Midland Reporter-Telegram (Newspaper) - June 11, 1977, Midland, Texas THE BEST INVESTMENT FOR YOUR ADVERTISING HOLLAR Box TEXAS Daily Sunday JUNE 20 2 SECTIONS Dutch storm hijacked train The Netherlands AP Dutch security forces stormed a hijacked train and a village school in simultaneous actions at dawn Saturday in an attempt to free 55 hostages held for 20 days by Asian Dutch officials There were unconfirmed reports of six persons killed at the train Associated Press reporters at the scene said many people were seen coming out of the train and some stretchers were brought from the four Five jet fighters buzzed the area near the train and dropped what appeared to be smoke bombs as police and army troops opened the reporters The Justice Ministry in The seat of the Dutch announced the rescue strikes took place simultaneously as the sun came up at South Moluccan who sought Dutch support for their efforts to bring independence to their Pacific island seized more than 150 hostages in simultaneous raids in northern Holland the morning of May After four the terrorists freed 105 school children and teacher Continued on Page 4A Martin Luther King killer escapes jail James Earl Ray Subcommittee to make public secret documents AP James Earl serving 99 years for the assassination of Martin Luther King climbed over he wall of Brushy Mountain State Prison with six other prisoners Friday and escaped into the East Tennessee One prisoner was shot and recap tured authorities but Ray and the other five remained at The escape was discovered at 8 a prison spokeswoman She said the prisoners scaled the wall with a makeshift ladder assembled from metal ap using materials from the prison machine It was not known if the other prisoners reported serving a total of 800 years among them were but the escape of the states most famous prisoner touched off a manhunt by 125 prison 10 state sheriffs officers from at least six counties and agents of the FBI and the Tennessee Bureau of Criminal One of those who Johnny like was serving 99 years for It could not be determined immediately for what crimes the others were Troopers set up several but a prison spokesman said the fugitives headed over the back wall of the isolated prison and into the wooden mountains In White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said President Carter ordered Griffin Bell to offer whatever federal assistance was needed in the search for Powell said Carter had ordered the Justice Department to give him a report Saturday morning on the progress of the Rays a night watch man at a golf course in suburban said he had visited his brother about a week ago but said there was no talk of an escape at He said he doubted Ray had any outside help in the breakout and that he knew nothing of his brothers Contacted at his home in the Martin Luther King speaking for the King said there would be no comment on Rays a Missouri prison fugitive when King was was sentenced March 1969 his 41st birthday on his plea of guilty to the slaying of a Nobel Prizewinning civil rights King was gunned down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis on April Ray was later arrested in where he had fled under an assumed Weve got all our cars out looking for Authorities in Morgan Campell County and Id say Fentress Anderson Knox County and nil those around there have been said Mike a sheriffs deputy in neigh bor ing Scott The FBI said in Washington it was Continued on Page 4A The Washington Post WASHINGTON A House in overriding objections from Gulf Oil and the Canadian decided Friday to make public a package of 28 secret documents on the an international producers club which manipulated world uranium The documents cover secret meetings in 1972 and 1973 when three foreign governments and in uranium including organized themselves to fix bids and limit production in order to drive up the price of the common term for uranium the raw fuel for nuclear power Lawyers from Gulf argued Friday in a closed session of the House Commerce Oversight Subcommittee chaired by John Moss that the internal memorandums and letters from their corporate files should be kept confidential because they represent A letter from the State Department also forwarded the objections of Canada which helped initiate the cartel five years ago through its governmentowned uranium com The Canadian government enacted a law last fall aimed at halting antitrust investigations into cartel documents originating in that The subcommittee voted 11 to 0 to make the documents public at a hearing next Commerce Chairman Harley Staggers D was present for the to discourage any thoughts of appealing the issue to the full The world price of uranium went from a pound to in subsequent years and the price eventually followed though industry circles still argue over how much the cartel contributed to that Moss said the documents do show an impact on prices from the cartel activities and the sub committee will pursue the question of whether future energy supplies might be subject to international manipulation if the United States expands its nuclear power which fought release of the documents in federal court as well as before the said in a brief statement Friday We hope the documents will be responsibly reviewed in their The release of the documents does not affect our position that Gulf violated no Gulf has that it par in the cartel through a Gulf Minerals but it contends that it was operating under directives from the Canadian The cartel activities became the focus of lawsuits last year when Westinghouse had to default on its con tracts with public About 20 public utilities are suing Westinghouse and Westinghouse is suing Gulf and 28 other claiming that the cartel squeezed it out of the uranium market and drove up the President says Congress bowed to lobby pressure By RICHARD WASHINGTON AP President Carter accused Congress Friday of to the oil and auto lobbies when it junked key parts of his energy The people of this country will be the ones to suffer if our hopes for an energy plan are Carter They will be the ones who will pay for the special interest The Presidents statement was reported by White House Press Secretary Jody who stopped short of describing Carter as But clearly angry said of one subcommittees 1210 vote to remove price controls from natural gas We will do our best to kill the damn Carter and congressional sup porters said there still is a good chance that Congress would restore Carters It is important to remember that it is early in the the full Congress has not yet Powell Thomas chairman of the House Ad Hoc Committee on said chances are excellent the House would ultimately overturn the committees tax and natural gas deregulation with one possible the standby gasoline Ashley said the Thursday decisions by the House panels were tentative and and the battle is just The White House was especially irked at the vote to decontrol natural gas According to Carter estimated the decontrol would cost consumers billion over eight Carters proposal for phased Continued on Page 4A Carter receives mixed reviews on Bl meeting WASHINGTON AP Two congressional critics of the costly Bl bomber project said President Carter gave them the impression Friday that he will recommend at least limited production of the other senators and House members who met with Carter to voice their opposition to the Bl said the President gave no hint of his ultimate Robert and Ronald told reporters they sensed Carter was leaning in favor of the Drinan also said the President talked about having secret information that presumably would influence his decision but Dellums said he heard no reference to secret Bob also said he heard nothing to suggest Carter has a secret reason to support the billion who met Tuesday with congressional supporters of the told the delegation he met with Friday that he had been studying the con bomber and wanted to hear conflicting views about Following this he I will probably pretty much go into seclusion and study what the in formation is and make a My inclination is to announce my decision WEATHER Fair skies through Sunday with hot The high temperatures for this afternoon and Sunday will be in the upper 90s with the low tonight in the upper INDEX Bucks take three top players in NBA Page Window on West before the end of the Drinan emerged from the Cabinet Room session to report I think the President is leaning definitely to authorize He spoke very cryp of secret information that is now available to said Carter simply stated that as president he now has access to CIA information that he lacked as a candidate who once flatly opposed the He said perhaps those who know Carter better can tell by his blink rate or the way he twitches or scratches his ear lobe whats going on but confessed he could not do I dont think he indicated at all that there is some new secret reason for us to go ahead with the Carr Rex Carters deputy press said he could not confirm that the President talked about secret data because no one from the White House press office was present at the George told reporters he made much of Carters 1977 skepticism about the The point that I stressed with the President said that the first line of defense of any country is the credibility of its in and the credibility in par of the McGovern said he urged Carter to stand by his 1977 opposition to the Bl to protect his Drinan and Wendell reported the President said the Bl is supported by Defense Secretary Harold who was Air Force secretary in the early years of the The controversial Bl bomber Air pollution crackdown extension approved ROUSTIN ABOUT with Ed Todd is on His col umn will resume upon his WASHINGTON AP The Senate Friday approved overwhelmingly a major revision of clean air giving an extension from air quality standards to automakers and heavily urbanized areas of the The adopted 73 to would give the auto industry until 1980 to meet tough new tailpipe emission standards now set to take effect with 1978 The would give regions of the country unable to comply with clean air standards until 1987 in some cases to meet the guidelines a 10year But to get that long a states in which such industrialized cities are located would need their own air pollution The House passed similar legislation last but with more lax auto emission A conference com will have to reconcile the two with automakers backing the House timetable for auto pollution and the Carter administration sup porting the Senate Before approving the which completely rewrites the Clean Air Act of the Senate approved an amendment that could prohibit eastern utilities from buying coal from the It 46 to an amendment by Howard D to give the government the authority to order power plants in the East to use local coal instead of buying coals produced in the Metzenbaum claimed that many eastern utilities intend to import western coal rather than install ex pensive pollution control equipment necessary to clean up emissions caused by burning the coal found in the He said this threatens to increase unemployment in eastern The requires power plants that burn coal to install costly devices known as scrubbers to remove sulfur oxides from their smoke Utilities claim this will cause large increases in electric bills to The Senate would give automakers a new timetable for meeting tough new putting off a 1978 deadline to A passed last month by the House has the A con ference committee will have to resolve these and other The Clean Air Act of 1970 called for a 90 per cent reduction in automobile tailpipe The deadline was first set for but the industry has already been granted three oneyear According to congressional the auto standards of the Senate would add between and to the sticker price of new cars beginning in The House passed Dill would add about sponsors While the standards only cover the legislation would require the Environmental Protection Agency to emission rules for trucks and motorcycles and begin enforcing them in
