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University Daily Kansan, March 30, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Haig: Soviet intervention possible
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Alexander Haig said yesterday that Soviet military intervention in Poland was "neither imminent nor inevitable" but that the Kremlin was engaged in "increased posturing" that could lead to intervention.
"We are watching the situation very, very carefully," he told television interviewers.
The secretary was interviewed on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press." He said there were no indications that Russian troops had moved into Poland.
Asked whether Americans should not welcome such a move in the hope it could lead to a dissolution of the Soviet empire, Haig said, "Any application of force could have unforeseen and most dangerous consequences. I know of no officials in this administration who could wish for it."
"Soviet intervention in Poland . . . varies hour by hour, as various postures are taken by the Soviet forces," Haig said. "Right now, they are at a heightened state of readiness, with increased posturing that could lead to intervention."
Asked whether there are any "good signs" emerging from Poland, Haig said, "Yes. There is some indication that the moderate elements in the political structure there seem to be surviving well and lending some hope they will prevail."
Hijackers spell out new demands
BANGKOK, Thailand—Heavily armed hijackers of an Indonesian jet shot and wounded two passengers made new demands today, and a police officer was killed.
As the orchestr at Bangkok's Don Muang airport entered its third day, 50 of which were attacked by gunmen. In particular, which the terrorists threatened to blow up in their demands was not met.
Thai officials said the hijackers-suspected to be Indonesian Modern extremists-made new demands calling for the "punishment of (Indonesian) vice president Adam Malik for taking kickbacks from a U.S. company" and the expulsion of all Jewish officials and Israeli militants from Indonesia."
The hijackers, armed with grelenes, dynamite and pistols, have already demanded that Indonesia release 64 political prisoners. President Sahar油arto of
Officials said American businessman Karl Schneider, 47, of Lubbock, Texas, who was shot by the nijackers during an escape attempt yesterday, was out of danger after doctors operated to remove bullets lodged near his spine.
The condition of an Indonesian crew member also shot by the hijackers was unknown.
Negotiators said the Indonesians were prepared to take a "harder line" with the hijackers if no country could be found to accept them. They said the deadliest way to do this was to move to Indonesia.
Polish leaders withdraw resignations
WARSAW—The crisis session of the Polish Communist Party Central Committee ended early today with a vote of confidence for the country's leadership. Resignations submitted during the stormy meeting were withdrawn.
The announcement by the official Polish news agency PAP after the 16-hour session—held during the country's worst crisis since last summer's labor unrest—indicated that the conflict between party moderates and hardliners had not been resolved.
The Central Committee also postponed a party congress that was scheduled for this month—a further sign that the country's leadership was unable to convene.
But the standoff mean that moderates led by party boss Stanislaw Kania, independent Solidarity union, have kept their fragile hold on the government.
How the Soviet Union would react to the session was uncertain.
Meeting against the background of a threatened nationwide general strike tomorrow and increased Western concern over feared Soviet intervention, the committee debate was marked by attacks on the Solidarity union and criticism of party policy.
11th body found in condo collapse
COCOA BEACH, Fla. — Rescue workers worked their way through chunks of concrete and twisted metal rods yesterday to unearth the body of the 11th construction worker killed in the collapse of a five-story condominium.
Darrell Nowakowski, 22, a window fitter, was the last worker definitely known to be in the Harbour. City condominiums when it crashed down on a building in New York City.
Rescue workers paused in their work and clustered around the southwest corner of the disaster scene when two paramedics carried out a blood-stained T-shirt and a battered tool box filled with stones and pieces of concrete.
Then a phalanx of white-heLMETED rescue workers carried the body wrapped in white sheets, to a temporary morgue in a nearby Army tent.
Inspectors from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration interviewed survivors and company officials and examined the construction firm's log book, which contains such information as when concrete floors were poured.
Mike Mervis, spokesman for the builder, Univel Inc., said the company would conduct its own investigation and would make a decision within a week.
"We certainly not going to rebuild right away, but it's a gorgeous site. My guess is something will be rebuilt," he said.
Demonstrators revive TMI issues
Thousands of protesters in Harrisburg, Pa. and other cities throughout the United States spent the weekend reviving their anti-nuclear cause and taking aim, in the words of Bella Abzug, at the "ultraright-wing and the Moral Majority."
The occasion was the second anniversary of the accident at Three Mile Lake when alerted people all over the world were risking nuclear energy and forcibly displaced.
"The real threat to security is the military complex, the ultra right-wing and the Moral Majority," said Abzug, a former Democratic congresswoman from New York, at a demonstration in Harrisburg.
Although the Harrisburg demonstration was the largest anti-nuclear rally in Pennsylvania, it was much smaller than the huge demonstrations in Washington and New York after the Three Mile Island accident March 28, 1979.
The demonstration had been billed as a major national event by the sponsoring labor unions, which financed and organized it after local environmental groups found themselves financially strapped.
Although it was advertised as an anti-nuclear rally, the protesters brought up a number of other concerns such as Reagan's budget cuts, the Salvador, and the government shutdown.
the 11 unions sponsoring the protest represent 20 percent of the unionized labor and were rebuled by pro-nuclear building and construction unions.
Priest says church not tied to left
SAN VALADOR, El Salvador—A leading Catholic clergyman yesterday denied churches that the church was partial to the left, saying it was a sign of anti-Semitism.
"The church is going to marry neither with the unified revolutionary directorate nor with any other group," the Rev. Robert Fornula said his bishop during a news conference on Friday.
*Standing in for San Salvador's acting archbishop, Arturo Rivera y Damas, orruella made the declaration in response to charges that the church is *partly* Christian.*
The unified revolutionary directorate represents the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a coalition of five leftist guerrilla groups and an organization that has been involved in many conflicts.
Torruella's statements reflect a growing tendency by church officials to move away from alignment either with the military-Christian democratic model or with the current Christian model.
City race heats up amid accusations
By PAM HOWARD Staff Reporter
Last Thursday night, after Mike Amxy withdrew his bid for a City Commission seat, the race turned from one of issues to a race of accusations.
Amny, who left the League of Women Voters' candidate forum without commenting further on his four-page resignation speech, said yesterday that the formation of what he considered a coalition between candidates Nancy Shontz and Tom Gleason had a part in his decision to leave the race.
In his resignation speech, Amyx said that he was withdrawing from the campaign because he was concerned about the direction it was taking. He charged that a coalition was forming and that candidates had been changing their positions to match different audiences.
HE SAID he feared that if Shontz and
Gleason were both elected they would not represent the city as a whole.
Amyx, however, said he was not sure what special interest groups both Shontz and Gleason represented.
City Commissioner Bob Schum, to whom Amyx threw his support, had no doubt whom Shontz and Gleason represented.
"I don't know," he said. "I'd really have to check on that."
"I would say that they probably represent the neighborhood groups and maybe not a very large percentage of those," Schumm said.
"I'm glad to have the support of the people in the older neighborhoods," she said. "I'm glad to have the support I've got from people in the new neighborhoods. I'm glad for the support I's getting from business people. Because I feel I'm representing all of their interests."
SHONTZ DENIED the accusation.
Shontz went on to explain why she thought the accusation was generated.
to have a terrible fear of the people who represent perhaps a quarter of the geographical area of the city and a third of the population as somehow controlling the whole community," she said. "In the past, these older neighborhoods have been ignored by the rest of the city and now the people living there are asking to have their problems corrected."
"They (the other candidates) seem
GLEASON ALSO denied representing any special interest in the campaign.
"I think they are trying to create some divisions and get people to choose one side or another when those are really false divisions," he said.
Gleason also had an explanation for the origin of the accusation.
"My suspicion is that people who are, or who have been, on the City Commission would just as soon not have their records examined too closely and to distract attention away from the examination of those records," he said.
COMMISSION CANDIDATE Nancy Hambleton said she was disturbed by the way some of the Shonitz and Gleason supporters had been campaigning.
"The thing that worries me is in some of the people who are involved in those campaigns have proceeded in a very negative manner in their dealing with the needs of the community," she said. "What we have are groups whose whole campaigns are against everything."
Hambleton said she thought the people working on Shontz and Gleason might be shaping the campaign more than the candidates themselves.
CITY COMMISSIONER Barkley Clark, who is running for re-election, was unavailable for comment yesterday.
"I think that's an important distinction because I don't know exactly how this has come about," she said.
Three city commissioners will be elected on April 7 from the remaining five candidates.
Protesters remember Three Mile Island date
By PENNICRABTREE Staff Reporter
One demonstrator, a resident of Harrisburg, Pa., an area near the
Staff Reporter
Anti-nuclear energy demonstrators marched through downtown Lawrence at noon Saturday to mark the second nuclear accident at Three Mile Island.
"We never hear the horror stories told by those families. The media doesn't want to cover it because people don't believe, they don't want to hear about it."
Nearly 25 people, many carrying anti-nuclear banners or wearing black armbands, marched silently from downtown down Massachusetts Street and back.
ACCORDING TO SMITH, the black armbands worn by the demonstrators were worn in sympathy "for those held captive" in a running danger at Three Mile Island."
"The Three Mile Island disaster demonstrates that we're dealing with a dangerous technology," Tolly Smith, a law enforcement official, said. "A Lawrence anti-nuclear group, said.
"There are a heck of a lot more people held hostage in the Three Mile Island area by radioactive waste than were held hostage in Iran," Smith said.
"We don't think that nuclear energy is the only way we can get electricity. Three Mile Island shows that putunium and neoble can不mix."
Three Mile Island nuclear plant, said the accident had taken a heavy psychological and physical toll on Harrisburg residents.
"People in Harrisburg are waiting to see what happens," Pat Sick, Harrisburg graduate student, said. "We feel helpless because we've been told to. We have nightmares, and people are becoming ill."
SLICK SAID Lawrence residents might soon experience the same apprehension when the Wolf Creek nuclear plant was completed.
"Lawrence may have to deal with being situated downwind of a nuclear power plant," Slick said. "Psychological and physical problems caused by a nuclear plant don't count with the government though. They aren't Big Business, they don't make money."
Demonstrators also expressed concern over Senate Bill 180, a bill that they said could allow rural electric cooperatives to buy into the Wolf Creek plant, exempt from regulation by the Kansas Corporation Commission.
A ruling by the KCC last year limited the amount the cooperative could spend for purchasing shares, in effect reducing the value of high construction costs of the plant.
Last week, the bill was amended to allow the cooperative to buy into Wolf Creek but to continue under regulation by the KCC. The bill is expected to come before the House in the next few weeks.
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By TIM SHARP Staff Reporter
The man who claimed to be the heir to the French's Mustard fortune was sentenced Friday in Douglas County District Court despite his request for mental treatment rather than imprisonment.
Douglas District Judge Ralph King sentenced Rodney R. Moinin, 32, to two concurrent 3-10-year counts on two terms of possession and to three consecutive 1-4-3-year terms for writing bad checks.
Moquin came to Lawrence last year claiming that he had inherited the fortune of R.T. French, of mustard fame.
He talked merchants in Douglas,
Franklin, and Osage counties out of
$25,000 worth of property. He told
merchants that he would have the
money as soon as he transferred funds to a Lawrence bank.
He received, on credit, a pickup truck, two trailers, horses, a television set and electronic equipment. All the property was recovered when Moquin was arrested in Texas in December for trying to set up a similar scam there.
Moquin must serve at least six years in prison before becoming eligible for parole, Douglas County District Attorney Mike Malone said. Moquin still faces similar charges in Franklin and Osage counties.
Moquin had requested mental treatment rather than incarceration. He claimed to suffer from psychological problems arising from the time he said he spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
The University of Kansas
School of Fine Arts
Presents
Mistislav Rostropovich
Cellist
8:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 2, 1981
Hoch Audium p.m.
This KU concert is one of only four solo appearances by Bost and the world this season.
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office. All seats re- Public and S8. Students with ID S5 and S4. Special ticket rates for patrons of the Concert and Chamber Music营 巡馆; call 913/864 3982
The Arts
"The world's greatest cellist and possibly the greatest who ever lived." New York Post.