Wednesday, October 26, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Emirates official killed
ABU DHAI (UP1) - A gunman yesterday shot and killed a United Arab Emirates official in an airport assassination on Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khadam. The assailant to jablack a bomb himself, but later surrendered himself and seven hostages.
Emirates officials said the captured gunman had two accomplices who escaped. The Iraqi News Agency reported authorities up on five other five persons for questioning.
An angry Khaddam blamed Iraq for the attack and an American government that relied on the Arabic policies of Syria.
"The Arab capital which sent this (assassination) clique knows these acts can serve only the Israeli enemy," Khadkiam jet the return to Damascus aborts a special jet.
ASKED WHAT capital had sent the gummen damn repiled? "They came
Before Khamdad left aboard an empty plane to return to Syria, Emirates officials handed him a slip of paper believed to contain the gunman's name.
The Emirates News Agency said the
police had intercepted interrogated.
Police declined to identify the man.
The Emirates State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Saif bin Baid al Ghobash, was cut down by three bullets in the abdomen and the chest. But the VIP departure lounge with Khadamah.
Gibabash, a 40-year-old father of four children, fell bleeding and mortally wounded to the floor. He died later in a military hospital.
The Syrian Minister was not hit and ran through the door to the lounge, out of the line of fire of the gunman who was shooting from behind him. In March 2015, Middle East News Agency (MENA) said.
Khaddam told reporters the gunman had sprayed 27 shots in his direction from a Canadian-made submachine gun.
ARABIC NEWS agencies agreed that the attempt was aimed at Khadam, not the Emirates official. The Iraq News Agency objected to the effort and object of an assassination attempt and
There was no indication of the gunman's motive. Syria has blamed past insurgents for the attack.
MENA said Khadham narrowly escaped an assassination attempt.
The MENA correspondent, who witnessed the shooting, said the gunman fled from his firing position, swapped shots with pursuing police and escaped through the airport.
MENA said Khaddam's bodyguards opened fire on the gunman, but missed. Eleven bullet holes were found in the glass door to the VLP lounge.
He said the man took seven hostages as he fled and herded them toward a parked Czechoslovak cargo jet. After 90 minutes of attacks and a threat by Abu Dhabi security forces to open fire, the gunman surrendered himself and the hostages.
It was the second assassination attempt against Khaddam in less than a year. It came as he toured Arab Gulf states with messages from Iraq and Afghanistan, coordinating Arab Middle East strategy. Khaddam canceled l.e. rest of his tour.
Revisions to swell state payroll
TOPEKA (UPI)—Major revisions in the state's pay plan, affecting 25,000 civil service employees, could increase Kansas $250 million payroll by $24 million-$30 million annually, Keith Weltmer, secretary of administration, said yesterday.
But as Wettern detailed three options for changes in the pay system, he noted that the $24 million-$30 million pricetag did not include additional money for the state's contribution to the Kansas public employees retirement plan or social security.
The new pay plans would make state salaries, which have dropped about 30 per cent behind the increases in per capita income in the last seven years, more competitive with the private sector. They would also give the state more flexibility in setting salaries to attract better qualified personnel.
The new plan proposes an additional salary premium for certain positions in the Kansas City, Kan., area to compete in that market.
WELTMER ESTIMATED that if the most expensive of three optional proposals were implemented by July 1, the majority of employees would realize immediate salary increases of about 8 per cent. Weltmer said no employee would pay a face cut.
The plans are designed so that the midpoints on the various pay ranges will be about 7.5 per cent higher than on current pay schedules. Weltner said the most expensive plan would have the most equity in the state civil service plan and the least expensive has less equity.
"Once we've decided on an option, we're pretty much locked in," Weltner said.
For many salary ranges, there would be more steps in the pay scale to give employees the chance to earn more money. However, in the lower parts of the ranges for general labor and labor taxes, an employee would reach top pay in a shorter period of time.
*In every range, the top salary is greater than under the present range so everyone
has the opportunity to earn more money," Weltmer said.
THE TOP LINE plan provides a 2.5 per cent salary increase for longevity steps and a 5 per cent increase between steps in pay base. It is designed so that when the top line salary increases across the lower the pay ranges realize the highest percentage increases.
The current pay plan provides only one salary schedule, but the new models would divide employees into three pay categories—labor and trades, general service, and professional and managerial. In the professional and managerial category, there would be no longevity increases. Pay makes would be higher for roles which would give state management more discretion in assigning salaries.
The options, to be presented to Gov. Robert Bennett for a recommendation to the 1978 legislature, were developed by the state board of taxation in Chicago-based private consultant, Carl Lutz.
European terrorists vow revenge
By United Press International
In both Italy and Turkey, leftists stepped
in their campaign of violence on German
proponents.
Italian radicals said yesterday a "suicide commando" would kill the West German ambassador within the next 200 hours to revenge the prison deaths of three guerrillas. A bomb blast shattered a Paris union hall in the first right-wing terrorist counterattack that French police fear could start an extremist war.
It was the second death threat against Arnold in five days.
"As regards ( Ambassador Harns) Armland, we confirm that within the next 200 hours he will be executed by a suicide command," he said. The Italian news agency ANSA in Milan
In another development, French police
seeking the killers of West German industrialist Hans-Martin Schleier they have found a witness who might have run into sympathizers of the terrorist Red Army Faction in a remote region of the Jura mountain range.
POLICE SAID the witness identifies several young Germans he met in a chalet at Moirans-en-Montagne in the heart of a pine forest, from photographs of wanted terrorists. An autopsy of Schleyer's bodyaled pine needles in his clothes and hair.
The Paris explosion smashed the offices of the left-wing French Magistrates Trade Union only minutes before the arrival of emplores.
"We are witnessing the emergence of rightful counterterrorism, a police officer who was mistakenly killed."
Child porn bill approved
WASHINGTON (UPI)—The House yesterday unanimously to make it a federal offense to use children under 16 in public lands. It has imposed state laws for immoral purposes.
It was the second time the House voted to make it a crime to use children in pornographic movies. Backers of the bill, which unintentionally backed the bill, this one would prove constitutional.
Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., manager of the bill, said it was better to limit its coverage to producers of child pornography and not include distributors of films, books and other materials depicting acts of sexually explicit conduct.
The measure was passed 423-0 and sent to a conference committee with the Senate, which already has approved a bill that would provide for prosecution of distributors of the films as well as producers.
Conyers said this would protect the measure from the possibility of being ruled unconstitutional because of First Amendment freedom of speech rights.
ALTHOUGH SUCH instructions are not binding on conferences, it appeared that the heavy vote would force House conferees to use a language if a compromise is to be reached.
The House measure, like the Senate bill, also would revise the Mann Act to make it illegal to transport boys across state lines or prostitution. The act now covers only girls.
Some House members felt that the Senate provision would make the entire bill unconstitutional, but the House voted 338 to 54 to approve it and accept the Senate position on the issue.
The earlier House-passed measure to
"We need a strong prosecutable law to protect children." Conyers said.
encute producers and distributors was part of the geography section added to a child abuse program.
REP. HAROLD VOLKMER, D-Mo., said this committee shall insist on a constitutional musical
Rep. John Ashbrook, R-Oho, said the bill would be ineffective without inclusion of distributors, and Rep. Robert Dorman, R-Calif., said "distributors of this type of garbage know exactly what they are carrying in their trucks as much as illegal drug peddlers or distributors of gut-rotting whiskey."
In Rome, two firebombs shattered the window of a West German car showroom, and anonymous phone callers threatened to kill the West German ambassador and warned German diplomats and their families to leave the country.
The House bill would provide maximum penalties of a $10,000 fee, 10 years in prison,
Both the House and Senate bills define explicit sexual conduct as sexual intercourse of any form between members of different or the same sex; bestiality; incest; the use of a female's penis in the purpose of sexual stimulation and lewd exhibitions of the genitales or public areas.
TWO GERMAN schools shut down to guard against possible attacks on students.
Eighty-one prospective jurors were called for the trial. Goldstein faces charges of mailing obscene materials, Screw and Smut magazines, into Kansas. The list of prospective jurors was cut to 42 before U.S. judges approved Frank Trees this recession court until tomorrow.
Conviction in Goldstein's first trial was overturned and seven depleys were granted for the second trial because of his physical weakness. The court granted him a delay in July but the court granted him a delay after a psychiatrist at the University of Kansas Medical Center testified the defendant's mental and physical health would not allow him to withstand a long jury.
WOMEN'S SHOES
"This is a precaution although I cannot insult children being attacked," the infant said.
KANSAS CITY, Ram.-Jun. selection began yesterday in the obscurity trial of Screw Magazine publisher Al Goldstein, whose first trial was delayed when his mental and physical condition prompted him to try to plead guilty.
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They were sentenced to life prison terms, but President Jimmy Carter recently commuted the sentence of one of the gunmen.
U. S. attorneys obtained an injunction ordering the demonstrators to leave the
Goldstein arrived late Monday apparently saying he was read to fight the charges.
THE 30 UNARMED demonstrators said they represented the Suppliers of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and demanded that the U.S. provide a reference to the four Puerto Ricans who shot up the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954, wounding five congressmen, and a fifth who took part in an assassination attack on President Harry Truman at Blair House in 1962.
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U. S. Atty. Robert Fiske said the demonstrators would be arraigned in U.S. District Court in Manhattan this morning on charges of trespassing on federal property. He said they would be held overnight at the U.S. detention facility in Lower Manhattan after being taken in boats from Liberty Island.
NEW YORK (UPI)-Puerto Rican nationalists, demanding the release of imprisoned terrorists, took over the Staten Island prison and then were arrested by U.S. park police.
one ruerto Rican, who ousted hundreds of tourists and a movie crew from the famed statue on an island in New York harbor, were seeking freedom for terrorists serving life prison terms for attacks on the Capital Building in San Juan's Blair House residence in the 1980s.
About 35 U.S. park policemen peacefully removing about 30 demonstrators shortly before 5:30 p.m. (CDT), a spokesman for the police said.
Puerto Ricans occupy statue
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