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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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Harvard’s “Energy Future” and
at least two other major, indepen
dent energy studies published this
year have focused on energy effi
ciency and free-market pricing as
the best policy alternatives.
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