Court denies
Westheimer
school district
United Press International
NEW ORLEANS — A federal
appeals court says establishment of a
predominantly white Westheimer
Independent School District in
Houston would damage the city’s
desegregation efforts but the court
did give WISD supporters hope.
A three-judge panel of the 5th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Monday blocked formation of the
WISD, which has been the subject
oflitigation since it was proposed in
1971.
However, the court struck down
as too broad an order by District
Judge Finis E. Cowan that perma
nently prohibited any acts relating
to the creation or organization of the
Westheimer district. It said the
proposed WISD could remain a
corporate entity and resume efforts
to operate separate schools when it
shows a change in circumstances
indicating that such implementation
not impede the HISD deseg-
regtion process. ”
Residents of Westheimer, an
affluent, predominantly white resi
dential and commercial section of
Houston, have been seeking to es
tablish the district and remove their
students from the Houston Inde
pendent School District. HISD offi
cials, however, said that would
jeopardize a desegregation plan or
dered by a federal court.
The opinion said WISD would be
t 6 percent white — greatly dis
proportionate to the HISD — and
would encourage white flight.
U.S. offers to aid
China tap energy
THE BATTALION Page 3
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1978
Emerging singer plays here
Phil Keaggy, one of the most popular religious singers
around, performed Monday night in Rudder I heater. After
making an auspicous start in rock music in the 60s, he
switched to performing with Christian musicians when his
mother died in 1970. Since then, he has released three al
bums that have been popular among religious music fans.
The concert Monday was sponsored by Chi Alpha and
Waterbrook Concerts.
United Press International
TOKYO — The United States has
offered to help China develop its
immense energy reserves in what
would be the first joint economic
venture between the two countries
since the 1949 Communist revolu
tion, Energy Secretary James
Schlesinger said today.
The United States would help dig
Chinese coal mines, design an atom
smasher and build a huge dam on
the Yangtze River, he said.
Schlesinger, who arrived in Japan
from Peking Sunday, said China and
the United States had agreed to
hold working level talks on coopera
tion in five energy related areas:
digging coal mines, hydroelectric
power, renewable energy, oil and
gas and high energy physics.
He said that an exchange of
missions of coal mining experts will
be carried out “as soon as possible,”
and that talks on other aspects of the
program will get under way early in
1979. “As a result of our discussions,
a substantial agenda for cooperation
between our two countries has been
established,” Schlesinger said.
“This visit to China was a manifes-
Battalien photo by Lee Larkin tation of an important step in the
improvement of Chinese-American
relations. We achieved a clear
understanding on mutual questions
in the energy field. We identified
energy projects of mutual benefit to
both countries.”
U.S. Ambassador to Japan Mike
Mansfield predicted Oct. 16 that the
world’s next big pool of oil would be
found off the coast of east Asia,
much of it in Chinese waters. Scien
tists predict China has reserves of 30
billion barrels or a s much oil as all
the proved reserves of the United
States.
Mansfield also disclosed that five
American oil companies — Union,
Exxon, Phillips, Gulf and Penzoil —
have sent missions to Peking seek
ing an American role in developing
it.
The Chinese so far have favored
Japan as a partner in offshore oil
drilling ventures, though Japanese
oil industry sources say frankly that
in deep water drilling American
technology is superior and probably
will be necessary.
Schlesinger said the Chinese
would continue discussions with the
American oil companies on a possi
ble role for them in development of
China’s offshore oil resources.
There will be exchanges of oil and
gas experts, but no dates for this
were set.
Accompanying Schlesinger to
China was a party of 23 scientists
and Energy Department officials,
and 10 American reporters.
Tax cuts top election issue
Incumbents could lose seats
United Press International
The odds say people who already
bold public office are the candidates
most likely to win elections. But if
the polls are right, 1978 may be the
year when that political rule of
thumb gets sharply rapped by the
voters’ hammer.
As the mid-term congressional
and state campaigns wound down
Monday, at least a dozen incumbent
senators and governors of both
major parties were being written off
as likely or possible losers today.
Several times that many House
members were regarded as down
the tubes or in deep trouble.
Yet the balance sheet of gov
ernmental control is unlikely to be
radically changed by the election re
sults. The Democrats now control
Congress, the governorships and
the legislatures by such wide mar
gins that it would take a political
upheaval of earthquake proportions
for the Republicans to take over.
The Republicans are not predict
ing the ground will shake and break
open today. They are talking only
about narrowing the 62-38 Demo
cratic hold on the Senate, 288-147
majority in the House and 37-12
dominance of statehouses.
In terms of things to come, the
voters choices between candidates
Tuesday could be the tail of the
election dog.
Sixteen states and a number of
smaller governmental units have on
the ballot referendums on tax reduc
tions and spending restrictions —
practically all of them spinoffs of
California’s thunderous Proposition
13 vote last summer.
Approval of measures sharply cut
ting state and local taxes or snapping
lids on the spending authority of
legislatures and city or county law
makers could have a far more pro
found effect on the impact of gov
ernment on the people than the
names and party affiliations of the
candidates seeking office this year.
The states voting on taxation or
spending restrictions are Alabama,
Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado,
Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Massachu
setts, Michigan, Missouri, Ne
braska, Nevada, North Dakota,
Oregon, South Dakota and Texas.
The story of today’s election may
be in the rollcall of losers.
Near final public opinion polling
showed Sens. John Tower, R-Tex.,
Robert Griffin, R-Mieh., Edward
Brooke, R-Mass., William Hatha
way, D-Maine, Wendell Anderson,
D-Minn., and Floyd Haskell,
D-Colo., trailing their challengers.
Gov. Bob Straub of Oregon was re
garded as in the same fix and Gov.
Martin Schreiber of Wisconsin was
trailing slightly in a race too close to
call. Both are Democrats.
Several other incumbents were
said to have made late campaign re
coveries that may pull them
through. Sens. Charles Percy,
R-Ill., and Jennings Randolph,
D-W.Va., and Govs. James Rhodes,
R-Ohio, and Hugh Carey, D-N.Y.,
were in that category. In Michigan,
GOP Gov. William Milliken also
was struggling for survival in a race
regarded as a virtual tossup.
As the last pre-election polls were
published, a number of the races
appeared to he changing. Among
them was Illinois, where Democrat
Alex Seith had established a surpris
ing lead over Percy, but a poll
showed the two-term GOP
moderate had made up 7 of an 8
percent straw vote deficit in a week.
Despite the poll lead Democratic
Rep. Bob Krueger held over Tower,
that race also was regarded as a
standoff for prediction purposes,
just as Anderson appears to be near
dead-even with Republican chal
lenger Rudy Boschwitz in Min
nesota.
Also holding leads in local polls
were Democratic Rep. Paul Tsongas
over Brooke in Massachusetts, GOP
Rep. William Armstrong over Has
kell in Colorado, Republican Rep.
William Cohen over Hathaway in
Maine and former Detroit City
Council President Carl Levin over
Griffin in Michigan.
Republican State Sen. Victor
Atiyeh led Straub in Oregon, and
while Schreiber was behind Repub
lican Leo Dreyfus in Wisconsin, the
figures were so close the contest was
called a tossup.
However, Rhodes apparently was
making a late charge against an early
lead held by Democratic Lt. Gov.
Richard Celeste in Ohio, and Carey
was shown in a weekend poll to be
leading GOP candidate Perry
Duryea in New York for the first
time.
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