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Racial busing costs not fed. burden WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court, denying an appeal from Kentucky, said in effect Monday the federal govern ment does not have to help pay the costs of court-ordered busing to achieve racially desegregated public schools. The justices rejected without comment an appeal by Kentucky Gov. Julian Carroll seeking permission to ask for federal help in paying for busing in the Louisville area, one of hundreds of school districts across the nation carrying out court-ordered busing. The court’s action bars, at least for now, any hope other state and local school dis tricts may have had to get such federal help. A racial desegregation plan in effect since 1975 for schools in Louisville and sur rounding Jefferson County, Ky., has made Court denies Kentucky appeal necessary the daily busing of some 23,000 students. “The drain on state and local funds ... is quite real and devastating,” Carroll’s ap peal said. The governor had challenged the con stitutionality of three federal laws prohibit ing federal funding of busing for desegrega tion. A federal judge in Louisville and a fed eral appeals court already had upheld the laws. In urging the court to turn down Kentucky’s argument, the Carter adminis tration argued that the federal government is under no obligation to help defray deseg regation costs. ‘‘Indeed, states may well be less likely to violate a citizen’s rights today if it means paying the costs of making good those rights in the future,” the Justice Depart ment told the court. In other matters, the court: • Reversed two lower courts and ruled that residents of Puerto Rico are not entitled to collect Supplemental Security Income payments which they received while living in the United States. Voting 7-2, the justices decided the constitutional right ot travel doesn't mean that benefits enjoyed in one state will follow the traveler. Government lawyers had sought the re versal, telling the high court that SSI pay ments to Puerto Rico residents would ex ceed $300 million a year and “threaten to disrupt Puerto Rico’s already ailing economy.” • Let stand a ruling that federal courts may force the government to speed up set tlements of disputed Social Security benefit claims. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano had asked the court to overturn the ruling, contending that it “threatens significantly” to disrupt his ability to administer Social Security benefits nationwide “in an even-handed and orderly manner.” /-World at a glance-^ From Associated Pross Reports Cubans enter Ethiopian war ROME — Cuban soldiers have entered combat for the first time against rebels in Ethiopia’s northern Eritrea province, the insurgents said Monday. Cubans already had been reported fighting alongside Ethiopian troops in their Ogaden war against Somali secessionists at the other end of the country. Amde Michael Kahsai, spokesman for the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, said in Rome that 1,000 Cubans joined Ethio pian defenders in the Eritrean capital of Asmara tor an unsuc cessful attempt to crack the five-month rebel siege of the city. Mime troupe arrested BARCELONA, Spain — The Spanish army will put five pan tomimists on trial Tuesday for allegedly insulting the military in one of their mime plays. The troupe’s director was to have stood trial, too, but he eluded his guards with a ruse Monday and escaped. Leftists threatened street protests and moderates con demned the prosecution as a throwback to the days of the old Franco dictatorship. Burglar bumbles in the buff LAS VEGAS, Nev. — What do you say to a naked burglar? That’s what police were wondering Sunday when they ar rested Karl Hunsaker, 30, of Las Vegas, as he was climbing down a ladder in the buff carrying household goods from an apartment. Police said neighbors noticed the naked man at about 5 a.m. Sunday. Hunsaker was booked for investigation of burglary. Officers gave no reason as to why Hunsaker had no clothes on. $400 million in taxes up in smoke HARRISBURG, Pa. — With hearings set to open in Washington Tuesday on the $400 million-a-year problem of cigarette smuggling, Pennsylvania is taking one solution into its own hands — offering Southerners rewards for tips about the smugglers. The state has taken out an ad offering 50 cents per carton of confiscated cigarettes in editions of the Raleigh N.C. News Observer. The ad will also appear in other Southern states. The Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations says $400 million a year is the amount in unpaid state taxes lost to smugglers who buy up cartons of cigarettes in tobacco-growing states, transport them north to states where taxes are high and sell the cigarettes cut-rate. 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Carter earlier this month — planes for Israel — is supported by as many as 24 percent of the 1,600 adults questioned by telephone last week. Opinions about the sales to each country were asked as separate questions. On the sale ot 90 highly sophisticated F-15 and r-16 fighters to Israel, 63 percent of the American people were opposed. Only 24 percent said they favored the deal. Thirteen percent were undecided. Selling 50 less advanced F-5E fighters to Israel's neighbor and sometime opponent, Egypt, drew support from 21 percent of those questioned. Sixty-six percent opposed the sale, with 13 percent again undecided. And 17 percent were in favor of the sale of 60 F-15 fighters to Saudi Arabia with 69 percent op posed. Fourteen percent were not sure. Those who opposed sales to one nation were likely to oppose sales to all of the countries. Those who answered no to each of the three questions on plane sales totaled 57 percent of those interviewed. Only 14 percent were in favor of all the sales. The desire for less involvement in the Middle East was also shown by the answers to a question on whether the United States should pressure Israel or Egypt into concessions in the current round of peace talks. Saccharin benefits claimed WASHINGTON (AP) — If using saccharin keeps a person from gaining weight, the long-term cancer risk from the artificial sweetener is far less than the in creased health risks caused by excess weight, according to a statistical analysis. Dr. Bernard Cohen, a University of Pittsburgh physicist specializ ing risk assessment, said Mon day preliminary data indicate that the benefits of drinking a saccharin-sweetened diet soft drink exceed the risk if the drink prevents a person from taking in just one additional calorie. Cohen cautioned his statistical conclusions are based upon the limited saccharin-bladder cancer risk data now available and that the results could change as ongo ing studies provide more informa tion. “If you have a diet drink instead of a piece of pie, then there is a benefit,” he continued. “If you use a diet drink as an excuse to eat the pie, then you lose the benefit.” In a report in the current issue of Science magazine, Cohen con cludes that drinking a diet soda daily during an entire life-time cuts life expectancy by nine seconds per 12-ounce serving. This com pares with a decreased life expec tancy of 12 minutes for every cigarette smoked, he adds. Wayne Pines, a Food and Drug Administration spokesman, said he had not seen the Cohen study But he said this was the kind of information the government wants to consider in the saccharin re evaluation requested by Con gress. GIGANTIC Shirt Clearance Sale 30% OFF Oregon Wilderness Supply EMU Lower Level
