Friday, October 6, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From staff and wire reports
Israeli boats fire at Beirut
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Israeli gunbots shelled western Beirut last night in an apparent warfare to Syrians peacekeepers troops to stop battling Christian extremists.
An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said the boats fired on a Palestinian guerrilla naval base in southwestern Beirut. The official Lebanese radio said three gunboats fired on Ramlet Bada, a Moslem residential quarter, and two artillery opened fire on them. No casualties or damage were reported.
Court refuses benzene ban
NEW ORLEANS—The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out several federal safety standards yesterday that would have severely limited the amount of benzene that industrial workers could be exposed to.
The court, ruling on a petition filed by producers and users of benzene, said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration failed to show that the standards, which call for exposure of no more than one part per million of benzene in the air, were worth the half-billion dollars it would take to im-
The court said OSHA did estimate the costs of imposing the new restrictions, but failed to show if the decrease would appreciably improve worker health. Labor Secretary Ray Marshall has said there is overwhelming evidence that benzene leukemia.
Sub abduction plot uncovered
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Three men were in custody yesterday, accused of a plot that many officials said was too tantastic to execute. The bizarre account was to steal a nuclear submarine, kill the crew, blow up a ship, put out to sea, sell the sub and perish fire a nuclear missile at the eastern coast of the United States.
U. Magsistrate N.D. Vose set a preliminary hearing Oct. 13 for Edward J. Mendenhall, 24, and Kurtz J. Schmidt. 22. The two men are charged with the rape of a girl in New York City.
They were arrested Wednesday in St. Louis and James W. Cosgrove, 26, of Ovid, N.Y., was arrested in Geneva, N.Y.
y NEW YORK—After an eight-week strike, the New York Post returned to the newsstands yesterday with a 128-page edition, while efforts resumed to end the strike. The newspaper has no stock in the stock.
Negotiators for the New York Times and the Daily News met with the striking pressmen's union at federal mediation offices as the Post ended its 57-day shutdown with an edition that included late news and several reviews of events that occurred while the paper was dormant.
Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the Post, has agreed to go along with contracts negotiated by the pressman, the Times and the News.
Conclave preparations begin
VAHUAN CITY—Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church began formal preparations yesterday for the secret conclave that will elect a successor to
At the daily business meeting of the Congregation of Cardinals, which handles church affairs in the period between popes, three cardinals were chosen by lot to be assistants to the papal chamberlain, French Cardinal Jean Villot, to deal with non-voting matters during the conclave.
The cardinals are to enter the conclave Oct. 14 and halloting is expected to begin the next day.
Vapors said cause of blast
COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — Fire investigators said yesterday that they were certain a leak of explosive vapors caused the large explosion at the Continental Oil Co. refinery earlier that killed three employees and injured 14 others earlier this week.
Don Kennerson, fire marshal for the South Adams County fire district, said a witness reported seeing fire from a flare tower fly into the middle of the refinery shortly before the Tuesday morning blast. He said if that were true, it would indicate an unusual amount of escaping vapor.
Test-tube baby born in India
CALCUTTA, India—Three Calcutta doctors said yesterday the world's second test-tube baby had been born here, Indian state television reported.
One caty, a girl weighing seven pounds, six ounces, was delivered at a nursing home Tuesday, the report said.
The news report said the names of the parents were being kept secret, apparently out of concern that the stigma of laboratory conception might jeopardize the baby's future marriage prospects in India's conservative Hindu society.
The world's first baby conceived in a laboratory, Louise Brown, was born in Oldham, England, July 25.
Polish-American wins Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden- Isaac Bashese Singer, the master Yiddish storyteller, was awarded the Nobel prize for literature yesterday.
Singer, 74, a Polish-born novelist and short-story writer, was cited by the Swedish Academy for his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Scandinavian past, expresses a profound sense of history."
Singer moved to New York in 1935 and now is a naturalized American citizen. Among his major works is a trilogy of novels published between 1950 and 1969, "The Family Moskat," "The Manor" and "The Estate," that form a broad family chronicle.
State questions utility billing
TOPEKA- The state of Kansas is paying unjustified late payment charges on its utility bills and wants to participate in an investigation of utility billing practices.
In documents filed with the Kansas Corporation Commission, the state moved to intervene in public hearings beginning next week. The hearings were held on Friday.
The right to intervene is being sought because state agencies are being charged large sums as late penalties, even though the state pays utility bills
The court denied the motion by the Kansas Hotel and Motel Association without comment. The association was granted permission by the court earlier this year.
TOPEKA—A request for more time to prepare written arguments in the legal challenge to this new liquor-in-restaurant law was denied yesterday by the Supreme Court.
The suit is brought by the attorney general's office against the director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division.
Attorney General Curt Schneider said the Kansas Legislature made a mistake in passing the present law, which he thinks will be overturned by the
The suit alleges that the new law violates the Kansas Constitution's prohibition against saloons.
Chief Justice Alfred Schroeder said there was a slim chance that the suit could be decided before voters in 45 counties consider the issue Nov. 7.
Weather...
The weather will be sunny and cool today. The winds will be light and variable with a high in the low 80s.
It will remain clear tonight and the high tomorrow will be in the mid 80s, the National Weather Service in Topeka said yesterday.
WASHINGTON (AP)--After intensive White House lobbying, the house handed President Jimmy Carter a major legislative victory yesterday by sustaining his veto of a $10.2 billion public works bill as inflationary.
House sustains public works veto
The 223-190 House roll call fell 53 votes short of the two-thirds majority necessary to override Carter's veto. Had the House voted to override, a similar majority would have been Senate to enact the bill over the president's objections.
After the vote, Carter said in a statement: "this has been a tough fight. I am grilled by the results . . ." He said that the vote amounted to a long step in the battle against infition and that he did not debt to the Congress for a responsible action."
Speaker Thomas O. N'ell had warned that the vet—no matter what the outcome—would make enemies for
Earlier, the president vetoed the public works bill in the name of fiscal responsibility. He warned Congress he would continue to veto what he considered wasteful legislation from the Capitol.
LEADERS OF both chambers said no effort would be made to rewrite the public works bill to suit Carter before Congress adjourns Oct. 14. Instead, a routine continuing review of the bill will be conducted while new ones in the measure will await action next year.
It was Carter's sixth veto and the second to be contested by Congress. The first contested veto involved a $37 billion defense authorization bill that provided for a nuclear airbomb that Carter opposed. That veto also was sustained.
president just as his crucial energy legislation nears final passage;
Before the House showdown, it appeared that
congressional sentiment strongly supported an override of the president's veto of a public works bill whose traditional political popularity was heightened by election-year pressures.
BUT CARTER, portraying him as siding with inflation-weary Americans against a free-spending Congress, staked his prestige on the outcome. He, his aides and members of his Cabinet spent much of Wednesday and the hours before the House vote yesterday soliciting support for the veto by telephone and in person.
Carter wrote a personal note appealing for support and had it hand-delivered to each member of Congress, and personally exerted pressure on Republican congressional leaders at a White House meeting before the vote.
When the vote came, 150 Democrats and 73 Republicans voted to override the veto, and 128 Democrats and 62 Republicans voted to approve.
Food prices up for September
WASHINGTON (AP)—Prices of meat and other foods soared upward in September, pushing overall wholesale prices up 9.0 percent, the third largest monthly increase in this inflation-wracked year, government spokesman said yesterday.
The 1.7 percent increase in prices of foods ready for the consumer means shoppers will begin paying higher prices at the supermarket fairly soon, said William Cox, deputy chief economist for the Commerce Department.
Beef and veal prices increased 5.4 percent during the month. Prices also rose for poultry, pork, sugar, dairy products, fish and processed fruits and vegetables.
Increases in wholesale price eventually show up in prices charged to consumers, although it may not happen immediately nor always by the same amount. The September wholesale price increase was at a slightly adjusted annual rate of 11.4 percent.
Prices of goods other than foods increased
0.6 percent, up from 0.4 percent in August,
and decreased by 1.9 percent.
The overall 0.9 percent increase in wholesale prices last month was the largest since a 1.3 percent rise in April. It followed an 0.1 percent decline in August and added a sense of urgency to anti-immunization measures to keep children safe. The Carter administration later this month.
Presidential spokeswoman Jody Powell said the figures showed that the underlying inflation rate was now in the 7 percent to 7.5 percent range, compared with 6 percent last year. Overall consumer prices are expected to rise at least 8 percent this year.
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Bill Brock, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the increase in wholesale prices "proves again that the Carter administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress have failed miserably in the fight to keep down the cost of living."
Carter cited the need to hold down spending to help fight inflation as one reason for his veto yesterday of the $10.2 billion president said was wasteful and inflationary.
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