah Rubulah Khomeini turned over his post as commander-in-chief of the armed forces to President Abbasian Bani-Sadr yesterday, stirring speculation that he was planning a 'Embassy in Tehran to replace militias holding the Americans hostage there.
By the Associated Press
Tebran Radio, announcing Bani-Sadi's strengthened authority, quoted the ailing 79-year-old Khominei as saying the apology would power in Iran at this critical moment."
The president has been more moderate in his stand against the United States than have the militants, who have steadily insisted they would not release some 50 Americans from the embassy until the president returned to answer charges of corruption.
Since his election, Bani-Sadr has spoken out strongly against the militants' independent power and has sought to gain the upper hand in the crisis.
An indication that the militants were softening their stand came in a report from the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjur. It said a statement issued yesterday by the militants was, for the first time, not explicit enough to warrant it being turned before the hostages could be released.
Tanjung did not elaborate, but it quoted the militants as saying they had neither accepted nor rejected the five-member insurrection up to investigate charges against the sham.
The investigative panel, chosen by U.N.
Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim,
has been considered one step in a package of
requirements leading to release of the hostages, who spent their 108th day in captivity yesterday.
No timetable has been announced, but the hotel would be able to announce. The Press newspaper as saying, that the investigation would take one to two weeks and that the hostages would be released in the meantime.
Bani-Sadr said yesterday that Khomeini had approved the final terms of the commission and its convening in Tehran.
Two members of the commission were reported to be in Geneva, Switzerland, and the other three were expected to arrive this morning, U.N. officials said. They said the commission members and a small group would leave Geneva for Tehran this morning.
Reliable sources say commission members will be French lawyer Edmond Ambassador from Algiers, Benjamin Ambassador Venezuela's former ambassador to Washington, W. Jaywarden, one Sr. Ambassador to Syria and Syrian diplomat Adib Daohy.
Common Market urges neutrality in Afghanistan
ROME (AP)—The nine-nation European Common Market called yesterday for an international guarantee that the US and Russia Moscow to withdraw from that country.
At the same time, the foreign ministers at the meeting met with the respondees any joint response to the boycott of the Moscow Olympics until the Soviets replied to the neutrality plan, and agreed.
In a statement following a day-long meeting here, the ministers declared that the Afghan crisis could be overcome constructively through an arrangement that allowed a neutral Afghanistan to be involved in the competition among the powers.
"Obviously, the Western nations are offering a face-saving device for the Soviet Union to pull out gracefully," said Koch, who officialized who asked not to be identified.
British and West German officials said the proposal, put forward by British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, had
been discussed with the U.S. government in advance.
Carrington told a news conference that and is mind the mode used to guard the borders of Iraq in 1985 the four major powers—the United States, the Soviet Union, France and Germany.
"It's a constructive suggestion for solving what so far has been an in-progress effort, but it is the support of a great number of neutral, non-aligned and Islamic countries who are very worried about what the Soviet Union has done in Afghanistan,"
The nine Common Market countries, formally called the European Economic Community, are Britain, France, West Germany and Denmark. Luxembourg, Denmark and Ireland
The Common Market proposal will be unveiled on Tuesday at Cyrus R. Vance who arrived in Bonn late yesterday for a four-day trip through Germany, Italy, France and Britain.
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