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University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Another body found in Atlanta
ATLANTA—Rescue workers late yesterday pulled the decomposed body of a black male from the Chattahoochee River, just two miles from where the body of Atlanta's 21st alian child was found.
The body was discovered by a man in a cane who called police. Rescue teams from both Fulton and Douglas counties, whose borders share the river, searched the river by boat before recovering the body, which was "mudly decomped." Douglas County Sheriff's department officials said.
Douglas County Sheriff Earl Lee said the body was "very sparsely
clothed. I don'tknow if it's a T-shirt or underwear."
The body was taken immediately to the Douglas County morgue, but it was not known when an autopsy would be performed.
The mudcaked, nearly nude body of 13-year-old Timothy Hill was identified yesterday. Two Atlanta children are still missing. John Feegel, assistant Fulton County medical examiner, said after completion of an autopsy that the child was hypoxiated, "suffocated, if you will. You have a gentle apyxiation death."
Feegel said there was no mutilation nor any signs of sexual abuse on the body, but that this did not rule out a sexual motive in the death.
Hill disappeared March 13, but his name was never added to the list being handled by Atlanta's special police task force investigating the murders because authorities believed he was a runaway. He was the 21st child known to have died at the hands of killers who have left virtually no clues for police.
Thai government deposed in coup
BANGKOK, Thailand—The Prime Minister Gen. Prem Tinsulananda's one-year-old government was overthrown yesterday in a bloody pre-dawn military coup led by one of his most trusted aides, Radio Thailand announced.
Tanks, armored personnel and jeeps carrying armed troops took up positions across Bangkok, the capitals, with a heavy concentration around the area.
Reporter s said tanks were blocking all roads leading to Parliament, evidently to discourage lawmakers who might attempt to convene a session
Thai sources said Gen. Prem, 60, first took refuge in the royal palace and then fled to the air force base at Korat, which is 140 miles northeast of Bangkok.
The radio said the Prem administration had become "weak" and "was being taken over by certain dictatorial elements," thus necessitating the creation of a new government.
The Prem government faced a severe political crisis last month in the Thema population. The Prem forced his entire Cabinet's installation. A new Cabinet had just been formed.
Thai Army Deputy Chief Gen. Sant Chipatima, 59, took over Prem's positions as army commander in chief and prime minister, the radio said.
Sant had been one of Prem's most trusted aides. Some sources attributed yesterday's sudden move to political jealousy.
Radio Thailand called Gen. Sant the "leader of the Revolution Party" and said he had the situation under control.
UMW vetoes pact; strike goes on
WASHINGTON—Striking United Mine Workers Union members yesterday rejected a tentative contract with the bituminous (soft coal) industry, saying they are "strongly opposed."
Shortly after 9 p.m., UMW spokesman Eldon Calleen told reporters that with 656 of 757 local reports, the voting was going against ratification,
"It doesn't look as if it will pass." Callen said. UMW President Sam Church Jr. will be on the phone to industry officials for a resumption of talks.
The rejection was a major setback for Church, who spent five days stumping for the pact in an eight-state sway through the Appalachian coal
This ratification defeat could result in a lengthy strike by the 160,000 bituminous minerals, potentially eclipsing the 111-day record strike two times.
Utilities have built four-month stockpiles of coal in the event of a long walkout.
"I think the people who will be hurt the most are the people who voted against it," said Calen, noting that the entire nation faces hard economic
Called on the rank-and-file miners "were confused" over a number of issues and "there was a lack of people noticing out there."
no doubt carrier, president of Kentucky's District 30, said, "The membership just doesn't like it."
Solidarity postpones strike plans
GDANSK, Poland—The Solidarity labor union canceled a general strike threat yesterday and accepted a compromise accord with the Communist government during a stormy session in which militants branded Solidarity leader Lech Walesa a "sellout."
After a bitter debate peppered with accusations by both sides, Solidarity's 41-member national committee voted 22-4 with six abstentions to cancel strike plans. Nine members did not participate in the vote, which Solidarity sources called a triumph for "common sense."
Walesa then accused his detractors of representing "only their own opinions" rather than Solidarity's 10 million members.
Jan Ruleowski, the Bydgoszky Solidarity leader whose brutal beating by police on March 19 touched off the current labor crisis, said the union had filed a lawsuit against the company.
Although the government's concessions fell short of what the union demanded, the nation was visibly relieved that the strike had been postponed. With it subsided fears of civil strife and Soviet intervention that many believed would have followed a walkout by Solidarity's members.
Iraq gets military aid from Egypt
Sadat said he approved the Iraqi request for supplies as a token of gratitude for past military assistance extended by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
CAIRO, Egypt—President Anwar Sadat yesterday disclosed that Egypt was supplying Iraq with military hardware needed to fight its 6-month-old conflict with Iran, even though Cairo has condemned Baghdad as the aggressor.
Diplomats said the action could lead to improved relations between Egypt and the majority of Arab states that severed relations with Cairo after it signed a peace treaty with Israel, notably Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which have sided with Iran in its 191-dav fight with Iran.
Speaking to the Egyptian press syndicate, Sadat said "badly needed some ammunition, which we manufacture in Egypt, and asked for it"
Although Sadat did not identify the third party, the diplomats said it was Oman, one of the few Arab states that still maintains diplomatic relations with the United States.
"We told this third party that Iraq must approach us directly, so they sent a mission to Cairo, which selected the types of weapons they needed." Sadat
revealed. "They hadn't tried to get us into Syria. They wanted us to leave."
Sadat said the Egyptian move did not mean that he had retracted his past condemnation of Baghdad for starting the conflict.
Correction
In a story that appeared on Page 5 of yesterday's Kansan, Earl A. Nehring, political science department chairman was mistaken identified as a reporter.
All comments in the story attributed to Nehring were actually made by Claude Rowland, assistant professor of political science. The Kanan
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