-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.
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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.”
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“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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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
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building at the nuclear
;,plant, collecing samples from the
•radiation-dreched interior
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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.
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will enter arhirlock leading to the area
where two tigineers ventured July 23.
(No one had pen inside the building since
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'cooling wa[r spilled into the basement,
'and the reacor dangerously overheated.
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A remote-controlled television view of
the top last November showed no
damage to the control rod drive
mechanisms that helped slow the
overheated reactor after the March 1979
accident.
Before emerging, the team will collect
samples from the walls and take
radiation readings. In addition, they will
pick up glass fragments spotted by the
initial re-entry team.
Because glass absorbs radiation,
officials hope the fragments kept an
accurate record of how much has been
released since the accident.
Making the trip for the second time
will be engineers William H. Behrle 111
and Michael L. Benson. They will be
joined by Martin Cooper, the plant’s
shift foreman, and Sam Griffith, a health
physicist employed by Nuclear Support
Services, Inc.
The four are expected to receive less
than 1,000 millirems exposure to their
bodies. The federal limit for a three
month period is 3,000 millirems.
The team will wear protective
clothing, including firemen’s raincoats,
pants and boots. Although not required
to carry air tanks, the four men will
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Saudi prince calls for war to 'liberate" Jerusalem
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Saudi Arabia’s most
powerful prince has issued a dramatic call for
“jihad”'— a holy war for the “liberation” of
Jerusalem, posing a major new foreign policy
headache for the country’s No. 1 oil customer, the
United States.
“Talk is no more of any use,” said Saudi Crown
Prince Fahd, obviously exasperated by the Israeli
Parliament’s decision July 30 declaring Jerusalem,
including the Arab sector seized in the 1967 Middle
East War, its eternal capital.
Fahd, heir apparent to King Khaled’s throne but
already considered the leading power in the
country, called on Arab nations to unite for a holy
war for the “complete liberation” of all occupied
Arab lands, including Jerusalem, and established
of an independent Palestinian state with Arab
Jerusalem as its capital.
“Hasn’t the call for Arabs and Moslems to a long
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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
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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.
The co-ops in individual states sell
supplies to their members and market
the goods their members produce, said
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Bob Case, a co-op manager in
Oaklahoma.
The people attending this year’s
convention pay $llO a week for meals
and a dorm room or $95 a week to stay in
one of the 11 State College hotels.
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.
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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.
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