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Monday, March 5, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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From the Kansas Wire Services
BANGKOK, Thailand--China reportedly told foreign diplomats yesterday it would withdraw from Vietnam as soon as possible. However, Hanoi said that Chinese troops had launched new attacks and that there had been fierce fighting near Jong Son.
It is not too late to look at the Ministry spokesman in Tokyo which Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hui had told Japanese Ambassador Sato Sin in Beijing that the country was ready to host a United Nations meeting.
troop with whom we will train the Chinese Vice Premier I. Kumunian (I. Lisianmien) as saying, "We have already decided to withdraw from Viet-
cong".
Our pupils in Chinese schools in Peking said some Chinese troops already were returning to China. Schools reported.
to China. Kyushu, the island where Mr. Wu gave no indication of a downwair in fighting. The country's Communist Party Central Committee declared that "every village in Vietnam was under attack."
The Chinese have said from the outset of the invasion two weeks ago they wanted only to "punish" Vietnam for alleged provocations and not plan a war.
Carter injects peace proposal
WASHINGTON - President Carter, in an effort to salvage Midean peace proposals, gave Israel Prime Minister Menachem begin new peace proposals
The proposals were described by an Israeli official as "important and interesting." The contents were kept secret, but Sen. Jacob K. Javits, R-N.Y., said the proposals were in the nature of "pragmatic guarantees" designed to build trust between Egypt and Israel.
"It may be the cement that binds this treaty." Javits said. He refused to provide further details.
Begined referred the proposals to his government in Jerusalem and told Carter he hoped to have a response before he left the United States this week.
A White House statement said Carter would review the situation with Foundation President Anwar Sadat.
the White House statement, still not providing specific details, termed the proposals as "suggestions designed to help resolve some of the outstanding issues" (White House, 2018).
Silkwood juru selection begins
OKLAHOMA CITY — Jury selection begins today in the trial of a $1.5 million law alleging that nuclear worker Kenny Woolsey been contaminated with radioactive water. The Kerr-McGee Case
Silkwood's lawyers said the plutonium contamination of her apartment may have been caused intentionally by Kerr-McGee because she had been active in the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. The company repeatedly has denied the allegations.
Silkwood was an employee of the now closed Kerr-McGee nuclear fuel rod manufacturing operation near Crescent, OK. She was in a one-car enterprise.
Kerr-McGee lawyers said that any personal injury Silkwood sustained had been caused by her own negligence. They also said she might have smuggled plutonium from the plant and contaminated herself to dramatize her allegations that the plant was unsafe.
New Orleans cons end strike
NEW ORLEANS—Police returned to work yesterday, ending a 15-day strike that had forced the cancellation of this year's Mardi Gras festivities.
The officers, who are paid every two months, had missed one paycheck.
"It just became too much of a financial burden," Vincent Bruno, president of the police union, said. "The men couldn't hold out any longer. It was stricty a
The officers, who are paid every two months, had missed one paycheck. The team was able to contact the Board of the Teammaster-officiled Police Association of New Orleans after the strike collapsed. However, he said, improved benefits, such as more holidays and a $25 clothing allowance, would be implemented despite the absence of a signed contract.
The strike collapsed after the union voted 447-173 to reject the city's offer. The rejection hung on the strikers' demand for unconditional amnesty.
Moral said, "At this point in time we're not recognizing anyone. Moreover, we are not convinced that the Police Association of Louisiana or the Teamsters have any involvement."
Deputy Chef Louis Turner said the police department had had a full weekday complement of officers on duty yesterday even though it was a Sunday.
Kahn denies mandatory plans
WASHINGTON—President Carter's chief inflation fighter, Alfred Kahn, chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Council, said yesterday the administration was not considering mandatory wage and price controls in case the president's voluntary program fails.
"There is nobody in the administration that I know of who is talking at all about mandatory controls," Kahn, said.
He conceded that price rises in January, if continued through the year, would mean inflation of more than 10 percent for the year. But, he said, the president's
program for Vollumy was huge. It created a campus that was visible to Kahn was interviewed on the CBS television program "Face the Nation."
Oil crisis here, economist says
NEW YORK—Economist Walter J. Levy said yesterday that the loss of Japanese oil had brought an inevitable energy crisis to the United States five years ago.
"I believe we have an energy crunch right now, caused by Iran," Levy said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
as our oil is concerned, we are living dangerously," he said. "As the Iranian example showed, the shutdown in Iran changed a period of reasonable tolerance."
Levy, an international oil consultant, also said that if the price of oil rose to $18 or $20 a barrel at the end of the year, the consequences on the world economy would be severe.
The United States, he said, should be developing other sources of energy, particularly nuclear.
Nuclear energy "is perhaps the only certain source we know of which could supply us with a substantial large new source of energy," he said.
Giscard facing sharp attacks
While Giscard d'Estalinguet visited Mexico last week, his leftist opponents joined forces with conservative Gaullists in his own center-right coalition to demand a special National Assembly session. The session would deal with growing violence in France's six-month-old steel crisis.
PARIS—French President Valery Giscard d'Estang is coming under increasingly sharp attack as France plunges deeper into labor unrest, unemployment.
Organized labor is fighting the government's plan to modernize the aling French steel industry because it would mean the layoff of an estimated 35,000 workers.
Bills would back up Taiwan
WASHINGTON—Opponents of President China's policy are mounting efforts to win Senate and House approval this week of stronger U.S. defense and security.
According to a poll published Saturday in the weekly magazine of the newspaper Le Figaro, only 51 percent of the French have confidence in the president, representing a drop of six points in a month and 11 points since Jan. 1.
The Senate will start work tomorrow on bills that would declare any forceful China takeover of Taiwan a threat to peace in the Pacific and "of grave danger."
Opponents of Carter's policy in both chambers have amendments raising the threat of U.S. military assistance for Taiwan if Peking tries to take it over.
Weather ..
It will be clear today with a high in the mid to upper 40s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be light and westerly. The low tonight will be warm.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The head of the OPEC oil cartel said yesterday that future oil sales to consumer nations should depend on whether the
Cartel wants treaty to favor PLO
nations help bring about a Midwest settlement favorable to the Palestinians.
Mana Saeed al-Otaiba, president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Wires adopt new spellings of Chinese places, names
NEW YORK (AP) - The Associated Press and United Press International have begun to use the new, official Peking-government spelling of most Chinese names and places along with the old form familiar to Americans.
The change follows a decision by the Chinese to adopt Pinyin, a new method of transliterating Chinese written characters that closely resembles approximate Chinese pronunciation.
Traditional spellings will be retained in an effort to make the new spellings un-obsolete.
As a result, readers of the Kansas' wire service dispatches now will see the name of China's vice premier, who visited the United States last month, in Pinyin followed by the American spelling: Deng Xioping (Teng Hsiao-pung).
few well-known place names because they are deeply rooted in American usage—China, Peking, Canton, Shanghai, Tibet, Inner Mongolia.
Place names also will have dual spellings: Zhejiang Province (Chekiang Province).
The spellings of well-known dead person—Miao Tse-tung, Sun Yat-sen and Chou Kuo.
and the Pinyin spellings will not be used
for the non-mainland places like Hong Kong and
Taiwan.
The familiar forms will be retained for a
The Chinese hope their Pinyin system will replace more than a dozen systems now being used to render Chinese ideograns into Roman alphabet characters.
The spellings used in the United States were developed in the 1800s by two British scholars, Sir Thomas Wade and Herbert A. Romansh alphabet uses other systems. Roman-alphabet names use other systems.
The Chinese introduced Pinyin, which means "transcription," on the mainland more than 20 years ago as a teaching and learning tool. This was part of its principal spoken language, Mandarin.
Countries, brandished the Arab "oil weapon" in another way. He threatened a "black listing" of foreign oil companies that have raised prices sharply because of market disruptions caused by the Iranian oil shutdown.
MEANWHILE, the OPEC countries' own price boosts continued. Library announced it was raising its prices an additional 3 per cent and adding 5 percent like imposed just two weeks ago.
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Such a solution would include the "liberation of the Palestinian people and the freedom of Jerusalem," he said. Otaiba is oil minister of the Syrian Gulf nation.
'Most of the major petroleum companies have abused the current market situation by making claims to a vast majority.'
"Countries that expect us to maintain our supplies of petroleum should help us to arrive at a rightful solution for the Palestine crisis. We have received a session of an Arab Energy Conference here."
THE ARABS want an independent Palestinian state in territories now occupied
HE SAID some oil companies had tried to boost prices by 80 percent for refined products sold to the United Arab Emirates, the U.A.E. refused to pay the higher cost.
Some OPEC members have begun adding their own surcharge to the base price. They said it was unfair for the companies to cash out the surcharge from their countries stuck by their previous prices.
Otaiba said the sharp reduction in Iran's oil output, caused by anti-government strikes, and severe winter weather in North Korea, has made oil supplies had combined to stretch oil supplies thin.
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by Israel and want an end to Israeli control of Jerusalem.
Oil-producing nations say some producers are selling oil on the short-term, or "spot" market for about $20 to 42-gallon barrel. The basic OPEC price is $13.35.
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