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Brzezinski may testify
Dealings with Billy Carter questioned
WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate
panel investigating Billy Carter's
dealings with the radical Libyan
government has turned a critical eye on
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the president's
national security adviser.
i. At first, the Senate Judiciary sub
: committee focused on whether the
justice Department showed favoritism
!'toward Billy Carter when it decided not
6, 40 prosecute him for failing to register as
':.
a foreign agent for Moammar Khadafy.
• The most significant question now
lconcerns the White House's direct
dealings with the president's biother.
• The latest controversy centers on
• 13rzezinski's decision to tip Billy Carter
*'in March that the White House knew he
• was trying to put together an oil deal
:with Libya that would yield him huge
I commissions.
; That decision raised eyebrows
;because Brzezinski apparently got the
information from an intelligence report
,and divulged it to the president's
'brother.
During hearings last week, the Senate
;sub'committee learned from Attorney
General Benjamin Civiletti that the
Mayor says Phila. strike
stuck on no-layoff issue
0 PHILADELPHIA (AP) Classes for
220,000 Philadelphia school students
:were curtailed for a second day today in
a seven-day public school teachers'
strike that Mayor William Green says
has been prolonged by a union no-layoff
demand.
Only elementary and special
education students were to report today,
• The second scheduled day of classes, but
: school officials said students may be
: dismissed before noon if not enough
school personnel show up.
'lt is wrong to saddle the
taxpayers of the city with
another bill to pay for the
services of personnel who
ere no longer needed due
to declining enrollments.'
—Philadelphia Mayor
• . .
• William Green
a Teachers struck . after their old pact
expired on Labor Day, but were to have
reported to work two days later for the
first of two preparation days.
"We believed and continue to believe
that it is essential to good management
and financial stability for the school
'board to have the right to reduce the
levels of their employees commensurate
with the decline in pupil enrollment,"
• Green said in a statement issued
Saturday.
"We do not believe this is unfair,
unreasonable or excessive. Every other
ei
Lucas says boycott hurt athletes
'The only losers of the Moscow Olympic Games
were, regrettably, the 2,000 athletes who were
not allowed to go because their national
governments kept them from going.'
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Justice Department is looking into the
matter.
But the senators are eager to question
Brzezinski and other White House of
ficials themselves.
They thought the matter was im
portant enough to delay some of the
testimony planned for this week so
members will have time to sharpen their
questions for Brzezinski.
Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-SC, vice
chairman of the panel, brought Br
zezinski into the picture Friday while
questioning Civiletti about his handling
of two intelligence reports he received
on Billy Carter April 15.
Brzezinski received one of the same
reports about Billy's plans to get more
oil from Libya for an American firm that
would pay him handsomely for the
service. The other report said Billy
Carter was about to receive money from
Libya. To Civiletti, both reports were so
sensitive because of their source that he
delayed telling his own investigators
about them.
"It appears that while you were taking
precautions with the intelligence report,
Dr. Brzezinski was not," Thurmond
said. "There are grave questions about
public employees union in the city had to
face up to layoffs in the light of the city's
serious financial condition."
Firefighters, police and municipal
workers all suffered scores of layoffs
after their last contracts. The
furloughed employees are being rehired
as attrition of senior workers occurs.
"It is wrong to saddle the taxpayers of
the city with another bill to pay for the
services of personnel who are no longer
needed due to declining enrollments,"
Green said.
Almost 30,000 fewer students now are
enrolled in city schools than were in the
schools two years ago, according to
district figures.
John Murray, president of the
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers,
said Friday that an agreement on a
tentative two-year contract had been
within reach until the city ad
ministration made it clear to school
district officials they would not fund the
pact.
The city has no formal role in
negotiations bet Ween the teachers and
the school board. But the city and school
district share property taxes set by the
Philadelphia City Council. The mayor
holds veto powers.
Talks were being held around the
clock before collapsing Friday over the
job security issue.
The Philadelphia Teachers Union
represents 11,000 educators with
average annual salaries of $23,500. No
new talks were scheduled between union
and district negotiators.
Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, strikes by
educators continue to affect almost
70,000 students in 16 other districts.
Nearly all Pennsylvania public schools
usually open the week of Labor Day.
his conduct and handling of what he had
been told is extremely sensitive in
telligence information."
A Justice Department official con
firmed his office is investigating. "We
have not, however, at this time
developed any evidence indicating that
Dr. Brzezinski has committed any
criminal violations," he said.
Brzezinski has said in a written
statement he telephoned Billy to warn
him the Libyans would exploit the
proposed oil deal politically to em
barrass the president. In an earlier
hearing, Billy Carter said he told Br
zezinski it was "none of his business."
Billy Carter filed as a foreign agent for
Libya on July 14 under pressure from the
Justice Department. He said Khadafy's
government gave him a $220,000 loan
and two expense-paid trips solely out of
friendship. He insisted the Libyans
asked no political favbrs and he did not
give them any.
The Senate subcommittee. will
question CIA Director Stansfield Turner
in a closed session Tuesday and will call
Lloyd Cutler, the president's counsel, to
a public hearing Wednesday. Brzezinski
is expected to testify next week.
Specter, Flaherty favor higher education aid
By LYNDA ROBINSON
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
U.S.Senate candidates Pete Flaherty and Arlen
Specter both favor more federal aid for higher
education, but that was the only issue on which they
agreed at a debate sponsored by the State College
Chamber of Commerce on Friday.
Both Flaherty and Specter - cited the financial aid they
had received in college as their reason for favoring
more federal aid for higher education.
Specter, the Republican nominee, said he supports
tax credits for parents sending their children through
college.
' think there has to be a focus. on, the tri,ln - ..Jidous
changes in cost and the tremendous need for extra help
that exists in 1980 compared to those days far away
when Pete Flaherty and Arlen Specter used federal
funds," said Specter, former Philadelphia district
attorney.Flaherty, the Democratic nominee, agreed
that tax reform was necessary, but said he also favored
greater availability of low-interest loans.
"It's going to have to be a high priority of this
government to provide, as best we can, help to those
families trying to get their youngsters educated," the
former Pittsburgh mayor said.
"We can do this by expanding the low interest loan
program which I certainly favor, and in certain cases
even grants to those who are disadvantaged," he said.
The candidates agreed less on the issue of federal
expenditures and the recession.
This was not an Olympic Game of
losers. There's no way that you can
call the winners of the Moscow
Olympic Games losers because those
men and women who won at Moscow
were among the very, very best
athletes in the whole world. They're
not losers.
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This is the kind of hyperbole that I
abhor in journalism. Much of jour
nalism is very objective and scien
tific. But so much of it is hyperbole
the
daily
A sharp exchange took place after Specter accused
But quality still high at Games
Editor's Note: Olympic historian
John A. Lucas, a University professor
of physical education, traveled to
Moscow for the summer Olympics in
July despite the U.S.-led boycott.
After his return, Daily Collegian staff
writers Bernadette Eyler and Paul
Sunyak interviewed Lucas about his
trip, the increasingly political nature
of the Olympics, and the future of the
Games. The following is a transcript
of that interview, edited for length
and clarity.
COLLEGIAN: Many national
headlines proclaim that the Moscow
Olympics were an Olympics of losers.
Do you think that was really the
case?
Interview
LUCAS: No. I think that's a gross
exaggeration. It isthe kind of rhetoric
that you regretably hear from the
journalists representing those
countries that boycotted the Olympic
Games.
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Flaherty of supporting former presidential candidate
Edward M. Kennedy's $l2 billion jobs program.
"I believe that there has to be some immediate job
help in certain areas which are very heavily
depressed," Specter said. "But I believe that if we were
to set upon a $l2 billion dollar program as Pete has
advocated, that it would be enormously wasteful and
enormously inflationary."
Flaherty defended his stand on unemployment and
attacked Specter on the issue of tax cuts to stimulate
the economy.
"Yes, I'm for jobs, maybe not as much as $l2 billion, I
never went that high. But we've got to have, federal
publicimprovements to stimulate this economy and get
our people back to work again," he said.
"Arlen said his solution was a tax relief program to
get us out of the economic recession we're in," Flaherty
said. "While he said he wasn't for Kemp-Roth, he in
effect turned around and said yes he was for a 10 per
cent tax cut the first year which is what Kemp-Roth is."
Flaherty said he considered Kemp-Roth a hoax
because it favored those in the highest tax brackets, but
only provided about $l5O in tax relief to someone
making approximately $15,000 a year.
"We can't sit still and just depend upon on some kind
of voodoo economics, and that's what George Bush, the
vice presidential candidate of the Republican Party,
has termed Kemp-Roth that that's not going to get us
out," Flaherty said.
Specter said he denied that he supported Kemp-Roth
and clarified his own position further.
like, "The Moscow Olympics was an
Olympics of losers." Whoever said
that is not overly intelligent.
COLLEGIAN: Would you say that
the Western press was offbase in
making those statements?
LUCAS: Some of the Western press
wasoffbase in saying that these
Games were the Games of losers.
They were not. They were Games
that would have had an even higher
level of qualityhad West Germany,
Japan, Canada and the United States
been present. But the level of quality
was extremely high, and the world
records that were broken at the
Moscow Olympic Games is a
scientific and objective piece of
evidence that shows the quality in
almost every event was of extremely
high quality.
COLLEGIAN: Which events were
not of high quality?
LUCAS: Well, we always, in the
United States, would find room for
Renaldo Nehemiah in the 110-meter
high hurdles, Mac Wilkins in the
discus, Edwin Moses in the 400-meter
hurdles and for a whole host of
American boxers and male and
female swimmers. They would have
altered the outcome of the Moscow
Games without a doubt.
COLLEGIAN: Do you think that
the only real losers of the Games
were the athletes who didn't go?
Continued on Page 14
Monday, Sept. 8,1980
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Residents
in Albany
ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) An explosion
at a gasoline storage area at the Port of
Albany set four large tanks afire
yesterday, injuring eight people and
forcing the evacuation of about 1,000
residents, officials said.
At least $1 million in damage was
estimated.
The fires at the Mobil Oil Co. yard on
the west bank of the Hudson River sent
,huge clouds of black smoke over
downtown Albany and were described as
"uncontrollable" shortly after the ex
plosion at 1:30 p.m.
Seven firefighters and a Mobil em
ployee were hurt. One firefighter was in
serious condition suffering from smoke
inhalation and chest pains. The others
were reported in good or fair condition
after inhaling smoke and sustaining
other injuries.
About 1,000 people were evacuated
from their downtown Albany homes
immediately after the explosion. Of
ficials allowed them to return about
three hours later when the fires died
down. The fires were declared under
control at 5:17 p.m.
Mobil officials said the fires were
confined to two tanks, though Albany
fire officials contended four tanks were
involved. Matthew D'Amico, manager of
plant operations for Mobil, said the fires
caused at least $1 million in damage.
Each of the tanks has a capacity about
1.5 million gallons of gasoline,-but Mobil
officials said there was about 6,000
gallons in one tank and about 30,000 in
another. It was not known how much
gasoline was in the other tanks.
"I decided to evacuate the area
because there was a good possibility all
the other tanks might explode, causing a
pyramid effect," Albany Police Capt.
John Lynch said.
"It was remarkable how fast people
could run," added Albany Mayor
Erastus Corning, who went to the scene.
Two firefighters who were 50 feet from
the tanks when they exploded showed
that the front of their plastic portable
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"I do not believe that there can be a committment to a
30 percent tax cut because that would cost some $69
billion dollars. I do believe, however, that it is sound to
have 10 percent cut," he said.
The tax cut that former, President John F. Kennedy
made during 1963 did not result in a drop revenue for the
federal government, Specter said. The cut actually
increased revenue by $6.2 billion, he said.
The candidates also differed on the controversy
created by the recent disclosure by the Department of
Defense about a new bomber that cannot be detected by
the Soviet Union.
Specter charged that the stealth bomber leak was a
deliberate sacrifice of national security designed to
bolster President Carter's contention that he has dealt
adequately with national defense.
"What are we going to do with a president who uses
his office for partisan political gain at the possible
expense of national security?" he said.
Flaherty advocated that the stealth bomber leak, as
well as any other unauthorized disclosure, should be
investigated by the appropriate Congressional over
sight committee.
However, Specter insisted that the leak required
immediate action, and this could not be provided by a
congressional committee.
"I think we've had too many investigations and too
much delay and too much of that bureaucratic
governmental process," Specter said. "I think we've
got to come with grips with this now and not debate
endlessly."
evacuated
gas blaze
radios and their metal badges melted in
the blast indications of the intensity of
the heat.
Battalion Chief Warren Abriel of the
Albany Fire Department described the
accident as an "exploding fireball
shooting into the air."
The Albany skyline including the
state Capitol and billion-dollar South
Mall state office complex about a mil('
from the blaze were silhouetted
against plumes of black smoke that rose
from the tanks and drifted across the
Hudson River.
The burning tanks were in a cluster of
about eight tanks located in a 35-tank
field. There are about 60 tanks in the
area. Two of the normally white tanks
were blackened and two more were
partially charred.
Police sealed off Interstate 787
through downtown Albany, as well as a
series of overpasses and underpasses
connecting downtown with the
surrounding area. Two nearby exits of
the New York State Thruway were also
closed.
Officials said the fire began near one
of the tanks at about 10:30 a.m., and the
explosion occurred three hours later.
They said they believed the fire began
when an oil tanker was taking on fuel at_
the tank.
A porthole left open in one of the tanks
allowed gasoline to spread to another of
the tanks, spreading the fire, officials
said.
A bright beginning
Cool temperatures and bright sun
shine will help , you make it to your first
class today, and only a scattered shower
or two could dampen the late afternoon.
Today's temperature will rise to a
comfortable 74. Tonight will be partly
cloudy and not as cool with a low of 63,
and tomorrow will return to warm and
sticky weather with some afternoon
thunderstorms and a high of 81.
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