NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, April 30. 1985
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NEWS BRIEFS
Texas storms leave nine dead
More storms punished Texas and me,
rains spread north into Kansas yesterday
following a day of thunderstorms and
twisters that left at least nine people dead
in Texas, lifted homes off foundations and
swept cars off roads.
The National Weather Service said nearly two dozen tornadoes have swirled across Texas since Sunday, including one that threw a Taylor County home 100 feet away in a field, killing an 81-year-old woman and injuring her 83-year-old husband.
The death toll climbed to nine with the report that Jeri Thomas, 15, died early Sunday after her car skidded on wet pavement and crashed into a tree.
Court rejects Donovan's plea
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court quickly disposed of a request by Raymond Donovan yesterday, refusing to hear the former labor secretary's plea that evidence was illegally used to indict him on 137 counts of grand larceny and fraud.
Donovan, who resigned from President Reagan's Cabinet in March, was part of an indictment alleging that the Schiavone Construction Co. of New Jersey — of which Donovan was executive vice president — falsified records to qualify for a $186 million federally subsidized New York City subway construction contract.
S. African policeman killed
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police said yesterday they arrested the charred body of a black policeman who was strangled and set afire, apparently by black radicals who oppose cooperation with the white minority government.
The discovery brought the weekend death toll from mob violence in South Africa.
Dartmouth to divest securities
HANOVER, N.H. — Dartmouth College will sell 2 million worth of securities in two companies with ties to the government of South Africa and is reviewing other investments, school officials said yesterday.
The divesiture is consistent with the lvy League college's commitment, adopted earlier this year, to no longer invest in companies that do business with South Africa, instead of the nation's policy of apartheid. Dartmouth President David McLaughlin said.
The university made the decision despite the fact that students had not protested vocally South Africa's apartheid policy.
Compiled from, United Press, International reports.
Reagan to visit cemetery despite outcry
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday he is determined to visit a West German military cemetery where Nazi SS officer and commander of the Luftwaffe, but because it is "morally right to do so,"
On the eve of his 10-day European trip, Reagan also told a group of foreign correspondents, in an interview televised live in Europe, that those buried in the Biburg cemetery had "long in a sense met the supreme judgment of right and wrong."
"The final word has been said as far as I'm concerned." Reagan said when asked about the "trauma" of his decision on survivors of the Iraq war, and others who were affected by World War II.
"I think I'm morally right to do so, and I'm not going to change my mind," he declared.
The president said that polls conducted by the White House indicated that there was not that much opposition to his decision to go to Bitburg.
Reagan earlier told White House reporters that former President Richard Nixon approved of his decision.
A Gallup survey published by Newsweek Sunday found that 55 percent of Americans opposed Reagan's visiting of Bitburg — where a few dozen members of Hitler's elite "Schutzstaffel" are buried — while 36 percent supported the plan.
White House spokesman Larry Speaks said that plans for laying a wreath Sunday at the cemetery, where 47 members of the elite Nazis held Infantry corps are buried, would not happen.
In West Germany, the Bild Zeitung newspaper said the wreath had already been ordered for Reagan's visit and it would be
decorated in the red, white and blue of the American flag.
Reagan is clearly annoyed that attention being paid to the 10-day trip, during which he plans to give four major speeches, is focusing on his brief ceremony planned at the cemetery.
Before going to Biburg, the president will tour the Bergen-Belsen death camp and will speak with some of the survivors.
Reagan blamed the media for some of the misunderstandings surrounding the trip, and he said that he had misunderstood the invitation from West German Chancellor Werner Hagen to visit a concentration camp, thinking he would be accused of "going off on my own."
"I understand how some people feel," he said in the foreign television interview.
Company loses $8 million in heist
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Four gunmen skedehumped their way into a Wells Fargo depot yesterday, overpowered guards arriving for work and stole $8 million cash from a vault in one of the largest robberies in U.S. history. An armored car, leaving $12 million behind
The depot had been without guards between 2 p.m. Sunday and 1:30 a.m. yesterday, when the robbers surprised the sentries, Chief of Detectives Richard Nicasto said.
Wells Fargo offered a $350,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the robbers and recovery of the money.
cent building into the Wells Fargo Armored Service Corp. depot in lower Manhattan between Sunday and yesterday. Nescroia said
The robbers, three wearing sk masks and the other with a turban over his face, knocked through the cinder-block wall of an adja-
WHEN FOUR ARMED Wells Fargo guards reported for work early yesterday, the robbers, watching through the video security system, surprised them as they opened the vault to conduct a routine inspection.
The guards were quickly disarmed and handcuffed but were not harmed. The robbers then loaded the cash onto a Wells Fargo armored truck and escaped. Nicosia said.
The truck was found empty under the Brooklyn Bridge 1 mile from the depot.
Police said the heist was one the largest robberies in U.S. history, ranking with the 1983 $7 million Wells Fargo robbery in Connecticut and the 1982 $11 million Sentry Armored Car Courier屋 in New York.
Nicastro said the bandits, armed with revolvers, were calm throughout the robbery. They loaded the truck in just 15 minutes.
"They looked very professional, but they are not Rhodes scholars," he said.
Nicastro said at least one member of the team knew the layout of the Wells Fargo building.
part of the robbery was videotaped and police said they had solid leads in the case.
"It doesnt have to be necessarily a present employee, it could be a former employee," said Nicastro, but he refused to rule out the possibility the theft was an inside job.
The vault area is guarded by a video security system and the dept is rigged with a surveillance camera.
Reports of the amount stolen were steadily scaled down in the first $20 million, then $25 million.
Soviets pledge to aid Nicaragua
By United Press International
MOSCOW — Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev pledged political and economic support to visiting Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega yesterday, five days after the U.S. House of Representatives refused to extend aid to Nicaragua's contra rebels.
Gorbachev and Ortega also "strongly denounced the escalation of U.S. intervention in Central America and the expansion of U.S. military forces there," the official Tass news agency said.
Tass said Ortega, who flew to Moscow
Sunday seeking economic aid, told Gorbachev his government was ready to conduct talks aimed at normalizing relations with the United States and would pursue efforts to achieve a political settlement with the contra rebels.
It was not known how much economic aid Gorbachev promised Nicaragua, but a Western diplomat said he believed the aid included military assistance.
"I can't believe they only want economic aid. They've been known to be on the lookout for fighter aircraft, for example, for some time," he said.
Tass said only that the two leaders signed
an agreement to set up a joint commission on economic, trade and scientific-technical cooperation that would extend Soviet assistance to the Nicaraguan government.
Moscow "will continue to give friendly Nicaragua assistance in resolving urgent problems of economic development, and also political and diplomatic support in its efforts to uphold its sovereignty." Tass quoted Gorbachev as saying.
In Washington last Wednesday, the House of Representatives denied President Reagan's request for $14 million in new aid to the contras seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
Parents win public funds for disabled
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Parents have the right to place their handicapped child in a private school without automatically losing public support for the special education, the Supreme Court rued yesterday.
The decision, involving the Education for Handicapped Children Act, was seen as a narrow victory for those with learning disabilities.
The School Committee of Burlington, Mass., had argued that part of the law prevented parents from enrolling their children in private schools — at public expense — without first going through a lengthy process to see whether a public school program was inappropriate for the child.
The school district argued such action would free the district and state from paying education costs even if the private school' was found to be better for the child.
Justice William Rehquint, writing for a unanimous court, said parents could place their children in private schools without having aid, but at "their own financial risk."
Robert Pamie, father of the child involved in the case, said his son is now 14 and a freshman in high school. He said his son, Michael, continues in private school. He wrote, proof the decision to remove his son from public school was the right one.
"He's come a long way," Pancio said. Michael's parents in 1989 rejected the stakes for him and entailed him in a private school for children with learning disabilities.
A state bearing officer later agreed Michael should be in a private school setting, and ordered Burlington's school system to pay tuition and other costs.
The town took the case to court, but in February 1891, the parents won a temporary ruling that the town had to reimburse them.
After a trial in May 1982, the federal district court said Michael could have received a free and appropriate education in a public school and ordered the parents to repay most of the money provided by the town since February 1981.
The parents and the town both appealed the ruling, however, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last May ruled against the school board.
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