University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 29, 1980
Nation/World
House OKs new agency
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House overwhelmingly approved legislation yesterday 371-55 that would create a Department of the Environment and require the federal government to comply with toxic waste management laws.
A similar bill has been approved by the Senate Government Affairs Committee but has yet to be taken up by the full Senate, which has been preoccupied by clean air legislation.
In addition to creating a 15th cabinet-level agency, the House bill requires the following:
Lift an exemption to toxic waste disposal laws that has allowed some agencies, including the Defense Department, to pollute areas near federal buildings.
- require the new department to limit its use of private consultants.
- Call for the creation of an independent Bureau of Environmental Statistics within the new department with the director named to a four-year term and not subject to dismissal except for malfaessance.
Beef up enforcement activities against polluters by hiring additional investigators and creating a new training academy for investigators. The number of criminal and civil investigators would be increased by 30 percent a year in five years.
U.S. missionary killed
The Associated Press
RASHAYA FOUKHAR, Lebanon — Extremist groups claimed responsibility yesterday for the slaying of a U.S. missionary at his home in Rashava Foukhar.
The groups accused the victim, William Robinson, of trying to establish an Israeli settlement in south Lebanon, a predominantly Shiite Moslem area. The Israel government and Robinson's relatives in his home state of Massachusetts denied the accusation.
Robinson, 59, since 1983 had run an orphanage for handicapped children called the Christian Children's Home.
Lebanese security sources reported that the Israeli raided
houses and arrested an undisclosed number of people.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the three attackers were armed with 9mm pistols equipped with silencers. First they killed six German shepherds guarding the Robinsons' home.
They took $4,000 and jewelry, the sources said. They then tossed a sleeping gas canister into the bedroom, knocking everyone out. An hour later, Robinson's 7-year-old son woke to find himself in the bathtub. He had been shot in the neck and chest, the sources reported.
The Lebanese Communist Party claimed responsibility in a statement issued yesterday.
Zimbabwe begins 7-party election
The Associated Press
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe elections yesterday will decide Mugabe's government, the sure winner, will transform one of Africa's few Western-style democracies into a one-party state.
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabweans began voting in
HARARE, yesterday, that will decide whether Robert
Half of Zimbabwe's 9 million people are registered to vote in the two-day presidential and parliamentary polls, the second since Mugabe led Zimbabwe. The ruling party was formerly the whiter-trued British colony of Rhodesia.
Seven parties are running in the election, but only Edgar Tekere's year-old Zimbabwe Unity Movement is viewed as a serious challenger to Mugabe's governing Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front).
Mugabe
Mugabe's party is expected to capture not if not all, of the 108 seats at stake in the 150-seat Parliament. His dream is to amend the constitution to establish a one-party state after winning every seat up for election.
Tekere insists he can win several seats, providing the elections are not rigged, thus thwarting Mugabe's goal of a single-party state.
Of the 150 seats in Parliament, 12 already have been granted to the governing party because there were no challengers, and 30 are reserved for tribal chiefs, provincial governors and presidential nominees, all of whom are considered Mugabe supporters.
which are considered important by Tekere, S2, once a close friend of Mugabe and co-founder of the governing party in 1963, is the first candidate to challenge the president.
Nation/World briefs
he wants to block Mugabe's plan to impose one-party rule and pledges to weed out corruption, improve the lot of Zimbabweans and liberalize the socialist state.
U. S. ECONOMY SLUGGISH: The U.S. economy grew a modest 1.1 percent in the last quarter, better than previously thought, the government reported yesterday. Analysts predicted that the rebound will continue this year, but at its slowest pace since the last recession.
"The economy is still quite sluggish," said Lawrence Chimerine, senior economic adviser for the WEFA Group in Bala-Cywndy, Pa. "We're not in recession and probably won't go into recession, but economic growth will be very, very slow."
The *Commerce Department* first reported in January that fourth-quarter growth had edged up a barely perceptible 0.5 percent. They revised the rate upward in February to 0.9 percent before issuing its final 1.1 percent estimate yesterday.
FUNERAL FOR FIRE VICTIMS:
Hundreds of mourners, many weeping, others calling for revenge, offered their prayers at a funeral home yesterday for 17 victims of New York City's deadliest fire in 19 years.
Meanwhile, officials began preparations for a grim airlift of the dead to their Honduran homeland. The New York National Guard will fly 40 bodies, Gov. Mario Cuomo said.
Outside the Bronx funeral home, the street was crowded with people waiting to pay their respects to the victims, who were among 87 people killed early Sunday inside the Happy Land social club in the Bronx, just 10 blocks away.
CHILD CARE LEGISLATION:
House Democrats confidently predicted passage of their new child care legislation yesterday while Republicans tried to sharpen their objections and raised the threat of a White House veto.
Floor debate tentatively was scheduled for today about competing versions of bills aimed at helping poor families pay for child care through the use of tax credits, vouchers and grants to the states.
In both bills, the centerpiece is an earned-income tax credit for low-income families with at least one parent working. The Democrats' version is more expensive, carrying an estimated pricetag of at least $27 billion over its five-year phase-in. A conservative alternative backed by President Bush would cost less than $20 billion.
BUGS DELAY INSTALLATION:
NASA begin preparations yesterday to load the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope into the shuttle Discovery after working out a few bugs, namely grat-like midges.
Technicians snared about 40 of the insects before removing the traps and preparing for today's installation.
The agency had planned to install the telescope in the orbiter Tuesday.
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