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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1978
Page
5
Reporters from two British clothing firms on Wednesday called President Carter's wardrobe dull and criticized Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau for being too boyishly exuberant while finishing at the bottom of the list.
Rep. Donald Totten proposes Illinois tax limit at 8 percent of personal income, with 3 percent annual cap on local revenue increases. About 80 lawmakers back the plan and a new Illinois Tax Limitation Committee would push it. The measure uses income from the prior calendar year as the basis for the ceiling.
The American Civil Liberties Union is considering legal action after police broke up a marijuana protest on the state Capitol lawn. Lawrence Golden, ACLU Illinois Division board member, charged the police violated free speech and assembly rights. Forty-two people were arrested, including 10 juveniles, as riot gear police ended the three hour demonstration.
U S Senator Adlai Stevenson argues American farm products should aid foreign relations rather than pressure. He favors selling food on concessionary terms to poor nations, predicting a potential 15 billion earth market by 1980 and cautioning against linking economic advantage to political conduct.
Washington Rep. John B. Anderson announced he is exploring a presidential bid to give moderates in the Republican Party a fighting chance to win the 1980 nomination. He said moderates had traditionally hung back while the conservative element dominates the party.
U S businessman Francis J. Crawford receives a five year suspended sentence after being convicted of buying rubles on the black market in Moscow. Co-defendants include Vladimir Kiselev who faces five years in a labor camp with property confiscation and Ludmila Kiselev with a five year suspended term. Crawford plans to seek exit from the Soviet Union as he awaits possible departure timing and discusses future with his employer.
Scientists at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte California announce a recombinant DNA based method to mass produce human insulin using bacteria. The breakthrough could lower costs for about 100 million diabetics worldwide and marks a first major medical product from recombinant research.
Medical detectives hunt in midtown Manhattan garment district for the source of Legionnaires disease after nine workers fall ill in August. Nine confirmed or suspected victims include six rack boys, an elevator operator, a 65 year old woman, and a police officer. One death is confirmed, two more suspected, with six nonfatal cases.
An AP report notes that women who discontinue birth control pills within a month of conception tend to have babies with slightly more minor birth problems. Researchers caution the rise is small and not definitive.
President Carter overruled objections and authorized a $145 million Dresser Industries plant sale to the Soviet Union for advanced oil drilling bits. Brzezinski and the Energy and Defense departments argued for delay citing possible military tech spillover. company officials deny military use.
Washington AP reports the Book-of-the-Month Club will pay an $85,000 penalty to settle an FTC charge that it violated federal trade rules on book sales.
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