Page 2 University Daily Kansan, April 16, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Outrage directed at FBI remarks
ATLANTA—An FBI agent's offender remarks at a civic club meeting that Atlanta's 23 unsolved child offenders are nothing unusual and that "some of those kids were killed by their parents" sparked new howls of outrage from police officials yesterday.
"That's an irresponsible statement," snapped Atlanta public安全 commissioner L. P. Brown. "It's unprofessional, called for and won't be
Mike Twibell, the senior agent in the FBI's small office in Macon, south of Atlanta, apparently was trying to defend remarks made Monday night by Michael Lewis.
Twiell's crowning statement was that "no great crime wave in sweeping Atlanta. The same number of children who are missing this year have been murdered."
Webster had said the FBI had "substantially solved" several of the murders—each of them isolated and unrelated—but had failed to add that although investigators were confident they knew the killers, they did not have enough evidence to prosecute.
The FBI in Washington refused to say what, if anything, would be done about Twibell's comments.
President pardons ex-FBI officials
WASHINGTON — President Reagan yesterday pardoned W. Mark Felt and announced that of approving breaks during a 1970 hone run for radical anti-war fugitives.
It was the first use of Reagan's pardon power, and the president apparently granted the pardons without a formal request. Both men have said they were unaware of the action.
Felt, 67, the FBI's former No. 2 man, and Miller, 57, the former chief of its intelligence unit, were fined a total of $8,300 on the charges, which could have included up to 15 years in prison.
The two, Reagan said in a statement, served the FBI and the nation "with great distinction" during their careers.
"To punish them further," the statement continued, "would not serve the ends of justice."
Felt and Miller were convicted of conspiring to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens by authorizing government agents to break into homes secretly. The break-ins were conducted during a search for fugitive members of the radical Weather Underground.
The November verdict in the U.S. District Court in Washington was the first conviction of high FBI officials. Felt was fined $5,000 and Miller $3,500.
The two men were inducted along with former acting FB director L. D. Director Z. J. on charges they approved the break-ins, known as "black bat" jobs.
Boston's financial crisis intensifies
BOSTON—The city's fiscal crisis intensified yesterday as police and fire officers stepped up their attack on a planned 25 percent cut in essential services.
A court-appointed master was to deliver a report to a judge late yesterday and to warn factions in the government to find an additional $40 million loan from the bank.
Boston school department spokesmen have predicted that today would be the last day of classes for the city's 64,000 students unless the funds were appropriated. However, the Massachusetts state government has filed suit to force the schools to remain open until June.
Pulitzer Prize winner faked storv
WASHINGTON—The Washington Post said yesterday that Janet Cooke, a "talented and promising" young Post reporter, had admitted she faked her 1981 Pulitzer prize story about an 8-year-old heroin addict, returned the award and resigned from the paper.
Post executive editor Benjamin Bradley said Cook, 26, had admitted fabricating the story, "Jimmy's World," substituting a "compostable" child theme in the photo.
Mayor Kevin White and the City Council are caught in a political dispute that has stymied efforts to approve a $75 million bond issue to provide the facility.
Bradley said Cooke was declining the coveted journalism award for the best feature story of the year. A spokesman for the awards committee said Bradley "will be very proud of what he has done."
Post publisher Donald Graham said the newspaper was tipped off to the problem when it received two telephone calls saying Cook had not earned money.
It also was learned that Cooke's professional background as reported to Columbia University, which administers the annual awards, did not comprise all of Cooke's accomplishments.
Reagan reassures budget skeptics
In the story, Cooke said she saw a male friend of the child's mother administer heroin to the boy. The story said the names were changed, but there was considerable detail about the boy, his mother and his mother's male friends, including quotations.
WASHINGTON—The administration is negotiating with the leader of three Republican senators whose dissenting votes have derailed the president's budget, and a White House aide said yesterday chances of an agreement looked good.
Eduin Dewal, spokesman for budget director David Stockman, said President Reagan was moving to assume skeptical Senate Republicans that more spending cuts were coming that would bring the federal budget into focus. In 1984, a principal goal of both the White House and conservative Republicans.
Sen. James McClure, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said all the Republicans were now "on board" with the Reagan plan. He predicted the budget would get easy committee approval when the Senate returns from its Easter recess.
While agreeing with Reagan's economic goals, Armstrong said he could not agree with the large deficits projected in the budget because of White House spending cuts.
The House Budget Committee last week approved a Democratic budget request that would cover the state's 45% deficit with a projected Senate deficit twice that size in 1982 and $4 billion in 1984.
Lebanon rejects peacekeeping plan
BEIRUT, Lebanon—The Lebanese government yesterday rejected French and U.S. proposals for a U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon to halt the two weeks of fighting between Syrian troops and right-wing Christian militiamen.
In a rare display of unity among its Christian and Moslem Cabinet ministers, the government unanimously agreed to support the authority of President Elias Sarkis and to seek a settlement of the Syrian-Phalangist dispute through negotiations with the concerned parties.
Earlier, the Phalangist Party, which commands the largest armed Lebanese force in the nation, said it was willing to talk peace with the government. But he added that his party had not
A week-old cease-fire appeared to be holding despite scattered exchanges of artillery and machine-gun fire in Beirut and around Zable. There were no
A government spokesman said the Cabinet approved a plan aimed at restoring peace that called for consolidating the cease-fire, supporting the legitimate authority of President Barkis and intensifying contacts with the concerned parties, especially Syria, to bring about a solution to the crisis.
Astronauts describe voyage of Columbia
By United Press International
HUSTOST - Astronautes John W. Young and Robert Crippen yesterday began giving engineers and the next space shuttle crew a detailed report on the magnificent maiden flight of the orbital freighter Columbia.
Young and Crippen were given the morning off before meeting at the nearby Lanar and Planetary Science Institute for the start of an exhaustive eight or nine days of debriefing on the shuttle's performance.
Unlike previous Apollo missions, when it took days to get the crewmen back to their homes, the Columbia's pilots were home in Houston only hours after rolling to a stop in California's Mojave Desert.
AT EDWARDS AIR Force Base in California, a crew of more than 100 examined the Columbia inch by inch, continuing the week-long process of
preparing it for a piggyback return flight aboard a Boeing 747 to Cape Canaveral Fla. Tuesday.
Because the 54-hour mission that began Sunday and ended Tuesday was the first for the Columbia, engineers are interested in the performance of every system aboard the spacecraft, by far the most complex ever built.
It is expected to be ready for launch again in late September, which would make it the first spacecraft to flown more than once in orbit. The 104-ton Columbia is designed to make 100 trips up and back.
Spokesman Done Bane said the team was making a close check of the heat-resistant tiles, some of which came off during launch. A preliminary interview Tuesday showed no more were dislodged during flight or re-entry, however.
MEMBERS OF THE investigation
crew, said some of the tiles_wore
Former astronaut Deke Slayton, orbital flight test manager of the shuttle program, said that all the damage done to the tiles appeared to be
discolored by the heat of re-entry and
sand kicked up by the landing.
repairable, and, in his opinion, the Columbia would be good for the 100 missions for which it was designed.
Although the mission went unexpectedly well, there were a number of minor problems that occur on virtually every spaceflight.
Offices to be open Monday
KU faculty and staff will be the only people benefiting from Monday's break in classes, because it is not an official state holiday.
All University offices, museums and libraries will be open during regular hours Monday with the exception of the Spencer Museum of Art. Its galleries are not normally open on Monday.
Campus will be open to drive
through, but parking will be restricted as usual. There will be no "KU On Wheels" bus service. The Kansas Union will be open from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The KU bookstores also will be.
Watson Library and the Green Hall Law Library will be open during regular hours this weekend, but the Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall will be closed on Easter.
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