University Daily Kansan, March 26, 1984 Page 10
NATION AND WORLD
Geter is bitter after prison release
By United Press International
DENMARK, S.C. — Lennell Geter, a black engineer who spent 16 months in a Texas jail for a crime he did not commit, returned home a free man and joined the judicial system that falsely accuse him "owes humanity something."
"I cannot not truly celebrate until some type of action is taken to protect people from ambitions people in the judicial system," Geter said in a telephone interview from his mother's home in Denmark.
"I realize that I am not the only victim of unjust incarceration in this country," he said. "I don't have any specific case to point to, but reflecting back on my case you can see the system doesn't work 100 percent all the time."
Geter, 26, returned to South Carolina after speaking at a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People leadership forum in Philadelphia Saturday. He said he would return to Texas today to attend a court hearing where prosecutors are scheduled to clear him officially of charges that he robbed a fast-food outlet in a Dallas suburb in 1982.
"I think the judicial system in Texas owes humanity something," Geter said. "They owe humanity the right to seek out the truth, to protect innocent people so they aren't unjustly accused."
Geter also said he planned to return to the prison where he spent more than 10 years in captivity.
"Mostly I want to return to the prison to give the inmates some type of hope, to try and fortify them." Geter said. "I will be coming to them in a spiritual war."
Geter was sentenced to life in prison in 1982 for robbing a fast-fool restaurant in a Dallas suburb — a crime he insisted he did not commit. He blamed his arrest and conviction on sloppy work and a racist judicial system.
In December, Geter won a re-trial that was to begin April 9. But last week, Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade announced that the armed police had been brought and that a suspect had been questioned to Dallas County for questioning.
His lawyers said they were considering filing a civil suit against the bank. But Guter refused to say what sort of monetary settlement he would accept.
Jordan tightens security for queen's visit
By United Press International
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordanian officials, unmerged by a minor bomb blast and the discovery of another explosive device, stepped up security measures yesterday on the eve of a five-day visit by Queen Elizabeth II.
The British monarch and her husband, Prince Philip, meanwhile, flew in a specially equipped aircraft to an overnight stop in Cyprus, where they
met President Spyros Kyprimanou and
military personnel based on the island
Police with automatic weapons guarded entrances of the Jordan Intercontinental Hotel in Amman, Macedonia, shot slightly injured two people Saturday.
A second, larger bomb was found and defused near the hotel parking area, across the street from the U.S. Embassy and 200 yards from the British Embassy.
The parking lot was emptied yesterday, and people entering the hotel, where some 80 British journalists awaited the queen's visit, were carefully screened by uniformed police and plain-clothes security men.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her senior cabinet members met for three hours Saturday before advising not to cancel the visit.
A platoon of crack Special Air Services commandoos was assigned to guard the queen, and details of her equipment were withheld until the last moment.
plane with flares that could be fired to divert a heat-seeking rocket.
A Syrian-based renegade Palestinian group headed by Abu Nidal, who was expelled from the PLO for his extreme political line, was reported to have claimed responsibility for Saturday's bombings.
The British undertook unusual precautions, including fitting the queen's
PIK cited in increase of contaminated grain
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The federal program that pays farmers to hold down crop production has an unanticipated side effect — it is increasing the amount of EDB-contaminated grain on the market, the Environmental Prosecution Agency confirms.
The "Payment-in-Kind," or PIK program, is bringing more grain out of stockpiles, some of which has been extensively tunggated with EDB or ethylene dibromide, a chemical that had been used in kill pests.
Environmental Protection Agency officials said the problem "came up repeatedly" in the agency's plan to redefine EDB in food products.
"EDB is in the older grain," said Al Heier, an EFA spokesman. "The older you get on grain, the more chance you have of it being fumigated and the more chance EDB will come up."
Heier said EPA officials concluded that the problem was beyond
their authority "because the PIK program was drawing to a close by the time we began looking at EDB contamination last year."
The problem was first reported in the latest editions of Mother Jones magazine.
The PK program pays farmers "in kind," giving them grain from government stockpiles when they leave land unplanted. It was intended to reduce government food stockpiles and stabilize crop prices.
Richard Johnson, an EPA official involved in EDB policy, told Mother Jones that federal officials had very little information on how much DLB contaminated grain has gone to the market because of the PIK program.
"We just know that the PIK program has a lot to do with the high levels of EDB we're finding in grains," he told the magazine.
Heier said the chances of EDB contamination in stockpiled grain is much higher, "because we estimate that less than 5 percent or so of the grain harvested last year was treated with EDB."
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Spring Budget Hearings For the Student Activity Fee For Fiscal Year 1985
The following groups will be presenting their budgets to the Student Senate Financial Committee:
Mon., March 26
Parlors; Kansas Union
KU German Club
Tues., March 27 Kansas Room; Kansas Union
KU Karate Club Business Placement
Music Therapy Stud
RCA Corman Club
Latin America Solidarity
Eli Kovac Club
Biochemistry Club
Alpha Phi Chi Faculty
Stella Club Kansas Defender Project
Gamma Theta Upsilon
Consumer Affairs
Young Americans
KU Rifle Club
Biology Club
For Freedom
Ad Astra L-5
KU Volleyball
Rugby Club
Task Force
Commission on the Status
Dialogues For East-West
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