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HSTITATTE& HLISOTBOHRYICSATL. SOCIETY SE1R9V334 COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 7ljt Your No. 23T5 (.' imhI Warning! It's Siiiurilay; Jimt 6. 97'. 14 Papes 15 Cent. s Insight SALTH: a weapons race pause ' Death rays' part of weapons future By Barry James Uaited Press International VIENNA, Austria New weapon technologies, either in the pipeline or just around the corner, may make the SALT II negotiations look like a piece of cake in retrospect The treaty President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev will sign Monday may prove to have been only a pause along the way to the costliest arms race in history, ac-cording to some defense experts. The land- base- d missiles that have been of such concern to the SALT II negotiators may even become obsolete by the end of the century, thanks to the development of " death rays." Both the Soviet Union and the United States have begun research into high- ener- gy lasers and particle beam generators mat literally may be able to zap incoming missiles oat ofmesky. Defense planners are deeply con-cerned mat competition between the superpowers could spawn costly armed doomsday camps in outer space. Such a possibility has gone almost unnoticed in the SALT debate. But the technology exists. For the past three years, the Soviet Union has been testing satellite killers that could knock America's vital communications and intelligence gathering satellites out of the skies, depriving it of its eyes and ears. And the United States is on the verge of launching a space shuttle that in theory will make possible the lofting of large payloads including military platforms into orbit. The shuttle could theoretically be ased also to attack or retrieve Soviet satellites, although space officials now have no such plans. Moscow already has branded the shuttle a military asset. NATO officials believe Carter may urge Brezhnev to start serious negotiations toward a treaty banning all offensive weapons from space. Preliminary talks toward such an agreement already have taken place in HelsinkL At present, the superpowers have agreed to ban only nuclear weapons in space. Superiority in orbit eventually could become a far more urgent defense concern man the throw- weig- ht or ac-curacy of multiple warhead missiles, Now that SALT II has established quantitative limits for strategic weapons, bom sides wOl be pouring effort into improving the quality and sophistication of their missiles. However, Vice President Walter Mondale says Senate rejection of SALT n would expose America to worldwide criticism and undermine US. efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. " I have no doubt we would be at-tacked around the world for refusing to take the step of ratifying a treaty wltich took seven years to develop," Mondale said. " It would undermine our moral authority in trying to deal with nuclear proliferation matters." Coming Sunday Egg layers The Marion Crocketts haven't laid an egg with their Mexico Egg Ranch. Read about one of Missouri's most successful egg production businesses in Sunday's Vibrations. In town today 9: 30 Jn.-- 5 pjn. Columbia Art League 21st annual Art Fair, Boone County Courthouse lawn; in case of rain. National Guard Armory, 702E. Ash. 14: 3 sja. " Three Little Pigs puppet show in basement of Farm and Home BoQding, 7S E. Broad-way. " Billy Goat's Gruff' at 2 pjn. 2 pjiL, 8: 15 pjn-- The King of Hearts," Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater; matinee tickets $ 4, evening tickets, $ 5. I 4 pan-- Festival Symphony En semble recital, St. Andrews Marie Brings PSe12. B I Inside today U. S. Open Larry Nelson and Tom Purtzer share the US. Open lead after Friday's round in Toledo, Ohio, but the big shock of the day was Tom Watson missing the cut by one shot. Read about Watson's reaction and other tournament highlights on PageS. Organized crime The FBI released documents- Frida- y implicating nearly a dozen reputed organized crime figures in alledged murder plots. Read about the family identified as rulers of organized crime in Kansas City on PageS. Darvon caution The secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Friday urged doctors not to prescribe Darvon or related medications unless it is unavoidable. He was attacked by a representative of Ralph Nader for defering restriction of the drug for one year. Read about the debate on the drugon Page 3. HHjHHHnHKgiyn'-- - 9SHEBiHHBuBBISfi9HHn8 HBHHBBBBHBHHHHKrn9HBHn SnnBKSii BBPRBBBHIHSK- nBnHnMBWciS-'- 1' ynBBBBHBnlny kHbBbSSBf hot ' HmhB nHMnHBRBHHBSHSHHIHHilnn. T&- Jgs& Bm-w - -- 11! W' ...' fflHI". vr-.:- - HBHHHnBHmnnBHB TiTf - .- w- ESFv-" - VniHHBHHBBHnMHHBv j n ' ' -- U0HffiBKHBIHBBHHnHEKHHBnHH5BHHH Less- than- attent- ive spectators await end of the legislative session Mortgage rate ceiling lifted By Kingsky Hammett State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri General Assembly Friday night barely passed a usury bill that eliminates the ceiling on interest on mortgage rates in the last action of this year's legislative session. After an exhausting day of delicate and open horse trading, an acceptable measure was finally drafted. Unchanged from earlier versions, the bill allows the allowable rates on mor-tgage interest to float at three percentage points above the federal long- ter- m bond rate. The maximum today would be about 11.6. In addition, the bill: r Set the rate on second mortgages at 16.5 percent: allows 22 percent on credit card balances up to $ 1,000 and 10 percent on anything above.; and sets the small loan rate at 26.6 percent on amounts up to $ 800, 15 percent on $ 800- 2,50- 0 and the usury- rat- e on amounts larger. Establishes the prepayment penalty for mortgages paid off before due at 2 percent, relaxes the restrictions on redlining reporting and eases for the lender the conditions under which he may recover property in the event of default The Senate did not approve the usury bill until 11 : 50 pjn., 10 minutes before the session was scheduled to close. The House had the bill minutes later and, with Speaker Kenneth Roth- ma- n, D- Clayt- on, pushing motions without formalities, the House gave its approval at 12: 05 a. m., amidst thousands of fluttering papers thrown into the air by legislators happy to end the 5- rno-nth session. The Senate did not take up the bill until 11 : 40 p. m.. and even Sen. A. Clifford Jones raises a question then it almost did not get a chance to act on the controversial measure. Sen. J. B. Banks. D-- St Louis, rose to speak strongly and. ( See USURY, Page 14) Property tax reassessment gains approval By David Kohn State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY - Twenty- fiv- e minutes before the state's legislative session ended, the Missouri Senate passed at 11: 35 pjn, Friday the con-troversial property tax reassessment measure by a 19- 1- 5 margin one vote more than the needed. The measure, which the House ap-proved Thursday night, now goes to the governor. The bill was roundly criticized by Sen. Emory Melton. R- Ba- rry County, a leading Senate conservative. " Who is going to be responsible for reassessment?" asked Sen. Clifford Gannon. D- Jeffer- son County, another opponent of the bQl. " For the life of me, I can't tell." Melton responded. The much- debate- d bill has two main provisions. First, the state will pay the counties an estimated $ 69 million toward the cost of reassessment. Second, the bill requires each county to reduce its property taxes when property is reassessed. The bill also gives the counties until Dec. 31. 1983. to complete reassessment. All reassessment changes will be effective Jan. 1. 1984. The measure further requires the counties to present their reassessment plans to the State Tax Commission for approval and provides increased property tax breaks for the poor and elderly. Many senators were hostile to the provision giving state money to the counties for reassessment costs. Melton questioned the estimated costs of the measure, predicting the state would pay between $ 100 million and $ 125 million. The bill does nothing to keep assessments current once reassessment is passed. Assessments quickly become outdated. Melton said. Melton also questioned the Senate's being asked to pass such a complex measure so late in the session. " When that happens it means one of two things: There's either nothing in the bill, or they're trying to pull a snow job on us." he said. The senator in charge of the bill denied the accusation. " This bill is no snow job," said Sen. Mary Gant, D- Jacks- on County. " We have to pass rollback to protect people." Although state law requires all property to be assessed at one- thir- d its open market value. State Tax Com- missi- on figures released earlier this year showed that in 1978 no county was at the required level. Boone County, according to the figures, averaged assessments at 25.7 percent of market value. Only eight Missouri counties were above that level. One county assessed at only 14.7 percent of market value. The reassessment issue was forced by a January 1979 Missouri Supreme Court decision. The court held that many homes were being assessed only when they were being sold and that newer buyers were paying an unfair share of the property tax. As a result, the tax commission ordered counties to reassess. Speed limit bill's OK ensures federal funds ByKateGerwig State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY In the last two hours of the legislative session Friday night. House and Senate members passed the federally required 55- mp- h ( 88- kp- h) speed limit bQl. thus ensuring that the state will not lose $ 200 million in federal funds. Both houses also passed a broadened version of the governor's emergency powers bill that would enable Gov. Joseph Teasdale to allow bigger and heavier trucks on Missouri's highways for a period up to 30 days. The House approved the governor's emergency powers bill with only an hour and a half left in the legislative session. Five minutes after that bQl was passed, the Senate finally took up the 55- m- ph ( 88- kp- h) speed limit bfll and passed it quickly. That action avoided a possible emergency session, which would have been necessary because the state's present speed limit law expires Dec. 31, before the next legislative session convenes. Sen. President Pro Tern Norman Merrell, D- Le- wis County, made mat-ters easier in the speed- lim- it debate by indicating that he did not intend to tack an amendment onto the bill that would increase the weight and length of trucks traveling Missouri highways. Until late Friday evening Merrell appeared determined to attach his big- tru- ck amendment to a bQl allowing mopeds motorized bicycles to travel on Missouri highways. Earlier in the week. Merrell had added that and another amendment onto the once- simp- le moped bill, which was designed to allow motorized bicycles on state roads. But with three minutes left in the session, the moped bill passed both houses without the big- tru- ck and speed limit amendments. Earlier, it had appeared that Merrell would stall the discussion on the moped bill until late in the evening so that the House would have little time to amend it. because all bflls had to be passed by midnight. But the governor's emergency powers bQl changed that strategy. The bill gives the governor the option of proclaiming an energy resource emergency, thus enabling him to take appropriate measures to deal with the problem. Goodrich, rubber workers agree WASHINGTON fUPI) Tentative agreement was reached Friday bet-ween the United Rubber Workers union and B. F. Goodrich on a new contract expected to serve as a pattern for other agreements with the " Big Four" tire and rubber companies. Chief federal mediator Wayne Horvitz announced the settlement after eight hoars of near continuous bargaining during the day. " I have every confidence this wfll be ratified." Horvitz told reporters. Neither the union nor company would disclose details of the agreement, nor say whether it violated President Carter's wage guidelines. URW President Peter Bommarito characterized the settlement as " substantial" but would not disclose the economic terms. Bommarito also said the pact included a neutrality clause, but would not give detaQs. Goodrich Vice President Peter PestiUo said the guidelines may have to be reviewed to see whether the agreement meets administration standards, but said it ' is not a 7 percent first- ye- ar settlement." PestiUo said various interpretations. however, could bring the package within the guidelines. Horvitz called the union and the company to the table on Monday when talks between the union and Uniroyal, the original target company in this year's round of negotiations, became snarled in President Carter's wage guidlines. About 8,200 workers at 12 Uniroyal plants have been on strike since May 9 after the company refused, under government pressure, to violate Car-ter's 7 percent limit for yearly wage- bene- ift increases. The VS. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia is considering a government appeal from a lower- cou- rt ruling that economic sanctions threatened by the administration against companies that breach the guidelines are unconstitutional. The rubber workers union was one of several AFLrCIO unions that brought the suit against die sanctions. The major cause of disagreement during the negotiations concerned cost of living adjustments and neutrality of the company in union organizing efforts at non- uni- on plants. Malaysians will expel boat people KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia fUPI) The government said Friday it wfll " shoot on sight" any Vietnamese refugees trying to land in Malaysia, and will tow out to sea all 76,000 refugees already in resettlement camps. It was not immediately clear whether die fierce warning, announced by Deputy Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. was a scare tactic or truly a new policy. But Mahathir said the police and navy would be empowered to repel any " boat people' entering Malaysian waters. He vowed the mass deportation would take place as seen as the government obtains enough boats. " The government will arm itself with the necessary legislation soon to shoot on sight any Vietnamese illegal im-migrants entering our waters." Mahathir said. " We will be harsh with mem." Refugees who scuttle their boats offshore will not be rescued even if tbey are drowning, Matathir said. Malaysia and Indonesia earlier in the day appealed to Hanoi to stop casting its human " rubbish" on their shores, but a top Vietnamese official said in an interview in Bangkok he saw little chance of ending the refugee exodus. Vietnamese refugees, most cf wham are ethnic Chinese, never have been welcomed in Malaysia, a predominately Moslem country fearful of Chinese domination. Malay villagers have stoned arriving Vietnamese boat people, and the navy reportedly has towed one leaking junk back out to sea. Barring entrance or towing the refugees back out to sea in their im possibly crowded junks would spell almost certain death for tens of thousands. Meanwhile, Vietnam's Secretary of State Nguyen Co Thatch denied his government bad any part in organizing the refugee flood. Vietnamese authorities have tried fa- tw- o years to stop their citizens from fleeing and " many people criticized us because we wosU not let the people leave." be said.. As a result, m 1977, " We derided tote let them leave."
Object Description
Title | Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1979-06-16 |
Description | Vol. 71TH YEAR, No. 235 |
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Columbia (Mo.) -- Newspapers Boone County (Mo.) -- Newspapers |
Coverage | United States -- Missouri -- Boone County -- Columbia |
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Item.Transcript | HSTITATTE& HLISOTBOHRYICSATL. SOCIETY SE1R9V334 COLUMBIA, MO. 65201 7ljt Your No. 23T5 (.' imhI Warning! It's Siiiurilay; Jimt 6. 97'. 14 Papes 15 Cent. s Insight SALTH: a weapons race pause ' Death rays' part of weapons future By Barry James Uaited Press International VIENNA, Austria New weapon technologies, either in the pipeline or just around the corner, may make the SALT II negotiations look like a piece of cake in retrospect The treaty President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev will sign Monday may prove to have been only a pause along the way to the costliest arms race in history, ac-cording to some defense experts. The land- base- d missiles that have been of such concern to the SALT II negotiators may even become obsolete by the end of the century, thanks to the development of " death rays." Both the Soviet Union and the United States have begun research into high- ener- gy lasers and particle beam generators mat literally may be able to zap incoming missiles oat ofmesky. Defense planners are deeply con-cerned mat competition between the superpowers could spawn costly armed doomsday camps in outer space. Such a possibility has gone almost unnoticed in the SALT debate. But the technology exists. For the past three years, the Soviet Union has been testing satellite killers that could knock America's vital communications and intelligence gathering satellites out of the skies, depriving it of its eyes and ears. And the United States is on the verge of launching a space shuttle that in theory will make possible the lofting of large payloads including military platforms into orbit. The shuttle could theoretically be ased also to attack or retrieve Soviet satellites, although space officials now have no such plans. Moscow already has branded the shuttle a military asset. NATO officials believe Carter may urge Brezhnev to start serious negotiations toward a treaty banning all offensive weapons from space. Preliminary talks toward such an agreement already have taken place in HelsinkL At present, the superpowers have agreed to ban only nuclear weapons in space. Superiority in orbit eventually could become a far more urgent defense concern man the throw- weig- ht or ac-curacy of multiple warhead missiles, Now that SALT II has established quantitative limits for strategic weapons, bom sides wOl be pouring effort into improving the quality and sophistication of their missiles. However, Vice President Walter Mondale says Senate rejection of SALT n would expose America to worldwide criticism and undermine US. efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. " I have no doubt we would be at-tacked around the world for refusing to take the step of ratifying a treaty wltich took seven years to develop," Mondale said. " It would undermine our moral authority in trying to deal with nuclear proliferation matters." Coming Sunday Egg layers The Marion Crocketts haven't laid an egg with their Mexico Egg Ranch. Read about one of Missouri's most successful egg production businesses in Sunday's Vibrations. In town today 9: 30 Jn.-- 5 pjn. Columbia Art League 21st annual Art Fair, Boone County Courthouse lawn; in case of rain. National Guard Armory, 702E. Ash. 14: 3 sja. " Three Little Pigs puppet show in basement of Farm and Home BoQding, 7S E. Broad-way. " Billy Goat's Gruff' at 2 pjn. 2 pjiL, 8: 15 pjn-- The King of Hearts," Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater; matinee tickets $ 4, evening tickets, $ 5. I 4 pan-- Festival Symphony En semble recital, St. Andrews Marie Brings PSe12. B I Inside today U. S. Open Larry Nelson and Tom Purtzer share the US. Open lead after Friday's round in Toledo, Ohio, but the big shock of the day was Tom Watson missing the cut by one shot. Read about Watson's reaction and other tournament highlights on PageS. Organized crime The FBI released documents- Frida- y implicating nearly a dozen reputed organized crime figures in alledged murder plots. Read about the family identified as rulers of organized crime in Kansas City on PageS. Darvon caution The secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Friday urged doctors not to prescribe Darvon or related medications unless it is unavoidable. He was attacked by a representative of Ralph Nader for defering restriction of the drug for one year. Read about the debate on the drugon Page 3. HHjHHHnHKgiyn'-- - 9SHEBiHHBuBBISfi9HHn8 HBHHBBBBHBHHHHKrn9HBHn SnnBKSii BBPRBBBHIHSK- nBnHnMBWciS-'- 1' ynBBBBHBnlny kHbBbSSBf hot ' HmhB nHMnHBRBHHBSHSHHIHHilnn. T&- Jgs& Bm-w - -- 11! W' ...' fflHI". vr-.:- - HBHHHnBHmnnBHB TiTf - .- w- ESFv-" - VniHHBHHBBHnMHHBv j n ' ' -- U0HffiBKHBIHBBHHnHEKHHBnHH5BHHH Less- than- attent- ive spectators await end of the legislative session Mortgage rate ceiling lifted By Kingsky Hammett State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY The Missouri General Assembly Friday night barely passed a usury bill that eliminates the ceiling on interest on mortgage rates in the last action of this year's legislative session. After an exhausting day of delicate and open horse trading, an acceptable measure was finally drafted. Unchanged from earlier versions, the bill allows the allowable rates on mor-tgage interest to float at three percentage points above the federal long- ter- m bond rate. The maximum today would be about 11.6. In addition, the bill: r Set the rate on second mortgages at 16.5 percent: allows 22 percent on credit card balances up to $ 1,000 and 10 percent on anything above.; and sets the small loan rate at 26.6 percent on amounts up to $ 800, 15 percent on $ 800- 2,50- 0 and the usury- rat- e on amounts larger. Establishes the prepayment penalty for mortgages paid off before due at 2 percent, relaxes the restrictions on redlining reporting and eases for the lender the conditions under which he may recover property in the event of default The Senate did not approve the usury bill until 11 : 50 pjn., 10 minutes before the session was scheduled to close. The House had the bill minutes later and, with Speaker Kenneth Roth- ma- n, D- Clayt- on, pushing motions without formalities, the House gave its approval at 12: 05 a. m., amidst thousands of fluttering papers thrown into the air by legislators happy to end the 5- rno-nth session. The Senate did not take up the bill until 11 : 40 p. m.. and even Sen. A. Clifford Jones raises a question then it almost did not get a chance to act on the controversial measure. Sen. J. B. Banks. D-- St Louis, rose to speak strongly and. ( See USURY, Page 14) Property tax reassessment gains approval By David Kohn State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY - Twenty- fiv- e minutes before the state's legislative session ended, the Missouri Senate passed at 11: 35 pjn, Friday the con-troversial property tax reassessment measure by a 19- 1- 5 margin one vote more than the needed. The measure, which the House ap-proved Thursday night, now goes to the governor. The bill was roundly criticized by Sen. Emory Melton. R- Ba- rry County, a leading Senate conservative. " Who is going to be responsible for reassessment?" asked Sen. Clifford Gannon. D- Jeffer- son County, another opponent of the bQl. " For the life of me, I can't tell." Melton responded. The much- debate- d bill has two main provisions. First, the state will pay the counties an estimated $ 69 million toward the cost of reassessment. Second, the bill requires each county to reduce its property taxes when property is reassessed. The bill also gives the counties until Dec. 31. 1983. to complete reassessment. All reassessment changes will be effective Jan. 1. 1984. The measure further requires the counties to present their reassessment plans to the State Tax Commission for approval and provides increased property tax breaks for the poor and elderly. Many senators were hostile to the provision giving state money to the counties for reassessment costs. Melton questioned the estimated costs of the measure, predicting the state would pay between $ 100 million and $ 125 million. The bill does nothing to keep assessments current once reassessment is passed. Assessments quickly become outdated. Melton said. Melton also questioned the Senate's being asked to pass such a complex measure so late in the session. " When that happens it means one of two things: There's either nothing in the bill, or they're trying to pull a snow job on us." he said. The senator in charge of the bill denied the accusation. " This bill is no snow job," said Sen. Mary Gant, D- Jacks- on County. " We have to pass rollback to protect people." Although state law requires all property to be assessed at one- thir- d its open market value. State Tax Com- missi- on figures released earlier this year showed that in 1978 no county was at the required level. Boone County, according to the figures, averaged assessments at 25.7 percent of market value. Only eight Missouri counties were above that level. One county assessed at only 14.7 percent of market value. The reassessment issue was forced by a January 1979 Missouri Supreme Court decision. The court held that many homes were being assessed only when they were being sold and that newer buyers were paying an unfair share of the property tax. As a result, the tax commission ordered counties to reassess. Speed limit bill's OK ensures federal funds ByKateGerwig State capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY In the last two hours of the legislative session Friday night. House and Senate members passed the federally required 55- mp- h ( 88- kp- h) speed limit bQl. thus ensuring that the state will not lose $ 200 million in federal funds. Both houses also passed a broadened version of the governor's emergency powers bill that would enable Gov. Joseph Teasdale to allow bigger and heavier trucks on Missouri's highways for a period up to 30 days. The House approved the governor's emergency powers bill with only an hour and a half left in the legislative session. Five minutes after that bQl was passed, the Senate finally took up the 55- m- ph ( 88- kp- h) speed limit bfll and passed it quickly. That action avoided a possible emergency session, which would have been necessary because the state's present speed limit law expires Dec. 31, before the next legislative session convenes. Sen. President Pro Tern Norman Merrell, D- Le- wis County, made mat-ters easier in the speed- lim- it debate by indicating that he did not intend to tack an amendment onto the bill that would increase the weight and length of trucks traveling Missouri highways. Until late Friday evening Merrell appeared determined to attach his big- tru- ck amendment to a bQl allowing mopeds motorized bicycles to travel on Missouri highways. Earlier in the week. Merrell had added that and another amendment onto the once- simp- le moped bill, which was designed to allow motorized bicycles on state roads. But with three minutes left in the session, the moped bill passed both houses without the big- tru- ck and speed limit amendments. Earlier, it had appeared that Merrell would stall the discussion on the moped bill until late in the evening so that the House would have little time to amend it. because all bflls had to be passed by midnight. But the governor's emergency powers bQl changed that strategy. The bill gives the governor the option of proclaiming an energy resource emergency, thus enabling him to take appropriate measures to deal with the problem. Goodrich, rubber workers agree WASHINGTON fUPI) Tentative agreement was reached Friday bet-ween the United Rubber Workers union and B. F. Goodrich on a new contract expected to serve as a pattern for other agreements with the " Big Four" tire and rubber companies. Chief federal mediator Wayne Horvitz announced the settlement after eight hoars of near continuous bargaining during the day. " I have every confidence this wfll be ratified." Horvitz told reporters. Neither the union nor company would disclose details of the agreement, nor say whether it violated President Carter's wage guidelines. URW President Peter Bommarito characterized the settlement as " substantial" but would not disclose the economic terms. Bommarito also said the pact included a neutrality clause, but would not give detaQs. Goodrich Vice President Peter PestiUo said the guidelines may have to be reviewed to see whether the agreement meets administration standards, but said it ' is not a 7 percent first- ye- ar settlement." PestiUo said various interpretations. however, could bring the package within the guidelines. Horvitz called the union and the company to the table on Monday when talks between the union and Uniroyal, the original target company in this year's round of negotiations, became snarled in President Carter's wage guidlines. About 8,200 workers at 12 Uniroyal plants have been on strike since May 9 after the company refused, under government pressure, to violate Car-ter's 7 percent limit for yearly wage- bene- ift increases. The VS. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia is considering a government appeal from a lower- cou- rt ruling that economic sanctions threatened by the administration against companies that breach the guidelines are unconstitutional. The rubber workers union was one of several AFLrCIO unions that brought the suit against die sanctions. The major cause of disagreement during the negotiations concerned cost of living adjustments and neutrality of the company in union organizing efforts at non- uni- on plants. Malaysians will expel boat people KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia fUPI) The government said Friday it wfll " shoot on sight" any Vietnamese refugees trying to land in Malaysia, and will tow out to sea all 76,000 refugees already in resettlement camps. It was not immediately clear whether die fierce warning, announced by Deputy Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. was a scare tactic or truly a new policy. But Mahathir said the police and navy would be empowered to repel any " boat people' entering Malaysian waters. He vowed the mass deportation would take place as seen as the government obtains enough boats. " The government will arm itself with the necessary legislation soon to shoot on sight any Vietnamese illegal im-migrants entering our waters." Mahathir said. " We will be harsh with mem." Refugees who scuttle their boats offshore will not be rescued even if tbey are drowning, Matathir said. Malaysia and Indonesia earlier in the day appealed to Hanoi to stop casting its human " rubbish" on their shores, but a top Vietnamese official said in an interview in Bangkok he saw little chance of ending the refugee exodus. Vietnamese refugees, most cf wham are ethnic Chinese, never have been welcomed in Malaysia, a predominately Moslem country fearful of Chinese domination. Malay villagers have stoned arriving Vietnamese boat people, and the navy reportedly has towed one leaking junk back out to sea. Barring entrance or towing the refugees back out to sea in their im possibly crowded junks would spell almost certain death for tens of thousands. Meanwhile, Vietnam's Secretary of State Nguyen Co Thatch denied his government bad any part in organizing the refugee flood. Vietnamese authorities have tried fa- tw- o years to stop their citizens from fleeing and " many people criticized us because we wosU not let the people leave." be said.. As a result, m 1977, " We derided tote let them leave." |