‘Page All, June 20, 1979 - North Shore News U.S. President Jitamy ~ He said that without SALT . Carter told a joint. session of -II a new.and dan ew al angerous arms Congress; . . Monday | night, » Trace will begin, with | that the U: S. must ratify the tremendous financial ex- f- SALT II agreement simply penditures on both sides. because it is in the best interests’ of the U. S. and its - : . allies... we Carter ‘began | what - expected to be a tough battle to _get.the Senate to approve the treaty, . only 13. hours after he: ‘Signed the treaty with, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev... Some ‘members Congress feel that the ap- proval of SALT II will put the U.S:, behind the Soviet Union, and will hasten the process.of. fhe decline of the U.S. ‘Also a number of mem- bers of Congress are in- censed by a statement made. by Brezhnev: that the U. S. is - of ie “based on ‘common sense.” his presidency.” ; honourbound: to approve | the treaty. Carter told the joint ‘meéting that the Strategic _arms limitation ° treaty is ‘16. 7 hike over two years VICTORIA | Treasury Board has approved a new agreement: between the government and_ B.C. Medical Association that. will . give fee-for-service physicians increases of 8.11 and 8.55 per cent over each of two - years, Health Minister Bob” ’McClelland arinounced last week. In a recent mail ballot, members of the BCMA approved the proposed terms by a 59 per cent vote in favour. McClelland said Treasury Board approval was the last formal step ina negotiating ~ process between his ministry _ and BCMA that started’ last November. The two-year agreement will ~ be _Fretroactive to April 1. “Now that all parties have accepted its terms, the citizens of this province can be assured of receiving ' physicians’ services without extra charges,” Minister. said the “The government is providing what we consider a fair increase in. medical plan payments and of course we are pleased that the Astronomers announce Hot gas surrounds galaxy MADISON, Wis. (UPI) - Discovery of a cloud of very hot gas surrounding the Milky Way galaxy has been announced by astronomers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prof. Blair D. Savage and associate Klass S.-de Boer said recently the Galatic Corona is a tenuous gas a million times thinner than the best vacuum = c¢ver produced on earth. . Ow ——— eee Ea=E—Eees_e , Johnstone’ s Home Appliance Service! The astronomers said it is heated to- about 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit, perhaps by exploding stars, and most likely rotate with the slowly whirling Milky Way. They said it is a gas cloud similar to the Corona that surrounds the sun. The discovery was reported in the June 1 issue of the Astrophysical Journal published Thursday. The researchers said they detected the Galatic Corona figh ne te . of the toughest battles of - Failure to ratify the treaty, - he said, will weaken the confidence of America’s allies. Cartet has called. . the ; treaty, ‘the most important .,, Of his.lifetime’. In his speech to Congress, ~Carter alsa. attempted to calm people’s fears about the treaty by. saying SALT II is - not based on trust but rather on America’s own resources. A -recent poll indicates American’s approve of the treaty by a ratio of 2.5 to 1, but a. number of polls, meetings and studies are _ going to be necessary before _ : _ the treaty is approved. . doctors settle ‘majority of physicians concurred with our view.” About 2.6 million persons — virtually every resident of the province — are entitled - to benefits of the Medical | Services Plan, the costs of which are met with revenue raised by taxation and . premiums. The: plans’ payments to . physicians during the current fiscal year are ex- pected to be in the order of $389 million. in satellite observations made over the past nine months. The announcement was the first confirmation of a prediction made 23 years ago by Princeton University Prof. Lyman Spitzer IJr., Savage said it could have far- reaching effects on ‘astronomy —~ leading to a better understanding of Quasars, the mysterious bright objects that may lie near the outer limits of the universe. 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