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Wednesday, October 25, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From staff and wire reports
Kansas iobless rate drops
TOPEKA-Kansas' unemployment rate fell to 3.3 percent during September, the lowest level it has been since last May, Gov. Robert F. Bennett said.
Bernett attributed the rosy employment picture to a continued strong state economy, with significant growth in manufacturing, mining and finance. 8.8
economy, with significant declines in September compared to the
the unemployment rate of 3.3 percent in September compared with 3.8
percent in August and 3.9 percent in September 1977.
There were 1,131,200 Kansans at work last month, more than 24,000 above
September 1977 figures and more than 10,000 above August reports.
43 arrested in KC drug raid
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A sweeping drug raid across the metropolitan area had resulted in 43 arrests by yesterday afternoon and drug enforcement officials said they expected the drug problem in the area "to take a nose dive."
Forty officers from the Metro Drug Squad and the Missouri Highway Patrol fanned out across Jackson, Clay, Missouri and Platte counties in Missouri and Arkansas.
The officers, armed with 55 warrants, began the raid after purchasing drugs from suspects during the past two months.
on the past two months. Forty arrests and three persons were arrested on drug possession charges during the raids.
Gas pipeline explodes, kills 5
BROOKSIDE VILLAGE, Texas—A natural gas pipeline exploded into flames at a trailer park yesterday, killing five persons who were overcome by scorching heat as they tried to flee through an open field. At least 43 others were injured, authorities said.
The blast, which occurred at 3 a.m., felt 35 miles away. Airplane pilots 290 miles away said they could see the fireball that rose from the scene.
20,000 seven of the 23 trailers at the Royal Mobile Home Park in this rural Houston suburb were destroyed.
Gene Smith, Brazoria County sheriff's captain, listed the death count at and said others still were missing. He said 43 persons had been taken to area hospitals.
nospawn The blaze burned itself out after United Texas Transmission Gas Co. officials closed that value that were feeding the pipelines.
United officials said they had not determined the cause of the explosion. The National Transportation Safety Board in Washington said it would investigate.
KC bids for GOP convention
WASHINGTON-Kansas City asked the Republican Party for "many happy returns" and Minnesota-Silas Paul said its area's facilities were unassuraced in the wake of the city's bankruptcy.
the amount they have to pay to cover bidding for the convention, was to make its pitch late yesterday. New Orleans, Detroit and Miami Beach made their present
Kansas City officials produced figures that they said came from an independent, professional survey showing that meals and lodging would be more expensive than in other cities.
A Kansas City convention would be held in Kempner Arena, home of the National Basketball Association Kansas City Kings, where the 1978 Republican
After this week's hearings, the committee, headed by national GOP Chairman Bill Brock, will visit each of the competing cities. He will make recommendations to the Republican National Committee, which will make the final selection in July.
OSHA drops nitpicking rules*
WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, failing a promise made to businessmen last year, scrapped 298 "nitrating" incidents.
Eula Bingham, head of OSHA, said the standards were eliminated because they were more of a nuisance than a help in protecting workers.
The action means that the government's workplace safety agency no longer will dictate to millions of employees how they must select toilet seats, mount urinals and washroom stalls.
the move may also help the agency sbed its image as a nuisance to businessman because of its seeming concern with minor regulations instead of lawsuits.
Yesterday's action completes a process begun last December, when OHSA proposed eliminating 1,100 standards. After months of public hearings and debate, the House passed an effort to remove those standards.
FDA approves anti-viral drug
WASHINGTON—In what scientists say is an important breakthrough against viral diseases, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a new drug that could make some infections easier to treat.
rIDA Commissioner Donald Kennedy said, "Approval of this drug is particularly noteworthy because it helps out the hope that some day we will be able to treat HIV."
The drug, Vidarabane, was developed by Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit. The firm plans to market the drug under the trade name Vira-A.
In studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the drug slashed the death rate caused by Herpes encephalitis from 70 percent to 28 percent and substantially reduced the brain damage often suffered by survivors of the rare disease.
The form of the drug approved by the FDA is injectable and in cases of Herpes encapsulitis is administered intravenously to patients in hospitals.
Grain goal predicted in reach
WASHINGTON - Administration officials forecast yesterday that their goal of a feed grain reserve of 17 million to 19 million metric tons was within reach,
The farmer-owned reserve, an important component of the nation's farm policy, is intended to bolster grain prices by keeping surplus grains off the
The initial Agriculture Department goal was to build a 17 million to 19 million metric ton reserve by Oct. 1. When that was not achieved, the goal was pushed forward to January 1979. But in the latest supply and demand report, economists said the goal now is likely to be achieved by this December.
By last Friday, more than 13 million metric tons of feed grains had been placed in the three-year reserve.
Corporate acreage unreported
TOPEKA - An estimated 500,000 acres of Kansas farmland are controlled by corporations but are not officially reported as corporate land as required by the USDA.
In addition, the report listed more than 185 corporations that may be in violation of state laws concerning corporate ownership of agricultural land.
Iran to cut U.S. arms buying
The study was presented earlier this week to the state Special Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. It indicated that the number of corporate land holdings in Kansas during a 30-month period ending in 1978 had more than doubled.
The newspapers and U.S. and Iranian negotiators met behind closed doors to discuss the cutbacks, which reportedly would save Iran $7 billion during the war.
TEHRAN, Iran—Iran wants to make drastic cuts in arms purchases from the United States, including cancellation of a $1.2 billion aerial spying system that monitors American citizens.
In Washington, an unidentified State Department spokesman said Iran had given American negotiators no indication it wanted to back out of previously arranged armies purchases, including the sale of an Advanced Warning Airborne Missile System. The sale was also been used on the Iranian-Soviet border to report Russian military movement.
Weather
Skies will be partly cloudy today with temperatures in the low 60s. Winds will from the northwest at 15 to 20 miles an hour and gusty. The mercury will dip
JERUSALEM (AP)—The Israel Cabinet adjourned after a seven-hour session yesterday without making a decision on the draft of a peace treaty with Egypt. President Hossein al-Musri has urged the Israeli to allow the president to but some ministers expressed reservations.
Defense Minister Ezeer Weizman, Israel's chief negotiators at the talks, briefed the Parliament's most powerful body, the Security Committee, after the Cabinet adjourned.
No Israeli decision yet on treaty
Speaking to reporters after the lengthy session, Prime Minister Menachem Begin said, "I hope the Cabinet will end its negotiations, and that it will also take the decisions."
Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said the draft left open certain questions about Israel's nuclear program.
"Everybody is analyzing," Deputy Prime Minister Vigel Yadin said. "I hope there is a solution."
Finance Minister Sincha Ehrlich told Israel radio he hoped the draft would be ratified today. But the radio quoted Energy Minister Yitzhak Mokai as saying the draft raises doubts whether this means real power, just a tactical step which is not real peace."
FOREIGN MINISTER Moshe Dayan and
Official sources confirmed press reports
L.A. canyons declared disaster
LOS ANGELES (AP)—A 40,000-capacity spread of expensive homes was declared a disaster area yesterday as muggy air and calmers wind helped firefighters battle flames in the brushy hillsides and canyons around Los Angeles.
More than 140 homes were destroyed by the wind-fanned fires and at least a dozen
persons were injured, including one critically burned homeowner. Two persons were killed in a car crash on a smoky canyon road.
Shortly before noon, Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr. declared the fire site a disaster area, making it immediately eligible for state aid.
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BUT AFTER 11 hours of discussion Monday and yesterday, the Cabinet had neither accepted the draft nor issued new instructions to the negotiators.
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Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia expressed a "better understanding" of the peace accords after a 24-hour visit to Saudi Arabia by President Anwar Sadat's special envoy, a senior Egyptian presidential aide said in Cairo.
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The official, who asked not to be named, said the special envoy, Sayed Marel, explained in detail the agreements reached so far during the treaty talks in Washington. It was clear that it was premature to say Saudi Arabia had fully endorsed the peace accord.
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that has publicly out in favor of Egypt's peace overtures to Israel.
OFFICIAL STATEMENTS in Cairo and press reports here indicated both countries would ask for changes in the 10-page text, which Carter intervened to get past obstacles.
The Israeli Cabinet's deliberations were secret, but Israeli newspapers reported that Begin was satisfied with a bare mention of the Palestinian issue in the newspaper Haaretz, in an unattributed report, say Begin. Regime observations about the withdrawal from Israel are the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula.
Also in Cairo, Prime Minister Mustafa Khalli said Sadat had made some remarks about the text's mention of linkage between Islam and the Palestinian problem.
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