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Wednesday, March 21, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Cease-fire ignored by Kurds
SANANDAJ, Iran - Kurdish guerrillas agreed to a new ceasefire yesterday and ended a bloody siege against an Iranian army barricades. By late afternoon, the area had fallen into Israeli hands.
Fighting erupted Sunday, and since then 88 people have been killed and 200 wounded as Kurss battle to win their dream of autonomy.
Kurdish fighters set up roadblocks throughout Sanandaj and were still in control of most of the city as the cease-fire went into effect at sunset.
Iran's deputy prime minister said the government would send reinforcements to Spangda to stop the guerrillas.
Corporate gains leap 26.4%
There was a brief cease fire Monday night, but it ended early yesterday when rebels opened fire on helicopters dropping food to soldiers in the west.
WASHINGTON—Corporate profits increased 20.4 percent last year, the largest annual jump in more than 80 years. The Carter administration termed the
The Commerce Department said yesterday that before-tax profits during the fourth quarter of 1978 were at an annual rate of $225.3 billion, a gain of $19.9 billion above the third quarter and $47 billion above the final three months of 1977.
Alfred Kahn, the administration's chief inflation fighter, said, "The very large increases in profits of American corporations will strengthen the widespread belief that many American businesses aren't assuming their full responsibility to fight inflation."
He said the Council on Wage and Price Stability, of which he is chairman, would publish the names of corporations that had violated the administration's laws.
Irish workers strike for a day
DUBLIN, Ireland - Half a million Irish workers went on strike yesterday to protest high taxes and about 250,000 employees marched in the republic's streets.
The 24 hour strike brought industry in many parts of the country to a standstill, stopped bus and train services, closed many shops and schools, cut elec-
trics.
Strikers were demanding a new tax system to ease the burden on wage earners. They want new tax laws covering banks, the self-employed, exporting companies and others.
Union's say wage and salary earners pay an estimated 17 percent of their income in taxes while farmers and other self-employed people pay an estimated
The country's main employers' organization, the Confederation of Irish Industries, condemned the strike and estimated it could cost the republic about $10 billion.
The strikers estimate that they lost $1 million in pay during the one day strike and that the government lost about $400,000 in tax revenue.
Suit against Schneider uraed
TOPEKA—State Rep Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said yesterday that he thought the state should bring suit against former Attorney General Curt
Glover told fellow members of the Kansas House Ways and Committee it was his understanding that Schneider did not report for work after he was fired.
"He was paid for two months and never showed up." Glover said. "He didn't even file a budget request. And to think he was elected to enforce the law."
William Muir, financial officer during Schneider's term, told Schneider had his staff not to prepare a budget request, but that Schneider "came to the office because of the failure."
A member of the state Budget Division told the House committee that because Schneider did not fit a budget request it was necessary for his successor, Robert T. Stephan, to prepare one. The Budget Division received the request March 7.
Carlin approves tax removal
TOPEKA-Gov. John Carlin said yesterday that he had decided the state could afford to lift its sales tax from most residential utility bills.
Carlin said the estimated $18 million needed to remove the sales tax would come from tax revenues and budgetary cuts.
Although lifting the tax was one of Carlin's campaign promises, he opposed the tax removal earlier because he said he did not know how the state could benefit from it.
He said he supported taking the 3 percent tax off residential electricity, natural gas and water bills, but not off telephone service.
However, Carlin said he would not oppose the Kansas Legislature if it wanted to remove the tax from telephone bills, too.
Bills to remove the sales tax from all utility services for residential consumers has passed the Kansas House and is before the Kansas Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee. The Senate committee is considering whether to amend the bill to include telephone bills.
Death penalty still deadlocked
TOPEKA—A legislative conference committee appointed to compromise on the former death penalty all agreed yesterday that it was deadlocked. Memoirs of the session were read at the end.
Five of the six conference committee members were death penalty supporters. State Sen. Don Allegrucci, D-Pittsburg, was its lone opponent.
Unanimous agreement is required on reports from the first conference committee appointed on a bill. Without Allegrucci's approval, the committee members had no choice but to request a second conference committee be formed.
Any subsequent conference committees for bills do not require unanimous consent of members. Both the Kansas House and the Senate are expected today to adopt the bill.
One Silkwood juror dismissed
Bert Long, a retired mechanic, was dismissed from the jury after he told U.S. District Judge Frank Theis he remembered that he knew three people embezzled from his business.
The corporation is being sued for $11.5 million by Silkwood's family, who claim the woman was dangerously contaminated by nuclear waste before her death.
ORKLAHOMA CITY—The presiding judge in the Karen Silkwalk nuclear contamination case yesterday dismissed a juror who admitted that he knew
Long, who was dismissed after serving three weeks on the jury, was replaced by a clerk-typist employed by the state of Oklahoma.
Jupiter may reveal life forms
The scientist, Bradford A. Smith, said the discovery of very strong bolts in Jupiter's atmosphere indicated highly complex molecules probably forming in Jupiter.
TUCSON, Ariz.-Voyager 1 space probe's discovery of lightning in jupes > a remote possibility that simple forms of life might exist, a project scientist said.
Smith said the molecules would have to in lower levels of the atmosphere because the rest of the planet's atmosphere was in constant motion. "It's actually a bit different," Smith said.
But if there were pockets of the atmosphere that escaped the rapid circulation, concentrations of organic molecules and the possibility of life could exist, he said.
It will be cloudy with a 60 percent chance of rain today and an 80 percent chance of rain tonight. The high today will be in the low to mid 50s. Winds will be moderate to strong.
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