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Wednesday, August 18, 1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
New team hunts disease
PHILADELPHIA—A new team of investigators began looking Tuesday for a toxic substance that could have caused the *Legionnaires' disease*, while researchers at the NIH could have found it.
Health officials also announced that a third person who attended a recent Eucharistic Conference, a world-wide gathering of Catholics here 10 days ago, had been confirmed as infected.
All the other 165 victims, including the 36 persons who died, were connected with a state American Legion conference here last month.
Three investigators, all experts in industrial toxins or manmade poisons, were located at possible environmental causes, including air pollution, construction dust, and chemical leaks.
The investigators were from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the research division of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Ad-
The latest death was that of Harold Stump, manager of the legion post at Milton, Pa. Stump, who attended the convention, died Monday night in a Milton hospital. Numerous possible causes, such as bacteria or virus, have been ruled out by researchers, who still say they are perplexed by the outbreak.
Tanaka posts bribe bail
**UKYO—Former Prime Minister Kawai Kamiu postponed $700,000 bail tuesday and left a defence cell for his luxurious Tokyo home to await charges on heaps of debt.**
Tanaka, arrested July 27 on charges of foreign currency violations, spent 21 days in a *b-4y* foot cell before his indictment Monday on charges of accepting bribes to collect taxes.
More than 1,000 curious spectators crowd the area as the 38-year-old Tamaku, dressed in a business suit, gaze out of the high-valley Tokyo detention house.
After moving through a crowd of hundreds of photographers and reporters, Tanaka's black limousine picked up speed and took him to his home.
The district court also sate bld of $140,000 for Hiro Hyima, 66, former chairman of Marubeni Corp. Lockheed's former sales agent in Japan; $100,000 for Toshiharu Okubo, 62, a former Marubeni managing director; $100,500 for Toshiro Enomoto, secretary, and $70,000 for Hisayori Aoki, account chief of All Nippon Airways.
Only Hiyama posted bail Tuesday and was released.
The court said lawyers for five other persons being held in the detention house in connection with the Locked investigation had not applied for bail.
Hiyama, Okubo and Hiroshi Ita, another former Marubeni managing director, were indicted with Tanaka Monday on the bribery charge.
Atlantic coast oil leased
NEW YORK—The industry bid price $1.3 billion for undersea drilling rights over a decade, according to court documents gave last-minute approval to the first ever sale of Atlantic Ocean oil.
The opening of the sealed bails was delayed for eight hours while lawyers for New York State and environmental groups asked Supreme Court Justice Tharpeqdur Tharp to open the sealed bails.
He declined to do so. But whether actual drilling in the Atlantic depends on the outcome of a hearing next month by the Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.
The high bidders on each tract in a sale win the right to search for and produce oil and gas. Leases not developed in five years are forfeited.
The companies pay royalties to the federal government on what they find. Most of the tracts in the Atlantic sale carry a 16.86 per cent royalty on the gross value of oil produced, but some tracts thought to have a high chance of producing oil carry a 33.33 per cent royalty.
HE SAID DEMOCRATIC presidential nominee Jimmy Carter surely is reading "The Man Who Pardoned Nixon," looking material to use against Ford in the fall.
"But if I am the nominee, we're just going to be standing there as two ex-governors comparing our records, and I'll like that a lot."
Ford, meanwhile, said he was confident of nomination and was gaining ground on Carter. He urged Republican unity at a meeting with Illinois delegates.
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In the warmup phase before the real action Tuesday night, John B. Connally his turn at at the convention microphone, where he received a Canadian revival in 1976 and attacked Carter.
CONNALLY, A FORD supporter listed among the President's potential running mates, said Republicans must join to win in a battle that would be fought, against opposition which is strong . . . "
Transportation has changed...
The National Disaster Coordinating Center NDCC said 3,103 deaths had been confirmed and there were at least 2,822 deaths in the U.S. and countless following Tuesday's catastrophes.
Earthquakes kill 3,100 in Philippines disaster
MANILA, The Philippines (AP)—The official toll of dead and missing in the earthquakes and tidal waves in the southern Philippines soared to more than 5,300 Wednesday, with nearly 30,000 reported homeless.
The former secretary of the Treasury, a correspondent to the said Carter, ist equipped to be president.
The casualties were concentrated in the towns and cities along Mindanao island's 500 miles of coastline around the Moro Gulf, on the northern side of the Celebes Sea.
Navy ships arrive in Zimbabwe were ferrying relief goods to other stricken areas
THE PHILIPPINE AIR Force was shuttling tons of medicine, food and other supplies to Cotabato, on the eastern shore of the gulf, and Zamboanga, across the gulf at the tip of the Zambanoa peninsula. They were among the hardest hit cities.
President Gerald Ford sent Philippines
President Ferdinand E. Marcos a message
to him on December 23, 1967.
Casualties were reported in the provinces of North and South Zamboanga, Basilan, North and South Lanao, Cotabato and Misamis Oriental, and the cities of Zamboanga, Basilan, Cagayan de Oro and Cotabato.
Ford inches closer...
"I hope we can eliminate divisiveness," he said.
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simultaneously to make their rival pitches to the caucasus.
OTHER PROVINCES in the central Philippines and on southern Luzon Island also felt the tremors, but there were no reports of casualties in those areas.
Amid the tension and uncertainty in Kansas City, it wasn't hard to stir an uproar. Reagan drew a crowd and live, national television coverage for a mid-afternoon announcement at his Alamuda Hotel headquarters—but it turned out that all he had to announce was the gain of one delegate.
The first quake was followed by the usual aftershocks, and shortly after noon Monday another major tremor hit. But by then the survivors of the first quake had moved into other open spaces, and it was not likely that there were more casualties.
The first quake struck shortly after midnight Monday, while the people of Mindanao were sleeping. It was centered in the Celebes Sea between Mindanao and Indonesia's Celebs island and sent 24-foot high tidal waves crashing ashore, carrying away fishermen's still shacks as far as 100 yards inland.
His radio said he would rather go back to
Braden radio show than take the vice president's
address.
THE NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL Observatory said the first quake registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale while the U.S. earthquake center in Golden, Colo., got a reading of 8.2. The second quiz registered 6.8 on U.S. seismographs in Honolulu.
The Richer scale is a measure of ground motion, and every increase of one whole number means the ground motion is 10 times greater. A tremor registering 6 in magnitude could cause a major quake, capable of widespread, heavy damage, and a bigh "is great" quake, capable of tremendous damage. The San Francisco earthquake of 1969 registered 8.3.
"Do you want to entrust the leadership of this land for the next four years to a man of whom you have never heard one year ago?" Connally asked.
“Are you willing to place at the helm in these times a commander in chief who will not say—and may not know—where he intends to steer the state?”
"IN THE BIG LEAGUES of world leadership, they rarely Olay softball." Connally said in a gibe at Carter's Plains, Ga., pasttime.
"Too many teams have lost in the second half when they let down" he said. -
Ford began the second day of the convention with a peep talk to his team of floor managers, warning them against overconfidence.
THROUGH THE HOT, sunny day, Ford and Reagan wood delegates in person while their emissaries roamed the city, crossing paths and sometimes showing up
"I am not going to be the vice presidential nominee," he said. "I've evaluated what I think I can do best. I believe that there are enough differences that, while I will support the nominee of our party, I want to return to what I was doing: the radio program five days a week, the newspaper column, the speaking circuit."