Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1977-08-09

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9 a.m. Bocne County Court,
County-Cit-y Building.
7:30 p.m. "The Mikado,"
Maplewood Barn Theater, Nifong
Park, Adults $1.
Exhibits
See Sunday's Vibrations
magazine for continuing.exhibit
schedule.
Movie listings on page 13.
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Tanker plan
draws fire
from GOP
'Partisan rhetoric,'
White House replies
Chicago Daily News
WASHINGTON - Is President
Carter already playing the kind of old-sty- le
Washington "payoff" politics he
so regularly and righteously criticized
on his way to the White House?
The Republicans say he is that the
administration is involved in "a bud-ding
scandal" and "blatant political
payoff" that could cost American
consumers up to $2 billion to make good
on a Carter campaign promise to
maritime unions.
The White House says he is not that
the GOP is only indulging in "partisan
rhetoric" but at the same time Carter's
spokesman acknowledges that "we are
concerned about appearances."
The issue on which the Republicans
are trying to attach the first big doubt
to Carter's "protestations of purity"
involves the President's support for a
bill pendng in Congress to require that
9.5 per cent of all imported oil be
carried in U.S. tankers with American
crews.
And here is the basis on which three
top GOP leaders national chairman
William Brock, Senate Minority Leader
Howard Baker and House Minority-Leade- r
John Rhodes claim Carter's
support for the bill amounts to "a
blatant political payoff" to maritime
unions and shipping iterests.
The Defense, State, Treasury and
Commerce departments, plus Carter's
own top domestic policy adviser and his
trade negotiator, Robert Strauss, all
indicated their opposition to or doubts
about the bill, according to the GOP and
to some administration documents
referring to the legislation.
Despite this, Strauss and Stuart
Eizenstat, Carter's top domestic policy
aide, suggested in a memorandum to
the President that he had no "political"
alternative to supporting the bill in
view of a campaign promise he made to
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President Jimmy Carter prepares to leave the Carter peanut
warehouse in Plains, Ga., Monday after being told that the
Mar recognize Israel
Vance; PLO might alter stance From our wire services
TAIF, Saudi Arabia Secretary of
State Cyrus R. Vance said Monday that
Saudi Arabian officials had advised
him to expect an imminent change in
the Palestine Liberation Organization's
attitude toward a key United Nations
resolution that recognizes Israel's right
to exist but which has been opposed by
the PLO for a decade.
But within hours of Vance's
disclosure, a PLO spokesman in Beirut
denied there had been any fundamental
shift in that group's stand on Security
Council Resolution 242 of 1967.
The spokesman said that unless the
resolution was rewritten to take note of
the political rights of the PLO such as
the right to establish an independent
state on Israeli-hel- d lands the PLO
would not accept 242 which supports
negotiations and the right to all states
to secure borders in the region.
Speaking through his spokesman at
this Saudi summer capital. Vance had
said that if the PLO,.the umbrella group
for Palestinians, accepted Resolution
242 in its entirety without changes, this
would meet American criteria for
ending the diplomatic boycott of the
organization and a dialogue could be
opened with the United States.
Clearly, the Americans were urging
that the PLO, if it shifted its position on
242, should accept the resolution
without amendments. The PLO
representative, however, was standing
firm against such a move.
The result was a certain amount of
confusion.
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Palestine Liberation Organization may endorse a U.N. resolution
recognizing Israels right to exist.
It was unclear whether, as has
happened so often in the Middle East, a
hopeful story was floated only to be
punctured hours later. Vance was
careful to say that prince Saud, the
Saudi foreign minister, had not told him
what the shift would consist of. Vance
seemed to be urging the PLO to be
conciliatory, but the initial response
was not encouraging.
More hopeful than Vance was
President Carter in Plains, Ga., who
told reporters that on the basis of
Vance's reports "Palestinian leaders
have indicated indirectly they might
adopt Resolution 242."
In Tel Aviv. Prime Minister
Mehahem Begin said it would be futile
to prepare a role for the Palestine
Liberation Organization in Middle East
peace talks by trying to make the PLO
recognize Israel.
He said that Israel would exercise its
right to veto participation by the um-brella
grouping of Palestinian units in
any peace talks.
One of the main procedural road-blocks
to convening a new Geneva
conference on the Middle East has been
Arab insistence that the PLO be invited
and Israel's refusal to deal with a group
that it regards as a terrorist
organization dedicated to Israel's
destruction.
The United States has pledged since
September 1975 not to have any direct
contact with the PLO until it accepts
Israel's right to exist and Security
Council Resolution 242 and an ac-companying
one 338 of 1973.
Ichord targets ihrow-aivay- s
Deposit law introduced
By Valerie Glauser
Missourian staff writer
Rep. Richard Ichord, D-M- o., said
Monday he has introduced a bill
requiring a five-ce- nt deposit on
beverage containers and eliminating
detachable "flip-tops- " nationwide.
"I believe that throw-awa- y cans and
bottles have truly become a national
problem which must be met by federal
legislation," Ichord said. "The time has
come to realize we are literally
smothering ourselves in our own waste
and debris."
Ichord held a press conference in
Columbia Monday.
Environmental Protection Agency
studies show the bill annually would
conserve almost SO million barrels of
oil, 530,000 tons (477,000 tonnes) of
aluminum, 1.5 million tons (1.4 million
tonnes) of steel, and 5.2 million tons (4.7
tonnes) of glass by 1960 if the legislation
is enacted, Ichord said.
Ichord said the Federal Energy
Administration estimates the deposit
legislation would create 118,000 jobs.
Columbia voters last April approved
an ordinance requiring a five-ce- nt
deposition on all non-returna- ble
beverage containers, but enforcement
of the measure has been suspended by a
Circuit Court temporary injunction.
The injunction action was filed by a
group of 27 retailers and producers of
beverage containers. The temporary
injunction will be in effect until a full
hearing can be held to determine the
ordinance's constitutionality and
compliance with state law.
The plaintiffs said the injunction was
necessary because enforcement of the
ordinance would cause them
"irreparable harm."
Don Meyer, who has filed for the
Republican nomination to oppose
Ichord in the 1978 election, to Congress,
criticized Ichord's bill.
Meyer, of Labadie, said Ichord's
deposit bill is "just another attempt to
capture headlines ... to please the
people in this area where this issue is
popular. Let's hope it's more efficient
than past legislation he's sponsored,"
Meyer said.
City has $900,000
butfew suggestions
ByJimDrinkard
Missourian staff writer
When you're looking for advice on
how to spend your money, opinions
usually are abundant.
But that wasn't true for the city
Monday not a soul showed up to
suggest how Columbia should spend an
estimated $900,000 in federal revenue
sharing funds this year.
The money comes with no strings
attached to help local governments
with construction projects, social
services or other financial needs.
The federal government requires the
city to advertise and hold hearings
where the public can suggest ways to
spend the money. But, according to
Asst. City Manager Charles Hargrove,
almost no one ever attends.
Public suggestions still can be sub-mitted
in writing to the city manager's
office, and another public hearing will
be scheduled for later this month.
In the past, the city has used its
revenue sharing money to provide a
subsidy for the airport, to pay for street
lighting and to provide equipment for
the parks and recreation, police and
fire departments.
This year the money could go for
social services, airport and bus sub-sidies
and park acquisition and
development, budget assistant Kent
Froeschlesaid.
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Meteor shower
to he seen here
By Roger Kuechler
Missourian staff writer
The forecast for Columbia and
vicinity late Thursday and early Friday
calls for a shower a meteor shower,
that is.
Although the shower first will become
visible late Thursday night, the best
conditions for viewing the shower will
begin about 1:30 a.m. Friday. That's
when the waning crescent moon rises,
says Terry Edwards, University
professor of astronomy. But he says the
best time to observe will be about 4:30
a.m.
The meteors appear to shoot "like the
spokes of a wheel" from a central point
in the constellation Perseus, which can
be seen in the northeast sky early
Friday morning, Edwards says.
As the night continues and moves
higher on the horizon, local stargazers
will be able to see the meteors more
often.
Although the central point will-b- e 25
degrees above the horizon about
midnight, it will be 60 degrees above by
about 4:30 a.m.
The Perseid shower meteors are
formed by small chunks of rock and ice
shed by the comet Swift-Tuttl- e, which
orbits the sun in a long, elliptical path
every 120 years, Edwards says.
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Calling all kissers:
your event is here
By David Kohn
Missourian staff writer
Pucker power will win a cham-pionship
and perhaps set a world
record this month.
"We needed a gimmick, some-thing
people enjoy doing, to raise
money. Most people enjoy kissing,"
University Student Foundation Om-budsman
Lacey Crary said.
Anyone who enjoys kissing can
prove it Aug. 26. by entering two
foundation-sponsore- d events on the
University's Stankowskj Field.
First will be 160 couples com-peting
in the semifinals for the
University's "Kissingest Couple" ti-tle.
Second will be a "Kiss Off,"
which the foundation hopes will at-tract
enough entrants to persuade
the Guiness Book of World Records
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to establish a new category for the
most people kissing simultaneously.
To increase the lip action, the
foundation will arrange for singles
to team up for the event. The group
either will have a rent-a-partn- er
booth or a designated area where
single, smooching enthusiasts can
introduce themselves so they can
join in the event, Ms. Crary said.
Eight of the 160 couples competing
in the title semifinals will be chosen
for the title bout that evening at a
foundation-sponsore- d dance, Ms.
Crary said.
All contestants will be judged on
style, technique and originality. No I
use of hands will be allowed. "Ac- - J
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look like they're enjoying them- - j
selves," she said.
Court ruling
may stop
store games
By Gary Hardee
State capital bureau
JEFFERSON CITY Missouri food
stores operating Bingo-styl- e sweep-stakes
may be forced to stop the games
because of a Missouri Court of Appeals
ruling issued Monday .
The Kansas City court lias given the
state Liquor Control Division per-mission
to enforce two liquor
regulations which the division claims
are violated by the games.
Management for three Columbia
stores operating the games said they do
not know if they will continue the games
in light of the appeals court ruling.
Stores running the games are Nowell's,
1005 W. Worley St.. and the two
Schulte's IGA stores at 5 Business Loop
70 E. and 2100 White Gate Drive.
The appeals court, which will review
the suit Sept. 26, ordered Cole County
Circuit Court Judge James Riley to
refrain from taking any action in a suit
by three grocery store chains to stop
the liquor control division from en-forcing
the regulations. Riley issued a
temporary injunction two weeks ago
against the Liquor Control Division.
William Mounts, attorney for the
Liquor Control Division, said Albert
Letz, division director, will have to
decide whether to cite food stores for
violation of liquor regulations. Letz is
on vacation, but Mounts said a decision
would be made within the next two
days.
The Liquor Control Division contends
the games violate regulations which
prohibit lotteries where liquor is sold
and advertising for the games and for
liquor at the same time. The division
can revoke a store's license for
violation of the regulations.
"From the beginning I thought we
were clear to go. It (the ruling ) comes
as a surprise. We'd like to continue the
games, but I don't know, Robert
Schulte, .owner of Schulte's IGA stores,
safd. "
Charles Thurston, manager of
Nowell's, also was surprised by the
court ruling.
"I think customers would be pretty
understanding if we had to end the
games. I think the majority of them
read the paper and watch TV. I also
think we would have some unhappy
people," he said.
Nowell's has been operating the
games for nine weeks. Schulte's stores
have run the games for about six
weeks.