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Thursday, March 20, 1980
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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From the Kansas's Wire Services
Judge sends firefighters to jail
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sixteen striking firefighters were handcuffed and led to jail yesterday after Jackson County Circuit Judge Laurence Smith found them guilty of criminal contempt of court. Smith sentenced them to 20 days in jail and fined each $300.
In a show of unity with the 16 men, scores of other striking firemen surrendered to court officials later in the day for contempt hearings.
"If one of us goes to jail, we all go to jail. We want to serve our 20 days now. They want to be up there with their brothers in jail," said Robert Palmer, secretary-treasurer of Local 42 of the International Association of Fire Fighters.
"We expected them to go to jail. We expected everything except those dams and windmills," he said. "And we were supposed to handkill them if they were bigger than the palmer." Palmer said after the court session.
squathished 24 other firefighters who also had been accused of violating his court order prohibiting them from leaving their jobs.
The handcuffing of firefighters in the courtroom brought an angry reaction from officials of the striking union, who called for all city firefighters to come to the protest.
More than 200 firefighters filed into a jury room at the courthouse yesterday afternoon to hear their hearts set on criminal contempt charges.
The countenance claims were cased on a court order issued during a work station in late December and early January. The order prohibited union firefighters from using fire equipment.
Sting leads to 17 indictments
KANSAS CITY, Kan.-A Johnson County "sting" operation that led undercover officers last year to 213 stolen firearms has resulted in 17 federal
Federal prosecutors said the persons charged were simply trying to sell the contraband for profit.
compounded for ppt.
"There is a need of a broader conspiracy than that," James P. Buchel,
U.S. attorney for Kansas said yesterday.
The grand jury also indicted two other defendants on charges of stealing an interstate shipment and selling it to agents. The shipment was a tractor-trailer
Nine other persons were indicted on charges not related to the "sting" which shut down last October.
suit down last October.
Authorities said the 013 stolen firearms recovered include shotguns, rifles,
and a semi-automatic automatic rifle.
handguns, saaved off shotguns and a semi-automatic rifle. A spokesman said more federal indictments would be sought in the Kansas
A spokesman said more federal indictments would be sought in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
The operation also netted local police more than $2.27 million in stolen mercruiser and 64 arrests.
Court hears of hostage plight
The 50 U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran must spend at least two more months in captivity, since their fate is only a secondary issue facing the new Iranian Parliament, an Iranian diplomat who recently met with Ayatollah Rohabil Khomeini said yesterday.
The attention of Iranians appeared focused on parliamentary election returns yesterday, not on the hostages. But in the Netherlands the United States called the attention of the World Court to the plight of the imprisoned Americans, saying they are unable and calling for condemnation of Iran's alleged violator of international law.
Republican pressure mounted in the Senate, meanwhile, for the Carter administration to take new steps to pressure Iran.
march each prepared for the Senate, Sen. Richard Lager, R.-Indiana, said he feared the mighties might not be freed if the United States did not follow a law.
Lugar called for the U.S. government to prepare for a naval blockade and mining of Iran's harbors, and to detain all Iranian diplomats in the United States. Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker called Lugar's statement "appropriate."
Carlin vetoes spending lid bill
TOPEKA—Gov. John Carlin yesterday carried out his pledge to veto a bill
improving a sending limit on state government.
The veto was announced by the Democratic governor at a news conference in his office while four House GOP leaders tried to convince Kane that Carlin's
the four, House Speaker Wendell Dweld of Overland Park, Majority Leader Robert Frye of Liberal, Lawal and Means Chairman Mike Haden of Atwood, and Assessment and Taxation Chairman James Brades of Wakefield, held news conferences in Wichita, Pittsburg, Overland Park, Hays and Dodge City.
By the time the lawmakers returned, Carlin had vetoed the measure.
Word had leaked out about the purpose of the tour, which the GOP members had attempted to keep under wraps, and House Democrats retaliated with a
House Republicans were displeased that they were not informed of the plans of their leaders.
of their leaders.
These Republicans complained that they first learned from the GOP leadership plan from Democratic members of the House.
plant from Democracie members to the Thai courts for getting the house Democrats when arrangements were made there Tuesday for yesterday's news
The speaker said he was confident that Republican members would be satisfied when they received a full explanation at a caucus today.
Carlin's veto of the bill mulled伤 by a Senate committee to enable Republican leaders and Carlin. That plan was an attempt to save the bill from
House Republican leaders said they would introduce a new bill identical to the governor卡维丁veto, but with new compromise amendments that the governor added.
Primary voting rules clarified
TOPEAK-Kansas voters can vote in local elections April 1 without declaring party affiliation or casting votes in the state's first presidential preference
Secretary of State Jack Brier said yesterday that confusion had arisen around the state because some people thought they had to declare party affiliation or vote in the presidential primary in order to vote in local nonpartisan elections.
Voters who want to participate in the presidential balloting must declare a party affiliation. That will not be required of those who want to vote only on
Candidates in the presidential primary will be listed on separate ballots or on different sections of voting machines, Brier said.
Live elephant cast in bronze
OL. PEJETE RANCH Kenya—New York sculptor Mihail, trying to make art history as the first to cast a live animal in bronze, found a bull elephant in the bush yesterday, had him drugged and made a mold from the sedated pachyderm.
The artist wants to sell 10 giant bronzes for $250,000 each. The net proceeds, about $2 million, would be saved on conservation projects.
Kenyan game officials cooperated with Mihail in carrying out the mold operation.
After the elephant was sedated, he was pushed onto one side. A quick-setting powder and water were poured over the animal and numbered sections were placed in the water.
Midway through the process, the animal was rolled over onto his other side. Although the elephant appeared unhart afterwards, some Kenyan zoologists had warned that internal organs might be harmed by rolling the animal's great weight back and forth.
Weather...
Skies will be partly cloudy today with the high in the low-40s, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be northerly at 12:50 mph. The sky will clear tonight and the clouds will dissipate.
The high will be in the mid-60s tomorrow.
Sen. Kennedy vows to continue his campaign
CHICAGO (AP) -- President Carter crushed Sen. Edward Kennedy in Illinois Tuesday night with an astounding near-sweep of presidential nominating votes, and he narrowly defeated toward the Republican nomination without a foreseeable major obstacle.
Kennedy campaigned in New York and declared that the next contest was the one that would count most.
The Massachusetts Democrat said he would stay in the race even if it appeared mathematically impossible for him to win the nomination, "Oh. sure . . . mathematics, you know, is one of those great hopes that we have been to those convention's," he said.
But the accue in separate competition for delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention was even more startling: Carter 165. Kennedy 14.
CARTER BEAT Kennedy in the Illinois primary Tuesday with 65 percent of the popular vote to the senator's 30 percent.
Those were the contests in which Kennedy was forced to dove and in which the support of Chicago helped the old-line Democratic organization was supposed to boost the vote of the campaign. Kennedy's people
said the alliance with the embattled mayor hurt their candidate.
REAGAN WON HANDILY, with 48 percent of the Republican vote, defeating Illinois Rep. John Anderson and leaving him under Ambassador George Bush a poor third.
The Illinois ballot was complex and the count was slow in the competition for the state national convention delegates. With perimeter votes down by 10 percent yesterday, Reagan delegates had won 39 GOP convention seats, Anderson 26, Rep. Krill of Grane 4, Bush 2 and 21.
Nationally, Reagan had 209, Bush 71,
Anderson 37, Crane 4, with 33 uncommitted
or pledged to candidates who already have
out.
Illinois Republicans will choose another 10 delegates at their state convention. Delegates must show primary, and will select another 27 in the convention. The convention delegates are bound by party rules—but not state law—to show up for the primary shows in the primary vote for delegates.
Reagan said he wouldn't claim the nomination until he had 988 delegates.
The popular vote for presidential candidates did not bind delegates in Illinois, but it sent them a message. This was it:
Carter 378,455 or 65 percent; Kennedy 349,395 or 30 percent; California Gov. Gowd G. Brown Jr. 39,101 or 3 percent; Lyndon H. LaHouche 18,729 or 2 percent.
Democrat
Republican
Reagan 538,204 or 48 percent; Anderson
112,379 or 37 percent; Bush 122,699 or
11 percent; Crane 24,453 or 2 percent.
Awards promote book collections
Got a really new book collection at home that your friends are tired of hearing about. Want some recognition stack of ancient books in the attic?
If so, the 1980 Smyder Book Collecting Awards should interest you. The annual competition was begun 24 years ago by Elizabeth S渡 of Kansas City, Mo.
"She has sponsored the contest to encourage students to have as much fun as she had collecting books," said Nora KU special collections librarian.
Students must submit a bibliography of the collection and a short essay describing the purpose and work in preparation for publication that must comprise between 25 and 50 books.
First and second prizes are awarded in both graduate and undergraduate divisions. Gift certificates of $0 and the Oread B.-Jok Store are the prizes.
Quinlan said the judges based their decision on the work, imagination and knowledge involved in the collection.
One winning entry last year was a compilation of elementary school textbooks from the late 19th century. Another was a collection of history material from Germany since Bismark's time, imitating those that were purchased in Germany.
Entries should be turned in at the reception desk in Spencer Library by 5 p.m. April 14. Judging will be Friday, March 18. The collection will be exhibited in the library.
KU College Republica
A George Bush for President Rally
Friday, Mar. 21 10:15 a.m. Forum Room Kansas Union Special Guest Speaker: S. Congressman Jim Leach (R-Ia.)
GEORGE BUSH is a Republican running for President. He was a two-term Congressman from Texas, our Envoy to Peking prior to normalized relations with China, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Director of Central Intelligence.
GEORGE BUSH thinks it matters who leads this country into the 1980s. He's looking for concerned people who care about the direction this country is taking . . . people who still think there's a way to make things work in the 1980s.
Congressman Leach has been an associate and good friend of Ambassador Bush for many years and has firsthand knowledge of his leadership and qualifications.
FOR PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH.
"There is a difference"
This document was paid for and authorized by the George Bush For President Committee. A copy of our report is on file with the Federal Election Commission and available for purchase from the FEC, Washington, D.C. 20483.
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