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2 Thursday. September 27. 1979
University Daily Kansan
VERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From the Kansas's Wire Services
House passes canal treaty bill
WASHINGTON—A bill to carry out the final details of the treaties that eventually led to Japan and Panama was passed by the governor and sent to President Carter for approval.
Although House members rejected a similar measure last week, they approved the bill 232-188 after proponents argued that defeat might bring chaos in
The bill, which is certain to be signed by Carter, will establish a new U.S. controlled commission to run the canal until the Panamanian government takes control of it.
The treaties, which take effect Monday, will end U.S. possession of the Panama Canal, which slices across Panama, a central American country, and the Gulf of Mexico. The treaty also will end U.S. control over Guatemala.
Carter and Panamanian leaders signed the treaties last year. The Senate unveiled the legislation Tuesday.
ICC orders Midwest rail help
WASHINGTON - The Interstate Commerce Commission yesterday ordered a group of Midwest railroads to provide emergency service during the fall grain run.
The commissioners ordered the Kansas City Terminal Railroad, a switching railroad owned by 12 other lines and operating in the Kansas City freight yard, to provide a team of managers and to organize service for the next 60 days using Rock Island track, equipment and employees.
The Rock Island bank about 10 percent of all grain moved by rail. The strike has left grain elevators choked with stockpiles and has snarled grain shipments.
Vice President Walker Mondale, who announced the ICC order at the White House, said the action meant the road would be operating by early next month.
He said union leaders had indicated they would cooperate with the new management in working out a solution.
Carlin talks to Aging Committee
WASHINGTON—Gov John Carlin yesterday told a congressional committee that states should have the authority to decide what type of agency they will be in.
Carlin, who is chairman of a subcommittee of the National Governors' Association, told the House Select Committee on Aging that states were better able than the federal government to decide their framework of services to the elderly.
He also warned that federal officials should refrain from using income levels as the major criterion for eligibility for older Americans' programs.
Carlin also was a member of a small group of Democratic governors who met privately with presidential advisers yesterday, including chief of staff John Kasich.
Carlin said he told the aides that Carter needed to "do a better job of selling what he'd done right."
He 's unbelievable in terms of understanding in depth the problems we have, the programs that are necessary to make things go, but its just not enough to understand what needs to be done. You've got to be able to communicate and I think that's what he needs to do better,' he said.
Misceaenation laws questioned
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - In a startling turnabout, Prime Minister Botta has charged to change South Africa's anti-miscelection laws, which she says are "insufficient."
Both discussed both laws during a congress of the ruling National Party in Cape Town Tuesday. It was the first time a leader of the white-minority regime had even questioned the statutes, important parts of the nation's apartheid policy.
Although he skirted the issue of whether the laws should be scrapped entirely, Baldai had his government was open to suggestions for improving the laws.
registration. He added that in his opinion, its matters thatriques were ununderstandable to him because he did not believe that the country co-ordination said he would not tolerate laws that insisted people in South Africa.
KG&E plant study possible
TOE1KA—The state will decide next month whether to open hearings on the financial state of the partype completed Walt Lake Creek plant and its builder, Carlyle Corporation. The partype was purchased in 2014.
Pete Luix, chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission, said the state was seriously considering investigating the economic effect the plant would have on the environment.
The utility owns 41.5 percent of the $1.09 billion Burlington plant, which it plans to start operating in April 1983.
During hearings in July on KGKE's request for a $38.9 million rate boost, the KCCE accepted testimony on the nuclear plant. In those hearings, KCCT attorney Jack Glaves charged that the plant $1.09 billion cost was "just a figure out of the money" and the company knew how much the plant and its electricity would eventually cost.
Palestinians cheer Jackson
NABLIS. Occupied West Bank — The Rev. Jesse Jackson stirred hundreds of Palestinians as he entered the Jordan River into the Arab World with a plea to the Palestinian leader to stop the occupation.
Jackson ended his two-day trip to Israel, where he was snubbed by officials who consider him pre-FLO, with a triumphant visit to the Israel-occupied city of Jaffa. The Israeli authorities did not give Jackson any details.
Jackson told the crowd jammed into the Nabius town hall that it should use american blacks' struggle for civil rights as a model for establishing a Poor People's Court.
Jackson, after meeting Jordanian officials, will with PIO Chief Yasser Arafat in the Lebanese capital of Beirut and then meet with President Hassan Assad in Syria.
Trial venue change requested
The request was filed on behalf of Timothy Newfield, who will be arraigned Monday on charges of first-degree murder, felony murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary. He is in jail on $300,000 bond.
MARION—A request for a change of venue in the case of an 18-year-old man accused of murder in the abduction-slaying of a Pebody banker in July was rejected.
The victim, Grant Avery, was abducted at gunpoint from his Peabody home late July 29. His body, with two shotgun wounds in the head, was found the next morning.
Balloonists try nonstop flight
The DaVinci Trans-America, a helium balloon, rose into low-hanging clouds shortly after hit at 8:19 a.m. and may have run afoul of federal aviation regulations.
PORTLAND, Ore.—Two men and a woman soaked in a 10-foot, orange balloon yesterday in an attempt to make the first stop transcontinental flight.
The Federal Aviation Administration's Seattle control center said the crew had not filed an instrument flight plan nor had it received an instrument flight report.
During Newfield's preliminary hearing Sept. 10-11, Vernon Humphrey, Kansas Bureau of Investigation agent, testified that Newfield told him of an extortion attempt against Avery, and that the shooting had occurred accidentally when Avery tried to grab the sawed-off shotgun.
Plitting the craft were Rudolf Engelmann of Boulder, Cole. Vera Simons of McLean, and Fred Hydra of Kansas City, Bond. Also on board the gondola was Lars Klaasen of Boulder.
Weather ...
The forecast according to the National Weather Service in Topeka is clear to partly cloudy with temperatures in the mid and upper 70s today and tomorrow. Winds today will be out of the southeast at five to 10 mph. Lows tonight and light nights will be in the 50s with a 20 percent chance of thunderstorms tonight.
Auditor finds fraud easy at GSA
WASHINGTON  (AP) -- Financial safeguards at the General Services Administration are so lax that its own auditors were able to trick the scandal-ridden agency into sending a $5,000 check to a fictitious employer and giving the custor GSA audiolated said Wednesday.
For more than a year, the GSA has been the subject of a major investigation into widespread fraud and abuse that by some estimates could government more than $100 million a year.
Howard Davie, deputy inspector general for audits, told a Senate subcommittee that GSA auditors obtained the check last July. The agency's chief operating officer's agency's computer system in Kansas City.
Asked by Max. Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on federal contracts, if such a "sting" could be successful again, Davin replied that weaknesses in GSA's financial management "many opportunities" for such payments.
Davia said the incident demonstrated weaknesses in the agency's payment procedures. He urged tighter controls to
assure that checks are sent only to bona fide contractors.
However, William J. Rita, GSA finance director, angrily denounced the test as a "piece of theories" that succeeded only in shouting and pressuring the very controls they were testing.
In an internal GSA memorandum released Wednesday, Rita noted that a receiving clerk had found that the ordered
supplies were not delivered, but was stopped by the auditors from notifyin the finance division.
"In this bizarre episode, it seems the auditors set out to prove that if they used their credentials to suppress or override all control measures we would be no internal controls," Rita said.
matter has been referred to GSA's office of investigations "on the chance that we are dealing here with real fraud."
The memo, which listed its subject as "the gang that couldn't shoot straight," said the "fraud" was detected seven days after the investigation issued and the money was recovered.
The investigation has resulted in the to-
fice's request for all other government
officials, contractors and other government employees. Of those, 88 defendants have
pleased guilty or been convicted on fraud
Rita said that although the finance division is "inclined to believe" the false payment was part of a legitimate audit, the
Another 25 have not yet been tried. One government official was found innocent.
Thursday, September 27th, 1979
7:00pm in the
Pine Room. Student Union
Lunded by the Student Activity Fees
For Parents Day
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SEPT. 24-29
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Sept.28 7 p.m.-midnight
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X-zone parking lot behind the Kansas Union
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Jayhawk Marching Band KU Football Team Spirit Squad Coaches and a host of others.
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