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University Daily Kansan, September 25, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Carter will not testify on Libya, Billy
WASHINGTON—Senate investigators decided yesterday not to question President Carter directly but instead to go through his lawyers for any more answers the White House can give on Billy Carter's Libya dealings.
The special Senate subcommittee investigating the president's brother met secretly at the Capitol for about 75 minutes and agreed, without taking a vote, not to seek a personal appearance by the president, panel members void.
Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind, sub-s committee chairman, said there were no major questions to be answered that "demanded an eyeball-to-eyeball relationship."
Instead, he said, the panel will submit questions to the White House legal office.
office.
Bayh and special counsel Philip Tone said White House lawyers would be asked to provide answers that could "fill in gaps" in the panel's records and clear up contradictions that may exist in previous testimony.
Tone said he did not expect the responses to be of "earthshaking consequence."
sequence:
Meanwhile, Billy Carter met with lawyers for the Senate Judiciary panel to give a second deposition on his relationship with the Libyans, from whom he accepted a $220,000 loan.
Senate allows India to purchase fuel
WASHINGTON -President Carter won a major foreign policy victory yesterday when the Senate, which he had lobbed intensely over the past few days, narrowly rejected a House-passed resolution to block the sale of nuclear fuels to India.
Because disapproval by both houses was needed to prevent the controversial sale, the Senate's 44-6 vote against the resolution cleared the way.
The House last Thursday voted against the sale 298-98. The close vote in the Senate reflected deep differences on the issue, centering partly on India's stormy relations with the United States.
Carter had made calls to senators during his two-day campaign swing urewing rejection of the resolution against the sale.
The fight against the sale was led by Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, whose argument was based on legal issues concerning U.S.-Indian nuclear agreements and on grounds that it would undermine America's nuclear non-proliferation policies.
Glenn charged that Carter had gone back on his 1976 campaign promise and his later stance as president on nuclear non-proliferation.
Venting of Titan's fuel fumes delayed
WASHINGTON—The Air Force accepted a contractor's suggestion to "do nothing" to vent fuel fumes from the damaged Titan missile immediately after it blew up in Arkansas last weekend, Air Force Secretary Hans Mark said yesterday.
Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, Mark defended the safety record of the 17-year-old missiles, and said the S2 remaining
"The accident is unrelated to the age or state of this missile." Mark said. "The accident could have happened on the first day after deployment."
Mark started committee members when he disclosed that the Air Force emergency team had differed with the contractors on how to deal with the situation. He said that the team was not all right.
The Air Force team recommended venting fuel fumes into the atmosphere to avoid the buildup of a spontaneously combustible mixture of gaseous fuel and air in a confined space.
The missile contractor urged that nothing be done immediately in the hope that the situation would stabilize by itself, Mark said.
He said it still was unclear whether it was feasible to vent the fumes as suggested by the Air Force team, because the silo complex had filled rapidly.
In Kansas, a team of Air Force technicians will be checking the Titan II weapons system, according to Rep. Dan Glickman.
The 18 airbases sites near Wichita are expected to be checked before the Air Force completes maintenance of its airports Committee. Glickman said his group will come up with ideas about maintaining these sites.
He said he was reassured during briefings with Air Force officials there that there was no immediate danger with the aging Titan II weapons system.
Hazardous waste monitoring criticized
WICHTA - Attorney General Robert Stephen says a state agency's plans for monitor operations at the hazardous waste disposal site near Furry Are is under investigation.
Stephan said Tuesday that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's efforts to improve air monitoring, improve security, certify independent laboratories and reduce discrepancies were not enough. He added that he more specific answers from the agency than those outlined in a letter to him.
Stephan had notified the agency that an investigation indicated that the operation of the waste site was violating state regulations.
Stephan said the landfill, operated by Kansas Industrial Environmental Stephan, could not be completed until KDHE had stronger control of operations.
Chicago schools agree to busing plan
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department and the Chicago School Board avered a massive court fight yesterday with an agreement under which the nation's third largest school system will be desegregated with minimal busing by 1981-42.
The school board voted to accept the settlement at a closed meeting in Cayman after more than four months of secret negotiation with government lawyers.
Instead, it outlined general principles to guide the school board in developing a constitutionally acceptable de Segregation plan.
The agreement, which will carry the force of law once it is approved by a federal judge, states that racial and ethnic balance in Chicago schools is achieved through equal opportunity.
It directs the school board to complete work by March 11, 1881, on a deregistration plan that meets the basic objectives of establishing the school district.
Simpson expects his popularity to rise
It also sets a goal of providing special educational programs at black and Hispanic schools that remain segregated.
TOPEKA-John Simpson, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, said yesterday that he was not discouraged by his low standing in a recent statewide poll and that he expected his support to rise as the Nov. 4 election approaches.
The poll, taken by the Topka Capital Journal between Sept. 13 and 18, showed that U.S. Sen. Bob Dole slid Simpson 61 percent to 29 percent. The poll, conducted by the newspaper by Central Research Corp. of Topeka, showed 10 percent of the 997 persons surveyed were undecided.
To help boost his standing with Kansas voters, Simpson wants more joint appearances with Dole.
Simpson also said he wanted to appear with Dole during the final weeks before the competition because that would help them win.
Simpson and Dole have scheduled debates Oct. 12 and Oct. 14, but Simpson criticized Dole for refusing to schedule debates beyond Oct. 20.
Dole's schedule is full after Oct. 20, his campaign manager, Kim Wells, said. Dole is not ruling out another joint appearance between then and the election, but he is trying to make up for the campaign time he lost while working in Washington, Wells said.
Carter pledges no U.S. action in Mideast
WASHINGTON—President Carter said yesterday that it was "imperative" that oil-bearing ships be allowed to pass through the Persian Gulf to the United Iran and Iraq that the United States would not interfere in their war.
He said that the conflict did not change America's concern for the 52 hostages being held in Iran and that the U.S. would continue to hold the government of Iran responsible for the safety and well-being of the hostages.
He also called for all nations not to interfere in the war.
Carter, speaking to reporters at the White House after a meeting with his top national security advisers, said Americans need not worry about another gasoline shortage or another round price hike as a result of the oil spill.
Carter said, "The world's margin of oil supply security is much better today than in the winter of 1978 and 1979 when the Iranian revolution reduced oil supplies at a time when reserve oil supplies were very low.
CARTER SAID the West could get along without any oil from Iraq and there was no threat. It was warned that if either nation tried to stop ships from other major oil-producing
"Hence there is no reason for
the price escalation or for the price
escalation that resulted in it."
countries passing through the Persian Gulf, it would be a different story.
The war has forced the two oil powers to suspend more than 2.5 million exported barrels a day. The industrialized world has enough oil stockpiled to avert shortages for at least six months, energy specialists said yesterday.
In Paris, International Energy Agency officials said oil tankers still were loading in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates and were being brought through the strategic Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Persian Gulf.
William Randolph, senior oil analyst at Salomon Brothers in New York, said, "With record high petroleum stocks and a world oil surplus estimated at 2.5 to 3 million barrels a day, the industrialized nations could live with a long-term cutoff from Iran and Iraq for least six months.
"The war will not throw the free world into a shortage situation if the other Persian Gulf oil producers are able to export."
The West and Japan have boycotted Iranian oil since April, but Iraq is a major supplier to France, Brazil, Italy and Spain.
from its members indicated that the two major Iraqi oil terminals at Basra and Fao on the embattled Shatt Al-Arab waterway were still operating.
The 22-nation IEA said information
Iraq, the world's fourth largest oil exporter, had been loaded about 2 million barrels a day from the Shatt Al-Arab terminals. Iraq also ships up to 1 million barrels of oil to pipelines to the West, which still were operating normally, the IEA said.
the IEA also said that Iran's crude experts of about 700,000 barrels a day were on the verge of extinction.
ANALYSTS WARNED that a prolonged Iraqi-Iranian conflict could trigger panic buying on the spot market, where petroleum is sold to the highest bidder, and induce the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to launch a new round of price hikes.
U. S. oil traders said sellers were holding crude oil off the international spot market, expecting that the Persian gulf would be open again, the world oil glut and drive up prices.
perialists" were working behind the scenes.
Carter stressed repeatedly that the United States was not involved in the conflict despite the support of Russia, collaboration with Iraq, and Soviet allegations that 'I'm-
Carter sent word to Iran privately to Pakistan Department to deny the allegations.
Many of the Americans fled from the Basra region of Iraq, where Iranian warplanes have attacked a major refinery.
The State Department said yesterday that many of the 700 Americans in Iraq were fleeing, but that there were no plans to order a general evacuation.
Kuwait officials estimated that 1,200 refugees had arrived from Iraq by nightfall, including Americans, Britons, French, Italians, West Germans and Brazilians. About 150 were Americans.
U. S. Embassy spokesman Ray Peppers said the 150 Americans who had come through and gone to College were from all the official flights arranged by their employers.
He said the Americans fled Bassar south to Kuwait by all available means. None were injured, he said. He also said he had no word on four Americans reported to have been captured by Iranian forces.
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