—The Daily Collegian Monday, Dec. 18, 1978 Cleveland mayor plans layoffs CLEVELAND (UPI) His city mired jn default, Mayor Dennis Kucinich planned an emergency austerity program of massive layoffs this week in Cleveland's police and firefighting forces, and union leaders vowed to go to court today to fight the measures. Kucinich said 3,500 municipal employees, or 35 percent of the city's work force, would be laid off. As a result, a cutback in most other basic services is anticipated. Efforts continued through the weekend, however, to come up with a solution that would lift Cleveland out of default on $15.5 million in bank notes. But Kucinich made it clear he would not accept a state bailout that set stringent conditions, such as creation of a special board of control over city finances. "A state controlling board would put the people of Cleveland at the mercy of the very same corrupt special interests who helped to force the politically motivated default," the mayor charged. The city defaulted at 12:01 a.m. Saturday on the short-term bank notes, when Kucinich and thp City Council failed to hammer out a compromise on restoring investor confidence by asking voters for an increase in the city's income tax from 1 to 1 1 2 percent. Kudinich declared Cleveland had Information revealed at coroner's inquest Peoples Temple left $7 million to GEORGETOWN, Guyana (UPI) The Peoples Temple of the Rev. Jim Jones directed that more than $7 million be left to the Soviet Communist Party to help "the oppressed peoples all over the world," according to evidence presented at a coroner's inquest yesterday. The inquest into the mass suicide murder of more than 900 people at the cult's jungle commune and the slaying of Rep. Leo Ryan, D-Calif., received a letter signed by Annie G. Moore, a nurse and the cult's financial secretary. That letter, addressed to Soviet Embassy official Fedor Timoseyev, and other letters instructed him how to draw' the money from the banks. 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Gallagher said they would argue that a 1976 court decision prevents the city from making layoffs that would endanger residents. inbulk of the layoffs would come in the police, fire, garbage collection and streets divisions. Kucinich said the cutbacks would be detailed at 3 p.m. today, after a meeting with leaders of the city's 17 unions. Those divisions have the fewest number of workers paid by federal grants. The 32-year-old mayor said he had no choice but to prepare for layoffs, because "default leaves us wide open to claims by creditors who will be in a position to attach city income tax receipts." If no settlement were reached to end the default and city expenditures were not slashed drastically, The letter said, "I am doing this on behalf of the Peoples Temple because we as communists want our money to be of benefit for and to help the oppressed peoples all over the world or in any way your decision-making body sees fit." The letter, one of five given 'as evidence by Guyanese crime official Cecil Roberts, said the Peoples Temple funds were in two Panama-based banks,. the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Banking Corp. Another letter, signed by Maria Katsaris, Jones' secretary, told of an undisclosed sum in the Banco Union De Venezuela which was also to go to the Soviet Communist Party. ALL L, CLOSi DECEMBER 24 AND MONDAY, DECEMBER 25. SALE EFFECTIVE SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23. +~. ~~ ; \ .4 Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich talks ‘sitli lawyer Jack Schulman about ways the city can overcome the default of $15.5 million in loans. Kucinich's plans call for massive layoffs in the police and fire departments to make up some lost money. . Cleveland's general revenue funds would run out by mid-February and the city would sink into total bankruptcy. Before then. however, state of- The letters were found by police in a suitcase which three cult survivors Michael Prokes, Tim Carter and his brother, Mike had been ordered to take to the Soviet official in Georgetown along with several hundred thousand dollars. "I, Maria Katsaris, leave all the money in the Banco Union De Venezuela in Caracas to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The person to contact is Mr. Heddacich at the main branch'of Banco Union," Katsaris wrote. "This is my final wish before I die." Other material already published in the Guyanese government press had indicated that Peoples Temple officials il, . 4 . ;,....,7 -;). r . r f , 1-3 , -' 4,71;',,,.:•.r4:-..Z1: ''', " ry=, - ,.. 7 1 : :_tfiti . ; t, '',, 'i ~• ' ti ,,,,„, , - ~,. 0 .1 4 P ; f "4 . • ..1 ` ' rtl P ....... , / _,....t.,,r.• ficials probably would be forced to create a controlling board that would have the power to sell - the city's assets, raise taxes and dictate all city . spending and borrowing. slra Sew warm and fashionable this winter. With fabrics from Lila's. AU Lila's fabrics are first rate. Handpicked for fashion. No seconds, irregulars or mil) surplus to rummage through like at some other stores. Lila's. A cut above ... at com petitively low prices. WOOL BLEND FABRIC 54"/60" wide. 55% polyester/ 45% wool. In 1 to 10 yard lengths. 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Assassinations panel considers conclusion WASHINGTON ( AP) After a $5.8 million investigation, the House Assassinations Committee is con sidering a conclusion that conspiracies can neither be proved nor ruled out in the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King. Rep. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, chairman, says he thinks the committee has painted publicly "the outlines of a conspiracy" involving a $50,000 St. Louis bounty for King's assassination. But Stokes acknowledged the com mittee has no proof of such a conspiracy behind King's murder in Memphis on April 4, 1968. At the same time, a 500-page staff draft summary reportedly says there is no evidence of any specific conspiracy in Kennedy's assassination in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963, but all possibilities have not been ruled out. . The draft report says, for example, U.S. competing with Soviet missile design UPI Wirepholo WASHINGTON (UPI) The Pen tagon is running into new trouble with plans for a U.S. missile to cope with expected Soviet rocket advances ,that could make America's underground silos obsolete by the mid-1980s. Defense sources said the Pentagon has again delayed a decision on how to launch the troubled MX missile, America's answer to any silo-killing rockets developed by the Kremlin. The sources said a high-level Defense Department review panel has ordered a new look at a previously rejected scheme for launching the MX from a special plane flying at 20,000 feet or more above the earth. The Pentagon had been expected to give final approval this month to plans for the new, 10-warhead missile. But sources said the panel now plans to meet around April 1 in hopes of settling the issue. 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The sources said the Pentagon is now looking anew at the possibility of launching the MX from wide-bodied, jeit transport planes, hich can take off froth short runways. The recently developed planes, known by the Air Force as AMSTs, would hopscotch among small airfields to escape attack before finally taking off to launch their weapons. Air Force experts, who previously dropped plans for an air • launch, ha& appeared to be favoring the $2O billion Multiple Aim Point proposal to shuttle each of 200 missiles among 20 or more • holes in the ground. The sources said defense experts are leaning in favor of an air launch, but one possible hitch might be the difficulty in building the special plane needed within the same $2O billion figure estimated for MAP. A decision in favor of an air launch woould require a smaller missile a 120,000 pound weapon instead of the 190,000 pound rocket required by the ' MAP plan. Defense Secretary Harold Brown has asked President Carter to call on Congress in January to allocate $l9O million to start work on the MX.
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