European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 4 the stars and stripes thursday August 31, 1978 Jenners in training olympic decathlon Champion Brace Jenner and his wife Chrystle Are going through exercises at Burbank Calif. Tar the birth of their first Bah expected la september. Jenner will be his Carter turning Corner on inflation but 7% unrealistic aide says Boston a the Carter administration is turning the Corner on inflation but the rate probably won t go lower than 8 percent this year chief inflation tighter Robert Strauss said wednesday. He said that earlier Hopes for an annual inflation rate near percent were too optimistic but he expects the rate to drop dramatically from the current double digit level. We will Peak inflation this year he told a panel on inflation at the 70th annual meeting of the National governors association. It will turn the Corner in the next 60 Days. I Hope that it s peaked i can t prov that. I Hope you la see a drop. I Don t think it s going to drop Down to the 7 or 7.2 they re talking about he added. I think it will be closer to 8 percent  Strauss predictions of an improvement appeared shored up by new consumer Price Index figures released tuesday showing an increase of Only 0.5 percent in july the smallest increase in seven months. That would produce a new inflation rate for the past three months of 9.7 percent. The Economy had been running Ata 10.7 percent rate. At the same time his admission of raised estimates also put the administration on record with new less optimistic predictions. Initially the office of management and budget had projected a 6.1 percent inflation rate for the year and then had raised it to 7.2 percent in its revised budget Fig. Ures last month. Strauss said the administration is ready to do anything that is necessary to hut inflation including a policy of vetoing legislation that busts budgets but be said emphatically it Wilt not impose wage an Price controls. We re achieving some results with the program we have now he said and we re going to continue to build some sub stance into it particularly in the next few months keeping in mind there s one thing we re not going to build into it that is any drastic bureaucracy or any Manda tory wage and Price  we need More cooperation up and Down the line a voluntary program be said but added that the program May need a few  Strauss acknowledged the voluntary program he is pursuing has so far produced less results than i would have hoped but he said about 100 of the nation s top corporations had pledged cooperation including those in the automobile steel and aluminium industries. He also said of major labor negotiation ahead it will be very interesting to tee what if any Success we have to thaw areas. Certainly with respect to our ability to make Progress in that area up to now i confess we have nothing to show for it that would build any credibility in our  China reportedly offers Oil to american Market wife s labor coach daring the delivery under the lamaze method. The Jeanen Are demonstrating the technique daring taping of a to program part of the new series America  a photo Washington up in an unprecedented move China has begun to offer Oil to the american Market it was reported wednesday. The Washington Post quoted Industry sources As saying Gulf Oil corp. Was recently offered crude Oil by the chinese through an intermediary. A Gulf spokesman contacted in Pitts Burgh Early wednesday said although the firm would be interested in purchasing Oil Black officials fire White manager Richmond a. A the Richmond City Council s Black majority flexing new found political muscle has fired the White Day manager because he hears a differ ent  influential Whites denounced the firing As racist. The vote to dismiss Henry j. Leidinger was 5-1, with All Black members of the Council voting for dismissal. Leidinger 38, was dismissed at the end of an emotionally charged meeting. He had been Richmond s top adminis Trator for six years and was highly popular with the City s business Community. He had pushed hard for redevelopment of Richmond s inner City. Henry l. Marsh i first Black mayor of this old Confederate capital conceded Lei Dinger had been a highly efficient compe tent City manager. But he said the manager did t see Eye to Eye with the Black majority on social and housing programs. He said Leidinger gave too Little attention to neighbourhood re development and to social programs Forth disadvantaged. Majority Rule is As american As Apple pie Marsh said. He denied the charge by business leaders and other Whites that the firing was racist. From China there have not been any con Crete discussions on the matter at this time. But this could change in the  the Post quoted the authoritative Petro Leum intelligence weekly As saying the chinese also recently traded Oil to on american Auto company in apparent Exchange Tor some vehicles and the company then offered the Oil to refiners. However the prospects of China s be coming a significant supplier of american of appeared slight the Post said. The Central intelligence Agency s latest estimate of total China Oil exports Between now and 1982 is about 300.000 barrels a Day. . Oil imports now average More than million barrels a Day. In addition China s exported Oil is Hea vier than of from the Middle East which makes it less economical to refine. International Oil experts differ widely on China s of potential with estimates rang ing from the size of Auska s North Soweto a 70-Bulion-barrel projection that would be nearly twice the proven and probable re serves in the United states. Texas jury sentences woman to die by injection Wharton Tevnan i Inpil a Lerv Hora tha  a Kama la Wharton Texas up a jury Here tuesday convicted Mary Lou Anderson of hiring an Assassin to kill her father and her Stepmother in a diabolical insurance fraud scheme and then sentenced her to die by injection. She was the first woman sentenced to die i Texas since the most recent regular session of the legislature altered the Man Ner in which capital punishment is carried out in the state. Anderson 35, sat calmly when the jury s decision was announced. She had been charged with instituting the murder for hire scheme so she could collect insurance to pay off bad checks Anderson was tried specifically for the Jan. 3 execution style shooting of Steve an Derson 55. Of suger land. The jury had deliberated an hour and 45 minutes before finding Anderson guilty and took four More hours in setting the death sentence. The presiding judge told the jury that in order for them to return a death verdict they had to be sure Anderson fully expected a murder would result from her actions and there was a probability she would constitute a continuing threat to society the alleged trigger Man. Feryl grand. 2?. Of Lafayette la., awaits trial on identical charges. The jury of three men and nine women rejected defense lawyer Charles Gate closing argument which emphasized an Derson s repudiation of a confession and her testimony Granger forced her to accompany him to Texas. She did what she could to keep herself and her son Stephen 15� from being shot when caught in this sordid  he said Cate reiterated defense arguments strongly denied by police that her Man 11 confession to hiring Granger was extracted under improper pressure while so was under the influence of Tranqu ims. A the witness stand to repudiate ote statement in which she said Behs Granger then changed her mind but a forced to accompany him to  questioned the reasonableness of the state s charges she expected $10.00�