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Vol. 94, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Salvadorans to pick leader in a run-off
Duarte wins plurality in Salvador election, now must face rightist
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Election officials yesterday confirmed that Christian Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte won a plurality in last week's presidential election, but must face rightist opponent Roberto d'Aubuisson in a run-off ballot.
The announcement came only hours after the assassination late Saturday of d'Aubuisson's chief campaign adviser, Rafael Hasbun, 58, who was shot and killed outside his office.
U. S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering immediately condemned the murder as a leftist assassination, but Duarte told a news conference that he would not. The right may have killed Hassan to discredit the left.
AFTER A WEEK'S DELAY in vote count, the Central Electiation Commission released final official results showing Duarte the winner with 43.4 percent of the vote. d'Aubousson second with 29.7 percent and conservative Francisco Jose Guerrero third with 19.3 percent.
The remainder of the votes were split between five minor parties.
"We are happy and content," Duarte said.
"We are harmed because democracy has won."
The elections were marred by confusion at polling stations over complex voting procedures and guerrilla attacks that prevented nearly 30 million eligible voters in a 8.8 million亿 eligible voters from casting ballots.
The election council said 1,266,276 that "valid" votes were cast in the presidential election March 25, and that 153,223 ballots were ruled null or invalid.
BOTH DUARTE, A LIBERAL advocate of social reform, and d'Aubuisson, a far-right former national guard major who advocates a strong anti-immigration policy, are trying to get an endorsement from Guerrero.
The second round of voting will probably be April 29 or May 6, officials said. Under Salvadoran law, a candidate must win more than 50% of the vote in order to win a presidential election.
Guerrero, who served under Interim President Alvaro Magana as chief of staff, has said that he is consulting with party leaders before deciding who to back in the run-off.
After the assassination of Hasbn, Pickering said, "It's another act of the extreme left operating in the manner of a death squad to disruint the political process in El Salvador."
"These men of the extreme right . . . use these measures to blame the left." Duarte said.
Duarte, however, told a news conference yesterday that rightist gunmen, rather than law enforcement officers, were involved.
Monday morning. April 2, 1984
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN Revolutionary Workers' Party, one of five leftist guerrilla groups operating in El Salvador, claimed responsibility for a bombing telephone calls to San Salvador radio stations.
"We have executed him for being a member of the ARENA party," one caller said, referring to the nationalist Republican Alliance of Iowa, which accused of leading right-wing death squads.
Hasbun was killed by submachine gunfire sprayed from a speeding car as he stepped out of his office in northern San Salvador late Saturday.
Hasbun was the second ARENA member to be killed in a week and the fifth right-wing political activists to be assassinated by leftists since January.
IN A RELATED DEVELOPMENT, Rep. Clarence D. Long, M-D, who chairs the House Appropriations Subcommittee, told reporters yesterday that he thought it very likely that the Senate would aid to El Salvador because the government was not responding to human rights abuses.
"I don't think they will respond unless they think we will withhold the money," said Long, who asked for more details.
"I think it's time for them to wake up and smell the coffee. They've got a real problem. I think there's an excellent chance Congress will withhold the money," said Long.
NEW YORK — The Rev. Jesse Jackson and Sen. Gary Hort listen to former Vice President Walter Mondale make a point. The
three Democratic presidential candidates appeared on WNBC's Newsforum yesterday with host Gabe Pressman.
Candidates fight for New York vote
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Walter Mondale and Gary Hart slugged it out for an hour in a televised debate yesterday as the Democratic front-runners before tomorrow's key, New York primary.
Mondale took the offensive in the debate, while Hart contended that New Yorkers are fed up with his constant attacks. Jesse Jackson, still trying to play peacemaker in the Democratic contest, at one point accused his rivals of ignoring him.
The ABC-Washington Post poll, which has a good track record so far in the campaign, said yesterday the former vice president has a lead in the race. "It's 522 national convention delegates are at stake."
The poll tracks the ups and downs of personality over the final days before the PRIMARY.
IT GAVE MONDALE 41 percent. Hart 30 percent and Jackson 22 percent, with a margin of error of 6 percent. That would mean the race is
tightening up, although Hart is being hurt by Jackson, who continues to attract a large black
But even more important than a popular vote victory in New York is the battle for delegates. The latest United Press International delegate count gives Mondale 728 of the 1,967 needed for nomination while Hart has 440 and Jackson 101. There are 325 uncommitted.
Following the debate, Mondale headed for Buffalo, the second largest pocket of Democratic votes in the state and a steel town where he is to do well among the heavy union and ethnic vote.
HART WENT RUNNING at Central Park with supporters and scheduled a fund-raising dinner with John Denver, Hal Linden, Marlo Thomas and Stephen King.
For the first 20 minutes of the debate on WNBc, Hart and Mondale tried to get along, but they soon started fighting again on Central Australia. They were defeated by their campaign a bitter feud in recent weeks.
Mondale complained about a Hart television
advertisement "accusing me of wanting to kill people in Central America."
"When you go beyond the facts to say things of that kind, I think it is negative, it is personal, it is inaccurate, and it raises concerns that are totally uninstilled." Mondale said.
Hart replied that Monday is lashing out now the no longer has a clear shot at the Democrat.
"THE FACT OF THE MATTER, and Fritz knows it, is within hours if not days of our upset victory in New Hampshire . . . (the Mondale campaign) went totally negative."
Mondale accused Hart of switching to favor moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem only to cater to the heavy Jewish vote in New York.
"He transferred that embassy to Jerusalem the same time he transferred his headquarters from Israel."
Hart retorted: "The voters of New York State are fed up with this. They're fed up with this penny ante, picky business, when they know the people they're fighting are equally committed to the survival of Israel."
Prof says attempt had short-term effect
Staff Reporter
Bv KEVIN LOLLAR
Nearly everyone saw it. Some of them were there when it happened at 2:25 p.m. in Washington, D.C., and most others saw the countless rejneys over the next weeks.
It was hard to say how that day affected issues obviously connected with such an event — issues
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like gun control, insanity as a defense and security for public officials.
But what happened outside the Washington Hilton Hotel on a drizzly March day three years ago last Friday was clear.
SUDDENLY, THE POP-POP of gunfire startled the crowd — some witnesses said it sounded like firecrackers — and after a flurry of action and six shots, a Secret Service man had thrust Reagan into the limousine. The agents rushed the president to the hospital with a .22-caliber bullet lodged in his left lung and three men lay wounded on the sidewalk
Ronald Reagan, in the 70th day of his presidency, was smiling and waving to journalists and onlookers, his left hand raised as he used his limousine surrounded by Secret Service men.
John W. Hinckley Jr., then 25, was apprehended in possession of a German-made Rexxon model RG1 handgun and later charged with the
A jury later found Hinkley innocent by reason of insanity.
Reagan and the other wounded men have recovered
The most seriously wounded of the four, presidential press secretary James Brady, shot once in the head, is now able to walk without a cane.
The other two, Secret Service agent Timothy J. McCarthy, shot in the right chest, and Washington police officer Thomas K. Delahanty, shot in the lower left neck, have fully recovered.
"My impression is that things like gun control have had strong support in terms of a short time rise, but it's no higher now than it was a month ago. So if we attack him, attempt." he said. "It's had no permanent effect.
"One reason is that Reagan was before, and still is, opposed to gun control. If he had chosen to push the issue, it might have had some long-term effects. But he didn't."
IN THE THREE YEARS since the incident public opinion about gun control and the insanity plea essentially haven't changed, Allen J. Cigler, associate professor of political science, said recently.
"In my own mind, a John Hinkelay or someone like him couldn't be stopped anyway." he said
Gigler said that the same short-term rise in public sentiment about the insanity plea existed
after the verdict in Hinkley's trial, but that there really has been no real lasting effect.
DESPITE THE FACT That Hinkley was milling around with a gun in a crowd of people waiting to see the President of the United States and then got close enough to shoot him, the gun stopped and the man was measured as a direct result of the attempt, said Secret Service agent Mary Ann Gordon.
"We constantly review and evaluate our security measures to make changes all the time," she said from her Washington office. "So we also regularly review the mission as a result of the assassination attempt."
Gordon said that, for example, the Secret Service had been trying for a long time before the assassination attempt to get magnetometers installed in the White House. But because they were installed a month after the attempt, she and people assumed a cause and effect relationship.
Underground fire evicts community
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
That is not to say, however, that no long-term effects remain from the event. Cigarette said that during a flu outbreak, smoking was
THE HORROR AND RAGE have subsided over the last three years. Other weightier issues have taken precedence, and the events of a rainy day in March three years ago have faded
"Whether it was from the media or from himself, he appeared to be heroic," he said. "He's an old fellow, and he seemed to recover in a way that showed some of the negative circumstances of being old."
The Lawrence City Commission will elect a new mayor tomorrow night, and one commissioner has chosen Commissioner Ernest Angino as the favorite for the job.
But Commissioner Nancy Shontz said yesterday that she brought she should be the ceremonial chair.
Selection of mayor is tomorrow
Branches, wood chips and other debris serve as a reminder to those who pass by Memorial Stadium of last week's devastating ice storm. The cleanup continues.
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Commissioner Howard Hill said he thought that Angino, who is also a KU professor of geology and civil engineering, would be a good choice for mayor.
By United Press International
Residents are preparing to move from Centralia, where fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers of the town's beleaguered families made their living by working in the darkness.
CENTRALIA, Pa. — Generations of memories, turned bleak by a fiery hell of nearly 22 years, are being created and tearfully shipped out of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country
formally released $38.9 million to buy Centralia's homes for families who who
IN A CEREMONY LAST WEEK in Washington,
D.C., the U.S. Office of Surface Mining
Centuries of serenity in the mining town were forever shattered one day in May 1962, when fire struck a garbage-filled mining pit. The underwater cave was uncontrollably to this day — almost 22 years later.
The people of this town 90 miles, northwest of Philadelphia have finally won a victory of sorts in their battle against the underground inferno, but the taste is bitterest.
"We know it's going to happen, but I don't think the reality will sink in until I see people moving," said Thomas Larkin, whose family has lived in the town for five generations.
In addition to fumes, the fire threatens residents with sudden cave-ins and intense heat.
"His is the name I've heard mentioned most often," he said, "I think his thinking is in concert with the rest of the commissioners. I hear he be very comfortable with Ernie as mayor.
"Most of the people I've talked to seem very relieved," he said. "But it's not something I'm looking forward to. Any home where you've been happy and comfortable is hard to leave. It's going to hurt."
His emotions now, like those of his neighbors, are mixed.
Larkin was a founder of Concerned Citizens Against the Centralia Mine Fire, which in 1981 launched the first organized effort to force state and federal officials to recognize the blaze's
See MINE. D. 5, col. 1
Angino and Commissioner Mike Amyx were unavailable for comment yesterday.
MAYOR DAVID LONGHURST said yesterday that he "would just as soon not" be mayor again. Longhurst was elected mayor last April, after voting the most votes in the commission election.
See MAYOR, p. 5, col. 5
Marvin Gaye
Father kills Marvin Gayed during fight
The Rev. Marvin Gaye Sr. picked up a handgun during a dispute over an "insurance matter" at the family home in the Wishite town of Niles, where the upper torso, police Lt. Bob Martin said.
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Singer Marvin Gaye, whose rhythms and blues hits over nearly 25 years included "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" and the 1982 Grammy winner who was shot and killed yesterday by his father, while his mother watched, police said.
Gaye's mother, Alberta, 71, "saw the whole thing," Martin said.
The Motown recording star, who would have been 45 years old today, was pronounced dead minutes after being taken to California Hospital.
Martin said Gaye Sr. 69, being held without bail, as the only suspect and that a murder charge was made.
THE ARGUMENT BEGAN SATURDAY night and erupted again yesterday morning when the younger Gaye called his father to his room. Martin said. The father left the room, followed by his son, and a pushing match took place.
"We don't know who pushed you." Martin said.
Mrs. Gaye interceded and pushed her son back into his room while Gaye Sr. went downstairs. The father returned and shot his son, Martin said. Mrs. Gaye ran next door to the home of another son, Frank, and called police.
Martin said the elder Gaye fired two shots from a .38 caliber revolver at his son in an upstairs bedroom at about 12:30 d.m.
A hospital spokesman said Gaye was brought to the emergency room by Fire Department paramedics at 12:52 p.m. PST with a gunshot wound in the chest. He was
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