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Wednesdav. March 7. 1979
University Daily Kansan
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From the Kansan's Wire Services
Rare species lose protection
WASHINGTON—The Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday withdrew federal protection from hundreds of rare species and their habitats.
The service had proposed adding 1,850 species to the endangered list and those plants and animals were provided at least partial protection while their survival was maintained.
But last year Congress passed a law forcing the wildlife service to withdraw protections for most of those species while it prepared an economic impact statement for each—a breakdown of economic projects or needs an animal or plant and its habitat might intrigue on.
An official of the wildlife service said the economic review and public hearings required by the amendments would take a year or more to complete.
"Many species may be extinct before we complete the necessary work," a government biologist said.
But a Supreme Court ruling protecting the two-inch slatter that was in the path of the $11 million Tellico Dam resulted in a congressional backlash.
The service previously considered only biological data before giving a new species and its habitat protection from any action that would destroy it.
Peace talks await withdrawal
BANGKOK, Thailand—Vietnam said yesterday that peace talks with China may begin between the vice foreign ministers of the two countries after all.
Vietnam also challenged China's announcement Monday that it had begun a withdrawal of troops. However, China's main ally, the Soviet Union, applauded its decision.
The Vietnamese foreign ministry said Peking made the withdrawal announcement because of Vietnam's military strength, the Soviet Union's support and its willingness to accept U.S. forces.
Soviet President Leonid Bzhnehv appealed to have accepted the Chinese claim of withdrawal.
"Peking now declares that the Chinese troops that invaded the Socialist Republic of Vietnam are beginning to withdraw to within the boundaries of their country," Brenzhein said. "Such a decision could be assessed as a sign of soberine in of the Chinese leaders, if carried out scrupulously."
Brezhnev's statement was dispatched by the official Soviet news agency, Tass. The Tass report stressed that Russia not be satisfied until all the countries should withdraw.
Carter to fight hospital lobbyists
WASHINGTON - President Carter yesterday pledged to lead the fight against hospital lobbyists and to win passage of a hospital cost control bill that would
HWE Secretary Joseph A. Califan Jr., who outlined Carter's plan, said that during five years, an average family of four could save $133 in insurance premiums, $73 in income taxes and $229 in Social Security payroll taxes through passage of the legislation.
The bill's national voluntary hospital fee limit for this year would hold fee increases to 9.7 percent, a cost that could be relaxed if costs to the healthcare-
Carter said the bill is similar to a measure that passed the Senate in the close home of Congress last fall, but failed in the House.
"I will lead the fight on behalf of the American people," Carter said.
Poll says majority favor draft
NEW YORK—Concerned about how well the volunteer army is working, Americans narrowly favor bringing back the draft for the armed forces, an
The poll, taken Feb. 5-6, found that 49 percent of the public supported reintroduction of the draft. Forty-three percent opposed reintroduction and 8 percent did not.
Support for a new Selective Service system arises from a perception that relying on volunteers for the Army, Navy and Air Force is not working, the poll indicates.
Critics say that the volunteer system is unable to provide enough recruits for the armed forces and that the quality of recruits who do sign up is low.
Bill for license photos passes
TOPEKA-All Kansas driver's licenses must bear a color picture of the driver, at a cost to the driver of an additional 50 cents, under a bill passed on July 13.
About 60 percent of the state's drivers already voluntarily pay extra to have their color photographs on their driver's licenses, but the Senate was sharply divided on whether the state should order the rest of its drivers to have their pictures on their licenses.
Proponents of making color photographs mandatory on licenses argued in debate Monday that the photographs could be beneficial to law enforcement, particularly on such issues as bad check writing, purchasing of liquor and identifying suspects.
Opponents said having pictures on driver's licenses was of questionable value, and not of enough value to justify the 50-cent charge.
The vote for the bill was 22-18.
Midwest jobless rate lowest
WASHINGTON — The Midwest had the lowest unemployment rate in the United States last year, and unemployment in the Northeast continued to pace up.
State and regional figures released by the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that the Midwest averaged a 5.3 percent jobless rate in 1978.
Unemployment in the Northeast declined from 1977, but was the highest of the four regions. The jobless rate in the Northeast was 6.9 percent in 1978 and 8.4
Kansas and South Dakota had the second lowest unemployment rate, with 0.1 percent each. Nebraska had the lowest unemployment in the nation, with 2.9 percent, and Alaska had the highest rate, 11.2 percent, a government spokesman said.
800 Moslems killed in Chad
NDTJAMENA, Chad - Rioting gangs murdered more than 800 Moslems over the weekend in one of Africa's bloodiest triracial massacres in recent years, offence-free in a city that is notorious for violent protests.
The killings were in and around Chad's third-largest city, Moundou, 300 miles south of the capital, N'Djamaena.
Chad officials said Moundou's Moslem population was practically destroyed and the few survivors fled toward the capital. No white expatriates were
Diplomatic sources said gangs of black youths went through Moundou and neighboring settlements in a three-day rampage, murdering any Moslem they found.
Craft records Jupiter's moon
Chad officials said the army could not stop the killings because it was hopelessly outnumbered by the rioters.
PASEDAE, Calif. — Voyager 1 captured its cameras yesterday to Callisto, ripped and cratered most of Jupiter, a body so cold that scientists "snow" life there.
The spacecraft, already a million miles past Jupiter, soared close to Callisto, a moon larger than the planet Mercury.
Voyager 1 passed Callisto as it swung out into space for a 20-month journey to Saturn. It has sent to Earth the most detailed pictures ever taken of Jupiter.
Trailing Voyager 1 is Voyager 2, which will arrive at Jupiter in July. Both ships were launched in 1977 for the journey to Jupiter, 400 million miles away.
Weather
It will be partly cloudy today with a high in the mid 50s. The low tonight will be in the mid 50s. Rain or snow is predicted for the weekend.
Israel accepts compromises
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel agreed to three compromises proposed by President Carter that may break the barriers preventance treaty, peace treaty, Israeli sources and vested herd.
But the sources said that other problems remained unsettled and that Egypt's response to the U.S. proposals would be pivotal to success.
A Carter Mideast trip was announced Monday after the president's talks with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The president will arrive in Jerusalem tomorrow.
In New York, Begin said he felt euphoric about progress for peace.
Carter's proposals, which have not been revealed, are said to involve two compromises on linking the treaty to the Palestinian problem and another on softening language about whether the treaty would supersede prior defense agreements.
"THERE IS euphoria, not only in this country but in Jerusalem and Carpio and Gillespie."
In Cairo, President Anwar Sadat met with U.S. National Security Admirer Zighbari Brzozik to hear the details of Carter's promise that the reaction was not immediately known.
Israel agrees to a 12-month, non-binding target date for completing negotiations on self-rule for Palestinians living on the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
WITHOUT DISCLOSING the precise
There is, however, no deadline for establishing autonomy, but army pledges to establish it have been long-standing.
language of all the U.S. proposals, sources outlined them as follows:
In a second point linking the treaty to the Palestinian problem, Israel agrees to language specifying that the treaty may be used as a general framework for a General Mideast peace.
A CLAUSE remains unchanged in the
NATO secretary takes war plans; defects to Communist Germany
BRUSELIS, Belgium (AP) - A NATO secretary that defended Monday to Communist East Germany has reportedly stolen the war plans of the Western Alliance.
The East German news agency ADN said yesterday that the woman was a confident woman, but not a conqueror.
The NATO spokesman would not comment on whether the woman's position with NATO was of a sensitive nature, but said of the woman's week "to assess what damage she can do."
ADN did not elaborate on the "war plans." It said they would be "released at the appropriate time," along with opinions of NATO officials.
draft saying the treaty will be carried out "without regard to action or inaction by any other party and independently of any instrument external to this treaty."
This adds a measure of 'linkage' so important to Sadat, without setting deadlines or penalties for non-compliance, the sources said.
Sadat has been condemned by other Arab states for his unilateral peace move, so he has pressed for some connection in the treaty solving the Palestinian problem.
The NATO spokesman confirmed the identification. He said Lorenzen, a NATO employee for 11 years, worked in the Office of Council Operations and Communications, which he described as "a small office which prepares for exercise."
ADN did not specify her job or add any personal detail.
Still unresolved is Egypt's demand to delay the exchange of ambassadors until the Palestinian autonomy plan goes into effect.
THE THIRD modification deals with language in the treaty's "priority clause," which has been modified to satisfy Egypt's interests. The proposed compromise invalidate its earlier defense pacts with Arab states. The proposed compromise fails, and his sides can feel their interests are protected.
THE NATO spokesman, asking not to be identified, said: "She was not connected at
all with the office of the secretary general, Joseph Luns."
The agency said the simulated attack would be during the Wintex-Cimes exercise in April.
ADN quoted Lorenzen as saying stepped up "war preparations" for NATO, including a planned "atomic attack against the United States" behind his decision to enter East Germany.
Israel wants the exchange to occur nine months after the treaty is signed and the first of a two-stage withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula is completed.
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Reliable news reports say the United States also agreed to give Israel a $3.5 billion grant to cover the costs of moving troops back to Israel and to guarantee oil supplies.
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