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JERUSALEM — Israel announced Sunday it will insist
that its plan for Palestinian autonomy be the basis for
negotiations when talks resume with Egypt later this month,
even though Egypt has rejected the proposal.
“There is no breakdown and no crisis” despite Egypt's
rejection of the 26-page plan last week, Arieh Naor, cabinet
secretary, told reporters. “Everything is going on.” Naor
refused to say if Israel would modify the proposal, but said it
“is on the agenda. It must be discussed and negotiated.”
The Israeli proposal calls for limited self-government by
Palestinians in the West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza
Strip, with Palestinians in charge of health, transportation and
local budgets. Israel, which captured the areas in the 1967
war, would keep full control over foreign affairs, security and
natural resources. Other functions would be subject to Israeli
supervision.
WASHINGTON — Following tradition, Warren Burger,
chief justice, will pay tribute to the late Justice William
Douglas as the first order of business when the Supreme
Court meets Monday.
Douglas, 81, died at 10:09 a.m. EST Saturday at Walter
Reed Army Medical Center. He had been suffering from
progressive lung and kidney failure. His wife and members of
his family and staff were with him, hospital officials said. No
cause of death was given.
Pres. Carter ordered flags at federal institutions to fly at
half-staff in honor of Douglas, who had sat on the nation’s
highest court a record 36 years.
BULAWAYO, Rhodesia — Four policemen were beaten
Sunday by members of a huge crowd waiting to hear a
campaign speech by Joshua Nkomo, former Rhodesian
guerrilla leader. In his address, Nkomo deplored such
violence.
The attacks occurred when 200,000 of Nkomo’s sup
porters gathered to see him return to his hometown after
three years in exile as co-leader of Patriotic Front guerrillas.
One of the policemen was pounded on the head with a
soft drink bottle and thrown over a fence at the foot of the
platform where Nkomo later spoke. The others were pushed
around, but none was seriously injured. At one point, a police
officer in charge of security threatened to disband the crowd.
When he arrived, Nkomo urged his followers to forget any
hatred against the police that may have built up during the
seven-year guerrilla war.
BOSTON — A letter from three hostages in the U S.
Embassy in Tehran, published Sunday in the Boston Herald
American, pleads for Americans to “obtain our release.”
“We believe that the students' demand for the ex-shah’s
extradition is justified and we urge all Americans to write to
their senators and congressmen and ask them to do all that
they can to bring about the return of the ex-shah,” it said
The letter was one of three known to have arrived in
Massachusetts in the past five days.
Merton Bland, a State Department spokesman, im
mediately labeled the letter “so far, the only propagandistic
piece that completely echoes the sentiments of the so-called
students."
WINAMAC, Ind. — Doctors who examined the bodies of
three teen-agers killed in a fiery Pinto car crash are expected
to testify this week when the reckless murder trial of Ford
Motor Co. resumes.
But a judge’s ruling restricting testimony to events
related to the crash itself may severly limit what the jury will
hear.
Prosecutor Michael Cosentino said medical and auto
safety experts will testify before the Pulaski Circuit Court jury.
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The monumental and proba
bly impossible task of analyzing
Americans’ attitudes toward
wildlife was undertaken three
years ago by Stephen Kellert of
the Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies and fin
anced by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.
Although a report of the study
I received from the service says
little that actually deals with
Americans’ attitudes toward
wildlife, it provides a provoca
tive look at how the inhabitants
of this continent react to envir
onmental and wildlife issues
that often surface in the tradi
tional media — daily news
papers, television and radio
news and prominent
magazines.
Kellert found that of eight
selected wildlife issues, the
public knew most about the
killing of baby seals for fur and
waterfowl hunters' use of steel
versus lead shot.
Most of those questioned said
they favored protecting wildlife
even at the “expense of jobs,
housing and development
projects.” Fifty-five percent op
posed the principle of building
an industrial plant on a marsh
rare bird species need to sur
vive, even if the project would
create jobs.
Another 76 percent thought
cutting trees for lumber and
paper should be be done in
ways that “help” wildlife even if
it results in higher-priced wood
and paper products.
Seventy-seven percent said it
would be all right to kill whales
for a useful product if the hunt
ed species were not endan
gered.
When public support for an
endangered species would in
crease energy project costs,
continuance of that support
“depended on the animal in
volved and the nature of the
project,” Kellert found.
In other words, I suspect,
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support decreases in a direct
proportion to increased costs.
And the smaller the animal's
size, the less the support.
A good example is the snail
darter vs. the Tellico Dam
Project.
The naturalist Peter Matthies
sen, in the New York Review of
Books, says he has found that
the Tennessee Valley Authority
overcame logic, law and econ
omics — in addition to a tiny fish
that as a result is facing extinc
tion — to drown the last free
flowing stretch of the Little Ten
nessee River and 16,000 acres
of prime river-bottom farmland.
More accurately, Sen.
Howard Baker, R-Tenn., over
came. He was able to avoid the
Endangered Species Act, and
that’s what the media pub
licized, but he also ignored
drastic flaws in the project
which we heard little about to
push it through Congress.
For instance, the dam
contains no electrical generator
but instead diverts the water to
another dam where 23
megawatts — out of TVA’s
27,000 megawatt capacity — are
produced.
And the TVA itself admits the
annual cost of maintaining the
dam will be greater than its
profits.
The Kellert Report also says
60 percent of the Americans
questioned opposed hunting
just for sport or recreation.
Kellert found 71 percent
favored a sales tax on off-road
vehicles.
And so on.
The questions asked, alth
ough not dealing with the atti
tudes of Americans toward
wildlife, coupled with the nature
of responses, traces the familiar
thumbprint of the American
view of wildlife and wilderness.
It is permissible to undertake
wildlife preservation except
when a financial burden inter
feres, or appears to interfere.
And an alternative is seldom
sought: Matthiessen also found
that the shoreline of the lake to
be formed behind Tellico was
supposed to attract industry
and add jobs in the econ
omically repressed region.
But shorelines around 24
other major dams and lakes
within 60 miles of Tellico are for
the most part undeveloped, and
the TVA found the dam would
cost jobs, not create them.
ASUO lags on budget deadline
Scott Bassett, ASUO pre
sident, has not submitted the
ASUO Executive budget to the
Incidental Fee Committee. The
deadline for turning in budgets
was Jan. 7.
Fee committee chairer Adam
Cohen says many budgets
missed the Jan. 7 deadline, but
the committee has been ac
cepting late proposals because
budget goal hearings don't
begin until Tuesday.
Cohen says the IFC will not
accept any proposals after
Wednesday.
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