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Thursday, October 12, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From staff and ware reports
OPEC demands refining help
VIENNA, Austria-Oil cartel officials finished a three-day seminar yesterday by demanding help from industrial countries to develop the oil-producing
The call for cooperation between crude oil suppliers and consumers was made by Kuwait Oil Minister Al Khalifa al-Shabat at the end of the seminar on the manufacture of finished petroleum products, organized by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
The oil-exporting countries threatened to cut back oil supplies if they don't receive cooperation in developing their own refining industries. They set no boundaries.
Members of OPEC said they were unhappy with refining and marketing operations are dominated by industrialized nations. OPEC said that efforts by member countries to diversify into refining and petrochemical industries are being discouraged, and even obstructed, by the developed nations.
Insurance rate hearing set
TOPEKA - A formal administration hearing on a request by Kansas Blue Cross-Blue Shield for a $2.3 million increase in rates has been set for 10 a.m.
Orders for new business Commissioner Fletcher Bell recently disapproved the proposed rate increase for the two non-profit corporations, which provide
The insurance commissioner said the Blue Cross-Blue Shield request involved 21 rate filings that would have affected 379,000 persons in all Kansas counties.
House to consider tax cuts
WASHINGTON—Republicans began drumming up support yesterday for a Senate bill that would require individuals taxes an additional $164.5 billion.
The Senate added the conditional tax cuts to the $2.3 billion tax cut for 1979 that was approved Tuesday night. A $1.8 billion version approved by the House passed unanimously on Friday.
House Republican leader John Rhodes of Arizona said the House will vote today on a GOP motion to accept the Senate provision.
Crane kills construction man
DALLAS-A 14-ton crane fell yesterday from the 27th floor of a skyscraper under construction in downtown Dallas, killing the crane's operator, who unintentionally struck his shoulder.
A police spokesman said no other deaths or injuries were reported in the accident. The accident occurred about 3:30 p.m., shortly before the afternoon
Fire officials identified the victim as Kenneth Carl Branch, 37, of Tyler, Texas.
The crane fell from the top floor of One Dallas Center, bounced into the structure and crashed into construction barriers, imbedding itself 3 inches
Chile station to track Skylab
HOUSTON-Ground controllers will tighten their contact with the Skylab space station Sunday by adding a Chilean tracking station to its Skylab system. The station is set up in the southwest corner of the space.
NASA officials have been working since March to keep the space station in a streamlined flight path to prevent it from falling back to earth.
The Chilean station, in Santiago, has tracked other satellites and had to be modified for Skylab. The conversion will close a six-hour daily gap in the Johnson Space Center's monitoring of the space station's systems. Prior monitoring had been conducted in Bermuda, Spain and California.
NASA officials are planning an attempt to push Skylab into a higher orbit during a space shuttle flight that tentatively has been scheduled for January or March.
Chinese buy American corn
WASHINGTON - The Agriculture Department yesterday announced the sale of 200,000 metric tons of American corn to China.
The corn shipment was announced last week, but at that time the department said the 200,000 tons sold by private exporters did not have to come from the United States. The latest announcement came after the exporters informed the department that U.S. corn would have priority.
Sales to China during the current marketing year also include 2.5 million tons of wheat and 202.00 bales of cotton.
Eneray office to help firms
TOPEKA-Kansas firms and institutions faced with the possibility of increased natural gas curtailments this winter can expect assistance through a four-point plan developed by the Kansas Energy Office, director Steven D. Harris said yesterday.
Harris said the situation was a result of a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reduction in the priority ratings of establishments, including Petrobras.
He said the energy office plan included workbooks that indicate measures to cut gas consumption and stretch available supplies; assistance in finding suppliers for additional fuel oil or propane; authority to order 3 percent of the electricity from a grid or an interest in expediting approval of temporary exemption from reduction in priority.
$1 coins to be ready by July
DENVER - A half-billion new $1 coins, bearing the image of American surf-tragette Susan B. Anthony, will be ready for public circulation by July of next year. The coins are made in Los Angeles.
If the coin, which are slightly smaller in size than a half-dollar, catch on with the public and become widely used, the savings in such areas as replacement stores may be small.
Minting of the coin will begin in January. The Denver and Philadelphia mints are expected to bear the largest share of the production work. An estimated 500 million coins will be minted each year.
Hackel estimated the coins could result in immediate savings of $20 million if they replace half of the $1 bills in circulation. The demand on $1 bills is so great, she said, that unless it is replaced by the new coin, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing will have to undergo a $100 million expansion.
Public works bill is taken up
WASHINGTON - A compromise version of the $12.0 billion energy and water development bill President Jimmy Carter vetoed last week, now missing some of its provisions.
Also deleted were initial construction funds for 11 other projects, although planning money was retained.
The compromise, drafted in consultation with the White House, was taken up by the Senate Appropriate Committees. It deletes from the vetted bill six questions on the tax reform.
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston Jr., D-LA, the measure's chief sponsor, said the revised bill actually involves slightly larger outfalls in the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, than the bill Carter voiced in the name of fiscal responsibility. But he added that the proposed projects were cut by more than $1 billion, provided the projects involved remain dead.
Weather ...
Sunny skies are predicted to 1ay. Highs will be in the low 70s. Winds will be from the north, 10 to 15 mph. Lows tonight will be in the mid 40s.
Sinai Desert partitioning is subject of peace talks
President Carter plans to welcome the foreign and defense ministers of both countries in a brief, ceremonial opening speech. He also noted that we began at the Camp David summit.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Three lines to be drawn in the sands of the Sinai Desert represent the major obstacles as Egypt and Israel prepare their peace talks to American soil today.
following the ceremony, the talks are scheduled to move across the street to Blair House, the government's guest residence, where Secretary of State Cyrus Vance plans to represent the United States. A U.N. flag over the building while the talks continue.
American optimism about the outcome of the talks is grounded in the belief that the difficult issues between the two countries were settled at Camp David and in the Israeli Knesset.
One line, to be drawn roughly 30 miles east of the Suez Canal, will make the closest point that Egyptian troops are to be allowed to approach the Israeli border.
THE ISSUES remaining involved drawing lines on a map of the Sinai Desert, the territory which Israel captured from Egypt in 1967 and has now agreed to return.
Another, ranging from 12-25 miles west of the Israeli border, will delineate a
The third, drawn roughly down the middle of the Sinai region, will make the point to Israel's security interest in the interim basis within nine months of the signing of a final agreement. Full Israeli withdrawal must take place between two and three years after the signing of the agreement.
demilitarized zone open only to United Nations troops and civilian police.
THE CAMP DAVID summit produced solutions to problems that American officials felt were much more difficult, such as the loss of property to remove its settlements from the territory.
The Knesset agreed to the proposal after Prime Minister Mancheh return (following his election).
If the Washington talks go as planned, and the interim withdrawal takes place, Israel and Egypt are committed to establishing an open dialogue, opening a new era in the Middle East.
IN THEORY, the two agreements could proceed on separate tracks. There is nothing in their language which links progress on one to progress on another.
But, as Carter told his news conference Tuesday, in his mind and the minds of Begin and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, the two agreements are linked, and there will likely be some discussion of the West Bank and Gaza issues during the talks.
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