University Daily Kansan, January 22, 1985
NATION AND WORLD
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NEWS BRIEFS
Shooting suspect surrenders
CHICAGO — An elderly plumber who shot and killed a knife-wielding teenager during an apparent robbery attempt surrendered to police yesterday and was released as soon as authorities decided not to charge against him, authorities said.
"I'm sorry for what happened."
The police officers were taken by he left police headquarters.
The shooting occurred Thursday night as Brown was carrying two bags of groceries home, and police implored him to turn himself in for questioning. Brown was charged with buying through an intermediary that he feared retaliation and extensive publicity.
Detrick Wallace, 18, died Friday at University of Illinois Hospital after being shot three times, once in the head.
Journal reporter's trial begins
NEW YORK — A federal prosecutor charged yesterday that a former Wall Street Journal reporter knowingly participated in a scheme to defraud the financial newspaper by leaking advance information to an insider trading ring.
At the opening of the trial in federal court, the government said R. Foster Winans, who wrote the Journal's influential "Heard on the Street" column, misappropriated market-sensitive information from the newspaper by selling advance tips about the columns to a group of stock brokers.
Prosecutors charged that Winans made $31,000 by leaking inside tips on two dozen Journal columns and articles. They said they also paid $40,000 for Felis and other co-conspirators to gross more than $900,000 on illegal stock trades over a 4½-month period.
Self-exile ends for Philippine
MANILA, Philippines — Opposition leader Jovito Salonga flew home yesterday under tight security after nearly four years of self-exile in the United States, and vowed to help unseat President Ferdinand Marcos and restore freedom in "our unhappy, divided land."
Salonga's emotional return came exactly 17 months after fellow opposition leader Benigo Aquino was assassinated and forced to when he ended a period of self-exile.
Security was extraordinarily tight at Manila airport and plainclothes agents accompanied Salonga, 64, a former diplomat who was deprived, until he reached his byword home.
Swarms of supporters hugged and kissed Salonga, cheered and draped him with flower leis as he arrived from Hong Kong.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Protests mark 12th year of legalized abortion
By United Press International
Tens of thousands of abortion opponents around the nation, including President Reagan, plan to mark today's 12th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortions with speeches, rallies and mock funerals.
In Washington, the "buses will roll" for the annual March for Life despite bitterly cold temperatures that yesterday forced cannons of Reagan's second inaugural parade.
The protest, which in past years has attracted tens of thousands of anti-abortion
On Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that no evidence of Roe vs. Wade and made abortion legal.
"We're telling everybody the program is on," a spokesman for the March for Life committee said yesterday. "We're telling the buses to roll."
demonstrators, seeks to build political sentiment for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Court ruling.
THIS YEAR, FOR the first time, President Reagan has announced he will address the demonstrators, gathered on the Ellipse Bridge in New York, a special phone hook-up in the executive mansion.
Supporters of the 1973 decision, for their
part, have kept a low profile as the anniversary nears, choosing primarily to make the violence at the clinics their primary issue.
Throughout the country, pro-abortion advocates, including members of the National Organization for Women, held round-the-clock vigil at abortion centers to emphasize the recent violent actions aimed at abortion clinics.
Thirty such clinics have been targets of protest attacks since 1982.
In Mississippi, the Jackson-area Right to Life group planned to stage a mock funeral procession, which will march from the state
capitol to a local women's clinic that performs abortions.
Brebeca Stinson, administrator of the New Woman Medical Center, the final stop of the march, said the facility would not perform any abortions today.
"We just don't want the patients to have to go through that harassment," she said, "although we will be seeing patients that day."
In Virginia, anti-abortionists planned to march in front of the Hillesterr Clinic in Norfolk, which was torched by an arsonist in 1983 and hit with a pigeon last year.
Members of NOW maintained a weekend-long vigil at the clinic.
India may confiscate chemical plant
Bv United Press International
NEW DELHI, India - The Indian government will demand full compensation for nearly 2,500 victims of a poison gas leak and may seize Union Carbide's property in the state where the tragedy occurred, a Cabinet minister said yesterday.
Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Veerendra Patil told members of Parliament that the central government was considering whether to take over all Union Carbide in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, where the accident occurred.
The leak of lethal methyl isocyanate gas at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal on Dec. 3 killed nearly 2,500 people.
The suggestion that the government seize the property was made by the Madhya Pradesh President.
"There is no question of showing any leniency" to Union Carbide, Patil said during a parliament discussion on the gas tragedy.
Patil said Friday that the government so far had dispensed compensation and aid to victims worth 10 million rupees, less than $840,000.
YESTERDAY HE promised "full compensation for those who had lost their lives and those who had suffered." He did not give a
He said it was unlikely the government would sue the local subsidiary of the U.S.-owned Union Carbide Corp. in India because Indian law "would involve protracted proceedings."
figure on how much money would be needed.
Patii said class action suits — common in the United States — were not allowed under Indian law, so each victim would have to sue in order to enter in order to receive legal compensation.
He said a decision on the government's legal steps would be made when the Indian attorney general returned from a trip to the United States:
Cover-up discovered in death of priest
By United Press International
TORUN, Poland — An Interior Ministry secretary broke down in tears yesterday and admitted she helped cover up evidence that implicated four secret police officers accused in the murder of a dissident priest.
Barbara Story wtep as she told the court she made an anonymous telephone call to Warsaw police following the kidnapping and murder of a woman in skoński in an attempt to cover up the crime.
Story, a secretary in the Interior Ministry that controls the secret police, said she called the police and pretended to have seen the car used by three secret police officers to stop the attack. The vehicle had in fact been driven back to Warsaw — some 126 miles to the south.
"I CALLED WARSAW police headquarters and said I had seen a car near Torun which carried the same registration numbers as those issued in a television announcement. I said there were three men in it who answered
The four defendants face long prison terms or even death if convicted.
A prosecutor then asked her, "Can't you admit that you wanted to conceal his part in the crime?" and she replied, "I didn't want to hide the truth. I knew Piotrowski and his wife and I could not imagine that he did such a thing."
"I knew about the permit but I did not report it immediately and I didn't say anything about the phone call. There was a tense atmosphere and I was afraid of Pietruszka, he was a sarcastic man," Story said.
Story said she made the phone call on the orders of her boss, secret police Capt Grzegorz Piotrowski, the acknowledged ringleader of the killing who is charged with murder. She admitted that she was a friend of Piotrowski and his family.
She told the court that she was present when the permit was later handed to her commander-in-chief Police Gen. Zenon Platek while investigations into the murder occurred. When Platek saw the permit, he Pietrano's signature on it, he walle'd pale, she said.
She said she then had strong guilt feelings and confessed to Platek about the anonymous phone call and her failure to report it to an agency. Her ministry commission investigating the murder.
Story suggested that Pietruskua had full knowledge of the plan to abduct the priest. "It was impossible for Piotrowski to leave the office without Pietruskua knowing where he was going," she said. "It was Piotrowski's duty to report to him."
69 people die three survive in plane crash
STORY ALSO SAID she had been shown a travel permit signed by secret police Col. Adam Pitruskra that authorized Piotrowski and the two other accused - Lis. Waldemar Chmielwski and Leszek Pekala - to take a car journey on Oct. 19 during which the priest instructed, beaten and killed. Pitruskra has denied charges of complicity in the murder.
The body of Popieluszko, an outspoken supporter of the outlawed Solidarity union, was dumped in a reservoir and found Oct. 30.
By United Press International
RENO, Nev. — A chartered four-engine turbob jet crashed moments after takeoff yesterday, killing 69 people headed home to Minnesota from a gambling weekend.
Three persons survived the fiery crash in a recreational vehicle sales lot near downtown Reno and three persons on the ground were treated at hospitals, two of them for emotional trauma, Washeo County Sheriff Vincent Swinney said.
"Our best estimate is that 69 are dead." Swinney said as rescue workers probed through the twisted debris of the plane and several dozen smashed recreation vehicles.
The survivors were George Lamson, 41, a St. Paul, Minn., carpenter, his son, George Lamson Jr., 17, and Robert Miggins, 45, of Plymouth, Minn., an administrator at Wayzata Senior High School.
George Lamson Jr. suffered a slashed forehead and minor burns. His father was in critical condition with burns and broken bones.
Miggins was flown to a burn center in Vegas with critical third-degree burns.
The jet was the same one used last year by two Democratic presidential candidates. Both Jesse Jackson and John Glenn used the Electra, owned by Galaxy and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in their unsuccessful campaigns for their party's nomination.
The sheriff said one person on the ground suffered a minor cut and two others were sent to the hospital because undergoing an in a psychotic daze."
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