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University Daily Kansan, September 24.1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Inflation increasing after July respite
WASHINGTON—Food prices jumped more quickly in August than in any month during the past five years, the government said yesterday. As a result, the brief, one-month hull in the cost of living ended and prices continued to rise at an annual rate of 8.6 percent.
The big increase in food prices, larger than most economists expected, broke the nation's one-month respite from inflation in July, when consumer prices rose by 2.3%.
Department
Demographics in and out of government predicted inflation would continue to
happen in the months ahead, running into double digits by year's end.
prices tamed off, prices of the firm increased. In August, prices were up a seasonally adjusted 0.7 percent. A sharp acceleration in food costs accounted for about half the increase, the Labor Department said.
however, August's inflation rate of 8.6 percent was low compared with the first few months of this year, when prices rose at an annual rate of 18.2 percent.
crease over last August a 3 percent
The Consumer Price Index now stands at 249.6, which means the same goods that cost $100 in 1967 now cost $249.60. In other words, the 1957 dollar is worth only 40.4 cents today.
Warhead reportedly flown to Texas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A dented nuclear warhead that was blown from a Titan II missile in an underground site explosion Friday reportedly was flown to Amarillo, Texas, yesterday for examination at a nuclear weapons plant.
plant.
Officials would not say immediately whether the warhead was aboard the Military Airlift Command C-141 cargo plane that flew from Little Rock Air Force Base to Amarillo International Airport.
Force base of Ammarillo International, import Hazardous material frequently is flown into Amarillo because of the Pentax nuclear weapons assembly plant, the final assembly point for the country's nuclear weapons.
Fran Carriano, chief of the Federal Aviation Administration flight service station at Amarillo, said she was informed about 11:10 a.m. that the Texas pancanbe airport would receive an incoming Air Force plane from Rockwell Aircraft at 12:12 p.m. Carriano could not confirm that the aircraft was on the plane.
As the reported shipment of the warhead was under way, an investigation was beginning at the explosion site in Darmascus, Ark. An inspection team comprised of Air Force personnel and a few civilians began sifting through the debris of the ruined missile silo.
The eds of the book are Dr. Ed Neumherz, a Strategic Air Command spokesman, said that he did not know how long the team would be at the site, but that it would be several months before the investigation was completed.
Maine residents vote no nuke issue
AUGUSTA, Maine—Maine voters turned out in large numbers yesterday for the nation's first referendum aimed at closing an operating atomic power plant, and pro-nuclear advocates said they hoped the big turnout would swing the vote their way.
"We are optimistic that a large turnover will mean a lot of people are taking the matter seriously," he said. Thompson, apologized to IBM for having overlooked the major stockholder in the nuclear power plant.
"The larger the turnout, at least we hope, the greater the number of people voting to keep the plant from being shut down," Thompson said.
volving of reefs in issue proposal before Maine voters called for immediate shutdown of the Maine Yankee power plant at Wiscasset, the state's only nuclear plant. The plant began operation in 1972 and supplies one-third of the state's power.
Leaders of the anti-nuclear movement stockpiled champagne in their Augusta headquarters yesterday and declared a victory before any returns
The Maine referendum was a crucial test for the nuclear power industry. The referendum drew strong interest from out-of-state utility companies and investment groups. The committee, Cornish said, demanded that the $700,000 it spent trying to defeat the referendum was donated by big business interests across the country.
Chrysler future bright, Iacocca says
I laocca said there was a better than 56-50 chance that Chrysler would not need more than the $300 million it already has drawn from the ad package.
Iacocca was in Washington for one of a series of presentations around the country introducing Chrysler's 1981 models, focusing on its new fuel-efficient "K" cars.
He declined to predict how large a profit he expected after seven straight quarters of losses.
The Big Three automakers—Chrysler, General Motors and Ford—expected to lose a total of $7 billion to $8 billion in 1900. Chrysler has not been taken.
Under terms of an aid package worked out by Congress when Chrysler was on the verge of collapse last year, the automaker draw up to $1.5 billion in loans and assure the lenders they are backed by a federal guarantee of repayment.
Foster parent lobbies for spankings
TOPEKA-A - A Geary County foster parent told the Joint Committee on Rules and Regulations yesterday that spanking has been an approved form of punishing children for centuries and should be allowed in Kansas foster bapes.
However, Sharon Scoggin, Junction City, was the only person to testify before the committee in support of removing the prohibition against corporal punishment in foster homes from state regulations. Child care experts and state agency heads urged that the state keep the regulations.
State Rep. Ed Rolfs, R-Junction City, a member of the committee, wants the panel to recommend that the agencies licensing and monitoring the foster homes—the Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services Department and the Kansas Health and Environment Department—change the regulation. The committee took no action on whether to recommend a change.
Scoggin said the regulation should be changed to allow foster parents to use some form of physical punishment.
Although thousands of students across the nation returned to classes this week, teachers' strikes continued to drag on in school districts from coast to coast.
Philadelphia teachers return to work
About 220,000 students in Philadelphia returned to their schools this week after the end of the nation's largest strike, which began on Labor Day.
Elsewhere, teachers in San Jose, Calif.; Bellevue; Wall Township, N.J.; and Co-opley and Bangor, Pa., erased walkouts; had at least 40,000 students.
Other strikes, some four weeks old, continued in Arizona, Illinois Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, closing classrooms to at least 134,000 students.
Philadelphia teachers Monday ratified a new two-year contract that restored jobs to all workers laid off in June to balance the school budget—a major stumbling block in the negotiations—and granted a 10 percent wage increase in the second year.
Eleven districts remained on strike in Pennsylvania, involving 3,109 teachers and 64,232 students.
Reagan attacks Carter over hawkish comments
By United Press International
Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan bitterly attacked President Carter this week for what he called the unforgivable suggestion that he would be more likely than Carter to get the United States into war.
Carter denied that he was calling his opponent a warmonger but said Reagan had advocated military force on a number of occasions.
the president, who repeatedly has emphasized Reagan's hawkish reputation, said Monday night in Los Angeles that voters face the choice this year of whether Americans "have peace or war."
"I think that to accuse anyone of deliberately wanting a war is beneath decency," Reagan said at an airport rally in Pensacola, Fla.
IN AN INTERVIEW yesterday with a San Jose, Calif., television station, Carter said that he did not mean to
In the interview summary, Carter said that he was not trying to predict what kind of decisions Reagan might make as president, but that he hoped the American people would never have to find out.
imply Reagan would start a war, but that the Republican nominees had made very strong statements advocating the war in Iraq is a variety of situations over the years.
But his campaigning also was marred by scuffling when the students at a predominantly black Southern University protested what they called the "forced" appearance of their band at the LSU rally.
Reagan campaigned in Pensacola, Fla., and Baton Rouge, La., yesterday drawing a large and enthusiastic audience at Louisiana State University.
Protesters tried to block the buses taking band members to the affair, and witnesses said several people were hit and kicked in the confusion.
House debates cleanup bill for hazardous waste dumps
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The House began action yesterday on a bill that would create a fund for emergency cleanup of hazardous waste dump sites such as New York's Love Canal.
The bill would create a four-year Hazardous Waste Response Fund, allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites across the country. The fund would not provide compensation for victims affected by the dumps.
The size of the fund depends on whether the House accepts the $600 million figure approved by its Commerce Committee or the $1.2 billion amount agreed to by the House Ways and Means Committee.
Money for the fund would come in equal parts from the chemical industry and the federal government, with industry paying through liability assessments and fees on petrochemical feedstocks, inorganic
elements and compounds, and domestic crude oil.
THE BILL results from the 1978 incident at Love Canal, near Niagara Falls, N.Y., where 200 families had to be evacuated from their homes due to flooding and abandoned underground chemical waste dumping site.
The EPA estimates that about 2,000 of the 50,000 abandoned hazardous waste sites nationwide present serious health hazards.
the chemicals, buried decades earlier, had seeped into yards and basements, killing plant life and causing illness and birth defects.
Under the bill, anyone generating or handling hazardous substances would be responsible for later consequences.
Chemical dump owners or operators would be required to inform state officials within six months where the dumps were located.
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Wednesday, Sept. 24
Women in Love
D. H. Lawrence's novel about two sisters seeking something more, finding separation and intimacy on the screen by Ken Russell. Glenda Jackson (who won the Best Actress Oscar and best supporting actress in Bates, Oliver Reed and Eleanor Bron, round out the line cast (129 color). *Mirror*.
Thursdav. Sept. 25
Sambizanga
Flimed during actual hostilities in Angola, Sambuka balances over its few resources and remains an iconicism. The story of a black woman searching for her husband, last seen in a cavern is "a very fine film ... a revolutionary picture." Nona Sayre, *The New York Times*, (1922) 386.
Friday, Sept. 26
Alien
the crew of a commercial ship, the Nostromo, are awakened by a distress signal ... by the time they realize a creature has invaded them, it is too late. Ridley Scott's film is a masterpiece of horror. With Sigourney Weaver. Tom Skerritt "Plus: Birth of a Nation," with Skerritt (1247 m). Color. 3:00-7:30.
Saturday, Sept. 27
Alien
3:30,7:00,9:30
Sunday, Sept. 28
Interiors
(1978)
Woody Allen's allure into serious filmmaking is the story of three sisters (Diane Kastner, Kate Winslet, and Jacked when their father announces he is leaving their embattered mother for a life, vivacious and compelling), who work by ingmar Bergman, Allen's film is nevertheless a very personal, insightful work. "The Dove" (93 min.) 11m/. Color
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