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Monday, September 18, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
Senate to vote on gas pricing
WASHINGTON - Energy and tax issues are still unresolved as Congress struggles this week to finish the work so members can go home to campaign and get involved.
Venezuela said aiding rebels
not return until after the vote.
The prospects may make tomorrow after a key Senate vote on the nation's compromise. Administration forces have said they think they have the votes to keep this crucial portion of the energy program from being shunted back to committee.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua—President Anastasio Soméza's government, boasting near-victory against rebels in the north, said yesterday that Venezuela had thrown its military support behind the insurgents, sending warplanes to back a rebel attack in the South.
Costa Rica quickly denied the Nicaraguan allegations. There was no immediate comment reported from Venezuela.
back a reeve mask. The information Ministry said Venezuelan planes based in Costa Rica had provided support for a rebel attack on the key Nicaraguan airport.
Record quake devastates Iran
TEHRAN, Iran—A devastating earthquake that struck a farming region of northern Iran Saturday killed more than 11,800 persons, and destroyed thousands of homes yesterday.
The quake, which U.S. seismologists measured at 7.7 on the Richter scale, was the most powerful in recent Iranian history, officials at the Tehran Geophysics Institute said. U.S. scientists said it also was the strongest quake in the world this year.
The news agency said only 2,000 of the 12,000 residents of the city of Tabas survived, and most survivors were seriously injured. Tabas and its surrounding areas were affected by an earthquake.
villages were accrued.
The agency said 40 nearby villages were demolished and 60 others badly
demolized.
Zia becomes Pakistani chief
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Gen. Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan's military leader, was sworn in as president Saturday.
leaders.
An official announcement said outgoing President Fazal Eliab Chaudry relinquished the office of president at his own request.
Zia, who came power in a military coup in July 1977, continues as chief martial-law administrator, army chief of staff and head of the 25-member
Bangaladesh flood relief begins
DACCA; Bangladesh—officials estimated that about one million people in the Rajshahi and Kutta districts of Bangladesh have been affected by the flooding of the Mahanada and Padma rivers, which rose by nearly a foot Friday and Saturday.
Military personnel moved into the Kustia District to help civilian authorities in rescue and relief operations. Twelve relief camps were established in the Rajshahi District, where many roads linking the district with other parts of the country were impassable.
Dollar drop has silver lining
WASHINGTON—The International Monetary Fund yesterday urged patience for those who are worried about the dollar, saying that the decline should not be ignored.
The IMF said in its annual report that the steep plunge in the dollar's value and the gains made by other currencies would help to narrow the huge U.S. trade deficit while erasing the trade surpluses of countries like Japan and West Germany.
The report said world trade should improve substantially during the next two years. It takes that long for the full effects of changed currency values to materialize.
U.S. satellite plunges to earth
WASHINGTON - Pegasus I, one of the largest satellites ever shot into space, plunged into the earth's atmosphere at 2:12 a.m. EDT yesterday over northern Europe.
NASA had predicted that about 21,000 pounds of the satellite and its attached rocket stage would burn up from re-entry heat, but that about 1,800 pounds.
NASA said the danger of anyone being hit by debris was slight. Several hours after the re-entry there had been no reports of even a visual sighting of the debris.
Paper strike proposals made
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y.—Labor advocate Theodore W. Kheel yesterday participated in a rally to permanently at the bargaining table in the New York city newspaper strike.
Kheed, a veteran of 15 years of mediation in such disputes, also suggested that he be given 10 days to question publishers of the New York Times, the Daily News and the Wall Street Journal.
A week ago, the unions drafted Kheel as an unpaid adviser. The papers have not published since Aug. 9, and 10,000 newspaper workers have been idled.
Ghandi denies she'll run again
BIDRAUKEX, France—Former Indian Prime Minister Indira Ghandi
besterday was disappointed that she would not want to lead India again but
talked of a new power
In an interview on the Bordeuré newspaper Su-dent, she said, "If I can help it I will not be prime minister. Now we are the opposition and I have the public
Ghanti, who was interviewed in New Delhi, defended the state of emergency she declared in India in 1975, in which civil liberties were curtailed and her
"It it was necessary to choose either to save the poorest Indians or to let people当 they wished," she said. "It was not important that my government stay in power."
EPA wants Olathe funds back
OLATHE (UP1) -Environmental Protection Agency officials say they want back $145,000 that they mistakenly gave the city of Olathe.
Oathe officials say returning the money would be impossible because it was spent several years ago on EPA-approved sewer construction.
In April, private auditors hired by the EPA began a routine audit of records and told Oatlie officials the city might owe the agency more than $100,000 because of ineligible funds claimed in the construction of a sewer installation on the city's east side.
EPA officials—who have admitted they are at fault—told officials the city owes the agency $145,837, mainly used in sewer construction. EPA audit manager Ed Weems said the agency "should have known about and caught the mistake and inadvertently told to do that."
The $1.5 million Indian Creek Main N0. 10 school project began in 1971 and was finished in 1975. The city sent in claims for grant money—the EPA funded 75 percent of the project—and the EPA kept paying until the grant was closed out Oct. 1, 1976.
Federal officials said Aug. 30 that Olathe must repay the money.
Weather
Skies will be mostly cloudy today with a 30 percent chance of rain. Temperatures will be in the upper 80s or low 90s. Winds will come from the south at
Louisiana Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, a democrat, won easy re-election to a second term over State Rep. Louis "Woody" Jenkins on Saturday in the state's first open seat in the first elected in 1972 to the seat occupied for 38 years by the late Sen. Allen Ellender.
Voters in Washington state will choose seven congressional candidates in their primary, and Oklahomaans will decide which one. And one U.S. Senate seat in a run-off election.
Brooke faces primary challenger
Sen. Edward Brooke, a liberal Republican, faces a conservative former talk-show host tomorrow in the Massachusetts primary.
By the Associated Press
BROOKE, 88 YEARS and a two-term incumbent, is being challenged by Avi Nelson, 36, a former talk-show host whose work was published by national conservative organizations.
Both candidates have avoided public mention of Brooke's stormy divorce proceedings. Earlier this summer, Brooke was cleared of possible perjury charges in connection with false statements he made about financial finances in divorce papers filed in 1977.
Candidates in the Democratic senatorial primary are Howard Phillips, founder of the Washington-based Conservative Caucus, Rep. Paul E. Tsongas, Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS GOV. Michael S. Dukakis is opposed in the Democratic gubernatorial primary by conservative Edward J. King, former director of the state port authority. In the Republican primary, Edward F. King, no relation to the Democrat, sponsored a constitutional tax modeled after California's Proposition 13, is running against House Minority Leader Francis W. Hatch Jr.
Six of Washington state's seven congressmen are expected to win their re-election this fall.
Secretary of State Paul Guzzi and State
Elain. Epiah an,avowed lesbian.
Democrats are vying for the seat occupied by retiring Rep. Lloyd Meeds.
THE OKLAHOMA senatorial primem, run-off pits Gov. David Boren against former Rep. Ed Edmonson for the Democratic nomination to the seat held by retiring Republican Dewey Bartlett, Robert Kamm, president of Oklahoma State University, will be the Republican candidate in the general election.
In the Democratic gubernatorial race, Lt. Gov. George Nig is running against Attorney General Larry Derryberry for the opportunity to oppose former legislator Ron Shotts, the Republican, in the general election.
Rizzo says yes to a third term
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Mayer Frank Rizzo, banking on the success of a proposed revision of the City Charter to allow him to serve a third consecutive term, was back among the people, promising to save them from a "bunch of ultraliberal idiots."
It was the same Frank Rizzo who in March said, "I will not run for mayor" and put forth instead an ambiguous plan to lead a national spokesman for the white majority.
Announcing his change of heart, Rizzo went before local and national television audiences last week to begin his campaign. He said he was against busing of school children in the area "when the kids ride a school bus for three hours they don't learn nothing"—and
against racial quota system and federal
federal courts, he says, are trying
run the
"HOGWASH," he said, when asked about charges that he is a racist.
At age 56, the mayor, a bulk of a man who speaks in thunderclaps and frequently writes on Facebook, was the biggest political fights of his life. If the charter isn't changed to delete the ban on more than two consecutive mayoral terms—that is, Nov. 7—this fight could well be his last.
But Rizzo's political obit has been written dozens of times, and he always has sur-
He's a Democrat who once was a Republican, a man who called Richard
Nixon "the greatest president this country ever had," a man who, according to a polygraph test, lied about a political deal in a hotel room's room, but a man who to many is the last hope to right all that is wrong with this country,
S THEY stick with him, mostly shot-and-beer people from ethnic neighborhoods rooing for one of their own, a man whose name is Evan. He and who, like his son, became a policeman.
During the summer, Philadelphia experienced a garbage strike and a teachers' strike, and Rizzo was visible in the solution of both. And he came to grips with a band of students who had been exposed over a year had rattled his reputation as a city boss who didn't back down to anyone.
Then, more than a month ago, without ceremony, the Committee to Reform the Charter, actually an arm of the Democratic Party, opened up headquarters on Walnut Street.
TODAY, IT bustles with staff and volunteers who are typing, phoning and mailing literature to potential Rizzo supporters.
If the charter change succeeds, the mayor's name will be placed on the Democratic ballot in the 1979 spring primaries. Two other men, Albert Gaudiosi, a former Rizzo rise, and Charles Bowser, a Philadelphia lawyer, also have announced on the Democratic ticket. The Republicans are playing wait-and-see.
Agent's testimony sought in Silkwood case
DENVER (UPI) — A federal judge has been asked to order Ted Rosack, special agent in charge of the Denver FBI office, to testify in a $2.5 million civil suit filed by the family of Oklahoma nuclear fuel plant worker Karen Silkwood.
At the time of Skikwod's death in 1974, Rosack was chief of the Oklahoma City FIb bureau. He directed the investigation into the bombings and the subsequent death in a car accident.
Governors use CETA funding
WASHINGTON (AP)—The nation's governors spend more than 40 percent of the discretionary funds available to them under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act in adding individuals, including women, to the workforce to overcome barriers to employment, the National Governors' Association said in a report yesterday.
A suit was filed against Rosack and three other FBI agents involved in the investigation and 24 Kerr-McGee officials on behalf of Silkwood's three children. She was an officer for the union local at the Kerr-McGee plant.
WHEN HER car went off the road in 1974, Silkwood, 28, was on route to a meeting with a New York Times reporter to turn over documents on alleged safety and health violations at Kerr-McGee. Authorities have stated that the accident was related to her contamination.
sua films
In their motion filed last month with a federal judge in Oklahoma, the lawyers for Silkwork's family asked that Rosack be ordered to answer 10 questions he refused to respond to when a deposition was taken in July.
Monday, Sept. 18
QUO VADIS?
(1951)
(1951)
Dir. Mervyn LeRoY, with Deborah Kerr, Robert Taylor, Peter Ustinov.
Music by Miklos Rosza.
$1.00 7:30 pm Ballroom
Wednesday, Sept. 20
Carne's Masterpiece:
CHILDREN OF PARADISE
(1943-45)
Dir. Marcel Carne, with Jean-Louis
Barrault-Hyde, Pierre Brasseur,
Marie Claude Meyer, Philippe
filmist film. Screenplay by Jacques
Prefert, French/Isabelliste
French, French/Isabelliste
Woolf
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 & 23
CAR WASH
(1976)
Dir. Michael Schultz, with Franklin Aljave, Richard Pryor, with William Stern, with Ginger Pointer, Sisters. Music written by Norman Whittedle performed by Rose Royce. Music written by David Kane.
Monday, Sept 25
Cecil B. DeMille
CLEOPATRA
(1934)
Dir. Cecil B. DeMille, with Claudette Colbert, Henry Wilcoxen, Warren William and Katherine Award & white photography $1.00 7:30 pm Woordruf Audt.
Tuesday, Sept. 26
A Film Symposium on Rape,
with a Speaker:
NO LIES (1973)
FEAR (1973)
RAPE PREVENTION:
NO PAT ANSWER
(1975)
Dir. Polly Pettit.
$1.00 7:30 pm Forum Room
After metering devices at the plant disclosed that Silkwood was contaminated the week before her death, she was treated. The device contained high levels of radioactivity in her refrigerator.
THE AGENTS, including Rosack, are accused of illegal electronic surveillance of Silkwood by covering up details of her contamination and her fatal accident. Rosack has denied wrongdoing in the case, but refused to discuss the allegations.
Attorneys for her family said the investigation of how Silkwood became contaminated was incomplete, as was the inquiry into the disappearance of the papers she was delivering to the reporter and into the cause of the accident.
The attorneys said they can prove a national covert surveillance network was set up to work against anti-nuclear activities, if they are ignored from Rosatch and several other witnesses.