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University Daily Kansan, February 19, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
State Department to support junto
WASHINGTON—The State Department gave top priority yesterday to helping El Salvador's ruling junta survive a Cuba-backed terrorist assault, but said it has not abandoned Jimmy Carter's political and economic reform.
Department spokesman William Dyess said the administration and the junta were not pulling back on Carter's proposed reforms but that because the coalition government of Napoleon Durate was fighting for its life against Communist-aided insurgency, the reforms cannot enjoy priority.
In Brussels, Belgium, Reagan administration envoy Lawrence Eagleburger "provided information about outside support to the Salvadoran guerrillas, notably through systematic and massive supplies of arms by the east bloc via Nicaragua and Cuba," a foreign ministry spokesman said.
Occupation of Lodz University ends
WARSAW, Poland—The government signed a formal pact with Lodz University activists yesterday and reached apparent agreement with farmers to further a cooling-off period sought by Polish leaders despite continuing sitings by peasants and recalcitrant students.
As Higher Education Minister Janusz Gorski signed the agreement ending the 28-day occupation of the Locks campus, a spokesman for peasant groups said that the governor had already signed an agreement.
With Gorski's signature on the document endorsing the government's recognition of an independent students' union, leaders of the Lodz students announced the end of their strike and issued an appeal for other schools across the country to do the same.
"Our strike continues," a spokesman had said earlier at Jagelonia University in Krakow, where 2,000 undergraduate are staging a sit-in on the 612-year-old campus. "After the signing, we shall review the agreement and see if it fits us."
Two embassies seized in Mexico
MEXICO CITY—About 70 Mexicans protesting alleged government repression seized 29 hostages at the Guatemalan and Indian embassies yesterday, but police swiftly swiftened them from the Guatemalan mission, witnesses said.
About 30 protesters remained at the Indian embassy in the posh residential district of Polano, holding hostage Indian Ambassador Kam Tekar, five Indian diplomats and four Mexican employees, and embassy spokesman said.
The apparently unarmed protestors peacefully entered the Indian mission at 1:30 p.m. and were embraced by embassy officials to regroup on the grounds of the building, she said.
Half an hour later another 40 protesters linked to the first group seized 19 hostages in the Guatemalan embassy in the downtown sector of the city,
Both groups said they wanted to protest government repression in their home state of Oaxaca and demanded to speak with ambassadors. The people at the Indian mission also demanded to talk to officials of the Interior Ministry.
The embassy takeovers came one day after three students seized an office building at the National Autonomous University in Mexico City for 15 hours to demand government funding of a school for students unable to meet admission standards to the university.
Saudis to free jailed Americans
WASHINGTON—As a gesture of good will toward the Reagan ad-
mand, U.S. citizens held in its jails, a state department spokesman said yesterday.
Two other Americans will remain in jail pending a court hearing on undisclosed charges.
James Webb of the Consular Affairs office said 21 Americans who were involved in narcotics and alcohol, soon would be free to leave the country.
Seven other Americans who were imprisoned because of "commercial disputes" will be freed, but must remain in Saudi Arabia until the cases are settled.
Many of the Americans worked for U.S. corporations and firms with contracts in Saudi Arabia.
Webb said some of the jailed Americans might be released by the end of the week but most were not expected to gain their freedom for another seven
BOGOTA, Colombia-Leftist guerrillas have threatened the “punctual execution” of kidnapped American Bible translator Chester Bitterman
At the same time, the guerrillas offered to extend the deadline if the major Colombian newspapers print a 21-page, single-specified typewritten Guerrillas manual.
Wheeler said the guerrillas delivered the lengthy statement to the Institute Tuesday with the offer of an unspecified extension on the deadline if it is widely published in Colombia, but threatened execution if their demands are not met.
The guerrillas, who seized Bitterman Jan. 19, originally threatened to kill him and 159 missionary-translators leave the country by 6 p.m. (10 p.m. CST) today.
Gas cost may rise this summer
However, Chevron and Gulf Oil executives agreed that gasoline prices could rise 40 to 50 cents a gallon this year if OPEC increased prices to $50 a barrel.
Sun Oil Co., the nation's 10th largest refiner, cut its wholesale heating oil prices by a penny a gallon yesterday in five more trades. The first dip came after last week as central banks locked in.
Refiners historically have begun cutting heating oil prices as winter demand falls off to make room in storage tanks for additional gasoline. These changes are likely due to a lack of demand.
Since President Reagan abolished price controls on domestic crude oil and gasoline eight months ahead of schedule Jan. 28, U.S. refiners have put
However, R.R. Bowl, Chevron's general manager for operations, and C.H. Bowman, senior vice president of the Gulf Oil Co., in testimony before a House Energy Subcommittee, said Americans could be paying $1.80 a gallon for gasoline by the end of this year.
Analyst disputes government figures
WASHINGTON—An economy "stronger than anyone expected" was pictured yesterday by separate economic indicators on housing starts and personal incomes, although one analyst flatly rejected the government figures as defying logic.
The Commerce Department reported that housing construction increased in January after a December decrease, despite higher mortgage interest rates.
Private financed housing construction went up by 3.5 percent in January, all of the increase accounted for by multi-family apartment building.
One analyst rejected the government. Michael Sumichrast, speaking for the National Association of Home Builders, said, "There is no such (housing activity) in the field that I know about. Just because it is government data doesn't mean we have to accept it."
By United Press International
Death penalty bill gains initial approval of House
TOPEKA—The Kansas House gave tentative approval to a bill yesterday that would allow the state to put certain criminals to death, a much-debated plan likened by one lawmaker to a recurring bad dream.
House members spent an hour and 15 minutes debating whether the state should reinstate capital punishment, and then tentatively approved the measure on a 74-11 rally. A final vote is set for today in the 12% member House
The tentative vote was well beyond the needed 63 votes to pass a bill but short of the two-thirds majority, or 84 votes, needed to override an expected governor's veto. Senators had approved the bill on a 23-15 vote. In the upper chamber, 27 votes are needed to override a veto.
HOUSE MAJORITY Leader, Robert Frey, R-Liberal, a long-time capital punishment supporter, led debate on the measure, which Gov. John Carlin already has promised to veto. Ten house members, four supporting the measure and six opposing it, filed to the House microphone to discuss the bill.
Taking an unusual route, the bill was never subjected to committee hearings this year in the House. It was sent straight to the House floor from the
Capital punishment is a bad dream for both sides of the issue, State Rep. Bill Reardon, D-Kansas City, said. For those who support it, it's hard to try to get the plan on the statute books. For those who oppose it, it keeps coming back, too.
FREY OUTLINED the history of capital punishment in Kansas and detailed the mechanics of the bill. It would provide for death by lethal injection for people convicted of premeditated murder or murder in the commission of rape, sodomy or kidnapping.
Senate. Several death penalty opponents directed their remarks to the House's 27 freshman lawmakers.
The bill provides separate court proceeding for sentencing and automatic review of any death sentence by the Kansas Supreme Court.
Closing debate on the measure, Frey
said he thought the debate has pointed
out that the committee should be re-
solved.
STATE REP. Arthur Douville, R-Overland Park, a capital punishment opponent, doubted the death sentence's deterrent effect.
"I have yet to pick up the paper any day of the week and see no evidence of a crime being committed, particularly murder," he said.
Gas-saving program scrapped
By United Press International
WASHINGTON-The Energy Department scrapped most of its standby federal gasoline conservation program yesterday and started an all-mandatory initiative to eliminate mandatory efficiency standards on new household appliances.
An agency representative said the actions were taken because a number of public comments questioned the effectiveness and economic justification of the Carter administration's conservation measures.
The four-day work week, adjusted working hours and a sticker plan to keep vehicles off the roads on certain designated days were among the standby emergency gasoline-saving measures eliminated.
Only a conservation information program and a minimum gasoline
Also scrapped were standby commuter programs, a requirement forcing employers to subsidize mass transit, odd-even day gasoline purchase rates, and increased numbers and stepped up enforcement or reduction in the 55 mph speed limit.
"In light of decontrol action, an unregulated market may now provide sufficient assurance of an orderly adjustment to any future energy supply interruption," the agency said in a federal register notice on its move.
The program that has required energy efficiency labels on many household appliances marketed since February 1980, was scheduled to be determined the "need, if any, for standards" on the appliances, the agency said.
The agency said the costs and benefits of the labels and efficiency standards, which industry has criticized, were questioned by most of the 1,000 individuals and businesses that commented on them.
On the defunct standby gasoline measures, the agency said public comments indicated the measures would "interfere excessively in the lives of businesses and individuals, were unnecessary restrictions and would impose costs far in excess of their benefits."
Med Center condition known to chancellor
By KATHRYN KASE Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas has known about housekeeping problems at the KU Medical Center and at the UW Medicine, in Appleton Del Shankel said yesterday.
"There are problems," Shankel said, "but we've known about them for months."
An understaffed housekeeping department was the cause of the problems, Shankel said, and not an incident of abuse. A state senator charmed this week.
The senator, Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, blamed poor administration for the poor housekeeping conditions that lawmakers saw on recent tours of the Med Center.
Reilly also charged that Lawrence-based administrators could not properly supervise the Med Center and the 18-month-old Bem Memorial Hospital in Kansas because of its poor performance, sever the administrative ties between the University and the Med Center.
Shankel said that Med Center administration was done at the Med Center.
"Most of it is done there," he said. "The Medical Center has its own executive vice chancellor who is in charge of that campus. All of the medical department chairmen are there."
Med Center conditions would improve as the housekeeping department increased more people and would be done as soon as possible, he said.
Robert Brought, director of Med Center maintenance, was unavailable for comment yesterday.
A recent shift in custodial responsibilities may have caused problem, Shankel said. A private company, American Management Services, was contracted for the job and that company's work was unsatisfactory, KU Facilities Operations took over the responsibilities.
"They've gone from American Management Services to Facilities Operations," he said. "We will not go back to a private firm."
Mike Wood, director of Med Center facilities operations, and David Waxman, Med Center vice vice chancellor had no comment.
FRESHMEN:
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Applications can be picked up in
1) Office of Student Org & Act; 220 Strong
2) SUA ticket window; Kansas Union
3) College Honors Office; 201 Nunemaker
Applications must be returned to 220 Strong
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