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Carter outlines plan to combat 'crisis of the spirit'
WASHINGTON (AP) speeches by any president. Jimmy Carter linked his political fortunes to achievement of an energy plan he says will combat a ’'“crisis of the American spirit." Although Carter never referred to his assumed quest for reelection in 1980, the president is known to hope his nationally televised address Sunday night from the Oval Office will prove to be a turning point for his troubled presidency. "I need your help.” Carter said as he conceded past shortcomings in his national leadership. He pledged to “continue to travel the country. ... I will listen. And 1 will act.” . - "1 will do my best." he said, "but I will not doit alone." - Even before Carter spelled out additional details of his proposals in another nationally broadcast speech today to the National Association of Counties in Kansas City. Mo., his Sun- ' day night address brought pledges of swift congressional action on energy legislation. . “I am confident the American people will respond with the .necessary sacrifices and that Congress will pull together in this
Desai resigns post in face of Indian no-confidence vote
NEW DELHI, India (AP) - Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram and Finance Minister Charan Singh vied today to become leader of the crippled Janata Party and prime minister of India following the resignation of 88-vear-old Morarji Desai after 28 months in office. But Desai, the world’s oldest prime minister, hinted today he may try to forge a new government. “Perhaps I will form another government, perhaps not,” Desai was quoted as telling a delegation of visiting Canadian school teachers. A Canadian -diplomat who attended the ‘meeting reported Desai’s remarks. . Asked about the issues that led to his resignation, Desai was quoted as saying: “The issues? -What issues? Personal selfishness, that’s all. That is what has brought us to the present situation.” Desai quit Sunday on the eve "of a no-confidence vote he was sure of losing because of the defection of almost 100 memtjfrs of his party in the lower house of Parliament. But the Janata still has twice as many septs as any other party, and 'Desai’s resignation was expected to bring many of the defectors back. Ram, 71, a member of India’s lowest caste, the Untouchables, ; and Singh, 76. a member of one of its more prosperous ones, the ; Jats, narrowly lost to Desai 28 ■ months ago in the battle for the Janata leadership. Both men were deputy prime ministers under Desai.
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MORARJI DESAI Resigns post Singh formally quit the government today and began openly campaigning for Janata party support. Both men have been maneuvering vigorously to take over in recent months, but Ram appears to have a slight edge. If he is elected by the members of the party in Parliament, he will be the first Untouchable to become prime minister. The caste system is outlawed by the constitution, but it persists in most of the country, and the Untouchables are often discriminated against. The Janata is an uneasy coalition formed in 1977 with the sole purpose of defeating Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the general election she called. As the threat of a comeback by Mrs. Gandhi has receded in recent months, the coalition has begun to come apart.
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time of crisis,” said House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill, D-Mass. Former Texas Gov. John Connally, a Republican seeking Carter’s job, said the crisis in confidence the president spoke of “has been brought about by the president’s own inaction.” Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., who was among those who met with Carter during his Camp David domestic summit, said: “The president made a forceful speech that must now be followed by equally strong and specific actions. ” Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker, a candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, objected today to Carter’s contention that Americans suffer a crisis of confidence. “1 think America is not only willing to make those sacrifices, it’s anxious to,” Baker said on ABC-TV’s “Good Morning, America” show. “I think America in a minute would reassert its confidence in itself because our future is still before us. We’ll get out of this problem. If we have strong, bold leadership, the country will follow.” The president’s Sunday night speech came one day after he returned from Camp David, where he held 10 days of secretive meetings with a variety of American leaders. He ended the sum-
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The switch to hamburger costly as supplies shrink
By LOUISE COOK Associated Press Writer Consumers who’ve switched to hamburger in an effort to balance the budget without giving up beef are finding that the price of ground meat is going up even faster than the price of other cuts. Figures compiled by the National Cattlemen’s Association show that from 1977 to 1978 the average retail price of a pound of choice beef went from $1.48 to $1.82, a rise of 23 percent. During the same period, the average price of a pound of ground beef went up 37 percent from 81 cents to sl.ll The pattern is continuing this year and it is due largely to the fact that the drop in the supply of hamburger will be sharper than the drop in the supply of other kinds of beef. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has estimated 10 to 12 percent less beef will be produced this year than last year. Hamburger production, however, is expected to drop by 16 percent. According to industry and
Trouble brews in paradise as Hawaiian police walk off job
HONOLULU (AP) - Police officials urged island dwellers and summer tourists to stay off the streets after nearly all the 1,800 police officers employed by Hawaii’s four counties walked off their jobs. The Hawaii Public Employment Relations Board was preparing a request for a temporary restraining order on Sunday after it declared the strike was illegal and a threat to public safety. Police supervisory personnel were responding only to emergencies, such as murders, rapes and robberies in progress, police chiefs testified at a hearing of the public employment board Sunday. Reports of crimes that had already occurred were being taken by telephone for followup after the walkout ends.
government estimates, there will be 17.2 pounds of hamburger produced this year for every person in the country. In 1978, there was 20.5 pounds of hamburger per capita; in 1976, there was a record 23.9 pounds per capita. The reasons behind the increasing prices and declining supplies lie in the basic nature of the cattle business. Steaks and roasts generally come from steers that have been fattened on grain; relatively little grain-fed beef winds up as hamburger. The animals that are used for processed meats and hamburger are the older cows, the bulls, and the steers and heifers that have been fed on grass. When ranchers decide to trim their herds as they did in 1975 it is the less-desirable animals that are sold first. In 1975, 45 percent of all the beef produced was classified as manufacturing grade, up from 38 percent the year before. The average price of a pound of hamburger was about 55 per-
Hawaii has no state police force to call on when its countyemployed force walks out. Officers began walking off their jobs Saturday night. Honolulu Assistant Police Chief Edwin Ross urged the public to stay home to cut down on traffic and the opportunities for crimes. He said there had been no reports Sunday of looting. But on the island of Maui Police Chief John San Diego indicated things were not so secure. “We’ve had problems we can’t handle,” he said. “We had a fight in Lahaina and we couldn’t send any officers.” Meanwhile, lines to 25 public telephone booths in Waikiki and the Windward Oahu community of Kaneohe were cut, Honolulu Police Chief Francis Keala said. Supervisors used public
Terrorists to appear in Turkish court
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Four Palestinian terrorists who held the Egyptian Embassy for 45 hours and killed two Turks were expected to appear before a Turkish military court today. Premier Bulent Ecevit said no concessions were made to the guerrillas, who surrendered Sunday morning after freeing unharmed the remaining nine of their original 17 hostages, including Egyptian Ambassdor Ahmed Kamal Olema. Ecevit told a news conference the raiders would be brought to trial “if the public prosecutor deems it necessary. ... There
mit by flying to Carnegie, Pa., and Martinsburg, W.Va., to meet with small groups of “average Americans.” Instead of the bombshell some had expected in his speech, the president spoke of an erosion of confidence “threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of America. ” He coupled that with an appeal for a “rebirth of the American spirit.” • Carter originally was scheduled to address the nation July 5. He said Sunday night he canceled that speech because: “I began to ask myself the same question that I know has been troubling many of you: Why have we not been able to get together as a nation to resolve our serious energy problem? “It is clear that the true problems of our nation are much ieeper deeper than gasoline lines or energy shortages, deeper even than inflation or recession. And I realized more than ever —that, as president, I need your help.” Carter saw solving the energy crisis as a way to “help us conquer the crisis of the spirit in our country. It can rekindle our sense of confidence in the future, and give us a new sense of purpose.”
cent of the average price of all types of choice beef. By 1978, however, the ranchers had finished trimming their herds. The supply of beef in general and hamburger in particular shrank. Manufacturing beef represented only 39 percent of total beef production in 1978. The price of a pound of hamburger, which had declined 13 cents from 1974 to 1977, jumped 30 cents in the following year. By 1978, the average pound of hamburger cost about 61 percent as much as the average Dound of choice beef. As beef prices have risen, ranchers have started expanding their herds again. It has become profitable to raise calves, feed them on grain and sell them as full-grown steers. The ranchers are keeping and fattening animals which, in less-profitable d£ys, they might have sold as manufacturing beef. In the long run, that will mean more steaks and roasts. In the short run, it means even less hamburger and even higher prices.
telephones because all police radio frequencies were jammed early in the strike. Windows at the police station in Wahiawa in Central Oahu were blown out by a fire bomb, he said. Traffic signals at two busy Honolulu intersections were placed on blinking caution light. Keala said there was “no doubt” that striking police officers were responsible. The State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers said public apathy over police contract negotiations led to the strike decision. “Our police are telling people who call about domestic disturbances to come down to the station to cool off,” said Stephen Bess, Hawaii County deputy corporation counsel.
can be no exceptions to anyone in the Turkish legal system.” The Palestinians killed two Turkish security guards when they blasted their way into the embassy Friday with grenades and automatic weapons. An Egyptian chauffeur fell to his death from an embassy window in an escape attempt Saturday. Three other hostages made successful getaways, and the gunmen released four women. The men were expected to appear before a military court because Ecevit has imposed martial law in Ankara and other parts of the country to combat Turkish political terrorism.
Galante denied funeral mass for fear for scandal
NEW YORK (AP) A Roman Catholic priest led friends and relatives in prayer for Mafia leader Carmine Galante, but the Archdiocese of New York said it would not permit a requiem Mass today for the slain mobster because of his reputation as the “boss of bosses.” Galante, 69, gunned down last week while dining at a Brooklyn restaurant, was to be buried after a private graveside service at noon today. The Rev. Feliciano Napoli said he would lead the graveside prayers at St. John’s Cemetery in Queens. But a spokes-
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Mushroom cloud rises in early morning darkness
July 16,1945 explosion launched nuclear age
TRINITY SITE, N.M. (AP) The switch set off a 45-second timing sequence ending with a blast that shattered the quiet of a southern New Mexico desert and gave scientists a hint of the violence their brainpower had unleashed. Thirty-four years ago the first atomic device was exploded at Trinity Site on what is now part of White Sands Missile Range. It launched the nuclear age for both war and peace. The timing switch was thrown at 5:29 a.m. by Joe McKibben, still a nuclear physicist at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. “Very few of us were hoping we could do it. Rather, we were hoping we could not do it. But if it could be done, we wanted to get there first,” McKibben said later. “I heard that thought expressed by several people involved,” McKibben said recently. “It was in the context of the time. Remember, we were at war... a war we didn’t start.” The flash of light, the thundering explosion and the towering mushroom cloud rose in the predawn darkness of July 16,1945. The explosion was heard more than 120 miles away in El Paso, Texas. Windows rattled in Gallup, more than 200 miles away. The military stilled queries with a formal news release saying there had been a munitions dump explosion. The public didn’t learn the truth until Aug. 6, 1945, when President Harry Truman announced a single bomb with the equivalent destructive power of 20,000 tons of TNT had been dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. At the same time that the government introduced the atomic bomb, it released some of the details of
To win on the “battlefield of energy,” the president : —Promised that “growth in our dependence on foreign oil will be stopped in its tracks, right now.” He announced an import quota of 8.2 million barrels a day and a goal of cutting imports in half by 1980. —Proposed an Energy Security Corporation to lead an effort to develop alternative fuels and issue $5 billion of small-denomi-nation Energy Bonds. —Asked Congress to require utilities to halve their use of oil by 1980 through conversion to coal and other fuels. —Called on Congress to create an Energy Mobilization Board, like the War Production Board of World War 11, “to cut through the red tape, the delays and the endless roadblocks to com pleting key energy projects.” —Proposed an extra $lO billion over 10 years for public transport and asked Congress “to give me authority for mandatory conservation, and for standby gasoline rationing. ” Carter also pledged to “increase aid to needy Americans to cope with rising energy prices. ”
man at a funeral home where a memorial service was held refused to say where the burial would be, except that it would be “somewhere on Long Island.” Galante was denied the funeral Mass by Cardinal Terence Cooke, archbishop of New York. Cardinal Cooke extended “sympathy to his family” in a statement, but added, “We are not able to grant a liturgical service in the church because of the scandal that would ensue.” A spokesman for the archdiocese who asked not to be identified said that under church law the “liturgical farewell
the July blast in New Mexico. The super secret Manhattan Project’s bomb was built in the hastily assembled Los Alamos Laboratory on the site of an exclusive boys’ ranch school on a mesa in northern New Mexico. When the scientists felt they were ready, they took their plutonium, explosives, detonators and other bomb makings south to the desert. Trinity Site had been prepared with miles of* electric wire, monitoring instruments, protective bunkers and a base camp. The bomb was put together in an old ranch house and raised to the top of a 100-foot steel tower at the spot chosen for ground zero. McKibben threw the switch. There was light, noise, shock wave and the monstrous mushroom cloud. At ground zero, the steel tower disappearedf There was a crater a quarter-mile wide and 15 feet deep, covered w ith a layer of sand and rock fused by the heat into a jade-colored, glassy substance now known as trinitite. "All life, vegetable as well as animal, was. destroyed within a radius of about a mile*' There was not a rattlesnake left in the region, nor a blade of grass. ” sa id one report Much of the hole has been filled in. until it's.' now a gentle depression showing the outejlimits of the original crater There’s some grass, along with creosote bushes and tumbleweeds. There are rattlesnakes too Where the base of the tower stood, there’s a lava rock obelisk w ith a plaque telling of what happened there on July 16.1945.
of the church” must be denieo' to “a person who has not led a Catholic life or has been involved in a public life not in J keeping with the teachings of the Church.” He said the decision was “not a judgment on the state of the man’s soul or the state of his relations with God; we can’t judge that.” In the past, crime bosses have been buried with full church rites, including Joseph Colombo last year. However, Colombo led the Italian-American League and its fight for civil rights in his later years.