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Tuesday, October 3, 1978
University Daily Kansan
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From staff and wire reports
Rail service back to normal
TOPEKA-Santa Fe rail freight and passenger service was back to normal for all practical purposes yesterday, according to GI Sweet, regional public
Amurak passenger service was back to normal with eastbound and westbound trains moving through Topeka early morning daily.
In Lawrence, according to Robert McCready, assistant agent for the Sante Fe Railway, operations were back to normal.
Railway, operation back up to train.
"The trains started Saturday and we're on schedule today," he said. "We are fine."
50 Syrian soldiers rescued
BEIRUT, Lebanon—Under the cover of one of Beirut's fiercest artillery and rocket attacks in recent memory, Syrian troops yesterday rescued 50 fellow soldiers who had been trapped for two days by Christian militants.
soldiers who have been exposed to the president Ellis Sarkis promised to create a new government and a new security plan within 10 days in an attempt to end the war.
hit the ground. The adults said 32 Lebanese were killed and more than 200 were wounded in yesterday's buildings. Buildings were demolished or apartments set on fire as they fell.
the Syrians advanced.
The heavy barrage of artillery rockets, mortars and machine guns had subsided at daybreak, but all routes into Christian East Beirut were blocked by the Syrians.
Reclamation program begins
WASHINGTON - Abandoned coal strip mines will be reclaimed with funds and technical assistance from the Agriculture Department under a new
Almost 70 percent of the land eligible for the Rural Abandoned Mine Program is located in Anamalia.
Assistant Agriculture Secretary Rupert Cutler said high priority would be given to areas that were unsafe or were likely to fail and endanger life and property.
Ruling supports pipeline firm
WICHITA—The Kansas Legislature apparently will have to determine whether Wichita can legally agree not to annot the area's aircraft industries.
Sedgwick County counselor Ted Hall said yesterday that the state Constitution invalidated an agreement reached between the city, the aircraft companies and
Under the agreement, Boeing-Wichita, Cessna Aircraft Co., and Beech Aircraft Corp. were to form special industrial districts, and the city then would be designated as a hub for the aircraft.
All three companies have their largest installations outside the city limits, where they do not pay city taxes. Discussion by city commissioners over the years had led the aircraft industries' leaders to fear their plants might be an issue and were reportedly reluctant to expand their operations in Wichita for that reason.
Anti-ERA clause gets backing
WASHINGTON—Republican Sens. Bob Dole and James Pearson favor allowing states to rescind their approval of the Equal Rights Amendment if the time period for ratification is extended, according to spokesmen for the senators.
The measure will be offered as an amendment to a bill that would give the ERA three more years to receive the approval of 38 states needed for ratification. Several states have tried to rescind their ratifications, but court precedents have made the practice doubtful.
A final vote on the ERA extension bill is scheduled for Friday.
Simple funeral set for pope
VAITAK CITY—The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will celebrate Pope John Paul I's outdoor funeral Mass with the same solemn simplicity that marked the funeral of Pope Paul VI less than two months ago, the Vatican announced yesterday.
Forty of the 127 cardinals who have arrived in Rome met in the Apostolic Palace to complete arrangements for Wednesday afternoon's funeral.
Tens of thousands of mourners streamed into the St. Peter's Basilica to view the pope's body, lying in state before the main altar.
The funeral of Pope John Paul I, who died Thursday of a heart attack after 34 days as pope, is expected to be televised worldwide.
New cases of cholera found
BATON ROUSE, La.—louisiana health officials confirmed four new cases of chlamydia infinitely linked to crabs, but said the seafood and chicken were cooked properly.
The four additional cases bring to nine the total number of persons who have contracted cholera in southern Louisiana. State health officials have theorized there have been additional cases that have not been reported because of mild symptoms.
Steel plan said working well
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-Treasury Undersecretary Anthony Solomon yesterday told a group of international steel officials the Carter administration's trigger-price mechanism was working well within the goal of minimal government intervention.
The four-month-old price system, designed to halt the flow of foreign steel imports to the United States at below production costs, has been widely criticized after last week's announcement that August imports rose 4.8 percent over July levels.
President Carter last year ordered the Treasury Department to draft an assistance program for U.S. steel companies, which were closing plants and laying off workers. U.S. firms complained the foreign imports were undercutting their sales.
The price system was based on production costs of the Japanese steel industry. Steel imports from anywhere in the world that arrived in the United States were charged at a price lower than that of imported steel.
Ruling likely on Wichita firms
The corporation, Energy Transportation Systems Inc., is gearing up for a new battle over the proposed pipeline next year, having suffered defeat in the last two sessions of the Legislature on a bill that would give the company power to condemn property crossed by the pipeline.
TOPEKA—A corporation hoping to construct a coal slurry pipeline across Kansas is not prohibited legally from making political contributions to state officials.
Railroad companies are refusing to grant the company permission to cross their right-of-ways. The rail companies and unions are opposed to the coal company taking advantage of the land.
D.A. to file voting allegations
Ralph Hitt of Topeka has contested the results of the Democratic primary race he led by 15 votes to Vie Miller, also of Topeka.
TOPEKA-Shwameen County District Attorney Glen Olander yesterday said he intended to file illegally connected connection with an investigation of the 2013 district state tax commission.
The state Election Board decided some of the questioned votes did not pertain to the Hieti-Miller race and overruled the challenge because the board found an insufficient number of votes to change the outcome. However, the board voted to turn over its testimony and affidavits to the district attorney.
Olander said he would file the charges later this week, but declined to say how many persons would be charged with illegal voting, a misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.
Weather...
Skies will be clear to partly cloudy today and winds will be north to northwestery, to 20 to 20 mph. Highs will be in the mid to upper 60s.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egyptian President Anwar Sadar said yesterday President Carter had accepted an invitation to come to Egypt for the signing of an Egyptian-Iraeli peace treaty resulting from the Camp David accords.
Addressing his parliament on the summit agreement, Saadat said they could not have been successful without Congress.
Carter expected at treaty signing
AUTHORITIES SAID any Carter visit to Egypt depended on how quickly Egypt and Israel could forge a treaty to end 30 years of war in the Middle East. The talks are to open at the ministerial level in Washington Oct. 12 with a projected
The White House said Carter wanted to attend the signing, but press secretary Jody Powell said he did not know if it would be held in Egypt.
"President Carter will go down in history as one of the great leaders who changed the face of history from bitch to champion."
"I tell our people that our history and the history of education will place Carter among those who changed history.
"I HAVE no doubt that every Egyptian man and woman will await this visit to express to a great man their ad- davance."
settlement by Dec. 17. The United States will be a full participant, Powell said.
Sadat told parliament:
Sadat's comments suggested Carter would receive a welcome surpassing that given former President Nixon in his first term. The senator, who is the nation's longest-serving
Sadat had harsh words for Arab leaders critical of the Camp David records, who call him a traitor for signifying that he was a terrorist.
He called Col. Muammar Qaddafi of Libya "a crazy child."
Sadat invited King Hussein of Jordan to "assume his responsibilities. I invite Syrian officials to take part in the talks so as to deal with the Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights."
HE ALSO called on leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization to end their "farcical" differences.
Sadat said: "This is what Egypt was able to do at this stage . . . We do not claim to have reached a comprehensive settlement, but we have prepared the road toward a comprehensive settlement.
Pilot gave a calm advisory in jetliner crash
SAN DIEGO (AP)—A doomed pilot's calm advisory that its jet was going was the only interruption in routine pilot-controller conversations before the nation's worst air crash, tape recordings released yesterday showed.
"Tower, we're going down. This is PSA," the pilot of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 told Lindbergh Field controllers just before the plane's Monday in which at least 144 persons died.
news reports—but only routine transmissions between air and ground.
The transcripts, released by the Federal Aviation Administration, show no evidence of joking or inattention on the part of the PSA crew—as had been claimed in some
THE PSA JET and a single-engine Cessna collied three miles east of Lindbergh Field, raining flaming debris and bodies on the city's North Park residential area. All 135 persons on the PSA jet did not people in persons on the FSA jet, did not seven people on the ground were killed.
The transcripts cover transmission between controllers at Miramar Naval Air Station, Lindbergh Field and several planes, both on the ground and aloft. There is no hint of any trouble until controllers at Miramar, which handled the PSA jet until it
was handed off to Lindbergh controllers for the final approach, noticed a low-altitude alert sounded as the jetliner fell below a minimum safe height.
*OTHER PLLOTS radioed controllers innotre the accident their voices showing concern.
"Cleared to land . . . Boy, what blew out there?" radioed an unidentified Western Airlines pilot, whose plane was cleared for takeoff about five minutes after the collision.
"Seven-twenty-seven went in," Lindbergh controllers answered.
“Oh, God. Whose?" another unidentified pilot asked.
"PSA," the Lindbergh controllers answered.
The transcripts show the Cessna 172 involved in the collision with the PSA jetliner was advised twice that the pilot of the PSA 727 descending upon him knew the singleengine plane was there. The last advisory came almost at the moment of collision.
The tape recordings, which run to 35 pages, cover five to six minutes before and after the collision. The recordings were played at a news conference.
Grain officials deny export allegations
TOPEKA (UPI)—Private grain firm officials yesterday denied the companies were guilty of controlling grain exports to the disadvantage of farmers as alleged at a grain marketing conference two months ago.
In the second such multistate conference called by Kansas officials, representatives of Cargill Corp., a private grain firm, publicly answered allegations made in July—including a charge the firms control exporting.
Robbin Johnson, vice president of Carpathia's public affairs division, told delegates that the country is moving toward a climate-neutral economy.
that major grain firms did not and could not control grain flows because marketing is
HE SAID grain exporting was only part of the large national grain market in which no buyer represented more than 5 per cent of the total marketing channels always were available. He said private firms also were limited because no company owned more than a "very small share of the storage, transport and handling facilities needed to market grain."
Figures for 1974 exports show "about 5
Supreme Court to decide on random police checks
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court, beginning its new term by taking action in more than 800 legal disputes, said yesterday it would decide whether police may stop motorists to make random checks for driver licenses and car registrations.
Delaware authorities are appealing a ruling by the state's supreme court that against cheeks violate the constitutional right against unreasonable searches.
In one of the busiest days in its history, the nation's highest court also;
- REFUSED TO review death sentences in cases involving 11 convicted murders in Utah, Nebraska, Florida, Georgia and Arkansas. In most cases, the condemned persons had asserted that procedural errors occurred during their trials and that their convictions therefore should have been invalidated. In the Utah and Arkansas courts ordered the constitutionality of the state's capital punishment law.
■ Agreed to decide whether FBI agents violated the law when they installed a telephone wiretap that helped solve a hacking案, but did not get a separate
court warrant to break into the premises to make the installation. An appeals court had upheld the legality of the agents' action in the New Jersey case.
- TURNED ASIDE a request that they reconsider their ruling last May that police may obtain newspapers to search newspaper materials through a subpoena. Lawyers for Stanford University's student newspaper, focus of the earlier ruling, had submitted a petition for a rehearing and were joined in the effort by hundreds of Upton and $3 news media organizations.
- Agreed to decide whether the federal government authority to regulate interstate gas production holds power to gas production itself. At issue is a 1976 regulation, struck down by a lower court, that requires gas producers to "observe the laws of gas regulation" to develop and maintain deliverability."
The court turned away Gicallone's appeal from a 1976 tax evasion conviction that may soon put him in federal prison with a 10-year sentence.
- Agreed to decide whether the government may impose broad requirements on the cable television industry, including the setting aside of channels for public access. The Federal Communications Commission court ruling that the Federal Communications Commission lacks such authority.
percent of the firms reporting export sales do just over 60 percent of U.S. grain exports," Johnson said, "Interestingly, in 1976, 6 percent of U.S. farms earned 80 cents per acre of crop receipts from farming. Yet, no one suggests that they dominate control farming."
- CLEARED THE WAY for reputed Mafia figure Anthony Giacalone, a prominent figure in FBI investigations into the 1975 disappearance of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa, to be imprisoned for tax evasion.
Senate testimony and Justice Department files identify Giacalone as a Mafia leader of the 1980s in Detroit, and he was an initial witness. Hoffa's disappearance three years ago.
JOHNSON ALSO denied charges that private grain firms made windfall profits after the 1972 Soviet wheat sale, were guilty of stealing soybeans or continued fraudulent grain inspection.
He said the Soviet sales swelled the export market and were profitable for the grain industry, but that grain companies involved in the sales actually incurred losses.
STEREO REPAIR
He attributed a "blackmilk" involving a discrepancy in train rates in Iowa in 1973 to the initiation of a new unit-train transportation concept and claimed charges of grain weighing misuse "continue to be repeated long after being shown to be without foundation."
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