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University Daily Kansan, October 28, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
James Lewis found guilty of Tylenol extortion charge
CHICAGO — A federal jury found James Lewis guilty yesterday of extortion for sending a letter to the makers of Tylenol demanding $1 million to "stop the killings" following a series of cyanide murders last year.
Lewis stared down at the defense table before and after the verdict, showing no emotion.
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The jury of eight men and four women deliberated for three hours before returning the verdict on the eighth day of the trial before U.S. District Chief Judge Frank J. McGarrick
showing no emotion.
No sentencing date was set. Lewis faces a maximum 20 years in prison and $10,000 fine. He is already serving a 10 year sentence for a mail fraud conviction May 26 in Kansas City, Mo.
In closing arguments, U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb called Lewis an "evil and depraved" man
Long-distance phone rate blocked
WASHINGTON — A key House committee approved legislation yesterday to block long-distance "access" charges planned for residential and small business phone customers following the Jan. 1 breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
chap of AMERICA The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 27-15 to adopt the Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act of 1983, which also establishes low-cost "lifeline" phone service for poor people.
The bill would motify a Federal Communications Commission order to charge residential phone customers $2 and business customers $6 for their hookup to long distance lines after the AT&T break goes into effect.
Rebels claim attack on Sandinistas
U. S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels said yesterday they attacked and severely damaged a new Sandinista military base inside Nicaragua used to train Salvadoran guerrillas
In El Salvador, the Nicaraguan embassy released a note from the Sandistas warning that the Central American Defense Council will meet this week in Honduras to draw up "concrete plans" for an invasion of Nicaragua.
The message said the Nicaraguan government "has knowledge of the CIA plans to provoke military attacks and strikes against economic targets in Honduras and Costa Rica with the final intention of blaming the Managua regime and thus having a pretext for unleashing a greater attack on Nicaragua."
Claim of prison epidemic disputed
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — The medical director of the Texas prison system says a tuberculosis epidemic has occurred among inmates, but other health officials yesterday disagreed and said they were not greatly alarmed.
Tuberculosis occurs eight times as often in Texas prisons as in the general populace, a rate prison medical director Armand Start said technically was an epidemic.
However, state health officials said they were not alarmed by the findings, adding that the incidence of TB in Texas' prison system was no higher than expected.
Automakers produce record profits
Ford Motor Co. said yesterday it earned a record profit in the third quarter, pushing the nation's Big Four automakers to a combined $1.16 billion profit for the period.
Ford was the last of the top automakers to announce its earnings for the quarter. The four top companies' profits compared to a $217.8 million loss last year.
General Motors Corp. posted a record $737 million third-quarter profit compared to a $129 million profit last year. Chrysler Corp. also had a third quarter profit profit of $100.2 million profit.
Network ownership of shows barred
WASHINGTON — In a victory for Hollywood and a defeat for the three major television networks, the Senate yesterday voted to suspend six months a proposed rule that would have allowed the networks to own the shows they broadcast.
By voice vote, the Senate approved a proposal to suspend for six months a proposed Federal Communications Commission rule allowing ABC. CBS and NBC to own the programs.
ABC. Cass and I will also apply the rule.
The Senate sent its restriction — which would prevent the rule from taking effect through May 31 — to a joint conference committee, which will work out the differences between it and a similar House bill.
Pan Am recreates 1950s-style flight
PARIS — Pan American World Airways re-created a 1950s-style flight across the Atlantic yesterday to mark the 25th anniversary of the first daily jet service between New York and Paris by an American airline.
To make the flight as authentic as possible, Pan Am stewardesses wore 1950s style uniforms, and the evening meal was made up of dishes from the 1958 menu of Maxim's restaurant in Paris.
The plane, a Boeing 707 just like the one used on Pan Am's inaugural New York-Paris jet flight Oct. 26, was jammed with invited guests including 1950s celebrities such as boxing champion Floyd Patterson and entertainer Maureen O'Hara
WEATHER FACTS
Locally, today will be sunny with a high of 75 to 80, according to the National Weather Bureau in Topeka.
Today will be fair across most of the nation.
Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in die mid-40s.
Tomorrow will mostly sunny with a high in the low to mid-60s.
National Weather Bureau in Topeka
Tonight will be mostly clear with a low in the mid-40s
Because of a copy editing error, the Kansan incorrectly reported the date of death of a 21-year-old KU student. Bryan G. Dickens, Topeka junior, died Tuesday.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a copy editing error, KU cornerbacks Jeff Colter and Jeff Brown were mistakenly identified as inexperienced players. Colter recorded 49 tackles in 1981. He sat out last season because of academic problems. Brown was in on 20 tackles last season and both players have played for the Jayhawks all season.
Aleutian Islanders gain independence from U.S.
By United Press International
Many of the 540 Aleuts on St. Paul Island worked quickly in a light drizzle to ready a parade and feast of seal, reindeer, sea lion and duck. St. George islanders will only have an informal party.
ST. PAUL ISLAND, Alaska — Pribilof岛 Island Aleuts take control of their wind-swept islands today, ending two centuries of serfdom that one historian called one of the "blackest" chapters in American history.
The 730 Aleuts, descendants of natives enslaved by Russian fur traders in the late 18th century, have been named for their records since Alaska was purchased in 1867.
in exchange for the seal pelts, the government subsidized life on St. Paul and St. George islands with $5 million annually. It also controlled most of the land and essential services on the islands.
help develop commercial fishing harbors on both islands.
"WE'VE BEEN under bondage for 200 years, first by the Russians and then by the federal government," said Flore Lekamof, the head of a native corporation on St. George Island. He was freed. One word says it all — freedom."
They have survived on two of the five islands in the Bering Sea by clubbing thousands of seals each summer for the winter to protect their largest seal harvest in North America.
Aleks have inhabited the islands 800 air-miles west of Anchorage since about 1786, the year Russian ftr trade boaters discovered seal-lained rockeries there.
“It’s a unique story,” said Claus Naske, a historian at the University of Alaska. “There are many black chapels here in history, but this one is among the blackest.”
When the U.S. government bought Alaska, the city of Aleuts changed location.
Until 1964, the natives needed a pass from the government to leave the island and were discouraged from leaving. In 1980, the federal control, said Larry Merculio,
HE SAID the drive for political freedom began after Aleuts were uprooted from their homes in World War II and placed by the U.S. government in abandoned canneries and dropped two islands in the Aleutian chain.
chairman of a native council coordinating the takeover.
concern over the economy as been fueled by uncertainty about the foundation treaty under which the seal harvest is run. The pact, first signed in the early part of this century by the United States, Canada Japan and Australia, outlining practices which threatened to destroy the species expires in 1984.
Natives estimated that a quarter of their people died in the interment from disease, malnutrition and heat prostration. But for many it was the first time they had left the Pribilofs and made contact with the outside world, and their drive for self-government began.
The federal pullout, partially eased by a $20 million settlement, means the islanders will have to take over full costs for electricity, marine shipping and all the other needs of the communities, he said.
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Even with the harvest, unemployment has run 80 percent nine months out of the year. Merculieff said. The area's remoteness has created some of the highest living costs in Alaska. Those costs are projected to skyrocket 250 percent after the takeover.
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