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News Briefs From United Press International
Panel OKs passenger service cuts
WASHINGTON—The Senate Commerce Committee yesterday approved President Reagan's plan to kill most passenger train service next fall, which would leave the country the world's only major industrialized nation without a national passenger rail system.
The hill now goes to the Senate, which is expected to approve it. A fight may come in the House, however, where Amtrak's support is stronger.
By a 10-4 vote, the committee approved a $613 million budget for Amtrak,
just what Reagan had sought.
Amtrak has said it needed a minimum of $853 million to operate most or its system.
Amtrak said that for $613 million, it could operate only the heavily traveled Boston-Washington "Northeast Corridor" and provide labor protection payments for 11,000 workers or who would be laid off when the rest of the nation's passenger trains were dropped on Oct. 1.
Meanwhile, more than 15,000 workers rallied at the Capitol yesterday and launched a lobbying effort to stop Reagan's budget cut plan.
Pope's envoy. Irish official meet
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Pope John Paul II's personal envoy held urgent talks with government officials yesterday in his bid to halt hunger strikes by four IRA firebrands whose deaths could plunge Ulster into all-out civil war.
Sands, 27, has taken no food for 60 days and has been placed on a waterbed to ease his pain. He has twice received the last rites of the Roman Catholic
"I cannot imagine him changing his mind," Owen Carron, one of Sand's friends, said. "He will not come off his hunger strike until he gets his demands."
Sands has demanded improvements in prison conditions for Irish Republican Army prisoners.
Activist and former member of Parliament Bernadette Devlin McAllasley called upon the world to "blockade Britain" and boycott British ships in the war.
Some hope for the prisoners emerged in a one-hour meeting between Northern Secretary Humphrey Attkins and the Pope's representatives.
Lederer resigns from Congress
PHILADELPHIA-Rep. Raymond F. Lederer, D-Pa., the only congressman caught in the FBI's Abscense investigation to win re-election, resigned yesterday rather than risk a House of Representatives vote to expel him.
The resignation is effective May 5.
The House Ethics Committee voted 10-2 Tuesday to recommend that the full House expel Lederer, who was convicted Jan. 9 of promising to sponsor a private immigration bill for a phony Arab sheik in exchange for a $50,000 bribe.
James Bims, Ledere's attorney, read a statement from the three-term congressman that said he was resigning because he was faced with a choice between his two positions.
"This was a difficult decision for me, because I believe that the mandate the voters gave in my November is something that must be taken very seriously." Lederer's statement said. "On the other hand, these same voters right to a congressman who can devote his full energies to their service."
New setback confines Brady to bed
WASHINGTON-James Brady will be confined to bed for the next 16 to 14 days in hopes that a newly discovered air leak into his brain will heal without harm.
The White House press secretary, shot in the presidential assassination attempt March 30, was sitting up and sipped ice tea when he "leaked approximately four drops of fluid from his nose," said Dennis O'Leary, a spokesman for George Washington University Hospital.
A skull X-ray showed a slight increase of air in the brain, O'Leary said, and the duct could be confined to f Bradley to bed in hopes that the signal fluid leaked into the brain.
"We're in a position of watchful waiting," O'Leary said.
The "vast number" of patients with similar problems have healed by themselves without additional surgery, he said.
Follow-up X-rays show absorption of most of the intracranial air, O'Leary said, and there has been no further indication of a spinal fluid leak.
O'Leary said that during the second round of surgery, Arthur Kobrine, Brady's surgeon, had thought there might be a small leak at the brain's base but had not gone into the area for fear of damaging the healing process in the front of the brain.
Suit to test homosexual palimony
LOS ANGELES—Billie Jean King's former secretary, who claims she and the tennis star were once lovers, fitted suit Tuesday seeking ownership of a Malibu Beach home and lifetime support under terms of the California Supreme Court's landmark Marvin "palimony" decision.
Joel Ladin, the attorney for Marilyn Barnett, 33, said the suit would be a test case for homosexual palliation trials.
King, on a tennis tour in Orlando, Fla., issued a statement through her press agent terming Barnett's allegations "untrue and unfounded."
Barnett, now a paraplegic because of a fall, said she and King became intimate in late 1972, after which time they lived together in Malibu and in New York.
Barnett claimed she gave up her job as a hairdresser to become King's secretary, confidante, companion, cook, cleaning person and "all other things necessary so that King's energy could be totally directed toward playing tennis."
Yorkshire Ripper confesses guilt
LONDON—The accused Yorkshire Ripper confessed yesterday to killing
a man who was murdered in northernized northern England and touched off the biggest transnational in history.
On the opening day of his trial, truck driver Suscilel said he was not guilty of murder because he was not murdered. He entered a plea of guilty to a charge of manslaughter.
The uerdentant sat impassively in the glass-enclosed dock before the array of knives, screwdrivers and hammers that was allegedly used in the killings that touched off a manhunt involving more than 1,000 police and costing $8.8 million.
If found guilty of malaulage, Stutcliffe would be sent to a hospital for the criminally insane. A murder conviction would carry a life sentence.
The Yorkshire Ripper preyed on women in England's industrial north from October 1975 until November 1980. He was named by police after the legendary Jack the Ripper, who murdered six prostitutes in Victorian London and never was caught.
Correction
Police find stolen goods while looking for vandal
A headline in yesterday's Kansan inaccurately implied that a fight resulting in a stabbing Tuesday night occurred at the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St. The fight and the stabbing, as the story said, took place across the street at 1339 Ohio St.
By TIM SHARP Staff Reporter
Investigation of a vandalism report at the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., led to the arrest of a Lawrence woman suspected of possession of stolen property, Lawrence police said yesterday.
The police were called to the Hawk at about 4:30 a.m. to investigate a report of someone breaking windows at the bar.
Police said that when they arrived at the scene, a man fled into an apartment and ran away.
The tenants of the apartment gave police permission to search for the suspect, police said. During the search, the police entered a motion set with the serial number removed.
"That's against the law," Sgt. Mike Reeves said.
The officers examined other property in the apartment and found another television set and a bicycle without serial numbers.
property and is being held in the Douglas County jail.
Vickie Sue Scott, 19, 1339 Ohio St., was arrested for possession of stolen
Earlier that night, a lawrence man, Pat Williams, a budweiser distributor, was stabbed at 1339 Ohio St. after he and three other men from the Hawk tried to talk the tenants into stopping their assault of the Hawk's customers.
Williamsa was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital with a fracture of the lower leg.
The vandalism suspect was not toothed, arrests were made in connection with the case.
Police still are searching for the suspect.
Police said the vandalism and the stabbing were incidents in a series of recent confrontations between tenants house at 1359 Ohio St. and the Hawk.
After some complications and a long wait, KU's student radio station, KJHJ, boosted its power from 10 to 100 watts last Wednesday.
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The increase means that all of Douglas County and parts of Johnson and Shawnee counties are now able to receive KJHK's programming.
In recognition of the increase, KJH-KFM 91, is having an "open house" Tuesday. The studio will be open for tours between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., when members of the staff will be available to answer questions concerning the station. Refreshments will be served.
The bands, which will be performing free, are "The Glory Boys," "Lynch and McBee," "Nightshift," "Dumbrel," "Get Smart."
That afternoon at 2, KJHK will broadcast live from Potter's
Pavilion where there will be several Lawrence bands performing.
Beer will be served and there will be T-shirt and bumper sticker giveaways. The activities will be open to the public.
KJHK, located in the Sudier Annex at 1120 W. 11th St., has just filled some of its staff positions for the fall.
Dave Phillips, Overland Park sophomore, will be the new station manager. The operations manager will be Lisa Wertman, St. Louis sophomore, as the program director will be Rachael Firmer, Goldard sophomore.
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