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Universitv Dalv Kansan, April 21, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Busing ends in LA school district
LOS ANGELES - Mandatory busing ended in the nation's second largest school district yesterday, and 7,000 children walked back to their neighborhood.
Hours after classes began, the state Supreme Court denied an American Civil Liberties Union petition to hear a hearing in the case, which ordered that the University of Maryland be ordered to pay
The ACJU contended the school board had discriminated against minority students by ending mandatory busing without substituting another
The author of the state constitutional amendment that outlawed most mandatory busing programs in California announced he would sponsor legislation allocating funds once spent for mandatory busing to finance a voluntary deseration plan.
State Sen. Alan Robbins, D-Los Angeles, said that nearly three years of court-ordered mandating busing had left the sprawling district with more segregated schools. He said a voluntary program would do more to integrate the system
Under the mandatory busing plan just ended, 23,000 of the 529,000 city school children were bused daily to nine junior high schools and 144 elementary
Beagan recruits Ford as lobbyist
WASHINGTON—President Reagan campaigned behind the scenes for his economic program yesterday, telephoning congressmen during Easter recess and enlisting former President Gerald Ford as a lobbyist for the plan.
The president, still secluded in the family quarters of the White House, worked to make up for the time and momentum lost three weeks ago in his battle with cancer.
He seized the opportunity of the congressional recess to telephone a bipartisan group of lawmakers and lend his voice to what his lieutenants insist is a rising chorus of constituent support for the Reagan plan of cutting both taxes and gondling.
Deputy White House press secretary Larry Speakes said the telephone calls so far had "encouraged" the president about his program's chances.
"We're very optimistic about our chances of turning the vote around in the Senate Budget Committees," said Speakers. "We're confident the Reagan budget will work."
The budget committee rejected Reagan's spending cuts three weeks ago. All the behind-the-scenes maneuvering prompted another round of questions about the president's condition and his return to the public eye. Speaks said that decision was Reagan's alone.
"We're not pushing him," Speakes said. "The doctors aren't pushing him." He'll be his own judge. If he wants to come out of (of the family quarters), he'll
Team to investigate mine explosion
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. —A team of federal investigators assembled yesterday to begin looking for the cause of a coal mine explosion that
John Barton, district manager of the Labor Department's Coal Mine Health and Safety Division, said an exhaustive investigation into the Dutch mine collapse was underway.
Officials said a pocket of methane gas exploded 7,200 feet inside the sloping tunnel last Wednesday. Mid-Continent Resources Inc. operates the mine near the small town of Redstone.
The team of investigators, headed by Robert Elam of the Coal Mine Health and Safety Division's national headquarters in Arlington, Va., will look into issues related to their work.
Barton said the team would organize and plan its investigation and probably would enter the mine tomorrow for the first time. The team will gather evidence and interview company, miners' union and state officials for seven to 10 days.
The experts will assemble the evidence and statements and make a report on the disaster in about two months, he said.
The mine will be closed during the investigation. The team will decide if and when the mine can be repaired. Berton said.
Black vouchs riot again in London
LONDON-Hundreds of black youths rampaged through London yesterday, attacking shops, buses, police and pass-by. Officials said 27 bystanders and eight police officers were injured and 70 youths were arrested.
"The police were kicked and battered," said pub manager Francis Joyce who witnessed the attacks. "They were kicked like sacks along the road."
Police moved in with riot shields and nightclubs to disperse some 500 black youths at North London's Finsbury Park, eight miles from Brixton, the city where a police station was set.
A police spokesman said 27 passers-by were injured by black youths throwing paving stones and rocks.
Police arrested 54 youths at Finsbury Park and another 16 in clashes at fairgrounds on Ealing Common and Wanstead Flats.
"Police have been keeping a very low profile on an otherwise quiet weekend," said a police spokesman. "Bearing in mind the events of last
The trouble began as the fairground was closing when about 500 black girls walked in, shouting and barking and began hurling loose paving stones at passers-by, the spokesman said.
Shops, buses and cars were damaged and a police car was set on fire, he said.
Coal leaders denounce latest offer
"They (BOAO leaders) supported the rejection of the proposals. The next step is up to Mr. Church." Brown said, referring to United Mine Workers organization.
After the meeting, B.R. Brown, chief COA negotiator and president of Pittsburgh-based Consolidation Co., said the committee "agreed that the committee will be in place as soon as possible."
Leaders of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association met yesterday to review the status of contract talks in the 25-day-old miners' strike and to discuss the impact on coal supply.
Aked if he was worried about independent coal firms that might bargain separately with the 180,000-member union. Brown said, "That's no problem."
A union official said three independent Ohio firms wanted to bargain separately from the BCOA.
The meeting came as more independent coal operators joined the list of companies considering separate talks with UMW to end the walkout.
Tony Bumbico of UMW District 7 said, "I think it's evident that a number of companies are upset with the way Brown and Consol are handling the
Nuclear leakage revealed in Japan
TOKYO—the Japanese government revealed yesterday that a potentially hazardous leak of tons of *ri-joactive* waste from a nuclear power station in Japan caused an explosion.
“This should never happen again,” an embarrassed Rokusei Tanaka, Cabinet minister in charge of nuclear power facilities, said in a report to
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry ordered an immediate safety check on all 22 nuclear power stations after the discovery that operators of the Tsuruga plant failed to report a leak of radioactive wastes, the second cover-up this year at the 11-year-old plant.
His Minibryn said the Japan Atomic Power Co., which operates the plant, admitted radioactive waste spilled from a sludge storage tank inside the nuclear waste disposal unit adjacent to the plant, which is equipped with a MPP-1840-1Apex器 produced by American manufacturer General Electric Co.
Officials have yet to determine the exact volume of radioactive waste leaked, but sources close to the official investigators estimated the amount to be at least 45 tone.
Atlanta's 25th black victim found in river
ATLANTA-A"body of a young black was found yesterday in the Chattahoochee River and police said they would assume it was the 25th victim of Atlanta's child killers "until we know different."
By United Press International
Fulton County Police Chief Clinton Chafin said the body was found on a sand bar between points on the river and two other bodies were discovered.
The body, unlike any of the previous victims, was entirely nude, Chafin said. All the more recent victims have been stripped to underwear.
The size and condition of the body ruled out any chance that it was the corpse of Daron Glass, 10, now the only child listed as missing by the special task force handling the killings. Glass vanished seven months ago.
The body was so decomposed, he said, that "we can't be positive whether it's a male or female, but we think it's more likely that it might be that of a person 15 or older.
THE BODY was found upriver from the spot where the body of Timothy Hill, 13, was discovered March 30, and downriver from the spot where the body of Eddie Lamar "Bubba" Rogers. A 21-year-old retarded boy.
The body was discovered by Jimmy Brown, whose family runs the Brown's Lake Trout Farm in the area. He was cleaning a nearby field when he noticed
a foul odor from the river and went through the underbrush to investigate.
AN AUTOPSY SHOWED that Joseph Bell, 15, whose body was found in the South River Sunday, seven weeks after he vanished, probably was smothered. Joe Burton, DeKalb County medical examiner, described the cause of death as "suffocation or a combination of suffocation and smothering."
Burton said there was no sign of "ligature strangulation," such as would be the case with a rope. But he said the rope was too decomposed for him to be certain.
Earlier yesterday, authorities reported that the 24th victim was asphyxiated.
Officers of the task force rushed to the scene, a remote rural area south of Atlanta.
Burton said Bell apparently had been in the river since shortly after his disappearance and that he was in possession of sexual abuse. The youngster was clad only in undershirts.
There were at least two other similarities noted in the Bell death. As in most of the cases, there was little or no indication of a struggle. Two other victims also were found in or near the third victim. Three other victims were found in another suburban Atlanta river, the Chattahoochee.
when found, as were the corpses of five other victims in the baffling case.
homicides may be stripping the victims and dumping them in a river as an additional safeguard against detection.
Investigators close to the task force probe have speculated that the killer or killers responsible for most of the
THEAT PATTERN apparently began materializing in January, after reports that police had found fibrous material inside evidence with some of the victim's bodies.
He said the autopsy did reveal something of what the youth ate before he died, declined to elaborate but said it is the way he was helped in tracing the boy's last steps.[14]
U.S. Navy takes blame for submarine collision
By United Press International
Winn, who reportedly refused to
Rep. Larry Winn Jr., R-Kan, was arrested by a Highway Patrol trooper late last night and booked into the Douglas County Jail.
Winn arrested. booked
Winn, who had made several speaking engagements in Lawrence earlier in the day, was reportedly outside the city and on his way to Kansas City when he was stopped by patrolman Clifford White and taken to the Douglas County Judicial-Law Enforcement Center.
However, Sehriff Rex Johnson and the head of the Highway Patrol, Col. David Hornbaker, refused to talk about the arrest.
Winn was booked into the county jail, but it was not immediately known under what charges, a police officer said.
WASHINGTON—The Navy yesterday accepted responsibility for the collision earlier this month of one of its nuclear submarines and a Japanese freighter and said it expected to pay about $4.2 million in damages.
take a blood test, was asked to submit to a breath test to determine alcoholic content. It was not immediately known if he agreed to that request. He remained in jail shortly before midnight.
Navy Secretary John Lehman Jr., in a two-paragraph announcement, said liability for the collision was accepted to avoid lengthy court battles and to permit the prompt start of negotiations with all involved parties.
The surfacing submarine USS George Washington and the freighter Nissho Maru collared April 9 in the East China Sea, after the tank, sink, and two of its crewmen were killed.
The Navy did not address that charge yesterday, but said the admission of responsibility "is limited to liability for
The Navy said its decision was not the result of pressure from the White House.
The collision caused an uproar in Japan because of charges the submarine left the scene without picking up survivors and U.S. authorities failed to immediately notify Tokyo of the incident.
the collision. Any negotiated set-
would address only actual damages
Lehman's statement said the decision did not mean the commander of the submarine, Cmdr. Robert Woehl, 41, or crew the crew were responsible for the collision.
The legal basis for the decision to accept liability is a 1974 federal court ruling involving a surfacing nuclear submarine and a merchant vessel. The court ruled a submarine operating vessel must "give way" to a surface ship.
The Navy accepted responsibility in 1978 when one of its submarines operating at periscope depth, the USS Dace, collided with a Greek merchant vessel in the Mediterranean Sea. The George Washington was at periscope depth when it hit the Japanese freighter. Navy officials said.
Japanese attorneys advised the Navy they estimated total damages for the loss of the freighter, its 1,200 tons of raw cotton and claims for the deaths of two crew members and survivors would total $4.2 million.
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