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Thursday, September 1, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by JOHN SHARKEY
Taking five
Escaping the wet weather yesterday afternoon, Paul Rachmaniades, A*bens, Greece, graduate student, found a soft chair in Watson Library to relax before continuing his studies.
Ian Smith retains control
SALIBURY, Rhodesia (AP)—Prime Minister Ian Smith retained control of parliament in Rhodesia's general election, and when vote-counting paused the opposition had two-thirds majority he needs to negotiate a racial settlement on his own terms.
Partial results of balloting by the mostly white electorate gave Smith's Rhodesian Front Party 35 of the 44 seats he needs for a two-thirds majority in the House of assembly. Returns from rural areas, where Smith has strong support, are expected today.
There are 66 seats in the House, 50 reserved for whites.
smith was unopposed for his own seat in Parliament.
SMITHS PARTY held 38 seats before the election, which he called in an attempt to obtain the 44-seat bloc that will enable him to make constitutional changes.
Such changes would allow him to work out
a power-sharing arrangement with moderates in Rhodesia's black majority and resist an Anglo-American plan that would suppress the disbanding of Rhodesia's white-led army.
Late Wednesday, Smith reiterated his intention to seek talks with local black leaders not linked to the guerrillas who since 1972 have been fighting to topple his government. None of the moderate black leaders, however, has agreed to meet with Smith.
In another Rhodesian development, a military spokesman said Wednesday that in the southeastern Mandra tribal reserve, soldiers had found the buried warriors guerrillas slain in fire in nationalist movements operating inside Rhodesia.
The spokesman said this was the beginning of civil war between the Zimbabwean and the Zimbabwean nation led by Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union of Joshko Nkomo.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Labor Department said yesterday that Chicago illegally used federal job money for political hiring and ordered the city to repay nearly $1 million to the start of a federal crackdown on such abuses in cities across the nation.
Chicago job funds said abused
Labor Secretary Ray Marshall said an investigation found that Chicago used a "political referral system" to fill jobs intended for the long-term unemployed. He announced inquiries into similar allegations in Atlanta, Ga.; Gary, Ind; and New York City.
The jobs program is a part of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) under which the federal government pays states and cities $5.5 billion to put 725,000 unemployed people in public service jobs.
THE PROGRAM, intended to create new jobs to ease unemployment, requires that
Marshall said Chicago had agreed to reimburse $965,460 to the Labor Department, which will return the funds to the Chicago CETA program.
applicants be unemployed for a minimum of 15 weeks.
In addition, he said, the Illinois Bureau of Employment Security, a state agency, will be responsible for processing and referring CETA applicants to the city. A full-time federal monitor will ensure compliance with the regulations.
"We cannot tolerate serious violations of CETA regulations." Marshall told a news conference. "With the unemployment rate at 6.9 per cent, this program represents the best hope of meaningful employment for hundreds of thousands of men and women."
In Chicago, Marshall said officials handed in the $10,000-a-year jobs as political favors to persons recommended by local
The governor alluded to the state architectural contract kickback case in which 24 defendants were indicted for violation with the original architectural contract award.
politicians instead of giving them to the unemployed on a first-come basis.
Marshall said the absues found in the Labor Department's three-week investigation involved only about 250 jobs. The city has been given a total of $129 million for its work.
KU project criticized
HE ALSO SAID that the city had placed ineligible people in CETA jobs and used them in projects traditionally performed by regular city employees. In one case, he said, CETA workers were used to fill polycholas, a department employe
Attorney General Curt Schneider said Tuesday it would be at least another month before he would consider filing any suit on faulty architectural designs provided for the expansion by Marshell & Brown-Sidowicz. Although a legislative committee has approved Schneider, Schneider said a full assessment of damages to the state must be made before he can take action.
BENNETT SAID he thought that plans for the project were inappropriately prepared or that the construction was inappropriately built. And somebody ought to be responsible for it."
BENNETT SAID several options were being considered to solve continuing problems that plague state construction. Problems have occurred with the KU School of Law building, four buildings at Wichita State University, the Wichita building and the expansion to the Med Center science building and clinical facility.
Marshall said that he didn't think criminal violations were involved in the Chicago case, and that he isn't referring it to the Justice Department.
He said as far as he knew, nothing illegal has played a part in numerous instances of the sex scandal.
City officials in Chicago were not available for immediate comment.
TOPEKA-Gov. Robert Bennett yesterday called expansion construction at the University of Kansas Medical Center "an outstanding example of the worst piece of construction that has occurred in the Midwest in the last century."
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"I think there is cupulability, of the negligent variety," he said.
Bennec said it appeared that there were indications of negligence in planning the expansion and that legal actions should be taken against those responsible.
The Carter administration has given the public service jobs program high priority in its effort to bring down unemployment. The company employs 300,000 jobs earlier this year to 725,000.
About half of Chicago's 15,000 CETA jobs already have been filled this year, but
Bennett said one suggestion had been to hire one private architect and one private contractor to be responsible for hiring the architectural firm that will ultimately finished project. He said the state Division of Architectural Services then would have only the responsibility for specifying the requirements, specifications and for making sure the project stays within its appropriation.
There have been charges in Congress that some cities were using public service jobs funds to pay regular city workers to do their regular tasks.
Bennett said that alternative would give the state an advantage because it could hold one architect or one contractor legally responsible for any problems on a project. He said then the state could sue for any damages.
Bennett said another possibility suggested by State Architect Louis Krueger is to beef up Krueger's staff to better supervise projects.
Cuban relations reopened
WASHINGTON (UPI)—With a carefully coordinated set of ceremonies, the United States and Cuba will exchange official envoys today for the first time in 17 years.
The two countries will open so-called diplomatic "interests sections" simultaneously in Havana and Washington at noon, with speeches emphasizing that this would be only one step on the way to full relations.
In Washington, where the Cuban interest section will be attached to the Czechoslovakian embassy, there won't even be a flag-raising ceremony because the Cuban office building hasn't been refurbished after its 17-year vacation.
In Havana, where the American interest section will be attached to the Swiss embassy, the Swiss flag will be raised over the former American embassy building.
The U.S. envoy, Lyle Lane, and the nine
officials of his staff are already in Cuba.
The Cuban envoy to Washington, Ramon Sanchez Panchel, and some of his staff—which will also total 10 persons—planned to participate in today's open ceremonies at the Czechoslovakian ambassador's residence. Undersecretary of State Philip
Habib was to represent the United States at those ceremonies...
At the parallel reception in Havana, the Cuban government will be represented by an ambassador.
Although the interest sections are embassies in everything but name, diplomatic relations will have to wait until further U.S.-Cuba problems are cleared.
They include the settlement of about $2 billion in U.S. claims of compensation for the nationalization of U.S. properties, the presence of Cuban troops in Africa, the holding of political prisoners in Havana jails and the U.S. anti-Castro trade embargo.
The two countries broke diplomatic relations in early 1961, soon after the Castro regime came to power. The abortive, CIABacked Bay of Pigs invasion and the U.S. attempt to quarantine Cuba diplomatically and economically followed.
Washington and Havana broke the ice on a maritime boundaries agreement between the two nations.
Relations remained frigid until the Carter administration announced a policy of establishing some form of diplomatic relations with all countries.