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Friday, September 15, 1978
University Daily Kansan
-UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN-
VERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From staff and wire reports
Peace formula eludes summit
CAMP DAVID, Md.—A peace formula eluded leaders at the Midest summit yesterday and prospects for an early conclusion of the conference seemed to fade.
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president Jimmy Carter, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin have been unable so far to reach an accord and more progress and flexibility are necessary if Israel and Egypt are to achieve peace, Jody Powell, White House press secretary, said.
Powell said it was not possible to say whether Carter's intensive efforts to promote an agreement would bear fruit.
promote an agreement would. "How long the final success will last is a matter of some conjecture," Powell said. "The failure could be the longest stage."
Firefighters' strike continue*
WICHTA—A judge's efforts to negotiate a settlement of the three-day firefighters' strike last ended night with little apparent progress toward ending the deal.
The walkout by 256 firemen, illegal under a state law that prohibits public employee strikes, continued with picketing of the city hall and various fire
stations
City officials and union leaders met with Sedgwick County District Court Judge David P. Calvert for 10 hours Wednesday. Afterwards the judge announced the city would halt the firing of striking firefighters until the conferences had ended.
Both sides met for eight hours yesterday, but refused to comment on the progress of the proceedings. Conferences will reconvene this morning.
Liquor dealers testify on laws
TOPEKA-Liquer dealers yesterday warned a legislative committee that a drastic change in Kansas laws law structure could throw the state's
womenase and retail dealers said they were content with the state's minimum price provisions, which have the effect of setting liquor prices, and advocated
The committee heard from the spokesmen as part of their study of laws governing the sale, distribution, price control and state regulation of liquor.
Although dealers admitted the state's system of price regulation leads to higher package liquor prices than in other states, they said they did not want to change from their regulated system to a free enterprise or franchise structure, which could drive small businessmen bankrupt.
Crime rate decreases slightly
WASHINGTON- The crime rate in the United States decreased 2 percent during the first half of 1978, but there was a substantial increase in reported rapes, and a slight rise in other violent crimes, Attorney General Griffin Bell announced yesterday.
Most of the increase in violent crime came in the West and in middle-sized cities, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. Rapes reported to police were not rare.
The report is based on a composite index of total crimes reported to police in more than 150 cities.
In Kansas, the report indicated that total crimes are down in the state's three major cities for the first six months of 1978, as compared to the same period in
*our crimes in Wichita dropped from 9,115 the first six months of 1977 to 8,741 on the same period in 1978, while Kansas City, Kan. figures fell from 7,683 to 6,702.*
Search for victims continues
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — With at least 10 persons known dead from torrential rain in central Arkansas, searchers were working yesterday for a break in the investigation. The group can be exploited.
The National Weather Service, however, issued a flash flood watch and predicted more rain.
Little Rock Mayor Don Mehlberger estimated property damage at more than $11 million.
National Guard members patrolling some ravaged areas reported no looting, but officials trying to search flood debris said their efforts were being hampered by hundreds of sightseers gawking at the devastation.
Fuaitive is lead in Moro case
MILAN, Italy—Anti-terror specialists, feeling closer than ever to cracking the Albo Moro case, are analyzing documents and other material found in the apartment of a captured fugitive suspected of being the new leader of the Red Brigades terrorist group.
Autonorts said the arrest of Corrado Alumni was a breakthrough after months of unsuccessful search by investigators trying to track down the terrorists who kidnapped and murdered Moro, the former Italian premier last spring.
Minor terrorist violence erupted elsewhere just hours after Alumni was arrested. In Turin, three men fired pistol shots at the walls of the prison where Red Brigades suspects had been held during their trials earlier this year. Also, five other suspects belonging to the U.S. consulate. No injuries were reported in either incident.
Scientists testify on nitrates
WASHINGTON - A group of scientists yesterday urged federal officials to be cautious in reducing or banning levels of nitrites allowed as preservatives of milk.
Two witnesses before the Senate Agriculture subcommittee were cancer scientists with opposing views on Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Two others were food microbiologists who said that dangers from botulinum food poisoning if nitrites were banned would far outweigh any cancer threat if they were not.
MIT pathologist Paul Newberne defended his work calling for a gradual phase-in of a nitrite harbor and a search for alternative preservatives for bacon,
Newberne has presented a dilemma to Food and Drug Administration and Agriculture Department officials. Law dictates that they ban food sub-
House uraes anti-noise work
The measure, backed by the administration, would reduce the current federal excise tax on passenger and freight fares by 2 percent and create a new 2 percent tax.
WASHINGTON - The House passed legislation yesterday to give airlines up to $4 billion in tax refunds to make their aircraft quiet to comply with federal regulations.
The bill, which also authorizes money for airport development and safety measures, was approved after supporters overcame criticism of the measure.
WASHINGTON - The huge corn crop this fall means farmers will get at least a buster as a saubler than expert predicted a month ago, the Agriculture Department reports.
Huae corn crop lowers price
A report on the supply and demand for grain also indicated that a year from now the corn surplus will be the largest in 15 years.
Setting the record straight
The woman on the front page of yesterday's Kansan was incorrectly identified. She was Jill Larson, Wichita junior.
Weather...
Fair to partly cloudy skies today with high temperatures in the 80s are predicted by the National Weather Service in Topeka.
Temperatures tonight will be in the low 50s with southeastern winds 10 to 15 miles an hour. The high tomorrow will be in the 80s. Low temperatures
National guard fights rebels in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)—President Anastasio Somoza, in a bloody struggle to save his government, mobilized national guard reserves yesterday to use in the fight against rebels in at least seven Nicaraguan cities and towns.
Three key key cities in Nicaragua's populous northwest-Leon, Estel and Chinchanga—remained in rebel lands, their capital, Managua, surrounded by insurgents. Somoza's commanders were trying to get reinforcements in to relieve the beisqueed troops, and street fighting was underway.
SPORADIC STREET fighting was reported continuing in two other towns—Rivas, 80 miles to the managua, and Masaya, 18 miles to the southeast, where guard troops who won control of the town used aUESday were rounding up repel stragglers.
New rebel attacks were reported against two towns—Driamba, 20 miles south of this capital city, and Penas Blancas, on the Costa Rica border.
Bodies were being burned in the streets of some towns by Red Cross workers,
The casualty toll from the anti-Somora rebellion, in its sixth day, could not be determined precisely. Red Cross officials estimated at least 500 persons had been killed and 1,000 wounded since the pitched battles erupted Saturday.
The Nicaraguan war threatened again to involve other nations.
Associated Press newsmen in the countryside reported.
L. Co., Diego Landa Cerano, defense minister in neighboring Honduras, said other Central American armies might go to Somoza's aid if the Nicaraguan president asks for assistance under the Central American mutual defense pact.
IN ANOTHER move Thursday, Somoza ordered military censorship of the country's only opposition national newspaper, La Prensa. The former publisher of la Prensa, longtime Somoza foe Pedro Joaquín Chamino, threatened to force Somoza off a months-long period of anti-Somoza violence and demands for the president's resignation.
Somozna says he will not leave office until his term expires in 1981.
House may drop carrier
WASHINGTON (UP1)—President Carter got his way with the death of a $2 billion nuclear supercarrier he didn't want, but because that veto bruised some feelings on Capitol Hill, he faces trouble getting the smaller carrier he does want.
Rep. Thomas Downey, D-N.Y., a liberal who has often supported the administration and until now stayed out of the argument on the veto, warned of that possibility yesterday in an attack on Defense Secretary Harold Brown during a stormy house Armed Services Committee session. Downey voted for the big carrier.
brown brought before the panel a $2.2 billion list of cuts in defense programs and ordered the department to his successful veto. But the committee rejected all $41 million of the items under its jurisdiction and voted 36-1 to send to the floor a new defense authorization without a budget.
suggesting Congress recklessly cut essential programs to make room for the barter.
A SENATE committee was expected to take action on a similar bill after taxes on gas were increased.
Downey accused the administration of playing fast and loose in defending the law.
Brown ran into a wall of opposition before the House panel as members accused the president of lying.
Part of the argument was that the administration will ask for a small conventional carrier next year. Although the carrier's design has not been completed, the administration has pledged it will cost no more than $1.6 billion.
"THE FIGURES you have used appear to me to be absurdly optimistic," Downey said, and predicted that it was likely to be subject to huge cost overruns that plagued other Navy ships. Downey also predicted that many house members who sustained Carter's veto on the floor last week would not vote for the new carrier.
"I think in the future you are going to hae a lot of trouble with this committee because they think somehow they've been politically used," he said, adding that some of the items on the administration's list "are just plain turkeys."
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Oswald's widow thinks he alone killed Kennedv
WASHINGTON (AP) -Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, who has insisted she has no first-hand knowledge that her husband assassinated John F. Kennedy, conceded under intense questioning that he believed he did murder the president.
"Yes, I do believe he did. I believe the man was capable of it," said Marina Oswald Porter, who has steadfastly maintained that she was not well
qualified to say whether Oswald killed Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.
testifying for the second day, she also said she believed her husband acted alone because his secretive nature would have made him an ideal role in anyone about an assassination plan.
"I really don't know what to say about the motive, I don't think a person who kills somebody is stable, whatever the reasons are."
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