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University Daily Kansan, March 9, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
A penny saved—will go for gas
LOS ANGELES—The average price of all grades of gasoline increased a penny during the past two weeks, to 172.58 cents a gallon, despite a gasoline tax of $0.13 per gallon.
The weekly newsletter noted that some oil producers had begun closing refineries because of weakened demand for products, mostly gasoline.
"But the public can't make a difference in the price, except that price increases will be moderate," Landsberg said in an interview. "This is the result of increased demand."
Landberg said the concept, which is the basis of President Reagan's economic plan to lower inflation, worked well with most products.
"The oil industry is suffering from a case of premature supply-side imbalance."
"But we have stimulated oil exploration and drilling by decontrol of prices, and we have built up more gasoline inventory that we can use," he said. "Now we have to wind down our refineries, which also winds down transportation and production so recently stimulated."
The newsletter noted that AMCO used only 73 percent of its 1.2 million barrel a day refining capacity last year, down from 90 percent in 1978
Soviets renew call for arms talks
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union yesterday renewed its call for a summit meeting between Soviet President Leonid Breshnev and President Reagan on Monday.
Brezhnev sent secret weekend messages to Western European leaders, reportedly appealing for support for a Brezhnev-Seagan summit and for his
Spokesmen for West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, French President Valery Giscard d'Estating and Danish Prime Minister Anker Jorgensen confirmed receipt of the letters but refused to divulge their contents.
In London, officials said the Soviet ambassador was to meet today with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, apparently to deliver the same letter that she sent to the United States.
The move required to signal a campaign by Moscow on various fronts to convince Reagan that the Soviet Union sincerely wants to improve relations.
Reagan has expressed interest in meeting with Breshenvich and with resuming arms control talks but has emphasized that U.S. allies must first
Atlantic City bomb threat a hoax
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - A written threat to blow up the Caesars Board-Affiliated Registry Hotel has an extortion demanding $6.5 million paid for an office building.
The letter demanding the money in $50 bills set a deadline of noon yesterday, which passed without incident.
The hotel evacuated its 750 guests and 1,200 employees, and police emptied homes in a one-block radius of the $105 million, 504-room complex as a precaution. But the guests and hotel workers headed back for the casinos just a few minutes after noon.
Authorities said a sweep of the hotel turned up no evidence of explosive devices.
The Atlantic City police and the state attorney general's office declined to comment on the bomb threat except to say the matter remained under in-
Some guests who were evacuated went to a temporary shelter set up by Caesar's at a nearby junior high school, but many of them gathered behind the walls.
When the deadline passed, spectators began joking among themselves and began streaming back into the hotel.
U.S. translator buried in Colombia
BOGOTA,Colombia-Theresa and two daughters of alain American Bible translator Chester Bitterman left Colombia yesterday after fulfilling his promise to return to the country.
Bitterman was shot to death Saturday by leftist guerrillas who held him captive for 49 days demanding that the Summer Institute of Languages, the school where he taught, be closed.
Bitterman, N. of Lancaster, Pa., was buried Saturday afternoon, hours after his body was found wrapped in a left guardtrial flag. He had a single
The leftist guerrilla who kidnapped Bitternan, Jan. 10 have threatened to continue their terror campaign against the Institute's volunteers until the end of June.
The Institute and its parent organization, the Wycliffe Bible Translators of Huntington Beach, Calif., denied the accusations and said the group planned to reconstruct the translation.
Hijacked jet headed toward Syria
ISILAMABAD, Pakistan-A hijacked Pakistani汀旅 with as many as 30 hatties on August 15, night after next september on days the ground was cleared of last night.
The three hijackers who seized the aircraft last Monday apparently ordered the plane to leave because Pakistan refused to meet their demands to deliver the weapons.
Defense Ministry officials in Islamabad said early today that the plane off about midnight Kaleb time (1 p.m. CET) despite repeated appeals by Pakistan.
But Soviet-controlled Radio Kabul said the negotiators were ordered to break contact when the hijackers demanded that 43 additional political prisoners be released. The gunmen originally had demanded that 90 inmates be freed in exchange for the captives, including three Americans.
The unexpected move came hours after Pakistan officials offered to release 15 prisoners in exchange for the hostages and the gunmen, who already had killed a Pakistani diplomat, let pass a deadline to begin slaughtering the cantives "one by one."
British civil servants begin strikes
The Pakistani government said it would not be bullied "under pistol point."
LONDON—Britain's 500,000 civil servants will begin a series of strikes today that could paralyze the government to protest Prime Minister
The strikes will affect almost all sectors of the bureaucracy, from driving tests to welfare payments and tax collection.
In a major challenge to Thatcher's 22-month-old government union officials said they would paralyze the nation's revenue machinery by halting the oil and gas industry.
The action could cost the government an estimated $1.3 billion a week in delayed revenue and could force it to borrow heavily to keep going, union leaders said.
The civil servants are demanding a 15 percent pay hike. Thatchter, pledged to cutting back government spending and reducing inflation from its current level, said the plan would be "a real deal."
Government workers will walk out again tomorrow to sabotage the national budget Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe's announcement, which is expected to include sharp immediate hikes in taxes on income, gasoline, tobacco and alcohol.
The action could cost the government an estimated $1.3 billion a week in delayed revenue and could force it to borrow heavily to keep going, union officials said.
The civil servants are demanding a 15 percent pay hike. Thatcher, pledged to tutting back government spending and reducing inflation from its current 14 percent rise in 2006, said:
FacEx urges sufficient funding for library
Fearful of a deterioration in the quality of KU's library, the Faculty Executive Committee approved a further funding effort to sufficient funding for library acquisitions.
By DAN BOWERS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The resolution, partially drafted by Wallace Johnson, professor of east Asian studies, was co-signed by 41 professors.
"Enmasse as adequate library collections are essential for quality research and learning," the statement read, "it is imperative that sufficient funds be provided to prevent any further deterioration of the library and journal acquisitions program."
THE RESOLUTION will be for-
warded to the Faculty Council for app-
lication.
According to the introduction to the resolution, the library would be forced to cancel 1,000 journal subscriptions and purchase 2,000 fewer books next year if the Kansas Legislature stuck to its proposed budget cuts.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee has proposed a 5.5 percent increase in appropriations for operating libraries, which include library expenses.
The University originally requested a 9 percent increase for Other Operating Expenses, and Gov. John Carlin shaved the percent in his recommendations.
THE RESOLUTION'S introduction said that the library staff already was forced to cancel 800 journals and 1,500 books last year.
The cut to OOE represents a total reduction of 9.9 million from what KU did in 2017.
"Clearly the University library is facing a crisis which, if not averted, would substantially reduce its ability to research and instruction. It said.
If the trend of decreasing funds for library acquisitions continues, the statement warned that the quality of KU's library holdings would suffer.
George Worth, FacEx chairman, noted that such cuts in library acquisitions were reminiscent of accords during the Depression days of the 1930s.
He cited a letter from James Seaver, director of the Western Civilization program, that said the library had made drastic reductions in subscriptions to journals and book purchases during that period.
WORTH SAID THAT the library was "devastated" by the cuts at the time, and that it had since been unable to acquire much of the literature that was published during the Depression and World War II.
Felix Moos, professor of anthropology, said he was fearful that the resolution would not be considered outside of the University. Members of the faculty should direct the resolution should be directed to the State Legislature and the governor.
"Again in 1801, we are on the verge of damaging our library as we did during the Depression," Worth read from a letter from Johnson.
Ernest Anglin, professor of geology,
said that although he agreed it was
damaging to cut a great number of
acquisitions, there were journals that
could be cut because they were never
used.
HE NOTED THAT the geology department once subscribed to the Norwegian Hydrology Journal. Upon checking back issues, Angie said he
"What we cut last year isn't going to hurt the geology department."
"While there are some key journals that you should have," he said, "there are some that you just don't need.
found that none of the publications had been checked out in the last 10 years.
FacEx members also discussed the relationship between the Legislature and the University, in view of extensive budget cuts and two bills that would shift responsibility for tenure approval to the University away from the individual universities.
Worth said some of the legislative action may stem from misconceptions of the University, its faculty and policies.
THE SUGGESTED that part of the problem may be that the faculty members were not acquainted with the enough to be effective as lobbists.
the year we turn ourselves into lobbyists, and then when the legislators go home, we stop this," he said.
"For four, six or eight months out of
He suggested that faculty members should keep in contact with legislators for the entire year, and take a new attitude in dealings with the legislators.
"We need to drop the assumption that they can't or won't go along with us," he said.
He also cited a statement by State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, made last week when he said professors augment their income by 25 percent through consulting with private industry.
He said those were indicative of misconceptions and generalizations that the legislators have made about the university.
"We don't stand a chance unless we get those (misconceptions) removed," he said.
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Mo., said that the station had received more than 200 calls from ticketholders. Irene Carr, Student Union Activities director, said that she would know within three days whether the concert would be rescheduled. Carr said that if it were rescheduled, it was not possible to predict when the concert would be rescheduled.
"The band and everyone involved has worked very hard to do it," Duke Devine, SUA special events chairman, said. "We won't lose any money on this, but Beaver Productions stands to lose if the concert isn't rescheduled."
and illness was being kept secret
baby about the concert cancellation.
Devine said the band member's name
Ticket holders wanting refunds can begin picking them up after 1 p.m. today in the SUA office, Carr said. After today, she said, refunds were available during SUA's regular 8:30 to 5 office hours.
Out-of-town ticket holders and others desiring refresh by mail should send a self-addressed, stamped envelop along with the tickets, to SUA Kansas Union, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, 6044. Carr advised anyone deciding to mail in tickets to photocopy them before sending them in.
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