-The Daily Collegian Friday, Aug. 15,1980 -News briefs Air Force ponders MX sites WASHINGTON (UPI) The Pentagon’s chief weapons officer says the 'Air Force is moving full speed ahead on the possible basing of MX missiles in Utah and Nevada despite the controversey surrounding the $33 billion defense system. ‘‘We are moving and have been moving for almost a year now,” said undersecretary of defense William Perry, “full steam ahead on the MX design. Moving as fast as we can while all of this discussion and debate is going on. “It is clear that we have to resolve the question of where the bases are to go soon, or we will start running into delays in the program,” he said. Perry made his comments in an exclusive interview with United Press International before the MX Autoworkers reap federal aid WASHINGTON (UPI) The Labor Department said yesterday about 310,000 automobile workers are now eligible for special compensation for employment caused by sales of imported cars. The workers including 11,700 additional General Motors and Ford employees who have just become eligible - can receive up to 78 per cent of their weekly wage from the government for as much as 18 months under a 1974 law. Department spokeswoman Jan Mills said between 200.000 and 250,000 auto workers are receiving such Nobody remembers WASHINGTON (UPI) What if we won a war and nobody remem bered? Behold, V-J Day in the nation’s capital, Aug. 14,1980. Thirty-five years ago yesterday at 7 p.m., President Harry Truman called more than 200 reporters and photographers into his office to proudly announce Japan, crippled the week before by the awesome destruction caused by two atomic bombs, had surrendered to the United States. The beaming president told the country more than 5 million of its soldiers would be coming home within the year and he immediately proclaimed a two-day “Victory over Japan” holiday for all federal em ployees, with pay. His proclamation touched off a world-wide celebration which began across the street from the White House in Lafayette Square where 500 workers had played hookey from their jobs to await word on the out come of the war. From coast to coast, in big cities and out on farms, Americans hugged, kissed, danced and partied with abandon in one of the rowdiest celebrations the nation has ever seen. But the fervor that consumed Washington on V-J Day in 1945 was nowhere to be found yesterday. Chinese cult leader executed PEKING (UPI) A firing squad executed a self-proclaimed “medium of god” who killed 13 of his disciples, including 10 children, in a Jonestown-' like massacre, Chinese newspapers reported yesterday. The victims allowed themselves and their children to be killed by the leader of the bizarre cult, believing they would be “elevated to heaven,” the reports said. The killings were reminiscent of the macabre incident in Jonestown, Guyana, where more than 900 people died in a mass murder-suicide in Nov. 1978. All major newspapers in Peking and Shanghai reported a court in Qi Jiang county of Guizhou province Californians can eat their pets SACRAMENTO, Calif. (UPI) You can’t torture your dog in California but you can eat it if you like, local law enforcement officers have learned. The subject came up Saturday when a Sacramento resident com plained to police that her Samoan neighbors had killed and skinned their pet dog. Officers seized the carcass, then checked the state’s penal code for a law against killing pets for personal consumption. They learned the law bars buying or raising dogs to be used in fights or neglecting a pet—such as depriving it of food or water or torturing and maiming it. TV decoders upheld by court DETROIT (UPI) Two suburban Detroit men who deal in decoder kits to unscramble pay television signals can continue selling the program pirating devices under a federal court ruling. U.S. District Judge Robert E. DeMascio said the Federal Com munications Act of 1934 makes no provision for civil remedies in such cases and denied an injunction sought by National Subscription Television against the pair. NST operates in Michigan under the name ON-TV, which transmits programs to 40,000 Detroit-area subscribers over WXON-TV after 8 p.m. For a $22.50 monthly fee, sub- survived an attack on it at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday. Perry said: “We will be naming the preferred sites as Nevada and Utah, and quite a lot of survey work is already under way at those locations, including where the bases would be located the whole bit. “The analysis to date indicates that the so called ‘split basing alternative’ would add several billions of dollars to the costs of he system and that factor alone may turn out to be suf ficient to discourage its acceptance. President Carter is expected to choose the final MX sites before the end of the year after the Air Force completes an environmental impact statement on the alternative sites. payments and the - rest will when paperwork is processed: Agency investigations indicate the GM workers have been or may become unemployed or un deremployed as a result of increased imports of mid-size, standard and luxury-specialty automobiles, vans, utility vehicles and pickup trucks. The same applied to Ford workers, with the addition of sub-compact cars. The department also said imports caused significant layoffs, un deremployment or unemployment and a decline in sales or production. VJ Day a m -m Jy-l rms—i . . .—■ r Jpl tip Illustration by Cyndl Shoup There was no flag waving, no parades, no plans. “My God, it IS V-J Day, isn’t it?” said one spokesman at the Defense Department. “Let me see what’s up.” Nothing was up. “I checked with the Army, the Navy and the Air Force;” said the Pentagon spokesman who called back later. “No one has any plans.” Nothing on the calendar. The Democrats were in New York. The Republicans were in recess. Tuesday declared before a crowd of 10,000 that the cult leader, Xie Xianji, 24, was guilty of murder. “Xie was executed right af terward,” the reports said. Authorities in Qi Jiang ordered prominent coverage of the case to warn against a resurgence of superstition among the rural population. The court said Xie had deceived his followers and obtained their property under the pretext of offerings to the dieties he claimed to represent. It said he cheated them of about $l,OOO and, fearing discovery, killed them. Xie, capitalizing on his disciples’ faith in him, told them he could “send them up to heaven to join the gods.” But while a person can be sen tenced to state prison for killing and eating another person’s dog, “if it’s your own dog, there’s nothing legally wrong with it,” said an investigator in the district attorney’s office. Val Wood, executive director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, responded that “there ought to be a law” against the practice, which she said has been increasing since South Pacific islanders and Southeast Asians began coming to California. “From his view, there was nothing wrong,” she said of the dog’s owner. “To him it was like skinning a deer.” scribers get movies, sports and other special events without commercial interruption. “We’ve spent over $7 million in the 14 months we’ve been in operation in Michigan and we haven’t made any money yet,” said Patrick Kerich, general manager and chief operating officer of ON-TV. “This (court) loss could have a very dramatic effect on our business.” Robert Moser, 36, of Allen Park, and Philip G. Westbrook, 36, of Troy, have been selling decoder kits for $l5O that enable non-subscribers to unscramble ON-TV’s signals and get> the firm’s programs for free. 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College Ave. Free Delivery 7 Days Starts at 4:30 PM 237-8616 ittany Mall :00pm. :00am to -lie American Institute of Cooperation conference, seem prepared for the dank weather yesterday as they make theirway to the last general session of the conference in Eisenhower Auditorium. Over 2,000 delegates representing AtC memijjr cooperatives from around the world attended four days of conferences and lectures'. Wouffman team plans trip fnto fTMI's reactor today HARRISBURG (AP) The second "planned trip nside the eerie, darkened Confines of Tiree Mile Island’s Unit 2 fpontainment building is planned for •today. | *;-j A four-mahteam will spend about 40 ’minutes insici the 200-foot high concrete" building at the nuclear ;,plant, collecing samples from the •radiation-dreched interior t In preparation, TMI technicians .'vented another 61 curies of radioactive jkrypton gas from the containment .[building ovr a six-hour period yesterday. It pas the third small-scale •Venting sine 43,000 curies were ■removed overa two-week period ending gulyll. i] Sometime efore noon today, the team will enter arhirlock leading to the area where two tigineers ventured July 23. (No one had pen inside the building since jlilarch 28, ;)79 when a valve malfunc tioned, 6000 gallons of radioactive 'cooling wa[r spilled into the basement, 'and the reacor dangerously overheated. ' The fourinen will climb a flight of ■stairs to reah a point 40 feet above their lentry level.- \ From thahigher position, they will be !able to get le first in-person glimpse of |he top of he crippled reactor’s outer see vou n sepTe/v\eeß! PIETRO | of univ kD€R SQURR PAPERBACKS BASEBALL CARDS COMICS & TAPES Trade association holds seminars Agricultural cooperatives gather By BARRY ROSENBERG Daily Collegian Staff Writer When people have a large job to do which they cannot accomplish by themselves, they usually look to other people to help them out. A better way to work in harmony is what brought 2,200 agriculturalists from all over the country and the world to the University for four days of conferences and lectures. The American Institute of Cooperation (AIC), the conference sponsor, wants to increase productivity in American agricultural business through cooperation between people involved in product production. AIC accomplishes this by • teaching people how co-operatives work, why they are important, and how to make them better, said Peg D. Kirkpatrick, editor of AlC’s newsletter. The people attending the conference were divided into four groups: students and persistent jihad become the only answer to the Zionist religious and racist arrogance?” Fahd asked in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. The unexpected move threatened a new crisis for the United States how to balance what is shaping up as a real challenge to its ally, Israel, against the need for Saudi oil, which accounts for nearly 24 percent of U.S. daily petroleum imports. A State Department spokesman in Washington said Fahd’s declaration appeared to be nothing new and will not affect a decision about whether to sell the Saudis equipment that will give their American made F-15s an offensive capability. And in Cairo, Egypt President Anwar Sadat rejected the Saudi call to war, saying his country’s commitment to the Camp David framework remained firm and “until now, no Ara£> country has •5808 age 14 to 20, married couples who run their own farms, company officials and teachers and professors doing research. The participants; dues-paying members of AIC, were lectured on how to run the finances of their businesses and co-ops, the problems facing women in farming families, principals of agriculture, dealing with competition, in addition to other farm-related problems. AIC is a professsional trade association which has about 1,000 member co-ops throughout the country including Agway, Ocean Spray, Sunkist, Welch’s, Sun Maid, Land-O-Lakes and Lucky Leaf. Large food suppliers are members of AIC because their employees can learn to use co-ops to their advantage. The suppliers, because of large staffs, cannot teach their employees individually. 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Membership dues for a co-op range from $2OO to $1,200 depending on the volume of business the co-op does. AIC uses co-op dues to print material and to organize conventions to educate their members. AIC is managed by a board of direc tors and a board of 60 trustees. The trustees represent sections of the country and were elected to a one year term two nights ago. The incumbent president was also re-elected at that time. The University was chosen to host this year’s conference because of AlC’s close ties with land-grant universities. The national conference is held once a year. Colorado University will host the con vention next year. come up with a better alternative” for reachiing peace in the Middle East. In Israel, a foreign ministry official said Fahd’s pall did not represent,a change in the Saudi’s basic position in the Middle East conflict. “We are not surprised, nor disappointed, nor shocked by it,” the official said. But the prince’s announcement indicated a major Saudi shift toward a more hard-line stance alongside its relatively new Arab ally, Iraq, and all but doomed any lingering hopes the Carter ad ministration had that Riyadh might join the Camp David peace process. Washington had considered Saudi Arabia and neighboring Jordan the two best Arab prospects for participation in the U-S.-sponsored Camp David accords which led to an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. 326 E. College Ave.