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University Daily Kansan, February 12, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Lower interest rates linked to budget deficit, Dole says
SAN FRANCISCO—The federal budget deficit and interest rates are directly linked, and the budget deficit must be reduced to achieve lower interest rates, Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., said yesterday.
Dole said, "I just hope Congress doesn't give up and do nothing." Dole was in San Francisco to address a meeting of Pizza Hut Inc. He took
Dole said tax law needed to be revised "to make sure everybody gets a chance to pay a little something."
President Reagan, he said, is absolutely opposed to increasing taxes, and Uncle Same wants only his fair share.
Uncle Sam said that the inflation rate would drop to 7
percent before the end of the year.
With Roughness on plan on line, Dole said the inflation rate would drop to 7
percent before the end of the year.
Lansing inmate charged after fire
TOPEKA-A 31-year-old inmate at the Kansas State Penitentiary was charged yesterday in Leavenworth District Court with aggravated arson in connection with a blaze that engulfed two prison buildings Wednesday.
Robert Carty, of Montgomery County, was charged, but KSP officials will not discuss how the fire was set, according to Linda Moppin, administrative prosecutor.
Carty has been at the Laming institution since March 23, 1881, when he was admitted to serve a 15-year to life sentence on a conviction of one count of murder.
Inmates and prison employees escaped serious injury in the blaze, which occurred in the channel and the engineering maintenance building area.
Pole promises fewer restrictions
MADRID, Spain—Polisin Deputy Foreign Minister Jozef Wjiazak said yesterday the Warsaw regime intended to lift most martial law restrictions in less than three weeks, but warned that U.S. actions toward Poland could change that, prolonging the crackdown.
Welacje called a news conference to respond to Western criticism at the 35-nation European security conference, paralyzed on its third day by the
He repeated the Warsaw government's promise that martial law, imposed Dec. 13, was temporary and said that most restrictions would be lifted at the end of the war.
Underground opponents of the military regime yesterday called on Poles to observe the two-month anniversary of the military crackdown with a silent protest.
House group going to El Salvador
WASHINGTON-U. S. House Speaker Thomas O'Neill, expressing doubts about the U.S. policy of aiding government forces in El Salvador, said yesterday that he was sending a fact-finding delegation to the war-torn country.
country."
"I don't know whether we're going on the right road, to be perfectly truthful," O'Neill said. "I would hate to see something of this nature slip into the Vietnam situation."
O'Neill, a Massachusetts Democrat, said the El Salvador issue was too serious for Democrats to oppose the administration policy automatically. O'Neill also called on the governor to
The speaker received briefings on the El Salvador situation Tuesday from the CLA and the State Department, and from the House Intelligence Committee.
Reagan adamant on military budget
WASHINGTON—President Reagan yesterday ruled out any military spending cuts in 1983, despite mounting congressional sentiment that money for the Pentagon should be pared to hold down a projected $91.5 billion federal deficit.
Former President Gerald Ford said yesterday that Reagan's economic policies were good, but that some defense spending could be less effective and the project could fail.
"To reduce the defense budget could result in some reduction of the deficit buildup," he said.
The budget contains sharp new reductions in spending for social programs and an $18 billion increase in military funding, while projecting a deficit that some experts say is based somewhat optimistically on an early end to the current recession.
carry on discussion.
Asked if he would contemplate cuts in his proposed $215.9 billion Pentagon spending proposal, Reagan said, "No. I feel very strongly about defense spending."
Inmates moved to avoid race war
PETROTS, Tenn.—Two black Brushy Mountain State Prison inmates, wounded in a hail of gunfire from a gang of white convicts, and a third who escaped the bullets, will be transferred amid fears that a brewing war might explode, officials will说 yesterday.
The leader of the black gang, Barney Conley, was denied a transfer to the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, although prison staff members said he was marked for death in the continuing feud between rival gangs of black and white convicts.
"This puts Barney in a bad situation," prison counselor Steve Jacks said yesterday. "Until we get him moved, the sparks are still here. I think right
Seven white inmates sawed through their bars Monday night, overpowered four guards, shot two black inmates to death and wounded two others.
Khomeini orders prisoner review
"One of the biggest problems and shortcomings of our country is the lack of Islamic judges and people who can propagate Islam," Khomeini said, adding that he wanted a list of those deserving amnesty readied within two months. Tehran Radio said.
In a message on the third anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruballah Khomeini yesterday ordered added to review the status of the nuclear program.
The ayatollah's comment about justice in Iran appeared to acknowledge criticism leveled against the revolutionary courts for summary executions of more than 2,000 dissidents since the overthrow of President Abdolhassan Bani-Sadr last June.
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them. The number is, in summiness, left it unclear whether any of the
dissidents currently held in jail will判断 clear the test.
'Reds' nominated for 12 Oscars
The exact number of prisoners in Iran was not immediately known.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Warren Beatty's epit "Reds," and Henry Fonda's touching "On Golden Pond," led the nominees announced yesterday for Oscars to be presented at next month's 54th annual Academy Awards show.
betty pick up three nominations for "Reds"—the saga of American journalist John Reed and his firsthand report on the Russian Bolshevik
The picture is competing for 12 awards, including best picture and Diane Kenton for best actress.
Fonda and Katharine Hepburn were nominated as best actor and actress for their triumphs as an aging couple facing the husband's death in "On Golden Pond." The picture won 10 nominations, including best picture and Jane Fonda for best supporting actress.
Correction
Yesterday's Kansan incorrectly identified the man in a photograph at the top of page 1. He is David Allford, not Craig Rice, as reported. The Kansan regrets the error.
Committee hears auto natural gas plans
By COLLEEN CACY Staff Reporter
At a presentation before the Kansas House Transportation Committee, Nick Paige, director of marketing for Advanced Fuel Systems Inc., said natural gas was cheaper, safer and better for the environment that gasoline.
TOPEKA-Natural gas is the "fuel of the future" and could cut automobile fuel costs by two-thirds, a natural gas industry spokesman said yesterday.
company's film presentation said there were now more than 400,000 vehicles worldwide that used natural gas.
ADVANCED FUEL SYSTEMS is a Wichita-based company that manufactures and sells equipment for converting vehicles to natural gas. The
Compressed natural gas can be used as part of an alternate fuel system. A second carburetor is installed on top of the regular carburetor in a car engine, and the driver can switch from one fuel to the other with a dashboard control.
Paige said that it would cost about $1,200 to convert one car to natural gas but that the lower fuel costs could make the installment charges in about 15 months.
He said natural gas cost about half as much as gasoline. The average cost of natural gas was 35 to 60 cents per 100 cubic feet, the rough equivalent of one
THE FILM PRESENTATION said there were proven reserves of natural gas that would last for 115 years, and more was potentially available from coal, garbage, sewage and animal waste.
gallon, before decontrol. Company literature said that even when natural gas prices were decontrolled, they would remain substantially less than gasoline because gasoline prices also would rise.
Paige said it would probably be two or three years before individuals could own cars fueled by natural gas. Several large companies with fleets of cars, school buses or trucks now own vehicles that use natural gas.
Other countries, including Canada,
New Zealand and Italy, already had
been converting both private
public vehicles to natural gas, Paige
"Canada passed a federal law to convert 200,000 vehicles by 1985," he said, "but they're offering a $800 incentive."
civily.
It was unlikely there would be such a rebate program in the United States, he said.
Paige said there were lower maintenance costs with natural gas because of fewer oil changes, cleaner spark plugs and a longer engine life. This is because natural gas burns cleanly and does not produce hydrocarbons
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