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Show Page 4 Wednesday, August 30, 1978 TDCi OT THERI INTERNATIONAL Hong Kong The official Chinese news agency claimed Monday that several hundred Vietnamese Viet-namese troops armed with machine guns have crossed into China and have begun "to spy out and nibble Chinese land." Although the intrusion has "aroused great indignation in-dignation among the Chinese army men," the news agency said Chinese forces have not yet been ordered to move against the invaders. The Vietnamese occupation has been widely reported in the Chinese press but has been ignored by Vietnamese news reports. The Vietnamese action capped a weekend of bloody border skirmishes and represents the most potentially explosive action to date in the dispute which has raged for months between the one-time Communist allies. Cannes, France While the widow of American railroad and telegraph heir Frank Jay Gould was taking morning tea elsewhere in Cannes, Can-nes, burglars were taking a fortune in jewels from her Riviera villa. Police said the total value of the items stolen from Florence Gould, 83, had not yet been estimated and predicted it would take a week to inventory the loss. The thieves, armed and masked, entered the 42-room villa through a skylight, sky-light, tied a maid to a Louis VI chair and spent a half hour looting Mrs. Gould's bedroom. Vatican City Cardinal Albino Luciani was elected Saturday as the 263rd Pope. The new leader of the world's 700 million Catholics, who was considered a surprise choice, took the name John Paul I. John Paul's election came on the third ballot and its swiftness also came as a surprise. On Sunday the new pope pledged to follow the programs of Pope Paul VI and appealed for a "new order" with more justice, a more stable peace and more cooperation between nations. He praised Pope Paul, who died August 6 at age 80, as a "great and humble man." The Vatican said John Paul, former patriach of Venice, will m crowned next Sunday; Hi Riyadh, Saudi Arabia A Saudi Arabian was beheaded in public Sunday for stabbing to death a religious official who caught him eating during the Moslem fast of Ramadan. Turin, Italy The Holy Shroud went on display for the first time in 45 years Sunday, protected by church police and bulletproof glass. The relic is purported to be Jesus Christ's burial cloth bearing the imprint of his face and body. Church officials believe between six and nine million people will view the shroud during the six-week showing. The cloth, according to Turin's Society of The Shroud, was brought by Crusaders to Europe in the Middle Ages. Mangua, Nicaragua Leftist guerrillas flew to Panama with a group of freed political prisoners Thursday and asked for political asylum after releasing more than 1,000' hostages from Nicaragua's capitol building. The guerrillas were cheered as they drove to the airport by thousands of Nicaraguans opposed to the military government of President Anastasio Somoza. Armed clashes were reported in several Nicaraguan towns and a general strike aimed at removing Somoza spread Saturday in the wake of the terrorist takeover of the national palace. NATIONAL Washington An illegal postal strike that threatened to disrupt America's mail service was averted Monday when federal mediators reached an 11th hour breakthrough in negotiations. The impasse was dissolved when the head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service presented a personal plan that provides for binding bin-ding arbitration if the U.S. Postal Service and the maij unions fail to agree on a contract in 15 days. The resumecftalks willlocus on the areas of layoffs and wages, the two most controversial issues in the dispute. If a strike does occur, the federal government plans to mobilize thousands of reservists to aid regular troops in delivering the nation's mail. Los Angeles Actor Charles Boyer was found dead in the Scottsdale, Arizona home of a friend Saturday morning. Medical examiners in Phoenix said the actor committed suicide with an overdose of barbiturates. According to a close friend, for five months Boyer kept from his wife the knowledge that she had incurable cancer and when she died last Thursday he took his own life. "If ever a man died of a broken heart, it was Charles," said Mrs. Marjorie Everett at whose home the actor committed suicide. Washington The only alleged agent convicted so far in the Korean bribery scandal was sentenced sen-tenced in federal court Thursday. Hancho C. Kim was given a one-year suspended jail term and a $10,000 fine in return for his plea of guilty on one count of tax evasion. Wichita, Kansas One man was killed and six others were injured Thursday when a cloud of toxic propellant gas escaped from a Titan II missile silo. A mile-long, red-yellow cloud drifted 200 feet above the missile site for about eight hours, forcing for-cing the evacuation of more than 100 people. According Ac-cording to a civil defense official, a fuel line apparently ap-parently ruptured as the silo crew fueled the missile with the liquid propellant and the cloud formed as the liquid met the air. Washington The $16.3 billion income tax reduction bill passed by the House would result in a net federal tax cut only for persons earning $100,000 or more, according to Ralph Nader's tax-research organization. The director of Nader's Tax Reform Research Group told the Senate Finance Committee Thur- ; sday that inflation, increases in Social Security tl payroll taxles and theuHouse-passed, income tax! reduction bill would result in a net increase of 0.7 percent in the effective rate of tax paid by persons per-sons earning under $10,000 a year. Washington There is a "60 to 70 percent chance" that Gerald Ford will run for president in 1980, according to former press secretary Ron Nessen. Nessen said Ford deliberately has not established a political action committee for fund raising because he is anxious to maintain his image as an elder statesman above the political fray. Peoria, Illinois An 18-year-old busboy has been charged with impersonating a physician at two hospitals for several months. A grand jury indictment said Joseto Bueno, a Filipino immigrant, im-migrant, examined patients, studied medical charts and chatted freely for more than three months with nurses, technicians and physicians. Officials at St. Francis Hospital and Methodist Medical Center said they were convinced no serious medical blunders occurred as a result of the alleged impersonation. Washington The Defense Department said Wednesday Navy scientists recently used powerful power-ful laser light beams to destroy high-speed antitank an-titank missiles. According to defense officials, the tests, which could lead to futuristic weapon systems, mark the first time that high-energy lasers have been used to shoot down small, high-speed targets. Beams traveling at the speed of light theoretically could destroy distant intercontinental intercon-tinental ballistic missiles and change the balance ba-lance of nuclear power. r- t Mudpie Madness 6 pm to 10:30 pm Top Sirloin $5.50 442 MAIN STREET 649-7060 Swede Alley Entrance with Easy Parking it Utah Foundation Unemployment Pay Result Changes Over the years the unemployment unem-ployment "' compensation program has become less of a work-related system and more of an income-maintenance system. This was the conclusion reached by Utah Foundation, the private research organization in a study of unemployment benefit problems in Utah. The Foundation points out that when the unemployment unem-ployment insurance program was first developed more than forty years ago, it was intended to provide temporary assistance to those who were out of work through no fault of their own. Today, many individuals having only a casual attachment at-tachment to the labor force ave come to regard unemployment unem-ployment benefits as a regu'ar supplement to family income. For such individuals, in-dividuals, there often is little incentive to seek new employment em-ployment once they have qualified for unemployment benefits. Similarly, the study observes ob-serves that there are some employers who use the Unemployment compensation compen-sation program as a means pf maintaining a pool of available workers during non-peak production periods It relatively little cost to them. Last year, a report by Utah Foundation indicated that Utah's unemployment benefit law was considerably more liberal than most states with respect to persons per-sons who voluntarily quit, are discharged for misconduct, miscon-duct, or fail to apply for or accept suitable work. This general conclusion also was confirmed earlier this year in a performance audit by Utah Legislative Auditor General. Both studies also emphasized that a major problem exists with the secondary wage earner who has only a casual attachment attach-ment to the labor force. An economic analysis which accompanied ac-companied the Legislative Auditor's performance audit of Utah's unemployment insurance in-surance program arrived at three main conclusions : 1. More liberal benefits lead to higher unemployment unem-ployment rates. 2. Requirements for an active ac-tive work search and a higher benefit denial rate will tend to lower unemployment unem-ployment rates. 3. Increased monitoring of claimants who fail to apply for or accept suitable work will reduce unemployment. These conclusions were used by the Legislative Auditor General in formulating for-mulating a series of recommendations recom-mendations designed to strengthen the Utah unemployment unem-ployment compensation program. The Foundation report notes that most of the problem areas indicated by the Utah Foundation and the Legislative Auditor's studies involve the statutes under which the unemployment benefit program operates. Employment Security officials of-ficials point out that "we recognize that our role is not as sponsors of any particular par-ticular philosophy, but as the administrators for whatever system the legislature provides for our State." Proposed changes in Utah's unemployment compensation com-pensation law are now being reviewed by the Employment Em-ployment Security Advisory Council. This Council consists con-sists of representatives of business, labor, and the general public. Its purpose is to review changes in the unemployment compen sation law before they are submitted to the legislative boay for consideration. 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