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University Daily Kansan, February 23, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Auto workers revolt against taxes
FLINT, Mich. — Thousands of auto workers are refusing to file income tax and are falsifying withholding forms in a revolt that has stymied the government.
Leonard Nawrocki, IRS manager of criminal investigations in Flint, described the revolt as a grassroots movement that has spread from Flint to Detroit. He said at least 3,500 protesters, mostly General Motors Corp. employees and many white-collar workers, are involved.
The protesters argue that income taxes violate citizens' rights in several ways. In particular, they say, the taxes force people to report their income, and they say that income taxes undermine their rights.
The IRS is threatening legal action but Nawrocki said the large number would make prosecutions difficult.
Most protesters directed their employers to stop deducting city, state and federal income taxes from their paychecks. The IRS learned of the movement when employers reported workers were changing their filing status.
Some filed federal withholding forms normally used by low-income workers. Others claimed so many dependents that no tax was withheld.
Suicide victim not Atlanta murderer
ATLANTA--Authorities still are searching for a witness they want to question in the cases of 20 murdered and missing children, after apparently receiving a report of their shooting.
A police composite drawing of the witness being sought—a white man with straight, scruggly hair and a mustache—was published Saturday in Atlanta magazine.
But later, officials in suburban DebKalb County said Bartletto was not the first victim of death of 11-year-old Patrick Battalzer, the latest child to be found dead.
DeKalb County homicide detective R.E. Kane said, "We're still looking for the guy in the composite drawing."
The bodies of 18 black children have been found during the last 19 months, and two other youngsters, 13-year-old Curtis Walker and 10-year-old Darron Glass, are missing. Walker disappeared from his low-income neighborhood when she was added to the grim list Friday. Glass hasn't been seen since September.
Munich bombing believed political
MUNICH, West Germany—Police said yesterday that they suspected political extremists were responsible for a powerful bomb blast that ripped through the Munich offices of Radio Free Europe, America's voice to the Soviet bloc.
Eight people were injured, three seriously, when the bomb blew a large hole in the basement of RFE's concrete headquarters Saturday night, badly
damaging the Czech newsroom and causing an estimated $2 million damage. Hundreds of windows and all the telephones in the building were knocked out by the blast
One woman was quoted as saying she saw three masked men fleeing the scene, and investigators said the blast "must have political motives, but we know the truth."
They said it would be easy for the bombers to escape, because the unguarded building is in an isolated corner of Munich's Englishster Garten
No threats were received before the blast, and no one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
El Salvadoran massacre revealed
LONDON-Almost 300 peasants in El Salvador were massacred by Honduran and El Salvador troops in a border "cleansing operation," which the two governments deny took place, the Sunday Times reported yesterday.
It reported that troops gathered peasants from Las Aradas last May 14 and machine gunned them down, while soldiers from both countries shot others fleeing "in flocks" across the Sumalp River, which marks the border between northern El Salvador and Honduras.
The Sunday Times said the U.S. Embassy in Tequigalpa, the Honduran capital, first denied there was evidence to support claims of a massacre but later acknowledged it did.
Quoting a personal account from the Rev. Earl Gallagher, a New York attorney, in 1928, the paper said the banks of the river were with thick buoys eating corpses.
President Reagan said yesterday that he was "very concerned" about political instability in El Salvador and communist military aid to the Central Republic.
The president confirmed recent remarks by Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who said the United States had established contingency plans to stem the flow of weapons from communist sources into El Salvador.
Turkey frees 4 jailed Americans
NEW YORK—Four Americans, jailed for more than eight years in Turkey or an smuggling hail, arrived in the United States yesterday and were taken to New York.
The Americans, originally given life sentences that were reduced to 24 years, were released under an agreement between the United States and Turkey that allows them to serve the rest of their sentences in American prisons. They were expected, however, to be paroled on arrival home.
The four arrived at Kennedy International Airport yesterday afternoon. They avoided reporters and were whisked into a grey air and driven away when the plane was taxiing.
The four were sentenced in 1973 after being caught Dec. 14, 1972, on the border with Syrian and charged with trying amugrate 650 pounds of hashish in
Pope met by calm crowd in Guam
AGANA, Guam—Pope John Paul II arrived in Guam yesterday to the most subdued welcome of his globe-trotting papacy and called on the people of the U.S. protectorate to share with the world their 300 years of Christian faith.
The 18-hour tour of the strategically located Pacific island marked the half-way point in John Paul's 12-day, 20,500-mile swing through Asia, which already has taken him to Pakistan and the Philippines. He heads for Japan today.
About 2,000 people, only one-tenth the expected turnover, greeted the pope when he arrived at Agana airport on the island 3,000 miles west of Hawaii.
Several thousand residents who lined the five-mile route from the airport to the Sweet Name of Mary Cathedral cheered only briefly as the pope passed by, while many others in restaurants and cafes along the way continued eating.
Senate funding plan angers student groups
By ROB STROUD Staff Reporter
Opponents of a movement in Student Senate to redefine the guidelines for funding student organizations say the debate is threatening freedom of speech.
The leaders of the movement say that some organizations are using student funds in a way that most students would disapprove of. They suggest that a referendum be presented to the students asking whether politically oriented groups should receive Senate funding.
Bren Abbott, student body vice president and a leader of the movement, said these groups included KU-Y and Latin American Solidarity.
"I don't mind funding KU-Y," Abbott said. "But it irritates me when they give that money away to one-sided groups."
ABBOTT SAID he was opposed to KU-Y funding anti-draft, anti-nuclear and KU-out of-South Africa groups.
"I don't think the average students want their money to go to one-sided political interests," he said.
"I think that what they're doing comes dangerously close to abridging free speech and discriminating against minority opinions," she said. "I believe it's wrong for senators to define the average student and they're greatly overstepping their bounds defining which organizations are political."
However, Pam Johnston, president of KU-Y, said that her group should be allowed to express its views.
KU-Y, a member of the YMCA and YWCA, is involved with programs such as Rock Chalk Revue and Big Brothers as well as political activism. Last year, the YMCA's staff members which fund organizations through the mandatory student activity fee.
But she added that no group should be held accountable for presenting every side of an issue.
"KU-Y probably serves the widest range of KU students of any organization." Johnston said.
ANOTHER GROUP that Abbott said was not representing the majority of students with its political activism was Latin American Solidarity.
Maria Sanchez, a Solidarity member, said the Senate was discriminating against her organization.
"There is definitely a sense of
Foul play ruled out in death
By TIM SHARP Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
FOSTER'S DEATH HAS puzzled authorities for more than a month. A retired maintenance worker found her body in a University dumping ground. Ironically, she was found on her birthday, Jan. 14, Malone said.
Law enforcement authorities have ruled out that probability of play in the death of a woman whose body was found on West Campus last month.
Malone said there was enough skin on the skeletal remains to take fingerprints, and the final identification was made using them.
The body was badly decomposed, which made identification difficult. She was finally identified through checking dental and medical records. Foster had a two-inch hole in her left temple as a result of neurosurgery.
Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said Friday that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the KU Police Department found no criminal activity resulting in the death of the woman, Connie Jo Foster.
Foster had served one year in Lansing Pententiary on an involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of a woman who was on parole at the time of her death.
Laboratory tests and the autopsy did not determine the cause of death, Malone said. But information and evidence gathered from the inpatient would further to believe the cause of death was natural, accidental or suicidal.
MALONE SAID several people had been questioned using polygraph machines about Foster's final days.
He said Foster had been visiting friends at Meadowbrook Apartments, directly north of the dumping ground, and that she resulted in conditions that she died on Aug. 25.
Foster was last seen walking toward her car after leaving her friend's apartment. Her friend also left for classes at KU.
No one realized Foster was missing until September, when her family filed a missing persons report in Kansas City.
"She was depressed," Malone said. "She had a bone disease, she was probably an alcoholic and she was on what to control epileptic seizures.
"Apparently the medicine wasn't working, because she had a gran mal seizure on the night before she died." The mal is the most severe epileptic seizure.
HE SAID FOSTER also had been drinking heavily that night.
"The mixture of the drugs—barbituates—and alcohol could have killed her," Malone said.
Cunxie said the Senate had tried to stop Solidarity from printing leaflets protesting American involvement in El Salvador and other Latin American concerns.
hostility," she said. "Their intention is of trying to stop us from sharing news."
Foster apparently walked over to the dumping ground instead of driving back to Kokomo City. Her car was towed on Aug. 25, and she was a few days after Aug. 25, Malone said.
She apparently sat down under a tree to escape the summer heat. While she sat, she smoked seven cigarettes, which sounded beside her left hand, Malone said.
"We showed the papers to the treaser, and he said they were political and he had to check to see if it was all right to print. "she said.
The cause of death will be officially listed as unknown unless new information is discovered.
The KU Police Department has concluded its investigation but will reopen the case if new leads or information becomes available, Malone said.
She said he told her he would do everything possible to see that the matter of funding politically oriented projects come up at the next Senate meeting.
THE LEAFLETS were printed, and according to Abbott, were checked because it was not clear whether they complied with Senate funding guidelines. However, the Senate Revenue Code, which sets the guidelines, states that the activity fee help educate students on political matters.
The referendum Abbott has suggested would amend that part of the
But Loren Busby, Senate Finance and Audit Committee chairman, said that such an amendment would limit the freedom of speech for organizations.
"Some people are going overboard saying what they want funded and what doesn't," she said.
Busby said that a refereed were held, Bert Coleman, student body president, and Abbott would present a biased view to the students, telling them that politically oriented groups should not be funded.
Political messages should be expressed when students disagree with him. Bubba say,
"These groups see something they
believe in and they are doing something about it," he said. "I don't see anything wrong with that."
"There's a strong chance that they'll be cut off from doing anything that's slightly political," Busy said.
But Sanchez said, "We have never turned anyone away. We have never tried to stop anyone else from speaking."
He said that if these groups would be more open to opposing viewpoints, they would not be bothered by the Senate.
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KU-Y has invited several student organizations to meet Wednesday to discuss what it described as a threat of funding cutbacks to activist groups.
He said it was ironic that the Senate was considering this change in the Revenue Code, because it was adopted in the early 1970s as a result of student advocacy and administrative censorship in the organization of campus organizations.
However, another senator, Dan Cunningham, Lenexa, junior, said students should not be forced to finance these groups.
ALTHOUGH CUNNINGHAM said he would not vote to change Senate's funding philosophy without further examining the situation, he said he was troubled by the one-sidedness of groups.
"Since the students are forced to pay the activity fee, we have to be very careful in funding groups merely in existence to forward the political aims and ideologies of their organizers," he said.
"The average student is paying to have this stuff draped all over campus, he said. We have a responsibility to prevent it and spend with an eye toward fairness."
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