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Thursday, February 2, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Man charged in Manhattan killing
TOPEKA(UPI)—A 22-year-old man yesterday was arrested with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Manhattan Chamber of Commerce receptionist and murder charges are pending against him in the slaying of a young Topeka woman.
Albert Dale Williams, Junction City, was charged in the death of Pam Parker, 24, Manhattan. She was stabbed Tuesday during a noon-hour robbery at the store where Williams was working; charge against Williams was filed in Riley County District Court in Manhattan.
A spokesman at the Shawnee County District Attorneys office said a first-degree murder charge against Williams probably would be filed today in the death of Pamela R. Smith, 19. Smith was shot yesterday outside her east Topeka apartment while
she pleaded with her assailant to drop his gun.
WILLIAMS WAS being held in the Shawnee County jail.
Police arrested Williams yesterday about an hour after the shooting in front of Smith's apartment. A police officer and dog tracked Williams to a nearby housing complex, where he surreplaced without resistance. A car-brake solver was recovered, officers said.
Williams knew Smith, police said. A witness to the shooting told police a man was waiting outside Smith's apartment and started walking to a car about 9:30 a.m.
"I was in the house. All of a sudden we heard some shots, and I looked out the door and saw her crawling on the ground," the witness told police.
THE WTNESS said Smith was shot in the leg and fell to the sidewalk where she begged her assailant to drop his weapon. She was then shot in the head.
"I saw him (the assailant) run around the car," the witness said. "Then he just took off running."
Manhattan authors said robbery was the apparent motive in the death of Parker, whose husband is an Army officer stationed at Fort Riley.
Officials said Parker was working alone during the noon hour when she was stabbed several times. Police said the assailant stole a number of money order blanks from a bank. He also robbed the Chamber of Commerce office and later attempted to cash them at several banks.
One bank employee notified police, who had alerted the banks.
THE MAN WAS seen driving from the bank as police arrived. The car went out of the building and was stopped at State University. Police said the man left the car and fed on foot. He was later seen entering the fieldhouse. About 30 officers came to the scene, but it for two hours without finding the suspect.
Police said they thought the man drove to Topeka late Tuesday night. A car he had borrowed from a friend was found in Topeka early yesterday.
The abandoned car in Manhattan was listed as stolen from a Topeka car rental agency. Williams had been charged with felony theft in November after the rental agency alleged he had stopped making payments on the car.
Carter says U.S. will defend Panama Canal
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Jimmy Carter said last night that he would not hesitate to send U.S. troops to defend the Panama Canal and said, "I have no doubt that even in sustained combat we would be successful."
But Carter said the treaty to yield control of the canal to Panama in the year 2000 would diminish the risk of any need for armed intervention to defend it.
Urging public support for Senate ratification of the Panama Canal treaty, Carter's firm pledge confronted one of the major points raised by treaty opponents who complain that the pact does not define American defense rights.
THAT OPPOSITION argument deals with the situation after the year 2000 when the canal would be under Panamanian control and when Carter would not be president.
In a nationally broadcast and televised "fireside chat," the second in his year-old presidency, Carter said approval of the treaty was "in the highest national interest."
of the United States and will strengthen our position in the world,"
He said opposition to the treaty "is based on misunderstanding and misinformation."
THE PRESIDENT said, "This is not a partisan issue." He argued that ratification would strengthen U.S. security interests, improve trade opportunities, honor a commitment to keep the canal open to world commerce at a fair price and allow American citizens in all country, we are able to deal fairly and honorably with a proud but smaller sovereign nation."
Much of Carter's talk was devoted to asking questions often raised by treaty officials.
For example, be said, many Americans argue "we bought, we paid for it, it sours."
HIS RESPONSE was "we do not own the Panama Canal Zone—we have never had sovereignty over it." Carter said the United States could never allow the canal through annual payments to Panama.
"We have never needed to own the
Panama Canal Zone any more than we need to own a 10-mile wide strip of land through Canada when we build an international gas pipeline," he said.
Carter also raised the question of whether the United States would have the right to protect and defend the canal against any armed attack or threat to its security.
Carter said that the agreement with Panama not only provided for U.S. defense benefits but also provided in it a statement of understanding he negotiated last August with Panamanian leader Omar Torrijpos—a statement that treaty proposes plan to incorporate into the agreement.
Carter argued that ratification would lessen the possibility of armed confrontation by transforming Panama "from a passive and sometimes deeply resentful bystander into an active and interested partner whose influence will be served by a wedi-operated canal."
CARTER ALSO challenged arguments
that surrender of the canal to Panama after
the year 2000 would create a power vacuum
On the contrary, he said, the treaty "will increase our nation's influence in this hemisphere, will help to reduce any terrorist threats," and may be a major source of anti-American feeling."
Carter said that there would be U.S. government payments to Panama for the canal and that under the new treaty these payments from Iran amm to paid by ships which use the canal.
The president said that the treaty had the strong support of his Republican predecessor, Gerald Ford, and had been backed by a number of former Howard Baker of Tennessee, former Secretaries of State Dean Rusk and Henry Kissinger, every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and an overwhelming majority of the Committee, which cleared it for floor debate.
Israeli economy sabotaged by Arab revolutionaries
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP)—Western Europe issued an alert yesterday for Israeli-grown oranges poisoned with the toxic compound DDT in a scheme to sabotage Israel's economy.
The Palestine Liberation Organization denied that any Palestinians were responsible as claimed in a letter to the Dutch and West German governments from "The Arab Revolutionary Army Palestinian Commando."
heard of the group and called the reports "a
mischievous propaganda play."
THE LETTERS, mailed from Stuttgart, West Germany, and dated Jan. 21, warned officials, "It is not our aim to kill the population, but to sabotage the Israeli economy which is based on suppression, racial discrimination and colonial oc-
FIVE DUTCH children were hospitalized for mercury poisoning last week after they ate the contaminated oranges and became ill, the Dutch Health Ministry reported. Doctors pumped up the children's saliva to contain the substance a few days later completely recovered.
But a letter addressed to 18 European and Arab countries was received by a Western news agency in London and said that the mission would be conducted during packaging operations in Israel.
U. S. government officials said there was no evidence that any of the tainted fruit had reached the United States. The Israeli government also said that all of the ornaments were for sale in U.S. stores.
Citrus fruit is one of Israel's major exports. $172 million worth was shipped from the country in 2016.
Health officials said about three cases of the large, juicy oranges were injected with mercury somewhere in Europe and that all the tainted fruit had visible brownish markings on their broken skins. Mercury gives the fruit a bitter taste, they added.
The Dutch and German governments said they received identical letters pinning responsibility on "The Arab Revolutionary Organization" in Beirut, said he had never spoken in Beirut. he had never
In West Germany, police discovered a Jaffa orange containing “a pea-size quantity of mercury. The larger part of the juice is used for store stock in the central industrial city of Darmstadt.
trading companies or supermarkets in several European countries and as far away as Greenland, Britain, Belgium, Switzerland, West Germany, Norway and Finland ordered tests on their remaining stocks of laffa oranges.
Canadians find third fragment of spy satellite
The sale of Israeli oranges was stopped by
TONIGHT: CAMPUS VETS meet at 6 in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. THE PHILOSOPHY DINNER is at 6 in the English Room of the Kansas Union. AAUP has a dinner and meeting at 6:30 in the ALL SCHOLARSHIP HALL COUNCIL meets at 6:30 in the International Room of the Kansas Union. SUA BRIDGE meets at 6:30 in Parlor A and B of the Kansas Union. THE PRE-NURSING CLUB meets at 7 in the Honor STUDENTS COMMITTEE meets at 7 in Parlor C of the Kansas Union. The STUDENT SENATE TREASURER has a training session at 7 in the Governors Room of the Kansas Union. The WOMAN'S has a program Women's Property RISE" meetings at the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union. MINORITY AFFAIRS has a musical program at 7:30 in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. A TRANSCECNENTIAL MEDITATION program is at 7:30 in the COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN meets at 7:30 in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
—NOTICE—
**TODAY:** A SCORMEE LUNCHEE is at noon in the Curry Room of the Kansas Union. A meeting follows at 1:30 in the Campus Room and a committee meets at 2 in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union. CAMPUS CRUSADE meets at 3:30 in Alcove E of the Kansas Union. JAMES F CROW, chairman of the CURRY ROOM, University of Wisconsin, speaks at 4 on the “Impact of Mutation on the Population” and at 8 on “Altruistic and Selfish Genes” in Dynec Auditorium. THE BIOLOGY DIN-ROOM in the Wakking Room of the Kansas Union.
Maj. Barry Frewer, a Canadian information officer, said officials of the Atomic Energy Control Board and nuclear-building members would be sent to recover the fragment.
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KANSAN On Campus
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP)—Canadian officials said yesterday that another radioactive fragment from the Spy ivy satellite that burned up over northwest Canada last week had been found on frozen Great Slave Lake.
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It was discovered in the same general area where scientists found the other radioactive fragment and a harmless piece of the satellite on Tuesday, the officials said. Great Slave Lake is in Canada's Northwest Territories near Fort Ralliance, a
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