Wednesday, September 28, 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Giving some life
It was blood donation time in the Kansas Union yesterday as Lori Shawne, Searce freshman, does her part while Martry Morris,
Staff Photo by JOHN SHARKE
Sioux City junior, relaxes after his loss. The goal for the blood drive is 750 pints.
Congress divided on abortion bill
WASHINGTON (UP1)—The House yesterday voted for the third time this year to ban use of federal funds for abortions except to save a woman's life.
On a 252-164 vote, the House rejected Senate language that would permit federal funding of abortions in cases of rape; incest or where a doctor declares the abortion a murder.
The House and Senate have been unable to reach a compromise on the emotional abortion issue, and senators charged with negotiating an agreement in a case refused to refrain again against their House counterparts until another test vote was taken.
Gay freedom to be fought
WICHTA, Kan. (UPI)—Several groups have announced they will take action to overturn the city council's approval of a gay rights ordinance, including an organization calling itself Concerned Citizens for Community Decency.
The city council approved the ordinance on a 2-3 vote yesterday despite protests from the citizens group. The new law is similar to an ordinance repealed in Dade County, Fla., following a drive led by singer Anita Bryant. The law prohibits housing in hiring, housing and public accommodations, and applies to all government units with offices in the city.
"Well, we have a lot of happy sexuels in Wichita today and a majority of other people who are awfully stupid." Ronald Adrian, head of Concerned Citizens.
"AT 2 P.M. ON Thursday we will start our petition drive to get a referendum on this matter. I have no doubt that we'll have enough signatures to force the referendum and I have no doubt that the law will be defeated at the polls," he said.
The council took the action after councilman Jack Shannahan received an opinion from Kansas Attorney General Curt Wallace that the assistance mandate would apply to all government units.
Robert Lewis, head of the Wichita Gay Rights Alliance, said his group did not consider the proposed referendum drive a threat.
Coors changes press tab tops
GOLDEN, Colo. (UP1)—The Adelaid Coors Coors, the nation's fifth largest brewer, is discontinuing its "press tab two" can because of complaints from beer drinkers, including ladies with long fingernails, the company said yesterday.
Coors said the decision would cost millions of dollars because of expensive machinery it purchased when it began stamping the opener on tops of cans in 1978. The opener now is on cans marketed in 11 states served by Coors.
Coors said the "press tab two" opener required drinkers to break a seal atop a can, press two scored edges with thumb pressure and fold back tear-shaped tabs.
"We've been listening to the consumers and the customers pretty closely for the past several months," said Coors' spokesman Craig Kulch. "It is hard to open, especially when you're very well prepared. People just haven't responded well to it and have had difficulty opening it."
Kuh said Coors would keep its "press tank one," similar to the opening be discontinued. "Press tab one" requires drinkers to stop before drinking at the measured pressure and there is a larger hole to drink from.
Yesterday's vote means the issue now will go back to a conference panel, which must agree soon because the abortion question is still funding two major federal departments.
He said the U.S. 'Treasury Department "came down on us because the "press one" opening to drink from was the exact size of a bottle, filling dime-size tabs in vending machines."
THE STALEMATE has held up final action on the $0.2 billion money bill to fund the Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare for the 1978 fiscal
HEW said failure to pass a bill by Oct.1 would not delay Social Security or welfare payments and HEW's programs would continue.
Unless the bill is passed by Oct. 12, 132,000
until the October 18 can be without pay after the
Oct. 18 daycheck.
The Labor Department said its 16,000 employees would also be left payless, but
public service job programs and most of the unemployed compensation program
The House voted 201-158 on June 17 to adopt an amendment by Rep. Henry Hyde R-Ill., banning use of federal funds for abortions under any conditions.
HOUSE AND Senate conferences could not agree on abortion language and the House, on Aug. 2, voted 238-182 to include the amendment that would be permitted to save the mother's life.
The Senate then voted a second time, 60-3
to stand by the Brooke language.
Speaker Thomas O'Neill he promised Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd to bring the Senate proposal to a vote yesterday so conferences could start searching once more for a compromise before the end of the week.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
Events
**TODAY:** The Fall BLOOD DRIVE will begin at 9 a.m. in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Occupational Therapy Council will sponsor an **EDUCATION TRAINING session for occupational therapy field instructors at 9:30 a.m. in the Union. CHARLES STANISFER, associate therapy professor, will lead the "Panama Canal Treaty," at noon in the United Ministries in the Higher Education Center, 124 Oread St. KNATIVE AMERICAN ALLIANCE will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Union's Walnut Room. H. J. PAUS of the University of Stuttgart, will present a physicist astronomy colloquium, "Properties of Lattice Defects in Ionic Crystals," at 4:30 p.m.
TONIGHT: THE STUDENT SENATE will meet at 6:30 in the Union's Big Eight Room. The Adult Life Resource Center will present a workshop, "PARTY TEENAGERS," at 7 in Anxex A, 13th and Orend streets. ROBERT'S STANTON, associate professor of faculty, will present a faculty宴位 at 8 in Swarthout Murray Hall.
TOMORROW: The Kansas Association of MANTENANCE ENGINEERS will meet all day, beginning at 9 a.m. in the Union's Council Room. GERMAN CLUB will meet at 4 p.m. on the Drill Deck of the Military Science Building to discuss polakas and folk dances for the Octoberfest. The second open meeting of English 999 will be at 4 p.m. in 4019 Wescoe, where Mike Johnson, associate professor in English, and Jim Carothers, assistant professor in interpretation of戏剧 INSTITUTIONS, will be given at 6:30 p.m. at Joseph R. Pearson Hall. SUA BRIDGE will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the union's Big Eight Room. ANFRICAN STUDIES FILM, "Kenya: The Multi-Racial Experiment and Tropical Africa," will begin at 7 p.m. in the Strong Hall Auditorium. KU BALLOONING ASSOCIATION will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 1046 Learned Hall. KU SALOONING ASSOCIATION will meet at 7:30 p.m. in theunion's Parlers, JANUS SALOONING, Polish film director, will show an award-winning author, "The Bear") at 7:30 p.m. in 3240 Wescoe books include "Why is the House Dissolving?" and "Black Apples," at 8 p.m. in the Union's Council Room. A lecture, "DEVELOPING CLOSE PERSONAL_RELATIONShips," will be given at 8 p.m. in Hashinger Hall.
Exxon discloses bribes
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Exxon Corp. consented yesterday to federal charges of paying more than $6.5 million in bribes and illegal political contributions in Italy and 15 other countries, the largest amount uncovered by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) since its inquiry of corporate bribery began.
Exxon neither admitted nor denied charges filed by SEC in the U.S. District Court. The world's largest corpse auction, a court-protected that forbids the payments to continue.
Exxon's payments are the largest uncovered by the SEC in its four-year inquiry of corporate bribery. Lockheed Aircraft Corp. had previously admitted making more than $38 million in questionable payments.
IN A SPECIAL report filed with the District Court when the injunctive order was signed, Exxon disclosed payments of $1,145 per month in 1973 to a member of the Japanese parliament and $6,000 in 1898 to representatives of a cabinet officer in Thailand.
The SEC said $5.25 million of the payoffs were made in Italy. Although Exxon claimed these payments were for political campaigns, the SEC alleged the bulk of the payoffs were commercial bribes in which companies awarded with Italian government contracts.
The SEC said the payoffs covered a period of 1963 to 1975 when the Senate subcommittee on multinational corporations subpoenaed Exxon's corporate records and forced company executives to disclose at least $46 million in payoffs, largely in Italy.
THE SEC DISCLOSURES followed a pattern in which Exon admitted in May 1975 that the company had used corporate funds to purchase drugs in countries where the practice was legal.
Three months later, Exxon executives said under questioning by the Senate subcommittee that some payments may have been illegal and the sum may have been $27 million. The answer, by the Senate subcommittee that some payments may have been illegal.
The sum may have gone to foreign government officials and employees. It was also used for commercial bribes or as other payments from noncorporate or unaccompatible payments.
Exxon said in a statement that the "consent decree contains reporting and accounting information which have long been contrary to Exxon. Therefore, Exxon concluded that length litigation over the adequacy of report investors and shareholders was justified."
EXXON SAID IT "it instantiated its own investigations of the situation in Italy in 1971, long before the SEC's investigation began. The company's own investigation identified and stopped unauthorized payments and improper accounting in Italy. Subsequently, it initiated a series of instances of improper accounting in other countries were discovered and stopped."
Exxon also said it stopped authorizing political contributions in Italy in 1971, "even though political contributions by business corporations were and still are legal."
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