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Friday, September 23, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Farmers unite to protest prices
PUEBLO, Colo. (AP)—A caravan of tractors, and farm trucks rolled across Colorado highway yesterday, driven by farmers demanding that the
federal government guarantee them at least a break-even price for their crops.
The farmers, loosely organized into a group called American Agriculture, came
American nun out of jail expelled from Rhodesia
JOHANNENBSURG, South Africa (AP)—An American nun who unply sympathized with black guerrillas in Rhodesia was freed from jail and expelled from that country today. During a flight here she said she was exposed to internal pressure brought about her release.
Sister Janie McLaughlin, 35, a Maryknell nun from Pittsburgh, had been in jail for her 1997 attempt to escape charges were filed after she and three colleagues prepared a report criticizing the white Rhodesian government's treatment of black civilians in the five-year guerrilla war.
The report accused Rhodesian authorities of inflicting hardship on 580,000 blacks by moving them to protected villages away from the guerrilla forces.
The judge who ordered her held without bail last week described her as a "dedicated supporter of the terrorist cause" and a "grave security risk." She said at a court hearing she sympathized with the insurgents.
In an interview on the South African Airways flight from Salisbury, McLaughlin said she was in some ways disappointed at her sudden release.
"I was anxious to fight out the court case," she said. "I believed in what we were doing and that the government would not be able to prove its case against me."
A spokesman for the Rhodesian government's office, Mr McLaughlin, was exonerated from charges.
She said she had been treated well in jail "because they knew the whole world was looking on". She said her continued efforts to abolish harassment to the Rhodian government.
She had been scheduled to stand trial Tuesday under a security law prohibiting the spread of alarm, fear or despondency, and she could face up to seven years.
Her three male colleagues on the Catholic Commission for Peace and Justice are to stand trial on security charges Sept. 30 and face maximum terms of 25 years.
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nere for a meeting with Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland, who has expressed little hope that their demands will be met.
Without favorable federal action, the farmers will stop producing and destroy bean borer. 1.
A dozen tractors were lined up along the runway at Pueblo Airport waiting for Bergland's arrival and about 90 other farm vehicles—with Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas license plates—to go into a county fairground it go to the airport.
Car caravans and farm equipment decked with homemade signs were traveling to Pueblo. "This is agriculture's profit," said a farmer on sign on the side of trucks filled with manure.
Bergland told a news conference in Denver Wednesday that he would listen carefully to the farmers, but said that their demands would not be met.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said yesterday the United States would allow the 1972 U.S. strategic arms accord to expire Oct. 3, but would abide by its provisions as negotiations continue with Russia.
SALT issues still unresolved
Vance said U.S. observance of the pact's provisions was conditional on Russia intervening in Syria.
Vance made the disclosure in a letter to Sen. John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as Vance met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in a new round of talks on strategic arms limits.
After the first five-hour session, both ministers said the search for a new U.S-Soviet strategic arms limitations lasting through 1985 was best by problems.
THEY AGREED to meet again in the late afternoon to discuss the Middle East situation. Gromyko meets with President Jimmy Carter this morning.
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"The main (strategic arms) issues remain unresolved. Those are the issues we need to deal with."
The U.S. "unilateral statement" informally extends the current strategic and economic agenda.
Gromyky said, "We waded into the stream and have not emerged. There were lots of rocks. When we will get out I cannot see success. We want to see success in the talks."
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday. Chief U.S. arms negotiator Paul Warnke will testify, committee alders said.
The declaration states:
"In order to maintain the status quo as the negotiations are being completed, the United States declares its intention not to take any action inconsistent with the Constitution. It will expire Oct. 3 . . . provided the Soviet Union exercises similar restraint."
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