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University Daily Kansan, January 24, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD News briefs from UPI
North Sea storms postpone search for toxic herbicide
COPENHIAGEN, Denmark — Raging storms and high seas kept a specially equipped rescue ship from leaving port yesterday to search for 80 barrels of poisonous herbicide washed overboard from the freighter "Dana Optima" in a North Sea storm Jan 13.
The storm raised fears that the 20-tonne cargo of "Dinosob" weed killer may have burst on the ocean floor. The Danish Environment Ministry is investigating.
"A small quantity of the substance inadvertently splashed on a fisherman's skin will kill him," a spokesman for Denmark's environmental council said yesterday.
"Our worries for marine life are of a secondary nature as the substance dissolves reasonably slowly in water," he said.
The storms sweeping the North Sea were expected to continue until as late as tomorrow, increasing the risk of damage to the barrels.
Derailment forces 300 from homes
JACKSON, Tenn. — Four propane tankers hooked to an Illinois Central Gulf train derailed yesterday, forcing evacuation of almost 300 people in an industrial area, police said.
people in Police L1. Bob Gillilant said 200 to 300 people were evacuated after the derailment. Officials prepared to evacuate an eight-story apartment building that houses elderly people.
Teams of emergency officials immediately evacuated a half-mile area around the derailment, which left one tanker leaning precariously off the tracks.
of the trails.
The derailment occurred at about 3:15 p.m. CST as the trains were crossing L&N switching tracks. Officials do not know what caused the derailment.
Judge won't postpone De Lorean trial
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge yesterday denied a government attempt to delay the drug trial of automaker John De Lorean one week and postponed a decision on a defense request to dismiss the case because of pretrial publicity.
U. S. District Judge Robert Takasugi ordered the trial to begin on schedule March 6 despite a request by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry to postpone it until March 13 so he could attend an out-of-town speaking engagement.
Takasugi excused Perry from appearing in 'court on the first day of trial, however
D le Loran, 59, faces trial on charges he attempted to organize a drug deal involving 220 pounds of cocaine in October 1982 to raise money to pay for his son's college.
Prisoner gets a stay of execution
STARKE, Fla. — Anthony Antee, Florida's oldest condemned prisoner at 66, was granted a temporary stay of execution early today, just six hours before he was to have died in the electric chair.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta gave Antone until soon EST tomorrow to appeal his stay to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The stay was issued by Chief Judge John Godbold and judges Paul Roney and Gerald Topfat at around midnight, six hours before Antone's
Antewa waited calmly for death yesterday as his attorneys made two last-minute appeals that could halt the execution.
U. S. District Judge George Carr rejected a stay of execution in Tampa earlier Monday, and Antone's attorneys immediately took their case to the 11th U.S. Court of Appeals.
Antone, 66, was convicted of being the go-between in the hired murder of former Tampa vice squad Sgt. Richard Cloud in 1975.
Wick violated rules by taping calls
WASHINGTON — U.S. Information Agency chief Charles Wick violated federal regulations by secretly recording telephone conversations, the General Services Administration said yesterday.
Frank Carr, assistant GSA administrator, said in a Jan. 20 letter to Wick that the agency "has failed to implement the Federal Property Management Regulation relating to the listening in and recording of telephone conversations."
The regulation forbids recording telephone conversations without both parties' consent unless the taping is done for such reasons as law enforcement or public safety.
TORONTO — After keeping Canada in suspense for nine days, a Canadian couple earning $440 a week claimed an $11.1 million lottery jackpot yesterday — the largest tax-free prize ever won in North America.
Stuart and Lillian Kelly, of Brantford, Ontario, said they wanted to buy a new home, travel to Florida and save the remainder of their winnings from the Lotto 6/49 jackpot.
whilings from the factory. Both quit their jobs. Mr. Kelly, 57, had worked as a truck driver for 35 years and earned about $200 a week. His wife, 54, had been employed for a dry cleaning company for 31 years and earned about $120 a week.
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CORRECTIONS
Because of a copy editor's error, the Kansan yesterday incorrectly reported that the University Senate would consider approving a plan for a new student body presidential election. The proposal will be considered Thursday by the Student Senate.
Because of an editor's error, yesterday's Kanans incorrectly reported that Gordon Jump, who portrayed television's Arthur Carlson in "WKRP in Cincinnati," played the part of a child molester in the 1980s soap. He portrayed the part in one episode of "Different Strokes."
Because of an editor's error, a guest column in Monday's Kansan incorrectly reported that KU military-research contracts totalled nearly a quarter of a million dollars in fiscal year 1983. The contracts totalled nearly three-quarters of a million dollars.
Court affirms death-penalty laws
Rv United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court turned back a major challenge to death penalty yesterday. It said that the Constitution did not require that more safeguards be added to the already lengthy review of death penalty cases.
The justices, in a 7-2 decision, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that required state courts to compare every capital punishment case with all first-degree murder cases in the state to make sure the decision to impose the death sentence was not biased or arbitrary.
In another major decision, the high court ruled 5-4 that there were limits on how far federal courts could go in ordering states to comply with their
THE JUSTICES OVERTURNED a U.S. appeals court order requiring Pennsylvania to transfer as many mentally retarded patients as possible out of its troubled Pennhurst State School to community treatment facilities. The lower court had based its ruling on a state law that required such patients to be placed in the least restrictive setting.
rejected a safeguard known as "proportionality review." Justice Byron White, writing for the majority, said a state's capital punishment law could be constitutional without providing for such a review.
In the death penalty case, the court
"Proportionality review was considered to be an additional safeguard against arbitrarily imposed death sentences, but we certainly did not hold (in prior cases) that comparative constitutionally required." White said.
The decision clears the way for California to proceed with the execution of Robert Alton Harris, who would become the first inmate in that state executed since the high court approved use of capital punishment in 1976. However, Harris may still appeal on other grounds.
Harris, one of 151 men on San Quentin's death row, received the news "calmly." said prison spokeswoman Lt. Suzan Hubbard.
JUSTICES WILLIAM BRENNAN JR. and Thurgood Marshall, traditional
"He seems to be in good spirits and told us he knows his attorneys have other appeals in the process," she said. Unless one of his other appeals is successful, Harris could receive an official notice for later this year, officials said.
Mark Cutter, a state deputy public defender, said the decision was not unanimous.
"I can't say I am surprised," he said, noting that the jutices expressed doubts about the need for propor-
tional restraint and arguments in the case late last year.
opponents of capital punishment under any circumstances, were the two men who killed an elephant in 1974.
"But I am disappointed in the ruling," Culler said. "It will certainly make the possibility of executions in England likely in the foreseeable future."
THE RULING IN HARRIS's case also clears up some potential problems with the capital punishment law in Texas, which does not require a comparative review. The state has been barred from executing condemned convicts during the high court's consideration of the Harris case.
White, author of yesterday's opinion, had signed an order saving Texas death row inmate James "Cowboy" Autry from execution just minutes before he was to be by lethal injection last October. White had ordered the execution put off until the court decided the proportionality issue.
TEXAS OFFICIALS SAID yesterday's decision meant Autry could
expect a new execution date soon. But Autry's attorney, Stelan Pressler of the American Civil Liberties Union, said he did not expect another execution date to be released because of its partial portability decision only partially cleared the way for Autry's execution
"There's still the incompetence of counsel issue and also there's an Eighth Amendment claim that they tortured him." Presser said.
In dissenting from the decision, breeman chastised the majority for not voting.
In other actions, the court
- Held 6-3 that federal arbitration law generally barred California courts from reversing settlements reached through arbitration.
- Rejected a Texas man's contention that he had a constitutional right to detain
- Refused, unanimously, to allow an Ohio educator to sue her former employers in federal court for alleged misconduct. In a state judge ruled on the dispute
*Refused to hear a challenge of North Carolina's compulsory education law by a Pentacostalist who said he was not supposed to school violated his religious beliefs.
Cabinet moves set no records
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan has replaced six of his 13 original Cabinet members in three years. But the top-level turnover in his administration is no record — in either numbers or turmoil.
Since taking office Jan. 20, 1981, Reagan has had to find new secretaries of state, health and human services, and an attorney, interior, and now an attorney general.
Only the departures of Alexander Haig from the State Department and James Watt from the Interior Department involved known disputes within the administration or could be described as resignations under fire.
HAIG LEFT UNDER his own power but with his nose distinctly out of joint over his failure to prevail as "the vicar" of administration foreign policy. Watt departed after a series of brouhahs culminated by his notorious
description of an advisory committee
as composed of a black, a woman, "two"
men.
HHS Secretary Richard Schweiker and Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis left for big money private jobs; Energy Secretary James Edwards resigned to become a college president. Like Attorney General William French Smith, who quit Sunday to "return to private life," none of them were known to have gotten in hot water at the White House.
Reagan has had nothing yet like the Cabinet shakeouts of Richard Nixon, who had 17 changes in Cabinet slots in less than six years in the White House. The Nixon years included the "Saturday Night Massacre" when Eliot Richardson, one of his four attorneys, resigned rather than fire Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. William Ruckelshaus, now in line at the Justice Department, was dismissed for refusing the same order.
THE ALL-TIME RECORD appears
to be held by John Tyler, who inherited William Henry Harrison's Cabinet after the president died one month after the inauguration in 1841.
Tyler was the first vice president to succeed to the presidency and the six-member Cabinet held the opinion should be called "acting president."
Tyler dumped five of the six Harrison Cabinet members within six months. His term lasted only three years and 332 days, but he made 26 changes in a Cabinet only half as large as the present one.
ANDREW JACKSON ALSO had a wholesale Cabinet bloodletting, getting rid of everybody but the postmaster general in 1831.
The basic cause of the upset was conflict between Jackson and Vice President John C. Calhoun, but the episode that brought it into the open ended storyline was Calhoun and other Cabinet wives to socially accept Peggy O'Neale Eaton.
Fatal collision worst in state history
By United Press International
KALISPELL, Mont — The county attorney met with law officers yesterday to determine whether criminal charges would be filed in the worst highway accident in Montana on Monday, a high school bus that killed nine people.
Flathead County Attorney Ted Lympus said before the meeting with Sheriff Chuck Rhodes and state highway patrol officials that if no charges are filed he will ask for a coroner's inquest to determine the cause of the crash.
Four cheerleaders were among those killed when the bus carrying the Whitefish, Mont. High School wrestling team collided with the jackknifed truck on icy U.S. Highway 2 near Glacier National Park Saturday night.
OFFICIALS IN FLATHEAD COUNTY identified the cheerleaders as Pamela Fredenberg, Kim Downley, Tracy Stiefman and Stefanie Daily, all 16, of Whitefish.
Also killed in the crash were Jim Withrow, head coach of the team; assistant coach team Davis, 25; his wife, Jana, 24; their son, Casey, 2, all of Whitefish, and the bus driver, Jim Byrd, 35, of Columbia Falls, Mont.
Nineteen others were injured in the accident, which police said was the worst highway accident in state history, one of the injuries was hospitalized.
The bus, carrying about 25 people, had been chartered to take the high school wrestling team and its supporters to a tournament in Browning.
The driver of the truck, Harold Belcher, 63, of Cut Bank, Mont., said the empty fuel tanker "just slipped away" from him on the snowswest highway and jackknifed. The bus crashed into the rig and both vehicles burst into flames, authorities said.
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