WASH motorist more for drivers new fede improve The Er generally in the So tle diffe Nationa Retailers depender motorist the chang THE P margin o dependen The Michiaan Daily-Tuesday, July 17, 1979-Page 5 Midwest gas prices shouldrise INGTON (AP) - Many This also will help officials monitor s will pay up to three cents prices and enforce the new regulations. a gallon of gasoline but other F e rde al rules to boost profits SOME GASOLINE prices also will will see prices decline under Stations have the option of putting the margins currently range from 14 cents decline because the new rules eliminate ral rules effective yesterday to ceiling into effect immediately; it to t6gcents per gallonbut the retailers "banking," a loophole that has allowed some service stationprfs. becomes mandatory on August 1.'s many sta tions - primarily high- soesriesainprofits.' bcme anaoy o uut group puts that figure closer to 12.5 cen- volumegsadooult-tocre nergy Department regulations That limit can be raised every six ts per gallon. oet, gas-and-go outlets - to charge y should boost gasoline prices months, beginning in December, to This means that under the new far more than currentceilings a less uth and Midwest, but make lit- allow for inflation and governors can syse manservic tstns can n-w thnde knsan therlglpoisw na olie rence in the East, said the raise profit margins as much as an ad- crease their prices about three cents than their legal profits when gasoline I Congress of Petroleum ditional ten cents per gallon to account per gallon; others a lee aonts was plentiful and competition stiff, can , which represents 60,000 in- for local economic factors. and ma ll ber, a lesser amount; later recoup that money as motorists nt service stations. Western Under the new, uniform system, their charges. pay virtually any price to get tanks s could benefit the most from Energy Department officials hope en- To help motorists keep track all ser- filled. ges, the group said. forcement will be easier than it has et must post trcared Risque Harper, spokesman for the 1ULES SET a uniform profit been under the outgoing system that vice stations must post their declarede National Congress of Petroleum f 15.4 cents per gallon for in- allows a variety of profit margins. t margins and the legal price per Retailers, said banking is most nt service statinn ntinnidi THE DEVPARTME.NT v nrfit gallon, the Energy Department said. See E UAIOS- P o «Lsc oncsaccs na tonwi e. nr, ~ r~ni IV IN isays proii McGovern proposes alterations WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. George McGovern proposed yesterday that the SALT II treaty include a freeze on the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Soviet Union and a commitment to enter immediate negotiations on actual reductions of strategic weapons. McGovern offered his proposal during the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the treaty. The witnesses, as the committee began its second week of hearings on the treaty, were three former negotiators, all of whom said that while they wished they could have obtained greater reductions, the agreement represented a meaningful step in the disarmament process. PAUL WARNKE, who became chief SALT negotiator after President Carter took office, responded to McGovern that "you can't get nuclear disar- mament ina single step." Gerard Smith, chief negotiator in the to SAL T SALT I talks, said, "We have been proposing reductions since the start . . . the Soviet attitude is you have to curb arms before you can consider reductions." U. Alexis Johnson, who negotiated the Vladivostok accords, said "The ideal would be an agreement so com- prehensive, so perfectly balanced, and so well-anticipating the future that we would never again have to concern our- selves with the ominous shadows that these beasts of nuclear weapons cast over our lives. "HOWEVER, we must deal with the world as it is, not as we would wish it to be." McGovern has criticized SALT II as failing to result in meaningful reduc- tions in the U.S. and Soviet nuclear ar- senals. He also has said he might vote against the treaty if President Carter proposes higher defense spending in an effort to win support for the agreement. Women's caucus 'more disciplined, more focused' CINCINNATI (AP) - Patty Backson admitted she was surprised by this year's convention of the National Women's Political Caucus. A resident of Chevy Chase, Md., she hadn't been to a caucus convention sin- ce the first such affair in 1973. She found her group had come a long way in a lot of ways. "When I walked into this meeting, I thought I was in the League of Women's Voters for a minute," said Backson, who recalls how she was one of the few Republicans to attend that first meeting in Houston. "THAT FIRST meeting was attended by much more unsophisticated, idealistic, and very angry women," she recalled. "Now the group is much more disciplined and much more focused." The group, which considers itself the political arm pf the women's movement, organized seminars to teach the 2,000 delegates how to become delegates to party conventions and how to run for political office. Newly-elected caucus president Iris Mitgang, or Orinda, Calif., talked of building grassroots support for the issues they care about. "WOMEN ARE ready to flex their muscles in ways to show their new toughness," Mitgang said. "Women have learned how to take their gloves off." Backson.and other delegates noticed this year's convention, which ended Sunday, was less splintered with more of a focus on a common goal. But while the feminist movement is learning how to make its numbers count, it has also been forced to deal with a counter-offensive from opponen- ts of the Equal Rights Amendment. "BECAUSE WE had a majority and because of the early support, there was a slacking off of effort," said Gloria Steinem, a founder of the organization. "The fight has caused everyone to reorganize and to learn once again that you don't win a fight by fighting one fight, you win it by fighting ten times." Although they are anxious to show their strength at the upcoming political conventions, some women here were hesitant about tipping their hand too soon about whom they would support. Former New York congresswoman Bella Abzug urged the caucus to go to the conventions with blocks of uncom- mitted delegates. COSTLY DIP MEDFORD, England (AP)-Student Mohammed Dadesh tested the water, then ran back to his red car to hide his $2,800 under the front-seat carpet before going in for a swim. Dadesh later discovered he had put the money in the wrong ear.