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Page 6 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1979 fo r r Gl^ m P a 0 ss Si l e r^i GM announces layoffs for 11,000 worke United Press Internationa] CHICAGO — First lady Rosalynn Carter is listed as a potential defense witness by lawyers for mass murder suspect John Wayne Gacy, who is charged with the sex slayings of 33 boys and young men. The entry, “Mrs. James Carter, White House, Washington, D.C.,” appears on a list of more than 150 potential witnesses filed with Cook County Circuit Court. The 33 murder charges against Gacy, 37, a building contractor, is the largest number ever filed against an individual in U. S. history. His trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 7. Carter posed for photographs with Gacy on May 6, 1978, while she was in Chicago to observe Polish Constitution Day. In the photograph, Gacy, a Democratic precinct captain, wore an “S” pin, apparently issued by the Secret Service to identify those cleared to join Carter on the reviewing stand. Gacy allegedly lured young men to his northwest suburban home with the promise of drugs, liquor or jobs in his construction firm. He then allegedly had sex with his victims and strangled them, authorities said. The Cow Hop | United Press International DETROIT — General Motors Corp. has announced indefinite layoffs for 11,000 workers and deep production cutbacks at 26 domestic plants — including the Arlington, Texas plant — amid reports of the latest sag in domestic car sales. Tom Clipstine, a spokesman for the Arlington assembly division plant, said Tuesday that 2,000 work ers would be laid off there next month. U.S. sales in November dipped 21.3 percent from one year earlier and were buoyed only slightly by strong performances from the two smallest domestic automakers, it was announced Tuesday. Clipstine said second shift opera tions at the Arlington plant would be suspended indefinitely when the plant reopens after its Christmas holiday shutdown, affecting approxi mately 2,000 plant production em ployees. He said another 2,000 em ployees would continue to work on the plant’s first shift. “The negative economic impact of this adjustment,” Clipstine said, “will be substantially reduced by a supplemental unemployment be nefit plan which will result in laid-off employees’ continuing to receive approximately 95 percent of their regular take home pay while on tem porary layoff.” For the first time, auto executives have said the long slump affecting car sales is caused partly by world tensions. In response, GM announced car and truck production cuts for early next year that will place 11,000 workers on indefinite layoff. More than 100,000 U.S. auto workers already have been idled in definitely, while thousands more have been idled for varying periods while plants close down to trim bulg ing car and truck inventories. The GM cuts, which are effective Jan. 2, will affect Arlington and six other of the company’s 26 U.S. assembly plants — Baltimore; St. Louis, Mo.; Van Nuys, Calif., and two plants in Michigan. Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp. also have curtailed production severely. Ford only has four of 15 domestic assembly plants in opera tion this week — but those cutbacks but they are the worst since are temporary. Thus far, neither the layoffs nor sales declines have equalled the dis astrous levels of the 1974-75 reces sion - then. On a daily selling basis, Novem ber sales were the third lowest for that month in this decade. “There has been little change in market conditions in the past two months,” said Gordon B. MacKen- zie, Ford Motor Co.’s vice president for sales operations. “Interest rates appear to be past their peak and domestic cars have increased their market share, yet many potential buyers apparently are deferring vehicle purchases be cause of temporary economic and world conditions.” In a speech in Brazil, GM Presi dent Elliott M. Estes attributed the sales decline to energy uncertainties and worries about events in Iran. The five U.S. automakers said they sold 211,862 cars in the fini days of November, down24.6|Ki cent from 280,998 in the same per,, of 1978. GM sales for the pen, were off 24.4 percent, Foiil down 27.6 percent and Chrjsl; Corp. deliveries declined by 31 percent. Car sales for November fell 606,038 from 769,855 a year GM was off 21.8 percent, Ford percent and Chrysler off 32.6 cent for the month. American Motors Corp. 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On sale at the Texas A&M University Bookstore at MSG Thursday, December 6, 1979 Ideal Christmas present for your Tea-Sip friends United Press International HOLLYWOOD — Australian sculptor Brett- Livingston Strong paid $100 for a worthless boulder, spent months with hammers and chisels carving it into an image of John Wayne, then sold the 10-ton slab for $1 million. “Where else in the world can you get a rock for $100 and sell it for a million?” he said as the giant artwork was placed on display Tuesday in the heart of Hollywood. Last February, the blond-haired, blue-eyed sculptor spied the huge boulder protruding danger ously from a crumbling, rain-soaked bluff high above Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. Frustrated homeowners at the base of the bluff finally convinced the state the rock could tumble down the cliff at any moment and it should be re moved. It cost taxpayers $92,648 to have the chunk of sandstone yanked from the mountainside. When the rock tumbled onto the highway, the 26-year-old Strong claimed a 12-ton chip off the old rock and had it hauled away. The steady clunk of chisels and the dull thuds of mallots persisted for 70 days before Strong trans formed the famous Malibu Rock into a 7-foot grat artwork that was sold this week to an Arizona man(oi $1 million. "When Brett paid $100 for the rock they said le was crazy, but now people look at me after payingll million for it and sav I’m crazy,” said the buyer,Ton Murphy, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who describe himself as “an enterpreneur and art collector.” Murphy said the rock will be on display forayeai before it begins a world tour. Strong, from Gold Coast, an Australian reson town near Brisbane, originally envisioned carvk the face of California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr.ori the stone looming high over beachfront homes. “But I decided I needed a man of great strengtl and character to do it justice,” Strong said, "ichose John Wayne because he was a real rock himself.To me, his face represents strength toward life. ' Strong said he carved Wayne’s face “to honorhm because he is a greatly admired personality "fw represents strength and courage.” A small bronze plaque attached to the stone says simply: “To the beauty and advancement of man kind.” A.A. W sical ph kept it Sodas — Teas (30-45c) — Longnecks Beer (60c) Open 10:30-9:00 Everyday New insulin compound fom 846-1588 317 UNIVERSITY DR. (NORTHGATE) only $ 1 95 United Press International NEW YORK — Scientists are closer to developing an internal in sulin-delivery system for diabetics with the discovery of a compound capable of doling out precise insulin doses around the clock. Their next task is to design an im plantable device to release the in sulin. 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