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Friday, April 27, 1979
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Kansan's Wire Services
Risina river forces evacuation
URAND FORKS, N.D.—The Red River continued to well yesterday, flooding parts of Minnesota, North Dakota and Canada, and prompting the evacuation of some communities.
The sandbaked duges in and around Grand Forks appear to be holding but officials read 200 more people in East Grand Forks, Minn., to evacuate.
Civil Defense Director Orley Gunderson said he was scouring for volunteers to send to the Point, an area of about 1,000 homes where the Red and Red
Some dikes in the low-lying areas around the Point, though reinforced by sandbars and clay, were becoming waterlogged.
Mantahou Premier Sterling Lyon ordered people to leave areas in the path of the flooding river.
"The situation is serious and worsening," Lyon said in a broadcast announcement Wednesday.
Upriver, as the Pearl was dropping, some of the 3,500 people who had been evacuated in Marion County, Mississippi, returned to their homes.
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service said, blue skies appeared and the National Weather Service said the Pearl River in Louisiana would crest at the Gulf of Mexico
Board supports gasoline plan
WASHINGTON - The Senate Energy Committee voted yesterday to recommend approval of President Carter's stability gas plan to the Senate, including the following provisions:
Carter agreed to set aside 10 percent of the nation's gasoline reserves for use by motorists who drive farther to reach their jobs.
"We need a standby rationing plan," said Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., chairman of the energy panel.
Jackson said another element of Carter's proposals—authority for weekend station clinches—would be voted on and probably rejected on Monday.
Once we revised Carter rationing plan, which would be put in use only during a national energy emergency, gasoline coupons would be disbursed on public roads.
Mideast violent despite truce
JERUSALEM—Syrian and Israeli farmer jets flew over Beirut yesterday while Christian militants lobbed shells into the southern Lebanese villages
Despite the action, a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization said there had been no significant violations of an early morning U.S. trust that the military was following orders.
A U.N. spokesman also said the truce, arranged by U.N. liaisons in Israel and Lebanon, was holding.
Observers said the second day of Syrian flights over Lebanon indicated a closer cooperation between Syria and the PLO, both staunch opponents of the ISIS.
In New York, the U.N. Security Council agreed to meet "without delay to consider the situation" if any more serious incidents occurred and expressed concern that they were happening.
No casualties were reported from the Israeli naval shelling of camps near Sidon, which is about 30 miles south of Beirut.
Prices climb again in March
WASHINGTON—Consumer prices jumped another 1 percent in March, the government said yesterday.
Prices increased sharply in March in all sectors of the economy. Food and housing prices went up 1 percent; clothing prices were up 1.5 percent; and
Alfred E. Kahn, President Carter's anti-inflation chief, told the congressional joint economic committee that the March price report was bad, saying "we still believe in inflation."
Kahn also said it was "highly unlikely" the administration could meet its 7.4 percent inflation target for the year.
seen. George McGovern, D-B-D, said the March increase was an "economic and political disaster." He introduced legislation to give the president standby powers in his office.
Unless the administration wants such authority, officials say Congress probably will not approve it.
Ecuador to end dictatorship
QUITO, Ecuador—Ecuadorians will end a military dictatorship Sunday when they elect a president and congress, and become the third country in South America.
The new president and 69 members of the national legislature who are elected Sunday will be inaugurated and a new constitution will be adopted on Aug. 1.
In recent weeks, the military rulers in Ecuador repeatedly have said the elections would be held.
President Carter's administration has voiced support of the transfer of power in Ecuador.
The other two South American democracies are Venezuela and Colombia.
Nazi's lawyer may sue Carter
AUSTIN, Texas - The attorney for Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's deputy has spent the past 36 years in Berlin's Spandau prison, said he planned to heed the plea of a lawyer who had been convicted.
The attorney, Merrell Frazer, Jr., said Hess should be released for humanitarian reasons. Hess suffers from cancer and mental illness, Frazer扎疑。
In a letter to President Carter, Fraser threatened to file a writ of mandamus against the president if Carter did not work for Hess's release.
Frazer said the United States, France and Great Britain have indicated a willingness to release Hess, but fear of reprisals from the Soviet Union have
The Soviet Union has vetoed Hess's release, saying he represents the last vestiges of fascism.
Chinese tour Kansas farms
GARDEN CITY—A delegation from the Peoples Republic of China yesterday completed a tour of the American heartland by looking at farming in southwest
Silkwood illness called fraud
The Kansas stop was part of a nationwide tour and was hosted by Farmland Industries of Kansas City and Far-Mar-Co., a Farmland grain marketing company.
The group visited wheat farm, grain elevators, feedlots, irrigation projects and a beet processing plant in areas around Garden City, Dodge City and Chicago.
The delegation, led by Yang Wei, a member of China's ministry of finance, made the visit to gather information on American production and trade.
"We are very impressed," Yang said.
ORLAHOMA CITY™ the president of Kerr-McGee Nuclear Corporation testified yesterday that Karen Silkwood was responsible for contaminating her testified water.
Kerr-McGeeAGSilkwood became contaminated while spiking urine samples she submitted to the company for radioactive testing. The corporation contends she added the plutonium to the samples to embarrass the company during union bargaining sessions.
Morgan Moore, Kerr-McGee president and manager of the company's plant when Silkwood became contaminated, made the statements "This is an unfortunate event."
Setting the record straight
The name of the chairman of the department of French and Italian was incorrectly reported on page 5 of yesterday's Kanan. The chairman of that department was
Weather
It will be clear to party cloudy today with a high temperature of 80, according to the National Weather Service. The low to mid-60s are expected, the upper 30s. The high tomorrow will go up 70.
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