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Mondav. June 18, 1979
Summer Session Kansan
THE SUMMER SESSION Capsules From staff and wire reports
Carter to speak about SALT
WASHINGTON—President Obama will address Congress tonight on the new U.S.-Soviet arms accord and his supporters are hoping that the agreement will be a step forward.
Carter is to address the joint session of Congress at 8 p.m., immediately after he comments from the siming of the Strategic Armies Limitation Treaty in Vienna.
the returns of the stockholders in the House said they were 20 votes short last week of enough to win approval of the Panama Canal bill, which would implement a new rule on how long a person can own a U.S. ship.
Carter could suffer a major foreign policy defeat on the Panama Canal and House leaders say that is one reason they postponed the vote until after the election.
The bill, which has been heavily criticized by many House members' constituents, would set up the commission.
Treaties ratified by the Senate turn the canal over to Panama Oct. 1 but
that a U.S.-controlled commission run it until Dec. 31, 1989.
Windfalls tax nearly complete
WASHINGTON—The House Ways and Means Committee is expected to complete work tomorrow on a tax on excess oil company payrolls that have not been accounted for in the 2014 budget.
Because of public anger about gasoline shortages, the "windfall" profits tax is expected to have a better chance of survival than it has had in years.
The committee's bill, as currently drafted, would take $6.8 billion more out of those profits than the Presidents' proposal would. It would replace $2.5.
House liberals are also planning for the fight to eliminate foreign tax credits for oil companies, which they contend amount to a $2 billion-a-year tax "loophole" than enables oil companies to shield their foreign income from U.S. taxes.
Chinese to have free elections
The new measures are on the agenda of the Fifth National People's Congress, which began today.
The government said the reforms would allow more candidates than there are seats in the county congress and allow non-Communists to run for those seats.
Until now, candidates were selected by Communist Party Committees, in many cases only one candidate when the party's "radicals" were in power. The elections instead of ahead of time.
The government also said the parliament would consider measures to provide greater judiciary independence and added protection for persons accused of
More winter utility aid sought
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Some 6,000 poor and elderly homes in Kansas City have no预案 for heating or lighting their homes this winter.
Since February, $1.6 million in federal, city and private funds have gone to about 8,200 families in the area. But at least 6,000 are still without at least one
Sally Fahrenheit of the Latherman ministry told Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., Friday that $200,000 in funds will probably be returned to the government because social agencies in Kansas City have not had time to process all of the applications.
Eagleton he said he wanted an additional $200 million to $250 million to continue the national program next winter.
The Carter administration recommended $40 million for next year and a House committee cut that figure in half.
Cops study BTK stranaler
WICHITA - About 35 Wichita Police Department detectives and lab personnel were busy yesterday investigating the latest communication by the BTK in connection with the investigation.
The FTP Strangler, whose initials stand for bind, torture and kill, sent a poem last week to a 63-year-old woman who nearly became his eighth victim April 28.
Deputy Chief Bobby Stout said Saturday that the woman received a package Friday that contained an 19-line written poem, a sketch, articles of the movie and photos.
The poem said the stranger had intended to kill the woman and regretted that she had not returned home while he was there.
The last communication from the BTK Strangler was in February 1978 when KARE-TV received a letter from a man claiming responsibility for the killings of the Joseph Gtoer family and two young women. He also claimed responsibility for a seventh murder and challenged police to find out who the victim was.
Certain denture ads lost bite
WASHINGTON - The government warned the denture adhesive industry yesterday that advertisements claiming denture wearers could eat hard-to-bite materials.
The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to all major manufacturers of denture cleaners and adhesives outlining what is considered unfair and detrimental to consumers.
The companies are subject to penalties of up to $10,000 for each violation after receiving the letters.
The decision was based on a 1977 case against Block Drug Co., Inc., which makes Poligrip adhesive and Polident cleaner.
The letters say it will be illegal to say denture wearers can hard-to-bite foods such as apples and corn-on-the-cab if they use denture adhesive unless the dentist advises them.
Writer ends trek in Panama
PANAMITY CITY. Panama—Gary Moore, a 28-year old freelancer writer from Tuplo, Miss, arrived at the Panama Canal Thursday, ten months after he left Tampa.
But Moore said most of his problems were sore feet, dense jungles and superstitious Indians in Pamla, who thought he was a vampire responsible for the deaths. He said he had always been fearful.
Moore, who reached the banks of the Panama Canal Thursday in a torrential rainstorm, said he decided to make the trip while he was walking 3,600 miles across the United States, from the east coast to California, from May 1977 to January 1978.
Weekend KKK rallies peaceful
About 100 members of the United Klan of America raised a 20-foot cross in a field near Hamburg, Ark., Saturday and listened to Robert Shelton, grandfather of Stephen Shelton.
NEW YORK—About 300 white-hooded Klanster rallied in Texas and Arkansas over the weekend, burning crosses soaked in gasoline and denouncing blatant racism.
Observers said the Klan gathering was the first in Hamburg in 10 years.
Grand Wizard David Duke told 200 people and a group of reporters that he did not hate blacks, he loved whites.
In another Klan incident Saturday, guards welding semi-automatic weapons patrolled a rally of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Hurst, Texas.
Law enforcement officers from the area said there had been no threats of violence, and a Tarrant County Sheriff's deputy was the only uniformed officer at the rally. A policeman from the nearby city of Euless said there were several plainclothes officers in the crowd.
Weather...
It will be hot today and tonight with temperature approaching the 90s under partly cloudy skies and a 50 percent chance of rain. Winds will be variable and
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP)- Malaysian authorities, who say they plan to force 76,000 Vietnam refugees here back out to sea, loaded about 500 onto a boat yesterday and towed it into the South China Sea, eyewitnesses said.
Malaysia expels refugees
There was no official confirmation of the report, and no word from the government on whether it signaled the start of the mass-expulsion program.
THAILAND CONTINUED its own program of forced repatriations yesterday, sending 2,500 more Cambodian refugees back to their wart-corn homeland. The Thais have expelled close to 50,000 Cambodians in the past two weeks.
Other unconfirmed reports said as many as 3,500 Vietnamese refugees may have been killed.
Under tight security, the refugees expelled yesterday, mostly women and children, were herded into a repaired Vietnamese boat at Koda Shuru, 250 miles northwest of here. They were given fuel, food, and sent on their way, the witnesses said.
Since February, authorities in Malaysia have been turning away many Vietnamese "past people" and allowing others to come in with them to repair their boats before setting out again.
It was unclear whether those reportedly expelled yesterday were such "temporary" arrivals, but it was the first such expulsion reported since Deputy Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced Friday that Malaysia would send the 76,000 Vietnamese refugees in this Southeast Asian nation out to sea.
MATHARTH SAID at the same time that orders would be given to "shoot on sight"
In Tokyo, Foreign Ministry sources said Saturday the Japanese government would seek an international conference on the plight of the estimated 350,000 homeless Indochinese refugees when a previously scheduled nine-nation regional meeting convened July 2 on the Indonesian island of Bali.
any refugees trying to land on Malaysian shores.
The expulsion plan brought appeals for restraint from international relief agencies and criticism from the United States and other countries.
BRITAIN HAD previously called for a U.N.-sponsored conference on refugees and the United States and other western nations backed the proposal.
U. N. Secretary General Curt Waldheim said he was ready to convene a conference with Iran on Monday.
would bring positive and concrete results." results."
The State Department said of the reported Malaysian plan that the United States would "deplore any actions that would lead to the deaths of refugees." The International Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland, described the proposed escalation as a "frightening situation."
The United States now is allowing about 7,000 Vietnamese refugees into this country.
HOUSE MAJORITY leader John Brademas, D-Ind., said yesterday the United States is in contact with both the Soviet Union and China in hopes of helping Vietnamese refugees fleeing persecution in their home country.
Brademas also said the United States is morally bound to take in more Vietnamese immigrants.
Air fare coupon scramble ends
NEW YORK (AP)—Reservation lines, ticket counters and short-hop flights were jammed with last-minute bargains. Some people sat out on the great airline half-fare coupon craze.
"You name it, and you can't get on it."
United Airlines spokesman Jack Gamble said of flights out of the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
"Everybody's really tired of this," said a man in American Airlines reservations clark in Chennai.
IN CHICAGO, James Kennedy, a vice president of United, said his airline expected to have given out 400 million coupons to passengers on its flights by the time the promotion ended at midnight yesterday. The company no immediate estimate from American.
United started the craze at the end of May as a gimmick to recover business lost during a strike in thin days. American employers, too, it was the only airline to follow suit.
The small slips of paper are good for 50 percent reductions on full fare for round trip United and American mainland flights between July 1 and Dec. 15. American also will apply the bargain to some Carribean flights, and Pan American World Airways will honor the coupons on its domestic flights, though it did not offer its own.
all DC-10 airliners because of safety worries.
In Chicago, United flights were sold out and waitings listed canceled O-Hare International Airport and Fort Wayne, Ind.; International Michigan; Mich., Detroit and Des Moines Jaya.
A ONE-WAY trip costing as little as $15 could yield a coupon good for half-fare on a round-trip, coast-to-coast flight that normally costs more than $400.
Admissions quotas still used by schools
Neither United nor American was willing immediately to comment on the effect the millions of coupons will have on normal business operations in the months ahead.
"With the DC-10 groundings and other things, I think it will be a little while before we can determine what effect this will have on business in the long run," said David Frailey, an American spokesman in New York.
NEW YORK AP-About one in five American law schools is either in "clear violation" or "visibly suspect" of violating the Supreme Court's Bakke decision, which struck down admissions standards based on bad conducts, according to a report issued last night.
The report, published by the Anti-Defamation League of B'ai n'ai B'rith, said 234 law schools from a sampling of 128 were in violation of the ruling or appeared to be.
In last year's case of the Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke, the high court declared illegal a special admissions case in which the University of California Medical School at Davis.
That school had denied admission to Allan Bakke, a white, and Bakke contended that the admissions committee was not aware of him.
students admitted to a minority admissions program.
The Anti-Defamation League had filed a friend of the court brief on Bakke's behalf and is trying to ensure that schools follow the ruling. The league refused to release the names of the schools it said were in violation.
The report, which is the result of a survey of 272 professional schools, said "clear violators" of the ruling included 14 law schools and two medical schools.
Most of these used fixed quotas, two-track systems or separate admissions criteria for minorties that were contrary to Bakke's rules, leading to the Anti-Defamation League.
Of 20 schools considered "visibly suspect with respect to the ethnic-racial classifications made illegal by Bakeke," nine medical schools and two were dental schools.
Both airlines said most of their short-haul flights had been completely sold out during the past two weeks, but spokesmen said this was due at least in part to the grounding of
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