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Wednesday, September 1, 1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Carter gets labor's vote
WASHINGTON - Top labor leaders promised Jimmy Carter yesterday to stage the strongest, most effective get-out-to-vote campaign ever conducted by the lawmakers.
But the chairman of the Council of Catholic Bishops expressed personal disappointment that the Democratic presidential nominee wouldn't support a conference.
George Meany, president of the 14-million member AFL-CIO, said organized labor would do everything humanly and legally help to help elect Carter.
Robert Strauss, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also announced an old-fashioned, New York to Chicago whistle-stop train campaign for
Carter will ride the train Sept. 20 through New Jersey and Pennsylvania. His running mate, Sen. Werner F. Mendale, D-Minn., plans to take the train next week.
Police disperse rioters
Russell McDaniel, county police chief, estimated the crowd at about 1,150.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-Police used tear gas to disperse a rock-and-battle-throwing "nasty" youth in a second court under court-ordered bussing.
McDaniel said the group split up about an hour after "officers fired their tear gas canisters, but small group members conspirators remained on the streets about an hour earlier."
There were no injuries reported, and police said four arrests were made.
There were no injuries reported, and police said four arrests were made. The flareup came on the heels of a joint statement signed Monday night after a black leader and an antiburg advocate sat down side-by-side to call for a peaceful opening of classes.
Plant examines chemical
RICHLAND, Wash.—Production of a radioactive substance at a nuclear plant here has been suspended when doctors try to determine whether two workers suffered harmful doses of radiation in a chemical explosion that contaminated them and eight others Monday.
Six workers exposed to radioactive substances at the Atlantic Richfield Hanford Co. (ARHCO) were decontaminated soon after the explosion, which didn't involve a nuclear reactor or any serious radiation leak in the atmosphere.
All six were able to return to work immediately.
Two other ARHCO workers absorbed more of the radioactive material; one of them was peppered with radioactive slivers of plastic when a sealed compartment exploded. Both are undergoing tests to gauge how serious their exposure was. The two were reported to be in good physical condition yesterday.
LONDON-Scotland Yard's top cop urged militant black youths to "Cool it" yesterday after a night of roiting at a West Indian carnival. More than 450 people were injured. Many shops, houses and restaurants were looted or damaged and 60 persons were arrested.
The outbreak in London's Notting Hill area, heavily populated by West Indian immigrants, was the city's worst violence with racial overtones in many years. Community leaders feared it would worsen relations between the almost exclusively white police force and London's non-white immigrants.
Black youths admonished
The violence broke out in the closing hours of a three-day carnival staged annually for the past decade by West Indians in Notting Hill.
About 150,000 revelers and about 1,600 policemen were in Notting Hill, a racially mixed neighborhood, when the troubled overcame a scuffle between police and blond men.
Harrises given long terms
Superior Court' Judge Mark Brander was unwayed by the Harrises 'last-minute declarations that they committed no violent actions during the 9 of kidnapping, robbery and car theft.
LOS ANGELES (AP)—William and Emily Harris, denouncing the American judicial system and vowing allegiance to revolutionary ideals, were sentenced yesterday to a term of 11 years to life imprisonment.
The judge, who clashed frequently with the defendants throughout the trial, said he considered "the gravity of the offenses committed" in sentencing them to the terms prescribed by law for each of the offenses.
The judge declined to give the Harrises probation on any of the charges.
Defense attorneys pointed out that the Harrises had served one year behind bars since their arrest and urged the judge to allow them to seek punishment. Brander rejected their pleas.
However, the judge went along with a recommendation by the prosecution that he should be acquitted.
Moments before the sentences were pronounced, Harris stood at a lectern in the bulletproof courtroom and declared, "We are going to prison not because we are a threat to people but because our ideas are a threat to the way society is organized."
Deriding the judge and the trial, Harris
said, 'Judge Bras ridler, you can bring on the jugglers and dance bears and get this whole thing.'
Hays' resignation possible; investigation will continue
The actions of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a small terrorist group dedicated to Maist原则s, are at the center of another prosecution still facing the Harrires. They are scheduled to be moved to Alameda County in northern California or to Thursday for face charges from the Feb. 4, 1974, kidnaping of Patricia Hears.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Rep. Wayne Hays, whose "personal relationship" with Elizabeth Ray sparked a Capitol Hill scandal, is resigning from Congress effective Sept. 8, reliable sources said yesterday.
However, House Speaker Carl Albert and the House Ethics Committee, which is investigating the Ohio Democrat, said that no resignation had been forwarded yesterday.
One source said that Hays' resignation was submitted in a letter. Albert and Wendell were not aware of it.
Judah Best, Hays' attorney, didn't deliver a resignation letter during a committee meeting yesterday. Albert also said he hadn't received any letter of resignation. But he said, "I was told that resignation was bein' considered."
Best declined to answer reporters' questions after the committee meeting.
Ethics chairman John Flynt, D-Ga, said the committee took no action, but scheduled a review.
Hays' press secretary, Carol Clawson,
said his resignation from Congress is being considered "but no firm decision has been made."
His resignation wouldn't affect Justice
Department and federal grand jury
investigations.
The Ethics Committee voted Monday to begin hearings Sept. 16 despite a plea from Hays aides — relayed through Speaker Carl Riley — who is too mentally depressed to defend himself.
the investigations focus on the accusation by Elizabeth Ray, a 33-year-old platinum blond, that Hays kept her on the House Administration Committee payroll to provide him with sexual favors. Hays is a former chairman of the committee.
Hays immediately asked for the House Ethics Committee investigation, which he rejected.
Hays—in an interview before he dropped his re-election campaign three weeks ago—said one reason he was withdrawing was that he was not a man a chance to make another appearance.
Hays admitted having a "personal relationship" with Ray but insisted she performed committee work to earn her $14,000-a-year salary.
The payroll-sex charge* forced Hays earlier to resign as chairman of the Administration Committee and of the Congressional Campaign Committee.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Soviet Union has purchased 275,000 metric tons of U.S. wheat, but the sale isn't expected to raise prices in the future. Department officials said yesterday.
New grain deal shouldn't affect domestic prices
The Soviet Union, still feeling the effects of the drought that reduced last year's harvest, purchased the wheat for $4.6 million and that takes effect with deliveries this fall.
The department said the latest sale raised to more than 4.6 million tons the amount of wheat and corn sold to Russia under a five-year agreement.
Under the agreement, Russia is supposed
to buy six million to eight millions of tons of
waste.
Department officials said that U.S. harvests this year will be large enough to supply grain to the Soviet Union and other foreign buys without hiking food prices.
The department didn't disclose the seller of the grain or other details. Grain sales to foreign countries, including Russia, are handled by private firms. No U.S. government credit has been involved in recent sales to the Soviets.
Russia was forced to buy U.S. grain last year when its 1975 grain last dropped to $250,000. It has now risen to $380,000.
After large purchases last summer, the Ford administration shut off further grain sales to the Soviet Union and worked out the five-year agreement for future shipments.
The temporary embargo was lifted when the new long-term agreement was announced last Oct. 20, but many farmers continued to stockpile action actions caused grain prices to decline.
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