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Vol. 94, No. 17 (USPS 650-640)
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Monday morning, September 12, 1983
Searchers find objects, bodies thought to be on Korean flight
By United Press International
Japanese searchers yesterday found the "first definite" personal belongings of any of the 269 people who perished aboard Korean Air Lines in the attack on North Korea, the North Pacific by a Soviet air-to-air missile.
A second corpse and two bits of flesh believed to be from the tragedy also were discovered, 10 days after the Soviets shot down the KAI Boeing on a dawn hours near the Soviet-held Sakhalin Island.
Police said the identification card of Mary Jane Hendrie,25, of Ottawa, was picked up on the shore of Omu on northern Hokkaido island.
"This is the first definite personal effect we
have so far recovered,” a regional police spokesman in Hokkaido said.
MEANWHILE, EUROPEAN airline pilots launched a 60-day ban on flights to the Soviet Union starting today. The ban by Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands will reportedly halt more than 40 flights a week.
In Moscow, a top Soviet general tried to justify the incident, saying it was "absolutely impossible" in the dark to distinguish a Boeing 749 from a RC-135 spy plane — a converted Boeing 717.
The U.S. has admitted a RC-135 was in the area before the attack but said it was on the ground 1,500 miles away when the tragedy occurred.
Col. Gen. Nikolai Miskovitek, commander of flight aviation in the air defense forces, also said that the two planes "produce an analogous radar system" for eastern aviation experts refuted the Soviet claim.
THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER reported that the Korean jet flew over testing sites for a new secret Soviet missile before it was shot down. Soviet sensitivity about the project "may provide one insight" into the tragedy, the Inquirer said.
In Washington, the State Department said closer study of radio transmissions of Soviet airmen indicated warning shots may have been fired at the Korean leaf, as the Soviets say.
"Iam firing cannon bursts," the Soviet pilot is now quoted as saying.
Funeral for McDonald held
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - More than 4,000 people paid tribute to Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga., yesterday, rallying behind a cry for "simple reason" in a congressional marked kin in a Soviet air attack.
At the memorial service at historic Constitution Hall several blocks from the White House, conservative speakers revered McDonald as a martyr to the fight against communism. McDonald was aboard the South Korean airliner shot down 12 days ago by the Soviet Union when it straysed into Soviet airspace.
Inside the lobby, black arm bands were distributed to mourners, along with white lapel buttons that said "Victory over碱ism" — Remember Larry McDonald.
"It is not vengeance we seek but simple
justice," said Conservative Caucus Chairman Howard Phillips, drawing the crowd to its feet.
PRESIDENT REAGAN, though invited and at the White House, did not attend the service for one of his New Right allies. He declared that he was in support of the 269 victims of the crash.
Many conservative leaders interpreted the president's absence as a snub.
Kathryn McDonald, the congressman's widow, sat on the speaker's platform dressed in a white skirt and wore a black hat.
Mrs. McDonald, considering a candidacy for her husband's seat, told an earlier service yesterday that her husband was "cold and stubborn" and "would force that has gobbled up half the world."
Crime rate in area is up
The Rev. Jerry Failwell, leader of the Moral Majority, compared the congressman to the bishop of Boston.
By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Crime in Kansas decreased during the first six months of this year, but Lawrence hasn't been following the pattern.
Violent crimes, including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, have declined 1.3 percent in the state for the first six months of this year compared with last year, according to figures released last week by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Property crimes, including burglary, larceny and motor vehicle theft, have declined 5.3
ACCORDING TO THE KRI report, in Kansas cities, statistics for all crimes were down: 26.8 percent in Emporia, 13 percent in Wichita, 10.8 percent in Dodge City and 9.1 percent in Topeka. But things didn't go as well in Lawrence. Crime increased by 15.7 percent bare.
Officer Mark Brothers, a crime analyst for the Lawrence Police Department, said that the figure — as well as the figures for the crime rates in other cities — could be misleading.
accurate list of what the crime rate is in a city. Brothers said that a better indicator of whether crime is increasing or decreasing be the rates of consistently reported crimes.
BROTHERS SAID THAT crimes such as robbery, burglary and auto theft were usually committed with a weapon.
According to figures Brothers compiled, burglary had increased 3.1 percent, from 388 to
400, during the first six months of last year compared with the first six months of this year; auto theft had increased 40 percent, from 68 to 112; elderly care had increased 241.7 percent, from 12 to 41.
Crime has increased in Lawrence, but
butterfly cases that those figures were not as bad
had appeared.
He said that the category of auto theft also included thefts of mopeds, and that those thefts were very rare.
"There are about 10 or 12 kids in this town who have learned how to hot-wire mopeds." Brothers said. "They drive them around for three days and then they dump them."
BROTHERHS SAID THE 241.7 percent increase in robbery could be attributed to a rash of
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robberies that occurred in the first three months of this year...
He said that in the first three months of last year, there were six robberies. In the same year, there were seven kidnappings.
"We had a multiple string of robberies of Kwik Shops, pizza delivery trucks, gas stations," Brothers said. "Robberies always make the papers. And if one person sees that someone got away with a robbery, he begins to wonder whether he can too. It begins to snowball. This is just a theory, but it seems that that is what happened to us during the first three months."
But the rash of robberies has leveled off.
During April, May and June 1982, six robberies were reported in the city. The same thieves this year, there was 10
See STATS, p. 5, col. 1
Moslem gunmen launch new attacks on Marines
By United Press International
No Marine casualties were reported.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Moslem gunmen launched new artillery attacks on Marine posts last night and strated Lebanese army units with naval ships in the harbor, which in the capital, the government reported.
The barrage of one round every five minutes was the first in three days on Marine positions at Beirut airport, and forced them into their harbour. The Marines, said Marine Warrior Officer Charles Rowe.
Four Marines have been killed and 25 wounded in two weeks of warfare between the army, pro-government Christian forces and the Druse militia. The Druse-led government of President Amin Gemayel.
THE RADIO REPORTED that the attacks were launched from Druse Moslem areas of the
'We've never stopped our war against the PLO and they never stopped their war against us.'
— israeli Army official
The radio also reported that Gemayel would not compromise his demand for the army to take control of the Shouf, that a cease-fire be implemented and that he be placed at a national reconciliation meeting.
A U.S. Marine spokesman confirmed that there were arms fired from the Shite neighborhood, but he had no reports of shelling launched from those sectors.
Shouf mountains south and east of Beirut and for the first time from Shiite neighborhoods alongside the Marine compound.
U. S. and British fighter jets returned to the skies to spot the positions of possible attacking
The Drusae remained locked in combat with the army in the Shouf only seven miles from Beirut and did not link forces with their Shite allies in the city itself.
THE SHELLING HIT army posts at Beirut Technical College near the airport and the town of Khalde, a mile south of the Marine base. Lebanese army posts in the Shite areas also came under machine-gun fire, a government spokesman said.
Druse warlord Walid Jumblatt said in an interview on ABC's "This Week with David
Brinkley" that he hoped his militia could encircle Beirut after which he would agree to end hostilities and force Gemayel to negotiate.
"President Gemayel is also trying to achieve a peaceful solution with the barrel of a gun, so I will use it."
He denied that the Druse were intentionally firing on American positions.
the Lebanese army is sitting side-by-side with the Marines," he said. "How do I know who is in the line?"
Defense Minister Moshe Arsene was quoted by the Armed Forces Radio as telling the Cabinet that the Israeli army "would not hesitate to cross its new redevelopment line along the Awiil River to attack Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas, "when and if the need arises."
ISRAEL SAID yesterday that 1,000 Palestinian guerrillas are助Jumbaitl Boulder militias.
The pro-government Christian Phalange accused their Drume adversaries of killing 30 Christians in a massacre in the Syrian-controlled village of Ras Al Matn. The government only said that several civilians died from "criminal acts."
An army spokesman said that a radio report from Beirut claiming 20 Israeli tanks had crossed the Awali yesterday was inaccurate, but would not elaborate.
The charge came a day after a Phalange allegation that 110 people were killed in the village of Bireh. The government said that 50 people died there, but gave no other details. The Druse denied the charges, saying that the deaths came in combat.
A senior Israeli official confirmed that Israelis armored vehicles have already conducted forays
"We've never stopped our war against the PLO and they never stopped their war against us."
THE LEBANESE ARMY reinforced its positions at Souk al Akhar, a strategic point on the first major ridge east of Beirut that was the target of three major assaults Saturday.
The struggle for Souk al Gharb, only seven miles from Beirut, was described as a major battle by Western military sources, who warned that the SDF would not be defeated after brutal attacks by Syrian-backed forces.
Western military sources said that the attackers were thought to be mainly non-Lebanese — Syrians, Palestinians and perhaps Iranians from the force that has been in the Syrian-controlled city of Baalbeck for the past year.
HUTCHINSON — The 71st Kansas State Fair had something for everyone. Above, the ferris wheel drew eagle fairgoers Saturday evening. More fair pictures on p. 8.
Kansans flock to exhibitions shown at Fair
Circus-type sideshows provide entertainment for variety of patrons
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
HUTCHINSON — Some people wouldn't miss the bustling Kansas State Fair and its teeming activity for the world; not even if it meant getting up at 3 a.m.
Carol Helman, 9, is willing to make some sacrifices so she might learn how to win a purple ribbon at the fair with one of her calves. She'll try out the competition and old enough to show animals in competition.
"We got up at three because we had to pack,
but we had to leave at five," a sweaty, dumb but
happy girl said.
THE HEILMANS, WHO farm and raise cattle on 1,000 acres near Chatune, said they came to
MONDAY MORNING
"We wanted her to see how other children react to what they bring." Heilman said.
the fair with their 9-year-old daughter so she could get acquainted with showing animals
corners of Kansas and from surrounding states "We come here every year for the variety of displays." Barbara Heilman, Carol's mother, said.
A BOMBING VOICE from a speaker atop a
bedroom and yellow trailer lured visitors inside the
fairground.
Indeed, the bustling 71st Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson had shows for all tastes on Saturday.
"Ladies and gentlemen, do not miss this educational experience of live reptiles, scorpions and spiders. See the giant Anaconda. We brought you from the steaming jungles of South America."
Inside the cramped trailer, enveloped in the stingy smell of captive snakes, Joel Demeck, a
See FAIR, p. 8, col. 1
Employee health plan popular at KU
By PAUL SEVART Staff Renorter
Health Care Plus, which sells a form of health insurance that in effect pays doctors more money when their patients stay well, has caught on among area state employees, a company
The official, Ronald Schmidt, plan manager of Health Care Plus, 1026 Westdale Road, said that the company had enrolled about 30 percent, or about a quarter of the first enrollment period after it opened July 1.
Figures for the second enrollment period, which ended Friday, were not available.
HEALTH CARE PLUS is the only alternative to Blue Cross-Blue Shield for eligible University of Kansas employees who wish to be on the state group health insurance plan, said Dick Brock, administrative assistant to Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell.
"They have to be coming from Blue Cross.
Given the state budget situation, I doubt too much."
Eligible employees include those who work at least half-time, live in Douglas County and are non-students, said Millie Smith, director of staff benefits for the办公司 of the comptroller at KU.
The main reason for the success of Health Care Plus seems clear to Schmidt and Brok: Health Care Plus is less expensive. A KU
employee's contribution for a monthly family premium with Blue Cross-Blue Shield is $139.71; for Health Care Plus, it is $84.94, a 39 percent difference.
AS WITH OTHER group health insurance plans, both employees and employers pay into Health Care Plus. Under the Health Care Plus plan, each employee shares a share of the family premium for each employee.
Health Care Plus is a health maintenance organization, or HMO. It began in Wichita in 1981 and has offices operating or planned in Topeka. The HMO service was the first outside Wichita. Schmidt said
The principle behind an HMO, he said, is to
See HMO. p. 5 cal. 1
ASK wants fee increase in member schools
By PETE WICKLUND
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - Unless five more of the universities which belong to the Associated Students of Kansas increase their membership dues, the effectiveness of the student lobbying group could be severely curtailed, the group's executive director said yesterday.
Mark Tallman, the executive director, said that ASK chapters at Emporia State, Pittsburg State, Kansas State, Wichita State and Fort Hays State Universities had to ask their student to increase each student's dues, which are included in fees, by 10 cents, from 40 cents to 50 cents.
THE KU STUDENT Senate increased each student's dues to 50 cents last year.
Otherwise, Tallman said, ASK would have to study ways to cut its operating budget.
Washburn University in Topeka, an ASK member, pays ASK a set fee of $500 instead of the regular dues because ASK uses office space at the university.
Tallman, speaking to ASK on-campus directors and several student body presidents at ASK's September board meeting at Washburn, said that the board had the authority to reduce the salaries of the nine executives such an effort to influence the group's effectiveness in influencing the Kansas Legislature.
"We're not in a situation where we're going to try to blackmail you." Tallman said. "You have the choice of reducing state salaries."
HOWEVER, TALLMAN said that a decrease in his salary, or that of ASK legislative director Chris Graves, would probably mean that they would look for other employment. If their salaries stay at the current level, they will continue their jobs with ASK.
"I don't believe you can run a professional
obesity group with a yearly turnover TURNOVER."
IF ASK will continue to lobby effectively in Topeka, the board will have to pay competitive salary.
Tallman and Graves said that one possibility to avoid cutting the salaries of the state staff was to hire a new director.
"We basically tell that what we're paying you in comparison to the hours you work, that it's
See ASK, p. 5, col. 1
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