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Monday, January 27, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Oil exporters ok summit
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — The world's major oil exporting countries formally agreed Sunday to meet with oil importing in an effort to resolve their problem.
A communique issued in Aligiers at the end of a three-day ministerial conference of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) declared support for an international conference which would deal with the norms of raw materials and development.
Preparations will begin immediately for the first summit meeting of OPEC heads of state to define the oil producing countries' position in discussions with the oil importers, the communiqué said. The summit will be held at Algiers between Feb. 21 and March 8.
Reports from Paris said a preliminary exporter-importer meeting could be in late March to establish the agreed agenda for a full-scale conference.
The communique described the world economic crisis as a growing threat in world peace and stability, but it condemned "Propaganda compaigns placing on OPEC member countries the responsibility for the crisis, as well as threats directed at these countries, which campaigns and threats create confusion and lead to confrontation."
This was evidently a reference to Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's recent statement that the United States would intervene militarily if threatened with
economic strangulation by Middle East oil producers.
The OPEC communique was issued after a final four-hour meeting of finance, oil and foreign ministers from the 13 member countries—Saudi Arabia, Iran, Qatar, Turkey and Iraq. The OPEC members Arab Emirates, Algeria, Indonesia, Nigeria, Gabon, Venezuela and Ecuador.
The ministers said they had set up a committee to prepare the agenda and working documents for the OPEC summit including proposals for further cooperation developing industries, in particular those which are most seriously affected by the present crisis."
The communique said, "Convinced of the interdependence of nations and the need to promote solidarity among all the peoples of the world, we are committed to cooperation, the OPEC member countries welcome the dialogue between the industrialized countries and the developing countries and are, in this spirit, prepared to participate in an international conference on climate change, and a moment of France which will deal with the problems of raw materials and development."
The French originally proposed a conference between oil producers and consumers as an alternative to Kissinger's plan for a meeting between the major consuming nations. However, France has currently accepted the idea of a consumer's meeting as a prelude to face-to-face talks with the oil states.
Inflation hedge sought
WASHINGTON (AP)—Two Democratic senators said Sunday that they plan to introduce legislation giving power to the Council on Wage and Price Stability to delay any wage or price hike for up to 60 days that would significantly increase inflation. Sen. William Proxmire, D-Wis., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and Sen. Adalai E. Stevenson, D-Miss., vice chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, proposed today. The two senators said that giving the council additional powers to fight inflation will forestall the need for across the board wage and price controls.
State payroll debate
**TOPEKA (P)–Debate on how often state employees in Kansas should be paid has buildup up again in the House and Senate. The last legislature passed a measure that provided for pay checks twice a month. Senate officials have said they will accept no checks but are to be studied to see whether the benefits justify the cost. Rogers said the legislature had no fiscal notes on the cost of the switch when it authorized the change. Gov. Robert Bennett said the budget requests by state agencies and institutions to make the change totaled more than $50,000. He said the switch was about half completed and had cost less than $200,000 so far.
Vietnamese casualties
SAIGON (AP)—South Vietnamese forces have suffered nearly 160,000 casualties since the signing of the Paris cease-fire agreement two years ago, the Saigon command said Sunday. The command issued a command note on Saturday, stating that 16,011 missing since the peace accord was signed. The communique said the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had sustained equally heavy losses and claimed the Communist side lost 111,729 men killed during the war. In no way were no inflated to substitute such a claim, which they said was probably inflated. The Communist command has never disclosed its losses.
Eligible voters polled
WASHINGTON (AP)—Four of five Americans between the ages of 18 and 21 stayed away from the polls in the 1974 mid-term elections, the Census Bureau reported Sunday. Except for young people, minorities and the elderly, about one-third of the sample was a selection of governors and local officials. Overall, only 45 per cent of a record 141 million eligible voters reported going to the polls last Nov. 5. Many of the estimated 76 million who stayed home were said they either interned at the post-Waterbury era. The preliminary Census Bureau polls suggest there are more than 100,000 eligible voters questioned two weeks after the election.
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NEW YORK (AP)—VP President Nelson A. Rockefeller said Sunday that the investigation of domestic spying by the CIA was going to be pursued wherever it led, “to a Republican president, to a Democratic president or anyone else.”
Rockefeller promises thorough CIA inquiry
--investigation after his nomination to be vice president and said that there had been
"We're going to get the facts and get them out to the public," he told reporters as he left a CSS studio where he had appeared on a few TV shows. "We're showing show, becoming vice president.
Rockefeller was friendly and jovial with reporters who buttonloaked him in the studio.
But on the show, "Face the Nation," he became angered when a reporter asked if he would "finger" anyone because "you had some sort of a connection with the CIA yourself and so did Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whom you gave a $0,000 gift to him."
The vice president, visibly angry, snapped. "In your question, you question my integrity, if you excuse me for asking so, if you excuse me. When I take an oath, I carry out that oath."
Kissinger, as head of the National Security Council, has close dealings with the CIA. Rockefeller was a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees it. Kissinger was a Rockefeller aide in the 1960s.
Rockefeller said he thought Congress could conduct its own investigation without leaking secrets, although he said he would not. "He had said that he had just been the subject of an
"There is no conflict as far as I am concerned. Wherever the facts lead us, we will move forward."
However, he said, Sen. Mike Mansfield D-Mantle, and John E. Pastore, D-R-L, had both said a committee of 11 could conduct a secret investigation.
"I think they can if they are determined to do it," Rockefeller said. "They had all the secrets of making the atom bomb and never leaked a thing."
When a reporter said Rockefeller's praise and unquestioning public support of President Gerald R. Ford's policies showed the American people "more of 'meos'," Rockefeller again grilled.
He said his views happened to coincide with Ford's, and he denied he was conceived in that way.
Rockefeller reiterated his complete support for Ford's energy program.
He told reporters in the lobby that Ford had shown tremendous courage.
"No nibbling little program or Band-Aid is going to solve it," he said.
Rockefeller refused to say whether he would seek the presidency if Ford didn't run or whether he would run for vice president with Ford.
He said the American people wanted the president and vice president to be totally focused on the problems of today and not on politics, he argued, for president was just not on his mind.
As for running for vice president with Ford, Rockefeller said, "If I said yes, then it might be taken that I was putting pressure on me." And asks me, then I will give it consideration."
Panel considers Nixon subpoena
WASHINGTON (AP)—The congressional Select Committee on Intelligence Operations will subpoena former President Richard M. Nixon if necessary to get information about spy activities, Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., said Sunday.
The committee also plans to dig through the archives of the late President Lyndon B. Johnson and the files of the Johnson library to look into the "general relationship of the intelligence community with the White Watermaker" said Baker. Baker is a member of the panel.
One of the questions the committee will try to answer, Baker said, is whether the CIA operated in some fields without Nixon's knowledge.
"We will not only inquire about the only living ex-president whether he had control of it.
but will search the files of the Johnson library." Baker said.
Charges that the FBI conducted improper surveillance of political figures, possibly including Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz., during the 1964 campaign in which he ran against Johnson, "are a good reason to go into the Johnson archives." Baker said.
He said the congressional committee was especially anxious to inquire into the role of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which is little known to the public.
He said the committee would check 60 government agencies with intelligence
"Congress has no real idea what we spend in the intelligence field," he said. "We have no idea what the CIA earns from the companies they own."
In unmoving race, cyclists speedily pedal nowhere
"On your mark, get set, go!" But nobody went anywhere.
By BARB HANN Kansan Staff Reporter
Racers, mounted on their immobile bicycles, pedaled as fast as they could, racing against the clock in the first University of Kansas Roller Races Sunday. In the Kansas Union Ballroom, wires promoted by the Mount Orcad Bicycle Club and SUA.
Twenty racers arrived carrying lightweight racing bicycles and knacksof equipment. Many brought their own roller devices.
Roller racing involves racing a bicycle on a stationary platform atop three rollers with a belt drive connected to a distance measuring device.
The front roller is belt driven from the rear roller, the second and third rollers keep the bicycle from moving forward or backward. The rear roller is a bicycle on the rollers give the rider balance.
The clock used to time the races is a product of the department of physics. A light shining on the spinning rollers, combined with photoelectric cells, relays the distance the rider has traveled to a scoreboard.
Mark Thompson, Kansas City, Mo., a member of the U.S. National Bicycle队, said that racers worked out frequently on his bike and couldn't get outside because of the weather.
And there were falls on the rollers. There also were tire blow outs that send riders sprawling although still connected to their feet and those of others more for sure footing and maximum speed.
Al Kreitzer, Kansas City Mo., a designer of aler racing devices, said he had never seen any of his work.
One of the most determined riders, Howard Cummins, Kansas City, Mo., is a racer in the "veterans class"—for those 40 years and older.
"We rode our bicycles from Kansas City today to see this event," Krettler said. "We got the ride and I made a shape. When you get to be my age, you'll just dry up in between the winter."
"This is lots of fun." Cummins said. "I have rollers at home. It's my wintertime training and I have to keep in shape for those 50 mile races I'm in."
Because there isn't any air or wind resistance, riders can pedal as fast as their legs can move. The ABLA rules, therefore, put restrictions on gears and crank length,
Margarite Hoefler, Kansas City, Mo., the only woman racer in the event, said there were very few women bicycle racers in the Kansas City area.
"There are a lot of women touring baseball in spring, interested in competing in roaring," she said.
Top racer in the event was Bill Nicholson, Shawne Mission freshman.
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