I Page 2-Saturday, January 26, 1980--The Michigan Daily " Consumer prices soar in biggest jump since 1946 osE From APand UPI1 OLYMPIC BOYCOTT ENFORCEMENT CONSIDERED Civile tti examines options WASHINGTON - Consumer prices soared 13.3 per cent last year, the biggest jump since 1946, as in- flation helped cut a workers' take- home pay by more than five per. cent, the government said yester- day. What's more, the Consumer Price Index rose 1.2 per cent in December, the largest monthly increase of last year. And there are no prospects for immediate relief, warned Alfred Kahn, President Carter's chief in- flation fighter. KAHN SAID yesterday that 1979's 13.3 per cent inflation rate probably will continue for a few more months, but price increases should moderate later in the year.' Kahn, chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, said the only solution is self-discipline by the American people while the gover- nment disciplines itself and promotes savings, investment and increased productivity. "We have to have a leaner, disciplined, more productive society," Kahn told a hearing of Congress'. Joint Economic Commit- tee shortly after the consumer price index for the year had been announ- ced. "IN THE coming months, honestly, no one can promise an im- provement." He also predicted the price of food will rise seven to 10 per cent during 1980. In the longer run, Kahn cautiously predicted better times, especially in energy and home financing costs. BECAUSE OF a favorable world oil supply, the cost of energy should stabilize during the year, he said. Home mortgage .interest rates should drop below tte double-digit level about midyear, he said. The inflation litany of 1979 in- cludes these facts: " Retail energy costs skyrocketed a seasonally adjusted 374 per cent; with a gallon of gasoline rising 35.7 cents and home-heating oil climbing 33.8 cents per gallon. The jump in energy was the largest on record. " Housing costs went ut 15.2 per cent, also the largest rise on record, the Labor Department said. Mor- tgage interest costs alone shot up 34.7 per cent for the year and a whopping 45 per cent from October through December. " Food and beverage prices rose 10.8 per cent, and after several mon- ths of moderation soared by 1.,3 per cent in December. " Medical care was up 10.1 per cent. " Transportation costs leaped 18.2 per cent, with public transit up 39.4 -per cent during the last three mon- ths of 1979, a distressing sign for commuters and the elderly. " Consumers paid about $2.30 in December for the same retail item that cost $1 in 1967. El 30r- -i -Y 25 205 L Dec. - 229.9 aest Period: 1967: 100 L iM1 AS H ,,,. ,,, WASHINGTON (UPI )-Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, in a veiled warning to the U.S. Olympic Commit- tee, said yesterday the Justice Depar- tment is considering options for enfor- cing an American boycott of the Moscow games. "There are a number of options under consideration," Civiletti told a news conference. IN EFFECT, he put the committee on notice that if it attempts to defy President Carter's expected call for a boycott, the government will do what it can to prevent U.S. athletes from going to Moscow. Sources said options being considered include revoking athletes' passports or, less likely, using the International Emergency Powers Act to bar a "renegade" Olympic committee from paying their travel costs. BUT HE SAID he has "no expectation that it will be necessary," and predic- ted the public, athletes and government representatives will cooperate volun- tarily with any final boycott policy. In Colorado Springs, Colo., a delegation of American athletes, com- plaining they had become pawns in a international political game, denoun- ced President Carter's proposal yesterday for a U.S. boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The athletes, most of whom have been training at the U.S. Olympic Cen- ter for several months, said instead of boycotting the games, the ad- ministration should impose "total economic" sanctions against the Soviet Senate officials in Washington talk of war possibility Dept. of tabor Soure: a (Continued fromPage1) Selective Service System. That, in ef- fect, sets a limit on the amount of time that the question of registering women can be considered. Levin was not supportive of the draft registration proposal, although he was somewhat less adamant about preven- ting it than Riegle. According to Serkaian, Levin was willing to take a look at it but would hold off. "He feels the system is unfair to minorities acid to the poor. The system should be refor- med before there is a draft." AS FOR THE threat of war, he went on, "There would have to be a terrible breakdown in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union before war would become a serious possibility. The ultimate would be a break in relations." Said Russell, "I don't think there's a sense of imminency. We have to draw the line if our Mideast oil supply is threatened." He also said the United States could expect help from her allies, Japan and West Germany, both of whom are very vulnerable to an oil cut-off. "A large number of phone calls and letters are starting tn come in," he ex- plained. "People would be willing to accept the registration. But the draft, that is something different. Registration, that's okay, but the draft is a serious matter." Ci tileui LtxI D I E~itCEU - ... may revoke passports Union. They noted the United States had not shut off all grain shipments to. the Russians. Carter has said he will call for tran- sferring, canceling or boycotting the. 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow unless the Soviet Union moves troops out of Afghanistan by Feb. 20. AMERICAN BAPTIST CAMPUS CENTER at FIRST BAPTIST CH URCH 502 E. Huron St. (between.State & Division)-663-9376 Dr. Jitsuo Morikawa, Minister 10:00 a.m.-Worship Service-Ser- mon: "Being A Caring Christian In A Time of Economic Uncertainty." 11:15 a.m.-1) A college class for both faculty and students, led by Dr. Nadean, Bishop.. 2) An undergraduate campus class for students only, a discussion with three students as leaders. , Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.-Campus Discussion Group-Led by Margi Stu- ber, M.I ., in the Campus Center Lounge. r FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 132 Washtenaw ve.-662-4466 :Service of Worship: Sunday 9:30 and 11:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. College Student Fellowship in the French Room. ' Prayer Breakfast Wednesday at 7:00 "am. r °mBble Study Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. Theology Discussion Group Thurs- :day at 7:00 p.m. * * * i ST. MARY STUDENT CHAPEL - ( fa thoiic )? :331 Thompson-663-0557 Weekly Masses: - Mon.-Wed.-5:10 p.m. . Thurs. and Fri.-12:10 p.mn.. Saturday-7:00 p.m. ' Sunday-7:45 a.mx, 9 a.m., 10:30 a.m.,noon, and 5 p.m. North Campus Mass-9:30 a.m. at Bursley Hall, West Cafeteria. Rite of Reconciliation - 4 p.m.-- - 5 p.m. on Friday only; any other time ; by appointment. * *"* ' CAMPUS CIHAPEL' 1236 Washtenaw Ave. , ,Fellowship Supported by the > Christian Reformed Church : ('lay ibolt Service 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.- -Sermon title: "Looking For Commun- _-ity," the worship leaders will be Clay- ton Libolt and Glenda Prins. FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHIURCH 120 S. State St. (Corner of State and Huron) Worship Schedule: 8:30 a.m.-Holy Communion in th0 Chapel. 9:30 and 11:00 a.m.-Morning Wor- ship inthe Sanctuary. Church School for All Ages-9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Choir Rehearsal Thursday-7:15 p.m. Ministers:- Dr. Donald B. Strobe Rev. Fred B. Maitland Dr. Gerald R. Parker Education Director: Rose McLean Education Asst.: Anne Vesey * * * UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL Serving the Campus for LC-MS Rovert Kavasch, Pastor 1511 Washtenaw Ave. 663-.5560 Double Sunday Services-9:15 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.' Sunday Bible Study at 9:15a.m. Midweek Worship-Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. * * * CHURCH Oi CHRIST. 530 W. Stadium (Across from Pioneer High) Schedule of Services: Sunday-Bible School 9:30 a.m. Worship-1O:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Wednesday-Bible Study 7:30 p.m. Bible classes for College Students., For information call 971-7925 Wilburn C. Hill, Evangelist Transportation-662-9928 UNIVERSITY CHURCH OF TIlE NAZARENE 409 S. Division Steve Bringardner, Pastor Church School-9:45 a.m. Service of Worship-li:00 a.m Time of Meeting-6:00 p.m. * * * ANN ARBOR FRIENDS MEETING 1420 Hill Street 10:00 a.m.-Worship Service. NEWPORT FELIOWSHIP ( Free Methodist Church)' 1951 Newport Road-665-6100 Sunday School-9:45 a.m. Worship-l11:00 a.m. (Nursery and Chitdren's Worship). Evening Worship-6:00 p.m. Robert Henning, Pastor. 663-9526 t* * ,* CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY Iluron Valley Mission 809 henry St. 668-611:; Sunday Service 2:3Q p.m. Rev. Marian K. Kuhns * * * LORD OF LIGHT LUTHE RAN CH URCH (The Campus Ministry of the ALC-LCA ) Gordon Ward, Pastor 801 S. Forest at Hill St. 10:30 a.m.-Worship Service. Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m.-Choir Prac- tice. * * * . WESLEY FOUNDATIN at the University of Michigan (313) 668-6881 602 E. Huron at State Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Rev. W. Thomas Schouiaker, Chaplain Ann Laurance, Ann Wilkinson This Week: Sunday, 5:30 p.m.-Shared Meal. Sunday, 6:15 p.m.-Worship Service with special guest: Keith Pohl, editor of "The Michigan Christian Advocate." Sunday, 7:30 p.m.-Keith Pohl will speak at a program on "China and Her People." Monday, 12:10 p.m.-Brown bag film today. A free film and a great way to have your lunch. * * * CANTERBURY LOFT Episcopal Campus Ministry 332 S. State St. Rev. Andrew Foster, Chaplain SUNDAY COMMUNITY EVENTS AT ST. ANDREWS CHURCH 306 N. Division 9:00 a.m.-University Study Group. 10:00 a.m.-Worship Service with the Parish. 12 noon-Luncheon and Student Fel- lowship. Exxon profits increase55 per cent, oil firm now largest industry in U.S. From AP and t'PI Exxon Corp. yesterday reported its 1979 profits rose 55 per cent and its sales surged by almost $2o million, pushing the oil .company past General Motors Corp. into first place as the nation's largest U.S. industrialfirm., Exxon's earnings of more than $4 billion in 1979 were attributed to an in- crease in overseas oil producing. refiring and marketing earnings, on top of a steep rise in world prices. EXXON, THE world's largest oil c(ompany, yesterday reported fourth- quarter earnings of more than $1.3 billion, up 60 per cent over last year's figlire,and a net income for 1979 of more than $4.2 billion, a 55 per cent ga in. Exxon thus became only the second U.S. company to earn $4 billion in one year, and the first industrial company to do so. The American Telephone and 't'elegraph Co. earned more than 15 billion in 1978. In a statement, Erxxon said its ear- nings were justified because of the large investment needed to generate profits. AMONG OI'THER oil companies reporting higher income for the fourth quarter and for 1979 were Standard Oil Company of Ohio and Sun Oil Inc. Sohio, the nation's 1lth largest oil company, credited increased flow of Alaskan crude at higher prices for its fourth-quarter increase of 174 per cent, to $451 million, and an annual increase of 164 per cent, to $1.19 billion. Sun, the 10th largest, reported four- th-quarter earnings were up by 107 per cent at $222.9 million, against $107.6 million a year ago. IN WASHINGTON, meanwhile, Senate and House conferees trying to write a compromise "windfall" tax on the oil industry adjourned yesterday without reaching agreement. The tax would be on extra revenue, not profits, resulting from the Carter ad@ ministration's proposal to decontrol oil prices. About one-third of Exxon's 1979 ear- nings gains came from a $320 million reduction in British taxes. But an "improvenwnt in margins in most marketa" in Europe and elsewhere as world oil prices nearly doubled pushed Exxon's foreign refining and marketing profits up by 110 per rent to $1.2 billion, excluding the 'ffects of the tax change. Exxon also reported gains from oi production in the No',th Sea and Malaysia. In the United States, oil and gas ear- nings gained by 2.9 per cent to $1.5 billion, despite increased earnings prom AlIjskan oil, as U.S. refining and marketing profits slipped 62 per cent to $113 million. Iranians selecting new president (Continued from Page l) results are not expected before Mon- day. Carter administration officials say they hope whoever emerges as president will be a "better negotiating partner" than Iranian officials have been so far in international efforts to win the release of the estimated 50 American hostages held by Moslem militants at the U.S. Embassy. Yester- day was the hostages' 83rd day in cap- tivity. DIPLOM \TIC contacts to end the crisis are centered at the United Nations, where Security Council mem- bers were to resume private con- sultations on the situation late yester- day. U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim was trying to work out a "package deal" whereby the hostages would be released in exchange for a U.N. investigation of the alleged crimes of ousted Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The embassy militants con- tinued to insist, however, that they would not free their captives until the ex-shah, now living in Panama, was returned to Iran. Khomeini, who was admitted to the intensive-care unit of a Tehran hospital early Thursday with an undisclosed heart ailment, cast his ballot at the hospital, Tehran Radio said. THE 79-YEAR-OLD Moslem clergyman and his doctors have sought to reassure the public that his illness is not serious. Khomeini's office issued a statement yesterday afternoon congratulating the electorate on its "revolutionary enthusiasm" and urging even greater numbers to go to the polls, Tehran Radio said. l'ut it also quoted an Interior. Ministry official as saying that "things were not as they should be" in Kur- distan. It said supervisory election councils were not formed in the cities of Baneh and Dastgerd, indicating boycot- ts were under way there. THe Kurds are one of several ethnic minorities seeking greater autonomy from Khomeini's central government. THE AtPPARENT boycott by Shariat- Madari, who like Khomeini resides in the holy city of Qom, 100 miles south of Tehran, may be equally imfportant Shariotat-Madari has become figurehead leader of the dissident movement in northwest. Iran's Ater- haijan region. THE MICHIGAN DAILY (USPS 344-900) Volume XC, No. 95 Saturday, January 26, 1980 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. Published daily Tuesday through Sunday morn- ings durng e University year at 420 Maynard Street; Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 Subscription rates: $12 Septem- ber through April (2 semesters) ;$13 by mail outside' Ann Arbor. Somme. session published Tuesday througW Saturday mornings. Subscription rates. $6.50 in Ann Arbor; $7.00 by mail out- side AnnArbor. Second class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. POST- MASTER: Send address changes to THE MICHIGAN DAILY, 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. "W HY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" Psalms 2:1 and Acts 4:25 "AND IN CONTROVERSY THEY SHALL STAND IN MY JUDGMENT: AND THEY SHALL JUDGE IT ACCORDING TO MY JUDGMENTS: AND THEY SHALL KEEP MY LAWS AND MY STATUTES IN ALL MINE ASSEMBLIES: AND THEY SHALL HALLOW MY SABBATHS." Ezekiel 44:24 Are we interested In God's judgments in view of the way we learn and consider them? We ought to be inasmuch as we are hastening to the Judgment Seat of The Aimightyt No telling how many may read this article and shortly thereafter depart this life for that Appointment God has made for us. That is one appointment we will all keep and be on timel Are we Interested in God's Laws and Statutes judging from the way we have learned what they are and what consideration we have given them? We ought to be interested for they will be the basis of His judgment of usi Do we say we have accepted Christ. loined The Church, been baptized, and there is Many of us have not conquered the "love of lucre" enough to Invest ten cents on the dollar in the business of God Almighty! And many have not conquered their love of ease, pleasure, sports, etc. enough to give God one day in seven as He commands. But prefer golf to God, fishing to Faith, foot- basket-baseball and boating and bathing and booze to The Beatitudes of The Lord Jesus Christ In The Sermon on The Mount, and then there are those who prefer cash to Christ and so run their business on The Lord's Day for the sake of profit: "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, and lose his soul?" Maybe the pronouns "THEE, THOU," a little further on in the 11th chapter of Romans, versus 19-22, come close to fitting us and getting our measure: "Be not highminded, but fear, for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: On them ** r~**t** r 1 ****ttt*ryl* * ~irytt~iryit* t***********ti*7r** t* ~k**i*.* ***ir**** . Take A .Look * .** in your ~---_ Little Black B ookh ., * and send a * * u ,.E _ - ...wu