NATION AND WORLD University Daily Kansan, March 20, 1984 Page 11 Assault suspect crashes into tree on Capitol Hill By United Press International WASHINGTON — A New Jersey youth accused of firing a gun at a Capitol Police car yesterday slammed his car into a tree on Capitol Hill and was critically injured with a bullet wound to the head, authorities said. District of Columbia police identified the suspect as Timmy Gideon, 17, of Lawnside, N.J. He was listed in critical condition, but no critical capital, where he was under police guard. Gideon was charged as an adult with assault with intent to kill while armed, following the 10:10 a.m. incident near the U.S. Capitol. U. S. Capitol Police, who are responsible for guarding the Capital and vicinity, said four shots were fired at the car — and one entered the driver's side of the vehicle. No officers were hit. The shooting occurred when the cruiser "was traveling east on Independence Avenue and was fired upon by an unidentified subject in a passing car," said Jim Battle, a city police spokesman. Police said the officers chased the vehicle for several blocks, until it jumped a curb and plowed into a tree. Gideon was found suffering a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to D.C. General Hospital in critical condition. City homicide detectives were trying to determine if the head wounds were accidental or self-inflicted, Battle said. Investigators said they knew no motive for the shooting. Police search for kidnappers of Japanese candy-firm owner By United Press International TOKYO — Hundreds of police officers set up checkpoints yesterday in search of two masked gunmen who snatched a candy tycoon from his bath room. The kidnappers demanded $4.5 million and 220 pounds of gold in ransom. More than 300 officers and 40 patrol cars were mobilized and checkpoints set up on highways near Osaka in central Japan after the Sunday night kidnapping of the Eziki Glco Co., a candy and ice cream manufacturer. wearing white skis masks and black jumpsups burst in. The kidnappers, one armed with a pistol, the other with an air gun, first broke into his 70-year-old mother's house next door and forced her to turn over the keys to the main house, according to police and press reports. Entering the main building, the gunned encounter Ezaki's wife Mikeo, 33, and daughter Mariko, 18, entered the two and locked them in a restroom. The victim was then forced from the bathroom and led naked to a red getaway car, the reports said. PLO says bid for Olympics has support By United Press International STUTTGART, West Germany — A Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman said in statements published yesterday that he was sure several countries had been involved in Los Angeles if the PLO's bid to send a team failed. Ezaki's firm was founded by his grandfather in 1922 and last year recorded more than $68 million in sales. PLO representative Abdullah Frangi said that the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich was prompted by rejection of LO request to take part in the games. Frangi told the Stuttgart Nachrichten newspaper that he was certain many states would refuse to compete if the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne rejected the PLO application. She said that the IOC was aware of reports about the comments of PLO officials regarding participation but had not received an official PLO application and therefore had no position. An IOC spokesman made it clear that PLO participation was out of the question. She said that in order to participate in the games, a country must have a national Olympic committee, and the creation of such a committee depends on a state having a territory of jurisdiction. The PLO, she said, would not qualify because it does not fulfill the requirements. BAGHIDAD, Iraq — Iraq said yesterday that its jets pounded Iranian targets east of Basra, and a U.N. team returned to Geneva to report on its investigation of charges that was using chemical weapons in the 42-month-old Gulf war. By United Press International Iraq says its jets hit Iranian targets "Iraqi air force jets raided Iranian targets east of Basra, scoring direct and effective hits, and then returned all safely to base," the Iraqi military said in a communique on action during the past day. The Iraqis said that their forces killed and wounded "a number of enemy soldiers, while a vehicle, an observation post and a weapon emplacement were destroyed." They also said that Iran continued its artillery shelling of the southern port of Basra and the border town of Mandali. The Iranian news agency IRNA said that Iranian forces had "inflicted considerable losses and casualties" on an Iraqi company who tried to infiltrate Iranian troop positions" on the western battlefront Sunday. RNA said that long-range Iraqi artillery fire damaged at least 20 houses and shops in the southern Iranian city of The U.N. experts concluded a six-day visit to Iran and returned to Geneva after inspecting areas in the war zone where Iran claimed that mustard gas and mycotoxin, or other toxicants, had been released. U. N. spokesman Therese Gastaut said that the experts would prepare a detailed report in Geneva for U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez De Cuellar, who would decide whether their report would be made public. The experts visited "those afflicted by the chemical warfare, hospitalized in Tehran and Havaz, and talked with doctors of the hospitals and the victims," said IRNA, as monitored in London. "The fact-finding delegation also visited sites of the Iraqi deployment of toxic chemical weapons and took samples of weapons sites in Iraq."1 IRNA reported last Friday that members of the delegation were overcome by "chemical dunt" while inspecting the lab. Another 15 Iranian soldiers allegedly suffering from chemical weapon poisoning left Tehran yesterday for England, the Netherlands and Belgium for treatment, IRNA said. It was the fifth group of Iranians to be sent to European countries and Japan for treatment for what Iran says are injuries inflicted by chemical weapons. So far, 40 Iranians have been sent abroad. Six have died. Israeli party to ask for early national elections By United Press International November 1985 unless new elections were called. TEL AVIV, Israel - A key coalition partner yesterday announced plans to call early national elections in Israel, boosting the prospects of new balloting by summer. The startling announcement by the TAMI party came three days before the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, was to debate a motion by the opposition Labor party to hold new elections within 100 days. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said through a spokesman that he was opposed to new elections because they would disrupt government efforts to heal the Israeli economy. But he insisted that voters the voters confidently if his elections were settled upon. Shamir took over as prime minister from Menachem Begin six months ago, and his full term would run through TAMI controls three of the 64 votes Shamir's coalition counts on in the 120-member Knesset. Labor can muster 56 votes, including six from two smaller opposition factions. TAMI leader Aharon Abuhatzeira announced in a television interview his party's plans to seek early elections, saying he would vote for him. "We have reached the conclusion that we must have new elections as soon as possible for the good of the government, the country and the people," Abuhazeitra said. He said the economic situation, particularly the runaway inflation, tinged the balance in favor of early balloting. Government figures released last week put the inflation rate for February at 12 percent, projecting an annual 300 percent to 400 percent inflation in 1984. Recent polls put the Labor party ahead of the Likud if elections were held today.