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Show DP iLb 127th YEAR NO. 276 46 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UJAH TXT 2m XI JL--A TUESDAY, MAY 3, 15 CENTS President urges high-rankin- 977 Founded Utah territory was known as the State of Deseret ' 4 1850 when METRO Pentagon rejects Russ beam stor WASHINGTON high-rankin- 1 i" 1 i--age 3 tOUGih ethiCS IsW WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter asked Congress today to pass a new ethics law to establish safeguards against conflicts of interest and abuse of the public trust by government officials. In a special message. Carter also announced his supirt for pending legislation 1o have a specially empaneled court appoint a temporary special prosecutor to handle cases of misconduct by executive branch officials if such cases arise. Finally, the President called for the creation of a new Office of Government Ethics in the Civil Service Commission, saying, an effective oversight office is essential if strict ethical requirements are to be enforced throughout the government. Carter, who will submit legislation later, said his ethics bill would codify the standards required of his g own appointees and extend its coverage to career officials. Under the administration plan, all policy-makin- g employes would publicly disclose income, whether earned or from investments; gifts, including travel, lodging, food and entertainment; assets, liabilities and financial transactions, and positions held in business and professional organizations. a whl i l At present, policy-maker- s must file statements of financial interest, but these are not d'sclosed to the public. Under the Carter bill, a person who leaves gm eminent would be barred by law from making informal as well as formal contacts with the agency that once employed him for a period of two years rather than the present one year if the matters involved in such contacts had been under his responsibility. The legislation also would initiate what Carter termed "a new and broader ban on formal or informal contacts on other matters with agencies of former employment, for a period of one year after the end of government service. The proposed office of government ethics would be headed by a directer appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The director and his office would issue ethical guidelines, recommend any changes needed in laws and regulations governing conflict of interest and monitor compliance with established standards Carter said he was not submitting his own bill on a special prosecutor because legislation already introduced would conform to his own principles with "relatively small revisions. (UPI) Pentagon discounts as a The -remote possibility" an aviation magazine report that the Soviet Union is developing ;m energy beam that could neutralize all U.S. missiles and "checkmate this countrys strategic doctrine." Aviation Week and Space Technology said in its current because of conedition that troversy within the U.S. intelligence community, the details of Soviet directed-energweapons have not been made available to the President or to the National Security Council." A Pentagon statement Monday said its senior officials "do nott believe the Soviet Union has achieved a breakthrough in the field and that "bast'd on all information now available to the U.S. intelligence community, this possibility is considered as re report Late News mote." Aviation Week, which said it anticipated a challenge, claimed there was hard proof the Soviets "leapfrogged a generation of high energy physics technology and developed a workable experimental model of a directed-energbeam weapon. Publication sources said the Pentagon tried to have the article suppressed or censored on grounds of national security. The Pentagon would neither confirm nor deny it. The Soviets were said to lx with experimenting ground-base- d weapons which could launch charged particle beams at the speed of light miles per second) to (186,282 intercept satellites or missiles, and a space-born- e hydrogen floride laser designed for a satellite killer role. Congress has completed action on the first President Carter's economic stimulus programs as the House agreed to authorize a $4 billion public works jobs program. Sponsors claim at least 300,000 jobs will be created in public works projects such as construction of hospitals, jails, schools and roads with thousands more jobs created indirectly. Ear- lier story of j y A-- FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD Chairman Arthur Burns says an acceleration in the rate of inflation in recent months casts a cloud over the prospects for satisfactory growth of the nation's economy in years ahead. Burns said an increase in wholesale and consumer prices at an annual rate of about 10 percent in the first three months of the year can be blamed only partly on food. He noted that there have been three successive quarters of increase in critically important industrial commodities. both high-energ- THE FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION has over the best way to get Alaskan natural gas split to the rest of the nation, leaving the final decision to President Carter. The FPC, however, was unanima ous in recommending a route for the estimated 22.5 trillion cubic feet of gas from Alaska's Prudhoe Bay field. See additional details in story on Page 2 y cross-Canad- A-- CUP funds THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS in the Los Anseies school because they failed to get a measles vaccination ordered by area have been turned away from health officials who are trying to cope with an epidemic. In the city schools, 23,181 students from kindergarfen through 12th grade were sent home. School officials said exact figures for the county schools would not be available before Friday, The combined city and county systems have some 1.6 million students. Some districts set up vaccination clinics on the school grounds for last minute shots. NEW HAMPSHIRE is spending about $35,000 a day to feed and care for 1,400 demonstrators arrested last weekend when they occupied the site of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant for 24 hours. The demonstrators, most of whom refused to pay bail, are being held at four national guard armories across southern New Hampshire to await court hearings. A spokesman said the state is having trouble finding enough court rooms. A SOVIET TRAWLER CAPTAIN has been fined h $10,000 and given a suspended prison sentence for illegally taking fish inside the U.S. e limit. The captain pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Chief Justice Andrew J. Caffrey in Boston to charges he violated the fishery management and conservation act that took effect March 1. The trawler and its crew are now free to leave Boston. restored in House anti-nucle- ar By Gordon Eliot White News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The House public works appropriations subcommittee voted Monday to restore funding for all but one of the water projects on President Jimmy Cart'ers "hit list. The panel voted 52.905,000 for Utahs Bonneville Unit, $1 million more than President Gerald Ford recommended before he left office. The extra money would start work on the important Upper Stillwater gathering system. All told, the subcommittee voted $10.6 billion in its public works spending bill late Monday. a member of the full Rep. Gunn McKay, appropriations committee, said he is confident the panel, and the House, will follow the subcommittees lead and approve the Utah funds. In addition to Bonneville, the subcommittee provided increases for the Uintah and Upalco units, and $9.8 million for other work in the state in the 12 months beginning October 1. Uintah was increased from $200,000 in planning money to $500,000 for planning and $1.5 million for construction. Upalco had its original 8500.000 budget request upped to $990,000. Total recommended spending in the state was $145.6 million. A committee staff member said some of the figures for other projects were "soft," since the Carter administration has not sent up a revised water project budget. The committee said it would entertain suggestions for modifying some of the projects, particularly if affected members of Congress agreed. These modifications are not expected to apply to the CUP. The lone project not approved, according to the subcommittee staff, was Grove Lake. Kansas. The committee noted that it probably would agree to time enough for a safety study of Auburn Dam. California, but did not intend to halt that project. An Interior Department aide told the Deseret News that the Carter administrations revised water project budget would be ready within a few days. What effect it might have was problematic, since Congress has repeatedly shown that it intends to vote most if not all of the Ford reclamation and flood control budget. The revision is necessary to carry out the intent of Carters recommended project deletions and modifications, however, even if Congress rejects and them. His recommended bills are also necessary il he is not to retreat completely from his truncated "hit list. At this time, however, they ore largely symbolic, unless lie can turn Congress around. The administration probably will not send up the requests in the near future, to avoid stirring up avoidable trouble on Capitol Hill. nine-mont- 200-mil- FIGHTING IN ANGOLA between d guerrillas and the government appears to be far more serious than previously realized. Angolan President Agostinho Neto has given an indication of the fighting in a May Day speech that called for the formation of popular defense forces to combat widespread guerrilla attacks. He was quoted as saying his army, backed by 18,000 Cubans, was fighting armed opposition both in the north and south of the nation. Cuban-supporte- General strike begins Irish youngsters harass a British patrol in Belfast as the general strike tension begins. Militant Protestants forced the closing today of a key port and many factories. A trades union spokesman said bands of paramilitary gunmen are roaming the streets warning workers to quit their jobs or have their homes PHILLIPS PETROLEUM, with its runaway well finally capped in the choppy waters of the North Sea, now is examining what caused the offshore blowout and what may be done to stop future accidents. Meanwhile, the oil spill is being dissipated by waves and is now down to a fraction of its original Stores closed around noon, reports that gangs of youths had intimidated businessmen. Meanwhile, a Belfast psychiatrist charged that "nowhere have children been so exploited by guerrilla groups as in Northern Ireland." d. ot following size. Tales of suspense Yank, Viet emerge all smiles The United States and PARIS (LTD Vietnam opened talks today on establishing diplomatic relations and ended their first session on a note of optimism with diplomatic sources saying they might exchange ambassadors within a few weeks. Holbrooke and Hien are old Paris acquaintances, dating back to the early days of the Vietnam peace talks in 1968 when they were members of their respective delegations. Those talks dragged on for five years. had a frank, friendly and very Diplomatic sources said the currert talks would be much speedier. An agreement on the exchange of ambassadors, the lifting of the U.S. veto on United Nations membership for Vietnam and U.S. aid for Vietnams reconstruction and economic development may well be wrapped up in a few weeks, they said. The sticking point, and it is a big one, is whether the Vietnamese will make U.S. aid a precondition to full cooperation in tracing the 8(H) Americans missing in Indochina, all of whom are believed dead. We said Assistant Secuseful conversation, retary of Stale Richard C. Holbrooke, the chief U.S. negotiator, as he emerged from a basement pagoda-shape- d room in Vietnamese embassy. conference the Vietnam's principal negotiator, Deputy Foreign Minister Phan Hien, told reporters, "I fully agree with him. Both men were smiling broadly. The next session will he held Wednesday morning at the Vietnamese embassy. C-- j Diplomatic sources sa' they expect the talks to adjourn after 'pesday or Thursday until next week and to resume at the American embassy. They said they expect the talks to last several weeks. Vietnamese officials would not say whether they had handed the U.S. delegation any new infomation on the K(N U.S. servicemen still listed as missing. A lone American father stood outside to plea for information alxiut his flier son, one of the missing in action. "We got nowhere through not talking. said Edmund Mills, of Bakersfield, Calif., a of former board chairman of the Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. I only hope we can get something useful out of these talks. This thing has dragged on long enough. e Justice, Congress work out criminal code compromise WASHINGTON (LTD Calling some of the nation's criminal laws "archaic, Attorney General Griffin Bell and key congressional memliers have agreed on a compromise revision of the federal criminal code, including a provision for uniform sentencing. The announcement Monday by Bell, Chairman John McClellan, of the Senate criminal laws and subcommittee, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Chairman Peter Rodino of the House Judiciary Committee substantially improved chances for action on criminal code reform this year. McClellan has been working on a revised code for over a decade, but last year a massive bill he helped write never was acted on because of severe criticism from numerous organizations including civil liberties groups. This time, however, most of the bills most controversial provisions were dropped, including those dealing with disclosure of classified information by the press, broadening use of the death penalty and weakening provisions to allow insanity as a defense. I A series of ten American Gothic mysteries designed to keep readers spellbound and blow a chill wind down their spines will be carried periodically in the Deseret News Today section. The first one can be found on l in today's paper. All of the stories are supposedly based on facts from America's past. ' j STOCK MARKET TODAY NEW 41fi YORK (UPI) The stock market, discounting the Federal Reserve Board's credit tightening, was broadly higher today in fairly active trading of New York Stock Exchange issues. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which gained 4.32 points Monday, was 935.38 ahead 4.16 points to 935.38 shortly before 3 p.m. EDT. Advances far outnumbered declines, 965 to 424, among the 1,834 issues crossing the tape. Djfoi Jlj (Complete New York, American lists on UTAH WEATHER Variable clouds tonight and Wednesday. A chance of showers and gusty winds at times. Lows highs . Some of the bill's major provisions would establish uniform sentencing guidelines for the courts, repeal the 1940 Smith Act which forbids advocating violent overthrow of the government and re peal the 1709 Ixcgan Act which prohibits private communications with a foreign government to influence foreign policy. 40-4- Zones I, J, 10 (Cache Valiev, Wasatch Front, northwestern deserts) Mostly cloudy and cooler with a chance ot thundershowers. Lows 43 in Logan and Ogden, 44 in Provo and The bill still contains some controversial features such as eliminating penalties for possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana and broadening criminal rights laws to include sex discrimination offenses. . Salt Lake. Highs Zones 3, 4 (Delta. Milford, Cedar Citv, Sevier Valiev) Cloudy with rhance of showers. Lows 43 in Richfield, 45 in Miitotd, Tl- compromise quietly was worked out over the past few months between Bell, McClellan, Kennedy, and Rodino. The bill was introduced simultaneously in both houses of Cong! css Monday. news conference. Bell called the bill "a milestone" in legislation that would replace or revise criminal laws that are outmoded, or unenforceable, and some (thati are simply archaic." Much of the jill would consolidate existing federal laws, with one section in the measure See CODE on A 6 Delta At a e -- .'1 Atty. Gen. Bell, left, Rep. Rodino and Sen. Kennedy say code includes provision for uniform sentencing. w ftfPMO and Cedar Citv. Highs near 65. Zone 5 (Utah's Dixie) Cloudy and cooler Wednesday with chance of rain. St, George low 50, high 70. Zones 4, I (Uintah Basin. Carbon County) Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers Wednesday. Lows 47 in Vernal, 46 in Price. Zones 7, (Southeast Utah. Canyonlands, Lake Powell) Mostly cloudy with chance of thundershowers. Lows highs 45-5- 66 in Monticello, Blandlnq, 75 In Moab, 65-8- 0 63 in at the lake and National weather map, area summary on J |