— The Daily Collegian Monday, December 13, 1976
News
Tip O'Neill
sees peace
WASHINGTON ( UPI)
House
,Speaker-designate
Thomas P. O'Neill f9resees a
period of peace between the
new Congress and the new
president, but he is concerned
there may be a problem
maintaining it.
The Massachusetts
lawmaker, who will be
elected the new speaker when
the 95th Congress convenes on
Jan. 4, said in an interview
that President-elect Jimmy
Carter has initial widespread
support among the strong
Democratic majorities of the
House and Senate.
"There's going to be peace
for awhile, but the problem
will be holding it together as
time goes along," said
O'Neill, who has met at least
three times with Carter.
"Even the conservatives in
our party want to see Carter
be a success. But how long is
that going to last? That's ,
.UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
Monday, December 13
SPECIAL EVENTS
Intramural Sports: Swimming tournament, undergraduate division, sing. elim. entry
open.
Inter-Cultural Celebration, Trim the Tree Workshop, HUB north lounge. Re-Creation
Concert, 12:15 p.m., Kern lobby. International films, 1 p.m., Kern lobby. Black
Christian Fellowship Mass Choir, 7 p.m., Paul F. Robeson Cultural Center.
Monte Bedford, oboe, 8:30 p.m., Music Bldg. recital hall. -
UNIVERSITY SCHEDULE
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FILM
Flance Cinema, "Playtime," 7 and 9 p.m., Room 112 Kern.
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MEETINGS
, OTIS, 6:30 p.m., Room 307 HUB.
College of Education Student Council, 7 p.m., Room 104 Chambers.
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USG, 7:30 p.m., Room 225 HUB.
Folklore Society, 7:30 p.m., Rooms 323, 324 HUB.
Volunteer Service Center, 7:30 p.m., Rooms 321, 322 HUB.
Women's Premed Society, 8 p.m., Room 151 Willard.
EXHIBIT
Museum of Art: Contemporary British Potters and Recent Accessions, Gallery B.
From Gothic to Baroque, Gallery C. Contemporary Figurative Paintings from the
Permanent Collection, Gallery A.
from around
what we have to watch along
the way."
O'Neill assumes the most
powerful legislative office in
the nation at a time marking
the end of eight years of battle
between a Democratic
Congress and a Republican
president a fight that
created a deep suspicion of
the White House on the part of
Congress.
Mars ships
to activate
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI)
Viking's sleeping landers
and quiet orbiters will be
awakened this week to begin
sending back more data from
Mars following a month-long
period of inactivity due to the
sun's intervention between
the planets.
The two orbiters looping
above Mars are to be tuned up
by computer today and
tomorrow and data will be
sent back to Earth beginning
Wednesday.
Scientists spent four
Our Christmas Gift to
months analyzing data from
Mars in a search for some
form of bacterial life There
were surprising results but no
confirmation life existed on
the dry, red planet.
The lenders on the planet's
surface will resume their
transmissions Thursday and
Friday.
Among the first data to be
analyzed will be an indication
from the one seismological
instrument that works, on
lander 2, that a Marsquake
occurred sometime in
November.
It would be the first in
dication of quake activity on
the barren planet. Viking l's
seismology instrument was
damaged in landing.
Cabinet job
takes time
WASHINGTON_ (UPI)
Treasury Secretary William
Simon says Congress
demands too many time
consuming personal ap-
the world via our wire services
pea rances by cabinet
members, especially when
they are coping with a crisis.
"When you're testifying
three days a week on the
average, sometimes four,
then how in the world can one
be expected to run a depart
ment of 120,000 people? "
Simon asked in an interview.
"During the energy crisis,"
he said, "I was testifying
sometimes twice a day and I
remember on one or two
occasions I testified three
times, while running an
agency at the same time in
the midst of a crisis. And they
wonder why things go wrong.
"I think there ought to be
consolidation of the com
mittees. • I think when I'm
called by every single
committee on the hill just to
have a show-and-tell, that's
silly."
Simon said he has been told
he has made more
congressional appearances
than any cabinet officer in
history.
He said he benefited from
some of those occasions and
thinks congressmen
generally benefited too. But
he would prefer something
like the British system, where
ministers explain policy
before Parliament.
Guns kept
by Rightists
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)
More than 1,000 armed
Lebanese Christians paraded
through their sector of Beirut
yesterday in defiance of a
Syrian call •to surrender
weapons.
The Christian military
commander said his forces
would not give up their guns.
Lebanon's three-day-old
cabinet met, and sources said
Premier Salim el-Hoss was
drafting emergency powers
that would let him impose
order on the war-torn country
as soon as possible. An of
ficial announcement said the
cabinet was considering
"urgent matters."
Beshir Gemayel, the
Christian rightist military
leader, addressed a parade
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that included 1,000 armed and
uniformed militiamen of the
Phalange party, the largest
Christian force in the 19-
month civil war.
"We will surrender our
arms only when we feel the
destiny of our civilization and
our political entity is secure,"
Gemayel said. He was
cheered by more than 10,000
Lebanese Christians in the
main square of the Christian
sector.
Syrian troops who occupied
all but a small strip of
southern Lebanon . last month
are under orders to disarm
and arrest all Lebanese
appearing in public with their
weapons. But the crews of two
Syrian tanks parked 200 yards
away ignored the Phalange
rally and parade.
Electors
vote today
WASHINGTON (AP)
The much maligned but never
seriously disturbed electoral
college meets on schedule
today in 50 states and the
District of Columbia to elect
Jimmy Carter of Georgia as
President of the United
States.
Under the Cohstitution, the
Electoral College, the group
which really elects presidents
no matter what the voter may
think, meets in the state
capitals and the results will
be sent to Washington, where
the certificates will be opened
by Vice President Nelson A.
Rockefeller on Jan. 6 before a
joint session of Congress.
If the electors follow the
script, Carter will get the 297
electoral votes he won in the
Nov. 2 election, and President
Ford will get the other 241.
Then Rockefeller will declare
Carter the President-elect.
Peace talks
still stalled
GENEVA, Switzerland
(UPI) Britain is willing to
play a direct role in Rhodesia
to help keep the peace during
the transition to black
majority rule, but Rhodesia
conference chairman Ivor
Richard said yesterday no
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troops will be involved
Rhodesian Prime Minister
lan Smith met Richard,
decried the lack of progress in
the peace talks and flew home
to Salisbury for the second
time in the seven-week
conference.
Smith said the prospect of
any direct British in
volvement in Rhodesia's
immediate future was "a
ghastly thought." -
"I heard a few new ideas
, and I like them no more than
' the others I had heard from
the British," Smith said. "At
the rate the conference is
going, it is not going to get
anywhere with or without
me."
Richard, who returned to
the conference from talks in
London with Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger and
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Crosland, said Britain is
considering what kind of
direct role it should play in
Rhodesia during the
changeover to black rule in
the former colony.
Crosland and Kissinger
reportedly agreed on a
compromise Saturday to send
a resident British com
missioner to Rhodesia as
chief .of state during the in
terim period and place
British nationals in charge of
the key defense and justice
ministries.
Court faces
rights battle
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Women's groups and
lawmakers, reacting quickly,
are preparing a congressional
campaign to overturn last
week's Supreme Court
decision allowing the ex
clusion of pregnancy from
employer disability plans.
Leaders of the women's
rights movement and some
labor representatives will
gather Wednesday , in
Washington to decide how
best to legislate away the
impact of the justices' 6-3
vote.
Rep. Augustus Hawkins, D-
Calif., chairman of the House
education and labor sub
committee on equal op
portunities, already is
working on a revision of the
1964 Civil Rights Act to
counteract the court's
You
„ decision.
The majority opinion by , '
Justice William Rehnquist
said the pregnancy exclusion
in the General Electric Co.'s
insurance plan is not based on
sex and does not violate Title 47
VII of the civil rights law. The
plan is no more than a„1 , o
package covering some risks'
but not others, he said.
Congress can overcome the
court decision by an amend
ment, since the ruling was
based on an interpretation off;
law rather than on the Con
stitution. rtr
Hawkins said the court
appears to be retreating from
its prior position of making
employers prove the necessity
of any policies having,
discriminatory results.
Canal work
could stop
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)
The 300-year old dream of a
canal across the Florid
Peninsula may be killed thig'
week. The state Cabinet is
scheduled to vote on whether
to support completion of the
controversial s42* million
waterway.
Several Cabinet members
have indicated opposition t9_,
the canal, and around the
Capitol speculation has it that
after two days of hearings the
Cabinet will vote 5-2 or 6-1 to
'withdraw its support when-it
meets Friday.
That probably would mean
the end of the canal)
Congress, besieged with
requests for public works
money, rarely spends on
projects opposed by local
officials.
Even staunch supporters of
the canal who plan to turn qvt
in large numbers at ate
hearings on Thursday and
Friday, concede their
prospects are grim.
The idea of a canal began
300 years ago when the
Spanish were thinking of a
short cut for their'gold-ladm
ships.
Not until ‘ the Great
Depression, however, did
work begin, but Congress
refused to continue the
project and work stopped in
1936.
A small group of
vironmentalists, had decided,
to oppose the canal.