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University Daily Kansan, March 4, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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IRA kills policeman in front of his family
By United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Irish Republican Army gunmen shot to death a Roman Catholic policeman in front of his wife and three children yesterday as he arrived at a church to sing in the police said. It was the 11th killing in Northern Ireland in two weeks.
A police spokesman said two men attacked Sgt. Hugh McCormac, 40, while he was locking his car at St. Gabriel's Retreat at The Inniskillen monastery in Enniskillen, about 70 miles southwest of Belfast.
He said one of the gunmen fired a volley of shots that left McCorme wounded and bleeding on the ground. The assailants escaped
The Rev. Michael O'Reilly, who was inside the monastery, said he ran outside when he heard the door open, lying on the ground beside his car.
"I gave him last rites, but I think he was already dead," O'Reilly said.
THE SPOKESMAN said there were no injuries to the sergeant's wife and three children — Elaine, 16, David, 15, and Darren, 9 — who had accompanied McCormack to attend mass and hear him sing in the choir. Police had said earlier that only one child had been present.
The outlawed Irish Republican Army issued a statement through its legal political wing, Sinn Féin, taking responsibility for the shooting. The IRA is fighting to the British from Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Secretary Douglas Hurd, interviewed yesterday on television, said he did not believe any political moves were made to him and would make anti-terrorist measures his highest priority.
"Terrorists are not susceptible to political concessions," he said. "A robust security policy is necessary."
YESTERDAY'S SHOOTING occurred just two hours before the funerals of three Royal Ulster Constabulary officers killed with six others Thursday night in an IRA mortar attack on the Newry police station.
The assault was the worst single blow suffered by the Ulster police in 16 years of violence in Northern Ireland. Three other officers were buried Saturday and the final three will be buried Monday.
Funeral services were also held yesterday for a soldier of the Ulster Defense Regiment, a local regiment of the British army, who was killed by an IRA bomb Thursday at last hours after the Nervy attack.
Thousands of mourners attended the four funerals.
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Film, TV writers may start picketing
HOLLYWOOD If movie and television writers in New York follow a weekend script by their West Coast counterparts, 9,200 guild members will strike at midnight today in their first walkout since 1981.
Network and local news programs will not be affected, because news writers have separate contracts.
Producers, saying they have stockpiled sufficient scripts for the current TV season, predict little immediate effect.
The guild says it has 9,200 members, 6,400 on the West Coast. Of the 2,058 votes cast during balloting Friday night and Saturday in Hollywood, 61 percent backed a walkout.
tonight. But spokenes said that was unlikely.
"The writers have overwhelmingly voted to go on strike," said Naomi Guiran, executive director of the guild. "We expect 9,000 members across the country to be walking picket lines. The motion picture
Mathematically, New York guild members could block the strike — passed by a 2-1 margin Saturday on the West Coast — when they vote
Guild of America say that some shows are in trouble and that a sharp impact will be seen when the network's 13 daytime dramas begin running out of material in a week or two.
markets usually take a little longer to dry up the existing material, but there should be a discernable effect on television within a few weeks.
Contract talks between the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers began in January and ended at midnight Thursday when the writers' three-year contract expired.
mimicible crimes. But spokesmen for the Writers
By United Press International
producers offered a new three-year pact, calling it their "best and final offer." The writers rejected it overwhelmingly.
The report coincided with release of a Justice Department report that said longer imprisonment would be needed if the prison longer periods, thus cutting crime.
Lynn Curtis, foundation president and editor of the report, said the suggestions emphasized building family ties, creating stronger neighborhoods and working to increase employment.
The Eisenhower report updates a 1969 report prepared for the White House by the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. The commission was created after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
Among the main observations of
the report are: ___
Street crime resembles 'rioting,' report says
WASHINGTON — Street crime in the United States may be a form of "low roiting" that is on a long-term increase and of astronomical proportions compared with other industrialized nations, a report released yesterday by the Eisenhower Foundation says.
The Justice Department report said 28 percent of those entering prison in 1979 were on parole or probation. Had they been serving their full sentences, the report says, they should not have committed their crimes.
- Violent crimes in America have increased in the past 15 years.
The Eisenhower report said American imprisonment rates already were higher than those of all other industrial countries, with the possible exception of the Republic of South Africa and the Soviet Union.
- One in every three households in the United States is touched by serious crime in any year.
- Crime and violence by youthful offenders in urban areas appear to be more frequent and serious.
It said that although police hardware might have created enough fear among minorities to discourage riots, "the criminal on a dark street is less vulnerable to police hardware and command and control tactics than a group of looters."
By United Press International
A few members of this disatisfied minority apparently managed to outmaneuver several K.U.A.C. dogmatists and acquire power within the organization. As a result of this insurrection, the K.U.A.C. is no longer clinging to the laissez faire thesis while it exploits. Now the K.U.A.C. is wining about, in the words of the February 21st Journal-World, "people who resell tickets" to Kansas University athletic events. Indeed, the K.U.A.C. recently persuaded State Senator Wint Winter, Jr., and the Kansas State Judiciary Committee to introduce in the legislature a bill that would classify the scalping of tickets at any event held on the grounds of a state educational institution as a misdemeanor punishable by a term of up to 30 days in jail and/or a $500 fine.
After reading the February 21st Journal-World, many Lawrencians now think that a few vociferous Communists have gained control of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation (K.U.A.C.). Perhaps because those at the helm of this hitherto conservative organization had become too absorbed with their golf scores and material acquisitions, they'd forgotten that not everyone considers the K.U.A.C.'s periodic attempts to profit from the use of Kansas University property, personnel, and students to be a legitimate expression of freedom.
By using the state to quash the efforts of a few enterprising individuals who, according to Assistant Director of the athletic department's Williams Educational Fund Rich Konzem, "charge what the market will bear", the K.U.A.C. conforms to Communist theory and practice. Of course, this transparent misuse of power may simply illustrate that even the doctrinaire set's most inspired members—among whom are the devotees of "amateur athletics"—occasionally ally.
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