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Friday, January 18, 1980
University Daily Kansan
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From the Kansan's Wire Services
Governor to appoint new aide
TOPEKA-Larry E. Wolgast, executive director of the Greater Topeka United Way and a former teacher, will be Gov. John Carlin's new administrative side succeeding Daniel L. Watkins, the Associated Press learned yesterday.
Carlin will make the announcement of Wolgast's appointment at a news conference today.
Wolgast, 39, was formerly administrative assistant in charge of Rep. Bill Tiopea, Tiopea office. He joined Roy's staff after serving about four years as an administrator and served as vice president.
Before joining K-NEA, he taught in the Topeka public school system. He holds a Ph.D. in education.
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Wolgast could not be reached last night for comment.
Watkins, 32, has said he would leave his post as Carlin's top assistant to make a bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Congress in the Third District.
Watkins, a Prairie Village native, has said he intends to challenge the reelection bid of veteran Rep. Larry Winn Jr. The congressional district committee voted to recommend him for president.
Watkins was campaign director during the final months of Carlin's 1978 campaign against incumbent Republican Gov. Robert F. Bennett.
Carter readies budget proposal
WASHINGTON—President Carter, at the end of this month, will send Congress a $617 billion budget proposal that maintains domestic programs,
The budget does not provide for fees on imported oil or a gasoline tax increase to discourage consumption.
Although Carter pledged during the 1974 campaign to balance the budget this year, the project deficit would still be less than half of fiscal 1980's $33 billion.
"This is a tight document," one administration budget planner said Wednesday. "The department was putting priorities, for instance youth jobs and housing, that were badly needed."
Bomb kills 3 on Belfast train
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — A bomb blast tore through one car of a commercial train as it rolled through the Red Bulls backdrop during last night's rash attack in the northwest town of Belfast.
Bombs also were found on two other trains. One of these was taken to a platform at Greenland, north of Belfast, when exploded. Earlier reports said
A third bomb found on a train in Belfast's York Road station did not go off. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombs but a railway official feared that the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army was responsible.
The fatal blast, which occurred four miles from Belfast, started a fire and sent terrified passengers, some burned and blackened, jumping to the tracks
"There was no warning; these people had no chance," a British army spokesman said of the victims.
Carter criticizes cargo boycott
WASHINGTON—President Carter urged the president of the dockworkers union yesterday to end a nine-day boycott of cargo intended for Soviet ships.
Thomas Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen's Association, did not promise Carter to end the boycott, but said he would reply promptly.
The sources said that the ILA boycott had prevented the shipment of 3 million metric tons of grain previously committed to the Soviet Union.
Carter announced on Jan. 4 that he was stopping shipment of 17 million metric tons of corn and wheat to the Soviet Union in retaliation for the Soviet Union sending troops into Afghanistan. However, Carter said he would allow 8 million metric tons of grain to proceed.
The dockworkers' boycott has been blocking shipment of a portion of the 8 million tons.
Photos reected in Ford trial
WINAMac, Ind — Prosecutor Michael Cosentino has refused to give up attempts to have pictures of the charred bodies of three teenage girls entered as evidence.
Cosentino made several attempts Wednesday to enter the pictures as evidence. He also tried to enter high school yearbook snapshots of the three victims of a fiery collision of their Ford Pinto and a van in 1978 near Goshen, Ind.
Circuit Court Judge Harold Staffeldt ruled yesterday that the pictures would not be allowed as evidence.
He read a statement in which Ford admitted the victims died from burns suffered in the crash.
Mutter Ulrich, the mother of the two crash victims, said that the notification of the National Traffic Safety Administration determining the Pinto to be unintended was received on Thursday.
Bill encouraes aasohol sales
TOPEKA—A state senator yesterday introduced a bill to outlaw credit cards that do not honor the purchase of cashol.
Sen. John Crofoot, R-Cedar Point, said the bill also would apply to the purchase of other fuels, such as premium gasoline. Companies that refused to buon purchase of certain fuels on credit cards would be guilty of a class A misdemeanor under Crofoot's plan.
Crofoot said he was displeased with the recent news that a national oil company was not allowing purchase of gasoline or premium gasoline on its own sites. Crofoot said it would not be buying any oil from the company.
Police interroate McCartney
TOKYO-Paul McCarterney, who is being held for allegedly trying to smuggle marijuana into Japan, was interrogated by police for six hours yesterday while he was on the run.
McCartney, who was one of the Beatles, was arrested Wednesday at Tokyo's International Airport at Narita on charges of trying to smuggle about 8 ounces of marijuana into Japan. He was accompanied by his wife, Linda, and their four children.
Officials have not said whether they would refer McCarthy's case to the Tokyo district public prosecutor's office for trial or deport him after it.
Narcotics officials said that the 39-year-old traveled with his wife, a nurse, and his children and cooperated during the trial with McCartney that he had brought the drug into Japan for his own use. He also was arrested.
Bomb explodes in London hotel
LONDON—A bomb blasted rippen through the fifth floor of a hotel near Marble Arch in central London yesterday, killing a young Arab and injuring three other persons. Police were investigating the possibility that the dead man was a terrorist bomaker.
The first blast, from a bomb estimated to weigh several pounds, occurred about 7:30 m. in a 11th-floor guest room at the 705室 Mount Royal Hotel. It
A second bomb exploded in the rubble five hours later, reportedly injuring a police scientist.
Scotland Yard said to the dead man, Mohammed Solani, 22, of Bahrain, had been very close to the bomb when it exploded, but that it was too early to tell what happened.
Weather ...
It should become increasingly cloudy today with a 80 percent chance of rain changing to snow by tonight, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Today's high should reach the low to mid 40s with the low tonight droppe into the mid 29s.
It will continue cloudy with a chance of precipitation on Saturday and a high in the 30s.
Carter considers rival Olympics
The plan, introduced by Rep. Lloyd Polson, R-Rermillion, vaults the International Olympic Committee to select an alternate site for the Summer Games.
From the Kansan's Wire Services
The sources, who asked not to be identified, said the proposal was among several options being studied by White House and State Department officials in their consideration of ways to punish the insurgents their military intervention in Afghanistan.
From the Kansas's Wire Services
The Carter administration is considering
restructuring its telecommunications in a city other than Moscow, hopefully in a Third World country. White House sources said
Meanwhile, presidential press secretary Jody Powell said the United States was not considering any action to prevent the Soviet
One official acknowledgment that U.S. withdrawal from the Middle East will establish an opposing international competition could jeopardize the 1984 Games, scheduled to be held in Los Angeles.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herd her government's support yesterday for moving the Games from Moscow in retaliation for the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. A boycott has been ordered by the official law against other NATO allies.
Olympic team from participating in the Winter Olympics scheduled to begin Feb. 13 in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Whether the United States would want a rival Olympics to be held at the same time as those in Moscow or at another date to host them, Mr. Obama has not been decided, another source said.
Officials said the White House had received considerable support within the
United States for a boycott of the Moscow Games.
An official of the nation's largest labor federation, with 14 million members, reiterated yesterday the organization's support for a boycott.
AFL-CIO spokesman Allen Zack said such a move would sabotage any "propaganda coup" by the Soviets.
However, a resolution was introduced in the Kansas House yesterday, saying the United States should not participate in a crisis against the Soviets would it use for propaganda.
Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark was the first Western leader to call publicly for moving the Games from the Soviet capital.
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