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Wednesday, March 28, 1979
University Dally Kansan
IVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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OPEC increases prices by 9%
GENEVA, Switzerland — The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries raised crude oil prices by 9 percent yesterday to $1.49 a barrel and authorized crude oil purchases by the U.S.
The increase, which will take effect Sunday, would raise American retail gasoline prices by about two cents a gallon and increase America's foreign oil demand by about 40%.
Analysts say the surcharges could push the foreign oil bill even higher.
The base increase is expected to increase OPEC nations' revenues by at least $13.5 billion this year, analysts said.
Algeria, Venezuela and Libya immediately said their countries would add surcharges to the basic rate, and oil ministers in Switzerland predicted that they would do so.
The effect of the OPEC increase on the American economy is difficult to gauge because of the time lag between foreign sales and sales to U.S. companies.
Leon Taub, an economist at the consulting firm of Chase Econometrics Inc., said the OPEC increase could raise American inflation by 0.2 percent this year. If OPEC raised prices 5 percent in October, inflation would increase 0.4 percent in 1979 and another 0.4 in 1980. Taub said.
According to a newsletter that covers the petroleum industry, the average retail price of a gallon of regular gasoline at a full-service station jumped 3.68 MWK in October.
Beain. Sadat appeal for aid
WASHINGTON - The leaders of Israel and Egypt disagreed yesterday on Palestinian autonomy, but asked Congress to give them weapons and trust that they would be able to fight.
Egyptian President Anwar Wasir and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem
Boknake seconde秘诀 to senators and congressmen on Capitol Hill.
Both leaders urged the employees to approve President Carter's $2 million package of learn and grants for France. The department was assigned to manage these grants and annuities that was awarded.
Letters of agreement made public by Defense Secretary Brown said the package included accelerated delivery of F-16 fighter planes to Israel and Syria, and that the U.S. would provide a base in Gaza.
While Begin and Sadat were speaking in the United States, bombs exploded in Israel and Paris, killing one person and injuring more than 50 others during the war.
Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat told Arab leaders in Baghdad, Iraq, to support the PLO's war against the treaty by ending all trade relations.
Arafat also asked the leaders to enact an oil embargo against the United States.
A PLO spokesman in Beirut said two bombings in Israel were part of a plan to escalate anti-Iraq war in protest of the new treaty.
In Paris, an anonymous telephone caller called a group called the "Autonomous Joint Intervention Group Against the Zionist Presence in France and Against the Peace Treaty" was responsible for the blast. Authorities said they had never heard of the group before.
Kansan identified in Hart trial
PRYHO, Oklahoma—Defense witnesses for Gene Leroy Hark, accused in the murder of three Girl Scouts, said yesterday that a Kansas man might be a suspect.
Among the witnesses was a Girl Scout who tentatively identified the Kansan as the man lurking outside her tent a few days before the murders. Another woman testified that she loaned the Kansan a flashlight later found at the murder scene.
The Kansas man, William Stevens, 23, is serving a sentence at the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory at Hutchinson for rape. Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Director Tom Kennedy said agents interviewed Stevens in a room and took hair, blood and semen samples.
Kennedy refused to divulge laboratory analysis results, but said Stevens had been ruled out as a suspect in the slayings.
Random license checks barred
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that law enforcement officers could not stop motorists at random to check drivers' licenses and car registration records.
The Court said such random stops violated the Constitution's protection of citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.
Justice Byron R. White, who wrote the decision, said the ruling did not stop states from questioning all oncoming traffic at a roadblock-type stop.
The Court's 84-1 ruling stemmed from a Delaware police case in 1976 in which a stop led to an arrest for possession of marijuana.
The defendant in the case successfully stopped police from introducing the seized marijuana as evidence at the trial when state courts ruled that the defendant was not a person.
D.A. bill proceeds to Senate
TOPEKA—The Kansas Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday sent the full Senate a bill that would establish a statewide district
Under the plan, county electors would decide whether they wanted to change from a county attorney to the district attorney system. The district attorney would have no right to represent himself.
Twenty-four judicial district do not have district attorneys. Five counties that have district attorneys are Douglas, Dickwick, Shawnee, Johnson and Hopkins.
State Sen. Ron Hein, R-Topkea, a supporter of the bill, said paying the district attorneys would cost the state about $400,000 more than the $2.7 million counties
Kerr-McGee cover-up alleged
ORLAHAMA CITY - A union official said yesterday that Karen Silkwood hadwoken the Kerr-Meckree Corp. was covering up faulty work at one of its facilities.
Anthony Mazzocchi, vice president of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union, said Silkwood had said she had proof that the faulty work could cause damage.
Mazzocchi testified in federal court at a $1.15 million plutonium contamination lawsuit. He said Silkwalko's contamination by plutonium upset a government agency.
Mazzcochi said that if faulty fuel rods were used in a nuclear reactor, it could cause a reactor melt-end, endangering the lives of millions of neon.
"If you wish to distract attention from the issue," Mazzoli said, "this was the way to do it—if it somehow came out that she contaminated herself. And it wore."
Bill to halt primary approved
He said Silkwood was to gather evidence on the use of faulty fuel rods, but the Kerr-McGee management realized what she was doing.
The bill would repeal Kansas' year-old primary law at a savings of $1.1 million.
TOPEKA—The Kansas House gave final approval to a bill that would call off the state's first presidential primary.
Under current law, every voter in the state declaring a party affiliation would be able to vote in his party's primary.
Opponents of a Kansas primary questioned whether it was worth $1.1 million to switch the way delegates to national party conventions were elected.
The delegates are elected through the convention system, which is financed by the state parties.
Supporters of the primary said it would offer a greater number of people a chance to nominate delegates and presidential candidates.
Weather...
Skies will be partly cloudy today with a high near 60, according to the National Weather Service. Lows tonight will fall to the low to mid 30s. Winds will be southerly at 10-80 mph. Partly cloudy skies are expected again tomorrow. The sun will shine over showers. Temperatures will be in the upper 80s with gusty winds 20-25 mph.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -Richard Berkley became the first Jewish mayor in Kansas City history and the first Republican mayor in 54 years by defeating black Democrat Bruce Watkins, 73,386 to 52,793 last night.
Berkley elected KC mayor
Watkins, who received campaign help from Vice President Walter F. Mondale, conceded the election to Berkley late last fall. Kansas City wasn't ready for a black mayor.
The Mondale campaign visit became an issue because the election is nominally
"I'm concerned that maybe it takes more money and a different color to win," he said.
Under its non-partisan, council-city manager form of government, the mayor's post is a part-time job that pays $25,000 a year.
In last month's primary, two-term incumbent Charles Wheeler ran four behind him in the race.
Berkley, who got 27 percent; and city councilman Joel Peloself, a distant third.
He also served as assistant mayor the past four years.
president of Freedom Inc., a black political organization.
Wheeler, a Democrat, had been seeking an unprecedented third term.
As mayor, Berkley will preside over council meetings, appoint council committees and their chairmen, appoint city boards, and enlist as an ex-officio member of the police board.
Watkins, 54, is president of Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapels, and has received political support in the City Council primarily from the black community.
films sua
(1949)
Wednesday, March 28
Tracy/Hepburn:
ADAM'S RIB
He also was a founder and now is
Dir. Joseph Losey, with Jane Fonda,
David Warner, Trevor Howard, Edward
Fox. PLUS:"The History Book, v. 6."
:7:30 & 9:45
Dir. George Cukor, with Spencer
Trac, Katherine Hepburn, Judy Holiday,
Written by Garson Kanin and
Ruth Gordon.
*(754)*A
30 hurt in Paris restaurant blast
Berkley, 47, is treasurer of the family business, Tension Envelope Corp., and has been appointed to the Board.
(1972)
Thursday, March 29
Ibsen's Classic Play:
A DOLL'S HOUSE
Dir. Claudia Weill; with Melanie Maynor, Annie Skinner; Christopher Stephenson; and the director Viveca Lindors. The first film fiction by Winaff, who also titled "A China Story," she wrote.
Friday & Saturday, March 30 & 31
(1978)
GIRL FRIENDS
Monday, April 2
All films M-R shown in Woodruff Aud. at 7:30 unless otherwise noted. $1.00 admission.
MATHELIS, April 6
Women in Art, part 2:
LOUISE NEVELSON
IN PROCESS
Dir. Susan Fanshell, Jill Godilow
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
Dir. Perry Miller Adato
Weekend shows also in Woodruff at 3:30, 7:00, 9:30 or 12 midnight unless otherwise noted; $1.50 admission.
Our Women in Art series concludes tonight with these three films focusing on three of the most acclaimed and admired artists the United States has produced. Partially funded by Spencer Art Museum.
PARIS (AP)—Terrorists tossed a bomb into a crowded Jewish student restaurant in the Latin Quarter here yesterday, injuring more than 30 students in apparent reprisal for the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
MARY CASSATT:
IMPRESSIONIST
FROM PHILADELPHIA
An anonymous caller said the attack on the hostel—one of the most popular in Paris—was in response to the signing of the treaty Monday in Washington.
The PLO high command in Beirut did claim responsibility for two attacks in Israel, in which one person was killed and more than 30 injured.
The Paris office of the Palestine
Liberation Organization denounced the bombing as "a racist action of anti-Semitic elements" and expressed "its deep sadness and strong support" to the families of the injured.
An employee who witnessed the blast said, "It was horrible. Young men were covered with blood, unable to hear from the fire. It will be a miracle if none of them dies."
Many of the students, who were eating a kooho lunch, suffered ear injuries from the crash.
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