I—The Daily Collegian Friday, August 8,1980 Billy Carter laughs at a joke during a round of golf in Buena Vista, Ga., while the Justice Department appoints a special counsel in Washington, D.C., to probe the Billy-Libyan investigation. ’News briefs- Italian blast suspects raided ROME, Italy (UPI) Police raided the homes of neo-Fascist suspects in Rome yesterday in a massive hunt for the terrorists who bombed the Bologna train station and killed 79 persons in Italy’s bloodiest act of terrorism. In France, authorities ordered one suspect jailed pending Italy’s formal request for his extradition. Italian police said they were speeding up the paperwork and hoped neo-Fascist Marco Affatigato, 24, would soon be delivered to Rome for questioning in connection with the Saturday blast that leveled a wing of Bologna’s central train station. The death of three hospitalized victims yesterday brought the toll from the blast to 79 killed and more than 200 injured. Among the latest deaths were an ll year-old girl, whose mother remains listed in serious condition in a 'Fat Man's' holocaust lives on NAGASAKI, Japan (UPI) At two minutes past a fateful hour tomorrow, the port of Nagasaki will come to a complete halt in memory of the event 35 years ago that linked its name forever to the dawn of the nuclear age. It was the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, when an American bomber appeared over the skies of the city of 200,000 people. Two minutes later, at ll:02 a.m., the clocks stopped. An estimated 78,000 people were killed in the awesome fireball and the radioactive aftermath of the second atomic bomb dropped in World War 11. Three days earlier, an American B -29 dropped “Little Boy,” the world’s first atomic bomb, on Hiroshima, immediately killing about 78,000 people. The United Nations estimated another 60,000 died over the next six months. Those two events brought the might of Imperial Japan to its knees and forced its surrender on Aug. 15,1945, ending the war. Error creates virus hazard LA JOLLA, Calif. (UPI) A laboratory mixup by a scientist trying to clone genetic material to fight disease resulted in the production of a more dangerous virus, a university monitoring official said yesterday. However, the public was not in danger at any time, said Dr. Gordon Gill, chairman of the scientific ac tivities watchdog committee at the University of California-San Diego. The National Institute of Health in Washington and a university biosafety committee are trying to Met Ed charged for violations KING OF PRUSSIA (AP) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has fined the operators of Three Mile Island $9,000 for three violations of federal packaging standards in the shipping of radioactive materials from the nuclear power plant, an NRC spokesman said yesterday. In February and March, Metropolitan Edison Co. workers shipped materials by air from the Middletown plant in containers which failed to meet standards of the NRC or the U.S. Department of Tran sportation, according to an NRC statement released by spokesman Gary Sanborn. Although no radiation was released from the containers, liquids were shipped in improper containers and leaked into inner containers, Sanborn said. In June, it was discovered upon. Bologna hospital. Her father escaped the blast with minor injuries when he went to buy cigarettes in another part of the station. Police said Affatigato, who fitted witnesses’ descriptions of a man seen fleeing the Bologna station shortly before the blast, may have in formation that could lead to the arrest of others even if he personally were not involved. Arrested in Nice, Affatigato is believed to be a friend of Mario Tuti, a neo-Facist activist charged with planning the 1974 bombing of an in ternational express train near Bologna. That blast killed 12 passengers. The Armed Revolutionary Squad, the neo-Fascist group initially suspected in both bombings, denied involvement in a half-dozen anonymous telephone calls to Italian newspapers. Illustration by Cyndl Shoup About 20,000 people were expected to attend this year’s memorial ser vice in Nagasaki, about 625 miles southwest of Tokyo. The ceremonies in Nagasaki’s Peace Park will start before the fateful hour. The city, now boasting a population of 440,000 people, will come to a complete halt as it has each of the past 34 years at 11:02 a.m. and observe a minute of silence for the bomb victims. decide what to do with the material produced in the lab of Dr. lan Ken nedy. Kennedy, a well-known virologist, was ordered to stop work on the .project last July after the mistake was discovered. He apparently thought he was working with one kind of virus called sindbis, a Class-2 agent with a risk potential similar to rubella and polio but what was actually producing semliki a closely related Class-3 virus with a risk potential similar to yellow fever and smallpox. arrival at a disposal site in Richland, Wash., that solid radioactive waste shipped by truck had been packaged in drums which were not tightly closed, the spokesman said. No radiation was released, he said. Fines of $4,000 were assessed for the first two incidents and a $l,OOO fine was set for the June violation. Met Ed officials have 25 days to pay or appeal the fines. “We have taken steps to improve the packaging of liquid samples and compactible trash,” Met Ed spokesman Dave Klucsik said yesterday. “In some cases we’ve improved tools and we’ve also im proved procedure. ’ ’ Training of workers handling shipments also has been improved, Kluscik said. No decision has been made on whether the fines will be appealed, he said. Federal investigator probes Civiietti's actions Official to WASHINGTON (UPI) The Justice Department yesterday gave an internal investigator the same powers as an independent “special counsel” to probe Attorney General Benjamin Civiietti’s handling of the Billy Carter in vestigation. Michael Shaheen, head of the department’s Office of Professional Responsibility, will have authority to convene a grand jury and subpoena witnesses under an order signed by Acting Attorney General Charles Renfrew. In another development, former Watergate prosecutor James Neal of Nashville declined an offer to serve as special counsel heading the Billy in vestigation for the special Senate panel. The order granting Shaheen the same powers as special counsel Paul Curran had in a 1979 investiation of the Carter family peanut business will be published in the Federal Register today, officials said. It was issued the day after a revelation that the attorney general received in telligence information saying Billy might accept payments from the Libyans, but withheld it from in vestigators for nearly two months. Civiletti defended the decision, saying the information was highly sensitive and he wanted to protect the source. He said he advised Assistant Attorney General Philip Heymann not to close the Billy 6 + $ "LST'S ALL GO TO DAIR.V QUEEN* £ I BOLLER’S DAIRY QUEEN S S conveniently located f cau i hop you \ •'3 2 Ok behind Mid-State Bank unw vour 6hcppi«<>, ) /®C<V • T sLfe?. at 230 Calder Way IkwoM £ • —■ and 2000 N. Atherton Street 6 jjm> IfEl* $ • New Hours: M., rZIsJ | A 9 ■ Mon.-Sat. 11:00-11:00 jkzJ ® brazier sun. 1:30-11:00 UNIVERSITY CALENDAR SPECIAL EVENTS Friday-Sunday, August 8-10 Friday, August 8 Commonsplace Theatre, The Magic Christian, 7 and 9 p.m., Room 112 Kern. Hong Kong Society film, Alice’s Restaurant, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Room 102 Forum. 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Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan., a member of a Senate panel investigating the Billy affair, charged Civiletti may have “deliberately ob structed justice” by his delay in telling investigators Billy was getting Libyan funds. Shaheen, already investigating possible obstruction of justice by the nation’s top law enforcement officer, was understood to have expanded the probe to include three elements: • Civiietti’s disclosure, after two Libya: BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) In its first official comment on the Billy Carter case, Libya yesterday said “Zionist propaganda” orchestrated the campaign against President Carter’s brother to disrupt relations between Libya and the American people. A communique issued by the Libyan Foreign Ministry and carried by the Libyan news agency said, “The prejudiced campaigns which were raised on Billy Carter’s relation with the Libyan Foreign Ministry are pure invention with no basis of truth.” Billy Carter registered as a foreign agent for Libya and admitted to receiving $220,000 from its government. Carter’s relations with the foreign ministry are “normal relations as enjoyed by other persons . . . and his relation with some Libyan economic institutions “is similar to that of any other American linked to such institutions, as the documents Zionist interests create dispute weeks of denials, that he discussed the Billy case briefly with President Carter on June 17 and advised the president he thought his brother was “foolish” for failing to register as a Libyan agent. Civiletti also said he told Carter it was unlikely his brother would be criminally prosecuted if he registered. ' • The possibility someone tipped off Billy that the Justice Department had learned he accepted payments from the Libyans. On June 10, just days after... in vestigators first learned Billy had ac cepted $220,000 from the Libyan government, .Billy, phoned chief prober and private files prove it,” the communique said. The ministry explained that Carter’s visit to Libya was* within the government’s framework of bolstering relations with the people of the world, including Americans, and in this respect Carter was received in Tripoli as a member of a “popular” delegation from the state of Georgia. “Because Billy Carter as an American citizen walked out on the Zionist will and wanted to serve his country and people and establish relations with the Libyan people, he is now beings subjected to a predjudiced Zionist campaign aimed at in volving Libya,” the communique said. \ “Billy Carter did not betray America but on the contrary was keen on serving the mutual interests of the American and Libyan peoples, but Zionist propaganda does not allow any American to serve any interests but its own,” the communique said. * Joel Lisker and requested a meeting th£ next day. At that interview, he admitted when pressed that he had taken money from Libya. • The entire department’s handling of the case, which resulted in the July 14 filing of a court consent decree unde£ which Billy registered as a Libyan agent. There have been questions about delays in the case and whether the department should have convened a grand jury and possibly sought an dictment of the president’s brother for his Libyan ties. Independent presidential candidate John B. Anderson, shown here arriving in Cleveland while campaigning, yesterday announced in Pittsburgh that he will not withdraw from the race even if Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is nominated by the Democrats. Rules struggle to kick off Democratic Convention NEW YORK (AP) The Democratic National Convention opens on Monday with a two-hour attempt to settle the six-month struggle between President Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy over the party’s presidential nomination. Carter’s political fate, and the final longshot hopes of a Kennedy comeback, hang on opening day. Everything that really counts could be ■ settled before dark, if the Democrats manage to ■ stick to their negotiated schedule. Negotiators for Carter and Kennedy agreed to . put the climactic delegate binding rules fight up v. front, with the issue to be settled on prime time television. Their deal calls for an hour’s debate beginning at 6:30 p.m., with the vote to-follow immediately. That means that before the traditional opening ceremonies and speechmaking, the Democrats will know whether they have a fight in store or a sure winner of the presidential nomination they will bestow Wednesday night. In marked contrast to the tidily programed Republican convention that nominated Ronald Reagan for president,; contentious Democrats are wrangling: over .'almost-every- line 'of. th£ir Madison Square Garden convention script. 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The issue is a rule that would compel delegates to vote for presidential candidates in accord with the instructions of the primary elections or state party caucuses that selected them. If the rule is adopted, Carter affirms his lock on the nomination. A defeat on that rule would not automatically be Carter’s undoing, but it could be. For a defeat would free all the delegates from candidate commitments, opening the convention to a revival of the Kennedy challenge, and also to the. possibility that compromise candidates might emerge people like Secretary of State Ed mund Muskie, Sen. Henry Jackson, even Vice President Walter Mondale. Carter now has 320 delegates more than he needs to win renomination. It takes 1,666 votes to fashion a majority there are 1,986 in his column. Kennedy has 1,234 with an additional ill pledged to neither candidate. 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What if President Carter and Kennedy resolve their differences and the senator makes a full fledged en dorsement of Carter’s re-election? “If he (Kennedy) chooses to endorse another can didate, it is not going to affect my campaign,” An- Open convention committee seeks support NEW YORK (UPI) Representatives of the Committee to Continue the Open Convention flew here yesterday to begin try to convince delegates to kill a proposed rule binding them to the candidate they were elected to support. Committee chairman Edward Bennett Williams and four members of Congress will meet with individual delegates and various caucuses to press their argument that the “loyal delegate” proposal backed by President Carter should be defeated Monday night! A spokesman said the congressmen Toby Moffett of Connecticut, Thomas Democrats are to stage their convention “grand The rule Carter wants ratified and Kennedy opening,” with welcoming speeches and then the wants rejected is: keynote address by Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz. “All delegates to the national convention shall Tuesday’s convention agenda will be be bound to vote for the presidential candidate dominated by debate on the Democratic plat- whom they were elected to support for at least form, with Kennedy allies determined to test the first convention ballot, unless released in Carter strength on an assortment of economic writing by the presidential candidate. Delegates issues. They will, for example, press for a plank w ho seek to violate this rule may be replaced advocating wage and price controls to combat with an alternate of the' same presidential inflation, a step Carter opposes. preference by the presidential candidate or that The Democrats are to vote Wednesday on candidate’s authorized representative at any presidential nominees, unless the negotiated time up to and including the presidential schedule comes undone. Carter’s name is to be balloting at the national convention.” placed in nomination by Florida Gov. Robert That means that a defecting delegate could be Graham, Kennedy’s by Rep. Barbara Mikulski dismissed by order of the candidate he was of Maryland. supposed to support. On Thursday, the traditional convention Kennedy and his “open convention” allies schedule calls for vice presidential nominations, argue that delegates pledged to Carter months then the acceptance speeches of the presidential ago shouldn’t be compelled to vote for him under nominee and his running mate. today’s altered circumstances. They cite Douglas Fraser, president of the United Auto economic woes, unyielding foreign policy Workers Union, is going to present Mondale’s probems and public opinion polls that rank name for vice presidential renomination. But Carter far behind Reagan in the voter’s first, Fraser, long a Kennedy supporter, is. .preference. campaigning for the “open convention.” .. Carter argues that the Kennedy people don’t That’s the way the convention schedule want ; an open convention, they want a brokered supposed to go. But just in case, ths Democrats convention because they lost the nomination in printed tickets for a fifth-day Friday. the primary elections. Carter won 24 primaries, CENTRE SPORTS 120 E. College Ave. 9:30-5 237-5981 TENNIS SPECIAL ALL RACKETS 15 - 40% OFF Converse Classic Tennis Shoe $25.00 PLUS: Ladies' Speedos $10.99 Men's Speedos $8.99 derson told a news conference. “l am just going to forge ahead with or without his help.” Anderson said he fully expects Carter to be the Democratic nominee. He said his meeting with Kennedy was born of the recognition that he must obtain significant Democratic support. “There are 22 percent of people in this country who are Republicans,” he said. “I am not going to be elected by Republicans. I have got to have sonje Democratic voters.” Once the Democratic convention is over, Anderson said his process of selecting a vice presidential can didate would enter a “highly intensive” phase, with the final selection to be made by the end of August. Earlier, Anderson proposed a broad new national transportation program. It includes a new federal trust fund for mass transit development, a goal of 10 percent increase in mass transit and car-sharing by com muters in the establishment of comprehensive mass Downey of New York, Don Edwards of California and Michael Barnes of Maryland would be among several whips, armed with walkie-talkies and access to the convention floor next week. Williams, a prominent Washington lawyer and a previous party treasurer, planned to carry his arguments before as many state delegations as would hear him, and was considering seeking time to address the convention. One of the committee’s first targets is Illinois, which has an overwhelming Carter majority but whose regular party machinery never strongly backed the rule reforms that led to the binding delegate proposal. Another spokesman said one disad vantage of the “loyal delegate” proposal, besides preventing delegates from changing their minds, is that it creates different classes of delegates. The classes include those who may switch, those who do not switch but are yanked off the floor for considering the possibility; those who are pledged to a candidate who then releases them, and those who came to the convention un committed. In a related development, six political Very Conducive to friendliness & mashing ww mass f * 2:00600 &vwy Fkjoay JUNCTION of COLLEGER GARNER state college . Plenty of %rkinc\ behind 'the SWIOtI n 'lle.n\-/ > -e.m dsily. The Daily Collegian Friday, August 8,1980 —5 transit systems in every city with more than 200,000 population by the decade’s end. Anderson also told the top officials of the U.S. steel industry in Pittsburgh yesterday that the steel industry needs help to update its aging equipment to compete with cheap foreign steel. Both the steel and auto-industries have suffered heavily from Japanese imports and Anderson said part of the fault lies with decisions made by executives in both of those industries. “As a result of an inadequate capital cost recovery program, we are stunting the opportunities of more economic growth in this country and more develop ment of the steel industry,” Anderson said. “It will be one of the points in my program to do something about that. Anderson said that while Japanese steel industry leaders were looking for new methods of production, American producers stuck with the now outdated open hearth method. scientists active in the party reform movement, issued a statement saying the proposed rule “would punish acts of conscience by expulsion from the con vention. It would reduce the party’s highest deliberative assembly to a puppet show.” The professors are: James MacGregor Burns of Williams College, James David Barber of Duke Univer sity, Gerald Pomper of Hutgers University, William Crotty Nor thwestern University, Donald 1 binson of Smith College and James Sun .quist of the Brookings Institution. Kennedy 10. “We intend to win this fight,” said White House Press Secretary Jody Powell. ' He did not foreclose the possibility that Carter, might later release his delegates in a unity gesture. He could afford to do that if his side won on the rule, and so proved that his nominating; majority will stick with him. ; Paul Kirk, political director for Kennedy, * claimed the challenger has the votes to release! the delegates. Kirk said he thinks Carter will shy ! from the fight before there is a vote. “Rather; than take a loss on the floor they will yield on the; issue,” he said As part of their deal on the convention! schedule, the Carter and Kennedy campaigns; also came up with a joint statement vowing that' once the fights are over, the Democrats will; unite. “Whoever is on our ticket, we are determined' to conclude our convention united behind ouri nominees,” the statement said. “With so much | at stake in this presidential election, the: Democratic Party must prevail in November .” ; ■ Sen. George McGovern of South DsKotd/the : ; .1972 Democratic nominee, is to be the leadoff’ speaker in favor of the “open convention” rules • change. I
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