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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, September 28, 1977
U.S.S.R. offers test ban accord
UNITED NATIONS (AP)—The Soviet Union, in a surprise move, offered yesterday to join the United States and Britain in a suspension of all underground nuclear weapons tests for an unspecified period.
Andrei A. Gromky, Soviet foreign minister, to the U.N. General Assembly, "The prohibition of all nuclear weapon tests would be a major step conducive to lessening the threat of nuclear war and deepening detente."
and agreement. Negotiations on a comprehensive test ban agreement, including explosions for such peaceful purposes as river diversions, are scheduled for Geneva next week.
U. S. OFFICIALS were not notified in advance of the Soviet gesture. To the U.S., it.
appeared to represent serious intent to complete a weapons test ban.
Beyond that, the Russians did not condition their offer to reach an agreement on compliance by China and France—the two other major nuclear powers. In the past Moscow has said a testing agreement must be applied in order to be meaningful.
EVEN WHILE taking this conciliatory approach, Gromyko sharply criticized the Carter administration on several fronts.
Carter admitted also that he. He suggested, with evident sarcasm, that those who call for human rights could best apply their efforts in southern Africa.
apply then erases in a book.
"But for some reason or other," Gromyko said, "they shut their eyes to the intolerable plight of millions of people."
AND, IN ANOTHER gage at President Jimmy Carter, who has charged the Soviet Union with violating elemental human rights, Gromyko said:
"Any attempts at sermonizing us or, still worse, at interfering in our internal affairs under contrived pretexts, have encountered and will encourage a resolution."
Gromyko also took issue with the Carter administration in the arms field.
Noting the President's proposal to the Russians earlier in the year to make deep cuts in existing U.S. and Soviet weapons stocknules, he asked:
socksheets the one really propose with one 'CAN ONE REALLY propose with one hand various 'drastic reductions' while with the other, author the development of
new and, bluntly speaking, merciless types of weapons such as the neutron bomb?*
Gromyko derided the suggestion that the bomb, which Carter has authorized, is somehow more humane than other nuclear weapons because it would not level buildings over a large area and cause other physical havoc.
"AFTER ALL," Gromyko said, "it is intended to be used directly against human beings and in the same category with such agents as the bacteria that serve as bacteriological or chemical weapons."
He said the United Nations should demand a halt in the production of the neutron bomb and other systems of mass destruction.
Senators present natural gas compromise
WASHINGTON (AP)—Senators advocating deregulation of natural gas prices presented a compromise proposal yesterday in an effort to break a stalemate that could send the Senate into round-the-clock sessions.
meanwhile, Sen. Russell B. Long, D-LA,
whose Finance Committee rejected
President Jimmy Carter's tax on crude oil
Monday, stepped up efforts to find an oi-
pricing compromise suitable to the need,
the oil industry and consumer groups.
groups. Under the natural gas proposal, federal
price controls would be lifted from newly produced gas but there would be a ceiling limiting price increases to consumers for two years. The proposed lid would be equal to the price of an equivalent amount of home heating oil.
It was offered by Sens. Lloyd Bentsen, D- Texas, and James B. Pearson, R-Kan., who have been leading the Senate battle for an plan to designeat natural gas prices.
handsignage.
BENTSEN CALLED the move a major concession. But administration allies in the Senate vowed to fight it.
Carter, who wants to continue federal price controls on gas, has indicated he would veto any legislation to lift them. However, in several test votes a majority of senators has gone on record against the Carter pricing plan.
A FILIBUSTER led by a few Senate liberals opposed to any relaxation of gas price controls has tied up debate since last week. A majority of Senate leaders to get final action on the bill.
The Carter bill, already approved by the
these, would continue for decades. The current
amount is $1.46 million.
per thousand cubic feet to $1.75. It would also extend the controls to the now-unregulated markets in Texas, Louisiana and other gas-producing states
A thousand cubic feet is roughly enough to heat an average home for about three days.
Under the new Benten-Pearson deregulation proposal, newly produced onshore gas would be deregulated, but price increases could not go above heating oil prices for at least two years—equivalent to about $3 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Nine black Americans forced to leave Israel
TEL AVIV (UPI))-Israel expelled nine black American women and children yesterday, hustling them aboard a plane under police guard to prevent them from joining a band of self-styled "Black Hebrew" in the negev Desert.
The three women and six children were the last of a group of 25 blacks from the
Chicago area who arrived in Israel as tourists Sept. 21. The Interior Ministry charged the country with the torture, the betrayal and the torture, the entire group on a plane Friday night.
But the blacks responded by tearing up their passports and tickets. Authorities put them in jail and sent them out in separate
Professors named to state board
10PEKA (AP)—Gov. Robert F. Bennett yesterday announced the appointment of B. Kent Houston, Lawrence, and the reappointment of Robert E. Schulman, Topeka, to the state Board of Examiners of Psychologists.
Houston, 48, professor of psychology at the University of Kansas, is a member of the American Psychological Association.
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He succeeds Howard Baumgartel, also of Lawrence.
Shulman, 40 is a RU law professor and
law and pachycardia at the Mennonite Four-
mile.
groups yesterday, Sunday and Monday.
Both appointments are effective immediately and are for three-year terms
Officials took no chances on the last flight. A police van backed up to the gangway of an Alitalia jet after the other passengers had boarded and officers jumped out and formed a path from the van to the gangway to prevent escape.
THE WOMEN and children emerged and, in police and policewomen, guarding them, boarded up.
Italy also refused entry to the group upon their arrival in Rome from Tel Aviv because they had no passports, and they were forced to spend the night in an apartment or a hotel. The officials said the nine would be put on the new New York-bound flight this morning.
The group's members had told the Israeli that they were Presbyterians, who wanted to baptize their children in the Jordan River. But Israel said they intended to settle in the desert town of Dimona with a sect called the Black Hebrews. The sect is
composed of black former Chicagoans.
Members of the sect, numbering about 400, arrived in Israel several years ago and settled in the area without Israeli approval. Israel does not recognize the sect as Jewish and does not grant it privileges given Jewish immigrants.
POLICE SAID some of the 25 recent arrivals had gone to Dimona.
the matter is absolutely clear," a ministry spokesman said. "This was a well-organized attempt to enter the country illegally."
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy said the Americans tore up their documents "because they said they were not allowed to visit their black brothers."
They flew from New York via Rome on their way to papers issued by the Interior Ministry.
The U.S. spokesman said consular officer James O'Connor said that but its members did not want any help.
"If this were a case involving alcoholism, wouldn't it be proper to ask jurors if they drank or had any moral feelings toward the use of alcohol?" Rubin asked.
attorney he could only ask prospective jurors if they watch television.
"What television programs they watch is totally irrelevant," kaker said, "and I will not permit it any more than I would ask somebody what brand of whiskey they buy."
But Baker told the flamboyant defense
Zamora's defense is built on Rubin's contention that seven years of addiction to television, especially violent programs, made the youth temporarily insane—a victim of "involuntary subliminal television intoxication."
MIAMI (UP1)—The "TV intoxication" murder trial of 15-year-old Ronnie Zamora was recessed late yesterday after jurors were selected, sent home to pick up personal belongings and ordered to a hotel where they will be sequestered during the trial.
The opposing attorneys' arguments were scheduled for 10 a.m. today.
ZAMORA IS charged with the June 4 robbery-killing of his 82-year-old neighbor, Elinor Haggart.
Selection of the nine-man, three-woman jury came after defense attorney Ellis Rubin lost a bid to question prospective jurors about their television viewing habits.
He is presenting the unusual defense that the defendant's addiction to television violence led to temporary insanity.
The trial, which is getting gavel-to-gavel television and still photo coverage under a year-long experiment permitting filming of murders, has drawn international attention.
Actor Telly Savalas, whose "Kojak" series was one of Zamora's favorite programs, has been subpoenaed as a defendant and is expected to testify next Wednesday.
Jury chosen, secluded in 'TV intoxication' trial
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