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Thursday, February 22, 1979
University Daily Kansan
VERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From the Kansas's Wire Services
Schlesinaer aives oil warning
NEW YORK—The interruption of Franian oil production has led to a situation that Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger says is "prosperity more important."
Schlesinger said in an interview that the country's loss of crude oil from Iran had been enough to tighten the oil supply, although the loss of Iranian oil only increased by about 10%.
The spot market is oil sales not covered by long-term contracts. It is important because it is used to adjust inventories, he said.
Schiesinger also said the loss of Iranian oil had nearly dried the spot market, and caused prices for available oil to soar.
schlumberger also says experts have warned the U.S. that if the shutdown in Iran lasts more than a few more months, it could cause serious shortages next
"Analysts say the government is apparently taking advantage of the situation to try one more time to convince Americans that they should conserve energy, evidently in the belief that a good scare might change wasteful habits once and for all," he said.
Pledge for peace opens talks
WASHINGTON - Egyptian and Israeli negotiators opened new Mideast peace
in yesterday with a joint pledge to complete a peace treaty as soon as
possible.
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance was in charge of the meetings at Camp David, MD, but there was no word on whether any new U.S. proposals were made.
A news blackout ordered by President Carter kept reporters and photographers away from Camp David, where the negotiations will be held in
The blackout, aimed at preventing leaks to the public, appeared firm. Carter's expressed hone is that secrecy will promote a settlement.
U. S. officials confirmed that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had requested a broad range of modern American weaponry while offering to play an exemplary role in the war.
Carter, who is determined to score a diplomatic triumph and to ease tensions in the area, has indicated that he may call another summit meeting with Sadat and Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin if progress is made at the Camp David talks.
Jobs program to be improved
WASHINGTON-Members of a Senate appropriations subcommittee yesterday sharply criticized the federal government's $11 billion CTEA jobs agreement.
Labor Department officials said the summer job program for disadvantaged youth needed to be improved from its past performance, but said improvement was still lacking.
The panel had reviewed a draft report from the General Accounting Office, which charged that at many job sites visited, supervision was lax, regular working hours were not kept and youngsters often were paid for playing games or doing nothing at all.
Ernest Green, assistant secretary of labor for employment and training, said he agreed the rogram could be better monitored and overseen.
Green and Robert Taggart, administrator of youth programs, said overall supervision of the summer program, run through state and local governments.
But steps recently had been taken to require local governments to increase their own supervision, train supervisors and to plan each summer's activities.
The results of these steps should show up in future surveys of the program, Green said.
The GAO made its survey in 1978.
Missouri loses NOW battle
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A federal judge has upheld the right of the National Organization for Women to use, inadvertently boycott a tool against states that mandated gender-based discrimination.
The ruling yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Elmo B. Hunter came 51 weeks after Missouri Attorney General John Asherford filed suit against NOW. He charged the organization's convention boycott tactics were a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
But Hunter's ruling favored NOW's right to boycott, saving the action was a legitimate political venture.
Missouri officials contend the boycott was "taking states as economic hostages with the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment as the ransom."
But Hunter disagreed, saying the convention boycott "can be characterized as noncommercial in that its participants are not business interests and its
Ashcroft's office declined to comment until the decision had been reviewed.
Senate reappraisal OK likely
TOPEKA- After more than two hours of debate, the Kansas Senate gave tentative approval yesterday to legislation requiring reappraisal of all real property taxes.
The bill authorizes gathering of information statewide on property values but forbids the new values to be implemented until the 1984 Legislature takes effect.
Final Senate action is expected today.
"No taxes can be changed as a result of this bill," said State Sen. John Simpson. R-Salina, who carried the bill on the Senate floor during the debate.
Recent studies of the Kansas tax structure indicate that, state-wide, real property is being assessed at an average of only 9 percent of its actual fair value.
Over a three-year period, the cost of the plan to the state is estimated at $1.1 million. The cost to local governments is estimated at $1.8 million during the
The bill includes a provision to prevent a windfall tax increase from reappraisal to limits set by the property tax lid and mill levy limitations.
The bill also would provide for assessment at 100 percent of appraised value with new tax rates, rather than the current 38 percent of appraised value.
'Living will' gets tentative OK
TOPEKA-Kanans would have the legal right to have life-sustaining treatment withdrawn in the case of terminal illness under a bill given tentative approval.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa, sponsor of the bill, said the measure would apply only to "procedures that would only serve to prolong the death penalty."
The Senate approved the "living will" bill, which would allow a person to make a declaration to have any treatment halted if or she were certified by the judge.
A final vote will come today and passage would send it to the House.
The only objection to the bill in the Senate debate came from State Sen. Elwaine Pomeroy, R-Topeka, who said that, although he agreed with the concept of the bills, doctors and patients already had the right to make such an agreement, and the state should not legislate the doctor-patient relationship.
Winter said that although persons can make such an agreement with their doctor, there was no legal guarantee the wish would be honored, or that immunity for the doctor, and the objection from a family member could void such an agreement.
Setting the record straight
The number of spaces contracted in KU residence halls was incorrectly reported on page six of yesterday's Kansan. Students have contracted for 2,430 spaces in rooms. The Kansan reported that students had contracted for 2,430 rooms.
Weather . . .
There is a 80 percent chance of rain today and tonight, according to the weather report. The rain will be from the southeast, 10 to 20 mph. The low temperature will be near zero.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Vietnamese and Chinese troops backed by heavy artillery were on the move yesterday toward the Vietnamese town of Lang Son and are preparing to deploy an armored border war, intelligence networks in Banqukok reported
Showdown expected in Vietnam
The source said Chinese strategies apparently intend to deal a final bloody blow to the Vietnamese military and then to withdraw most of their forces from Vietnam within three or four days.
The Bangkok sources, who asked not be identified, said they believed China would withdraw most of its troops from Vietnam within three or four days after a final all-out assault.
Japan's Kyodo news service quoted a government official in Peking as saying China hoped to end the conflict within a few days, but the undefined offense warned that it might have allowed Vietnam to its regular army troops into the fighting.
The troops apparently were relieving battered militia units that bore the defensive burden for the first three days.
THAT APPEARED to be just what Haiti was doing yesterday as columns of regular army reinforcements were sent up the road.
China has more than five times as many troops as Vietnam, but the smaller nation's military has newer weapons and is rated as one of the world's best fighting forces.
The Institute of Strategic Studies latest annual report, "The Military Balance," published in September, said that countries with a significant military balance
Other commentators have said that Vietnam is now one of the best and most heavily armed countries in the world, with up-to-date Soviet weapons and a vast quantity of armaments against the United States when it withdraws from the Vietnam war.
THE ARMY STRENGTHS of China and Vietnam were put at 325,000 and 600,000, respectively, by the Institute.
The Vietnamese claimed to have killed 5,000 to 8,000 Chinese soldiers, a figure intelligence sources in Bangkok consider inflated. These sources said Vietnamese losses had been much heavier than the Chinese.
They said many Chinese units had been pulling out of the sparsely populated, mountainous provinces of Ha Tuyn and Cao Bang, leaving behind smaller units to hold border lines inside Vietnam, possibly as bargaining chips after a cease-fire.
Yesterday, three Chinese infantry divisions backed by tanks were on the move through Qinhuang Ning again. They apparently were planning to swing inland to stance a defensive position along the highway supply routes linking Leng Son with Hanoi.
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