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University Daily Kansan, September 12, 1983
Leftists kidnap sister of Guatemalan leader
By United Press International
Presumed left rebellies kidnapped the sister of Guatemala's new leader, Gen. Oscar Humberto Mejia Victories, the army said yesterday, and warned of an insane violence" of insurgents fighting the military government.
Guatemala's military said four armed men seized Celeste Aida Mejia de Velosco, 54, late Saturday when she left the Social Security General Hospital in southern Guatemala City.
The abduction marked the second time in three months that a sister of the country's leader was kidnapped. On June 29, the Rebel Armed Forces
abducted the sister of then-President Efrain Rios Montt, who was ousted by Mejia in an Aug. 8 coup
The army called Velasco and her family "innocent victims like other Guatemalan families of the insane violence of the subversive delinquency," the government's term for those fighting the military government.
"Gen. Oscar Humberto Meja Victores . . . reaffirms the position of his government not to negotiate under any condition or circumstances with those who, from the beginning, have suffered a crime against the fundamental human right that is liberty," an army communique said.
THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT:
A FLIGHT OF FANCY WHICH
CAN ONLY ENCUMBER
Yet another Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) zealot surfaced recently in Kansas City. The propagandist in question, an employee of the Kansas City Times, used the editorial page of this newspaper's August 9th issue to describe President Reagan as "no run-of-the-mill chauvinist ... (but) dangerous" because of his failure to support the ERA and thus end "the feminization of poverty".
Would only a “run-of-the-mill chauvinist” ask how the ERA is going to more equitably distribute poverty between the genders? How else but through that most effective agent of discrimination, the quota system!
The ERA is reactionary rather than progressive because it leaves fundamentally unchanged the economic mechanism which creates suffering in the midst of plenty by wasting both resources and individuals. Because it unrealistically deals with the superficial, the ERA is a flight of fancy which, if it becomes law, will only encumber.
William Dann
2702 W. 24th St. Terr.
WASHINGTON — The number of serious crimes reported to police in the United States dropped 3 percent in 1982 and the crime rate dropped 4 percent, the sharpest declines in six years, the FBI reported yesterday.
Serious crimes down in '82, report says
By United Press International
The FBI's annual uniform crime report, which counts the number of crimes reported to 15,000 law enforcement violent crimes were down from 1981.
Attorney General William French Smith said he was pleased that the crime statistics showed a decline, but
ACCORDING TO THE report, murder declined by 7 percent, robbery was down 6 percent and forcible rape dropped 5 percent. Aggravated assault, the only index crime to increase in volume, was up 1 percent.
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"We are glad we won a battle but we are still in a war," he said.
noted that they were 47 percent higher than a decade ago.
In property crimes, burglary decreased 9 percent, motor vehicle theft dropped 2 percent and larceny-theft declined 1 percent.
The last significant decline occurred in 1977 when the crime rate dropped 4 percent and the number of crimes
The FBI said the number of overall serious crimes in 1982, estimated at 12.9 million, dropped 3 percent from 1981 when 13.3 million crimes were re-reported. In 1982 number was the lowest number since 1981 when 12.2 million offenses were reported
dropped 3 percent from 1976, according to the bureau.
In an earlier report issued yesterday, the department found that the number of American crime victims fell 4.1 percent in 1982, the largest drop since the National Crime Survey started 10 years ago. The survey showed 39.8 million incidences in 1981, people down from 41.5 million in 1981 ALTHOUGH THE administration
has launched a federal campaign against violent crime, particularly drug-related crime, the overwhelming number of serious crimes counted by police are local rather than federal violations, the latest report said.
James Fyfe, a criminal justice professor at American University in Washington, D.C., said the drop in the number of crimes was likely due to an increase in boom generation, who were committing fewer crimes as they grew older.
"You have to remember you are talking about reported crime," Fyfe said. "An awful lot of crime is not reported in the areas most affected by crime."
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