Show - Tla Morald Journal Login Utah Sunday September 2 1979 South Idaho worried about its clout in Boise By Jamn Thalman staff writar A board that Is appointed simply from the attendance at that convention eannot have the best Interests of southern Idaho at heart when they adopt their legislative policies because more thsn 90 percent of the board Is from northern Idaho Christensen said “Because this end of the state has fallen down in attendance to IAC conventions we currently have no representation" he said “We have got to come up with some consistent geographical program to get all of the districts represented because northern Idaho’s needs are much different than ours” “Bingham Bannock Power Oneida Caribou Bear Lake and Franklin counties which make up the IAC's 5th district have got to encourage the inactive surrounding counties to become interested" Christensen said “Without equal representation our association is going to become much weaker Just as quick as political Issues come up you are going to PRESTON — Members of tha Idaho Aaaoclatloo of Countfei’ 9th District art worried about their loss of Influence in the Idaho Stats Lefislature About N commissioners and affiliates from the seven-countdistrict expressed concern - durlni a meeting Thursday that the problems of southern Idaho are being overlooked' because the IAC state board does not have proper representational Input from the entire y state Wesley Christensen a Bingham County commissioner said the 5th district ought to be concerned with board members from counties who are net members but who still have representation on the state board simply because they attend the yearly state IAC convention full-payi- find eountles backing away and falling apart With a representational equal board we could eliminate this problem" commissioners state-appoint- ed County Clerk Mike Kuni who was committee appointed to the said a resolution would be drafted within the next few weeks er - The State Department announced Saturday Mexican President Jose 9 Lopes Portillo will visit Washington Sept even though there is a stall In negotiations over the Nice America wfll pay for Mexican natural gas Portillo sumIt wfll be the third Carter-Lope-s mit The Mexican prealdent wu the first foreign bead of state Invited to the White House after Carter took office In 1977 and Carter visited Mexico City earlier this year One of the chief issues between the two countries currently Is disagreement on how much the United States should pay for the Mexican natural gas It wants ' State Department spokesman Mark Sawoskl said the Issue was not resolved during talks In Mexico City this week between deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda “It wu not possible to reach agreement on the sale of Mexican natural gas to the United States" talks Sawoskl during the Christopher-Castenad- a said He did not elaborate In Mexico City Castaneda made clear Lopes (UPI) The commissioners said they are also concerned with how the small taxing districts In their counties are going to get by financially as 21-2- Portillo will not negotiate the natural gas issue with Carter personally “It is not a subject that is appropriate for two presidents" he said Friday adding that no new gas negotiations have been scheduled Castaneds said his government wants to tie gas prices to thou of other fuels the gas would replace such as heating oil The United States wants to pay a lower price American energy firms had agreed to buy Mexican gas In 1977 at the price Mexico City was y asking but the deal was vetoed by Secretary James Schlesinger on grounds the United States should not pay Mexico more for gas than it wu paying Canada Other Issues on the agenda are trade illegal aliens and the tight over Is to pay for the Mexican ollspill — still affecting Texas beaches The United States has asked Mexico to help pay damages and claims resulting from the spill since the oil came from Mexico But the Mexican government turned down an American request to negotiate the issue then-Energ- US-Mexlc- cm g - Departing from the text of his third state of the union address Lopes Portillo uid relations with 0 and cordial" the UX are But he reiterated Us instructions to Mexico’s Foreign Ministry to respond to Washington's “recent and public request” by saying Mexico “far-reaehi- n fin : Lopes Portillo and Carter are scheduled to meet Sept Min Washington The president said Mexico hu made "extraordinary efforts” to control the well in Campeche Bay that hu spewed some 2 million barrels of crude to date “I want to inform the United States of progreu and to say that we favor the possibility of their Coast Guard to aid In controlling the spill at the 29th parallel" he said He blamed the preu for sensationalising the arrldrnt “It Is dearly to be seen that Information has been withheld and even distorted in Mexico’s caw” he said Lopes Portillo said Mexico's proven oil reserves In 1979 increased by more than 9 billion barrels — from 40 billion to 459 nillion barrels He said probable oil reserves were 45 billion and potential reserves 200 billion barrels Lopes Portillo said that a Louisiana well in the i Gulf of Mexico that blew out Oct IS 1979 is still gushing oil and that every year an average of N oil ' wells blow out He said currently 19 other wells in the world are out of control on land and sea -- “I prefer not even to recall the perversity of those who delight in our misfortune and seek their own fortune in it And for the outsiders whose twisted motives let their ambition and their envy overflow I reserve my most profound contempt" Lopes Portillo uid Lopes Portillo said Mexico's vast oil reserves sixth in the world are the nation's “potential for and economic growth” He added the oil calls for “solidarity with other people in the world who are suffering the impact of an unprecedented energy crisis" “In the present disturbed market we have maintained a policy of solidarity with developing countries desirous of giving economic and social significance to their nonrenewable resources” he said “We therefore sell and shall continue to sell oil abroad at the best price through contrscts extending tor appointed periods of time whose terms can be periodically resdjusted” - -- Iran’s air and ground forces sent to crush Kurdish rebels TEHRAN Iran (UPI) — Deputy Premier Mostafa Chamran directing military operations in Kurdistan Saturday said Iran’s air and ground forces have gone into action to crash rebel Kurdish tribesmen all aerau the province in northwest Iran The report came as Prime Minister Mehdl Basargsn offered to resign and urged Iranians to ask Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to auume control at the government The premier went on state television around midnight Friday and in a state of visible agitation told Iraniau: “I’m not bolding on to the premier’s chair with my two hands If we leave this office it would be like a second wedding" The offensive in Kurdistan a province of about 91k million people was the second in leu than three weeks against insurgent forces fighting for autonomy Iranian air force F-- 4 Phantom Jets helicopter gunships and artillery were reported to have beaten back attacks against government bases in Saqqes Bastam and the mountainous territory skirting Baneh Baneh near the Iraq border is the suspected hideout of Kurdish leaders Sheikh Eneddin Hosseini and Abdor Rahman Qassemlou who left Mahabad as government forces and revolutionary guards closed in Reports from the area said Kurdish guerrillas stormed Bastam when they heard Chamran was inside The siege was broken early Saturday after the Jet planes attacked according to the state radio Chamran later declared in a message to the nation the Iranian air force and army would “crash the positions" He gave no details of the combined operation except to say It was underway throughout the province Free legal services win cost Aid atA proposal was also made by an for Outreach program torney Naney Harris people free legal that would offer services in the five “down counties" “We want Igal low-inco- to offer Power Franklin Oneida Caribou and Bear Lake eountles who cannot afford to eome to our Bannock County office In Pocatello civil representation at least twice per month" she said Providing legal services to the entire Judicial district would cost each of the counties 50 per month she said None of the eountles have given their support to the program er paints a gloomy picture- of western policy BRUSSELS Belgium (UPI) Former Secretory of State Henry Kissinger gave a gloomy asseument of Western policies Saturday including some he shaped and warned the West is allowing the Soviet Union to gain military superiority Never in history Kissinger said “has it that a nation achieved happened superiority in all significant weapons categories without seeking to translate this at some print into foreign policy benefit" Kissinger told a symposium on NATO’s future organised by Washington’s Center tot Strategic and International Studies the alliance must “urgently urgently” build up strategic tactical nuclear and conventional forces “While we were building assured destruction the Soviets were building forces for traditional military missions capable of destroying the forces of the United States so that in the 1990$ we will be in a position where many of our strategic forces will forces and all of our land-base- d be vulnerable" he said Kissinger said European allies abetted the policy of assured destruction because it relieved them of responsibility for their defense budgets As a result they are now threatened with “aelective blackmail" that the United States will be unable to counter because its strategy “has been designed to have no military purpose but only the destruction of populations" he said Strategic policy is bankrupt Kissinger asserted noting “We must face the fact that it is absurd to base the strategy of the West on the credibility of the threat of mutual suicide “The dominant feet of the current military situation is that the NATO countries are felling behind in every significant military category with the possible ex PLAINS Ga (UPI) President Carter Saturday accused the men who claim Hamilton Jordan used cocaine of dreaming up the story and “telling all kinds of lies" Carter talking to reporters in a field near his Plains home appeared In- ' forested in news' reports that a drug dealer named “Johnny C” had told the FBI he did not give White House chief of staff Jordan cocaine The alleged denial contradicted claims by Studio 54 owners Steve Rubeil and Ian Schrager who contend “Johnny C" gave Jordan the illegal drag at their New York discotheque last year When a reporter told Carter the mysterious “Johnny C" had denied giving Jordan cocaine the president said “Oh really” Then he made an okay sign with his hand and said “right on right on” Later In the day Carter asked the reporter about the ease again Then in a clear reference to Jordan's accusers he said “I think they Are You Still Paying TAHOnYour Interest? New York Times and the' Washington Post reported Saturday that Johnny C told federal agents he was not at Studio 54 the night of June 27 1978 when Jordan was alleged to be at the discotheque and that he has never sold Jordan cocaine At the same time sources told United Press International — and the Post and Times — that a tape recording hu been made of Johnny C ' diescribing how he gave Jordan' cocaine and watched him use it Jordan hu denied the whole incident and the White House contends the accusers — Studio 54 owners Ian Schrager and Steve Rubeil — are making inaccurate charges in an attempt to get federal prosecutors to settle a tax evasion case against them Tax Sheltered Guaranteed No Probate No Charges Tax Free Income The only real spendable interest rate is what is left after you pay Federal and State income tax Mondale wraps up junket Mondale Saturday took the Vietnamese up crisis and refugee charges that American reccue efforts have added to the flood of exiles in Southeast Asia Mondale met with American ambassadors to Asian Southeast natiou and refugee resettlement officials within hours at his arrivsl by train from Canton he where wrapped up a seven-da- y boat people drifting in the South China Sea and denied the rescue operations encouraged Vietnamese to flee their country Officials said both President Carter and Mondale considered the refugee exodus “one of the great moral issues of our day” and one that Justified Carter's order that the 7th Fleet should make every effort to help the boat people Officials traveling Mondale said the United States had no Vietnamese refugees rescued who were recently said Western broadcasts about the presence of American China tour aimed at expanding with self-restrai- nt - t Both the regrets over its decision to rescue Vietnamese - SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) The Utah Union of Nurses hu filed a request with the federal government to conduct a union organising electon among registered nurses at St Mark's Hospital The nursing union said Friday it had filed an application with the National Labor Relations Board in Denver The UUN which was formed last yesr is seeking authority to represent the St Mark’s nursing staff to collective bargaining Just dreamed up the stray and now they’re getting caught” Rosalyn Carter at her husband’s side interjected “yes" Carter completed his sentence "telling all kinds of lies" HONG KONG (UPI) -Vice President Walter ception of nsval forces where the gap in our favor is dosing" Kissinger said the United States has allowed the Soviet Union to steal the lead in tactical nudear weapons frittering away advantages sueh as the B- -l bomber and the neutron warhead in exchange for nothing Even America’s IN NO conventional soldiers and airmen ia Europe are likely to become “irrelevant" in the 1980s because of Soviet military superiority be said Unleu the Allies coordinate their policies and build their forces Kissinger predicted that “in the decade ahead we will fece simultaneously an unfavorable balance of power a world in turmoil a potential economic crisis and a massive and to conduct foulness energy problem as usual is to entrust one’s destiny to the will of others and to the of those whose ideology extols the crucial role of the objective balance of forces” Union election requested Carter claims cocaine Mexican president won h charges were all lies talk about oil spill MEXICO (UPI) President Jose Lopes Portillo Saturday summarily rejected talks with the United States on damage payments for a runaway Mexican ojl well that is fouling the Tjxas do” and Several of the commissioners said local county officials ought to “speak up or shut up" concerning the 1 percent issue because it affects the counties more than any other state agency IAC executive director Ron Biemel told the group they need to become more Involved with Small towns complaining Carter-Lope- z WASHINGTON treasurers As a result of the 1 percent Initiative budgets for governmental agencies have been frosen at their 1971 levels until 1M0 Some of the agencies who were trying to save money in 1171 are “really going to be hurt” In UN the commissioners said Franklin Portillo plan for third summit elerks assessors In the district “tie" himself to one of the state legislators to get more influence into what the state decides on the 1 percent Initiative Although Christensen felt a study of how to get other counties Involved with the IAC should come from a committee the members voted unanimously to Investigate a resolution to change the selection of state board members They then appointed a committee of three of their own to write that resolution three-memb- state legislators on the whole because “most of them don’t really know what county officials a result of the 1 percent initiative tax law An Idea was suggested that each of the What Is Your Intorost Rate After Taxes? 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