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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1978
Page
11
Brewers zap Royals in a page four brief with quick recap and standout plays. Earl Butz criticizes his former boss in a page six opinion note. Ford “Whiz Kid” completes an unusual penthouse outhouse cycle noted on page six.
Gov. Robert Bennett blasted the EPA for slow approval of stronger insecticides as grasshopper outbreaks worsen across Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma. He urged Congress to pass legislation allowing emergency use with safeguards while EPA officials defend procedures and fault farmers’ pesticide use.
Doug Loyd, an Ottawan living seven months in Nigeria while supervising Nigerian labor on the U S Embassy interior project in Lagos, describes a country of contrasts. He notes friendly people, rising poverty, heavy Western influence, and major development despite road and security challenges, with Carter and Vance visiting the embassy during his stay.
American wheat farmers from Texas to the Dakotas keep newly harvested grain in elevators under government loan as part of a wait and see strategy. Despite spring export demand drawing on past harvests and prices near a dollar higher, many producers say costs outpace gains, though optimism grows amid transport and weather troubles and a fading farm strike mood.
Moscow dispatch notes Tass claiming U N Ambassador Young exposed U S political repression and mass surveillance. It accuses the United States of hypocrisy, cites FBI files on 160 million Americans, and praises Ali’s remarks amid a wider critique of U S democracy. Wheat market context and farmer reactions follow with price moves and futures analysis.
The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled the rape shield law constitutional, saying it does not deny the accused the right to confront witnesses or present a defense. The decision marks the first appellate ruling on the law's constitutionality, though the court allowed past conduct evidence to a separate charge where relevant.
Ottawa lawyer Robert Green acts as special prosecutor in the Hogue forgery case, prompting the arraignment continuation in District Court. Hogue pleads no contest to forgery but withdraws after Green's intervention. five theft by deception counts are dropped. A July 28 ruling on Green's right to intervene is scheduled as Judge Coffman requests briefs.
Anatoly Shcharansky, 30, convicted of espionage for the United States and anti-Soviet agitation, received 13 years at hard labor plus seven years for propaganda to run concurrently. The sentence, two years shorter than sought, comes amid a broader clash between the Carter administration and the Kremlin over human rights.
President Carter praised Helmut Schmidt as he denounced the 13 year term for Anatoly Shcharansky saying the world feels sadness and urging continued pursuit of human rights. Schmidt joined in, noting Eastern European abuses as both leaders pledged that their voices will not be silenced.
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