Zambia declares ‘state of war’
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Pres.
Kenneth Kaunda, a major suppor
ter of black Rhodesian guerrillas,
declared Monday that Zambia is in
a “state of war’’ with the white re
gime of neighboring Rhodesia.
Kaunda said he had placed the
Zambian armed forces on alert
and ordered them to shoot down
any Rhodesian aircraft flying over
Zambian territory. He said he took
these steps after learning that
Rhodesia might make pre
emptive strikes against guerrilla
bases in Zambia.
There was no immediate re
action from the Rhodesian gov
ernment.
In another sign of a worsening
racial confrontation in southern
Africa, Pres. Samora Machel of
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Portuguese loan discussed
LISBON, Portugal — Vice-Pres. Walter Mondale met with
top Portuguese leaders Monday and discussed plans for $700
million in Western loans to Portugal, one of the poorest nations in
Europe.
After a 40-minute talk with Premier Mario Soares, Mondale
said there were no problems between the two countries but there
were some "technical concerns” that needed quick resolution.
Mondale did not mention specifics, but they were believed to
involve details of the loan.
April industrial output increases
WASHINGTON — Despite a decline in auto production, the
nation's industrial output increased eight-tenths of one per cent in
April, the third month of healthy growth, the government reported
Monday.
The increase in industrial output compared with gains of 1.4
per cent in March and one per cent in February.
Postal rates likely to go higher
WASHINGTON — You probably will pay higher postage
• charges and receive mail only five days per week by early next
year, the U S Postal Service said Monday
Ppstmaster General Benjamin Bailar said the price of a
stamp for first-class letters will rise from the current 13 cents to at
least 15 cents. It will be 16 cents if six-day delivery is maintained,
he warned.
Bailar told a Senate panel that the Postal Service board of
governors probably will act within two months on the proposals.
N.Y. copter crash kills five
NEW YORK — Just after ferrying airport passengers to
mid-Manhattan Monday, a helicopter flipped onto its side atop the
59-story Pan American building and sent its three rotor blades
flying through the air like scythes, killing five persons.
Three were reported killed atop the skyscraper, and two
women died when the debris fell to the traffic-filled streets 800
feet below.
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_ Power failure hits Florida
MIAMI (AP) — A massive
power failure shut off electricity to
a 15,000-square-mile area of
South Florida on Monday, shut
ting down air conditioning in
homes and offices, stranding
people in elevators and causing
traffic jams at busy intersections.
The power went out at mid
morning and remained out for
periods ranging from minutes to
five hours. Temperatures rose
into the 80s, but balmy breezes
partially made up for the lack of air
conditioning. Power was fully re
stored by midafternoon.
Florida Power & Light Co., the
state's largest utility, said more
than one million of its 1.8 million
business and household custom
ers were affected.
Roughly two and a half million
people live in the area that in
cludes the state's densely popu
lated east coast, from the upper
Florida Keys to Miami, Fort
Lauderdale and the Palm
Beaches.
Telephone exchanges were
jammed as people tried to call the
power company and other
emergency numbers.
The Dade County Health De
partment and Civil Defense
warned persons who had experi
enced an interruption of water
service to boil all drinking water.
They said a loss in pressure in
some water systems could have
allowed contaminated ground
water to seep into the water sys
tem.
Television and radio stations
were shut down, although many
were able to resume broadcasting
with the help of emergency
generators.
In some communities, schools
were closed and extra police were
called out to direct traffic at inter
sections. In the high-rise hotels of
Miami Beach, firemen were called
to help people out of elevators.
Mozambique dismissed talk of a
possible peaceful solution in
Rhodesia as “a mistake.”
A Rhodesian government
spokesman said of the Zambian
declaration that Rhodesia has no
aggressive intentions against her
neighbors. But he acknowledged
that the Salisbury regime had
warned of possible “pre-emptive
strikes” against guerrilla bases if
insurgent attacks continued.
A spokesman for Rhodesian
security forces said about 50 gov
ernment soldiers crossed into
neighboring Botswana on Mon
day and briefly clashed with Bots
wanan police. The Rhodesians
were searching for guerrillas al
legedly responsible for killing an
elderly white couple and two
blacks in a raid on a western
Rhodesian farm Sunday night.
There were no reports of
casualties.
The new rumblings of a major
black-white clash in the region
came as Vice-Pres. Walter Mon
dale and Andrew Young, the U S.
ambassador to the United Na
tions, prepared to press a U.S. dip
lomatic campaign to help end the
four-year-old Rhodesian guerrilla
war and pave the way for black
majority rule in southern Africa.
Car rebate
draws fire
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres.
Carter s proposed rebates for
purchasers of fuel-efficient cars
ran head-on into a wall of skeptical
congressmen Monday.
One by one, members of the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee argued against the idea on
grounds that a big share of the
rebates would go to buyers of
small foreign cars.
Treasury Secretary Michael
Blumentahl could promise only
that any arrangement for rebates
to buyers of imported cars would
not put U S. auto makers at a dis
advantage.
"I think it's in trouble," Rep. Al
Ullman, D-Ore., the committee
chairer, said of the rebate.
Blumenthal said the rebate plan
is not nearly so popular in Con
gress as the idea of taxing ineffi
cient cars. But after a few sec
onds, he corrected himself and
told reporters the tax on "gas
guzzlers is not nearly so unpopu
lar as the rebate.
The secretary's remarks came
after two hours of defending the
Carter package of energy taxes
against criticism from Democrats
and Republicans alike.
Barber Conable (R-N.Y ), a
Joint Ways and Means commit
tee member, assailed the Carter
package as more a tax program
than an energy plan.
"At the most — or worst — it is a
major scheme of income redis
tribution, which seeks to take
earned income from the pockets
of working Americans and give
some of it back in the apparent
form of the ill-conceived and now
totally rejected $50 rebate,” Con
able said.
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