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Gang of Four defendants sentenced
PEKING—Alternately sobbing and yelling revolutionary slogans, Mao Tee-tung's widow, Jiang Qing, was dragged out of the courtroom by her neck yesterday after receiving a suspended death sentence thus ending China's Gauk of Four trial.
Jiang's suspended sentence, which was enthusiastically applauded by 800 spectators, could be changed to solitary confinement for life if she reforms the law.
However, if Jiang, 67, continues to denounce China's new leadership, as she did repeatedly during the 67-day trial, she still could be executed by Beijing prosecutors.
Jiang was the first of the 10 defendants to be sentenced, and as Court President Jiang Jius read the death penalty, she jerked up from the dock.
The other defendants received their sentences almost impassively. The packed audience, some of them victims of the defendants, stood and applauded as the accused stumbled from the dock, one after the other, and left the court.
Moslems asked to oppose aggression
MECCA, Saudi Arabia -King Khaled of Saudi Arabia opened the third Islamic summit conference in Mecca's sacred mosque yesterday with a passionate call for the world's 800 million Moslems to oppose Israeli and Soviet aggression in Islamic lands.
But in Iran, which is boycotting the conference, Prime Minister Mohammad Al Raji warned other Moslem nations that they would be helping "imperialism and the infidels" if they meddled in one of the main threats to the security of the Persian Gulf islands that Iraq wants returned to 'Arab' control.
Israel is boycotting the conference because Iraq President Sadadm Hussein is attending it. Iran and Iraq still are fighting in the four-month Gulf War.
The opening session was attended by eight kings, 19 heads of state and 11 other government leaders of the world's Islamic countries.
The three-day summit is scheduled to discuss Jerusalem, the Afghan situation, the Iran-Iran dispute and Islamic unity and cooperation in culture.
Solidarity seeks 40-hour work week
WARSAW, Poland—The independent Solidarity union, its power proven last summer when it led a crippling nationwide strike, will meet this week to plan new initiatives on talks with the government on the five-day work week issue.
In the most serious action to press for a 40-hour work week, millions of Polish workers heeded the personal call of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa
The government news agency PAP said the nationwide protest cost about $70 million in lost production.
The action showed that Solidarity has the power to mobilize a major portion of Poland's labor force, which has 12 million workers.
Exact figures on the number of people who stayed home were not available, but Solidarity said 80 percent of the work force stayed home. The numbers are from the National Institute for Occupational Health.
The government's recognition of the forceful feelings behind the issue was evident in television news coverage of Saturday's protest. An evening news program was expanded by 10 minutes for wide coverage of the action. It showed people expressing both support and opposition to Solidarity's stand.
Nkomo forces accused of terrorism
SALISBURY, Zimbabwe-Guerrilla loyal to ousted Home Affairs Minister Joshua Nkomo were accused yesterday of forcing more than 5,000 people to flee their homes in a reign of terror that included kidnapping, looting and rage.
The accusations in the Sunday Mail newspaper were partly supported by the hundreds of empty houses forming rings of desolation around a camp housing some 3,300 pre-Nkoma guerrillas in the Seke section of Chitungwiza, nine miles south of Salisbury.
Officials said a brief clash between the Nkmo guerrillas and guerrillas loyal to Prime Minister Robert Mugabe triggered the evacuation of more than 1,000 families belonging to a black tribe that generally had supported Mugabe.
Deputy Home Affairs Minister Tarisa Yizmiyah said Friday that the situation in Chitungwua and was giving it priority attention.
Jewish settlers move to new outpost
About 3,300 pro-Nkomo guerrillas and about 3,500 pro-Mugabe guerrillas had lived in separate camps in Chitwizaun since October, when the government decided to move guerrillas out of ramshackle bush camps while they await induction into a unified army.
JERUSALEM-About 200 Jewish settlers, protesting the Israeli government's failure to build them permanent houses, moved yesterday from their temporary settlement in the occupied West Bank to a rocky hilltop slated as the site for their permanent outpost.
The settlers want the government to speed development of the site before the upcoming national elections in which the Labor Party, headed by Shimon
The action coincided with a report in an Israeli newspaper that Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government is planning to move an additional 3,000 Jewish settlers to outposts on the occupied West Bank before the elections.
Peres has a more moderate view of Jewish outposts in the West Bank than Begin. He has said he would establish them only in areas of low-density Arab population, which is why the settlers are anxious to have as many new settlements as possible under Begin.
Arab residents of the West Bank bitterly oppose increased Jewish settlement in their region. Past decisions to send in more Jewish settlers have sparked violent protests. Egypt, Israel's partner in the Camp David peace process, also has opposed new settlements.
Violence in PG, R movies is similar
The National Coalition on Television Violence, formed last year, also said that the majority of G-rated movies were produced in 1980, and only 4 percent of all 1980 movie releases were produced since.
WASHINGTON—There seems to be little difference in the violence levels of PG and K-ATED movies, a newly formed coalition to monitor television violence.
The coalition said it had monitored theater movies since September 1980, because its own surveys show 45 percent of television violence comes from movies.
The monitoring showed PG-rated movies averaged 15.1 violent acts an hour, while R-rated movies averaged 15.1 violent acts. About 61 percent of PG movies and 39 percent of R movies were in the high violence category, defined by the coalition as having more than 10 violent acts each hour.
One film, "Shogun Assasin," averaged 123 violent acts an hour, the coalition said. That was followed by "Flash Gordon," with 82 an hour, and "Hellfire Alley," with 67 an hour.
Correction
Because of a reporting error in last Thursday's Kansan the W/F withdrawal policy was incorrectly defined. Under the W/F policy, if a student received W/F the grade has no effect on the student's grade point average. If a student FF is recorded on his transcript it is figured in to the student's grade point average.
Legislature to look at hazardous waste bill
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Early this week state legislators will have a first look at a bill giving the state more control over the disposal of hazardous wastes.
The bill, which had been developed in House and Senate hearings for two weeks, will refine the definition of waivers and the regulations for its disposal.
For the University of Kansas and two Lawrence chemical-producing companies, the proposed bill will mean that the university must declare that hulh the wastes to the dump sites.
"In the proposed bill," State Rep. Betty Jo Charkint, D-Lawrence, said, "the liability for any hazard to the environment will be on the producer."
She said that in the past producers had not held themselves responsible for where hazardous wastes were transported and dumped.
UNDER THE NEW bill a producer found creating a hazard to the environment because of hazardous dumping would face a fine of up to $25,000 a day. That rate is consistent with the federal maximum fine and is a considerable increase from the present fine of $500 a day.
"That is an example of why the law needed to be changed," Charilton said. "Currently there is a solid waste law and it did have some provisions for hazardous waste, but it is not enough. You do not strictly follow the regulations."
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, that the proposed law would take care of the oversights in the plan and be added to the problem in Wandoeff County.
The extent of the problems with the current law was emphasized last summer with the discovery of waste dumps in Wvandotte County.
discovered there that was believed to contain hazardous wastes. That discovery touched off a movement in the United States to strengthen the state's waste disposal law.
An illegal waste dump site was
He said most of the hazardous wastes covered by the bill were chemical wastes and that the bill did not account for radioactive waste.
Charlton said she had been most fascinated with discussions on recycling some waste.
CHARLTON SAID discussion on radioactive waste would come in two separate hearings later in the session.
"Conferees at the hearings told us that adequate technology is available to first de- toxify the chromium and then to recycle it."
"Other states are working on recycling wastes like chromium," Charlton said. "Kansas land buries wastes containing chromium and then has to turn around and buy it from Rhodesia.
CHARLTON ALSO said an important point in the new hill was the creation of a new trail, which would be connected to it.
Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. She said this would mean fewer dump sites per state and allow states to share sites better suited to their waste needs.
The provision that Charlton said she felt was the most important was the establishment of state staging facilities and agency sites along the location of future disposal sites.
"Right now there is a lot of confusion on where to place new sites," Charlton said. "The agency would be able to handle people who say 'nimby' in the name of an animal but they would also set up better studies as to whether the land was suitable for a dump site."
State death penalty bill hearing today
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
A bill to reinstate the death penalty in Kansas will have a brief hearing in the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee that may to the Senate by the end of February.
The committee, chaired by State Sen Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth, voted 7-3 last Thursday to introduce the bill, which is similar to one vetoed last year by Gov. John Carlin. But this time Republican leaders in both houses think they have enough votes to override a veto.
The legislation calls for death by
prosecution for people convicted of
premeditated murder.
Last week, Carlin answered the challenge in a news conference, saying he would veto any death penalty bill that came to his desk.
connection with rape, sodomy or kidnapping. It also provides for a separate court hearing for sentencing and an annulement in appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court.
State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, who is not a member of Reilly's committee, said she may introduce a narrower version of the bill, depending on what happens to the bill being debated today.
She said she supported a death penalty only for prisoners convicted of killing a prison guard or a fellow inmate. In the investigation, the state could not do much else.
Carlin, who promised to sign a death penalty bill during his campaign two years ago, said this bill was introduced
Eldridge said she had not read the bill introduced by Reilly's committee and she would not speak at today's meeting. But she she had another meeting to attend.
so newly-elected legislators could make good on campaign promises to support capital punishment.
But Reilly said, "regardless of what they said in their campaigns, the people have a right to know how they stand on this emotional issue."
"They made a campaign promise," he said, "So did Carlin. He didn't keep it."
Reilly said the death penalty had been discussed at length in past sessions, and he saw no reason to belabor the issue this session.
He said his committee would conduct a one-hour hearing on the bill at 11 a.m. today, when people for and against the bill could speak. The committee will vote on the bill Wednesday or Thursday.
Last week's vote indicates that the committee will pass the bill to the full Senate for debate.
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