Columbia Missourian Newspaper 1980-12-17

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73rd Year No. 80 Good Morning! It's Wednesday. December 1 7. 1980 7 Sections 62 Pages 25 Cents
Congress
concludes
96th term
Session reflected
split personality
From oar wire services
WASHINGTON - The record of the
96th Congress reflected its split person-ality
controlled by Democrats but
fearful that the country may be crank-ing
up a conservate bandwagon it
would have to join or be left behind.
The 96th faded into history with
much of its work undone, including the
most important job of any Congress
providing money to run the govern-ment
As the candle of the Congress burned
down toward its final flicker, Sen Ad- l- ai
E Stevenson, D- H- L, looked back on
his 10 years on Capitol Hill with frus-tration
and disappointment
" The 70s were hard years for activ-ists
in the Senate," said Stevenson,
who is retiring at the end of this ses-sion
" I recognize now, in a way that I
didn't when I came here, that Congress
does very little The occasional excep-tion
is when it supports a strong pres-ident"
" I feel much of the courage and inde-pendence
went out of our politics,"
continued the senator, the son of a man
who twice ran unsuccessfully for presi-dent.
" In the future, all politicians will
act as if they're on the endangered spe-cies
list They won't take chances any
more "
When the final gavel fell Tuesday af-ternoon,
appropriations bills for more
than half the government were incom-plete,
and many federal agencies must
operate for months under a temporary
continuing resolution.
That means permanent funding for
the Departments of State, Treasury,
Justice, Labor, Education, Health and
Human Services, and many other
agencies will be left to the incoming
97th Congress which will have a Re-publican
Senate and a House under at
least technical control of the Demo-crats
As one of its final moves, Congress
managed to kill a proposed $ 10,238 sal-ary
increase for its own members and
top government officials. The raise to
$ 70,900 had been included in the stop-gap
funding resolution.
Even the passage of that resolution
was typical of the struggle the 96th had
with itself Final approval came near 5
a m. Tuesday after an all- nig- ht Senate
session preceded by lengthy weekend
sessions in both houses.
But Congress dd take action on seve-ral
proposals that will have a long- lasti- ng
and profound effect
They include
Alaska lands legislation, recog-nized
as the most sweeping conserva-tion
bill since the creation of the na-tional
park system by President
Theodore Roosevelt It places more
man 100 million acres of Alaska under
federal protection
Deregulation of railroads, truck-ing
and banks
- A phased deregulation of crude oil
and natural gas prices.
The windfall profits tax on oil
companies
Creation of a federal synthetic fu-els
program.
Institution of draft registration for
19 and 20- year-- old males
Authorization of federal loan
guarantees for the financially troubled
Chrysler Corporation
Creation of a new Department of
( See 96TH, Page 14A)
Mamy Kmdfsb
After their first semester at the University, these nine mainland Chinese stu-dents
say they have a more accurate perception of what Americans are like In
front, from left, Xu Ji- a- n, Cai Zuyun Rear, from left, Ding Yu, Wu Xiaoyong,
Liu Youyuan, Yang Yongxing, Xu Shimin, Chen Denong, Chao Xueren.
Away from the mainland
Chinese students revise impressions of U. S.
By Wendy Tai
Missourian staff writer
When Ding Yu arrived in America Sept 3, he
expected to see multi- stone- d buddings jutting
against the skyline and people strolling through
busy streets under the rainbow illumination of
neon lights
Since his hometown of Shanghai, one of the
most cosmopolitan cities in the world since the
1920s, has always echoed with the dissonance of
city life, he expected even more of America
His five- da- y stay in Washington, D C , and
more than three months of life in Columbia
have reshaped his idea of America into more
appropriate realities So far be has found both
Washington, D C , and Columbia " quiet"
" I hardly saw anyone walking on the streets
in Washington, D C ," he said. " There were so
few people in the stores that I wondered how
they could stay in business "
Ding is one of nine Chinese who have come to
the University this fall from the People's Re-public
of China to do research or to attend
graduate school He is doing research on con-traceptive
drugs in the department of chemis-try.
Six of the other Chinese are graduate stu-dents
in journalism.
They've come to America with the common
goal to learn as much as possible and then, to
take home their new experiences They hope
their contribution to nation building will be
modestly significant
Now after a semester in Columbia, their as-sessments
and impressions of the new societ)
are, at times, similar and, at other tunes, as
different as their individual personalities
Unlike the journalism students, both Ding
and Xu Ji- a- n, a researcher in the physics de-partment,
had little exposure to western par-ticularly
American people, culture and so-ciety
before coming here
While the journalism students had gamed
some understanding of American society
through working with American colleagues and
through regular readings of Time, Newsweek,
U S News and World Report magazines and
the New York Tunes, Ding's and Xu's expecta-tions
were formed by the America they saw
through Chinese television, movies and periodi-cals
Yet then- - initial impressions are different
For Ding, America is not one city of non- sto- p
activities as he expected But for Xu, he does
not feel much surprise at what he has seen
" Of course I'm impressed with many aspects
( See CHINESE, Page 14A)
FBI steps up efforts
to keep Soviet hands
off industrial secrets
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - FBI Director William
Webster says the Soviets and Chinese appear to
be stepping up efforts to steal US industrial
technology such as secrets on laser devices, mi-crobiology
and microelectronics
But Webster said in a UPI interview Monday
that while the efforts are increasing the FBI is
making progress m detecting communist at-tempts
to cart off, by diplomatic pouch and
otherwise, industrial technology that transcends
mere military secrets
Webster, who expressed concern about the
problem two years ago, said the effort, if any-thing,
has been increased" both by the Soviets
and the Chinese
" I think it's one of the more serious problems,
because of the damage it can do to our national
security," he said ' In terms of manpower, we're
outmanned around the world by our competition,
but in technology, we maintain a superiority that
could disappear if it's eroded "
He said communist intelligence operatives
have focused their attempts on stealing secrets
about lasers, microbiology, microelectronics and
control devices, but it's by no means limited to
these areas '
He said an FBI program to work with private
industry has produced some breakthroughs in
learning the methods used by the Soviets to ferret
secrets from U S companies
The FBI has alerted companies to Soviet and
Chinese attempts to recruit" their employees to
sell government secrets made aailable to firms
with federal contracts, and proprietary technolo-gy
the firms develop themselves, he said
Webster also disclosed that some foreign diplo-mats
have been declared " persona non grata ' by
the State Department and expelled from the Unit-ed
States since last February
He declined to name the countries involved or
to disclose details, saying the State Department
asked they be kept secret for diplomatic reasons
Former FBI intelligence chief William Cregar
told reporters on his retirement last February
that the administration had expelled five diplo-mats
from Soviet bloc countries in the previous
year for spying activities
Webster said that besides expelling some diplo-mats
since then, the FBI has recommended
against ousting others indicating the bureau
has instead chosen to track their activities, per-haps
feeding them false information or trying to
convert them to double agents
Webster stopped short of saying the FBI would
seek to persuade the new Reagan administration
to provide more manpower for its counterintelli
gence task Noting the 75,000 annual Soviet bloc
contacts m the United States, he said the bureau
can always do a better job with more people
but stressed adding more agents could reach a
point of ' diminishing returns
Webster who will remain in his post under
Ronald Reagan, also said dunng the hour- lon- g in
terview in his office
- He would not rule out a reported proposal by
a Reagan task force to create a joint information
bank for the CIA and the FBI Reminded of civil
liberties concerns, he said We d want to explore
all of the implications of multiple access to a sin-gle
data base '
He is considering disciplinary action against
about a half dozen FBI employees for leaks to thp
news media about the Abscam investigation and
two other undercover probes, but would not say
how manv actually might face discipline
He said he is using a different process from that
of Deputy Attorney General Charles Renfrew,
who has sent letters giving four or five prosecu-tors
a chance to defend themselves against possi-ble
discipline perhaps dismissal
He feels there is a place for the death penal-ty
' in federal law, especially for crimes such as
wartime treason or murder of a prison guard by
an inmate who has no other punishment to face
Stressing he was stating his personal opinion,
not the FBI's, he said he might also support capi-tal
punishment for other crimes that would be de-terred
bv a death penalty threat
Since FBI lab experts recently found invalid
acoustics tests indicating a fourth shot was fired
at John F Kennedy in 1953 I tend to think we
know about all we re going to know about the as-sassination
Webster stressed that if anything new is de--
eloped I think we should be prepared to look at
it
Webster declined to take a position on new calls
for gun control after recent shootings of Beatles
star John Lennon and noted cardiologist Dr Mi
chael Halberstam
He said the issue was too divisive and any
position would " alienate 50 percent of the pub- he- ,"
impeding the FBI from doing its job
Citing recent successes against organised
crime, white collar crime and espionage, Webster
said of his nearly three years at the bureau You
talk about a new business, where you lose monev
then you break even, and then you re in the profit
zone I think we're in the profit zone
I think we're humming on all cylinders at this
point and we're not distracted by having to deal
with so much of the allegations about the past '
County laborers get water
but raise request denied
By Kim Brewer
Missounan staff writer
Union laborers who work for Boone County
asked the County Court Tuesday for iced water on
the job and a 17 percent pay raise They got the
ice water, but the court wasn t ready to give up
that much money
The pay increase about $ 1 per hour topped
the list of several union requests taken up at the
court's regular meeting Though labor negotia-tions
will continue at Thursday's court meeting,
Presiding Judge Bill Freeh told union representa-tives
the county can't afford to raise road and
bridge worker salaries that much However,
Freeh said, workers will be included in a 7 5- per-cent
across- the- boa- rd pay increase for all county
employees included in the 1981 budget
The court was more forthcoming on a request
that the county supply iced water and paper cups
for workers During the summer months, county
trucks will now sport coolers to supply workers
with cold water Presiding Judge Bill Freeh told
representatives of Local 45 of the Laborers Inter-national
Union of North America that as much as
the county would like to grant larger raises, the
money isnt there
" We would like to be able to grant a larger in- -
crease, but at the present time I don't see that
possibility , Freeh told the three union represen-tatives
at the meetmg
Mitchell Bennett, union spokesman, said the
employees ' desperately need more money to sup-port
their families
Road and bridge workers currently earn be-tween
5 05 and $ 5 61 per hour
Freeh acknowledged that the planned 7 5- perc-ent
pay increase was not up to par with this
year s 12 S- perc-ent
cost- of- livi- ng increase He re-minded
the union representatives that the county
is having trouble making ends meet, too
The judges are now trying to eliminate more
than $ 200,000 m deficit spending now included in
the proposed 1981 county budget
In other negotiations, the court agreed to meet
with union and road- and- brid- ge management rep-resentatives
to discuss alleged discrepancies in
hiring practices and to look into buying washing
machines for county garages to launder greasy
uniforms
Still to be negotiated are the union's requests
for additional county holidays and increased in-surance
coverage Bennett also made it dear that
the battle for bigger pay hikes would continue at
Thursday's session
Democrats warn of showdown over Haig
WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Gen. Alexander Haig's
nomination Tuesday to be secretary of state drew
praise from President- elec- t Ronald Reagan's Re- publi- can
colleagues and warnings of an upcoming
showdown with Democrats
The appointment of Haig, Richard Nixon's last
White House chief of staff, is the most controver-sial
made by Reagan so far.
On the other hand, Reagan's appointment of
Raymond Donovan to be labor secretary was wel-comed
by both labor and business leaders. Dono-van
is executive vice president of Schiavone Con-struction
Co. of Secaucus, N J.
" We now look forward to seeing the Depart-ment
of Labor taken out of the hands of union pro-fessionals
and placed in the bands of American
workers," said Reed Larson, president of the
Right to Worts Committee which opposes compul-sory
unionism.
Teamsters union president Frank Fitzsunmons
gve a warm endorsement to Donovan and said expects his nomination to be given a quick con-firmation
by the Senate.
The two appointments were announced simulta-neously
in Los Angeles and Washington and
brought to 10 the number of CfcbtaeHevd appoint- men- ts
made so far by Reagan, who is at his home
inCaluarm9fortheOaistmabolklays.
With five more Cabinet posts to fill, Reagan was
Labor choice wins union, business favor
asked in Los Angeles whether there would be any
blacks or women selected.
" Don't keep score until the whole thing is in,"
Reagan said. " Well, let me say there is no plot to
rule them out"
Haig, whose appointment was talked about for
weeks but made official only Tuesday, was lauded
by the Republican foreign policy establishment
and the party's leadership on Capital Hill.
" I think it is a distinguished appointment" said
Henry Kissinger, once Haig's superior in the na-tional
security office of the Nixon White House
" General Haig will make a great contribution to
the defense of freedom and the cause of peace "
Sen. Charles Percy, incoming chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called Haig
" an outstanding man who has served in a number
of important positions with distinction," and said
" full and complete" confirmation hearings will
begin Jan 9
But influential Democratic senators immedi-ately
expressed misgivings about Haig, and indi-cated
the confirmation process will be exhaustive
and bitter
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D- Ma- ss , said " serious
questions" have been raised about Haig's role in
Watergate and the conduct of the Vietnam War,
and also said it is a " matter of concern" that a ca-reer
military officer might head the State Depart-ment
Former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben- Ve- ra- ste
said Tuesday there are about three months
of unpublished White House tapes of conversa-tions
between Richard Nixon and Alexander
Haig
" The role of General Haig was as a very military-
- oriented person who felt that his responsibili-ty
was exclusively to his commander- in- chi- ef
Whether that turns into a good secretary of state
is up to the Senate to decide," Ben- Vems- te said
Haig, a retired Army general, helped arrange
Nixon's resignation in 1974 as impeachment
threatened. He later was named by Nixon's suc-cessor,
Gerald Ford, to be Supreme Commander
of NATO a job he held until rearing last year to
become president of United Technologies Corp in
Connecticut
Before his elevation to chief of staff, Haig
served as deputy to Henry Kissinger when Kissin-ger
was national security affairs adviser.
A colonel when he entered the White House,
Haig became a brigadier general within nine
months and a four- sta- r general by the time he
was White House chief of staff
His appointment to be secretary of state has
been urged by Nixon, Kissinger and Ford and
Reagan is said to have favored him from the first
despite warnings of serious controversy in the
Senate over his confirmation.
But Haig is not the only appointee with explain-ing
to do
Donald T Regan, the Wall Street stockbroker
proposed as treasury secretary, is fending off
questions about the legality of a tax- savi- ng
scheme pioneered by his brokerage house for its
investor clients.
The Washington Post said the Internal Revenue
Service ruled the " commodity tax straddle" ille-gal
The matter is before the courts, but Reagan's
transition spokesman insisted there was " nothing
illegal" about the advice provided by Regan's
firm.
A third prospective Cabinet member has stirred
controversy even like Haig while waiting in
the wings.
Word leaking from the Reagan camp of the pos-sible
appointment of James G. Watt to b interior
secretary has set the stage for a major ccofronta- tionwithemircnmentali- sts.
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