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Wednesday, February 9, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From our wire services
Topeka awaits Mondale
TOPEKA--Vice President Walter Mondale has been invited to address Kansas Democrats' annual Washington Day dinner here Feb. 26, but word isn't expected until this week about whether he can appear.
Jan Meyers of Overland Park, acting state Democratic chairman, said she had conferred last week and again yesterday with members of Mondale's staff. The Kansas appearance is on Mondale's schedule, she confirmed, but the vice president still must receive approval of the White House.
Idaho Senate rescinds ERA
BOISE—After five years of futile attempts, Idaho opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment scored a victory yesterday with narrow approval by the state senate of a resolution rescinding the ERA ratification adpied in 1972.
Outcome of the resolution, which last week was approved by the House by a 44-20 vote, became apparent when the Senate voted 18-17 against a ruling by the chair that passage would require a two-thirds majority.
Applaise broke out after the final vote, 18,17, was announced, but Democrat Sen. Norma Dolpher rose and said: "This day will live in infamy."
Voting breaches suspected
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. —Edward Sadowski charged yesterday that supporters of Lloyd McBride, his opponent for the presidency of the United Steelworkers Union, engaged in "ballot stuffing" in the USW national election.
Saldowski said observers discovered ballot stuffing and other violations at the Buchanan Contracting Co. union Local 15380 in Birmingham, Ala.
He said observer Brent Montrell arrived at the polling站 15 minutes before the opening of voting at 6:30 a.m. to find the ballot box already one-third full.
Youna. Neto likely to confer
LAGOS, Nigeria-U.-N. Ambassador Andrew Young joined Marxist Angolan President Agostino Neto and Natao African leaders yesterday on a trip to Lagos for the annual festival.
Diplomatic sources said Young, on a special fact-finding trip to black Africa on behalf of President Carter, might take the opportunity of the trip to center with the United States on bilateral issues.
Neto, who Cuban-born 1935 warlord,
Neto's government still relies on Cuban army support and has been at odds with
the United States since the victory of his Marxist Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola.
Bomb planted in gas truck
BELLAST. Northern Ireland-Police evacuated part of Belfast's city center yesterday when experts defused a bomb in a tank truck carrying 20 tons of gunpowder.
The truck was hijacked by armed men who put the bomb on board and ordered the driver to take the truck to the front of the Donegal Pass police station.
Bomb disposal experts said the bomb had been suspended by a fishing line into one of the tanker's chambers.
CINNAGITT (UPI)—Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt was found guilty yesterday of pandering obscurity and engaging in organized crime and was immediately sentenced to 7-8 years in prison and fined $11,000.
Publisher of Hustler fined, jailed
A request by Flynn's attorney that the sentence be suspended pending appeal was denied and the 34-year-old publisher of the *The Times* was immediately handcuffed and taken to jail.
The seven man, five woman Hamilton County Common Pleas Court jury also found the Hustler magazine corporation guilty of the same charges, but found three magazine staffers, including Flynt's wife and brother, not guilty.
THE "ENGAGING in organized crime" charge stemmed from distribution of Hustler, alleged to be obscene and therefore illegal, in Hamilton County.
rytnt tainted Judge William Morrissey
just before the sentence was handed down.
"You haven't made an intelligent decision during the course of the trial and I don't expect one now," declared Flynt. "I want you to stop." So what, going thing Gary Glmire said, "Let's do it."
Flynt referred to the last words uttered by Glimore in Utah, before he was executed in Utah. before
THE HUSTLER magazine corporation
announced a total of $11,000 on the two
conventions.
scenity conviction and tacked on a $1,000 fine.
As Flynt was taken to jail, his wife, Althea, a statement from her husband.
"I'd like to leave the whole world with one question," Flynt said in the statement. "Murder is a crime, Writing about it isn't, not a crime, but writing about it is. Why?"
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Hamilton County Prosecutor Simon Leis said he was "very elated" with the jury's decision and predicted it would have national implications.
"I think it's going to set the trend in this country as how far horn pornographers can go with their magazines," said Les, who prosecuted the Flynt case. "Hamilton is a pretty cool character and we stand up and be counted and let's put limitations on what they can publish."
FLYNT FACES pandering obcacity charges in Cleveland Municipal Court Feb. 11.
American Civil Liberties Union officials complained Flynt's conviction "shocks the conscience of all who believe in the freedom of the press."
"That any political official of narrow mind takes offense and can prosecute someone for selling materials viewed by adults only is offensive in itself, but to reach the point where it becomes effectively prevent the materials from being published in all their communities is
HEW lifts flu vaccine moratorium
The department recommended that elderly people and people with chronic illnesses get a shot to protect them from both the swine flu and the A-Victoria strain.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department Health, Education and Welfare lifted its restrictions on abortion in the United States.
The moratorium remains in effect, however, for the swine flu-only vaccine.
The action allows health officials to again
an outrage upon the First Amendment." ACLU National Director Aryeh Neler and Ohio ACLU Executive Director Benson Wolman said in a joint statement.
"BUT I CAN'T go in with armed forces and try to change the internal mechanism of the Soviet government," Carter said and cautioned that the improvement of human rights in repressive regimes would be a "long, tedious" process.
The President repeated his support for the long-range objective of complete nuclear disarmament and expressed willingness to compromise now with the Soviets in order to achieve a second-stage Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
WASHINGTON (UPI) - President Carter, calling U.S. nuclear power superior to the Soviet's, invited Moscow yesterday to conclude "a quick agreement" on strategic arms limitation by setting aside differences over particular weapons.
"I would be willing to go ahead with the Soviet Union and conclude a quick agreement, if they think it advisable, and omit the cruise missile and the Backfire bomber from the negotiations at this stage," he said.
—Defended his choice of Paul Warnke to chief U.S. disarmament negotiator and predicted the Senate would confirm Warnke "overwhelmingly" despite critics' claims be favors some unilateral defense policies that have been ordered by me and I have accepted them." Carter said.
As if to hammer that point home, he deplored on the spot the recent Soviet arrest of dissident Alexander Ginzburg and the explosion of an Associated Press reporter.
Carter appeals for arms limits
completion of a SALT II treaty limiting nuclear delivery systems has been blocked for more than two years because the United States has refused to include its cruise missiles and the Soviets their bomber within the treaty limits.
During a 30-minute news conference that ranged over many topics, Carter also
an us first news conference as President, Carter also said he would continue to speak out "strongly and forcefully" in defense of human rights, and said he considered that topic completely separate from other U.S.-Soviet negotiating issues.
"Said he reserved the right to veto the sale of concussion bombs to 'a foreign country' after further review. He said previous announcements the United States sold such bombs to Israel had not been cleared with him or the State Department.
the $3.2 billion, two-year program he submitted. But he made clear he considered that unlikely, because his proposal was "well balanced," between tax breaks and job programs, and because he had consulted closely with Congressional leaders on
SAID HE reserved the right to veto the economic stimulus package approved by the governor.
CARTER SAID THOE items could be put up again "in the Sail III talks, if necesaes.
—Said he believed the nation "has learned a great lesson from Watergate, and there is little danger of recurrence." He pledged continued "openness" in government and strict ethical standards for officials.
—Pledged again to have a long-term, comprehensive national energy policy ready for public scrutiny by April 20. "It's going to require substantial sacrifices on the part of the American people" in the area of conservation.
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"Putting Mr. Flynt in jail would accomplish absolutely nothing," he contended. "No man should go to jail for publishing a magazine."
THEY ADDED that the prosecution of Flynt "makes Cincinnati a laughing stock." Just before the jury returned its verdict for the shooting, which he and his magazine were named in a new 12-count indictment returned by the Hamilton County Grand Jury.
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That indictment stems from a pamphlet depicting war atrocities that Flytn mailed to Hamilton County residents last December. The indictment accuses Flytn of "disseminating matter harmful to juveniles."
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Although *Flynt* said he wanted "no mercy" from the judge, his attorney pleaded with Morrissey not to send his client to jail.
ryant's attorney, who is appealing the convictions, also said he considered the "engaging in organized crime" conviction illegal.
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"For there to be a conviction of engaging in organized crime there has to be five or more persons involved," the judge, pointing out that the jury convicted only two defendants on the charge. "There's a question as to whether this conviction can stand."
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Before being sentenced, Flynt told the judge that Huster has just passed Reader's Digest to become the nation's 10th best-selling magazine. He said 3 million copies of the magazine are sold each month and he estimated monthly readership at 15 million.
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WASHINGTON (UP1)—Paul C. Warnke, President Carter's controversial choice as chief U.S. arms negotiator, acknowledged yesterday his top-secret copy of the Pentagon Papers found its way into the hands of Elsberg, who leaked it to the press in 1971.
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But Warnike told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he had never anticipated Ellsberg would try to get the document.
Warken went before the committee with a ringing endorsement from Carter who told a news conference he saw no conflict between his own views of arms reduction and those of Russia.
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