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University Daily Kansan, January 19, 1984
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International Salvadoran judge set to release jailed witness
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A Salvadron judge said yesterday that he would release a jailed army captain that the United States had wanted to testify in the case of two murdered Americans — a blow to U.S. hones for prosecution.
6.10. Reporter, public prosecutor
Capt. Eduardo Ernesto Alfonso Avila was scheduled to be released from National Police headquarters late yesterday, completing a 30-day sentence, said Judge Nelson Garcia in a telephone interview.
U. S. diplomats said that Avila, implicated by a confession that triggermen had made in the 1981 murders of two American land-reform experts and a Salvadoran official, could testify against another officer linked to the case.
The jailed triggermen, both national guard agents, have testified that they had received orders and weapons from Avila and Lopez Sibrian to kill the Americans, Michael Hammer, Mark David Pearlman, along with Jose Rodolfo Viera, director of the Salvadoran Agrarian Reform Institute.
'Onion Field' killer may be paroled
VACAVILLE, Calif. — "Onion Field" killer Gregory Powell yesterday spent what could be his last full day in prison by jogging, packing his belongings and hoping that a last-minute court order will not block his freedom.
Powell, 49, was scheduled to be paroled to San Diego County from the California Medical Facility at Vacaville this morning. As he waited, the state attorney general continued a court battle aimed at keeping him in prison for the killing of a Los Angeles policeman.
picket for the killing of a Los Angeles police officer.
The state last week asked the 1st District Court of Appeals in San Francisco to postpone Powell's release pending a full hearing on the parole case.
Powell and Jimmie Lee Smith were twice convicted and given death sentences for the 1963 murder of policeman Ian Campbell in an onion field near Bakersfield. The death sentences were overturned on appeal, and Smith was paroled in December 1982.
Heating oil rises by 5 cents a gallon
U. S. homeowners can expect to pay 5 cents a gallon more for heating oil this month than the same time last year because cold winter weather has triggered a steep run-up in wholesale prices, analysts said yesterday.
yesterday.
In late December an unprecedented cold wave froze production sites in the Texas natural gas fields that supply the huge network of refineries on the Gulf Coast. The temporary gas shortage forced many large refineries to shut down for several weeks and home-heating oil production plummeted just as demand escalated.
polluted water as gems or diamonds. Since the cold spell crippled the refineries, the main home-heating oil suppliers have raised wholesale prices by between 5 cents and 8 cents to the 90 cent-a gallon range.
The nation's home-heating oil stocks have dropped to a 22-year low, analysts said.
'83 best year for housing since '79
The annual rate of new construction starts was 1.667 million, using December figures after seasonal adjustment.
WASHINGTON — December's bitter cold helped slow down new housing construction by 5 percent, but 1983 still ended as the best year for the industry since 1979, the Commerce Department said yesterday. The annual rate of new construction starts was 1.667 million, using
The December report closed the books on 1983 when the total number of housing units reached an estimated 1.703 million. That was 60.3 percent ahead of 1982's housing anemia and close to the figures during five years of the 1970s when housing started topped 2 million.
The December setback was nearly as much as November's revised 5.5 percent increase. The decline occurred entirely in single-family home construction, down 11.4 percent. Multiple-family apartment building was up 5.6 percent in December.
Stanford drops Reagan library plan
STANFORD, Calif. — A White House plan to build a complex to house President Reagan's papers at Stanford University has fallen through because the school refuses to relinquish control of the facility, Stanford University President Donald Kennedy said yesterday.
He said Stanford's insistence on having control of the presidential library was "absolutely unacceptable" to the White House.
Reagan, through key aides, had proposed that a library and public affairs complex be set up at Stanford as part of the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank on the campus.
This drew heavy criticism from many faculty members and students who did not want the library associated with Hoover.
Grandma's try to extort money fails
HENRYETTA, Okla. — A 63-year-old grandmother's second unsuccessful attempt to rob a bank through extortion apparently was a feeble move to help her "pitiful" family, authorities and friends said yesterday.
Ethel Fogel, who friends say wears a back brace because of injuries from a bus wreck, was arrested after allegedly phoning a $250,000 extortion threat to the First National Bank in Henryetta.
The woman apparently was living on a farm in Hanna with her elderly husband, a son who recently lost his job and a grandson attending high school. The woman committed her only daughter to a mental institution recently.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST to 7 PM EST 1-19-84
Snow is forecast for the northeast part of the country. However, no snow is expected locally. Today and tomorrow should be sunny with the highs in the teens. Tonight and Friday, the sky will be clear to partly cloudy. The lows for both nights will remain around 10 degrees below zero.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporter's error, the date in the Lawrence City Commission elections was not correct in yesterday's Kansan. The elections will be in April.
Because of a reporter's error, the name of Prentice Gaunt, director of the Big Eight Conference Service Bureau, was misspelled in a story about athletic ineligibility in Tuesday's Kansan.
Police reject demands to investigate suicide of confessed killer of family
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Police have ended an investigation into the slavings of a newspaper editor's family and a series of other crimes despite demands for a grand jury investigation into the jailhouse suicide of the confessed killer, a prosecutor said yesterday.
By United Press International
Allen County Prosecutor Stephen M Sims said that charges against Calvin Perry III, 18, officially had been dismissed and that he was that certain Perry had been the lone assailant in the attacks.
"I want the public to know that there was absolutely no doubt in my mind at the time the cases were filed that they were appropriate and that the defendant in fact did the allegations in the charges," Sims said.
Sims said that he would have no comment on the request from Fort Wayne Mayor Winteld Mosee Jr for a letter from Perry's jainahouse hangout Tuesday.
ABOUT 900 PEOPLE went to a meeting Tuesday night of the Fort Wayne Ministerial Alliance, a black coalition that aims to lessen tension over Perry's death.
But he said that he would review evidence in the Perry case with leaders of the black community who have asked for an independent investigation. He said he would open all his files to federal prosecutors if they wished to review the case.
But the Allen County coroner said he was sure Perry's death was a suicide.
"There is absolutely no question that this is a suicide," said Dr. Roland
SIMS SAID VIDEOTAPED confessions that Perry had given police shortly after his arrest Jan. 5 would be made public in the near future. He said that Perry's accounts of the September 11 attacks, including his News-Sentinel editor Daniel Osborne and Osborne's wife and son included facts known only to the police.
Ahlbrand. "There is not another injury on his body."
The teenager, who had confessed to a five-month string of stabbings, rapes, robberies and to the fatal beatings of the Osborne family, hung himself in the Allen County Jail, leaving behind no evidence. He said, "I haven't killed nobody."
Perry's death came less than a day after he was charged with three counts of child abuse.
Reagan meets with Malaysian leader
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Middle East was a point of disagreement yesterday in a two-hour meeting between President Reagan and Malaysian Prime Minister Matathir bin Mohamad, a senior administration official said yesterday.
"Although we have differing views on certain aspects of this complicated situation, we both seek an end to the problem and need the area for too long." Reagan said.
As a non-aligned Islamic nation, Malaysia recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization. But the official said that Reagan explained U.S. opposition to direct dealings with Yasser Arafat and the PLO.
Reagan and Matathir discussed a
wide range of issues, including relations with the Soviet Union, China, Japan and Cambodia and prospects for U.S. business investment in Malaysia.
Mahathir, a physician-turned-politician, said, "The overall relations between Malaysia and the United States are excellent, with both our countries sharing similar values and concerns."
WHERE THE TWO DISAGREE, he said, "there is a willingness on the part of the United States to achieve closer understanding and cooperation."
A White House official said that Matthias needed to understand what the president was doing.
"The president and the vice president explained very forcefully and quite clearly the concern we have about
dealing with Arafat as long as the PLO continue to refuse to recognize Israel's
"They made it very clear how difficult it is to deal with an organization that denies the right to exist to a country that's a member of the United Nations and a close friend of ours," he said.
"Obviously," the official said, "we would be seeking to encourage any friends of Mr. Arafat', or any people who do communicate with him, to understand that position of the United States, possibly there could be some progress."
Mahathir said his country, which receives no U.S. aid, does "not expect handouts" but hopes to find new areas of cooperation between the two countries.
Senators recommend delay on access charges
primarily by Republicans. Dole recommended that the commission delay the flat monthly fees — starting at $2 for residential customers — until 1983 to allow time to assess the impact of the cost of American Telephone & Telegraph
By United Press International
The letter also recommended that "if, after additional review, it is concluded that access charges should be ordered sometime during this
decade, they be capped at a maximum of $4 and that small rural (telephone) companies be exempt from the order due to the high cost of those operations." Dole said.
Rescuers ran against time to reach the trapped miners, hoping to get to them before their oxygen ran out.
WASHINGTON — Thirty-two senators led by Robert Dole, R-Kan., asked the Federal Communications Commission yesterday to impose a one-year moratorium on telephone access charges scheduled to take effect April 3.
THE LETTER ASKED that the discounted rates paid by competing long distance telephone companies are higher than the local connection to local lines be altered.
In a letter to the agency signed
24 miners die;
48 more remain trapped inside
Fire rages in a Japan coal mine
TOKYO — A fire race through one of Japan's largest coal mines yesterday, killing 24 miners and injuring 23 others, authorities said. At least 48 miners still were trapped underground.
The fire erupted in the Ariake mine in Takada, about 550 miles west of Tokyo, where 438 miners were killed and Mr. Ono's worst coal mine disaster in 1963.
By United Press International
"The rescue work is progressing, but very slowly," a police spokesman said.
Officials of the Mitsui Coal Mining Co said that about 100 rescue workers in the mine had extinguished the fire but were blocked by heavy smoke from reaching the trapped miners. A record snowfall hampered the movements of workers and tools above ground.
THE CASUALTY TOLL reached 24 dead and 23 injured by 8:30 a.m. yesterday, more than 20 hours after the fire erupted, police said.
"But 48 people are still trapped inside," an official said.
A spokesman said, "rescueers have reported they still were unable to reach the scene deep inside the pit because of heavy smoke," with the fire still smouldering hours after it broke out.
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THE FIRE STARTED in the afternoon near a conveyer belt used to carry coal out of the pit about 2 miles from the exit when about 70 miners said. They were inside the saws said. The saws about 220 meters under the sea bed.
All approaches to the scene of the fire were sealed in an attempt to prevent the spread of the flame. No explosion followed the fire, the officials said.
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