European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 13, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 Carter aide says rights drive is no Factor in Russ Cut Washington up _ Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal says the soviet Union s planned reduction of $800 million in nonfood Trade with the . Over the next two years has no connection with presi Dent Carter s stand on human rights. Blumenthal said the human rights Issue was raised during a week Long meeting with soviet Trade officials. But he insisted Kissinger backs Energy conservation Chicago up Henry Kissinger expressing general support for president Carter s stand to overcome the Energy crisis said saturday the . Could Cut Oil imports in half during the next five year through conservation. As Long As the United states imports so per cent fits Oil. The control of Oil prices is out of our hands said the former Secre tary of state now chairman of the advisory Board of the Alliance to save Energy. I believe this country could Cut the imports to about 30 per cent through Energy conservation and even More us our own Energy sources Are developed he told re porters at the Energy conservation con  Side stepped comments on the specifics of Carter s embattled Energy pro Gram. He said the Only Way for the us. To get a handle on Oil prices is to strike a better balance Between Supply and demand through conservation. Sen. Charles Percy r-i1i. Who with other Illinois officials sponsored the con Ference said Carter s now defunct Gaso line tax proposal lacked credibility with the american Public. Kissinger praised the saudi arabian for enormous restraint in their attempts to hold Down Oil prices. Tie saudis believe constant increase would create1 an economic crisis in the  he said but added they eventually would have to follow the economic Reali ties of Supply and demand and succumb to Price  said the . Needs a massive Edu cation program to Alert its citizens to the realities of the Energy crisis. If we Don t conserve Energy we re going to have an Energy crisis a financial crisis or both said Kissinger. St. Brendan s boat still on Way to Boston Halifax Canada a the leather boat St. Brendan crossing the Atlantic from Ireland to Boston is about 385 Miles North Northeast of St. Anthony newfound land the search and Rescue Center Here re  35-foot boat and its five Crew Mem Bers left Brandon Creek on Ireland s South West coast on May 16.1976, on a voyage to Boston via Iceland. They left Iceland last  boat has two sails and the leather Hull is sealed with cod Oil Wool grease tallow and  Crew is attempting to retrace a voyage to America chronicled by St. Bren Dan in the 8th Century in the same kind of Craft he described to prove it could have been  Hope to reach Boston in october. Moscow s announced intention to curb Pur chases of . Products was  did mention human rights was an Issue of considerable importance to the american people and this administration Blumenthal said. But he added the Sovi ets believe human rights should be handled separately from economic  Secretary Juanita Kreps who joined Blumenthal for a news Confer ence Friday said the Trade cutback resulted from . Exports to the soviet Union outrunning imports by 10 to 1. But Krops and Blumenthal said the Trade talks produced a one sided reference to human rights an Issue that Carter has made Clear is important to his administration in its dealings with other nations. Blumenthal said american representatives at the discussions raised the human rights Issue during the talks when it was apparent there would be no reference to human rights on the soviet  Kreps said the soviets were concerned about reducing their Trade deficit with . In 1976, she said the . Sold $2.3 Bil lion Worth of products to the soviets while buying Only $221 million. Ideally exports should equal  running Trade deficits Are some times subject to currency devaluations which leads to Domestic inflation and eco nomic problems. Dollar devaluations . Trade deficits in the 1960s led to Dollar devaluations in 1971 and 1973, which sent food prices soaring and along wit the Oil Price increases resulted in the worst recession since world War ii ended. Blumenthal and Kreps Are the two rank ing american officials of the joint . . Commercial commission which was set up in 1972 to promote mutually beneficial commercial relations Between sour in Rorm a Nair the United states and the soviet  Sumii Pui Liy the recent meetings were the sixth in the series held alternately in Moscow and Washington. Blumenthal described the meetings As Friendly Frank and  while Kreps said the Tenor of our talks this week leads me to believe that the prospects for improvement in soviet american Trade relations arc very  too Early in the yawning first Lime grads Olno Almeida and Teresa Walls appear More bored than awed at their  Olno and Teresa were among 78 preschoolers who completed a head Start program at Worcester mass. Up photo average performer Billy says of brother hijacking trial scheduled Stockholm up the 37-year-old soviet Engineer who hijacked a Domestic soviet Airliner May 26 Over Latvia and forced it to land in Stock Lelm will not be expelled to the soviet Union the swedish government has decided. Despite official soviet appeals for the Man s return Vasilij Sosnovsky will be tried in Sweden for the hijacking. The trial will Start june 17. Lewisville. Tex up if it weren t for family loyalty. Billy Carter says he would give his brother an historical rating of  i would give him Good grades since heis my brother president Carter s older brother said saturday. If he was not my brother i would say he has performed a  Carter also credited himself with having More insight into the problems of Farmers than the Carter administration. Man in barrel puzzles Niagara Falls police Niagara Falls. Canada up a Man in a 300-Pound red White and Blue barrel with bucket seats and a two Way radio floated in the Whirlpool below Niagara Falls saturday before a Niagara Parks police helicopter blew the barrel  said the Man tentatively identified As Karl Soucek 35, did not shoot the Falls in his bizarre Craft but it was not known How he reached the Whirlpool. He reportedly had attempted to shoot the lower Niagara River rapids earlier this week but was stopped by  barrel was described by police As red. White and Blue and equipped with bucket seats a citizen s band radio and Battery operated lights. Police said they used a helicopter to Force the barrel ashore. Some observers said the barrel would have had to plunge Over the Falls to reach the part of the River where it was  police said they were mystified by How the barrel got into the Whirlpool. I Don t know anything about National politics but i know a lot about agriculture and they re screwing up agriculture worse than it s Ever been said Carter. He would not elaborate. Carter attending the 50th anniversary of a car dealer in the North Texas town of Lewisville was noticeably without a Beer can in hand. The county has a Law against liquor sales. The first plane did t  said Carter explaining Why he was late to the festivities. The second one did t Crank and i got worried. Then i found out Lewisville was dry and i got worried As hell. I Don t think 1 would live  said he was unaware of the anti liquor Law until he arrived because his wife usually selects the places they visit. For his Effort More than 500 people turned out to Welcome the Georgia red  besides the undisclosed amount of Money he received for the visit. Carter received a id gallon hat and an honorable commission As an Admiral in the Lewis Ville Navy. Airline Bias fighter Dies Washington a Patricia j. Thoben a lifelong paraplegic who was in Strumental in ending discriminatory treat ment of handicapped persons by airlines a dead of cancer. She was 44