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Tuesday, December 7, 1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Air bags still not required
WASHINGTON—Transportation Secretary William Coleman J.r. announced yesterday that he would try to get automakers to install air bags on selected 1979
The secretary said he was convinced air bags could save lives and prevent numerous injuries but said the majority of the public opposed the devices.
Coleman's decision was termed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader as a massive act of irresponsibility" that would "doom thousands of Americans to poverty."
Carter loses mauor's race
PLAINS, Ga.—Billy Carter, attempting a political comeback in his home town, was beaten yesterday in his bid for a two-year term as mayor.
Carter, the younger brother of the President-elect, was beaten by A. L. Blanton by a 90-71 margin.
Carter wasn't especially gracious after the loss.
"Isee Plains going straight to hell," he said before television cameras.
"Do you think your brother did all he could to help?" the younger Carter was asked. He replied with one word: "No."
Swine flu possible in Wis.
MADISON, Wis.—State health officials say they expect test results to show today whether the County hog farmer was the first person known to contract swine fever.
William Schatz, head of the state Health Division's vaccination program, said yesterday that examinations of Don Harris had inconclusive.
Green County officials said last week that blood tests were negative. But Schatz said a breast culture gave positive indication that Harriet had swollen fla
Said one more time, give me a look. Officials said it hasn't been confirmed that humans can get swine flu from swine.
Bomb left in Carter offices
WASHINGTON-Transition staffers for President-elect Jimmy Carter found a bomb in their offices yesterday.
"It appeared to be a capable explosive device," said Sgt. Charles Collins, police department snakeman.
The bomb was contained in a package found in the malfunction of the fifth floor in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare being used by the Carter.
The Carter transition offices were evacuated while the package was removed from the building.
The package was taken to a portion of the Mall where it was opened and defused.
Coalition strengthens weak Japanese rule
TOKYO (AP)—The Liberal-Democratic party (LDP), battered at the polls in the wake of the Lockheed and other scandals, hung onto the government yesterday by persuading eight independents to join its ranks.
But the party still faced a stormy leadership fight and the need to placate a maverick reform group that won strong support from the voters.
The LDP lost its parliamentary majority in the first time in 21 years in Sunday's election.
The LDP dropped a 51-seat majority in the lower house, winning only 49 out of 113 seats.
However, the conservative-dominated LDP's loss was little comfort to the opposition Communists, who lost 22 seats themselves—the only opposition party that failed to capitalize on the Liberal-Democrats' problems.
LDP's emulating of independents after an election is common because nonaligned electors are particularly likely to power. But it was a Partition this time, and only hours before the party announced it
O'Neill,Wright elected speaker majority leader
WASHINGTON (AP)—Thomas "Tip" O'Neill of Massachusetts was selected yesterday as speaker of the House, and postmaster of Texas won the post of major leader
Wright scored a one-victory victory over Phil Burton of California. 148-147.
Earlier, reformer Richard Bolling of Missouri had been eliminated on the second ballot and John McFall of California was defeated in the first round.
Burton pledged to be as helpful as he could to the leadership and to President
The selection of Wright was a testimony to the strength of O'Neill, who had let it be known he would prefer anybody but Burton as majority leader.
O'Neill was named speaker unanimously early in the day to succeed president.
"I intend to assure that the Congress remains a co-equal part of government," O'Neill said, "with full equality with the White House and the executive branch."
O'Nell's formal election by the full House in January is considered automatic.
had signed up eight independents, giving it 257 seats compared with the opposition's
The setback at the polls could end Prime Minister Takeo Miki's stormy reign. Miki was easily re-elected to Parliament, but he is now being held captive by prime minister and party president after the election. The party will select a new leader—a contest eagerly awaited by former deputy prime minister Takeo Fukuda, who had appeared and seen as the man likely to replace him.
After that fight, the LDP must deal with the New Liberal Club. The club was formed when five LDP members bolted from the party after the president unprecedented jails in Japanese politics.
The mavericks' gorked work and they picked up 17 seats Sunday, enough to give the team a run.
To fill the chairmanship and keep control of the 16 standing committees in the lower house, the LDP needs 271 seats—a figure it will not just sign it up the remaining 13 independents.
Yobel Koon, head of the new party, said he might consider forming a coalition with the LDP. But first, he said, it will have to admit defeat in the election.
Despite the reaction against the Lockheed payoffs scandal and the allegedly shady financial dealings that forced him out of office in 1972, former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was a runaway winner in his home district as an independent.
Fighting in Lebanon ends uneasy peace
In Beirut, leaders of Lebanon's right-wing Christians and Moslem leftists met for the first time in six months to discuss ways of restoring a stable peace.
BEIRUT (AP)—Renewed fighting between BEIRUT (AP)—Renewed fighting between Christians and Moslems erupted in southern Lebanon yesterday after a militant attack on a battlefield in the northern city of Tirana.
A security spokesman said 20 Palestinians were killed and many were wounded in the Tripoli battle. It was the largest outbreak of fighting in Lebanon since Arab peacekeeping forces virtually that country's civil war lasted.
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PLAINS, Ga. (AP) —President-elect Jimmy Carter said yesterday that he was keeping an open mind on the possibility of a tax cut next year.
Lance modified his position yesterday, saying a possible tax cut is only "a leading option." He had said Sunday that the choices to stimulate the economy were so limited that a tax cut was "almost a certainty."
Carter, preparing for a series of face-to-face meetings with prospective cabinet members, said a tax cut was "one of the biggest, if the economy needs stimulation.
"I wouldn't say it is virtually certain." Carter said, referring to a comment Sunday by Thomas "Bert" Lance, the Atlanta banker he has chosen to head the Office of Management and Budget, "I wouldn't put it that strongly."
The "options have become fewer and
easier," Lance told reporters and
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In the Davis case, attorneys contended that the excluded juror was never asked whether she could set aside her general opinion in the death penalty in that particular trial.
The court last week had postponed the firing squad execution of murderer Gary Glmore of Utah, who had convinced his assistants to let him die at sunrise yesterday.
In 1968 the Supreme Court had ruled in an Illinois capital punishment case that exclusion of such jurors deprived defendants from jury duty, judged by a cross-section of the community.
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that exclusion of even one juror opposed to capital punishment in indicted any death penalty imposed in a trial.
In a 6-3 decision, the court tossed out the death sentence of condemned murderer Curfew Davis of Georgia because one prospective juror at Davi's trial was excused after stating general scruples against capital punishment.
Court upholds juror bias, overturns Ga. death ruling
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Only Justice William Rehnquist voted in favor of letting White become the first criminal to be executed in the United States since 1967.
Carter said, "I'm deliberately keeping my mind open. I have advisers who are leaning in all different directions, but I'll wait and see."
Lance, however, told the Los Angeles Lance, however, told the Los Angeles Times that Carter's economic plan likely would include a tax reduction of up to $15 per household. The company will credit credits to spur industrial expansion
Carter said he hadn't gone into the details of how large a tax cut might be if he decided to request one, or whether it would be permanent.
He said the tax cut would probably take the form of a rebate on 1976 taxes to stimulate the economy. Such a rebate was proposed Sunday by economist Andrew Brimmer, a Carter adviser and former member of the Federal Reserve Board.
But the court never spelled out how many jurors would have to be so excluded before the jury could be labeled as biased in favor of capital punishment.
The justices also postponed, pending appeal, the execution in a Texas electric chair of condemned murderer Robert Purcell White. White had wanted no delay in the execution, which had been scheduled for Friday.
impetus of a stimulus very quickly. There is no question that the nation is in a state of alarm.
Carter emphasized that he had other options, including some plan to create jobs.
Most important, they said, is that it "revitalized the court's 1968 decision" jurors opposed to the death penalty in New York and then sitting in on capital punishment cases.
In an unsigned majority opinion, the court said yesterday that it took only one improperly excluded prospective juror to taint the sentence.
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While attorneys active in the battle against the death penalty declined to estimate how many condemned prisoners might be directly affected by Monday's ruling, they said the decision could have broad consequences.
The majority ruling set aside a decision by the Georgia Supreme Court that said "the apparent erroneous exclusion of one juror . . . does not demand the conclusion that the jury was biased in favor of capital punishment."
majority had extended the principles of the 1968 decision too far.
Davis was convicted of murdering Ann Starnes, who was found shot to death in 1974 after disappearing from her La Grange, Ga. home.
The court's decision had an immediate effect on the appeal of another Georgia death row prisoner, George Street, convicted of the 1974 murder of a Pierce driver. Street's death penalty, appealed on the same grounds, also was set aside.
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