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Charmaine Kowalski, Miss Pennsylvania, on the runway at the Miss America
Pageant in Atlantic City, N.J.
Charmaine:
who's still a winner
By GINA CARROLL
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Charmaine Kowalski, Miss Penn
sylvania, linked arms with Miss
Arizona and strode toward the
escalator that would take them to the
Miss America Ball. Smiling broadly,
she introduced Miss Arizona. "She's
very intelligent," she said. "Together
we probably have an I.Q. of 400!"
Kowalski, 22, had known she was
not a winner of Saturday night's Miss
America pageant for over two hours.
"I'll be back in State College as
soon as I can," she said. "I really
miss school."
Kowalski lost out on the top prize of
the Miss America pageant, the title
and crown of Miss America for 1979.
But she did not come away a loser
entirely. She said the pageant was an
educational and interesting ex
perience.
Kowalski said the Miss America
pageant and the Miss Pennsylvania
pageant had come along at a "very
convenient time" for her. "I had to
wait a year to see about medical
school anyway, so it was really
convenient," she said. Kowalski said
she had sent in most of her ap
plications to medical school last
week, but she still had a few more to
complete.
Present law called iridkulous`
Pot bill dies in house committee
By DAVID VAN HORN
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
A marijuana decriminalization bill has died in the state
House Judiciary Committee, but the issue is still alive.
Representative Joe Rhodes, D-24, said there would not have
been enough votes to pass the bill.
Rhodes said the need for decriminalization stems from the
lack of enforcement of the present law. Enforcement of the law
does not coincide with police policy, he said.
"If every police department enforced the law, 10,000 people
would be arrested a week," Rhodes said. "The law is
(idiculous."
The bill was brought before the floor of the House in June,
according to Bill Cluck, advisor for the Penn State Chapter of
the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Cluck said the sponsors felt it would be unwise to vote on the
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loser
Kowalski remembered one time
during the pageant when she was
surprised by a question: In an in
terview, a reporter had suddenly
asked if she was aware there were
homosexual backstage workers and
what she thought of it.
"It took me totally by surprise, and
I kind of said something like well, so
what, does it teally matter, but I
didn't say exactly that. But I think I
handled it pretty well. .
Kowalski said the'only aspect of the
pageant that had upset her was the
photographs newspapers chose to
run. "Photographers had the op
portunity to take so many kinds of
pictures, but almost all the pictures
I've seen have been of the contestants
in swimsuits. That kind of upset me,"
she said.
The judges' interviews "were not
fun," Kowalski said. "They (the
questions) were tailor-made to me.
They asked me about medicine and
homosexuality and who I thought had
a great influence on politics."
Richard Nixon was one of her an
swers to the latter question.
"He made people re-analyze the
political system," she said.
As for her winnings, Kowalski said,
"They're a great way to finance an
education."
More on the pageant, p. 4
bill before the November elections. Therefore, the bill was sent
back to the committee, he said.
Cluck said the advocates of decriminalization are working
on the issue so a vote after the election is possible.
Rhodes said he , did not know whether the bill would get
through in November because the legislative session will last
only three days after the election. Cluck said it would take "a
super-human effort" to get the bill passed in three days. Cluck
said the best possibility for passage would be to tack a
decriminalization measure onto another bill.'
• Rhodes said NORML and the district attorneys are lobbying
for decriminalization. District attorneys do not want to be
bothered with prosecuting marijuana cases, he said.
However, the legislators have not been pushed by public
outcry to have marijuana decriminalized, he said.
"Members won't take that risk of voting for the bill," he
said. "There is no great urge to pass it because there is no
payoff (for House members)," Rhodes said.
Cluck said that for national decriminalization, five to 10
more states would have to soften their laws on pot. He said
Pennsylvania is very important, and if this state lowers its
laws on marijuana, other states might follow this lead.
"Pennsylvania is the catalyst for other states," Cluck said.
Eleven states have decriminalized marijuana, the latest
state being Nebraska, Cluck said. Cluck said he was very
surprised to find that Nebraska had lowered its penalties over
the summer.
Begin voices optimism as summit
moves to Gettysburg battlefields
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin said Sunday the Mideast summit is
'"going well" but other sources were more cautious in
their assessments.
"We need another two or three days to crystallize
things," Ezer Weizman, the Israeli defense minister,
commented as President Carter led Begin and Egyp
tian President Anwar Sadat on a tour of the Civil War
battlefield here.
Afterward, Carter met with Begin at Camp David,
Md. Key U.S. and Israeli advisers also'attended the
working session at Holly Lodge.
Sources close to the Egyptian delegation said the
summit, now in its fifth day, was moving slowly and
that there was no breakthrough so far.
Begin made his optimistic comment as Carter joked
briefly with reporters at a monument to Confederate
soldiers who suffered a decisive setback at Gettysburg
in the Civil War.
Asked how the talks were going, the prime minister
replied: "You can see they are going well."
• He seemed to be referring to the evident rapport
between the participants rather than to the Arab-Israeli
dispute itself.
Before traveling to Gettysburg, Carter talked by
telephone to the Shah of Iran, whose troubled country is
regarded by American officials as a key to Middle East
stability.
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Probe reveals state Assembly pads payrolls
PHILADELPHIA (AP) The state
General Assembly produces payrolls
embellished with no-show or seldom
show jobs and permits legislators to live
in an extragavant manner at taxpayers'
expense, the Philadelphia Inquirer
reported in its Sunday editions.
The allegations appeared in a
copyrighted story based on an eight
month Inquirer investigation of how the
state Legislature operates.
As a result of its probe, the Inquirer
also alleged that the political system in
the state Capitol:'
Insures that legislators and can
didates for the Legislature can take
money from people and interests
seeking their favor and never have to tell
anyone how much or why.
Sees to it that legislators who serve
long enough can retire on an annual
pension nearly double their legislative
Fighting, planning. in Mideast during summit
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Hard-line Arabs opposed
to Egypt's Middle East peace initiative will meet in
Damascus Sept. 20 to formulate "important decisions"
on whatever emerges from the Camp David summit,
the Palestine Liberation Organization said Sunday.
A statement from the official PLO news agency
WAFA said the third summit of the Arab Steadfastness
Front, formed by hard-liners after Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem last November, would
also plot 1 "a strategy for the coming stage of the
struggle." The statement did not elaborate.
Syrian Information Minister Ahmed Iskandar Ahmed
had said recently the summit was planned for the final
half of September but that no date had been set.
The announcement of the date for the meeting
followed Saudi Arabian efforts to convene a recon
ciliation meeting about the same time, grouping both
the hardliners and Sada t.
Diplomats saw the announcement of the hard-liners'
summit as a setback for the Saudi plans but believed a
reconciliation conference was still possible, especially
should the Camp David talks produce no substantial
change in Israel's negotiating position.
The diplomats said Sadat had told Saudi officials if
this happened he would "unofficially" end his nine
month direct initiative with Israel and be, ready to plot
fresh strategy with his fellow Arab leaders.
The diplomats believed it was unlikely the hard-liners
Hours after the call, the White House press office
announced it, saying Carter "reaffirmed the close and
friendly relationship between Iran and the United
States and the importance of Iran's continued alliance
with the West."
The announcement said Carter expressed "deep
regret over the loss of life" in anti-shah rioting in Iran
and expressed hope for an early end to violence.
Carter "further expressed the hope that the
movement in Iran towar political liberalization would
continue," the announcement concluded.
With the talks in temporary recess the three heads of
state, traveling together in Carter's bullet-proof black
limousine, drove from Camp David, Md., to visit the
battlefield where Carter's native south took a terrible
drubbing.
The Georgian, showing his guests a monument to the
southern troops who were overwhelmed, said they
could have won, "with tanks."
Carter, wearing a gray sports jacket, showed Begin
and Sadat several of the high spots of the 1863 campaign
in which Southern forces led by Gen. Robert E. Lee
were repulsed with heavy casualties in their second and
last effort to invade the North.
"They could have used President Sadat, Moshe
Dayan and Ezer Weizman," the president quipped to
reporters trailing behind. Dayan, the Israeli foreign
minister, and Weizman, the defense minister, are both
salary, and that legislators who are not
re-elected can land in state jobs that pay
more than the Legislature.
Has created
. a web of 26 separate
payrolls and 92 separate spending ac
counts through which it dispenses its
largesse to its members and its friends.
Supplies each Senator with $60,000
worth of scholarships to secretly dole out
each year to children of friends,
relatives and political comrades.
The report said the scholarship system
which exists in no .other state is
characterized by secrecy, and that it
was, impossible to secure a complete list
..of recipients of the scholarships. Only 20
of the 50 senators asked by the Inquirer
for a complete list of the names
responded, and four of the five state
institutions which are involved in the
program including Penn State
would not release a list of the names.
Would reject such a move, especially if supported by
the oil-rich'Saudis.
In the meantime, Israeli warplanes cracked sonic
booms over Beirut Sunday for the first time since the
start of the Camp David summit hours after Syrian
troops battled Israeli-armed right-wing Christians in
the city's worst fighting in two months.
Daylong sniping between the Syrian peace-keeping
troops and the rightist militias escalated Sunday night
into intense rocket, artillery and small arms fire on the
Christian southeastflank of the captial.
The new Israeli sortie was a dramatic response to
former Lebanese President Camille Charnoun's charge
that hard-line Syria had engineered renewed Beirut
fighting in a bid to undermine the summit called by
President Carter.
Late Sunday night the sniping suddenly erupted into
intense rocket, artillery, mortar, rocket-propelled
grenade and small arms fire on the Christian southeast
flank of the captial. - •
Residents reported a nearly continuous boom and
crackle of fire from both sides.
No casualty figures were immediately available in
the fourth straight night of Syrian-Christian battles.
Residents, hiding in make-shift shelters in an
ticipation of the fighting, said the firing appeared
concentrated near the Christian southeast area of Ain
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Monday, September 11,1979
Many of the charges brought by the
Inquirer were not new, but the
allegations of misdeeds in the
Legislature have seldom been compiled
in such volume.
Legislators place friends, relatives
and party functionaries in no-show and
seldom-show jobs that range in salary
from $6,000 to $35,000 a year, the paper
alleged.
The Inquirer said it found one
legislative worker who draws $9,072 a
year as a Houk. messenger at the
beach during a recent session. Asked
why he was, in Wildwood, N.J., instead
of Harrisburg, the employee replied:
"It's just one of those strange things
that happen."
Expense paid by the taxpayers include
$l,OOO in candy purchased by the Senate
librarian, and $3,890 for Senate
President Pro Tern Martin L. Murray's
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former generals and heroes of Israeli wars with Arab
neighbors.
The sightseeing, which White House press secretary
Jody Powell said was prompted by Prime Minister
Begin's interest in the Civil War, extended the weekend
slowdown in Mideast summitry.
The only session of note was held Saturday, between
Weizman and President Sadat. The two are reported to
have established a personal rapport and Weizman was
often at Sadat's side as they examined the monuments
and cannons on the battlefield.
Reporters were kept far enough away from the
summit principals to maintain the Carter-imposed
secrecy that has marked the five-day-old conference
at the presidential retreat. ,
"We're going smartly, don't you think?" Weizman
said, sidestepping questions from a straining press
corps.
"How are you doing," a reporter persisted.
"We are doing," the defense minister responded
cryptically.
The three leaders traveled here together in Carter's
bulletproof black limousine as part of a motorcade of
some two dozer cars, buses, and station wagons packed
with Secret Aervice agents.
Park visitors and other Sunday tourists were kept at a
safe distance. Robert Prosperi, a park historian, filled
in the details for the president.
University Park, Pa. 16802
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
food and drink bill for one month, the
paper claimed.
Based on its investigation, the
Inquirer alleged that last year Sen. T.
Newell Wood, R-Luzerne, collected $44 a
day for food and lodging on New Year's
Day, Lincoln's Birthday, East Sunday,
Election Day, Flag Day and 31
weekends. On all those days the entire
Capitol was closed.
The paper also charged that during the
past 1976 general election and the May 16
primary, 55,candidates failed to file any
report of campaign contributions
whatsoever,. in violation of the st4t9's
Election Code.
The report also charged that most of
the 84,"ghost employees" of convicted
former Senator Henry J. Cianfrani
showed' up on state payrolls again
shortly after they were discovered.
Rummaneh, a main battleground during the 1975-76
civil war.
One frightened woman in east Beirut screamed into
the telephone, "If it goes on like last night, I just can't
take it. One way or another I'll die."
Rocket, artillery, mortar and machine gun fire early
Sunday pounded the Christian southeast suburb of
Hadath, near President Elias Sarkis' official residence.
In Cairo, the newspaper Al Ahram said Monday the
Camp David summit has entered a "most delicate"
phase with profound differences persisting between
Egypt and Israel and the next 48 hours will be decisive.
Reporting from the Maryland presidential retreat,
the newspaper said the differences were not confined to
the future of the West Bank and Gaza and the rights of
the Palestinians, but also focus on the general
framework of an overall Middle East settlement.
A similar report carried by the Middle East News
Agency quoted informed sources as saying "matters
will be crystalized" within the next two days.
Correction
In Friday's Daily Collegian, Robert W. Frank,
chairman of the Faculty Senate Right and Respon
sibility Committee, was incorrectly identified as the
chairman of the senate Tenure Committee.
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