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Thatcher's rejection spurs riots
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Anti-British rioting flared in London yesterday days after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rejected demands for political-prisoner status for hunger-striking IRA convict Bobby Sanda.
"Crime is crime is crime," Thatcher said at a news conference in Riyadh on the last day of a trip to Saudi Arabia.
Sands, 27, elected to the British Parliament earlier this month from his prison cell, was reported nearly blind and going deaf in the 32nd day of his release.
"There can be no possible concession on political status." Thatcher said in turning down an appeal from three lawmakers from the Irish Republic for his resignation.
Thatcher's tough position and word that Sands' condition was deteriorating were met by a seventh-straight day of rioting in Londonderry. Army tractors knocked down barricades erected across streets leading into the city's Catholic Bogside district.
Catholic youths hurled firebombs and bottles of acid in street battles with police and British troops.
Police said the number of rioters increased throughout the day until more than 500 people were involved in nightfall.
In Dublin, the National H-Block Committee, which supports Sands, attacked Thatcher's "arrogant dismissal" and urged Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey to sever diplomatic relations with Britain if it refused to discuss the hunger strike.
23-year-old is Atlanta's 25th victim
ATLANTA—A young, blight-built man who was suffocated before his body was dumped in the Chattahoochie River yesterday was officially convicted of robbing a pastor.
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Lee P. Brown, Atlanta public safety commissioner, said the death of Macy Gong (Fenghuang) in mentality "slow" was being listed as the latest in the 21-month-old string of murders of young blacks because it fit the pattern in the more than half of them.
The killings appear to be developing a new trend, in which young adults are the victims rather than children. The two victims before McIntosh were 18 and 24. They were victims of a massacre.
"We are going to classify this as asphyma due to some sort of suffocation," assistant Fulton County medical examiner John Feegel said after examining McIntosh's body. The same ruling has been handed down in 13 other cases.
Officials also announced the McIntosh autosys results yesterday
Feesel had he thought McIntosh's death was sexually motivated and would recommend the case be turned over to a special task force established by the state.
Although McIntosh was 23 years old, he was child-like in stature. He stood only 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighed about 100 pounds.
Police said McIntosh never was reported missing and had a long police record, including charges of armed robbery, drunkenness, theft, criminal trespass and a drug count. He last was seen alive by his family three weeks ago.
Agnew lawsuit begins in Maryland
ANNAPOLIS, Md.-Foner Vice President Spiro Agnew shared in kickbacks of between 3 and 5 percent from state road contracts while he was governor of Maryland, a co-defendant in a taxpayer lawsuit testified yesterday.
Jerome Wolff, the former State Roads Commission chairman, said Agnew, who was the executive director of payoffs, forcing another contractor to hire 50 percent more even if it cost him his 50 percent share.
The civil suit, filed by three Maryland taxpayers and the state, seeks repayment of the nearly $200,000 Agnew allegedly received.
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In her opening statement yesterday, Diana Motz, assistant attorney general, said Agrew's absence from the courtroom acted "as little more than a formal confession of guilt."
wour said ms 11-year friendship with Agnew "enged abruptly" after Wolff made statements to federal prosecutors in 1973 that led to Agnew's downfall. Wolff said he was approached by contractor I.H. Hammerman about a kickback scheme in 1987, when Agnew was governor.
Wolff, who will be excused from charges at the end of the case in exchange for his testimony, said his job was to name the engineers involved in state road projects. Hammerman then would approach them for payoffs. All of the firms he worked with agreed to accept, except for one of the larger firms, which paid only 1 percent, he said.
Reagan decision to anger Israelis
WASHINGTON—In a move sure to anger the Israelis, the administration said yesterday that President Reagan had decided to sell Saudi Arabia sophisticated radar planes capable of monitoring military air traffic over Israel.
Israel adamantly opposes the sale on grounds that the planes, which are capable of monitoring airstrikes in air space, could prevent a terrorist attack on AlAqsa Airports. The administration has accused the airlines of
The sale is necessary because of "the serious deterioration of security conditions in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region and the growing threat to our friends there from the Soviets and other pressures," acting White House press secretary Larry Speaks said.
Sen. Rudy Boschwitz, R-Minn, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East, said the safe first broached by the Carter administration was "a mistake" and predicted it would be vetoed in the Senate.
In an exchange of letters with Rep. Bill Green, R-N.Y., about the F-158, the State Department said the Saudi government had "assured us it will use the U.S.-supplied equipment only for defensive purposes," but acknowledged it could not guarantee absolutely it would not be used against Israel.
Saudis cut crude oil prices by $2
Saudi Arabia, OPEC's largest producer, has cut some crude oil prices by 50 barrel in the signal of increasing base price of $36 a barrel. Saudi Arabia intelligenz Inteligens sınıfı
Saudi Oil Minister Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yaniam, speaking on NBC's "Meet the Press" program Sunday, said his kingdom would keep its production at a record high 10.3 million barrels a day and not increase its prices until other OPEC members lowered their prices.
Safia Arabia, which lifted its output by 800,000 barrels a day after the war ran over brief time, 21 to provide extra war-relief supplies, has issued a request for aid.
"The Saudis are putting across a message that prices in the Persian Gulf ought to drop to $4 a burrito. Marshall Thomas, PWI pricing editor. "
Brady continues steady progress
WASHINGTON—White House press secretary James Brady is healing so well from a gunshot wound that he will be walking with a cane next week and may be back at the White House "within a few months," a spokesman said yesterday.
"His recovery is nothing short of a miracle," said Larry Speakes, acting White House press secretary. "He's a great guy."
The White House said doctors reported that Brady was continuing his "slow but steady neurologic improvement" from a gunshot wound to the head and that his reaction to drugs was "resolving satisfactorily." Both a rash and high temperature continue to diminish, the doctors said.
An earlier medical bulletin said Brady was "probably angry" as he now fully realizes the gravity of his wounds.
Brady broke out in a body rash during the weekend, and his temperature rose, but by Monday the thermometer reading was only slightly above normal and his condition was described as "satisfactory," doctors said.
TOPEKA—The Theoka chapter of the National Organization for Women plans to counter a demonstration Friday by a national Moral Majority leader on the Capitol steps with a march of its own across the street.
NOW plans Falwell protest
The Rev. Jerry Falwell has scheduled several "I Love America" rallies to address education of children, pornography, homosexuality, abortion, sex and television violence. The rally is scheduled for Jan. 1 on the south steps of the Statehouse.
Police are still looking for the man who killed two people in the emergency room of the University of Texas Medical Center one month ago.
"We plan a very peaceable gathering separate from Fallwell's rally, and we will carry signs and walk around and let people know that we're not against God and country," said Tanya Hoyen, Topea NOW chairman.
The local NOW chapter has notified the city that it plans to march from 10:30 a.m. to noon Friday across the street.
Police still seeking gunman
Earlier, KU police L. Gerald Darner said the 11 officers in custody's backpackings were still following loads and "nothing that looked promising."
Dave Johnson, the Kannas Bureau of Investigation agent in charge, would not comment on the investigation yesterday.
Last week, the Kansan learned that investigators were searching throughout Eastern Kansas for an alleged kidnapping carried by witnesses as the killer's car.
50-mile radius of Kansas City, Darner said. There are more than 300 cars fitting that description.
While police continue their search for the killer, workmen are putting the finishing touches on security systems at the Med Center.
Darner said police had pursued about 200 leads but were now working on one of their last leads matching the car's description.
Police have been checking all 1971 and 1972 Chevrolet Novas within a
Jack Pearson, director of KU police at the Med Center, said that most of the outlets for a closed-monitoring system were in place.
The system will have 31 cameras when it is finished. Pearson said he was not sure when the system would be able to handle the real-time on whether Facilities Operations
workers had any problems laying cable for the cameras.
The Med Center has also installed a $100,000 Honeywell door-security system that sets off an alarm when any door connected to the system is opened. The system is now being tested, Pearson said.
And tight security continues in the emergency room. A KBI agent is stationed there 24 hours a day and is called to the emergency room is unlocked.
Immediately after the shootings, Gov. John Carlin assigned state troopers to provide extra protection for the emergency room.
The troopers left the Med Center three weeks ago, leaving Med Center security to KU police and the KBI.
State Supreme Court allows TV camera
TOPEKA-In a breakthrough decision, Chief Justice Alfred G. Schroeder is expected to announce that he will allow the trial will be allowed to a Kansas courtroom.
The justices have voted unanimously to change their regulations to allow experimental use of a TV camera and still cameras in the Supreme Court at the Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka, a source said yesterday.
At least 27 states now permit televised coverage of courts.
The first newspaper photographs and TV replays of the state Supreme Court
in action could begin as early as the court's May 4-8 hearings.
The decision, long sought by electronic media, is an outgrowth of the justices' decision in December to drop arrests of lawyers attending at the state Supreme Court level.
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said the justices still disagreed about the use of tape recorders and cameras at trial court
However, elimination of the ban on cameras and tape recorders at the Supreme Court level is viewed as useful to guard their possible use in lower courts.
To avoid disruptions during court proceedings, the source said, the Supreme Court likely will install one TV for all TV stations, and provide film footage for all TV stations.
Still cameras will be permitted, but photographers likely will be assigned to a specific area of the courtroom, and flash bulbs will be banned.
Until December, coverage of court proceedings had been limited to hand-written notes by news reporters. The use of cell phones and that coverage, especially for radio use,
The high court, which sets rules for court decorum for the state, had indicated last December that its decision on broadening coverage of courts to include cameras would depend on a Florida case before the U.S. Supreme Court that challenged the use of cameras in a courtroom.
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in that case, Chandler v. Florida, ruled that state courts have the authority to allow TV coverage of trials.
The widespread ban on radio, TV and photographic courtroom reporting usually is traced back to reactions after the sensational news coverage of the 1932 trial of Bruno Hauptmann for the kidnapping of the Lindberg baby.
School of Business Night
Thursday, April 23
7:00 p.m.
Freshman and Sophomores Room 3139
Learn about the Business School's changed:
- Admissions Requirements
- new course requirements for admission
- increased grade point average for admission
- Probation and Dismissal Policies
Juniors, Room 3140
Get a head start on resumes, interviewing, and job placement
- Guest Speaker
- Placement Information
- Interviewing Tips from Successful Seniors
- Career Literature Available
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