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Friday, September 29, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From staff and wire reports
SAN DIEGO—Investigators of the nation's worst air disaster were considering yesterday whether a new collision alert system might have failed or was misinterpreted shortly before a jetliner and a small plane collided, killing at least 198 people.
at least 150 people. Federal investigators said one possibility is that an air traffic controller, the system's last one to talk to the two pilots, may have mistaken the system's air-piercing alarm to mean the jelliner had merely dipped too low on its landing approach.
A second possibility being investigated is that the controller may have assumed the alarm was false because he believed both planes had been told to look out for each other.
each other.
Philip Hogue of the National Transportation and Safety Board said yesterday the controller, who was suspended immediately after the crash, would probably be interviewed today.
The six-week-old alert system sounded just before a Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 and a single-engine Cessna collided Monday, three miles east of Lindbergh Field.
Rotha becomes prime minister
CAPE TOWN, South Africa—Pieter Willem Botha became South Africa's new prime minister yesterday and vowed to improve relations between the government and the nation's black majority.
The 28-year-old successor to John Vorsot emerged the winner of a three-way battle within the ruling, Afrikaan-dominated National Party in a closed door party caucus. The National Party has controlled the white minority government since 1948.
Bolina, the most senior member of the Cabinet with 12 years as minister of defense, promised law and order for the country.
promises to be the country minister. He expected to be elected to the ceremonial job of president today. He announced his resignation Sept. 20.
Somoza will talk, won't resign
MANAGUA, Nicaragua-Opposition leaders announced yesterday that President Anastasia Somozha had agreed to accept a five-nation mediating panel to help negotiate a settlement of Nicaragua's bloody political conflict.
he negotiated a settlement and was one of the mediating nations agreed on, said opposition leader Adalo Calfero Portocarrero. The United States has agreed to take part. He said Somoza also had agreed to participation by Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador and Brazil, but there was no immediate commitment to the Donations of those nations.
Callez said that the opposition demanded an end to censorship and martial law before talks could begin.
law before talks could begin.
Also, the opposition wants Somoza's resignation, Calero said.
Also, the opposition wants Sorcha Philipson, candidate for Somoza has repeatedly said he would not step down until his term ended in 1985.
Committee OK's aid for Syria
WASHINGTON—A House-Senate conference committee gave conditional approval yesterday to a $90 million foreign aid fund for Syria if President Jimmy Carter certifies that the fund will help the Middle East peace process.
The approval came after a flurry of telephone calls to conference members by Vice President Walter F. Mondale and national security adviser Biqhinez Brzezinski and after the reported insistence by President Carter that the full amount be approved.
The measure now must be ratified by the House and Senate before the aid bill is sent to the president for his signature.
Those who favored elimination of the aid cited the shelling of Christian residential areas inside Lebanon by Syrian troops and the harsh rhetoric aimed at the Camp David accords by Syrian President Hafez Assad.
Bennett calls for death penalty
HUTCHINSON—Gov. Robert F. Bennett said yesterday he would continue to push for reinstatement of capital punishment as a key tool in the Kansas fight against crime.
"As long as there is a chance of one innocent life being saved as a result of reinstitution of capital punishment—and I believe there is—I will continue to work hard for its enactment," Bennett said in remarks before a meeting of the Kansas Peace Officers Association.
No rise in sales tax pledged
The governor pointed to the recent violent murders of a Kansas State Penitentiary guard and a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper. He said the state "needs the tools to deal with such violent and heinous crimes."
WICHITA--Mayor Connie Peters pledged yesterday to vote to rescind the city's half-cent sales tax if voters approve it and a county sales tax in November.
If two or more commissioners joined her, it would mean Wichita shoppers would pay no more than an extra half-cent per $1 of purchases, even if both taxes are approved.
The Sedgwick County Commission voted Wednesday to put a half-cent sales tax on the ballot.
tax on the ballot. The commission put the tax on the ballot to fulfill a pledge to police and firefighters made as part of settlements to recent strikes by both groups.
society to supply the equipment to recruit new officers. Either tax would supply the extra salary increase requested by the police and firefighters, she said.
Tuition tax credit bill passed
WASHINGTON—Senate and House conferees agreed yesterday on a bill that would allow a tax credit of up to $250 a student each year to help offset college tuition costs.
The provision was approved only after the House conferees dropped their insistence that the credit also be made available to parents of pupils in private elementary and secondary schools.
If the college credit wins final approval of the House and Senate, it will go to President Jimmy Carter, who on several occasions has emphasized he opposes the tax-credit approach to education. He views the plan as wasteful because the credit would go to rich and poor alike, without regard to need.
UPS underbids Postal Service
AUGUSTA, Maule—Libraries east of the Mississippi River are receiving books and more reliable than the U.S. mail, a federal official said yesterday.
to depositories east of the Mississippi River if we "we fully expect that the Postal Service will recompute its rates through the rest of the country, and we may be forced into going to UPS for all of our shipments," he said.
James D. Lively, director of the Library and Statutory Distribution Service of the U.S. Government Printing Office, said the department would save between a quarter- and a half-million dollars in the first year by sending parcels to depositories east of the Mississippi River through United Parcel.
Review of additive law sought
Liavay said he is now sending by United Parcel between 1,200 and 1,800 of the roughly 3,200 packages he has sent. He said he uses UPS in all areas where its delivery is slower than that of other carriers and less than that of DHL.
Rose asked for the review at a House Agriculture subcommittee hearing on the impact of proposed nitrate restrictions on the U.S. poultry industry. He said Congress would make a mistake to block on nitrates similar to those used in the country, rather than to recognize the overall national policy on additives.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Charles Rose, D-N.C., yesterday called for review next law of the government cancer-causing substances in food additives.
He said the libraries now receives packages every day through UPS instead of twice a week, and fewer parcels are damaged or lost.
Other members of the subcommittee joined Rose, who was chairman of the hearing, in calling for a review of the Delaney amendment, which requires the banning of food additives linked to cancer in test animals. Several bills and resolutions have been introduced to delay or restrict a ban.
Weather...
Temperatures this weekend will continue to be in the upper 70s during the day and the upper 40s at night, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
A weather service spokesman said skies would be partly cloudy and winds would be from 10 to 15 miles an hour from the north.
U.S., but not Carter, to be partner in talks
Carter said that although the United States would be fully involved in the negotiations, he personally would remain on the sidelines.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter, holding his first nationally televised news conference since the conclusion of the historic Camp David summit, said yesterday that he there remains no remaining obstacles to a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.
Carter announced that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, brought together on foreign soil for the 13-day summit, met with members of the United States in about two weeks, adding that the United States would be "a full partner."
THE IMPETUS FOR THE latest Middle East peace development, Carter said, was the Israeli Knesset's courageous action in approving withdrawal of Jewish settlements from the Sinai in return for a $10 million ingredient in the Gamp David accord.
Carter also called for a conference between all parties on the situation in Lebanon, which has been racked by months of civil war.
ON ANOTHER MATTER, Carter said that negotiations on a new strategic arms limitation treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union were proceeding well.
"We hope to conclude a SALT agreement this year," said the president, who will take charge of the American negotiating team. The talks are scheduled to move to Washington.
Turning to domestic issues, Carter said he had issued an order setting up an emergency board to send striking railroad clerks back to work.
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