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University Daily Kansan, March 22, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
Government safety official testifies about car defects
WASHINGTON A top federal safety official testified yesterday that his agency began investigating General Motors Corp. 1980 model X-cars
Robert Hellmuth, chief of the defects evaluation division of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said government experts found there was something wrong with the vehicles a few months after the X-cars went on the market.
The Justice Department is suing America's largest auto maker to force the recall of 1.1 million 1980 X-cars. It contends the cars have dementia.
Among the models the government is seeking to force GM to recall Chevrolet Citation, Buick Skykid, Pontiac Phoenix and Oldsmobile.
GM is fighting the charges in U.S. District Court.
Final arguments given in rape trial
FALL RIVER, Mass. — Lawyers for four men accused in a barroom gang rape delivered their final arguments to the jury yesterday, saying that the alleged victim had the responsibility to say "no" but instead agreed to have sex.
The defendants are charged with aggravated rape in connection with the March 6, 1983 incident at Rig Dian's Tavern in New Bedford.
The jury was expected to begin deliberations later in the day. In a parallel trial before the same judge, another jury Saturday convicted a defendant of stalking a 16-year-old girl.
Judith Lindahl, the lawyer for defendant Victor Raposo, 23, told the Bristol Superior Court jury that the alleged victim had gone to Big Dan's for "a little fun" and not, as the woman had testified, to buy cigarettes.
ACLU argues for tent cities in D.C.
WASHINGTON — The poor and homeless must be allowed to sleep in tent cities, including one across from the White House, if they are to win the nation's compassion. lawyers told the Supreme Court yesterday.
The American Civil Liberties Union told the court that sleeping en masse in public parks was the only way the homeless could express their plight.
"When the homeless people are isolated and alone they are invisible," ACLU counsel Burt Neuborne told the court.
Neborne argued in behalf of the Community for Creative Non-Violence, a Washington activist group.
The group challenged National Park Service regulations prohibiting sleeping in Lafayette Square, across Pennsylvania Avenue from the Welcome Center.
Tycoon escapes captivity unharmed
TOKYO — A Japanese candy tycoon who was kidnapped from his home Sunday broke his bonds and escaped yesterday from a vacant building where gunmen had held him for nearly $6 million in cash and gold — the largest ransom ever asked in Japan.
Katsuhisa Ezeki, 42, made his break before daylight when his abductors left him unattended in a riverside building in Osaka, Japan's
They said that Ezaki worked loose his ropes, kicked down a door and fled into the streets, ending 65 hours in captivity. Two railway employees helped him to telephone authorities and his wife.
Ezaki was apparently unharmed, a police spokesman said
Brothel owner testifies about bribes
RENO, Nev. — Brothel operator Joe Conforte testified yesterday that he tried to get his lawyer to join a government plot to trap U.S. District Judge Harry Claiborne in a bribery scheme.
Conforte testified for a third straight day at the trial of Claiborne, 66, who was indicted last December on charges of bribery, obstruction of justice and income tax evasion.
Conforte said earlier that he had given Claiborne $85,000 in bribes to scuttle an investigation into his political influence and to overaxe a tax officer.
William Raggio, a former Washoe County district attorney whose legal battles with Conforte date back to 1960, played four tape recordings of telephone calls Conforte made from Rio de Janeiro to a Reno attorney, Stanley Brown Sr., in December 1981.
Heart bypass operations criticized
BOSTON — Almost 35,000 Americans undergo expensive heart surgery each year when they could be treated with drugs alone, according to a study to be published today.
Fifteen large medical centers across the country conducted the study, which found that heart bypass surgery was no more effective at reducing mortality than open surgery.
"Apparently, regardless of the extent of the disease, surgery doesn't prolong lifespan," said Bernard R. Chaltman, professor of medicine at
Of the study's 780 patients, those who had operations had a 5 percent risk of dying from a heart attack within five years. Those who were not operated on had an 8 percent risk.
Ohio police arrest tardy bookworm
CLEVELAND HEIGHTS. Ohio — Thomas MacEwen said he just never bothered to get a library card.
But MacEwen apparently has not needed one. Cleveland Heights police said that he may have been responsible for nearly 4,000 books missing from the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library in the last 20 years.
Police arrested MacEwen last week as he left a branch of the library. He was apparently carrying books, magazines and pamphlets wrapped in newspaper. Police obtained a search warrant and discovered books worth about $50,000 in MacEwen's home.
MacEwen, 55, faces felony charges for the alleged theft. Police are asking for a grand jury indictment,
asking for a grader jury indictment.
Police needed a trailer to remove the 1,300 books they seized. MacEwen, a habitual library-goer, told them, "I never got a library card."
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Lebanese militias ignore cease-fire
By United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon's warring militias ignored a new ceasefire declaration yesterday. Mortar and shellfire crashed into Christian and Muslim neighborhoods alike in Beirut and its suburbs.
The fighting, which reportedly killed at least one person and wounded three, erupted overnight after a nine-day peace conference in Switzerland between leaders of the nation's Christian and Muslim factions ended in failure.
President Amin Gemayel met in Paris with French President Francis Mitterrand to discuss the situation in Iraq and where still maintains 1,250 peacekeepers
IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS concerning the Middle East, President Reagan, yielding to opposition from Congress, yesterday withdrew his offer
In Israel, party leaders in Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir's fragile coalition government failed in meetings yesterday to agree on a date for national elections that appeared almost certain to take place this year.
On the Lebanese front, Gemayel suggested the French contingent could be reassigned and perhaps bolstered, but Amal Shite militia leader Nabih Berri, also in Paris for talks with Mitterand, told reporters French troops would withdraw soon. He gave no date.
to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
In addition, defense officials in Paris said yesterday the army had dispatched a ferry boat from the Mediterranean port of Toulon. They refused to comment on reports that the vessel on land home French soldiers from Lebanon.
Phalangist radio in Lebanon reported
a French boat was headed for Beirut to evacuate France's peace-keeping force, the last of the 5,000 U.S.-Italian-French-British troops sent to Beirut in August 1982. As other Lebanese warlords began returning home from Lausanne, Switzerland, former Prime Minister Saeb Salam and his team flew over a shelling, an end to the smiling, an end to the propanda that hurts."
"I am sorry if the results of the Lausanne conference have shattered the hopes of the Lebanese people. But I believe that we have achieved more," said Salam, a Muslim.
REAGAN'S DECISION on the weapons sale came just eight days after Reagan told a Jewish group that the arms deal was important to the State of the Middle East and improved relations with moderate Arab states.
Murphy told a House panel Wednesday the decision to pull back from the sale of its real estate property.
Assistant Secretary of State Richard
"We are sending a signal — unintentionally as far as the administration is concerned that we are not prepared to support the legitimate needs of both Jordan and Saudi Arabia with those kinds of weapons," he said.
IN A STATEMENT in Amman, the Jordanian government expressed "strong regret" over Reagan's decision to cancel the offer, saying the move is detrimental to the defensive capa- tion of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan."
Hussein's sharp criticism of U.S. policy last week was a another blow to Reagan's peace initiative that has already suffered from the failure of U.S. efforts to end the fighting in Lebanon.
Mondale says that Reagan can be beaten
By United Press International
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Walter Mondale declared yesterday that President Reagan could be beaten.
"My campaign against Mr. Reagan has not yet begun. By the time we get past the nomination, I predict the Democratic Party will be more unified than ever before. The main unifying factor in this administration," he said.
Monday spoke before more than 200 Democratic partisans at a $250-aplate luncheon fund-raiser. He criticized the economic policies of the Republican economic and domestic social policies.
"This administration has a tawdry record of unethical conduct that just pops out of it all the time," said, in reference to allegations of impropriety against Attorney
General-designate Edwin Meese and
Charles Wick, director of the United
States Air Force.
The former vice president, calling himself a "people's Democrat," said that some people suggested he could not be named nor nominated by Renan in the 1980s.
"They're in for the biggest surprise," Mondale said.
AT A PRESS conference before the
teacher said his real fight
with Regina was over.
He said the Reagan administration would find out soon that Americans were against huge deficits, "the trashing of the Civil Rights Commission," the failure to support the Equal Rights Amendment and what he called "assaults" on the environment and bilingual education programs.
"I think the administration is out of
synd. And they're going to find out soon
they're going to be out of the White House, too," he said.
FOLLOWING THE ILINCOIS primary, Mondale had 641 of the 1,967 delegates needed for the nomination, while Sen. Gary Hart had 357, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson had 75. There were 268 uncommitted.
Monday won Illinois by putting together a textbook coalition of Democratic voters that included labor, ethnic groups and senior citizens. Unlike earlier primaries, he stole suburban and young voters away from Hart.
In Illinois, Mondale won 97 of the 17 delegates at stake, and Hart got 39.
MONDALE ALSO WON the Democratic caucuses Tuesday night in his home state of Minnesota, in which 75 delegates were at stake.
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"I think it's too early to say what happened in Illinois," Hart campaign manager Oliver Henkel said. "The effectiveness of the Mondale campaign over the last week . . . its characterization of the Hart campaign as wondering where the beef was, had some effect, it's clear."
Hart said Tuesday night that the Illinois race had strained his campaign finances. The young Hart staff appeared exhausted after the Illinois marathon, and new aids were brought in to assist the teams in the rapidly expanding campaign.
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