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Wednesday, March 2, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From our wire services
Race a factor in new lines
WASHINGTON—State legislatures redrawing political boundaries may consider voters' races in order to give black or other nonwhite voters a greater voice in government, the Supreme Court said yesterday.
in government, the supreme Court said they lacked the With only Chief Justice Warren Brown disagreeing with its action, the court upheld a lower court decision that the New York State Legislature did not violate the Constitution when reapportionment state legislative districts in 1974.
State officials acknowledged that they had considered the voters' race in the redistricting plan which was designed to give nonwhite voters at least a 65 per cent majority in some districts.
majority in some districts are the redistricting a plan a form of "affirmative action" corresponding "while opponents called it a type of 'reverse discrimination.'"
Two arrested in drug raid
WICHTA—Two persons were arrested and about 500 pounds of high-grade Colombian marjuana and three pounds of high-grade cocaine were seized at a detention center in Bogota. The latter was detained on Wednesday.
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of the Police Richard Lamunyon said the raid resulted from a six-month investigation which included the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the state attorney general's office, federal agents, sherriff's officers from Butler and Sedgwick counties and Wichita police.
Center deaths a mystery
ATLANTA—The national Center for Disease Control, asked frequently to investigate mysterious ailments throughout the world, began yesterday to try to solve the mystery of a disease that killed two of its own employees.
solve the mystery of a disease that killed three women. Both men worked in the laboratory building where virus diseases are studied. They were stricken last Wednesday with identical symptoms by what appeared to be a viral infection, the CDC said.
George Flowers, 49, who delivered scientific supplies throughout the building, died in an Atlanta hospital Sunday. Robert Dubingon, 43, a retired military man who worked in the maintenance department, died at Ft. McPherson Army Hospital in Atlanta early yesterday.
Carter and Mondale meet Soviet dissident Bukovsky
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Carter, who has made international human rights a central theme of his administration, met yesterday with a Russian exile who spent 12 years in Soviet prisons because of his civil rights activities.
The Soviet dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky,
also met with Vice President Mondale.
Carter's White House session with Bukovsky, 34, was in contrast with former President Gerald R. Fork's failure last year to welcome Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Russian author, to the executive mansion.
Ford turned down the meeting after then-
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned
him not to talk about his policies.
The Bukovak meeting was the latest in a series of meetings using on-ban rights around the world.
In the fewer than six weeks Carter has been in office, the administration has cautioned the Soviet Union against intimidating dissident Andrei Sakharov and expressed 'profound concern' over Soviet control of civil rights activist Aleksandr Ginzburg.
Carter himself wrote to Sakharov promising that the United States would "use our good offices to seek the release of prisoners of conscience."
The letter and the pronouncements prompted complaints from the Kremlin that Washington was interfering in Soviet internal affairs.
Bukovsky, a veteran of Russia's labor camps, prisons and insane asylums, once had his judge. "No matter what you do to me, I'm a free man inside."
NY close to default
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fear plays a major role in the lives of millions of American children, but in spite of that a great majority of grammar school-aged children are happy about their families, a new survey reported yesterday.
Survey indicates children happy
The survey of a national sample of 2,558 children aged 7 to 11, along with 1,700 parents, produced such findings as these: One-quarter of the children were afraid to
Two-thirds of the children fear someone will break into their homes to harm them.
"There is also a strong suggestion that children who are reported to be heavy TV viewers—four hours or more per week—and those with the lowest levels of these fears," the survey found.
—The vast majority of the grammar school-aged children are happy about their families and believe their parents are proud of them. Nearly two-thirds think their parents treat them "more like a grown-up" than "like a baby."
- However, nearly half wish their fathers would spend more time with them and more than a third wish their mothers would spend more time with them.
—more than one-quarter of American children—more than one-half of those black children—are not living with their biological fathers. Less than one-third of children whose parents are separated or involved see their fathers on a regular basis.
The survey was designed and sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development, a private foundation involved in research and policy affecting children. It was conducted by Temple University's Institute for Survey of Last September Through December.
"For the first time in a major national survey, children have been given a chance to speak for themselves about their uprinking," the foundation said of the survey, designed to represent the 17.7 million U.S. children of grammar-school age.
Most of the children interviewed said they felt good about themselves and their lives. Eight out of 10 picked a happy fact to 'show you how you feel about yourself' and to 'show what things are going in your life.' Ninety per cent said "I like being the way I am."
According to a spokesman for the city comptroller, the first default would be on sayments to city vendors, then to welfare recipients, then on salaries to policemen, firemen and sanitation men, and finally to holders of city bonds.
collapse since it almost went bankrupt 18 months ago, last week applied for a $255 million federal loan to see it through March. Its first default deadline is Monday, and it could face a shortage of almost $200 million by the middle of the month.
NEW YORK (AP)—President Jimmy Carter said yesterday that he favored long-range federal loans to New York City for five or six years, but he balked at promising an immediate loan to save the city from imminent bankruptcy.
The city, faced with the biggest threat of
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