University Daily Kansan, May 1. 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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House refuses to call for special state vote
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House ignored Republican warnings yesterday and refused to call for a special election in Indiana, ending a six-month dispute and virtually assuring Democrat Frank McCloskey a second term.
GOP leaders said Republicans would walk out today when McCloskey took the oath of office for the disputed 8th House District in southern Indiana. Republicans say they were cheated in the House-run recount and warned that the dispute might imperil all work in the House.
The 229-200 vote against the special election ended the dispute over the nation's longest-running House race. Republicans said they had little hope of blocking McCloskey from the seat. Democrats said they would be voting in Congress for the new election.
"IF THE MAJORITY persists, it will poison the well of civility in the House. It will be on your heads." Robert Under Robert Michel told Democrats.
The seat has been vacant since Jan. 3 while the house ran its own investigation. It was one of the closest House elections this century and led to the first House re-count in years. McCloskey won that recount because State officials twice had said Republican Rick McIntyre was the winner
"After McCloskey is sworn in, you will see, en masse, House Republicans leave the floor," said Rep. Guy Vander Jaft, R-Mich
Democratic leaders blamed harsh GOP criticism of the re-count, as well as parliamentary warfare tactics, on your GOP conservatives.
"THESE TACTICS . . . are sure to boomerang," said Democratic leader Jim Wright. "They (voters) want something more dignified. As far as I'm concerned, it will not affect (legislative relations). I am able to get along with responsible members of the Republican Party."
McCloskey appeared tired but cautious after the vote. Both parties targeted the 4th District for special counsel in October, and he expected a similar dispute in 1986.
McCloskey described McIntyre, a former state legislator from Bedford, Ind. as "a promising young conser-
tive," and he says the McIntyre will be the GOP nominee.
McIntyre said he has not decided whether he will run again.
Republicans tried to snarl the House after the vote yesterday and had planned an all-night session. However, Democrats voted to ad-hoc defining the GOP had violated an agreement not to ask for any more roll calls.
Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., chairman of the task force, said McCloskey won in an evenhanded count.
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Juveniles arrested for scam
By United Press International
MILWAUKEE — Young computer hackers around the country have been using an electronic bulletin board manual to get thousands of dollars worth of computer goods and services with stolen credit-card numbers, a computer security consultant says.
Six high school students have been arrested in Waukesha, Wis., John Maxfield, a detroit computer security consultant, told the Milwaukee Journal Monday that similar arrests have been made or are likely within a few days in Detroit, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago and Memphis.
The federal agents and Waukesha County sheriff's deputies arrested the six last Thursday at Waukesha North High School.
Maxfield told the newspaper that more than three dozen computer hobbyists were involved in the scam, most of them juveniles. Hundreds also were involved in similar incidents not directly linked to this case, he added.
Details of how to conduct the scam were contained in an electronic bulletin board manual transmitted by computer and written by someone called "the Iceman, Leader of the Black Triangle."
The stolen credit card numbers were obtained by gaining access to computers of businesses or by foraging for carbon receipts of credit card purchases.
The scheme involved purchasing thousands of dollars worth of computer-related equipment, which was sent to a mail box rental service. Waukesha. In March, the Secret Service reported an investigation to monitor pickups from the box.
Guns called No.1 cause of suicides
By United Press International
Teen-age suicides in the United States have tripled during the past 30 years. About 5,200 people between the ages of 16 and 25 take their own lives annually.
"The increase in suicide among young people can be accounted for almost entirely by firearms," Cantor told the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on homeland security at a hearing on the federal government's role in dealing with the problem.
WASHINGTON — Guns are used by more than half of the teen-agers who kill themselves in the United States and are the No.1 cause of the rising suicide rate, a mental health specialist told Congress yesterday.
Cantor said the United States ranked fourth in suicide rates for teen-agers behind Switzerland, Austria and Canada, but was the only country in the world where firearms were the prevalent method used. About 65 percent of all teen-age suicides are committed with guns.
Dr. Pamela Cantor, president of the American Association of Suicidology, an association of mental health experts, said the best way to stop teen age suicide was to limit the "availability of lethal agents."
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