The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, July 19, 1978-Page 5 Senate approves coal package WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate passed overwhelmingly yesterday a compromise measure aimed at saving the country's dwindling supplies of oil and natural gas by increasing in- dustrial use of coal. By a 92-6 margin, it approved the first part of President Carter's long-stalled energy program. Although only a relatively minor provision in the five- part energy package submitted in April 1977, the measure's passage was hailed by Democratic leaders as a sign that Carter's program is back on the legislative track. "While it is a small bill, it is part of the sum total of the effort this nation must make," said Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Energy Committee. SENATE Majority Leader Robert Byrd, (D-W. Va.), had telephoned Car- ter in Bonn over the weekend to forecast passage of the coal conversion bill. The President was attending the seven-nation economic summit at the time. White House press secretary Jody Powell hailed passage of the measure. "Its timing right after the summit is quite good," he said. But Powell also said it "would have made Carter's joba little easier" if the action had come before last weekend's summit. The measure would prohibit most new power plants from burning oil or natural gas, give the government the power to force many businesses to con- vert to coal and ban all use of natural gas as an industrial boiler fuel after 1990. Residential outdoor gaslights would also be banned, beginning in 1982. THE BILL now goes to the ,House, where approval is also expected. However, House leaders plan to await arrival of other segments of the energy package before sending any of the compromise bills to the President's During March and April, razor-billed auks, common on the coasts of Britain and all the northern parts of the Atlan- tic Ocean, congregate in large numbers on cliffs and islands for their breeding season. desk. Jackson estimated the measure could eventually reduce oil imports by nearly 1.3 million barrels a day - more than half of the 2.5 million barrel reduction called for on Monday by Carter at the conclusion of the summit in West Ger- many. The nation currently imports about eight million 42 gallon barrels of oil a day, accounting for roughly 40 per cent of U.S. consumption. HOWEVER, critics claimed the measure probably would not save more than 250,000 barrels a day, at the most. They said many industries already are switching to coal anyway, and those that don't want to, probably could qualify for one of the numerous exem- ptions in the bill. One such exemption would prohibit the governpient from ordering plants to burn coal if doing so would violate clean air laws. Another exemption could be obtained if coal were not available at "reasonable prices" in the area in- volved. Sen. Clifford Hansen, (R-Wyo.), said even though he supported the measure, "nothing in this bill will help us supply our energy needs." Soviets rule writers must retract stories Phully makes plans to p arbage By TheAssociated Press n would be kept at a "minimum" but that Philadelphia officials announced. they would be "across the board." emergency plans yesterday to deal with The strike by non-uniformed city the health hazard posed by trash that workers that began Friday has closed has been piling up during a five-day mosteof the ciy resreatsona walkout by nearly 20,000 municipal em- most of thecity'srreational ployees. facilities, and health-care units were Firefighters in Louisville, Ky., operating on a referral-and emergency meanwhile, ended their five-day only-basis. Guards at the city's three walkout yesterday after voting over- prisons and court workers refused to whelmingly to accept the city's wage obey a back-to-work order Monday. offer, while in New Orleans, garbage THiE MEMBERS of the American collectors staged a wildcat strike over Federation of Stae, County and the lack of trucks in good repair. Municipal Employees union last week PHILADELPHIA CITY Managing rejected a contract offer providing pay Director Hillel Levinson said private increases of 12 per cent over two years. contractors would begin collections at The clerical and blue collar workers 29 emergency dumping sites. He said now are paid an average $11,686 a year, the city Health Department was and professional workers $17,400. monitoring the'situation that he said Louisville firefighters voted 358-30 to could result in a health problem if the accept a new contract that calls for trike alonhigher wages and overtime pay, ending sMare weren lg onesaidhowever a strike that had closed all but seven of ayor Fank Rzzo she aid,' hoev, the 23 fire stations in the city of 400,000 that officials of the nation's fourth- persons. largest city with a population of 1.9 About 280 Kentucky National Guar- million were standing firm in their dsmen and 28 department supervisors refusal to negotiate the layoff of about had been providing fire protection. 3,500 workers. He said the furloughs MOSCOW (AP)-A Soviet judge ruled yesterday that two American newspaper reporters had "crudely" slandered Soviet television and ordered them to print a retraction within five days and pay all court costs. If-they refuse, Craig Whitney of the New York Times and Harold Piper of the Baltimore Sun could risk having their press accreditation revoked by the Foreign Ministry. Both men boycot- ted the hearing, claiming it to be tan- tamount to censorship. They are vacationing in the United States. IN BALTIMORE, the Sun said it would not bow to the judge's demand for retraction, but agreed to pay the $3,330 court costs. The Times said in New York it would not print a retrac- tion "of Mr. Whitney's accurate May 24 dispatch," but no decision had been made on whether to pay the court costs. State Department spokesman Thomas Reston said in Washington that the U.S. government deplored the decision and was contemplating retaliatory action. Piper said he would return to Moscow on Aug. 14 as planned despite the court ruling and the Times said Whitney would return after his home leave. Both newsmen have called the charges "groundless." THE CASE WAS a civil matter and the two correspondents did not face im- prisonment. The central figure in the civil law suit, imprisoned Georgian dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia, testified against the two Americans as a surprise wit- ness at yesterday's hearing. Gamsakhurdia told Judge President Lev Almazov that a confession made to Soviet television on the news program Vremya or Time was genuine. Gam- sakhurdia's testimony disputed articles written by Whitney and Piper quoting friends and relatives as saying the con- fession was fabricated. PIPER SAID in an interview in Washington that Gamaskhurdia "said he meant his confession, but that doesn't make our earlier story inac- curate because we didn't say it was fake, we just reported that a lot of people in his home town didn't believe it." Seymour Topping, managing editor of the Times, said Whitney's story wass "filled in good faith after conscientious reporting." Gamsakhurdia was brought to the court from a labor camp where he is serving a three-year sentence for anti- Soviet agitation and propaganda. Con- victed on May 19, he was also sentenced to two years' Siberian exile. VIKTOR LYUBOVTSEV, chief editor of the Vremya program of Soviet television which brought the slander suit, told the court: "This is a case where we have caught a journalist red- handed." Prosecutor Georgy Skoredov claimed during the two-hour hearing that Whit- ney and Piper were among "certain circles who constantly attempt through the mass information media to try to paint this country with slanderous ink. "This trial is a logical extension of their hostile attitude to the Soviet Union," the prosecutor added, urging Judge Almazov to recommend that the Foreign Ministry revoke the' newsmen's accreditation. SHARK TEETH PINS Trella & Co. P.O. Box 562 Wayne, Michigan 48184 Eat your spinach, dietician says (Continued from Page31 But Hiebert said dietary fat and sugar consumption has surged, which, combined with growing American inac- tivity, is a contributing factor to heart disease. ACCORDING TO A new book, The Changing American Diet, the average American's diet in 1976 consisted of 31 per cent more dietary fat and 50 per cent more refinedsugar than in 1910. Published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer research group, the book says Americans should begin to consume less meat, high fat dairy products, oils, and sugars. It says Americans should be encouraged to eat more fresh frit - and vegetables, potatoes, whole grains, and beans. In addition, the book reports that Hieber said people should be taught Americans ate 403 eggs per person in to make wiser choices and realize they 1945, but in 1976 the figure was 276. don't have to eat so much meat and Much of the drop, the book speculates, sugar. may have been caused by working mothers who no longer fix eggs for "UNFORTUNATELY, THE money breakfast, and by the growth of cereals is in the (food) industry, not in as a breakfast food. education," she maintained. "The em- .phasis has to be (in education)." Nicaragua is divided diagonally into The book, based on statistics three distinct geographical regions. gathered at the Agriculture Depar- The torrid Pacific region is the most tment and elsewhere, reports that populous and developed. The central tmernt r k y s region, the coolest of the three, consists Americans are drink noy half as of mountain ranges, with some peaks much coffee as they did in 1946 and con- reaching 7,000 feet, where coffee and siderable less butter, milk, candy, and tobacco are cultivated and cattle eggs than in previousyears. raised The eastern region- humid and It ascribed the change to rising coffee hot, is an extensive lowland which prices, a decline in coffeequality, and ,a slopes' gently tOwar. the Atlahtic generalswitch to soft drinks.