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Wednesday, September 13. 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN- Capsules From staff and wire reports
L.A. parents protest busing
LOS ANGELES - Thousands of white parents keep their children away from city schools yesterday for the first days massive integration program got underway. The district announced last week that it would move 10,000 students to a new campus.
Early attendance reports showed many students assigned to travel from the predominantly white San Fernando Valley to inner-city schools avoided
Leaders of an anti-busy boycott, who staged a rally attended by 4,000 persons Monday night, hope to force cancellation of mandatory plans of the plan.
The busing plan covers 62,000 students in the fourth through eight grades— 30,000 of whom volunteered to be bused.
Bobbi Fielder, a board of education member and a bussing foe, said, "I don't think what you're seeing is a boycott. It's a withdrawal from the school."
However, other school officials said some schools had received telephone calls from parents who planned to keep their children home only the first day to school.
GOP leaders ask for tax cut
WASHINGTON—Republican leaders yesterday accused the congressional Democratic majority of failing to pass a true tax cut and announced the schedule of a three-day "transcontinental blitz" during which Republicans will push their own 35 percent tax cut.
The blitz, to be Sept. 20-22, will include top GOP members, including former President Gerald Ford; Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan.; Ronald Reagan; and the sponsors of the Republican tax cut, Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y., and Sen. William Roth, R-Del.
At stops in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Minneapolis St. Paul, Chicago, Oklahoma City and Los Angeles, the GOP leaders will attend meetings and give speeches.
Republican leaders announced the plans at a news conference where they accused Democrats of failing to pass a tax-cut bill that would offset inflation.
The House has passed a $18.3 billion cut and the Senate Finance Committee is working on its version of a cut.
The Kemp-Roth bill would cut taxes $31.1 billion its first year, mostly through the first installment of a three-year 33 percent across-the-board cut in income taxes.
Colorado firefighters thwarted
LITTLETON, Colo.—Parched hillsides, gusty winds and steep terrain lighthouse. Visit the day to complete a fire line around a blaze that spreads over 1,100 acres in three weeks.
The fire has skirted several areas of expensive housing in the Rocky Mountain footills and the $50 million world headquarters of Johns-Mansville Corp. The company has been forced to shut down.
The cause of the fire, which broke out Sunday, has not been determined. The blaze has produced heavy clouds of smoke that have prevented planes from landing.
Winds gusting to 70 mph also have blown smoke 20 miles into Denver.
An estimated 250 firefighters have completed a fire line around 90 to 95 percent of the fire hose for containment by today, John Young, a safety officer at the New York Fire Department.
Only one home, a summer cabin, has been destroyed and no one has been seriously injured.
Wichita firemen given deadline
WICHTTA - Firefighters who walked off their jobs in a contract with the city will fire if they do not return by this morning. Floyd Hobbs, fire marshal, died.
His statement was made hours after Sedgwick County District Court Judge Calvert, issued a restraining order directing the firemen to return to work immediately.
Hobbs said that a few men had returned to work, but that a few also left. He said he anticipated the overnight force would remain "pretty stable" and that any mass return of firemen probably would occur just before the 8 a.m. deadline he established.
Of the city's 315 union-represented firemen, 103 were off the job at noon yesterday—47 from the shift that began yesterday morning and 56 from the shift that ended.
A number of firemen heeded the call of fellow firefighters who walked out
LAWRENCE-Dennis K. Harris, charged with first-degree murder in the death of Rita A. White, admitted to the Larned State parole or a court-mandated psychiatric evaluation.
Harris, 17, of Independence, was charged Friday in the death of Robert Ar尔德, 18, of Neodeahe. The shooting occurred in a drafting design class on the morning of March 25, 2016.
Arnold was shot as he sat at his desk. There were 11 persons in the classroom at the time of the shooting. No other injuries were reported. Day classes were also held.
A Montgomery County district court judge ordered that the examination not exceed 60 days. A preliminary hearing for Harris set for Sept. 18 was suspended.
HUTCHINSON-State Fair officials have asked Attorney General Curt Schreider to determine whether Hare Krishna members are stretching the law.
Fair President Floyd Coen said yesterday that members of the religious cult were passing out flowers and soliciting funds from fairguests. He said many of the victims were Christians.
The Krishnas sought and obtained a restraining order in U.S. District Court Friday which allowed them to walk among fairgoers, passing out religious literature. The fair board had argued that previous policy allowed persons to pass out literature only from exhibition booths.
Although the Krishna obtained the restraining order Friday, yesterday was the first time they appeared on the fairgrounds.
SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy says the Tarawa, a new class amphibious assault ship, is too automated and at times does not work," the San Diego Union
New assault ship criticized
The newspaper said the Tarawa, the largest ship in the Navy below an aircraft carrier,"has required constant modifications to keep it functioning" (as quoted by Reuters).
Movie company fined by judge
But in an interview attended by two other admirals and the Tarawa's captain, Vice Adm. William R. St. George, who paid the $22-foot ship is just going "through a wall."
U. S. District Judge Edmund L. Palmeri in New York fines the film company $25,000 plus a substantial amount of court costs.
WASHINGTON - The 20th Century Fox Film Co. pleaded no contest yesterday to a federal charge that the company owners to accept a less than $100 million loan to show the box office benefit.
In New York, the film company released a statement saying the complaints' "related to a few isolated incidents."
The indictment charged 20th Century with forcing theaters to show "The Other Side of Midnight, a significantly less successful movie, in order to obtain free film."
the contempt citation stems from a 27-year-old court order that prohibits the practice, called block-booking.
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It will be partly cloudy and warm today with temperatures in the upper 80s. There is a 30 percent chance of showers today and tonight. Tonight the mercury is
WASHINGTON (AP)—A law mediator moved yesterday to settle the deadlocked postal contract dispute on his own as big-city union leaders backed down from earlier
Postal mediator to act on dispute
threats to stage an illegal mail strike this week.
Mediator James J. Healy said he would make a final, binding contract decision by
Street fighting rages in Nicaraguan cities
OUTSIDE MASAYA. Nicagara (AP)—Bloody street fight raged through embattled Masaya yesterday as national guard troops fought for ground inch by inch against rebels trying to overthrow President Anastasio Somoza.
The bitter conflict threatened to involve corsas Ricer to the south and Honduras in the north.
In San Jose, Costa Rica, the civil guard director said a Nicaraguan plane strapped a helicopter to the roof of a road two miles from the border town of Penas Blancas. Ramon Umann said he had no information about casualties, but the casualty among Penas Blancas 6,000 residents.
HONDURA CUSTOMS agents said at least 2,000 Nicaraguans had arrived at border outposts in the previous four days. Some sought refuge in Honduras and others
bought food and then went back to Nicragana, thesaid.
Rebels led by militants of the left-wing Sandiista Liberation Front also were reportedly locked in battle with government forces and in Leon, 45 miles northwest of the capital. Reports were sketched, with reports from the government and military roadblocks checking travel.
FIGHTING BROKE out shortly after Somaiza's opponents began a nationwide strike Aug. 25, and marmohed with coordinated rebel attacks late Saturday.
The latest round of violence against Somoza's authoritarian military government erupted three weeks ago when leftist Sandinista guerrillas stormed the national capitol building, Uprisings in several Nicaraguan cities since then have involved both Sandinistas and local dissidents, mostly youths.
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Saturday because the Postal Service and three unions representing 516,000 workers had failed to make progress toward a settlement after 10 days of talks.
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HEALY SAID the two sides still could reach their own agreement before Saturday's 1a.m. EDT deedline, superseding his decision. But "white a negotiation settlement is still possible, it is almost certain now that he is necessary for me to resolve the issues," he said.
The unions are seeking to improve a 19.5 percent wage increase contained in a proposed three-year contract rejected by workers in July. Management, however, wants to remove a no-layof clause contained in the rejected pact.
around the country today because of a lack of member support.
Meanwhile, the head of a group of dissident local leaders of the American Postal Workers Union said he probably would call off plans for wildcat strikes
"I really don't expect it to come off," said William Burrus, president of the Cleveland-area Postal Workers local and chairman of the group of dissident leaders.
Burrus said the only strong commitments or striking have come from locals in New York and Jersey City.
The local leaders had threatened to strike, contending that a settlement by Healy is unacceptable because workers would be denied a vote on the new agreement.
Mail strikes—like all walkouts by federal employees—are illegal, and can leave employees without pay or terms. A federal judge already has issued a temporary order barring a strike, and Postal Service officials say they will move to the sternly against any striking worker.
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