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Tuesday, December 12, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From staff and ware reports
Vance reports treaty progress
TEL. AVIV, ISRAEL—Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance said yesterday he discussed new ideas for peace treaty with President Anwar Sadat of Egypt,
He arrived from Cairo, where he reported good progress in talks with Saad and urged Egypt and Israel to try to sign their long-elusive treaty by next month.
Vance is in Israel today to attend the funeral of former Prime Minister Golda Meir. He praised Mrs. Meir as "an outstanding figure, one of the great leaders
Iranian violence surges again
TEHANH, Iran - Two days of peace between the government and anti-shah protesters exploded into violence and bloodhed yesterday in the ancient city of Ilafah, where at least five persons were reported killed when soldiers fired on removing crowds.
Reports from reliable sources said anti-sahail rosters in the northeastern city of Mashhad stormed the U.S.-owned Hyatt Hotel, wrecking the floor and walls of the building. An ambulance was sent to the scene.
Official sources said the violence in Isfahan, 300 miles south of Tehran, began when a protest march similar to one held in Tehran over the weekend turned into a riot. The sources said thousands of demonstrators damaged downtown banks and public buildings and toppled statuses of the Shah.
Rhodesian oil depot explode
SALIBURY, Rhodesia - Explosions and towering flames coiled through a storage depot of four major oil companies near Saliburly last night. There were
A police spokesman said the fire started after a small explosion that was followed by other explosions. He refused to comment on the possibility of
The fire could seriously affect Rhodesia's war efforts against guerrillas who have been battling for six years to establish black majority rule.
*there is an international oil embargo against Rhodesia because of its racial policies, and the oil is shipped through white ruled South Africa in a com-
Kennedu hires political aide
WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who insists he is not running for president, has hired a young political expert, Carl Wagner, in another move to make his case.
Even though Kennedy denies he's a presidential candidate, he acts like candidates are supposed to. By hiring Wagner, Kennedy is getting a man well-versed in his politics.
Tom Southwick, Kennedy's press secretary, said Wagner, 33, will join the senator's staff to "keep track of governors and other out-of-state officials," as he said in a statement.
Southwick said hiring Wagner has nothing to do with any presidential campaign.
Three kidnap to protest law
TEL AVIV, Israel—Three Israeli brandishing pistols burst into a West German cultural center yesterday and seized a female hostage, but released the gunmen.
The raiders reportedly were demanding the abolition of the West German statute of limitations, which says that new prosecutions of those accused of Nazi crimes should be prosecuted by the Supreme Court.
Police said the three were led by Andre K琳奇那, who may have set fire to the West German embassy and shouted anti-Nazi slogans. He was not sergeant.
Police said the pistols the men carried were capable only of firing blanks and were of the type used for track meet.
Railroad rates rise 7 percent
WASHINGTON—The Interstate Commerce Commission yesterday awarded the nation's railroads a 7 percent overall freight rate increase. This increase is driven by an increase in rail capacity.
The ICC said the increase, which meets the administration's anti-inflation guidelines, would take effect Friday. The increase could provide financially greater relief to workers.
The rail industry last month agreed to trim its proposed 8.1 percent freight increase request to 7 percent to comply with Carter's program.
Chaplin's snatchers admit guilt
VEVEY, Switzerland—Two men told a court yesterday they acted alone to steal the body of comedian Charlie Chaplin. But a judge hinted the body was actually the remains of a 19-year-old girl.
Roman Wardas, 24, of, Poland, and Bulgarian-born Ganche Genev, 38, admitted their guilt in the scheme, saying they felt the March 1 theft would earn them a share of the reported $100 million Chaplin left his family. The suspects insisted no one else was involved.
Wardas said he was the man who called the Chapin family home and family attorneys over a 10-week period to negotiate a ransom. He was arrested in a car that had been driven into the building.
But the Chapin family lawyer, Jean-Felix Paschoud, testified that five of the dozens of calls he received appeared to be from a different man, using a voice different from the one he had heard on the other calls. That prompted presiding Judge Roland Chatielon to speculate a third man may still be at large.
Farmers plan tractor parade
JOHNSON-Money and weather permitting, scores of American Agriculture movement tractors will leave a handful of western towns today and form a plains rural supply network.
Bob Scrivener of the Johnson state AAM office said yesterday almost a dozen tractors would leave Johnson today and be met by a group from Satanta-Sublette about halfway to the overnight stop at Dodge City. Other groups of tractors and campers are scheduled to depart from Elkhorn, Liberal, Syracuse, Sharon Springs, Goodland and St. Francis and wind their way, at 15 miles per hour and about 100 miles a day, to Topeka.
The tractor motorcade was delayed several days to make its Topoca arrival closer to the D. 18 beginning of a multi-state grain marketing conference to take place in April.
WASHINGTON—An Agriculture Department official said the United States made progress in achieving an International Wheat Agreement last week.
World wheat vact predicted
Thomas Saylor, associate administrator of the department's Foreign Agricultural Service, said in an interview that the United States and Common Market were working on a solution.
The administration strongly supports an agreement to end sharp swings off wheat prices, which have posed problems for American consumers and producers in the last ten years, and to spread responsibility for holding wheat reserves among exporting and importing nations.
Missing dynamite recovered
GREAT BEND - Six hundred pounds of dynamite and 400 blasting caps stolen almost a week ago from a geological exploration company were recovered.
The Barton County Sheriff's office, Great Bend police and the Central Kansas
Sarcolot Utl recrived the explosives from an abandoned storm shelter eight
miles north of Barton County.
Leonard Mastromi, narcotics unit supervisor, said the 10-count drug unit was asked to help with the investigation Saturday when it was learned that the ex-convict had been in possession of cocaine.
Information provided to the narcotics unit by a confidential source allowed retrieval of the explosives, valued at about $1,800.
Weather...
It will be mostly cloudy today. Highs will be in the low $w$. Winds will be south to southeastern, 5 to 10 mph in the morning, shifting to west northwestly in the afternoon.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said yesterday it would decide whether employers with no proven history of racial bias illegally discriminate against whites when giving preferences to minority workers.
Court to rule on minority hiring
In a case that may dwarf the court's Bakke ruling of last June in its impact and may affect millions of Americans, the justified agree to hear three appeals stemming from a Louisiana job-discrimination lawsuit.
The justices' eventual decision will likely be reached sometime before next July, after a review of the nominees.
Brian F. Weber, a white employee at Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Co's Gramercy, La., plant, charged that an affirmative action program begun by Kaiser made him a victim of reverse discrimination.
"It's been a long time coming—it's been almost four years since the suit was filed and I didn't expect to get near this status," he said. "I would have been satisfied to have it resolved at any time this last four years, it's too important to be settled this early."
Two lower federal courts ruled that the program aimed at landing more blacks in higher-paying jobs was illegal because it fostered racial bias against Weber.
In a flurry of action Monday, the court also:
- Agreed to decide whether police may question criminal suspects who do not specifically relinquish—either orally or in writing; remain silent and obtain a lawyer's help.
IN GRAMMERY, Weber expressed
concern that the court would agree with
blain concordance.
The court thus takes the stage, in a case from North Carolina, for an important interpretation of its controversial Miranda ruling, which requires police to warn suspects of their rights before questioning them.
- Uphold by a 4-4 vote a ruling that criminal suspects' statements that are rude madishable as trial evidence under the Code of Civil Procedure not be used to justify a police search warrant.
- Refused to hear the appeal of two Connellsville, Pa., library employees who were fired because they live together but are not married.
- Agreed to decide whether federal prosecutors may bring former Rep. Henry Helstoki, D-N.J., to trial for alleged bribery.
- If prosecutors can try Helstoski, charged with agreeing to receive bribes from various resident aliens in return for introducing legislation to help their immigration status, the justice must decide what evidence may be used.
- Agreed to hear a government appeal in the case of another prominent New Jersey politician, former Newark Mayor Hugh J. Addison. The court's action raises the possibility that Addison will have to accept the sentence serving a 10-year sentence for extortion.
- Turned down an appeal by a Virginia
- Agreed to decide whether the government fosters impermissible sex bias by giving aid to families in which breadwinner does not breadwinner mothers—are out of work.
married couple challenging federal tax laws that imposed heavier tax burdens on the spouses' combined income after they were married.
IN WEBER'S CASE, the justices agreed to appeal to the Appeal, the United Steelworkers Union.
The affirmative action program launched by Kaiser in 1974 was approved of in a company-union agreement. It accepted minority and white employees on a one-for-one basis in an on-the-job training program that led to higher paying work.
Webe sued after being denied participation in the program. He charged that the selection of black workers with less than 10 years of experience provided a portion of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Had trainers been selected solely on the severity, or priority, blocks would have been included in the selection.
In the Bakke decision, a deeply divided high court ruled that a state-run medical school in California illegally discriminated against women who is white, when it denied him admission.
Bakke had charged that less-qualified applicants had been admitted ahead of him under the school's special program which is increasing its number of minority students.
The justices ordered the school to admit
students who did not destroy the concept of
affirmative action.
Because the decision was grounded in a federal law dealing only with discrimination in education, it provided few clear signals as to the court's view of the hundreds of affirmative action programs in employment that now affect millions of workers.
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