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News Briefs From United Press International
Legislators pass federal spending bill
WASHINGTON—Congress approved and sent to President Carter yesterday an emergency spending bill that allows the government to continue operating until after the Nov. 4 elections.
The Senate approved the measure in the early morning hours, and the House passed the bill shortly after noon. Congress was expected to finish its pre-election session work today.
on the fur until yesterday.
Federal workers were worried about the measure because it was not approved until 12 hours after the midnight deadline, when fiscal 1980 ended and funds for government operations stopped.
pre-election session work
The temporary payment spending bill, which the House approved by vote with the governor Dec. 15, a fight over federal funding of abortions, an unrelabeled issue attached to the crucial spending legislation, delayed voting on the bill until yesterday.
This was not the first time Congress failed to approve government funds by the deadline, but it was the first time the entire government's operations were threatened because of the attorney general's ruling.
were not treated because the
the attorney general ruled in April that federal employees cannot work in
an agency that runs out of money for longer than one day unless life or
property is at stake.
Mortgage, prime lending rates rise
NEW YORK—Chase Manhattan Bank led the way for most of the nation's largest banks to increase the prime lending rate to 13.3% per cent.
The prime rate has been climbing since it bottomed out at 10% per two months ago. Yesterday's action came one year to the day after Chase moved its interest rates up and down from a 5%
its prime rate to be 4 percent of its highest rate. Yesterday's rate hike was bad news for business, especially smaller business that is just beginning to recover from strains imposed by record interest rates earlier this year.
Wells Fargo Bank and Gigalater Savings and Loan boosted their mortgage rates to 1.5% per month from 14% and 14%, respectively. The Federal Reserve's survey was about 11 percent.
that the lowest risk is Analysts say that lenders still bear the scars of tight money experienced earlier this year, and in many cases they have been unable to attract sufficient money to step up lending activity significantly.
China attends world financial meeting
WASHINGTON—China, calling itself a developing country that wants to learn from other national first public appearance yesterday as an international host for the World Bank's annual conference.
active member of the two world organizations that his country had made much economic progress, but that "curs is still a developing country."
11 was the first time the People's Republic of China had attended the annual joint meeting. Both organizations last spring recognized Peking as entitled to seats that had been held by Nationalist China and Taiwan since the end of World War II.
China, with its population of 1 billion, increases the number of people in the developing world that the World Bank seeks to aid by 45 percent.
World Bank President Robert McNamara said that eventually China may draw aid of several billion dollars a year, one reason the bank is seeking more capital.
Congress approves rail deregulation
WASHINGTON—Congress sent President Carter yesterday his top remaining legislative priority of the year, a bill to chop federal regulation of the railroad industry.
Passage of the bill during a post-midnight session completed Carter's effort to deregulate the transportation industry. Airline deregulation legislation was passed last year, and trucking deregulation earlier this year.
The legislation also includes $1.3 billion in grants and loan guarantees for railroads, much of it targeted for the federally planned Northeast-Midwest region.
The bill would allow railroads to raise rates on warehouses where customers do not want to remove many other passenger barriers, including a ban on contract rates with single shippers.
Armv major arrested for selling sex
DALLAS—The arrest of an army major Tuesday on charges of managing a service for wealthy customers stunned fellow officers and students in the city.
Maj. Terry Todd, 36, was arrested for aggravated promotion of prostitution in an operation that sold sex for as much as $400.
Todd, described as being in "the management and recruiting end" of the ring, was released on $1,500 bond.
Ting: was released on $500 bonus.
A 16-year Army veteran who served in Vietnam, Germany and Italy, Todd was relieved of his duties at UTA, where he was second in command of a 500-student ROTC program.
Police Capt. Milliken said no evidence indicated that Todd's alleged involvement in the probe could be supported with his duties at the UTA. The police said he did not resuscitate him.
As part of an undercover operation, six others were arrested last week in connection with the ring, code-named "Superb," and another prostitution operation. Both operated out of apartments in the fashionable north side of Dallas.
Police harvest $4.8 million pot field
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo.—Lawmen confiscated nearly three tons of reportedly high-grade marjuana yesterday in what Jackson County authorities are calling the largest county action against marijuana growers in a decade.
The marjuana, confiscated late Tuesday and early yesterday, was hauled by dump trucks from a corn field five miles east of town to a sheriff's office near Lake Jacome and placed under guard. The plants were to be burned. The ammunition thought to be a Colombian type, was valued at about $4.8
minute. Briff's spokesman said the plants had been seeded among corn plants. Authorities took the owner of the farm into custody Tuesday but later
Lawmen also confiscated 150 pounds of bagged marijuana and 175 pounds of drying marijuana.
Republicans say Billy inquiry lenient
WASHINGTON--Five members of the Senate panel investigating Billy Carter and his dealings with Libya are expected to file their own reports in addition to the official panel report. Some of them said the official conclusions were not touch enough.
Sources said yesterday that several Republicans on the nine-man Senate Judiciary subcommittee wanted stronger language in the panel report and the report itself.
Sen. Robert Dole is one of the Republicans expected to file a separate report.
Sources said the Republicans had stronger criticisms of President Carter and White House officials than the official report would contain.
The subcommittee's formal report will be released today, but a draft of the document was leaked earlier. It concluded that top Justice Department and White House officials, including President Carter, made judgment errors in the affair.
The leaked draft said President Carter was "ill advised" in asking his brother to help persuade Libya to intercede with Iran on behalf of the 82 U.S. soldiers.
Bani-Sadr rejects U.N. peace efforts
By United Press International
BAGHADAD, Iraq-Iran formally rejected a U.N. cease-fire appeal yesterday and issued a reappraisal of the oil port of Khorasan from Iran troops in fierce fighting.
Alarmed by the escalation of the 10-day-old conflict, Egyptian President Anwar Sadr invited the United States to defend Moslem states in the Persian Gulf area and offered unrestricted use of its facilities and territory.
The U.N. diplomatic effort to end the fighting collapsed yesterday when Iran informed the United Nations that it
Crude oil cut reconsidered
At least three Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries members—Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Venezuela—told consuming nations they will not cut oil production by 10 percent because of Iran conflict, International Energy Agency officials and yesterday.
In Paris, the IEA said Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates had assured IEA members that they would not cut production as agreed. The UAE also vowed Gulf fighting erupted. The cutback was to go into effect yesterday.
By United Press International
IEA officials said Venezuela was willing to maintain and possibly even raise production to compensate for the economic crisis, a day of oil exports from Iran and Iraq.
The United Arab Emirates and Venezuela are among the United States' top sources of foreign crude. The U.S. oil exporter to Europe and Japan.
THE THREE OPEC members have a combined oil output of about 5.7 a day.
Libya, America's third largest for-
mer, will go ahead with the production cut.
It will be a loss.
rejected a Security Council call for a cease-fire and negotiation.
In New Delhi, officials of the Indian Petroleum Ministry said they had received diplomatic reports that some Arab members of OPEC had decided to raise production to compensate for the loss caused by the Iran-Iraq conflict. They did not identify those Arab producers.
IEA sources said Saudi Arabia, OPEC's largest producer at 9.5 million barrels of oil, the world's largest foreign oil supplier, indicated it might increase its production if needed.
Iranian President Abdassahani BaniSadr, in a message delivered to U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, said, "So long as Iraq is in violation of our territorial sovereignty and Iraqi agents are involved in acts of aggression and sabotage we must use any discussion, directly or indirectly, concerning the conflict between the two countries."
SADAT, CALLING Iran a threat to the entire Persian Gulf, invited the United States to defend Saudi Arabia and other Moslem states.
Saudi Arabia had not said it would join the OPEC production cutback.
Iranians ransied Iraqi forces advancing on Khourmanshahr in bloody house-bombings.
With peace efforts faltering and signs of stalemates appearing on other fronts, the main fighting here is over. The situation seems be centered in Khoregram, Iran's
major goods and oil port on the Shatt al- Arab waterway.
But Iran said its military forces, including Revolutionary Guards, had routed the Iraqis from the city's center and blocked the movement of three miles in house-to-house fighting.
Iraqi forces have besieged the city of 150,000 people for 10 days and several months. The militants are
The stubborn resistance by Khomein's Revolutionary Guards apparently surprised the Iraqi forces. The Iraqis had reported earlier this week that only 15 or 20 snipers were still fighting in the city, although there was any firm report that Iraqi troops had moved into the city itself.
Tehran radio said Iranian forces destroyed 21 Iraqi tanks and downed two Iraqi jets in the latest fighting around Ahvaz, 65 miles inside Iran and capital of its oil-rich Khuzistan province.
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