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No law to limit tanker
‘Size in Washington

Frustration’ and disap-
polntment were the wor
used by legislators today to
express thelr reaction to a
United States Supreme Court
decision striking down a
state law limiting the size of
tankers entering Puget
Sound.

Washington Governor
Dixy Lee Ray said the
decision was not unexpected
and that she was not alar-
med by it.

“The state, working
together with the Coast
Guard, can and will assure
that all navigation, including
the moving of oil tankers,
will be handled as carefully
and safely as humanly
possible.” she sald.

She said she will continue
to support “every possible
precaution with respect to
safety features on ships,
crew and pilot training and
shore-based natlvagational

Pm just plain frstrated,”

said Representative King-

Lysen, chairman of the
House of Energy and
Utilides Committee.

‘‘Here’s a case where the
Legislature has taken action
with the full support of the
congressional delegation

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only to see it knocked out by
the Supreme Court on a
technicality,’ said the
Seattle Democrat.

Senator Ted Bottiger, D-
Graham chairman of the
Senate Energy Committee,
called the decision a victory
for the ol] companies. ;

“I'm disappointed that the
supreme court has taken
away from the state the right
to look after the economic
and socialogical and en-
vironmental aspects of its
inland waters,’’ he said.

Bottiger pointed out,
however, that the ARCO
dock at Cherry Point is the
only facility on Puget Sount
that can handle tankers in
excess of 125,000 dead-weight
tons.

“The others are going to
have to go through the
Energy Facility Site
Evaluation Council if they

intend to. enlarge their.

facilities and that may be
our ace in the hole,” said
Bottiger.

King and Bottiger also said
the. action may force the
Coast Guard to draft
stringent rules covering
tanker traffic on the sound.

Lysen pointed out the
tanker limitation law wasthe

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result of Coast Guard refusal
to regulate tanker trafflc in
the past.

Lysen also said Senator
Warren G. Magnuson’s coup
of last year banning
establishment of an oil port
west of Port Angeles on the
Strait of Juan de Fuca may
make the point moot.

"If they can’t ‘have
transshipment why would
they want to bring in the
larger tankers?’’ asked
Lysen. .

Magnuson sald he will ask
Transportation © Secretary
Brock Adams to limit the
size of ail tankers in Puget
Sound.

“Tt is my opinion that
existing law permits the
secretary of transportation.
to establish regulations
restricting the traffic of huge
supertankers,” Magnuson
said. The Ports and
Waterways Safety Act
allows the Department of
Transportation to: establish
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limitations and- vessel

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. He said, “This, of course, .

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law -—- just invalidated by the
Supreme Court — sought to

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Shaky power base in China :

By JOHN RODERICK

TOKYO (AP) — The con-
clusion of the fifth National
People’s Congress takes
China past a major
milestone on the rocky road
to stability and industrial
advance 16 months after the
death of Mao Tsetung.

By retaining the
premiership, Chairman Hua
Kuo-feng emerged from the
week-long session as Mao's
undisputed successor, in fact
as well as in name.

Hua shored up his shaky
power base within the loose
coalition of soldiers, secret
policemen and. od
revolutionaries who have

Eight killed in

Calif.

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Flood warnings were in
effect today for mountain
and coastal valley areas as
Tesidents. of southern
California began clean-up.
operations from torrentlal
rains that officials said killed
eight persons and damaged
about 250 houses.

Four storm-related deaths
were reported in Los Angeles
County and one each was re-
ported in Orange, Ventura,
Riverside and San Diego
counties.

Mexican officials said at
least 26 persona have died
‘there, thousands have been
left homeless and up to $1
billion in damage has been
cnused by weekend rain-
storms that created flood
waters and mudslides. °

The border town of
Tijuana a red hardest
hit with 19 dead, officials

- sald,

Ensenada, 100 kilometres
to the south, was split in two
by a torrent of water rushing

the city. More than
6,000: residents were
homeless there with
estimates’ reaching . 100,000
for the entire 1,000-milelong
peninsula of Baja California.
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Movie stars worked
shoulder-to-shoulder with
National Guards and

volunteers from nearby
Pepperdine University, to
sandbag homes.

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ruled since the critical
autumn of 1976, when Mao
died and the radicals led by
Mao's widow, Chiang Ching,
were arrested and silenced.

The old guard's candidate
for the premiership was
hardheaded Senior Vice-
Premiee Teng Haiao-ping,
73, Though he failed for the

- sécond time In his turbulent

career to reach the top, the
remaining two key gov-
ernmental jobs went to his
faction.

Marshal Yeh Chien-ying,
61, became chairman of the
Congress standing com-
mittee. He relinquished the
defence minisiry to another
Teng supporter, Marshal
Hay Haiang-chien, 78.
WEARS TWO MANTLES

Hua’s success is nat only
real but symbolic. Now he
wears not only the mantle of
Mao’ China’s great
revolutionary, but algo that
af the late Premier Chou En-

It was Chou who kicked off
a bold new. industrial leap
forward in his last major
congressional address, in
January 1976. Stalled by the
obstruction of the radicals,

the programs got going
walt after Hua assumed the
chairmanship less than 18
months ago. ;

Though © shrewd and

‘amiable, Hua lacks Mao's

authority and prestige and
Teng’s driving force. But he

sir victims and giving his
west! to the moderate
reforms which have chang
China from a closed society
into one with — greater
freedom, wider horizons and
increased discipline.

ee

has labored slowly and -

carefully to win the con-
fidence of Chou’s moderates
who made him _ party
chairman because they had
no alternative.

Once elected, he was safe _

in the country’s highest
office. But the premiership,
which an old and suspicious
Meo had wrenched from
Teng and handed to TUA,
WAS UP FOR GRABS.

The battle was won in the
party’s ceniral committee
meeting that preceded the
Congress. What undoubtedly
weighed in Hua'’s favor was
his willingness to abandon
the radicals, with whom he
had flirted earlier, and
accept the moderate line,

Once committed, he went
the distance—presiding over
the dismantling of the
apparatus, approving the
rehabilitation of hundreds of

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Ethiopia, Somalia |
Both claim city

By THE ASSOCIATED
PRESS

Ethiopia says it has recap-
tured Jijiga; the first major
objective of its counter-
offensive in the Ogaden war
in eastern Ethiopia. But the
Somali forces who took the
city last summer deny that
they have lost it.

Radio. Addis Ababa said

the Ethiopian flag flew over -

Jijiga, in the northern
Ogaden Desert 65 kilometre
from the Somalia border,
after a victory “won at great
cost to human life and
property.” The Ethiopian
embassy in London said the
Somali forces in Jijiga were
wiped out and Ethiopian
troopa were advancing on all
fronts. ;

The rebels of the Western
Somali Liberation Front,
who have been fighting since
last summer to wrest the
Ogaden "plateau ‘from
Ethiopia and join {t to neigh-
boring Somalia, said they

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still. held Jijiga and were
fighting off attacks by
Russian and Cuban troops.

A statement issued in
Mogadishu, the capital of
Somalia, sald no Ethiopian
soldiers were seen among
the attackers.

Somalia's ambassador to
Britain, Ahmed | Mchamed
Aden, said officials in
Mogadishu informed him the
opposing forces. were
fighting at Babile, between
Jijiga and Harar, one of the
Ethiopian army's two re-
maining strongholds in the
Ogaden. It is 76 kilometres
west of Jijiga,

“None of these claims could,
be verlfied. But the reports
from both sidés indicated a
resumption in at least one
sector of the offensive the
Ethioplans initiated to the
porth, east and south of
Harar ln late'Januaty.' The:
offensive bogged down after
a week or so.

The Somalis say about
15,000 Russians, Cubans and
others are fighting for
Ethiopia. The U.S, atate
department estimates that
more than 10,000 Russian,
Cuban and East European
millitary personnel are
helping the Ethiopians.
Western diplomats in East
Africa also believe that
thousands of regulars from
Somalia's army are fighting
slongside the rebels, who are
ethnic Somali tribesmen, de-
spite the Somalia govern:
ment’s earlier contention
that it was aiding the rebels
only with supplies.

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED
NEW DELHI
Moraji Desai,
minister of India, celebrated
his 82nd birthday Feb. 28. He

is one of the world’s oldest |

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puts in a rigorous seven-day
work week.

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