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Vance ends Middle East trip
DAMASCUS, Syria — Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
wound up his mission to the Middle East on Sunday after talks
with Syrian Pres. Hafez Assad, probably the most skeptical of the
Arab leaders about negotiating a settlement with Israel.
Assad told Vance that any settlement must include Israeli
withdrawal from all Arab territory seized in the 1967 Mideast war,
full recognition of the national rights of the Palestinians and an
end to the state of war, a Syrian government statement said.
Ohio chemical spill spreading
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Traces of carbon tetrachloride were
found in the Ohio River here Sunday as a 70-ton spill of the
potentially toxic chemical moved downstream from Ohio and
West Virginia But officials said it had become too diluted to
threaten Louisville s water supply
More than 100 miles of the river have been affected by the
spill, which has been traced to a West Virginia tributary of the
Ohio, the Kanawha River
Officials here started cleanup measures designed to absorb
some of the chemical
Natural gas lost in lines
DALLAS — Natural gas companies in Texas lost an esti
mated 358 billion cubic feet of gas in 1976 because it was either
lost or left unaccounted for in pipelines, according to the Texas
Railroad Commission
In a copyrighted story Sunday, the Dallas Morning News said
the commission s study shows the gas losses each year would be
enough to heat the city of Dallas for nearly three years
The newspaper said the gas would be worth $225 million if it
were sold at the average wellhead price of 63 cents per thousand
cubic feet
Plains minister resians
PLAINS, Ga — The Rev. Bruce Edwards said Sunday he
has resigned effective April 30 as minister of the Plains Baptist
Church, of which Pres. Carter was a member and deacon until he
moved into the White House
The minister said criticism of him had been building and he was
"sure it was the backlash of efforts he made last fall to integrate
the all-white church after a black minister from Albany, Ga..
applied for membership
Study center breakup pondered
ADAIR VILLAGE — The membership of the Chicano-lndian
Study Center of Oregon (CISCO) will consider at a meeting in
Portland on March 1 whether to dissolve the organization.
The board of directors of the organization decided at a meet
ing Saturday to refer the question to the membership. Two-thirds
of the members would have to agree for the organization to be
dissolved
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Economic program eyed
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both
houses of Congress this week will
attempt to expand the federal
budget to make room for Pres.
Carter s $15.5 billion economic
stimulus program
Legislative work on aspects of
the program itself as well as on
key Carter nominations also are
on Congress schedule
Two committees, meanwhile,
will conduct investigations into
whether natural gas was deliber
ately withheld from the market dur
ing the bitter winter weather.
Both the House and the Senate
Budget committees have prop
osed opening up the budget more
than enough to accomodate the
$15.5 billion stimulus package
Carter proposed for this year.
The Senate will take up its
committee's proposal for a $16.8
billion increase late Monday or
Tuesday. The House will begin a
two-day debate Tuesday on its
committee's recommendation for
a $ 17.3 billion enlargement.
A bill to authorize up to $4 billion
in additional public works to create
jobs goes before the House
Thursday, with leaders predicting
passage that day or Friday. The
program is another component of
Carter’s package.
On Tuesday and Wednesday a
House Labor subcommittee will
consider public service jobs bills
included in Carter's program and
other legislation dealing with un
employment.
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee votes Tuesday on
Carters nomination of Paul
Wamke to head the disarmament
agency and be the nation's chief
negotiator in strategic arms limita
tion talks
While the nomination has
aroused some controversy, Car
ter has strongly backed Warnke
and a favorable vote is expected.
The Senate Armed Services
Committee conducts its own hear
ings on the nomination the same
day.
House Interior and Commerce
subcommittees conduct separate
hearings on Monday and Tuesday
respectively into allegations that
natural gas producers held their
product off the market despite
demand created by the acute
cold
An Interior Department inves
tigation into natural gas produc
tion in some fields in the Gulf of
Mexico disclosed that production
had fallen off, but did not give a
reason for the loss. Oil companies
have cited technical problems.
Critics of producing companies
have suggested gas was withheld
to raise prices and encourage the
government to lift the ceil ng on
gas prices.
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Governors call for water savings
DENVER (AP) — Western and
mid western governors, meeting
Sunday to discuss what may be
the worst drought in recorded his
tory, unanimously endorsed es
tablishment of a federal-state task
force aimed at facilitating the flow
of federal dollars into their
drought-stricken states.
However, the 11 governors and
representat.ves from six other
states generally agreed that water
conservation is the only long-term
solution to the drought.
Gov Richard Lamm hosted the
meeting attended by Interior Sec
retary Cecil Andrus. It was An
drus' first meeting with former fel
low governors since he took the
cabinet post.
Andrus told the governors that
water shortages are “real, they
are immediate and they could be
very devastating.”
It will be President Carter's in
tent to compile results of this meet
ing and discuss them at a cabinet
meeting Monday,” Andrus said.
"He (Carter) urges you to acceler
ate your planning .. to determine
what the anticipated devastation
will be."
California Gov. Edmund
Brown Jr. said he felt the drought
must be viewed in the context of
the energy crisis.
‘‘We are in an era of limitations,’’
Brown said. “Our resources are
inextricably linked together.'’
He urged voluntary water con
servation measures, including
use of a water-saving device in
toilets and shorter showers.
Gov. James Exon of Nebraska
said he felt the “one over-lying
thing' that everyone must realize
is the effect a drought could have
on food prices.
“Th.s is the widest spread
drought that any of us has ever
heard of," Exon said. “It is going
right to the heart of the possibility
of food shortages. ”
He suggested that more federal
help be given to farmers and that
loans be made available so that
food surpluses could be stored.
“We should consider our pres
ent surplus as an asset and not a
liability," Exon said.
Governors from the northwest
ern portion of the country pointed
to the devastating effects the
drought is having on hydro
electric power supplies and on
fruit crops.
“We have a large fruit tree in
dustry," said Gov. Dixy Lee Ray of
Washington. "We already are res
igned to loss of the crop, but we
must save the trees.”
She said people already are out
of work because of hydro-electric
power shortages.
The general consensus of the
governors was that a task force
should meet as soon as possible
to discuss water problems and
possible solutions. Each governor
was asked to appoint a top-level
aide to meet with top government
officials early next week in
Washington.
The governors also endorsed
the possibility of naming a federal
drought coordinator.
Brown said he hoped the task
force would lead to increased fed
eral aid to drought areas, pointing
out that drought is treated differ
ently from other disasters, such as
floods.
"Drought does not trigger the
amount of money victims think
they are entitled to," Brown said.
'We all talk about red tape. What
we are really mean is green
money."
He said the main question is
whether more federal money can
be freed for victims of the drought.
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