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News Digest From the Associated Press
Carter handed B1 problem
WASHINGTON (AP) — The outgoing Pentagon leadership handed President Obama the postponed yesterday by awarding contracts to start production of the cozy B1 bomb.
After becoming president Jan. 20, Carter will have to decide whether to let that decision stand or to revert it. During the campaign, he said he wouldn't build the
Defense Secretary Donald Rumaila announced the go-ahead decision after consulting President Gerald Ford. The move came as no surprise because Ford was not a major threat.
Rumsfeld and Air Force Secretary Thomas Ree have said it was imperative that the B1 be produced to help offset growing Soviet strength in strategic nuclear power.
The B1. About two-thirds the size of the BS2, is a four-jet aircraft that is designed to fly between continents at supersonic speeds and high altitudes. The bomber can carry up to 600 troops in a single plane.
Mother pleads son's case
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—Attorneys representing the mother of convicted R. White and an Alabama court states Thursday to postpone Gilmore's execution.
Bessie Glimore of Milwaukee, Ore., has said she opposed capital punishment and didn't want her son to die. But Glimore, who says death is better than a lifetime behind bars, suggested earlier this week that people trying to save him should "butt out."
Gilmore has persuaded Utah officials to let him die and is scheduled to go before a firing squad at sunrise Monday, which would make him the first person executed in Texas.
White, who represents the Supreme Court in urgent matters for the 10th U.S. Circuit that includes Utah, planned to refer the matter to the full Court for consideration. A decision didn't seem likely before the court's weekly conference Friday.
Meanwhile, Gilmore has concluded deals for film, book and magazine rights to his story worth about $200,000 sources in New York and Hollywood said Thursday. The director has been writing a new novel.
Kelley intends to keep job
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director Clarence Kelley asserted yesterday that he wanted to keep his job even though President-elect Jimmy Carter had fired him.
"I am not going to resign," Kelley said. He noted that he had made that statement "many times" and said he was sticking with it.
Later, Kelley issued a written statement repeating that he had no intention to resign.
Carter said in a weekend interview with CBS news that "as a general principle," he believed the directors of the FBI and CIA should change with the administration. CIA Director George Bush, a Republican appointee, has announced he will resign.
Carter didn't say whether he intended to replace Kelley. He indicated he was not certain he would have legal authority to do so.
Carter works on pardon
WASHINGTON (AP)—President-elect Jimmy Carter has asked one of his most trusted advisers, Adanna attorney Charles Kirbro, to help prepare the pardon for a former president.
Kirbo said yesterday he had been working on the pardon for several weeks with the help of lawyers in his office, and they were really just beginning to develop the law.
Carter has said he would issue the pardon during his first week in office.
Despite the complexity of the matter, including the need to identify the several categories of people affected, Kirso said it would be possible for Carter to act with a good understanding of the situation.
Another lawyer working on the pardon is David Berg. A 34-year-old Houston attorney who is on Carter's transition staff and who has defended a number ofdurably wronged women,
Kansans walk NY streets
HUTCHINSON (AP) - Young, middle-class girls from this city are being recruited to work as prostitutes in New York City, a New York policeman said.
The FBI has been investigating the matter for several months, said Ben Burgess, assistant attorney in Wichita. But he said, "there has been no evidence."
A New York City policeman said he knew of at least 15 Hutchinson teen-agers who were recruited to work in New York as prostitutes in the last 18 months. He said they were not "on their way" to a job.
Officer Warren McGinnis of the New York police department's runaway squad said the Hutchison girl "all appear to be middle class, basically educated kids.
The girls, who earn from $150 to $250 a day, appear to have "some kind of moral breakout on their part," McGinniss said.
The officer said that five girls had been sent back to Hutchinson, but that there was no way to tell if they returned.
DARE YOU BE JEWISH ON CAMPUS?
Find out - at the annual ATID Collegian's Shabbat Dinner and Welcome Home Service
PLACE: Beth Salah Synagogue, 9400 Wornall, K.C. Mo.
DATE: Friday evening, Dec. 24, 1976, 6:30 p.m.
Jabbi Joel Gordon, our provocative guest speaker, will offer some radical observations on this all important issue.
FOR RESERVATIONS: Rabbi Menahem Herman, 620 W. 95th St., K.C., Mo. 64114 (816)363-3331
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Council of Wage and Price Stability said Thursday it was concerned that steel companies were underpaid. The Council says prices and price controls by raising prices were
Carter picks Vance as secretary of state
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) —President-elect Jimmy Carter has selected Cynance Vance to replace Henry Kissinger as secretary of靠近 Cairo to close Carrie said early today.
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Vance is a former deputy undersecretary of defense in the Johnson administration and was a ranking foreign policy adviser to Carter during the campaign.
But the council said the purported strategy might backfire by forcing other companies to raise prices thus creating "an environment that would invite the very kind of government behavior that business seeks to avoid."
Carter was scheduled to announce the Vance nomination at a news conference here this afternoon. He also was to announce his investment banker Bert Laude as his budget director.
Vance was the president-elect's house
Steel increase worries council
Rep. William Moorehead, D-Pa., who said his House subcommittee would investigate the increases, voiced a similar conclusion. Rep. Scott Walker had repeatedly denied such motivation.
Meanwhile, the press spokesman for President-elect Jimmy Carter, who had advocated standby authority to impose economic controls in an emergency, said Carter had exhausted the avenues open to him and instead have the companies to rescind the increases.
Carter rejected an offer for a meeting with the steel industry yesterday, and concluded there was nothing further he could do now
"Although Gov. Carter appreciated the offer, he feels any such meeting would be more appropriate and perhaps more appropriate than a public announcement." Carter press secretary John Powell said.
Carter had expressed concern about the inflationary pressures that could be triggered by steel price increases. Vice President for Mondeale had criticized them publicly,
Unions talk merger
DETROIT (AP) — United Auto Workers (UAW) president Leonard Woodcock and AFL-CIO president George Meany will meet Friday to discuss a possible reaffiliation between the two powerful unions, a UAW source said yesterday.
but a UAW spokesman would only confirm that Woodcook and UAW secretary-treasurer Emil Mazey would confer in London. He also and his secretary-treasurer, Lane Kirkland.
Woodcock, 65, retires next May as head of his 1.4 million-member union. He favors reaffiliation with the 14.2 million-member AFL-CIO, a position supported by a majority of the UAW's 26-member executive board.
guest Tuesday night, a visit that stirred speculation that Vance would be named either secretary of state or secretary of defense.
Vance's nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.
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If you've LOST it We've FOUND it!
LOST & FOUND AUCTION
Sponsored by the Student Services Committee of the Student Senate
Many items lost and found at the University of Kansas on or before June 1st,1976 are to be auctioned off.
Dec. 3rd From 2:30-6:00 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium
Come & Get it because we've got to move it!
THIS IS A PARTIAL LISTING OF ITEMS
12 - 10 speed bicycles
10 - 3 speed bicycles (boys & girls)
10 - Reg. bicycles (boys & girls)
1 - ladies coat
1 - mens jacket
3 - caps
10 - pairs of gloves
4 - pairs of mittens
1 - purse
1 - drawstring bag
1 pair of jogging shorts
1 scarf
1 plastic raincoat
1 windbreaker jacket
Misc. Items include:
Many paperback books
Many textbooks
Many notebooks
Many key rings
Many glasses (reg. & sun)
1 - drawstring bag
AND MANY ITEMS TOO VARIED TO LIST!
All items lost & found, on or before June 1, 1976, will be auctioned off if not claimed at the Traffic and Security Office before 12 noon on Friday, Dec. 3rd.
Paid for by Student Activities Fee
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