-World at a glance—
From Associated Press reports
South Korean patrol ambushed
SEOUL, South Korea — One or more North Koreans am
bushed a South Korean foot patrol, killing one man, wounding
another and shattering nine months of quiet along the de
militarized zone, the United Nations Command said Wednesday.
The American-led U.N. Command asked the Military Armis
tice Commission to investigate the shooting, but there was no
immediate word whether North Korea would agree.
West German leader dies
BONN, West Germany — Ludwig Erhard, architect of West
Germany’s postwar economic recovery, died early Thursday in a
Bonn hospital, his physician announced. He was 80.
Erhard was hospitalized for treatment of a serious heart
ailment and had been in failing health for months.
Erhard played a major part in West Germany’s postwar
recovery as economics minister for 14 years under Konrad
Adenauer, the country’s first , the country’s first chancellor.
Carter OK’s sugar subsidy
WASHINGTON — Pres. Carter approved sugar subsidies of
up to two cents a pound to help the ailing domestic sugar industry
but vetoed a lower import quota, the White House announced
Wednesday.
The decision will have no effect on consumer prices because
the money will be paid by the Treasury Department instead of the
consumer, the White House said.
The subsidy would be given to growers whenever the market
price of sugar falls below 13.5 cents a pound.
Catholic divorce rule repealed
CHICAGO — The nation's Roman Catholic bishops voted
overwhelmingly Wednesday to repeal a century-old church law
excommunicating Catholics who have divorced and remarried.
The bishops voted 231-8 to revoke the excommunications
decree of the Third Council of Baltimore in 1884, a penalty ap
plied only to American Catholics.
Revoking it still requires confirmation of the Pope.
Leak possibly radioactive
MADRAS, Ore. — A semi-trailer truck bound for a radioac
tive waste disposal site in southeast Washington leaked a small
amount of possibly contaminated fluid onto U.S. 97, thirteen
miles south of here, Oregon State Police said.
The truck, carrying 84 drums of dry waste radioactive mater
ial, and six boxes of dry waste thorium, leaked about five gallons
of hydraulic fluid onto the highway, officials said.
The cargo did not spill, but the fluid leaked from a pump.
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Too much money plagues Texas
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Texas,
as Texans like to claim, is differ
ent from other states. Like most
other states, it has its problems
with money.
But in the case of the Lone Star
State, the problem is too much
rather than not enough. A $1 bill
ion state surplus plus the pros
pect of another $2 billion in unex
pected revenue in the ooming two
years has prompted a battle
among legislators over what to do
with the windfall.
The conservative faction wants
to cut taxes — which would re
duce the projected surplus — but
liberals say even a $3 billion surp
lus isn't enough to make up for
lack of spending on social and
other programs in the past.
“If we had addressed these
problems all along and come up
with this surplus, it would have
been the kind of surplus you
could bank or return to the tax
payers. We are now having to
pay for what we have not done in
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the past," said John Bryant of
Dallas, leader of House liberals.
On the conservative side,
House Ways and Means Commit
tee Chairman Joe Wyatt said:
The Texas level of spending has
outgrown its tax base. We have
more state employes per capita
than New York, California,
Michigan or any of the top 10 in
dustrial states...I think we ought
to reduce taxes because it is the
most effective way to hold down
spending."
The current $1 billion surplus
was generated by higher prices
on gasoline, heating oil and
natural gas, which boosted tax
revenues. The state taxes natural
gas production at 7.5 per cent of
value and oil production at 4.6 per
cent Texas also is gaining income
as its share of the Sunbelt’s
economic and population boom.
Projections for the coming two
years show that revenues for
1978-79 should exceed the cur
rent budget by $2 billion, said
state Comptroller Bob Bullock.
U.S. to let Vietnam join U.N.
PARIS (AP) — Two years after
the fall of Saigon, the United
States agreed Wednesday to
drop its opposition to Vietnam’s
entry into the United Nations.
At the same time, the Viet
namese pressed the Americans
to contribute to repairing war
damage and end the American
trade embargo of Vietnam.
The House, however, voted
Wednesday night to prohibit
negotiations on any U.S. aid to
Vietnam, despite an objection
that it might interfere with present
talks in Paris.
Rep. John Ashbrook, R-Ohio,
whose amendment to prohibit aio
negotiations was approved 266 to
131, said the measure does not
restrict the current talks between
U.S. and Vietnamese office's.
He said it only bans U S. offi
cials from “negotiating repara
tions, aid or other payments" in
response to Vietnamese de
mands at the talks.
In Washington, Sen. Hubert
Humphrey, D-Minn., and Sen.
George McGovern, D-S.D.,
hailed the development as a first
step toward normalizing relations
between the two governments.
Senate Majority Leader Robert
Byrd, D-W.Va., predicted strong
congressional opposition to
postwar aid for Vietnam.
Vietnam’s Deputy Foreign
Minister Phan Hien read what he
said was a joint communique by
the two delegations on their talks.
The communique said the two
sides agreed to seek a “rapid
normalization” of their relations,
and added:
“The American representative
stated that the United States
would not oppose the entry of
Vietnam into the United Nations.”
State Department spokesman
Morton Smith confirmed this was
correct but said the two delega
tions had not, in fact, agreed to
draft a joint communique. Smith
said they agreed “in a general
way” what they would make pub
lic about the talks. He added he
did not disagree with any part of
the statement read by Hien.
There was no immediate com
ment from the Vietnamese side
on the apparent discrepancy over
the form in which the outcome of
the talks was reported.
Smith said the two sides had
“cordial, frank, useful and con
structive talks” and agreed to
meet again in about two weeks at
the U.S. Embassy in Paris.
The United States used its veto
in the United Nations on three oc
casions to bar Vietnam from join
ing the world body. During the
last debate on the issue after
November’s presidential election,
the Ford administration de
manded a full accounting of the
estimated 2,000 MIA’s in the
Viet Nam war.
Nixon talk draws rebuff
(AP) — Rep. Peter Rodino,
whose House Judiciary Commit
tee recommended former Presi
dent Richard Nixon’s impeach
ment at the height of the Water
gate scandal, said Wednesday he
was “saddened at the sight” of
Nixon’s nationally televised dis
cussion of the events that led to
hts resignation.
“The evidence compiled by the
committee and its staff total 7,200
pages and filled 36 books of in
formation,” the New Jersey
Democrat said.
“It showed clearly, conclu
sively and finally that Richard
Nixon obstructed the Watergate
investigation and that he abused
the powers of his high office as
president and that he failed to
comply with lawful subpoenas,”
Rodino said after he watched
Nixon’s interview with British
talk show host David Frost.
Nixon reportedly received
Carter leaves for summit
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres.
Carter leaves for London today to
attend a seven-nation summit
conference being held to keep
the economy of the industrialized
world functioning despite a con
stant drain of money to oil
exporting countries.
Nearly every item on the
agenda is related in some way to
the high cost of oil.
As spelled out in advance by
administration officials, the
agenda includes:
•Improving coordination of the
domestic economic policies of
Germany, Japan, Italy, France,
Canada and the United States.
The economic performance in all
seven nations has been below
par since the 1974-75 recession.
There are fears of a new reces
sion, especially in Europe.
•Establishing emergency
financing for countries in severe
financial difficulty because of high
world oil prices. There already
has been a tentative agreement
to set up a new fund totalling as
much as $16 billion in the Interna
tional Monetary Fund.
•International trade problems
and making a commitment to
move ahead with the world trade
negotiations that have been bog
ged down in Geneva for nearly
two years.
•Reviewing energy problems
and reaching agreement on a
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global study of nuclear energy
aimed at minimizing the possibil
ity that nuclear technology will be
used for military purposes.
•Working out a common bar
gaining position for the indus
trialized nations in their negotia
tions later this year with poor and
developing nations.
$600,000 for the four-part series
of interviews, his first public dis
cussion of Watergate since he res
igned Aug. 9, 1974.
Millions of Americans watched
as Nixon admitted that “I let down
my friends, I let down the country, I
let down our system of govern
ment.” But the former president
insisted that he did not commit, in
his view, “an impeachable of
fense.”
—Highlights—
Here at a glance are highlights
of former Pres. Richard Nixon’s
television interview broadcast
Wednesday
•In his first public discussion of
the Watergate scandals, Nixon
said he was not involved in the
break-in at Democratic party
headquarters
•He also denied approving
payments of hush money to the
burglars.
•Nixon conceded that, “I let
down my friends. I let down my
country. I let down our system of
government.”
•Nixon said he considered res
igning in April 1973, some 15
months before he became the
first U.S. president to resign.
•The former president said he
made many bad judgments but
that they were “mistakes of the
heart,
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