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THE BATTALION Page 11 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1979 National briefs Consumers urged to testify on agriculture United Press International WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland Tuesday encouraged everyone affected by food policy, not just farmers, to testily when he conducts hearings this fall to examine the future of American agriculture. “This administration has made a conscious commitment to open the decision making process to a wide range of views,” he said. “This is why we want to hear not only from farmers, but from everyone on the food chain.” Bergland said the administration supports steps to encourage ag ricultural production, but President Carter realized when he took office that the Agriculture Department could not concern itself merely with production of food and automatic delivery to the con- Court turns down drivers license case Ihe simplt ’indow and isichis said, ige )hk dding cres offoreii md in sixw to Ohio Sec paid more farm land. WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says freedom of religion does not exempt members of a religious sect from having to have their pictures on a drivers license. Over the dissent of Justice William Brennan, the court refused Monday to consider the constitutionality of denying a drivers license to a person who refuses for religious reasons to be photographed. Members of a Pueblo, Colo., religious sect challenged the refusal of the state to deny them licenses. Members of the sect believe the Bible forbids that they be photographed. 17-year-old pleads guilty to murders SANTA ANA, Calif. — Brenda Spencer, the 17-year-old girl who shot 11 people on a school playground because “I don’t like Mondays,” has pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. Spencer was ordered Monday by Superior Court Judge Byron McMillan to return to court Nov. 29 for sentencing. She could receive up to life in prison, which would make her eligible for parole after 16 years and eight months. In exchange for the guilty plea, the prosecution dropped efforts to have her sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. Spencer peppered the Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego with bullets on Jan. 29, firing from a window of her nearby home with a semiautomatic .22-caliber rifle her father gave her as a gift. The fusillade wounded eight children and a policeman, and killed y J 'c'eleb I sc ^ 00 ' Principal Burton Wragg, 53, and custodian Michael Suchar, uaid more 4 5 Pope’s mass a splash in Boston United Press International BOSTON — They have all trod the ancient Boston Common at some time — the Adamses, Han cocks, Cabots and Lodges, and re cently the Kennedys. But this friendly man in the red cape was something special and the people of Massachusetts poured onto the soggy greensward to greet him. There were only 500,000 people. But since the Common’s grounds are limited, they stood bumper to bumper. The spillover of people formed joyous streams in the narrow streets. Along those streets Monday, cruised Pope John Paul II, a pilgrim in a black Cadillac. Just as John Paul arrived for the second papal mass ever celebrated in the United States, tykies began to deliver a message of their own. A sprinkle, but a determined one. It aimed to grow. “Let us join together,” said a voice from the altar before the pope got there, “in ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic.’” The response was true ardor. From where the pope looked over the crowd, there were an immense number of upturned faces and a sea Related and S. stories, pages 1, 7 of color — raincoats in yellows, reds, oranges, blacks; nuns in white, monks in black hoods. There were umbrellas by the acres, black, red, polka-dot. There were loud cheers, throaty screams, for the processions that preceded the pope, and with them came the winking of flashbulbs. Then, from the far left, the real applause began. It swept across the crowd as they spotted the man they had come to see. They were wet, but they were electric with enthusiasm. What John Paul saw as he turned his head to the right was humanity going back and back, sinking with a dip in the ground, then rising up. The buildings behind then! had dis appeared at midsection into the rain-fog. Thousands of women stood in plastic hats. The crowd had taken the umbrellas down when the pro cessions began. The rain was a great veil, softening everything. “I want to tell everyone that the pope is your friend.” Loud applause, then subsiding, then feeding upon itself and up again, then down, and then swelling into a chorus of “Yeah, yeah,” and then a chant of “long live the pope,” catching on and intensifying. “I greet you, America the beauti ful,” the pope began. The pope continued with his little joke: “Beautiful . . . even . . . if. . . it . . . rains!” Now, it was raining hard. Water coursed down the upturned faces, ran down necks, and went through raincoats. The umbrellas went up again. The crowd stayed. The twilight had come, but the crowd never left, never thinned. At the end of his Boston day, the pope went to the cardinal’s home, where he was to get a night’s rest. In the rain, he who had been sheltered on the altar stood up through one of the car’s skylights, and waved to the crowd. Windfall tax may help oil industry ixie GOP chiefs debate ’80 voting the West & )0 for the "i it the > foreignen [he largest 14 acres of iinty to a ft n> ,1 Wedding Is purchased United Press International tnd for W NEW ORLEANS — Republicans egg farm ({tending the Southern Governors .ssociation annual meeting agree e sale did ’resident Carter’s solid southern farm land ft upport of 1976 has eroded, but urchase was i e y are unsure which GOP con- it for the" ;nder can claim the region’s elec- ot in realest 3ra ] v0 { es next year, erestedpn® | Govs. Lamar Anderson of Ten- lessee, Bill Clements of Texas, •n he and' >j erre \ duPont IV of Delaware and old to the * jlohn Dalton of Virginia said in sepa- re produced .(ate interviews Monday that former as fertilize' California Gov. Ronald Reagan is the current frontrunner, ind his btod'They said, however, that Senate )00 to 90J Mi nor i{y Leader Howard Baker of e egg farm Tennessee and ex-Gov. John Con- ially of Texas can make major in- k roads into the overwhelming south- fli era support Reagan enjoyed in 1976 j — and that the possibility of a re- [newed candidacy by former Presi- g_ i-nPent Ford would alter the early scramble in state caucuses and street is paying any attention to the SALT debate,” said Alexander, who added that energy and the economy would be the GOP issues of 1980. Alexander said Reagan, as the early frontrunner, can win by lesser margins, or even lose some primaries, without seeing his south ern base disappear. “I think he can afford some slip page,” he said. United Press International WASHINGTON — The oil in dustry may be wise to accept some sort of windfall profits tax as a way to defuse public suspicions sparked by rising energy prices, the co-author of Harvard Business School’s best selling energy study said Tuesday. “Otherwise, there will be a stronger and stronger move toward a national oil company,” Daniel Yergin told reporters at a breakfast news conference. Yergin said some countries have found a national oil company, now sought by some U.S. consumer groups, to be a useful “window on the market,” but that he doubted it would help resolve the fundamental problems of increasing demand and declining supplies. The study recommends conserva tion and energy efficiency, coupled with decontrolled prices, as the quickest, cheapest and most effec tive way to deal with the energy crisis. Yergin said he is becoming in creasingly annoyed by businessmen who promote unrealistic energy production strategies despite evi dence showing conservation makes far more economic sense. Industry advocates of a massive synthetic fuel program, for example, “ant to live in never-never land that’s going to come crashing down in the 1980s,” he said. primaries. hatfactseft The four governors also said d trial may* former Rep. George Bush of Texas, in a lateral* is a Southerner, has a good chance e issues. if picking up Dixie delegates to the three II* 1 lational GOP convention in Detroit lading Ceft next summer. Mengelft “The fascinating question is, what ispiringtos"; would happen to all four of them competition' (Baker, Reagan, Connally and Bush) a portion of if President Ford gets into it,” duP- iway in Ife 1 ont mused. victed the® Ford has said he does not plan to trust laws enter the early primaries but would , Illinois file® be amenable to a draft. Recently, e three S'® 1 however, he has been keeping an ges under I* tctive speaking schedule and has rust Act for* sharply criticized Carter — bitterly contradicting the president’s state- , previous cri® .ment that the Russian military lois askedll brigade in Cuba was there during ompaniesfa fhe Republican tenure in the White mmon to ft' ‘House. Clements said Texas polls give ie judge tof Connally an undisputed edge over 3 called col* Reagan, the victor over Ford in the holds thefe; state’s primary in 1976, but jsinaprocefi whether that will be true a year hose parties' rom now, I don’t know. ” ;s againste"' “Any of the four or five top Re publican candidates right now Waldo Ack would carry Virginia over Kennedy trial, that * >r Carter,” Dalton said. “Ford itions invok would sweep Virginia today against Carter.” mies appeal* _ Dalton said Ford won the state in it Court of'f ^976 by about 58,000 votes — Car ed the lo#* ter’s only southern setback except Congress i' br a narrow defeat in Oklahoma — se of collate 3ut that “it would not be close at all ititrust actin' today.” t suits. Alexander, the only GOP gover- > the Supre 11 'or taking sides in the primaries, appeals co" s aid he favors fellow Tennessean “the unne# Baker for the nomination. He said factual iss** Baker and Ford both visited him in uitor relies''Nashville recently and expressed ree in a f Private expectations that Kennedy vould defeat Carter for the Demo- ourt brief & :r atic nomination next year, ourt, 37 i Alexander said Baker’s vote for ircuit decft be Panama Canal treaties — a sore the ability l 50 ’ 11 * w fth th e Reagan faction of the rebledai# GOP — would not hurt him next rs . year and that he did not need to rely on tl# l * 0n e for the Canal vote by fighting tificiallv M l be pending Strategic Arms Limita- ators whoc- 11 bn Treaty in the Senate. Baker has nust now W 16611 actively mustering the min- econd timft )ri ty against the SALT II accord fa- lengthy *^ ore d by Carter, which has lately rf ost Ford’s support. T don’t think the mai igation to barges ’’ the Peace Corps positions starting this winter are now being filled. Stop by the Peace Corps office if you’re interested in a possible placement. 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