Show ?-- P Lm I— IlM IteraM JmtmI LUM Tuezdty Man t 1171 Compromise Seen On Auto Emission Rules - WASHINGTON (UPI) Hie auto industry and the government are on a collision course over auto emission standards But behind the outward evidence of an impending clash are whispers of compromise For public consumption the auto industry argument is simple: It cannot meet the strict standards set for 1979 model cars by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) General Motors Chairman Richard C Gerstenberg says it is impossible for the industry to make every car coining off the production line conform to the standard S iV pi iT and presidential nualag mate ea Dr AN AVOWED MARXIST Ford President Lee Iacocca whose firm was fined 7 million this month because its impend with Ford engines in hopes of making them conform to the standard says "we know of no practical way to meet the 1975 emission standards in time to produce 1975 models" Chrysler J Vice President Nichols claims the auto industry is faced with a confrontation over the ards which neither the ment or the industry “needs or Byron wants” Under the 1970 Clean Air Act the auto industry modified Speck’s People’s Party ticket last year Julius Hobson Is showi here with his wife the vice Silence Negro Activist - but it hasn’t diminished his zealous assault on a political system that he feels oppresses Macks Hobson an avowed Marxist who was the vice presidential candidate on Dr Benjamin Spock’s People’s Party ticket last November suffers from a painful bone cancer that doctors say will kill him within four years But it hasn't silenced Hobson whose course when be attacks injustice has been direct confrontation Rights Of Newsmen Stressed - WASHINGTON (UPI) The managing editor of the New York Times has told a House Judiciary subcommittee that investigative reporting will disappear uniesa newsmen can guarantee the confidentiality of news sources A M Rosenthal testified Monday that reporters are increasingly concerned they will have to go to Jail to protect their sources and “I fear it is affecting some of their work” Urging Congress to prohibit use of subpoenas in all matters related to the free press provisions of the First Amendment Rosenthal warned that “without the guarantee of confidentiality investigative reporting will disappear” He said “The erosion of confidentiality will mean the end of the exposure of corruption” Rosenthal said that like many other newspapermen “I have always been hesitant about supporting any congressional action in relation to the press "But 1 do believe most deeply that the First Amendment is in danger and that the best interests of the country will be served by an act of Congress protecting the First Amendment guaranteeing that the conditions for its existence survive making it again a day to day unquestioned reality” Rosenthal said To emphasize a rat In Washington’s black ghettos Hobson threatened to release hundreds of rats in the city’s wealthy Georgetown section City officials immediately launched a major rat extermination program Washington's hospitals still were largely segregated in the early 1980b and to dramatise bis dismay Hobson marched into an ward of Washington Hospital Center and climbed into a bed He was arrested but the hospital also was desegregated In 1985 Hobson seized the Board of Education meeting room to emphasize dissatisfaction with the operation of the puMic schools He also was arrested and fined for that incident but believes his philosophy of direct confrontation helped improve the school all-wh- ite the early threatened — without ever specifying how— to dose the main highway from Washington to Baltimore unless restaurants along the route agreed to serve blacks Maryland officials quickly applied and the restaurants integrated wu the plaintiff in 1987 in one of the nation’s most important school desegregation suits resulting in a ruling from a federal Judge that District of Columbia officials discriminatblacks in HareHan ed of fends and supplies and in odgnbig tachere to the District's first popularly chosen achod board and led the fight to carry out the judge's to correct the situation In Hobson a native of ham Ala hu made among both whites and blacks angering some civil rights leaders with attacks on Dr Martin Luther King and by refusing to go along with nonviolent strategy on occasion Hobson taking direct action 3 ugh “I represented the kind of Earp-typsituation where there was one fast gun in town and that gun wu to keep Mack far law and order were concerned rights people's law and order is coining to In the form of Washington elected officials" he said FOr whatever change Hobson hu brought to the nation’s capital he is not happy with the present situation Asked where the city is going Hobson said he believed it “looks like it’a going to hell “People of the District of Columbia do not have the franchise” he said “They don’t have It's the only city of its kind in the world in which people are unable to bring solution to their e u own u j' We support the new check-cashin- g policy of the Utah Retail Grocers Association And we understand the need for rigid enforcement problems” recalls the days when “black men were invisible If I had gone in a drugstore in Alabama and sat down on a atool talking about a Coca-Colthey would have shot me off and raked me in the trash and nobody would have heard of it the next day” Although that day hu passed Hobson thinks "this is the most dangerous time for blacks In fact I'm quite frightened for black people in the United States I think we're in more danger now than we have ever been and I came up in the 1930s in Alabama where a black man's life wu like a rabMt in hunting season “But then the federal government itself did not bring its resources to bear against blacks (President) Nixon is striking at the very vital lifelines of the black coma So we guarantee payment of our customers' checks as indicated by this little decal so many grocers stands display at their check-ou- t ! 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If it did the nation would be plunged into an economic recession Left with no real choice observers are predicting that the agency must take the only route open—compromise The standards will stay in effect but the industry will be given more time to meet them the observers say i Children Per Family Fewest NEW YORK (UPI I aiXo simply Grocers shouldn’t have to he hankers too still is he feels the time for leaders like him has passed In a recent television interview Hobson said Macks “no longer need the kind of man that I was and kind of action I Wyatt industry strategy as a delaying tactic not supported by the engineering facts The EPA staff says its shows the Mg investigation three auto makers should be able to meet the standards Consumer advocate Ralph Nader claims “what the auto corporations say cannot accomplish two Japanese auto companies— Honda and Mazda—already have accomplished with ease” To Nader and other critics the auto industry stand is another example of on production of the We agree: Cancer Of Bone Doesn’t JuliWASHINGTON (UPI) us Hobson is dying of cancer present car engines so that the exhaust coining out of 1973 model cars has 80 per cent fewer hydrocarbons 70 per cent less carbon monoxide and 40 per cent fewer nitrogen oxides But by 1975 the automakers cut the 1973 levels by 90 per cent This the industry claims is ssking too much too soon and has urged an extension of the deadline EPA Administrator William D Rucketahaus denied the industry’s original request But the courts interceded and ordered new hearings on the standard next month Some industry observers see Zero Population Growth (ZPG) a national organization working for population stabilization said Monday that American fertility rates for 1972 dropped to 203 children per family the lowest point in 37 years "At last it seems we are witnessing a significant change in individual values and behavior patterns said Judy Sendero-wit- z eastern vice - president of check-cashin- g you don’t have a Walker Bankard yet here are two compelling reasons to get one: guaranteed identification for check-cashin- g and instant cash whenever you it r if 3t I If need i f: it ZPG "People seem to realize on a personal and social level that more is not better especially in the area of population growth and its ramificatiors of increased pollution declining resources and open spaces —and greater restrictions on the individual" she said ZPG said in a statement the 203 figure although the lowest since 1936 when it was 212 was still not low enough “CRIME OU3” LLOYD BRIDGES Channel I Walker Bank VICTOR BUOMO aORISLEACHMAH BARBARA RUSH TKEKEWCBS TUESDAY KiGHT MOVIES 7:30PM KSL-T-V '4' it ! 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