PIRG referendum
set by USG action
By LARRY GALLONE
Daily Collegian Staff Write': '
The Undergraduate Student Govern
* ment Senate voted last night to validate
3000 PennPIRG petition signatures,
thereby allowing a referendum to be
placed on the ballot in - the upcoming
USG elections
In order for PennPIRG to be placed on
i i, the ballot 1500 signatures were needed,
USG Senate President Molly New said.
"The 3000 signatures show the students
will be willing to vote for a PIRG," Jeff
Goldsmith, students for PennPIRG
coordinator said.
The bill needs 25 percent voter turnout
to be considered valid, New said.
lit Goldsmith said that PennPIRG in
clusion on the ballot will help improve
voter turnout.
The signatures will be presented to the
USG elections commission on March 27,
one day before the elections are to be
held, Goldsmith said.
0 In other action, the senate ap
propriated $295 to the USG election
. commission, the same amount as last
year.
Rob Fallon, elections commissioner,
said the main objective this year is to get
out the town vote. Fallon said the
commission has contacted realtors and
' are trying to set up voting areas in the
apartment complexes.
"We must make it easier for the town
student to vote," Fallon said. Of the
apartment owners contacted, Park
Forest and Southgate have not agreed to
ilk go along with the USG plans, Fallon
Said. •-•,,
Realtors who have shown interest are
.Laurel Glen, Executive House, Lion's.
:Gate, Lenwood, University Terrace,
:Briarwood and Imperial Towers, Fallon
'Carter likely to return home without peace treaty
In an address to the Israeli Knesset, Prime Minister Men- must be overcome before the group can accept the Carter
achem Begin (left) said yesterday a few major points peace agreement for the Middle East.
Day care centers' demise okayed
By BETH ROSENFELD
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The board of directors of the Child
Development Council of Centre County
2 1, recently voted unanimously to dissolve
the council as of June 30, 1979, at the
termination of its contract with the state
Department of Public Welfare.
At a meeting held March 1, 1979, the
board said because of "several in-
anv surmountable problems" it will submit
'IF its resolution to dissolve to the members
of council's corporation for approval at
the corporations' annual meeting April
16.
, The corporation consists of parents of
children involved with the council. The
council runs several day care centers
I) and day care homes within the county.
Among the reasons the board gave for
its decision is the voluntary capacity of
Holds key to 'free world as we knew it in 1945'
`Energy secretary calls Persian Gulf oil need crucia
WASHINGTON (UPI) Persian Gulf
producers hold the key to "the free world
0 as we know it" unless the United States
can get along with much less imported
oil, a pessimistic Energy Secretary
James Schlesinger said yesterday.
In testimony to the Senate Energy
Committee, Schlesinger drew an energy
picture so gloomy that Sen. Paul
* Tsongas, D-Mass., said, "I have never
seen you so dispirited."
Schlesinger said the only way the
outlook will change is for Americans to
have "the national will to do it."
Schlesinger said energy consumption
continues to increase, Iran is not likely
ever to get back to full oil production, the
option of nuclear energy "is barely
said. He added the cbinmission was
going to ask other realtors this week.
Leslie McLean, USG treasurer, said in
her report that USG would not receive
Any more restricted funds from ASA.
She asked the senate to "use judgment"
when allocating money suggesting a
$lOOO limit.
Rod Prior, executive assistant to JEM
productions, introduced a "Penn State
Savers Club" book as a means for
making money for USG. Prior said the
book offers $llO of discount merchandise
at various establishments in State
College.
The book would cost students $lO and
from that USG would receive one dollar.
Prior explained any other costs would be
the responsibility of the company
printing the books, National Capitol
Company Limited, he said.
"The program would cost USG nothing
and it is essentially a risk-free in
vestment," Prior said. The senate voted
to support the book and USG is waiting
for input from the administration before
proceeding with the book.
Jim Morrison, director of the USG
department of political affairs, an
nounced he was elected chairman of the .
National Student Congress two weeks
ago. The National Student Congress is an
organization consisting of colleges
across the country, Morrison said. The
objective of the congress is to develop a
statement of student opinionehe added.
In other business the Senate appointed
Jeff Palmer as the federal liaison, to
replace Bonnie Northrup who is running
for USG president, passed a resolution
supporting Penn State NORML and
voted the chairman of the Senate Ap
propriations Committee audit JEMS
books at the beginning of each term.
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the board members, all of whom have
other obligations. In addition, the board
said the council "operates at a clear
disadvantage due to the lack of ad
ministrative support services within the
organization."
However, Catherine Rippey, a former
director of the school age day care
program, said the distrust the council
had to the day care directors and the
board's lack of openness made it
inevitable for the council to dissolve.
"The administrators discounted the
efforts of the directors to cooperate"
with them, Rippey said, and some other
directors have seemed to agree.
In November, 1978, Anita Weiss,
director of Hilltop Day Care Center, said
in a letter to the council her dealings
with the central office had become an
"exercise in futility," and in a letter to
alive," clean-air rules inhibit coal use,
and planners of a West Coast pipeline to
carry Alaska oil eastward "have about
thrown in the towel" because of delays.
However, Schlesinger said, America's
resources and the very fact of
"profligate use" mean this country
could "readily really readily" reduce
consumption quickly by hundreds of
thousands of barrels a day.
He was at his gloomiest when talking
about the dependence on the oil-rich
Persian Gulf nations.
Committee Chairman Henry Jackson,
D-Wagh., pointed to a map showing the
narrow strait through which most
Persian Gulf oil must pass. Jackson said
a sunken ship or similar disruption there
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the board in February, 1979, the staff of
the Sunrise Day Care Center said their
efforts "to establish an atmosphere of
open discussion and working together,
while still acknowledging the authority
of the administrator, were all stifled."
Concerning the future of day care in
Centre County, Cartwright said DPW
has indicated there will be no in
terruption in services and is now looking
at other existing agencies to take over.
Rippey said she believes tha agency
should become public, possibly under
the direction of the county com
missioners. The CDC is a private, non
profit organization.
The decision is up to DPW, Cartwright
said, but County Commissioner G.A.
Spearly said the possibility of making it
a public agency has not been considered
by the commissioners.
would cut off half the world's exported
oil.
"If that cutoff lasted for a year, we
would be into rationing, wouldn't we?"
Jackson asked.
"The impact of a year's cutoff would
be devastating," Schlesinger said. "The
free world as we knew it in 1945 would be
over."
Schlesinger said the free world
alignments and alliances would be
shaken by such an oil emergency "if a
hostile force were to control the oil taps
of the Middle East."
Tsongas asked Schlesinger what
choice a Soviet military leader "intent
on the destruction of the United States"
might make from these alternatives: a
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Vol. 79, No. 132 14 pages
University Park, Pa. 18802
JERUSALEM (AP) —.President Carter extended his peace
gamble by one day yesterday amid increasing signs that he
will return home without a peace treaty between Egypt and
Israel.
En route home today, Carter will stop at the Cairo airport to
talk with President Anwar Sadat about the negotiations in
Israel.
"We can't close the door on a breakthrough, but as of now we
have not achieved what we set out to do," an American official
said.
U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, who originally
planned to remain in the Middle East to continue mediating,
was preparing to fly, home with Carter instead, officials said.
—The White. House made no effort to claim success for Car
ter's daring six-day mission to Egypt and Israel.
White House press secretary Jody Powell said the decision
to end the talks here was mutual. He said he did not know
where the peace process would go from there.
It was understood that Israelis flatly turned down several
suggestions to resolve the major three issues that remained:
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, oil in the Sinai and exchange of
ambassadors.
At one point American officials said they were out of
suggestions and asked the Israelis whether they had any. The
answer was no, and the two sides agreed there was nothing
more to discuss.
Powell said fewer issues remain to be resolved now than
before Carter's visit.
Carter informed Sada t of the stopover in a telephone call
yesterday, the official Middle East News Agency reported.
The American president also had a long telephone con
versation with Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Vance met with Begin and Israeli cabinet officials in a last
minute mediation effort while Carter awaited word at the King
David Hotel.
"We made great progress in solving the outstanding issues,"
Begin said afterward.
Indochinese fighting escalates
BANGKOK, Thailand (UPI)
Fighting escalated again yesterday
as Chinese troops slowly withdrew
from Vietnam and intelligence
sources said newly fortified positions
in some areas suggested the war may
not be ending.
Intelligence reports said some
Chinese troops crossed back into
China and Hanoi said the Chinese
were moving border markers as if to
hold on to new territory.
The official Vietnam News Agency
claimed 4,000 Chinese soldiers were
killed or wounded in fighting
Saturday and Sunday, the highest
casualty rate since China announced
the beginning of its withdrawal
March 5.
nuclear strike, moving armies across
Europe or "killing off" the oil production
of the Organization of Petroleum Ex
porting Countries.
"Unquestionably, the Persian Gulf is
the most tempting target around the
globe," Schlesinger said.
Jackson repeated an earlier warning
that the Middle East oil fields are
vulnerable to a guerrilla attack that
could wipe out America's supplies.
"There needs to be a contingency plan
so that local forces, Egyptians and
Israelis or a combination of both, should
be available to defend those oil fields in
the event of sabotage or in the event of a
direct assault on those fields," Jackson
said.
But Radio Hanoi, in its English and
Vietnamese broadcasts, said the
figure was only 1,800 for the same
period.
VNA said the Chinese losses were
punishment for "war crimes"
committed as they pulled back from
the front lines in rugged northern
Vietnam. The 'agency claimed
Chinese troops were razing 'villages,
blowing up bridges and wrecking
factories as they retreated.
The official New China News
Agency blamed the escalation on
Vietnamese attacks against "tem
porary positions" held by Chinese
troops returning to China's Guangxi
(Kwangsi) province.
"The Chinese troops struck back
He said an American backup would be
essential, but Egypt and Israel could
form a task force now without any help
from the United States.
Schlesinger displayed a list of steps,
some already started, to reduce U.S.
consumption by the equivalent of more
than one million barrels of oil a day.
The steps (with potential daily saving
in barrels):
force industry to switch to coal or,
temporarily, surplus natural gas
(200,000 to 500,000 barrels daily).
"wheeling" electricity to shortage
areas (100,000-215,000).
ease clean-air rules on high-sulphur
oil (10,000-20,000).
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But he said other problems remained "which will be
negotiated continuously until we find a solution for them."
Vance reported on the session to Carter, and then attended
an evening meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan.
The president spent the evening sight-seeing at a museum
where he viewed the Dead Sea Scrolls.
A joint U.S.-Israel statement was expected before Carter's
departure.
Israeli sources said four issues remained unresolved. Some
needed an Egyptian reply to Israeli proposals.
Begin will meet Carter for breakfast today, according to
Israeli press spokesman Dan Patir. It was understood U.S.
officials wanted to make sure there was no misunderstanding
of the Israeli position.
The president will depart Israel at noon today, or 5 a.m.
EST. He originally planned to leave yesterday. .
Earlier, in a speech to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset,
Carter declared that "we still fall short" of a treaty between
Israel and Egypt.
His speech was made after he learned the results of an all
night cabinet session.
The major obstacle involved self-rule for Palestinians in the
West Bank and Gaza, officials said.
A compromise calls for moving more quickly on creating
Palestinian autonomy in the Gaza Strip than on the occupied
West Bank. However, officials said the compromise contained
no timetable for autonomy, a concession to Israel.
About 400,000 Palestinians live in Gaza, which Israel cap
tured from Egypt in the 1967 Six Day War. The Israeli
occupied West Bank, former Jordanian territory, contains
another 700,000 Palestinians.
The other unsettled issues concerned when ambassadors
shbuld be exchanged; plans for Egypt to sell oil from Sinai
oilwells to Israel, and whether diplomatic ties should hinge on
the speed with which self-rule for Palestinians is implemented.
heroically and inflicted heavy
casualties on the enemy," the agency
said.
Intelligence reports said some
Chinese units have crossed back into
China, but that most of the 100,000-
man invasion army was still inside
Vietnam.
Some of the remaining troops have
fortified positions in disputed border
areas up to about one-half mile deep
into Vietnamese territory, according
to these reports.
Hanoi claimed Chinese forces were
moving border markers further into
Vietnam and intelligence sources
said Chinese troops were setting up
apparently permanent positions
boost production from federal
reserve lands ( 170,000).
delay phaseout of lead in gasoline,
allow other additives (45,000-70,000).
Today will be mostly sunny and breezy
despite some high clouds and a high of
54. Tonight will be breezy with in- .
creasing cloudiness and a shower'
possible near dawn with a low of 48.
Mostly cloudy skies and windy con-:
ditions are on tap for tomorrow with .a
few morning showers and afternoon'
flurries as temperatures fall through the
30s.
Is it soup yet?
Members of the department of indus
trial engineering cast digs to recycle
the department's cast iron.
Balmy then bitter