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United Press International
WASHINGTON — A faulty
iviet spy satellite carrying a nu-
power reactor disintegrated
"earth’s atmosphere over
west Canada Tuesday, but
Canadian defense minister
it was unlikely any radioac-
ive material hit the ground.
A White House official re
sted the development at a has-
called news conference and
the United States had sent
:ial radiation monitoring air-
to sample the air over the
ntry zone.
he chances of real hazard
small,” said National Security
airs Adviser Zbigniew
ezinski. “We feel there is no
ger and in fact there may be
contamination at all.”
In Ottawa, Defense Minister
larnett Danson said later it was
lighly unlikely any of the
jnriched uranium aboard the
spacecraft had reached the
ground.
“Chances were 98 percent that
it dissipated as it fell through the
atmosphere,” he said.
The satellite’s re-entry was
timed at 6:53 a.m. EST and
shortly after 7 a.m. President
Carter discussed the situation by
telephone with Canadian Prime
Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
Carter said the satellite was a
“radar type oceanic surveillance
satellite.”
The unmanned satellite, des
ignated Cosmos 954, was
launched Sept. 18. The United
States learned the spacecraft was
in trouble in December and
Brzezinski said the Soviets im
mediately informed a number of
nations when the craft fell into
the atmosphere.
The concern was that the satel
lite’s destruction caused by the
friction of air against the
spacecraft’s structure would scat
ter radiactive material in the at
mosphere.
Danson said under interna
tional agreement, the Soviet
Union was responsible for the
liability of any contamination, al
though Canada and the United
States would assume the cost of
the radiation search.
Speaker Thomas O’Neill said
leaders in the House and Senate
had been informed of the satel
lite’s problems 10 days ago and
had been kept informed since
then.
Brzezinski emphasized that
Soviet Officials had cooperated
with the United States and other
nations in keeping tabs on the
spacecraft. A White House
source said the hot line between
Washington and Moscow was not
used.
Carter plan ‘wont happen
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1978
Page 3
Congressmen favor tax cut
led labor leaders eye
talian cabinet positions
United Press International
ME — A Communist labor
r Tuesday offered the prospect
r peace for troubled Italy over
ext three years if his party is
;ed in the nation’s next gov-
ent.
iano Lama, secretary general
the Communist-controlled Gen-
|1 Confederation of Italian Labor,
the proposal on the second
of talks between Premier-
nate Giulio Andreotti and
r political leaders,
dreotti’s minority Christian
locrats, under prodding by Car-
dministration policy-makers
jful of Marxist influence in
iTO, are refusing to admit the
nmunists into a new cabinet,
dreotti met with the Socialist
Communist leaders Monday
vas holding talks Tuesday with
r parties, starting with the Re
nans.
e consultations — the begin-
of what is expected to be long
ough bargaining — began one
after the Communists brought
his previous government in a
ve for more power,
lama told the newspaper La Re-
blica the labor movement was
ly to “sacrifice’ wage claims to
(find jobs for Italy’s 1.6 million
nployed and would be willing to
ept layoffs at inefficient factories.
|e said this was labor’s line re-
lless of the outcome of the gov-
ment crisis, but added: “Cer
tainly, formation of a socially and
politically representative govern
ment would make approval of our
line easier.
“When labor makes unemploy
ment the No. 1 point on its program
all other goals must be sacrificed to
this problem,” Lama said.
“For instance the goal of improv
ing the conditions of the employed
must move down to second spot.
Our wage policy in the next few
years must be very restrained.’
Lama said any wage raises could
be spread over a three-year period.
Communist leader Enrico Berlin-
guer emerged from the talks saying
his party was still demanding
cabinet seats in an emergency
cabinet and renewed his threat to
try to form a leftist-popular front
government if the Christian Demo
crats do not make concessions.
Socialist party head Bettino Craxi
said Andreotti’s refusal to consider
the idea “destroys half or more than
half the margin for negotiations. ”
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Most of the
“reforms” in President Carter’s tax
program have been dismissed as
impossible by key congressmen, but
his tax-cut proposal is so popular a
fight is likely over whether to
enlarge it.
Speaker Thomas O’Neill, House
Ways and Means chairman Al
Ullman, D-Ore., ranking Ways and
Means Republican Barber Conable,
R-N.Y., and others agreed that most
of the reforms — or revisions — in
the $24.5 billion tax-cut plan will
not survive.
Ullman said at an organizational
meeting of his committee that more
than two-thirds of the plan “is not
going to happen.” His statement
was not challenged.
Conable said in an interview it
was possible that none of Carter’s
plan would pass and that the only
revisions of the Internal Revenue
Code would be ones initiated by
members of Congress, not the pres
ident.
Rep. Joe Waggonner, D-La.,
known as one of the best vote coun
ters in the House, said Carter’s plan
“is going to be stripped pretty good”
before Congress is finished.
“He (Carter) has a rough row to
hoe,” said Waggonner. “The big
problem is going to be to keep the
Congress from increasing the tax cut
as they strip away reform.”
The main sticking points, in
interviews with a number of con
gressmen, were Carter’s plans to cut
back on business entertainment de
ductions, tighten taxation of U.S.
firms overseas, eliminate federal
deductions for sales, gasoline and
some other state and local taxes, and
curtail medical and casualty deduc
tions.
Ullman said the portion of the
plan dealing with entertainment and
foreign tax matters was too controv
ersial even to consider this year.
There was some disagreement
over what reforms might pass.
Rep. Abner Mikva, D-Ill., a Ways
and Means member, said public
opinion would almost force the
committee to approve Carter’s plan
to do away with business deductions
for theater and sports tickets,
yachts, swimming pools, hunting
lodges and fees to various clubs.
Waggonner also went against the
general tide of opinion by predicting
Congress would agree to do away
with the deduction for state and
local gasoline taxes.
As for the tax cut itself, only
Ullman and House Appropriations
Committee chairman George Ma
hon, D-Tex., among congressional
leaders, have expressed concern
that the cut is too big. Republicans
and some Democrats complain it is
not big enough.
But even tax cuts are not as sim
ple as they sound. Once the size of
the cut is determined. Congress
must decide which income groups
benefit the most from it.
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‘Chicago’ lead singer dead
after shooting himself in head
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Terry Kath,
lead singer and guitarist for the
jazz-rock group “Chicago,” acciden
tally shot himself to death Monday
evening following a party, police re
ported.
A spokeswoman for the group said
the 33-year-old Kath spent the af
ternoon in the Woodland Hills home
of a road-crew member, Don
Johnson, visiting and drinking with
friends.
The party had broken up, the
spokeswoman said, and only
Johnson and Kath remained when
Kath pulled an automatic pistol he
usually carried and began twirling
the weapon.
Johnson asked him to stop playing
with the gun and Kath replied:
“Don’t worry, it’s not loaded,
see?”
Kath put the pistol to his head
and pulled th trigger, killing himself
instantly, Johnson told police.
Kath, a self-taught singer-
musician, was born in Chicago in
1944. During his boyhood, he ex
perimented with banjo, accordion,
bass, drums and finally guitar. In
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called “Jimmy and the Gentlemen.”
He played bass only as a sideman for
four years until joining Chicago.
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