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University Daily Kansan
Capsules From the Kansas's Wire Services
Poll says fear of war growing
NEW YORK—Faced with American hostages in Iran and Soviet troops marching into Afghanistan, American public support for spending more on U.S. defense and the military has jumped dramatically to the highest level in a decade the Associated Press-NBC News poll says.
The objective of more defense spending is to gain military superiority over the Soviet Union, the public says.
The flipside of American public opinion is fear—fear of war. Two out of every five Americans think a war involving the United States is very likely in the next three years—the highest level of fear found by the AP-NBC News polls in the past three years since the question was first asked.
As recently from September 1979, sentiment was split between increasing the defence budget and keeping it at its current level.
Sixty-three percent of those questioned last week said they backed increasing the U.S. defense budget. Twenty-one percent advocated keeping defense spending at its current level and only 8 percent called for a decrease. Another 8 percent of the 1,595 interviewed nationwide by telephone were not sure.
Pakistan calls on U.S. for aid
ISI.AMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan, unable to obtain from China the kind of massive assistance it wants, called yesterday for "durable, durable" aid from the United States to build up its armed forces in the face of the new Soviet presence in neighboring Afghanistan.
Official sources in Islamabad, the Pakistan capital, said the government of President Mohammad Zulayfat ul-Haju last week demanded as 'punjabi' President Wali Khwaja Amiruddin Khilji to attend a prayer service.
The Carter aid package was withdrawn from congressional consideration and U.S. and Pakistan officials continued negotiations.
U.S. and Pakistan officials criticized negotiation.
Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Haung with Pakistani officials earlier this
week.
Pakistan's foreign policy adviser, Aga Shahi, told reporters the amount of future Chinese aid had not even been discussed in talks with Huang.
The Chinese ability to supply fertilizer is limited. Salinity Many of Pakistan's water-supply tanks are obsolete. Chinese-produced Vessels remain many from the 1960s.
Carter considers draft proposal
WASHINGTON—President Carter is considering a proposal that he ask Congress to authorize a protime registration of draftage youth, as part of the federal education program.
the sources, who asked not to be identified, also said they were uncertain whether Carter would accept the proposal and whether he would include such information.
If he does so, Carter will be changing his administration's position on the question of a peacetime registration.
question of a peacemaking registration.
White House spokesmen declined comment on the issue last night.
Defense officials concerned with manpower problems said that the Pentagon had no send staff papers to the White House recommending registration.
But senior military officers, particularly Army generals, have said it could be fatal to U.S. security if the country lacked some effective draft regulations on how U.S. troops could be recruited.
KPL bills lower than last year
TOPEKA-Kansas Power and Light Co. said yesterday that for the seventh consecutive month its electrical customers would be paying lower bills in the summer.
This time, KPI, said in a public statement, the February bills would be 10.7 percent lower than in February 1979.
The reason for the lower bills in the past half-year according to the statement, was removal of the 3 percent state tax sales on utility bills by the 1979 legislature, and the reduced cost of generating electricity at the Jeffrey Energy Center near St. Marys. The center burns low-cost coal shipped from
wrote in the RPL statement said a residential customer who used 750 kilowatt hours of electricity cost $3.91 in February and will pay$ 2.87 next month, a cost of $4.76.
- reduction of $2.50,*
* because the reduction was attributable to the use of less oil and natural gas to generate electricity at its other plants, and the increased use of*
* electricity for heat.*
Police say Newfield confessed
FORT SCOTT—A state policeman testified yesterday that Timothy Newfield confessed during a police interrogation that he accidentally shot a Peabody banker, then had to kill him with a second shot to prevent his becoming "a vegetable" late last summer.
Vern Humphrey, Kansas Bureau of Investigation officer, quoted Newfield as saving: "If the gun be pulled in. 11," the shotgun went off."
Humphrey said, "Newfield told me, quote. 'I'm a hunter. I had my finger on the trigger but I thought the safety was on.'"
the bruise. He also said Newfield apparently was bothered by the blood pouring from Grant Avery's head. He testified that the teen-ager then said he felt he had to cry after he wished for his parents to be safe.
Newfield's attorney, Steve Unrhub, claimed the statements had been obtained by "saddle coersion."
But Assistant District Judge George Scott ruled that the testimony was admissible in the trial and that Newfield's comments had been voluntary.
Earlier yesterday, Scott also allowed jurors to view pictures of the slain Avery despite objections by Unruh that the pictures were infiltrator and torture device.
Abortion dispute flares again
TOPEKA - The seventh anniversary of a Kansas Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion sparked debate and demonstrations from anti-abortion and pro-life groups.
About 125 anti-abortion demonstrators from Right to Life of Kansas rallied on the Capitol steps despite freezing winds and snowing spray.
Ant- abortion speakers said that resolutions calling for a constitutional convention to consider a Human Rights Amendment had been introduced in the House of Representatives.
The Kansas chapter of the National Abortion Rights Action League issued a statement that reiterated the group's commitment to preserving a woman's life.
The resolutions were referred to federal and state affairs committees in the House and Senate. The committees have not acted on the resolutions.
The league released a poll that indicated that 88 percent of the nation's registered voters believed that abortions should be legal in cases involving unborn children.
WICHITA- Sheriff's deputies armed with a beepan Monday carefully watched a robbery suspect who police said might have swallowed a $100,000 bill.
The Kansas Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights also reaffirmed its support for the 1973 Supreme Court decision.
Stolen ring allegedly swallowed
the suspect, Bobby J. Carr, 41, has been in the special cell along with his buddies and guards since Sunday when he and a partner W. Hill, W. 43, both
of Tulsa, were arrested. A woman charged with aggravated burglary and two counts of kidnapping in connection with the robbery of a Wichita home by two men posing as police officers.
as police officers at the apartment, men pulled guns when Ia Higgins, 37, answered the door. They allegedly bound her and said her 14-year-old daughter and demanded jewelry. The officers were surprised by her presence.
The men then went to the police station and said they arrested the two men in a local motel hours after the alleged robbery. Police suspect Carr swallowed the短裙 shortly before the raid.
the Way's office in the Police 1. Jerry Bullins said officials obtained a court order Monday to X-ray the two suspects about midnight Monday at a local emergency room. Hospital officials spotted what appeared to be a large ring in the lower part of Carr's stomach, police said.
Weather...
The sky will be mostly sunny today with winters out of the west from 8 to 12 p.m and an afternoon from 42 degrees, according to the KU Weather Services. The day after it will be rainy and cooler.
County affected by NRC proposal
By DON MUNDAY
Staff Reporter
If guidelines proposed recently by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are adopted, part of Douglas County will be designated as a potential risk area.
The guidelines, which were released last week to civil defense officials, would require detailed emergency plans for counties within 50 miles of a nuclear power plant.
Kansas Division of Emergency Management of Douglas County would be within 10 miles of pathway zone." This means the area could experience minor contamination effects in the path.
In Kansas, the guidelines would apply to the area around the Wolf Creek plant, which is being built near Coffey in Coffey plant is scheduled for completion in 1983.
The southern half of Douglas County lies within this area. Lawrence does not.
For the next 60 to 90 days, the NRC will conduct hearings. If the guidelines are approved, the NRC will set the guidelines, nuclear power plants would be allowed to operate only in states that had received certification.
ACCORDING TO Leon Mannell,
radiological systems administrator for the
“Developing plans shouldn't be much of a problem for either Douglas or Shawnee counties.” Mannell said. “Most of the planning would be limited to handling contamination of water, particularly on farms or in orchards, making evacuations or anything like that.”
According to Travis Brann, Douglas County director of emergency preparedness, the county already has begun planning to meet the NRC guidelines.
The NRC proposals could involve bringing water into Douglas County to replace water contaminated by particles ejected by a plant accident.
The first zone, the exclusion area, would comprise land within 4,000 feet of the Wolf Creek plant. That land is owned by Kansas City Power & Light Co. and Kansas Gas and Electric Co., the utility companies that are activities would be excluded from this area.
BUT MANNELL said that major water plants were equipped with modern equipment and that any harmful contaminants could be removed.
If the proposals are adopted, they will divide the area around a nuclear plant into four zones.
The second zone, the area within 2.5 miles of the plant, would be designated the low population zone. Certain activities, such as dairy farming, would be prohibited.
THE THIRD zone, the evacuation planning zone, encompasses land up to 10 miles from Wolf Creek. Both the state and Coffey County have evacuation plans for this area, Mannel said, only minor revision would be to comply with the NRC proposals.
The fourth zone, the ingestion pathway zone, includes the area beyond the first three zones that is within 50 miles of the plant.
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