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Mondav. December 9.1974
University Daily Kansan
DIGEST
Israel hints at peace
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Progress toward peace in the Middle East "may be overdue," Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Align said yesterday as he arrived for talks with U.S. officials amid reports of new flexibility in Israel's part. As asked about reports that recent remarks of Israeli Premier Vitzah Rabin might have weakened his negotiating position, Allon told reporters that Israel had not yet been criticized for saying in an Israeli newspaper interview that Israel should be ready for additional military withdrawals in the Sinai Desert, even if Egypt doesn't make any political concessions.
Protests arise in Asia
From the Associated Press
South Korean lawmakers scuffed with riot police yesterday as they left the National Assembly building after a three-day sit-in to demand democratic reforms in President Cheng Hue Park's government. Malaysia, about 1,200 police raided two universities in the early morning and took 10 student leaders from their beds in an attempt to stop antigovernment demonstrations. And in South Vietnam, about 20 Buddhist nuns began a hunger strike to dramatize opposition to President Nguyen Van Thieu's government.
Greece rejects monarchy
From the Associated Press
ATHENES--Greek voters yesterday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to restore a monarchy and chose instead a republican form of government with a president as chief of state. Premier Constantine Katsiopoulos has called for a referendum on the major causes of instability in Greece. Incomplete results indicated that about 73 per cent of the electorate rejected a proposal to extinct King Constantine to the throne. In a midnight nationwide address, Caramanis said the question of the monarchy had in the past been "the most of acute antagonism to the detriment of the interests of the nation."
Sextuplets born in San Jose
From the Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sextuples born were yesterday to a 26-year-old woman who had失落 a set of quadruplets last year and who had taken a fertility drug, O'Connor Hospital announced. The smallest of the infants was born on August 31, weighing four pounds. Joseph gave birth after seven and a half hours of labor to two girls and four boys ranging in weight from one pound, 15 ounces to two and a half pounds, a hospital spokesman said. Lange's husband, Alvin, 31, is an armored security guard. The births, which began at 6:36 am, PST, were at 10:44 am, occurred 27 weeks into the pregnancy. The babies were due March 13.
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Computer contract is investigated
WASHINGTON - The General Accounting Office (GAO) is investigating alleged irregularities and a possible conflict of interest in the Federal Power Commission's 100-million computer contract, according to government and industry sources.
From the Associated Press
The investigation centers on the complaints of some computer firms that bidding was rigged and on the possibility the successful contractor could use the new technology to avoid the commission secrets to the oil and gas companies that the commission regulates.
The computer consulting company that won the contract last summer, Planning Research Corp., owns a lobbying firm that works for oil and gas interests.
Both Planning Research and the FPC
deny any improprieties in the contract award. Both refused to permit a reporter to examine the contract. The FPC also denied access to various related documents, saying the entire package is considered a trade secret.
A spokesman for the General Services Administration (GSA), which handles most government contracts, said such documents were routinely made available to the public on request. Should they contain any specific trade secrets, the spokesman said, the GSA may withhold the secret information when it releases a contract.
The contract calls for Planning Research to design, install and operate a far-reaching computer system to be used in regulating the nation's gas and electric industries.
The FPC controls the intersiate prices
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The GAO investigation was instigated by Rep. John E. Moss, D-Calif., who asked the congressional watchdog agency to determine whether secret regulatory information could be passed to the regulated companies through Planning Research.
Spokesmen for the FPC and Planning Research at first denied any secret information would be fed into the new computer system by the corporation and said Planning Research would not have access to so-called proprietary information.
Questioned about the contract specifications, however, FPC Executive Director Webster P. Maxson and his assistant, Joseph N. DiMarino, conceded Planning Research would design and feed certain confidential analytical programs.
Moss' concern is that an oil or gas company that obtained a competitor's secrets would gain an obvious commercial advantage, as would a firm that received inside information on FPC rule-making procedures.
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