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University Daily Kansan, September 19, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
First black Miss America says she favors abortion
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Vanessa Williams, the first black woman to win the
win the Miss America title, stirred the waters
on a yesterday by saying she favored
legalization.
She told reporters she was a political independent who opposes legalization of marijuana, backed the Equal Rights Amendment, right members should be permitted to choose abortion.
"I think it's a right that women should have," she said. "It should be there for women to use, but I don't think everyone should use it."
Most of the questions focused on her race, an issue that bothers her. "At times I get annoyed because it seems the people and press aren't focusing on my accomplishments," she said. "People aren't used to dealing with changes, but it just had to happen."
LOS ANGELES — Negotiators for school teachers and the nation's second largest school district, divided on more than two dozen issues, met yesterday in their last bargaining session before a union strike vote.
LA teachers to vote on strike today
The union scheduled a strike vote for today
Meanwhile, drawn-out teacher strikes affected nearly 70,000 students in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island, Ohio and Washington state.
Len Feldman, spokesman for the 16,000-member United Teachers of Los Angeles, said teachers were "neither hopeful nor optimistic."
More than half of the district's 25,000 teachers staged a one-day boycott Friday as the 550,000-student district moved closer to its first strike since 1970.
2 West Indies islands given freedom
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts — The sugar-growing islands of St. Kitts and Nevis ushered in independence yesterday, ending 360 years of British rule but facing dismal economic prospects and a growing foreign debt.
Though most view independence favorably, some wonder whether it will thrust the two sugar-producing islands into economic problems that trouble other nations in the eastern Caribbean. "Are we going to be in the same boat as the rest of them?" a grocery store owner asked. "Then
St. Kitts, known as the mother colony of the British West Indies, was to take over its own affairs at a midnight flag-raising ceremony. Princess Margaret was to hand over the new nation's constitutional documents and proclaim it independent.
New panel to study family violence
WASHINGTON — Attorney General William French Smith is expected to announce a new committee on family violence today that will look into the problem, which officials consider a serious national concern.
Smith is expected to name Detroit Police Chief William Hart the head of the nine-member committee.
Assistant Attorney General Lois Herrington, head of the department's office of Justice Assistance, Research and Statistics, said the committee was being formed in response to a recommendation earlier this year from the President's Task Force on Victims of Crime.
She said the task force was expected to look at spousal abuse, elderly abuses and child molestation — "an underpunished and least understood problem." It also will look at ways police can be more responsible to the problem.
WASHINGTON — Despite a concerted effort to reach out to women voters, the "gender gap" remains a serious problem for a possible re-election bid by President Reagan, White House pollster Richard Witherlin said yesterday.
'Gender gap' said to plague Reagan
"I worry as much about the women's vote today as I did in October 1900," Wirthlin said. "There was a gender gap in 1980 and it's about the same, maybe one or two points more now than it was then."
But Wurthlin, interviewed on ABC's "This Week with David Brinkley," said the news media should "cover more intensively the other side of the news gap" — that Reagan was supported more strongly by men than his two leading Democratic rivals, former Vice President Walter Mondale and Sen. John Glenn.
WASHINGTON — Congress and the government know auto mileage ratings are inaccurate, but do not require more exact tests because many cars cannot meet mileage or fuel emission targets, an industry expert said yesterday.
Bill Berman, American Automobile Association director of environment and energy, said the mileage ratings, determined by the Environmental Protection Agency in laboratories rather than in road conditions, were 22 percent above the average motorist could expect to achieve.
Auto mileage overrated, expert says
The EPA's rating for 1984 model cars, released over the weekend, showed that the gasoline-powered Honda Civic Coupe was the most fuel-efficient car on the American market with a rating of 51 miles a gallon.
WEATHER FACTS
Locally, today will be partly cloudy with a high around 90, according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka.
Today will be fair across most of the nation.
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. The low will be 55 to 60.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a chance of showers and thundershowers. The high will be in the 70s.
Because of a reporter's error, William Hogan, associate executive vice chancellor, was incorrectly identified as Robert Hogan in a story about KU's Art and Design building in Thursday's Kansan.
CORRECTIONS
Herzog consults parties to replace Begin
JERUSALEM — President Chaim Herzog began consultations with israel's political parties yesterday to endorse the prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Rv United Press International
The Labor Party appealed to Herzog to return it to power after more than six years in the opposition. Begin's Likud bloc said it had the right to form the next government with Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir at its head because it had a guaranteed majority in the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
choice by Wednesday after consulting with all Israeli political parties.
Labor representatives told Herzog his leader, former Defense Minister Shimon Peres, had the best chances of being a wide parliamentary majority.
Herzog was expected to announce his
THE LABOR PARTY ruled Israel from the Jewish state's founding in 1948 to 1977, when he began its conservative action. It became its office in parliamentary elections.
Traditionally, the president designates the leader of the largest party and is appointed to the momentary seats — to attempt to form a new administration within three weeks.
But Shamir has written pledges from Begin's coalition partners for 64 votes in the Senate.
Labor has countered by saying that if Peres is designated prime minister he could win away disaffected Likud members and three key Likud coalition partners — the National Religious, Agudath Israel and Tami parties — and form a new coalition with 65 seats in parliament.
Labor supports a unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and restrictions on Jewish settlement in the occupied Arab territories.
THE ALLING BEGIN, who formally resigned Thursday, remained secluded
at home for the 12th consecutive day and the regular Cabinet meeting was chaired by Deputy Prime Minister David Levy.
"A large majority in this Knesset does not support the Likud philosophy, neither in the military aspect, nor the political aspect, nor even the economic aspects," said Labor party Secretary Amim optimistic, cautiously optimistic.
Bar-Lev and other Labor representatives stressed that Herzog was free to name whoever he thought had the best chance of forming a workable coalition
Senator says energy policy is 'one-dimensional'
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Reagan administration's "one-dimensional" energy policies have left the United States vulnerable to another Arab oil cutoff and the possibility of economic crisis, Carl. Leon D, Michin, said yester-
Citing a new study by the Congressional Research Service, Levin said that administration plans to meet the loss of oil from the Persian Gulf area were "at best, inadequate and at worst, dangerous."
Levin, in releasing the study, said it underscored "the need to improve our military capabilities" in the Middle East and Southwest Asia.
"But I am concerned that the administration's present focus is too one-dimensional, ignoring non-technical aspects," he spelled out in the CRS study, he said.
THE SENATOR, who requested the study in 1980, said it showed that neither the United States nor its allies could "avoid an economic crises, except perhaps by military means," in the event of a Persian Gulf oil cutoff.
Levin, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the "sobering analysis" of U.S. reliance on Persian Gulf oil "comes at a particu- resence in the area," demonstrating dramatically the persistence of instability in the area."
longer vulnerable.
For the United States, the study suggested an Arab oil cutoff would reduce the gross national product by 11 percent to 29 percent and would cut employment' by 13 percent to 28 percent.
ALSO HARD HIT by such a cutoff, the report says, would be the major industrial countries of Canada, France, Germany, Italy Japan and Britain.
The study, Levin said, showed that
the most "dangerously misguided"
assumption expressed by administration
officials at congressional hearings
has been, "there is no need to fill the
Strategic Petroleum Reserve as
quickly as possible because we are no
Levin also charged that the Energy Department was committed to allowing oil prices to rise during a crisis — which prices rise well over $100 per barrel.
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