-The Daily Collegian Wednesday, May 9, 1979
News brief
Castro may visit New York
NEW YORK (UPI) Cuban
President Fidel Castro reportedly is
planning to come to New York City
this fall to discuss reimbursing
businessmen for property confiscated
when his regime came to power 20
years ago anti to possibly attend a
World Series baseball game.
Look Magazine, in its "Political
Ear" column in the May 14 issue,
says "The main purpose of the trip,
according to State Department
sources, is to settle a billion dollar
disagreement over (American
businesses') property confiscated by
Castro's communist regime following
its 1959 takeover.
"To this end, plans for meetings
between Fidel and American
business leaders are in the works.
Saudi
WASHINGTON (UPI) Secretary
of State Cyrus Vance conceded
publicly yesterday that the Israeli-
Egyptian peace treaty has damaged
U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia,
America's chief foreign oil supplier
and key Arab world ally.
"There are (now) very sharp and
clear differences between us," Vance
said in becoming the first top ranking
U.S. official to state for the record
that the treaty has soured U.S.-Saudi
ties.
Testifying in support of the special
$4.8 billion aid package the ad
ministration promised Egypt and
Israel as a peace-making incentive,
Vance told the House Foreign Affairs
Committee that Saudi Arabi, in the
U.S. view, remains "a good friend
and ally."
But he added, "Saudi Arabia's
position has changed" since the Arab
summit conference in Baghdad,
which voted to ostracize Egypt
diplomatically and economically.
One result, he indicated, is that the
United States has thus far been
unable to get Saudi assurances they
will continue to bankroll Egypt's
Court grants rights to Indians
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPI)
In a landmark decision, a federal
judge ruled yesterday two 19th
Century treaties grant Indians
unlimited fishing rights which cannot
be restricted by the state.
The decision was a broad af
firmation of Indian treaty rights.
Observers were unsure how widely it
would be applied in other treaty
rights cases pending in courts across
the country.
In a 131-page ruling, U.S. District
Judge Noel P. Fox held that treaties
signed in 1836 and 1855 give two
Upper Peninsula Indian tribes
unlimited fishing rights and that the
Bell asked to resolve dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S.
Civil Rights Commission has asked
Attorney General Griffin Bell to help
resolve a 10-year-old desegregation
dispute in the Pittsburgh School
District.
The commission recommended
earlier this week that Bell "intervene
in litigation and take any other kind
of action" to force the city school
board to comply with state and
federal desegregation requirements.
The board, whose proposed
desegregtion plans have been
rejected by state and federal com
missions since 1973, faces a class
action suit demanding im
plementation of a satisfactory plan.
A commission spokeswoman said
the civil rights panel is hoping that
the Justice Department will join the
suit, filed by 26 parents in the school
district.
Though the class action suit has not
come to trial, the government has
cited the board for its allegedly
Official expects more inflation
WASHINGTON (UPI) Treasury
Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal
told Congress yesterday he expects
several more months of severe in
flation, but an improvement starting
by the fall.
He said this probably will produce
an overall inflation rate for the year
(measured fourth quarter to fourth
quarter) of 8 to 8.5 percent, perhaps a
bit more "but hopefully not much
more."
That would be a significant in
crease over the estimate of 7.4 per
cent inflation for 1979 which the
administration made at the beginning
of the year.
But it would be a big improvement
over the 13 percent annual rate of
inflation during the first three months
Committee completes aid bills
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
yesterday completed work on the last
of five foreign aid bills that authorize
a total of $10.2 billion in spending on
the Middle East, Turkey and other
nations and programs.
"The decks are now cleared for the
SALT treaty to be considered in
June," Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho,
the committee chairman, told
reporters
Church said he had not been in
formed that the long-awaited SALT II
accord has been completed, but said
he is hopeful it soon will be.
The various foreign aid bills now
relations hurt by treaty
economy and finance its purchase
of U.S. F-5 warplanes —now that they
have broken diplomatic relations
with Cairo.
"We will continue to make our best
efforts to urge them to continue their
aid to Egypt," Vance said in response
to questions
But in the event that efforefags, he
added, "We hope and expect that
others will play their part to make up
for the shortfall that would result"
Saudi Arabia has reportedly
financed Egypt's faltering economy
to the tune of between $1 billion and $2
billion in recent years. U.S. officials
have made clear the administration
would expect Western European
allies and Japan to help make up the
loss of that revenue.
Defense Secretary Harold Brown,
who joined Vance in testifying on
behalf of the special aid package,
said the Saudis so far have not paid
for any of the 50 U.S. F-5E jet
fighters, valued at $525 million, the
administration is selling Egypt as
part of a package warplane sale to
Egypt, Israel and the Saudis them
selves.
state cannot, in any way, abridge
those rights.
"The mere passage of time has not
eroded, and cannot erode, the rights
guaranteed by solemn treaties," Fox
ruled. "The Indians have a right to
fish today wherever fish are to be
found.
Fox, ruling in a 1973 suit filed
against the state by two Chippewa
tribes, held the state has no authority
to impose regulations on Indians or
limit treaty rights that such
regulation rests with Congress.
State officials were considering an
appeal but no decision was made
immediately.
segregated schools since 1970. Last
year, the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court ordered formulation of a
satisfactory desegregation plan by
July 1.
"We have long been aware of the
lack of progress toward meaningful
school desegregation in Pittsburgh,"
Commission Chairman Arthur S.
Flemming said in a letter to Bell.
Flemming's letter referred to the
school board's "numerous delays and
stall tactics" in the desegregation
process.
A Justice Department spokesman
said yesterday the commission's
letter has not yet been received and
that the department has been in
dependently studying the city's
schools since last fall.
"If we do come to the conclusion
that the board is not in compliance,
then we will look to the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare to see
what to do," said Justice Department
spokesman John Wilson.
of this year
Administration officials have been
saying for some time their inflation
estimate for 1979 would have to be
revised upward. This was the first
time the administration has offered a
revised figure.
"The president is right when he
says we can look forward to bad in
flation figures for several more
months," Blumenthal told a Senate
appropriations subcommittee.
"I think that in all probability it will
be summer or early fall before we
can begin to see real improvement in
the situation," he said.
But he said that if the pace of the
economy slows down and he
believes that it is then he looks for
a slowing of inflation by the fall.
await full Senate action.
Staff aides said the panel sliced
$109.6 million off President Carter's
original request for foreign military
aid and $204.6 off foreign economic
development programs.
"This is a year of stringency to
reduce federal expenditures on all
fronts," Church said. "Foreign aid is
not sacrosanct. We go to the floor (of
the Senate) in a stronger position to
resist meat ax cuts."
In completing work on the military
bill, the panel quickly agreed to an
increase of $lOO million in U.S. loans
to Turkey as requested by the ad
ministration.
Castro is also said to be seeking
better relations with U.S. govern
ment officials."
The column, which covers "people
type" news about international and
national political figures, added,
"There is an additional motive
behind the fall date, the sources say:
Fidel is dying to see a World Series
game in person."
An avid baseball fan, Castro -two
years ago invited the New York
Yankees to play exhibition games in
Cuba but Baseball Commissioner
Bowie Kuhn would not allow the team
to go.
In Washinton State Department
officials on the department's Cuba
Desk said, "We haven't heard
anything about it."
U.S. and Soviets agree
WASHINGTON • (AP) The United
States and the 'Soviet Union have
reached basic agreement on a new
treaty to limit strategic nuclear
weapons, and the pact will be signed at a
June summit meeting in Europe, ac
cording to administration sources.
Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance is
expected to make the formal an
nouncement on the treaty today at the
White House after a meeting with Soviet
Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin.
If agreement is reached on the specific
date and site for the meeting between
UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, May 9
STS Annual Colloquy, 12:45 p.m., Room 101 Kern. Richard Barnet, Institute
for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C., on "Ideologies of Scarcity."
Sports: baseball, vs. Cornell (2), 1:30 p.m.,; men's lacrosse, vs. Bucknell, 7
p.m.
Human Development Lecture, 4 p.m., Room S-209 Henderson. Ramon
Rueda, People's Development Corp., South Bronx, NY, on "The New
Urban Pioneers."
5 O'Clock Playwrights' Theatre, Peter Michaelson, On A Ledge Sitting
Sideways, and Paul Malluk, Doo Doo, 5:30 p.m., The Pavilion Theatre.
Also May 10 and 11.
White Band Concert, 7 p.m., Fisher Plaza. Rain, May 14.
Science Fiction Society/STS, Tomorrows Program, 7:30 p.m., HUB
Assembly Hall. Panel Discussion with Richard Barnet on "America's
Future: The Avis of World Powers?"
Penn State Thespians, Lil' Abner, preview, 8 p.m., Schwab, through May 12.
University Theatre, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 8 p.m., The Playhouse,
through May 12.
Composers' Concert, 8:30 p.m., Music Bldg. Recital Hall
Meetings:
Student Branch, ASAE, 5 p.m., New Beaver Picnic Area
REO, 6:30 p.m., Room 102 Chambers. Elections.
Delta Sigma Pi, 7 p.m., Room 265 Willard.
Pa. Legal Society, 7 p.m., Room 173 Willard.
PSORML, 7 p.m., Room 321 Boucke.
ACF, 7:30 p.m., Room 305 HUB.
Episcopal Student Assn., 7:30 p.m., Room 227 HUB.
Froth, 7:30 p.m., Room 314 Boucke.
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