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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1979
the nation
Speck moved
into isolation;
safety feared
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JOLIET, Ill. — Convicted
day.
Speck originally was sen-
mass murderer Richard Speck tenced to die for the murders.
has been moved to an isolated His sentence was changed when
unit of Stateville Correctional the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
Center because he fears for his the state’s old death penalty law
safety, prison officials said Tues- unconstitutional in 1972.
Carter warns of
if SALT II is not ratified
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WASHINGTON — President Carter is taking a hard-sell approach
to SALT II, warning senators they dare not risk catastrophic nuclear
war and America’s position as leader of the free world by rejecting the
arms limitation treaty.
With the heady summit meeting in Vienna behind him, Carter
faces determined Senate opposition to SALT II, and he outlined his
own position in strong language to a joint session of Congress shortly
after returning to Washington Monday night.
“It would be the height of irresponsibility to ignore the possible
consequences of a failure to ratify the treaty,” he said, citing in
creased tensions between East and West and “a greater likelihood
that other, inevitable problems could escalate into serious, super
power confrontations.”
Not only would there be a risk of war. Carter said, but “rejection
would be a damaging blow to the Western alliance. If the Senate
were to reject the treaty, America’s leadership of the alliance would
be compromised, and the alliance itself would be severely shaken.”
Carter drew a relatively cool reaction to his 40-minute speech,
which was interrupted by applause just six times — mostly when he
emphasized American power.
But House Speaker Thomas O’Neill said the address was “the best
speech President Carter has ever delivered, and it was the most
attentive audience that I have seen in my years in Congress.”
“If I could read an audience, he scored points very heavily,”
O’Neill said. “I encourage the people of America to support this
historic treaty.”
Carter expects to send the treaty to the Senate this week, but the
outlook for ratification is still much in doubt, with debate scheduled
to start in July and run several months.
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Assistant Senate Democratic leader Alan Cranston of Califorfhampion
estimated Carter could get only 58 votes for the pact Tuesday-mwon '
short of the number needed for ratification — while opponents ; Pn) defen
within four votes of killing it. anpther
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said he stands fully behind(;h4 v >' we ^
ter on the treaty and intends to support it without amendments t Jones,
“I think President Carter deserves great credit for bringingt(|lraft pick
successful conclusion the past seven years of difficult and compSlireinent
negotiations,” he said. •ome a
Carter was at his most somber throughout the speech,
Americas responsibility for preventing nuclear war. ^
Since the United States dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshinu,®| '
said, there has been no world war, “yet this twilight peace carries® f (
everpresent possibility of a catastrophic nuclear war, a war tlntj ) | (
horror and destruction and massive death would dwarf all the w®®'! in( |
bined wars of man’s long and bloody history.”
“We must prevent such a war,” Carter said emphatically, i joiles.
absolutely must prevent such a war.” HMy re:
The treaty limits each side to a total of 2,400 land-and seabasBitive.
long-range missiles and heavy bombers, with the number fallingBvyweig
2,250 by the end of 1981. The Soviets must dismantle 270 stralejjiayt' wan
missiles to get down to the initial 2.400 ceiling. I am
In the treaty, for the first time ever, Moscow outlined hownla^i^ , ani *
long-range weapons it currently has — 2,504 compared to 2,283tH,'
the United States. That total does not include the controvemilT U()I
Backfire bomber, which the Soviets say is not equipped to bomb'if* 01 1111
United States. Senate critics say it could be.
Carter stressed repeatedly that he will not let America fall beki^ r 11
the Russians in military power.
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WASHINGTON — The space
agency plans to take the first step
today in its unprecedented effort to
try to keep the Skylab space station
from falling over heavily populated
areas.
Skylab is expected to drop out of
orbit between July 7 and July 25,
scattering 500 pieces of debris over
a 100-mile-wide zone 4,000 miles
long.
Although there is only a 1 in 252
chance anyone will be injured, the
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration believes it can re
duce the risks even further if it ap
pears the 78.5-ton assembly will
re-enter the atmosphere during an
orbit that crosses densely populated
regions.
But to have any chance of in
fluencing when and where Skylab
falls, the orbiting laboratory must
remain stable up until the final
hours before its demise.
Today’s plan is to order SI
control system to turn the shi[
is parallel to Earth’s surfact
broadside as it circles. Thisoi
tion is expected to balance
gravity forces and enable tk
control systems to keep it stab
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is changing position constant {fi g, stc
circles the Earth every hourB ar c e( l
half to keep its energy-pnxB secon(
solar panels constantly faMi^led to
sun. Engineers fear the imuftigleby
forces of atmospheric draganfiBn Joel
ity on the station will soonstfKy ftoi
tumbling out of control. Helmer.
The new attitude in orbit■g' 1 ^ u j a
increase Skylab’s resistance afW J ur
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WASHINGTON — The personal
income of Americans rose by a mod
est $13.2 billion — or 0.7 percent —
last month as the economy re
bounded somewhat from the April
trucking strike, the government re
ported Tuesday.
But inflation — the nation’s top
economic concern — probably
eroded all of the increase just as it
has done in every month so far this
year.
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FLORENCE, Ore.
state officials have decided!
deep trench for the burialf
sperm whales who beached]
selves and died from undiaj
ailments.
Val Jones, regional parks sil
tendent, said scientists tooki« !l '
specimens from the whales
of determining what cause!
mammals to make the s®
beaching during the weekend;
He said the whales camel
high tide and were unable 1
back into the Pacific when t
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Jones said it was the third
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involved the largest numl
whales ever to die in such a
in the United States.
He said it would take three
days to finish the trench, wlii
be 12 feet deep and from
feet long.