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Park’s info ‘very valuable’
SEOUL, South Korea — Tongsun Park’s chief American
interrogator said Monday the onetime Washington lobbyist is
providing “very valuable” information about the Capitol Hill payoff
scandal and probably will be questioned for a total of 70 hours
more.
Acting Deputy U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti also
told reporters he would fly back to Washington Tuesday, leaving
the Park questioning to the remaining five members of his Justice
Department team.
He said policy matters had been worked out so that his
subordinates could continue the questioning routinely. South
Korean investigators are also participating. The sessions, in their
third day Monday, will last about a week more, Civiletti sad.
Court discards nuke fuel issue
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court removed from its
docket today a legal dispute over the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission’s authority in considering industry applications for
use of a type of nuclear fuel that could be used to make nuclear
weapons.
The justices asked a lower court to decide whether the
controversy over plutonium is irrelevant because of President
Carter’s policy calling for an indefinite ban on any commercial
reprocessing of plutonium.
Cosmonauts head for home
MOSCOW — Two Soviet spacemen returned to earth Mon
day after an unprecedented linkup in space, leaving two com
rades behind in an orbiting lab for a possible try at a record time
aloft.
Western space experts speculated the cosmonauts may try
to break the Soviet mark of 61 days aloft or the American record of
84 days in space set in 1974 by the third crew to man the Skylab
space station.
Tass, the official Soviet news agency, described the mission
as “a most important step along the road of creating permanently
operating manned orbital stations with relievable crews.”
Rains snarl California roads
Torrential rains, flooding and rock slides snarled roads
throughout California on Monday as drought-breaking storms hit
the West Coast. Meanwhile, the East Coast girded for a snow
storm pushing out of the Rockies and headed across the Great
Plains.
Californians, who until recently suffered from a record
drought, now have to contend with a brutal rain that has flooded
roadways and caused mud and rock slides.
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ASUO survey draws small
student body participation
By CAROLYN BEAVER
Of the Emerald
The recent ASUO student survey didn’t net an
overwhelming number of responses, but John Bar
low, ASUO administrative aid for University Affairs,
says it “was a valuable thing for us to do.”
Approximately 100 persons answered the sur
vey and despite the small turnout, Barlow says it was
worthwhile because “we re in a vacuum. We some
times think everybody’s as involved as we are. We
found there were a lot of problems we hadn’t consi
dered.”
The survey contained four sections. The first
listed several issues and asked for a rating of the five
most important. The second asked for yes/no opin
ions on four questions. The third part requested ans
wers on three issues and the fourth asked for addi
tional comments.
In the first section, Barlow calculated two kinds of
measurements. He took each issue's total response
and figured an overall percentage for it, then took the
first and second-rated issues from each respondent
to figure an “intensity rating.”
Barlow says student housing legislation was the
most important issue both overall and in intensity.
Fifty-two percent rated it in the top five and 29 per
cent rated it either first or second.
Faculty evaluations was “less intense,’’ but was
marked by 58 percent of the respondents. Students
also favored having more political speakers. An EMU
tavern and more student seating at athletic events
were the next most frequently mentioned.
Part two asked about difference in tuition levels
for resident and non-resident graduates and under
graduates. About 65 percent favored different tuition
for undergraduates, but for graduates, there was a
55-45 percent “no” vote.
Students voted 2-1 to have ASUC participation
in Graduate Teaching Fellows contract negotiations.
Twenty percent of the respondents didn’t mark the
question, perhaps because GTF was not defined in
the survey, says Barlow.
The other two issues included in the second
section were whether to eliminate campus "on
street” parking and to increase or decrease subsidi
zation of the Oregon Student Lobby (OSL). Students
were in favor 4-1 of keeping campus parking and
were split over increase, decrease or keeping the
OSL subsidy the same.
The third section asked which ASUO program
the respondent was most aware of, what the biggest
hassle at the University was and which student ac
tivities were the most rewarding.
Barlow says “The Survival Center was far and
away the most voted-on program,” with the Oregon
Student Public Interest Research Group coming in
second.
One-third said registration was their biggest
University hassle. Many graduate students gave ex
amples from other institutions attended. The ASUO
plans to write to those schools and Barlow doesn’t
“see any reason why computerized pre-registration
shouldn’t be implemented.”
The last section was left open for comments.
The most striking responses were from students who
wanted to “humanize the campus," says Barlow.
Specifically, students asked for more social
gatherings other than just campus movies or speak
ers. “Many students feel alone, isolated and want
more activities like class picnics or outdoor con
certs,” Barlow says.
In all, Barlow says the survey was valuable “be
cause 50 to 100 people took the time to fill it out,
come down here, found out where we are and maybe
even what we can do.”
EWEB asks to join in suits
By KATHLEEN MONJE
Of the Emerald
The Eugene Water and Electric
Board (EWEB) has asked to join
the Bonneville Power Administra
tion (BPA) as co-defendant in two
lawsuits filed by the City of Port
land.
Portland is suing BPA in U.S.
District Court in an effort to obtain
low-cost power—at wholesale
rates as a preferential
customer—for its municipal ser
vices, and is also seeking to de
clare invalid all BPA contracts
made since 1970.
EWEB filed as an intervenor in
the suit Friday. Its Commissioners
authorized up to $100,000 for
legal expenses in opposing the
suit. The law firm of Souther,
Spaulding, Kinsey, Williamson
and Schwabe submitted ans
wers to the suit’s challenges with
the motion to intervene.
Portland does not qualify as a
preference customer, EWEB con
tends, because the city is not a util
ity and has franchised its electric
services to privately owned
utilities. EWEB points out Portland
voters have turned down oppor
tunities for public utility operation
on several occasions, and says
the city has thus waived rights to
preference.
EWEB also feels the BPA mar
keting policy is proper and any pol
icy changes should be handled
administratively rather than leg
ally through court order.
In answer to the second suit
seeking the court to void all BPA
contracts made in the past seven
years, EWEB says Portland has
permitted substantial investments
to be made and has lost authority
to challenge the contracts, due to
the time lapse.
The contracts Portland would
like to reyerse include power sale
agreements made by BPA with
more than 110 public utilities in the
region. EWEB would be strongly
affected due to billing agreements
that are security for most of the
$157 million in bonds sold by the
Eugene utility to finance its 30
percent ownership of the Trojan
Nuclear Power Plant and three
nuclear plants in Washington.
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