Page 8 University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1983 KTTL airs radical tapes again By United Press International DODGE CITY — An extreme military buildup convinced KTTL-FM radio station owner Nellie McCormack resume broadcasting controversies from a leader of the radical group Posse Comitatus, she said yesterday. Babbs, a grandmother who is fighting to retain the license of her western Kansas station, said she put the tapes by James Wickstrom back in air in early September after she was contacted by at least six listeners. Wickstrom, who describes himself as director of counter-insurgency for the racist, anti-tax group, is from Tigerton, Wis. Babbs said she decided to air the messages after callers had trouble getting on a telephone line to Wisconsin to hear Wickstrom's weekly comments. IN THE LATEST six-minute diatribe, Wickham sticks attacks blacks, Jews, communists and U.S. involvement in Lebanon and Central America. The Federal Communications Commission is preparing a preliminary decision on KTTL's license renewal, FCC spokesman Mark Solberg said in Washington. However, Solberg said, he did not know when the decision would be released. "Currently we have before us two petitions to deny (the renewal), four informal objections, one competing application, one assignment application and a partridge in a pear tree," be said. Complaints were filed against the station in part because of previous Wickstrom broadcasts, which were discontinued. "It was the extreme military buildup," Babbs said of the renewal. ASKED IF SHE was referring to U.S. involvement in the Middle East, Babbs said, "We don't care abut Lebanon. It's us that we care about. The Monroe Doctrine says let them take care of themselves." Babbs said the military buildup she referred to stemmed from a report of a woman who was seen in a "troop train" going through town. Others have seen six or seven military helicopters in the area, Babbs said. "These people are really wanting to know this other information," she said of the Wickstrom tapes. "Basic advice might call it the other side of the news." "The continued escalation in Lebanese fighting will continue in order to keep American public attention to the American buildup and away from Latin America," he said. Wickstrom echoed her comments in a tape played at least six times yesterday. WICKSTROM CALLED FOR "fed-up" Americans to "contine to buy weapons, ammunition and other items" as well as equipment, while they are still available." The new tape also said that "communist committees and foundations," which he claimed included the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Peace Endowment, "have been pumping millions of dollars into the arming of the minority groups and Black Panthers, Weathermen and others of the United States for time of insurrection." FURNITURE RENTALS Complete furnishings for (1) bedroom apartments as low as $35 a month. 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Several of his teeth were knocked out, and he was cut and bruised by the blows he withstood when Ayer was scheduled to be released from Baptist Hospital today, where he underwent a 11-hour operation to repair his jaw, which will be wired shut and cured with screws while it heals. He will have to remain on an all-liquid diet during that time. AYER'S FATHER, Hobe Ayer, said the outpouring of concern for his son has been overwhelming. He said he received at least 300 phone calls in a period of only a few hours from people applauding his son's heroism. "Little old ladies and little girls, all kinds of people," have come forward, said the elder Ayer, who runs a hardware store. "Some were crying. "It just tore me up for a while. I've been handed checks for $50 and $20. They come into the store and pay me. I don't save, saving." Please give this to "John." A retired Marine Corps colonel too. "He said they would have liked to see him." Last Saturday night, vivier, a clerk, was driving home from work on a dark road in a low-income, predominantly black area of south Dade County, when another car hit her vehicle, and her auto stalled. AS THE TRIED to restart her car, police said, a crowd of between 50 and 100 men surrounded her. When she was threatened, the police helped, she was threatened and assaulted Ayer, who operates a home repair service, was on his way home from a sailing club when he saw the mob. He got out of his van, walked through the door, opened Viivier's car door and calmly told her to follow him. When they were 100 feet from his van, both were attacked from behind, with the heavier blows being directed at Ayer. The two escaped only after an unidentified motorist leaned on his horn and started the mobs, none of whom has been arrested. Police credited Ayer with saving Vivier's life, and the young woman, who was not seriously injured, agreed. 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