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THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1979 Page 7 RA still alive? Original ratification deadline passes, court cases filed United Press International ^SHINGTON — Supporters opponents of the Equal Rights lendment agreed Thursday they will do battle in the courts, as well as in the legislatures whose votes could make it part of the Constitu tion. . The original deadline for ratifica tion of ERA passed at midnight Thursday — and a court test shaped up to determine whether Congress acted legally in extending it until June 30, 1982. ®So far, 35 of the needed 38 states have ratified ERA. The first suit against the extension will be filed today in Washington State, where a legislator demanded Pov. Dixie Lee Ray retrieve the state’s ratification papers from the General Services Administration in the nation s capital. “The extension is the law of the land,” said Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y. “It will be the responsibility of the United States Department of Justice to defend it — and they will.” “The Supreme Court has already ruled that Congress and Congress alone determined the period for ratification of constitutional amendments,” said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organiza tion for Women. “We’re ready to fight in the courts.” “The extension is wrong, illegal, immoral, unprecedented and un constitutional,” countered Phyllis Schlafly, chairman of Stop ERA. Even if the extension were valid, she said, 30 of the ratification votes now expire since they all mention the original seven-year limit. That is the argument to be used in the Washington state case. eive« [ I in oreign oil imports seen as threatening to national security United Press International WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department has shoved aside [(he talk of high prices and possibly long lines at gasoline stations with a startling new aspect of America’s thirst for oil: Our imports may 1 threaten national security. The department released a year-long study Wednesday, saying the U.S. dependence on foreign oil — now nearly half the nation’s supply I—poses a greater threat to national security and economic stability [than ever before. “Oil imports are entering the United States in such quantities and I under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national secu- jrity,” the report warned. It said vigorous steps, which it did not outline, must be taken to cut [oil consumption and boost production. 1 Treasury Secretary Michael Rlumenthal said in a memorandum to (President Carter that 45 percent of oil consumed in the United States comes from foreign countries, compared with 39 percent in 1975 and 18 percent in 1959. “This growing reliance on oil imports has important consequences for the nation’s defense and economic welfare,” he said. I The Treasury study included a warning from the CIA: “There is a [high probability that acts of nature, human error, or deliberately [targeted terrorist attacks will interrupt the flow of oil in one or more [of the oil-exporting nations during the next several years.” | While that report was being made public, the Senate Energy Committee was hearing of still another potential oil crisis: a shortage of lighter crude oils — the ones most suited to production of gasoline and other high-demand, high-priced fuels. Both sides held news conferences to observe the seven-year anniver sary, and 1,100 opponents scheduled a banquet honoring Schlafly and officially declaring ERA dead. Representatives of 200 groups supporting ERA — claiming their membership totaled 65 million — said they would shift their emphasis to “one unified, massive, national campaign” to pressure the states that have not ratified. “We intend to create a political climate which will not allow the last-minute deals and trades by one legislative leader to defeat the ERA,” Smeal said. “Women are not going to crawl into the Constitution — we are going to march into it proudly.” Schlafly treated ERA like a thing of the past, saying its “death is the greatest victory that American women have had since the ratifica tion of the Women’s Suffrage Amendment.” “The expiration means that women will not have to be drafted or put into military combat,” she said. “What is she talking about?” re sponded Rep. Margaret Heckler, R-Mass., waving in her hand several bills introduced in Congress that would allow women to be drafted. “You don’t need ERA to draft wo men.” Schlafly accused President Carter of misusing the powers of his office to lobby for ERA, and said the ad ministration offered a “$50 million bribe” — the Democratic National Convention — for Florida to pass ERA. Democrats have passed a resolu tion ordering the convention be held in a ratified state, and have given Florida an April 15 deadline for approval if Miami Beach is to be considered. 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Thank you. -.mo* lnc 2:40 5:00 7:20 0:45 $30,1 $301 they e lity ^ nffil egion disease studied mmriinn M n ni in i All PL ITT Southern UNIVERSITY SQUARE SHOPPING CENTER 846-4714 & 846-1151 IfejUW United Press International ■BOSTON — Scientists are closer than ever to understanding Le gionnaires’ disease nearly 1,000 Oys after it took the lives of 29 ople who attended an American gion convention in Philadelphia. The search for the cause and atment of the disease is the sub- t of a report published Thursday forfa* in the New England Journal of stem 1 Medicine. Tra® PThe surprising thing about the Hspiratory disease “is the fact that ice ^ we’ve found a newly-recognized or- igh, n ganism,” said Dr. Jay P. Sanford, of ud) the Uniformed Services University assW School of Medicine in Bethesda, ; syd* 1 Md. of W Doctors were able to isolate a Lpreviously unknown bacteria that I causes the disease, he said. Since I then, they have been able to con firm it caused cases of repiratory disease predating the July 1976 iladelphia outbreak. The disease can now be treated 'ectively with the antibiotic eryt hromycin, and it appears a vaccine could be devised if it were ever |eeded. Researchers are also working on a st to speed diagnosis of the dis ease. Doctors were hampered in eating patients in the Philadelphia outbreak because of the speed at fhich the disease progressed — less an four days. Sanford said patterns for the dis- se are also emerging: It is most frequent between June and November; it is more common in men than in women; and it gener- lly strikes people in their mid-50s. MADDER THAN DAFFY! DIRTY DUCK DUMBER THAN DONALD! 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Theater rated PG Saturday March 24 8 p.m. Auditorium rated R "The Twelve Chair/" Sunday March 25 2 p.m. Theater rated PG Cary Grant Film Festival The Philadelphia Story 8 p.m. Theater rated G Notorious 10 p.m. Theater rated PG Wed. March 28