NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, June 26, 1985
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Compiled from wire reports
Compiled from wire reports Fireworks blast kills 20
A mammoth explosion in Hallett, Okla. Tuesday leveled a fireworks plant, killing at least 20 people, and authorities feared two other powder magazines still could explode.
Authorities confirmed 20 deaths in the explosion that produced a "giant mushroom cloud" over the site, and they feared that more victims would be found by rescue workers.
Five people, including the town's mayor, survived the blast and were taken to area hospitals suffering from burns, said Red Cross officials who rushed disaster relief workers to the scene, at 30 miles east of Tulsa.
The blast, which leveled the Aerlex Fireworks plant, also rattled windows in Cleveland, 10 miles away, said Don Cochran, fire chief in Cleveland.
U.S. may retaliate in hijacking
President Reagan yesterday threatened to blockade Lebanon and to take other punitive action if diplomatic efforts to free the 40 hostages in Beirut are not successful in the next few days.
Nabh Berri, leader of the Amal Shilite mithin, which holds most of the hostages from a hijacked TWA jet, rejected a proposal yesterday from British Ambassador David Miers and Italian Ambassador Antonio Mancini. Berri and the French ambassador could more easily bring the 'Shite Lebanese prisoners' at Aitl prison in exchange for the hostages' freedom.
Israel freed 31 of 766 prisoners Monday, saying it was demanded under Israel law and was not linked to the crisis. No U.S. hostage. But Israel's freedom, the withdrawal of seven U.S. warships steaming off the Lebanon coast.
Christian Voice of Lebanon, a radio service, quoting unnamed but well-informed sources, said the United States also was threatening to isolate Beirut Internationally. Mr. Shafraa, a spokesman for the United States bar Lebanese Shites from getting U.S. visas and work permits, and boycott Shiite firms and workers in the United States and Europe.
Court upholds Hvatt decisions
The Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City yesterday upheld multi-million dollar damage awards for two women severely crippled in the 1981 skywalk collapse at the Hvatt Registry Hotel in Kansas City, Mo.
The court upheld, in identical 6-1 decisions, jury decisions awarding $15 million to Sally Firestone, a former employee of International Business Machines Corp., and $4 million to Kay Kenton, a former law student.
In both cases, the trial judge had said the jury awards were excessive and new trials should be granted unless the victims accepted a smaller sum. The court said that practice — known as “remittitur” — no longer would be allowed in Missouri, but judges still could grant new trials for a good cause.
Two of three skywalks spanning the lobby of the luxury hotel collapsed during a crowded tea dance the evening of July 17, 1981, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 others.
Budget negotiations broken off
House and Senate budget negotiators in Washington, unable to agree on whether to grant cost-of-living increases to Social Security recipients, abruptly broke off their talks yesterday.
"I have concluded that there is no useful purpose to continue this conference if we cannot change the cost of living adjustment in the pension plan that are in place. I would like to budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici," R-N.M.
The impasse makes it less likely that Congress will be able to produce a comprehensive plan to reduce the $200 billion-plus deficits projected for each of the next three years.
House and Senate negotiators have met on and off for two weeks but have made little progress in resolving differences between the House and Senate budgets for 2016, according to a year 1986 would cut $56 billion from the federal deficit.
Govern John Carlin and his wife of four years, Karen Bigsby Hurley Carlin, were granted a divorce Monday.
Rumors true: Carlins divorce
The brief announcement by Carlin's office was the first official confirmation of the split in the state's first family, despite months of rumors that blossomed into news media reports of the impending divorce last week.
news media reports of the inpiration divorce last week
The filing was timed to coincide with a move by Mrs
Carlin to a house in Wichita, reportedly purchased on her behalf by her sister, Carol Keen of Lawrence.
The governor was granted an emergency divorce in November 1980 from his first wife, ending a marriage of 18 years. Karen Bigsby Hurley, an official in the governor's campaign organization, was divorced from her first husband, Jack Hurley, formerly of Lawrence, in December 1980. She married the governor in May 1981.
Air crash may remain mystery
Officials in Cork, Ireland, investigating the crash of an Air India jet that killed 329 people are not optimistic they will ever know whether a terrorist bomb sent the plane over the North Atlantic Ocean, an American investigator said yesterday.
Earlier, an Indian aviation expert said evidence pointed to an explosion as the cause of the crash, the worst aviation disaster at sea. Some investigators blame the crash on a terrorist bomb put aboard the plane, which went down Sunday about 120 miles southwest of Ireland in the Atlantic Ocean.
Investigators said they were trying to find the plane's black box flight recorder, which is lost in deep water.
Drug search costs fruit shipper
A produce shipper in Miami claims overzealous customs agents punctured 13,000 pineapples with screw drivers in a drug search last week that turned up one pineapple juice — and he wants to be reimbursed.
"I thought it was quite excessive," said Martin Shield, owner of the 2.450 cases of fruit. "Just about every pineapple was punctured. It ruined the shipment."
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