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Soviets
lead in
arms race
LONDON (UPI) The Soviet Union
now has more weapons than the United
States and the Kremlin’s continuing
arms buildup threatens detente, the
Institute for Strategic Studies said
today.
The Institute’s “Strategic Syrvey,
1975” said both the Soviet Union and the
United States had suffered setbacks in
the past year and were losing influence
in the world. It said “recent events have
increased the possibility of new conflicts
and wars in the world,” especially in
southern Africa.
The report said the Soviets enjoy a
numerical advantage in most military
fields, but the technological advantage of
the United States and its European allies
would deter a Soviet attack for the time
being.
“But the institute sounds a note of
caution,” a spokesman' said. “The
numerical balance has moved against
Italian quake kills, injures many
ROME (UPI) Central Europe’s
strongest earthquake in 13 years rum
beld through five countries yesterday,
leaving scores dead and injured near its
center in northeast Italy. Shocks were
felt as far away as Brussels and Berlin.
The Italian Interior Ministry said 95
persons were confirmed dead and 208
were injured. Unofficial reports said
dozens of persons were still trapped in
rubble and authorities feared the
casualty toll would climb much higher.
National police in Rome said more
than 1,000 were injured.
At least six northeast Italy towns were
shattered by the quake, which measured
0.9 on an open-ended Richter scale. It
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and pleasantly cool tomorrow. High 61.
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sunny and milder conditions. High 65.
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the West over the years and the West’s
qualitative edge could be eroded if
present trends in Soviet weapons
procurement continue. “The momentum
of the Soviet arms buildup presents a
major risk for detente and a cause for
the growing skepticism, additionally
generated by the American presidential
campaign, over Soviet longer-term
intentions.”
Even so, the Institute-defended the
detente concept of Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger against what it
called “fashionable” election year
criticism.
The institute, founded in 1958 as a
center for information and research on
the problems of international security,
defense and arms control, said that as
the limits of detente became clearer, it
became easier to criticize and more
difficult to defend.
The Institute said that to judge the
effect of detente one had to ask “What
difference had detente made to the
Middle East, to the emergence of strong
Communist parties in southern Europe
or to arms control?”
"The answer lay largely in comparing
the actual state of affairs with what
might have been in the absence of
detente: more tension, more Soviet
interference, more uninhibited support
for Portuguese Communist party, no
concessions on arms control.”
had previously been reported at 6.5.
Sweden’s Uppsala Seismological
Institute called it the strongest quake in
Central Europe since the 1963 Skopje,
Yugoslavia disaster that took 1,100 lives.
The deaths and damage appeared
confined to Italy’s Friuli region bor
dering on Austria and Yugoslavia.
Police reports said between 15 and 40 per
cent of the homes in several towns were
destroyed.
Officials feared many dead would be
found in Forgaria, a town of 3,000
inhabitants reported almost leveled by
the shocks.
The quake also rocked Southern
Germany, parts of Czechoslovakia,
Yugoslavia and Austria.
Officials said more than 100,000
residents in the hardest-hit area of Italy
were without water supplies.
Severly hit by the quake were the
towns of Majano, Vitobono di Pinzano,
Vagogna and Buia which form a fan
shape at the head of a valley funneling 14
miles south to Udine, the Friuli region’s
capital.
Emergency radio reports reaching
Rome indicated more than 40 persons
died in Majano, more than 10 in Vitobono
and at least seven in Buia, a town of
Collegian
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Senate bill
By JEFF HAWKES
and MIKE MENTREK
Collegian Staff Writers
The U.S. Senate subcommittee on education is con
ducting hearings in Washington, D.C., today on an
amendment to the Higher Education Act which, if
passed, would help Students for PennPIRG in their
drive for a Pennsylvania Public Interest Research
Group at the University.
The amendment, Senate Bill 2657, sponsored by Allen
Cranston, D-R.1., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.,
would give student organizations at institutions
receiving federal funds nondiscriminatory access to
student activity fees.
Testifying today are consumer advocates Ralph
Nader and Donald Ross as well as two University
students. Jim Scarantino (6th-political science) is an
Undergraduate Student Government senator and an
active member of Students for PennPIRG. Jeannette
Morris (lOth-human development) is chairman of the
Associated Students Activities (ASA) budget commit
tee.
The Cranston Amendment states that an institution of
higher education receiving federal funds must provide
“substantially equal treatment” to all student
organizations seeking student activity funds.
Also, the bill permits student organizations to devise
a funding mechanism of their own to avoid dependency
upon student activity funding. For example, student
groups here could obtain funds without going through
about 8,000 persons.
The reports said more than 25 percent
of the houses in Buia and another town,
Osoppo, had collapsed and more than 20
persons were believed trapped in their
rubble.
Structural damage to at least one
hospital was so severe that the injured
had to be treated by doctors in the streets
outside, they said.
Officials said emergency supplies
were being rushed by military transport
from Rome and Foggia.
Authorities had to battle traffic chaos
caused by thousands of survivors
leaving their towns and villages to spend
the night in the open. At least 15 army
helicopters landed soccer fields to take
some of the most seriously hurt to major
hospitals.
Normal communications with the
region were knocked out but amateur
radio operators pitched in to supplement
police and. military communications
systems.
The quake shook Italy all the way from
the northern city of Milan to Naples in
the south and sent thousands of Italians
fleeing into the streets in panic.
An earthquake specialist at Sweden’s
Uppsala Institute said Thursday’s quake
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was “one of the largest to hit Central
Europe.” But he said it was relatively
deep between 6 and 14 miles beneath
the earth’s surface— a factor which
could reduce the casualty rate.
The quake apparently caused no
damage or injuries in Italy beyond the
Friuli region. Police in the disaster area
closed key roads to keep them clear for
emergency vehicles and dozens of
persons went to hospitals in Udine to
donate blood.
A Milan resident watching television
said, “I suddenly felt like I was on a fast
moving train.”
In other Italian cities dishes rattled,
street lamps swayed and streets quickly
filled with worried residents dashing
from in front of their television sets and
dinner tables.
In Venice, thousands choked the
piazzas, but no damage or casualties
were reported in the lagoon city.
In Trieste, an Adriatic port city south
of Udine, a 72-year-old woman with a
heart condition died from shock when
the tremor hit, ploice said.
In Munich, houses swayed and persons
rushed into the streets in fright. Many
clocksTstopped at 9:02 p.m.
No big rush expected
Labor to support Carter
WASHINGTON (AP) With their
favorites all but out of the race, labor
leaders are looking toward an ac
commodation with Democratic front
runner Jimmy Carter rather than risk
sitting out another presidential election.
No rush of support is expected beyond
that already given by a few liberal
unions, but most union chiefs are
becoming reconciled to a Carter victory
at the Democratic convention.
Contrary to his position in the last
election, AFL-CIO President George
Meany is telling his political lieutenants
that if Carter wins the nomination, the
giant labor federation will throw its full
support behind his presidential cam
paign. But, sources said, support will be
keyed to an acceptable clarification of
Carter’s stand on labor issues.
The independent United Auto
Workers, biggest of the liberal unions, is
expected to work for Carter in the
Michigan primary rather than back
Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona, the so
called progressive candidate.
Labor leaders in general have been
suspicious of the former Georgia
governor. But some among them
UAW President Leonard Woodcock and
President Jerry Wurf of the municipal
Reagan predicts balloting
By United Press International
Ronald Reagan said yesterday his new
calculations showed he could win the
Republican presidential nomination on
the first ballot. But a White House
spokesman said President Ford believes
he will win it on the first ballot.
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.,
campaigning hard against Democratic
front-runner Jimmy Carter in
Maryland, dropped in on Capitol Hill and
won praise from party stalwarts such as
Hubert Humphrey and House Speaker
Carl Albert.
In Michigan, the United Auto Workers
handed Morris Udall’s underdog
campaign a major jolt by authorizing its
six Michigan regional directors to open
up the. union’s sizable campaign, war
chest to support Carter in the' May 18
primary.
Reagan, campaigning in Louisiana,
was asked about his chances of a first
ballot victpry at the Kansas City con
vention.
After his triple primary victory
holds
Under the anemdment, a university must give
student organizations the right to use the university
collection system, such as the tuition bill at Penn State
to raise funds for the organization, providing a majority
of students have demonstrated support for the
organization.
To determine student support, the organization must
obtain signatures from 50 per cent of the student body in
a petition drive. The petition must describe the funding
mechanism the student organization proposes to use to
collect fees.
Any funding mechanism proposed must give students
the right to request a refund after having paid the
organization’s fee.
The bill, if passed, would significantly aid in
establishing PIRG. Last spring, PIRG obtained 24,120
signatures in a petition drive. The University Board of
Trustees refused to establish PIRG because it
disagreed with PIRG’s proposed funding mechanism.
This spring, PIRG revised its funding mechanism to a
“refusable-refundable” system. The new funding
proposal provides for refunds to students requesting
them. University president John W. Oswald last month
refused to recommend the new funding proposal to the
Board.
If the Cranston bill passed, PIRG could bring civil
action against the University for denying them the right
to student self-assessment of fees.
“I think the (University) administraiton is very
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employes union have indicated they
can forgive Carter for some positions
that were less than perfect from labor's
standpoint.
For example, they cited Carter’s
slowness in endorsing the pending full
employment bill in Congress and his
hesitancy in his attitudes toward full
fledged national health insurance and
toward repealing right-to-work laws.
In 1972, labor balked at the
Democratic party’s nomination of
George McGovern and for the first time
since the merger of the old AFLand CIO
in 1955 refused to work for the
Democratic presidential ticket.
This caused some painful divisions
within labor’s ranks and added to the
landslide of Richard Nixon, whose name
was an anathema to most of the big
union leaders. There is a general con
sensus, even among the conservative
building trades, that nobody wants to go
through that again.
“We’ve got to get rid of Ford,” said a
union political strategist. “Carter is still
the new guy on the block to labor, but
where else can we go? ”
Meany said last winter that the AFL
CIO would remam neutral in the
primaries and decide after the con
Tuesday he said he thought the con
vention would need more than one ballot.
But yesterday he said:
“I never expected a clean sweep of 100
delegates in Texas. I never expected the
margin of victory that we had in the
three primaries of last Tuesday. Very
frankly, now, I believe we can” (win on
the first ballot).
“It suddenly dawned on me in
checking up on previous projections,”
Reagan said. “I have leveled with every
one of the media on that. . . that we
were even with or ahead of our
projections. Suddenly in the last few
days, however, we have leaped far
ahead.”
At the White House, where a re
assessment.of the President’s campaign
was going on, spokesman Ron Nessen
said Ford “believes he can win on the
first ballot in Kansas City.”
UPl’s count shows Reagan with 359
delegates, Ford with 318 and 295 un
committed. It takes 1,130 to win the
nomination.
PennPIRG fate
Committee proposes
additional-job budget
WASHINGTON (UPI) A House-
Senate conference committee
yesterday approved a $413.3 billion
target federal budget for 1977, $17.5
billion more than President Ford
proposed.
Congressional staff officials said
that if the budget proposal is followed
there will be a million more jobs at
the end of 1977 than under Ford’s
proposed budget.
They said the unemployment rate
at the end of that year would be
around six per cent, compared with
seven per cent under Ford’s budget.
Unemployment in March was 7.5 per
cent.
The administration says the extra
spending will add to inflation and
could cause a new recession.
Congressional officials claim the
inflation rate would be lower under
their budget than Ford’s.
The budget proposal, which now
goes to the House and Senate floors
for final action, would raise $362.5
vention whether to support the nominee.
Until now, it is known that Meany has
taken a dim view of the Carter campaign
in private even though he said last year
that any of the Democratic candidates
except Alabama George Wallace was
acceptable.
But in recent weeks, the aging labor
chieftain has instructed his chief
political strategist, AI Barkan, to return
Carter phone calls. There is also wooing
on the other side. Within the past week,
Meany’s name was added to Carter’s
mailing list for position papers. The
Carter campaign staff has consulted
union people on the jobs and national
health insurance issues.
Meany and Carter have never met, but
the candidate said Tuesday he was
hopeful a meeting could be arranged
soon.
Some labor leaders are beginning to
speak for Carter. In New Jersey this
week, for example, state AFL-CIO
President Charles Marciante said of
Carter: “Believe me, there is no other
group piore intent on defeating
President Ford in November than
organized labor. If Carter can ac
complish that, then we’re all for it.”
Albert said "Yes” when asked if
Brown is the only one who can stop
Carter, apparently ignoring his House
colleague, Morris Udall, who is waging
an intense campaign against Carter in
Michigan. Both Brown and Udall hope to
derail the Carter express in the May 18
primaries in Maryland and Michigan.
Humphrey, who last week refused to
mount a stop-Carter drive in New Jer
sey, called Brown “a fresh face” and
“exciting” and said “Brown will do very
well and most likely will win in
Maryland.” Humphrey said later, “I
talk to the right people. I know what’s
going on.”
Albert, in addition to his one-word
assessment, called Brown “an at-'
.tractive and an astute young man.”
Frank Chtlrch, campaigning' in Utah
before heading back to his prime target,
Nebraska, labeled both Ford and
Reagan “bullies” for their debate on the
Panama Canal. He called it “a
disgraceful exercise in machismo” that
“could incite bloodshed.”
worried tbat this bill might pass," Scarantino said.
“They may take every effort to see that the bill doesn’t
pass.”
Scarantino said passage of the Cranston amendment
could be the first step to a student rights bill. He said it
would be the first time legislation provides for student
decision-making power in university affairs.
Scarantino’s testimony today will consist of his ac
count of Students for PennPlßG’s effots in trying to
establish a PIRG. *
Morris’ testimony will concern four sections of the
amendment she described as “very general guidelines
on how the (student activity fee) funds are distributed.”
The amendment outlines four provisions to insure
fairness in the distribution of activity fee funding.
According to Morris, the University’s student activity
funding system already complies with the amend
ment’s policy rules.
Morris said she was undecided on what the body of
her testimony will include.
Morris said she questioned the appropriateness of the
federal government passing legislation to control
universities’ funding policies, but said her greater
concern lay with insuring the rights of students in
receiving activity fee funding.
She said she hoped the committee would allow
universities to make interpretations of the bill under
their individual systems of funding.
“They’re in Washington; we’re right here. We know
what’s going on in the community.”
billion in taxes and create a federal
deficit of $50.8 billion, compared to
$43 billion initially proposed by Ford.
It calls for $454.2 in new budget
authority, some of which would be
spent in future years.
The bill was a compromise between
a $412.6 billion approved by the
Senate and $415.4 billion approved by
the House.
The target budget resolution will be
used to guide Congress as it passes
individual spending bills during the
year. A final budget resolution will be
approved by Congress in September.
Budget resolutions cannot be vetoed
by the President.
The conference approved $lOO.B
billion in $977 defense spending, an
increase of more than $8 billion over
1976 and only $3OO million less than
Ford requested. It approved $112.5
billion in defense budget authority,
including future year spending.