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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, December 5, 1979
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
President formalizes candidacy
WASHINGTON - President Carter officially helped his fight for another four years in the White House by announcing his candidacy for re-election yester-
Asserting that the Iranian situation has "my closest attention," the president said that he would have preferred to postpone the announcement but that he did not.
Carter also asked fellow Democrats to renounce Walt Mondale, whom he called "the most effective vice president in American history."
"As president, 'Carter said, 'I have made some hard decisions and I expect to make more. I have made some mistakes and I have learned from them.' I —
The muted event contrast sharply with Carter's original plans, which included a fund-raising gala and a four-day campaign trip to six states.
Sea caves possible waste site
SAN FRANCISCO—Newly discovered undersea chambers—sealed beneath two miles of water, 150 feet of solid rock and 50 feet of lava—might be ideal for exploration.
The vast caverns were found last summer under the Pacific Ocean near the Galapagos Islands. They probably have been "perfectly sealed" for 2 million years, said Roger Anderson of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory.
But getting the waste into manmade tunnels and vaults would be a great technological problem, said co-worker Mark Zoback of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Interviewed before formally presenting the findings at an American Geophysical Union conference, Anderson said a hole drilled more than 1,300 (feet into the ocean floor had revealed that pressures inside the caverns were less than with the weight of the water pressing down on them.
Because of the vast pressure difference, anything drapped into holes in the chambers would be sucked in, the water pressure guaranteeing it could not
Saudis protest Iranian motion
KUWAIT – Saudi Arabia's oil minister walked out of a meeting of Arab oil ministers yesterday to protest attempts by Syria and Libya to introduce a resolution of support for Iran in its dispute with the United States, conference sources said.
The Kuwait government, however, said the oil minister did not walk out.
Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yami left the hall soon after a meeting of nine members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries opened here, the
The sources, who asked not to be identified, said Yamami objected to the attempt to introduce the resolution, saying "OPEC was an economic and not a political entity."
He reportedly was supported in his stand by six other Arab oil-producing countries.
Kuwait Oil Minister Sheik Al Khilafah Al-Sabha issued a statement denying that Yasin had handled out.
Arab埃及 is a price-fixing organization and is concerned mainly with joint Arab ventures in the oil industry. But Arab ministers had been expected to use the meeting here to coordinate their positions for the price-setting conference of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, opening Dec. 17 in Caracas.
Glickman seeks rail upgrading
WASHINGTON - Government and the railroads must work together to restore the nation's increasingly deteriorating trackbeds. Rep. Dian Glickman, D-Maine, said in a statement:
"There is little doubt that there will have to be capital outlay to correct this dangerous problem," Glickman said, calling for congressional hearings into it.
"I do not necessarily want to see the railbed nationalized, but government and the railroads should be pressed to correct the problem."
His comments came as the National Transportation Board held hearings in Kansas to determine the cause of the first of three train derailments in October.
certain ranout Administration spokesman Mike Avenentia acknowledged the deteriorated state of the nation's railbeds—more than half of the mileage, mostly on secondary and branch lines, is safe only at 10 miles an hour or less, and everything has new. But he denied that the agency had been responsible in doing its job.
He said a plan to fundul $1.4 billion in government funds into track rehabilitation, proposed by the FRA more than a year ago, and a plan for deregulation of the rairoades, which is pending in Congress, would go a long way toward improving the situation.
High court rules lawyers liable
WASHINGTON - Lawyers appointed by federal courts to help penniless criminal defendants can be sued by those clients for malpractice, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday.
By a unanimous justice, the justices said federal law and past Supreme Court rulings offered no absolute shield of immunity for court-anointed lawyers.
The immunity enjoyed by judges, prosecutors and other "federal officers" does not apply to court-appointed defense lawyers in federal criminal trials.
The court's decision overturned a ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and revived a $ 6.1 million negligence suit filed against a Greensburg, Pa. lawyer.
WASHINGTON—A constitutional showdown over President Carter's authority to end a 25-year defense treaty with Taiwan reached the Supreme Court.
The president ended the treaty with Taiwan effective Jan. 1 as part of the administration's program to resume normal diplomatic relations with
Lawyers representing Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., and 24 other present and former members of Congress argued the court to rule that Carrie had no
Goldwater and the others sued Carter, contending that no treaty could be ended without approval of two-birds of the Bentham or a majority of both houses
Channaauddick focus of movie
HOLLYWOOD--Promoter Glenn Stensel has started work on what he says will be an $800,000 "docrumdrum" called "Chapoquidick."
The movie, if completed, would be Stensel's first and one of a new kind of Hollywood movie, produced for less than $1.5 million and still intended for release.
The story of a 1969 automobile accident in which a 28-year-old campaign worker drowned in a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass, would be ready for distribution next summer, during the heat of a presidential campaign that could involve Kennedy.
A camera crew spent five days filming all the locations in the 1960 accident in which Mary Jo Kopechne drowned when a car driven by Kennedy went off a bridge into a tidal pond on Chappaquidick Island off the coast of Massachusetts.
Stensal said he filmed the scenes without a permit because he wanted to proceed "secretly, casually, quietly" with the object.
Actor Jack Knight has been chosen to play Kennedy and actress Sherri Kurgis will play Kopechine.
Weather
*me & UU Weather Service services partly cloudy skies for today with highs in the mid-90's, decreasing later in the day. Winds will be out of the northward direction.*
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy skies with temperatures between 21 and 30 degrees. Winds will be the highest of around 10.45 mph.
Friday should be fair and cool with highs in the mid-to upper-40s.
FO director yet to be selected
By BENJAMIN JONES
The search for a new director of facilities operations has been narrowed from 14 to five. The search has qualified," Ingor Doger, the current director of facilities operations, said last week.
Support services encompass Facilities for parking and police and university. Printing at Lawrence campus, the University of Kansas Medical Center and the University of Kansas School of Law.
Staff Reporter
Orake said his department had begun interviewing the final four applicants last week. He said all four were contacted, but only two had been interviewed.
Oruke has been trying to step down from the job as director of functional operations—a job he held since January 1976—since he became the director of support services this
'HE CAME TO SEE the campus, was interviewed for the position and gave all information on how to work, we offered it to him and the choice had to be made, he decided not to take it. 'Ordee said he would.
Facilities Operations officials thought they had found Oroke's replacement last month, but the candidate not to accept the job. Oroke said.
After the applicant turned down the job,
He said that on Oct. 30 the selection committee met with the affirmative action office to review the selection procedure. He said the committee decided to post the salary range in the second job ad because he would weed out all but serious candidates.
Oroke said, advertisements for the position were run again in area newspapers.
Oroke said the person selected would work with large numbers of people and would have to accept criticism and deal with squabbles.
HE SAID THAT Nov. 15 had been the deadline for new applications, and that a
new director might be hired before the winter vacation.
Odoke had been serving as acting director of support services since Jan. 1, when the department was taken over by the department, Russell Mills, took effect. Mills reasoned to be attached to the chaplain.
Oreke's temporary position was made permanent July 17. Since then, Facilities Operations has been searching for a new director.
Oruke said that the Med Center also was seeking a new director of facilities operations, and that they had received 12 applications.
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