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UAW negotiations blamed for record low auto sales
DETROIT—January car sales plunged 18.5 percent to the worst rate in 21 years as buyers apparently waited for promised price cuts that never materialized.
Total domestic sales of 989,138 cars were down 18.5 percent on a daily rate basis from the 469,832 average monthly in 1981, domestic auto makers
The final 10 days of January dealt the auto industry its worst blow when the daily selling rate dropped 25.5 percent.
the only seeing race dropped as waiters stopped Analysts said car buyers were waiting for prices to drop, but prices stayed much the same because contract talks with the United Auto Workers had collapsed.
American Motors Corp. posted the biggest 10-day drop of the five domestic auto makers, with sales down 58.5 percent. Its sales for the month were down 40 percent.
General Motors also suffered a substantial drop in sales -31.6 percent in the last 10 days of January.
Ford Motor Co. posted the best 10-day sales report, with sales down only 5.7 percent from 1981.
Import car sales for the month were down 3.8 percent to an estimated 161,000, making the drop in total industry sales 14.3 percent from last year's
U.S. threatens to cut U.N. support
UNITED NATIONS - The United States threatened yesterday to cut off financial support for the United Nations if it tries to oust Israel.
Arab nations, backed by the non-aligned group at the United Nations, are expected to submit a tough resistance against Israel today to the current emergency session of the General Assembly on the Israeli annexation of the occupied Golan Heights.
occupied Great Heights.
The resolution would not expel Israel from the United Nations but could be a first step towards depriving it of the right to sit in the Assembly, which happened to South Africa.
The United States contributes 25 percent of the regular U.N. budget and a total of nearly $1 billion to all U.N. operations.
"Any threat or attempt to expel Israel or any other member state would violate the principle of universality on which the U.N. is founded." a State Department report states.
Dozier says he's glad to be home
WASHINGTON- "It's doggone good to be home," Army Gen. James Dozier said yesterday, standing on American soil after being freed from six weeks of terror captivity in Italy.
Dozier and his wife, Judith, arrived at Andrews Air Force base near Washington and were greeted by Vice President George Bush.
w328aignorth. The inaugural ceremony was spiced up by some unscheduled aerial maneuvers—the huge Air Force C-411 jet that made the long flight from Europe had to abort its first landing attempt while it was over the runway.
"Good to have you back again, General," Bush said, once Dozier was safely on the ground.
The 50-year-old, one-star NATO officer repeated his thanks to those who prayed for him during his 42-day captivity and to the Italian authorities who helped keep him alive.
"I can assure that if you've been on the receiving end of prayer, you know it," Dozier said.
Witnesses testify against Williams
ATLANTA—Two witnesses testified yesterday that they saw Wayne Walters hit the man he has been accused of killing, on the last day the victims were seen after he died.
Robert Henry, a nursery worker, testified he saw Williams and Nathaniel Cater emerge from a downtown theater "holding hands" just hours before Williams was stopped by police near the Chattahoochee River where Cater's body was found two days later.
The second witness, A. B. Dean, said he saw Williams near the same river with Jimmy Ray Payne last April 22. Payne's body was pulled from the river five days later. Dean's testimony was left in some doubt after Defense Attorney Al Binder showed him to be misidentifying an investigator.
Earlier, prosecution witnesses provided testimony apparently designed to establish homosexuality as a motive for the slayings. The prosecution had
Mubarak favors Palestinian state
WASHINGTON—Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged President Reagan yesterday to accept a Palestinian "national entity" and to recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization in the Middle East peace efforts.
In his first talks with Reagan since becoming president, Muhakar departed from policies that Anwar Sadat outlined in Washington last year.
Sudat had opposed an independent Palestine, urging instead a confederation with Jordan to reassure Israel about any possible dangers from a
However, as part of his Middle East peace plan, Mubarak reiterated Sadat's call for a dialogue with the PLO as the designated Palestinian
"The key to peace and stability in the area is to solve the Palestinian problem," he said. "A just solution to this problem must be based on mutual recognition and acceptance."
Trudeau introduces economic plan
The federal government is hoping that the plan will turn around Canada's slumping economy. The country's annual inflation rate hit a 33-year high of 12.5 percent in 1981. More than 1 million people are unemployed, making a jobless rate of 8.6 percent.
OTTAWA-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau introduced a five-point economic development plan yesterday that proposes new initiatives to broaden export markets and create new industry in economically depressed regions of Canada.
The proposals include natural resource development, an enhanced national transportation system, development of export markets, restructuring and diversification of the country's exports.
Trudeau considers economic renewal the government's "overriding priority," and has allocated $60 billion for federal development expenditures.
IFK secretly recorded meetings
The Washington Post reported in today's editions that it obtained a 29-page log from the Kennedy Library in Boston of recordings that were made from July 1962 until November 1962, the month Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
WASHINGTON—President John F. Kennedy secretly recorded about 600 of his White House meetings and telephone conversations with family members, his Cabinet and staff, members of Congress and foreign leaders, it was reported last night.
The Post said the recordings included a "vast amount of unreleased information, including many highly classified meetings of the National Security Council on such subjects as the Cuban missile crisis, Berlin and Moscow, to controversies such as the 1962 integration of the University of Mississippi.
Correction
The Kansas yesterday misidentified James Jeffley, Kansas City sophomore, as a supervisor of registration at Hoch Auditorium. Jeffley was a floor supervisor of registration at Hoch for the last two semesters.
Water run-off problems lead to sales tax
Local committee fights tax
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
Lawrence residents will have to pay a 50-cent-a-month tax on their water bill unless a local citizens' committee is able to force a vote on the tax by collecting 1,138 signatures of registered voters by March 10.
If the committee, Citizens for a Better Government, is unsuccessful, the ordinance imposing the tax will go into effect March 15.
published twice and did not provide for a 60-day protest period.
THE CITY FIRST attempted to finance the study when it passed a tax ordinance in December. That usurpation was judged by County district judge because it was not
The tax ordinance was passed by the Lawrence City Commission to finance a study by a Kansas City, Mo., firm of run-off problems in Lawrence.
The ruling was made after E.R. Zook, 629 W. 21st St., filed a suit against the city.
The city responded by passing a second ordinance to finance the storm water study with the 50-cent tax.
City Commissioner Don Binns said if an election was held the commission would have to educate people about the need for the study.
Zook, a member of the committee,
said he was optimistic that the committee would get the required signatures.
Lawrence has a problem with flooding, and the study might help the city set new requirements for the approval of site plans, he said.
"IT'S POSSIBLE that a new ordinance will develop out of this drainage study." Binns said. "I think its desirable."
The issue of the storm water policy was raised at Tuesday's commission meeting when commissioners approved a plan for an apartment development to provide more developer discuss building extra water detention basins at the city's expense.
Binnis said a new ordinance setting such requirements on site plans would help prevent flooding. It would also require that waterproofing be approved according to uniform standards.
The city could not require the developer to pay for expanded basins because the plan showed that the city would retain more water than the city requires.
Zook said that according to state law, storm water flooding was not the city's cause.
"If somebody has flooding in his house it's not the duty of the city to rescue him," he said. "He just made a bad buy.
"MOTHER NATURE established detention ponds in various places." Zook said.
If we establish building permits in those areas people have to expect flooding, he said.
Bims said that flooding often happened in areas where buildings were built years ago and that the city ought to do something.
He said he was not opposed to the city paying part of the cost of storm water basins, but a city ordinance should specify when the city should step in.
And that cannot be done without a study, he said.
Now, the city funds detention basins for a developer it might like, and does not fund them for a developer it might not like, he said.
"A builder needs to know what to expect," he said. "We should have a government of laws, not of compulsory work, or of trying in the wilderness down there."
Budget could exclude grad student loans
By JANET MURPHY Staff Renorter
KU graduate students may have to look elsewhere for financial aid if Congress approves President Keagan's KU financial aid official said yesterday.
Jeff Weinberg, associate director of KU's office of student financial aid, said that the elimination of graduate students from the guaranteed student loan program would have a significant impact on those students.
The president's budget, to be presented to Congress Monday, is calling for a 25 percent overall cut in education and a 50 percent cut in student aid.
ABOUT HALF of the nation's 000,000 graduate students received financial aid through the GSls.
Not quite half of KU's graduate students studied aid through the univitated Lentel program.
During the 1980-81 fiscal year, about 2,500 graduate students on the Lawrence campus and in the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan.
received approximately $10 million through the GSL program, Joe Henry, vice president of the Higher Education Department in n Kansas City, Kan., said yesterday.
Henry said that the elimination of graduate students from the GSL program would be a problem. He said a new program, the parent loan program, could be a source for those cut off from schools. That program is still in legislation.
WEINBERG SAID he didn't know whether the Reagan proposal would allow graduate students to continue studying or to be admitted if they were already receiving them.
George Woodyard, associate dean of the Graduate School, said the University was aware for some time that the cuts might be coming.
He said it had received word that graduate students would be affected by the loss of funding from the National Research Council and the work/study program from $484
"It will strain graduate students''
touch with the program and
program," Wooodyard said.
Graduate teaching and research stipends are not sufficient, he said.
WOODYARD SAID the University would not allow it to oppose wounds when the bill was put into effect.
The guaranteed student loan program, established in 1965, allowed graduate students to borrow as much as $5,000 a year, to a maximum of $25,000.
The current interest rates on the GSLs is 9 percent. But some loans made before 1981 carry an interest rate as low as 7 percent.
The government pays the interest on the loan while the student is in school. The student begins repaying the loan equation at the specified interest rate.
are calling the proposals "a disaster." They said these changes will put college beyond the reach of hundreds of thousands of students.
THE ACTION Committee on Education, a coalition of 12 college and university associations, said the Reagan budget would eliminate more than $2.3 million loans to meedy students and loans to $40,000 graduate students.
The groups said that under the proposed budget there would be higher financing charges on the 9 percent GSLs. This would include doubling the origination fee and imposing market interest rates two years after graduation. It would mean an overall increase of 19 percent, they said.
Also under the budget proposal,
special graduate fellowships to
minorities and women would be plaused
out. Health profession loans for doctors
would be made available. Department of Health and Human Services, also would be plaused out;
The nation's higher education groups
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