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Threat to Reagan ends in arrest
NEW YORK—Secret Service agents arrested an unemployed landscaper yesterday for alleged threatening to assassinate President Reagan, with Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Sen. Jesse A. Helms, R-N.C., as his secondary targets.
The threat from Edward Richardson, 22, described by his family as a young man "who never got into any trouble," was contained in two letters, authorities said. One was found in his New Haven, Conn., hotel room and another was sent to actress Jodie Foster, the target of similar letters from John W. Hinckley Jr., charged in last week's assassination attempt against Reagan.
The bespectacled, sandy-haired suspect was arrested at a port authority terminal with a 32-chamber revolver in his possession as he got off a prison.
He was arraigned in U.S. District Court in New York on charges of threatening the life of the president, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, and was ordered held under $500,000 bond pending an April 17 hearing on a motion that he stand trial in Connecticut
A letter found in Richardson's hotel room read, "I depart now for Washington, D.C., to bring to completion Hinkley is reality. Ultimately," he wrote.
"If I cannot get at the president, I am prepared to slay some other prominent 'right-wing political figure', the letter said. It was signed, Mr. Blair said."
Panel rejects Reagan's budget plan
WASHINGTON—President Reagan's budget plan for massive spending and tax cuts suffered its first setback in House Budget Committee hearing on the budget bill.
The committee instead approved a Democratic alternative plan aimed at moving the government closer to a balanced budget, something Democrats fear.
The committee voted 17-13 against the administration's spending and tax totals. Rep. Phil Gramm, D-Texas, was the only Democrat who broke from the caucus.
The committee then voted by the same margin to tentatively accept a plan that Chairman James Jones, D-Doka, estimated would mean $4.3 billion less in spending. Jones' plan calls for a $38 billion tax cut rather than the $54 billion cut that the administration recommended.
Jones' plan calls for $13.5 billion in 1982 spending with a $4.24 billion detach, which is about half the size of Reagan's detict projection. Jones also offers a "business-as-usual" plan.
Haig finds resistance from Jordan
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Secretary of State Alexander Haig's plan to build a "strategic consensus" of friendly Middle East countries encountered resistance yesterday when the Jordanian government named Israel, rather than the Soviet Union, as the principal threat to area peace.
The differences between the American and Jordanian views of the world and the region became apparent as Haig left Amman after a 24-hour visit.
Although Haag said there was "an essential convergence of views," Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan al-Qaasen made no mention of the Soviet Union.
Haig's idea for "a strategic consensus," of loose grouping, was based on the idea that there should be a shared perception of the Soviet Union as a threat.
However, al-Qaasem, with Haij standing next to him, laid the blame for the lack of peace on "Israel's intransigent policies and daily confiscation of Israel."
American officials aboard Haig's plane tried to play down the differences, saying al-Qasem's denunciation was the standard formula for Jordanian air forces.
Walesa will work with government
WARSHA, Poland-Soviet-Warsaw Pact maneuvers in and around Poland ended abruptly yesterday, three weeks after they began, and Solidarity union leader Lech Wesla called for a halt to confrontation with the government except as a "final weapon."
The war games, which provoked Western fears of Soviet intervention in Poland, ended as Soviet President Leo N. Brezzev gave his qualified answer to the questions posed by Wikileaks.
Speaking to the Czech Communist Party Congress in Prague, Breznyk said Moscow believed that the Polish regime would "prove able in adequate conditions for the work of its people."
Brezhnye's remarks and the cessation of the maneuvers in Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union were seen as a second chance for the government in Warsaw to contain the challenge posed by Solidarity without help from the East Bloc.
Apparently aware that Poland might not have another opportunity to solve its own problems, Wales called for cooperation between his 10 million customers.
U. S. officials said the threat of Soviet invasion clearly had eased, but the United States remained uncertain of Soviet intentions.
Senate bill aids young, old women
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan coalition led by three male Republican senators yesterday introduced a comprehensive bill to provide economic education for all students.
Sponors stressed that the package of pension, job and tax reforms does not substitute for the Equal Rights Amendment, which appears doomed to fail.
"This should happen whether or not you have ERA," said Sen. David Duerbemberg, R-Minn. "ERA would not have changed the law. It would have required the state to act."
Among other provisions, the bill, also introduced in the House by 17 members, would:
- Lower from 25 to 21 the age at which workers can be included in a company pension plan.
- Increase the zero bracket amount on income tax forms for single heads of households from $2,300 to $3,400.
- Allow homemakers to establish individual retirement accounts.
- Sponsors said the bill did not require new spending. Although they said they had not figured out the tax consequences, one portion alone—increasing the exemption of property from estate taxes—could cost about $3 billion.
- Prohibit sex-based discrimination in insurance rates.
Drawing of Atlanta suspect shown
ATLANTA—Police released a composite drawing late yesterday of a black man with long hair and a thick mustache who a witness picked up Larry Rogers, the latest black youth to vanish in Atlanta.
Rogers, a retarded 21-year-old, vanished March 30, but was not reported missing to police until April 2. He was promptly added to the list of victims being handled by the special police task force, bringing it to 22 murdered children and three missing.
Rogers was last seen by a friend March 30 when he reportedly entered a green station wagon driven by a black man with a "thick, false-looking mustache." Based on a description given to them by Rogers' friend, police made a composite drawing of the man driving the car.
Although Rogers has not been seen by anyone who knows him since March 30, missing persons investigator J.D. Sorrells said that two young witnesses picked out Rogers' picture from a "photographic lineup" at police headquarters as the man they had seen playing basketball in a park Sunday.
Sorrells said police were pursuing the report even though reports from witnesses who claimed to have seen Rogers at the park proved to be wrong.
The two others listed by the task force as missing are Joseph Bell, 15, who disappeared March 2, and Darron Glass, 10, who was last seen at his foster mother's home last Sept. 14.
Students claim pills improve intelligence
Staff Reporter
People pop pills for headaches, birth control and weight reduction. Now the market is peddling pills for intelligence.
By KARIELLIOTT
Two California college students have developed a combination of vitamins and nutrients that they say will improve memory and alertness.
"There has been substantial research in the field of intelligence increase," John Winter, of Phantom Research in Durate, Cliff, said yesterday. "We have tried to teach through taking certain vitamins and amniotic acids and seeing how they affected us."
Winter and his partner, Daniel Tocher, produced Recall, a product consisting of hormones, vitamins and amino acids.
"A person can get the ingredients from a chemical warehouse," Winter said. "But for convenience, we put them in a liquid or very substance in Recall was tested."
RECALL IS A vitamin supplement that is tailored to Phantom Research's specific formula, he said.
Phantom Research distributes Recall, but the product is manufactured by a vitamin company, the Phantom, which Winter said was confidential.
"If you eat right, there is no need to take a supplement," Winter said. "But many college students don't eat right."
Winter said the manufacturing company used by Phantom Research met all Food and Drug Administration requirements.
The FDA requires that all drugs be
registered and meet certain specified labeling requirements. Indications for use and dosage must be on the drug's label.
Winter and Tober began selling Recall about a month ago through mail orders. The cost is $10 for a bottle of 100 tablets.
"We've only sold Recall through the mail, but eventually we would like to call in it health food stores," he said. "We've received more telephone calls than anticipated. The interest seems to be out there."
Winter said it was too early to tell how successful sales were.
HOWEVER, THE EFFECTIVENESS of a vitamin supplement in memory improvement is debatable, according to Ron Dechant, a University of Kansas Medical Center Drug Information Center staff member.
"Without sufficient clinical trials to substantiate the claims, I would hesitate to believe them," Dechant said.
Gerald Vince, compliance branch director of the Kansas City, Mo. Food and Drug Administration office, agreed that the product needed to be tested.
"Without controlled tests, I would question the product's effectiveness," Vince said.
Winter said he was sure that Recall worked.
The University of Kansas has almost doubled its computer-related courses this academic year, and its instructional, administrative, research and public computer usage has doubled.
By BOB MOEN
Staff Reporter
"I't just incredible," Paul J. Wolfe, coordinator of the KU Academic Computer Center, said yesterday.
More computer uses bring more problems
The number of KU instructional courses requiring a student to put in computer time has grown from 746 last year to 1,273 this year, which is more than all other Regents schools combined.
A total of 17,475 KU students will use the computers this year.
OVER THE PAST four years the growth of timesharing, the access system to the computer center has increased an average of 60 percent every year. This year, there will be more than 423,000 timesharing sessions. That number is expected to balloon to about 700,000 next year.
"We're having difficulty keeping up with it (changes)."he said.
So far, the Computer Center has been handling the increased load, Wolfe said. But on top of that load is a constantly changing world of computers and computer technology
The growth is expected to continue as more schools and faculty use the computers for research and teaching.
William R. Blue, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, said he started using the Web to write essays ago for research and teaching.
ONE OF HIS research projects is a Spanish textbook that is a concordance of a series of plays.
HE SAID THE department required that students learn to use computers because psychology and statistics and experimental design.
Psychology professor Charles E. Hallenbeck, who is blind, said he had used the computers after he took an online class in computer concepts in 1968.
Also, Hallenbeck said he was perfecting a small-micro-computer that would produce speech for the deaf and blind themselves and is enlarging its vocabulary.
The Schools of Business and Engineering, the computer science department and the physical sciences also frequently use computers.
Problems resulting from growing computer use are:
- Demand for on-line disk memory space is increasing at a rate of 40 to 50 percent a year as computer card usae droses.
- The number of simultaneous users is expected to top 200 next fall and reach almost 300 in the fall of 1982.
- Batch usage is increasing at the rate of 15 to 20 percent because of new applications and statistical packages.
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