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University Daily Kansan, January 20, 1984
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International Texas county coroner rules general's death a suicide
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Maj. Gen. Robert G. Ownby, deeply in debt, bound and then hanged himself trying to convince authorities he was executed by terrorists, a medical examiner ruled yesterday.
Bexar County Medical Examiner Vincent Di Maio said that an autopsy and Army and FBI investigations proved that the death was suicide.
But Ownyb's brother, Ralph Ownyb, a doctor at Children's Hospital in Richmond, Va., said his family did not accept Di Maio's report.
"The total picture of Robert, his life and accomplishments, does not add up to suicide." Ralph Ownby said.
Aid needed to avert African famine
told up to suicides. Trewar 04.18 sold.
Owby, 48, commander of the 90th Army Reserve Command, was found hanging in a stairwell Jan. 11 at reserve command headquarters at Fort Sam Houston.
Chronic drought, civil war and agricultural Bighits have taken a toll on the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization said in a report,
NAIROBI, Kenya — A United Nations agency warned yesterday that 24 impoverished African nations face severe food shortages this year and urgently need 1.6 million tons of food to prevent widespread famine.
The report, released in Nairobi, Kenya, said Africa urgently needed at least 1.6 million tons of food and about $100 million in agricultural aid annually.
"The response is still far from commensurate with the minimum requirements" of the 150 million people in the 24 affected nations, the report said.
Police link pair to two more deaths
MONROE, La. — Police who have traced the movements of confessed mass killers Henry Lee Lucas and Otis Elwood Toole during the past decade said yesterday that the two Elwood been linked to a pair of previously unsolved slayings.
previously unserved by stray. The findings raised to 59 the number of murders police are certain Lucas and Toole have committed. They have confessed to 200 killings in at least 17 states.
No recovery for blacks,leader savs
WASHINGTON — The state of black America is a disaster, but blacks are gaining political clout that both Democratic and Republican parties will have to reckon with in this election year, the head of the National Urban League said yesterday.
"While white Americans celebrate a long-overdue economic recovery and a falling unemployment rate, black America is buried in a depression of crushing proportions," Urban League chief John Jacob told a news conference. "The plain ugly fact is that there is no recovery for black Americans."
Stock market loses ground again
NEW YORK — The stock market lost ground yesterday in fairly active trading that indicated Wall Street was confused.
IBM, a trendsetter the past two years, dropped in price for the second consecutive session although the computer giant reported sharply higher fourth-quarter earnings.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 3.35 to 1,266.02. It has been backtracking since last week, when it approached its Nov. 29 all-time high of 1,297.20.
The New York Stock Exchange index fell 0.30 to 96.60 and the price of an average share decreased 11 cents. Declines led advances 918-712 among the 2,039 issues traded at 3 p.m.
West is lax on drug use, report says
VIENNA, Austria — The International Narcotics Control Board yesterday warned that "permissiveness" toward narcotics use in the West threatened the global battle against drug abuse.
In its report for 1983, the board, a United Nations body, said record seizures of cocaine and heroin revealed an "alarming growth in abuse."
The report said, "There are disquieting signs that in the face of the magnitude of the problem, determination may sometimes be giving way to permissiveness.
Williams loses bid to delay jail term
NEW YORK — Former Sen. Harrison Williams Jr. lost a desperate last-minute bid yesterday to delay "the inevitable," the start of a three-year jail term for his Abscam conviction.
wumams, 64, was to report by midnight yesterday to a federal penitentiary in Allenwood, Pa. He was convicted in 1982 for bribery and conspiracy.
"The whole damn thing is rotten." Williams said. "If should never happen, but it's happening, so we have to stay in there and fight."
Williams' attorney, Norman Buntain, said he had not decided whether to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 1-20-84
Today will be cold over most of the country.
605. Today, likely will be partly cloudy and cold, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. The high will be around 15.
Tonight will be partly cold and冷. The low will be around 20°.
Tomorrow will be sunny and not as cold. The high will be in the 20s.
CORRECTION
Wednesday's Kansas incorrectly reported the date of the Lawrence City Commission elections. The elections will be in April 1985.
CLARIFICATION
Because of a copy editor's error, a headline in yesterday's Kansan about cable television implied that a Lawrence cable company does not prosecute for cable theft.
The company this year has filed 20 complaints with the Douglas County District Attorney's office, the company's manager said.
Court refuses to hear self-starvation case
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court yesterday denied the request of quadriplegie Elizabeth Bouvia to be allowed to carry out her "death wish" by starving herself under the state's doctors' Act on General Hospital.
By United Press International
THE STATE SUPREME Court agreed with Riverside County, which held that Bouvie's goal was suicide and the killing of a victim of police violence we citizens the right to kill themselves
Riverside General Hospital administrator Neil Assay said the hospital was relieved at the ruling, and had no immediate plans to evict Bouvia.
In a one-line order, the court upheld a lower court ruling and refused to hear the 26-year-old cerebral palsy victim's request for medical care. He was rela- tated in constitutional right to privacy.
"It is self-evident that the right to privacy does not include the right to commit suicide," Barbara Miliiken, attorney for Riverside County, near Los Angeles, said in papers filed with the court. "To characterize a person's crime acts as entitled to that constitutional protection would be ludicrous."
"We will do whatever needs to be done for her welfare until some plan is in place."
Bouvia, who is separated from her husband, said she no longer wants to
THE HOSPITAL, her estranged husband and several groups representing the disabled fought her, arguing that if her request were granted hospitals would become "dispensers of death on demand"
live in a "useless" body. When the hospital refused to grant her desire to be denied nourishment, she went to the city district of the American Civil Liberties Union.
When a lower court ruled that she did not have the right to violate the ethics of others by asking them to assist her in making a decision, the judge appealed to the state's highest court.
The hospital has asked her to leave because she no longer needs hospital care.
Bouvia admitted herself to the county hospital's psychiatric ward last September.
Milliken said she was "extremely delighted and happy" about yesterday's ruling. The attorney said earlier that the case had affected her very deeply because the issues were so important.
force-fed.
However, she said she does not think this is the end of the case. Bouvia's attorneys can appeal to the U.S. court to override the state courts for another general.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which supported Bouria's legal action, said it was evaluating the next step it would take on her behalf
No progress made on renewing talks, Shultz says
By United Press International
OSLO, Norway — Secretary of State George Shultz conceded yesterday that he failed to make progress in his meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko on renewing nuclear arms negotiations.
But Gromkyo knotted to other Western officials that Moscow might want to resume negotiations soon on troop reductions in Europe.
"I have nothing positive to report to you," Shultz said at a news conference in Oslo a day after he held five hours of talks with Gromyke in Stockholm.
"The situation is unchanged," said Shultz, concluding a six-hour visit to the Norwegian capital, where he met government officials and King Olav V, before returning to Washington.
THE SOVIETS HAVE refused to return to the Geneva negotiations on limiting medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe until NATO dismantles the Pershing 2 and cruise missiles it began deploying in December to counter a Soviet force of more than 300 missiles.
Moscow also has declined to set a date for the resumption of talks on strategic missiles despite President Reagan's call in a speech Monday to make nuclear arms talks the top priority in a renewed dialogue with the Kremlin.
The other jeopardized U.S.-Soviet talks are negotiations on the reduction
"We had a discussion of the nuclear arms question, but discussion isn't quite the right word," Shultz said "talking about the nuclear weapons we made on headway on that subject."
of conventional forces in Europe, the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction
WEST GERMAN FOREIGN Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, who met Gromkyo Wednesday, "got the impression the Soviet Union would be willing to agree on a resumption of the MHPR for three months." Genscher's spokesman said.
The MBFR talks began in Vienna in October 1973. Moscow suspended the talks Dec. 15, refusing to agree on a resumption date.
Shulz would not comment on Gen-
scher's report, but did say the talks on
reducing conventional forces are in a dif-
ferent phase. He said he believed
Steve Unton from the nuclear arms
The Shultz-Gromyko meeting was the first time they had met since they were reunited.
September is concerning the Soviet downing a Korean Air Lines plane.
In his speech to the security conference in Stockholm, Shultz called for the Soviets to return to the bargaining table in Geneva.
BUT GROMYKO TOLD the conference that the United States was preparing for nuclear war against his country. "We have no intention of resuming negotiations."
I found his characterizations of the United States incorrect and unjustified.
The usually cautious Shultz was being even more conservative in speaking in public or in private about the talks. Official sources indicated that the talks had caused the bitterness among conflicts between the two superpowers.
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