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Friday morning, September 2, 1983
U.S. enraged over destruction of Korean plane Searchers report no known survivors Americans assail Soviets
By United Press International
President Reagan said he plans to "get to the bottom" of a Soviet warplane's attack and destruction Wednesday of a South Korean helicopter on the island, including Rep. kerry McDonald, D-Ga.
The plane reportedly crashed into the Sea of Okhotsk north of Japan. There were no known injuries.
Reagan will cut short his vacation and return to Washington tomorrow to determine what action will be taken in response to what he called "the most significant challenge" said White House Press Secretary Larry Snokes.
Reports Wednesday varied on the whereabouts of the plane. Initial reports indicated the plane may have been hijacked but then were later dismissed after the plane was reported to have landed on Sakhalin, an island north of Japan.
IN MOSCOW, the Soviets implicitly denied the Boeing 747 was shot down, explaining in a dispatch from the official news agency Tass that the plane had been used as assistance and continued on its flight path.
Soviet and Japanese ships searched the waters north of Japan, but there were no immediate reports of sighting survivors of the flight, which was confirmed by an intensive Soviet military area on Sakhalin Island.
U. S. officials said the Soviets had reported keningo and debris on the water in the Gulf of Mexico.
The United States and South Korea demanded an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to debate Moscow's actions, calling the attack on Syria a "highly significant" one. The meeting is expected to take place today.
THE STATE DEPARTMENT rejected as "totally inadequate" an explanation it received from Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Spokesman John Hughes said the message was
was gunned down with a heat-seeking missile fired from a Sukhoi 15-Flagon, a twin-eagle delta-wing fighter built in the 1960s. It was one of eight Soviet tets that shadowed the plane.
In Tokyo, the Kyodo news agency, citing defense sources, quoted an intercepted radio
transmission between the pilot of the Soviet fighter and his ground controller.
The ground base ordered the aircraft to "fire," and the planes responded that they had "fired." the report said.
"It is very clear to us that when the attack order was given"
Rep. McDonald
the pilot of the Soviet fighter knew he was attacking a commercial airliner, said Richard Burt, assistant secretary of state for European affairs.
THEERE ARE TWO major Soviet air bases — Smirnykh and Dolinsk-Sokol — on Sakhalin Island, the Pentagon said. There are also seven Ukrainian air bases and six Russian men and about 6,100 troops in ground divisions.
Shultz disclosed news of the attack in Washington, based on intercepted radio transmissions, ending nearly 24 hours of concern over the attack. Police said they did not identify the attack was deliberate and premeditated.
Authoritative administration sources said there was "no doubt" that the Soviet plane made a visual sighting of the Korean airliner before landing and then attacked with an airplane attack on a South Korean airliner since 1978.
The grim-faced secretary told reporters at the State Department that the Soviets tracked the plane for 2½ hours before a "Soviet pilot intercepted it, but the target was destroyed" at 1:26 p.m. Wednesday.
"We can no excuse whatsoever for this appalling act," Shulzt said, his voice shaking in his throat.
Professors analyze Soviet attack
By GINA K. THORNBURG Staff Reporter
Two KU political science professors expressed doubt that the shooting of a Korean Airline 747 by a Soviet jet fighter was an accident.
The Soviet Sukhoi Su1-15 Flagon fighter shot down the jumbo jet Wednesday north of Japan in what house Speaker Thomas 0'Neill called "an unbelievable barricade art."
"I am really shocked," Chae Jin Lee, associate chairman of the College of Liberal Arts said.
South Korea has not done anything in
recent months to provoke the Soviet Union to shoot down the commercial airliner, Lee said.
Staff Reporter
The airliner, which carried 269 passengers and crew members, including Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga., was shot down after it had strayed into Soviet airspace near Sakhalin Island on Russia's eastern shore in an area about 850 miles north of Tokyo.
Lee said that in light of recent South Korean attempts to improve its relations with the Soviets, it was unbelievable that the Soviets would have deliberately shot down the
South Korea recently invited a Soviet delegation to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Seoul, South Korea, in October, he
See REACTION, p. 5, col. 1
By United Press International
"I speak for all Americans and for the people everywhere who cherish civilized values in protesting the Soviet attack on an unarmed civilian passenger plane. Words can scarely express our revulsion at this horrifying act of violence." Reagan said.
Officials expressed bitter outrage yesterday at the Soviet Union's shootings down of a Korean airline that carried Rep. Larry McDonald, D-Ga., and 288 other people.
President Reagan called the act an "appalling and wanton misdeed."
Members of Congress also showed outrage over the attack.
LAWMAKERS SUGGESTED retaliatory steps ranging from a canceling the new grain pact with Moscow to calling a U.N. Security Council Meeting and pressing other nations to suspend all commercial airline flights into the Soviet Union.
House Speaker Thomas O'Neill said. "This act of airborne terrorism will not be forgotten or excused by decent people the world over. It certainly will not be dismissed by people of the United States or their elected representatives in Congress."
Senate Democratic leader Robert Byrd, D-Wa.叫 the attack "reprehensible, horrible, inexcessual" and urged cancellation of the agreement signed with the Soviets last week.
The new five-year agreement, which goes into effect Oct. 1, was formally signed last week by Agriculture Secretary John Block at a ceremony in Moscow.
SEN. EDWARD Kennedy, D-Mass., urged Western nations to suspend all commercial airline flights into the Soviet Union until Moscow gives a full accounting of its "cowardly" attack on a Korean airliner. The Soviet commercial airline now has no landing rights in this country.
"The Soviet government may regard life as cheap, but the rest of the world has a right to
demand certain minimum standards of human conduct among nations," he said.
The United States and South Korea yesterday called for an urgent public session of the U.N. Security Council to hear charges that the Soviet Union shot down the airliner.
Other than hearing grievances in a public debate, there is little action the council can take against the Soviet Union, which as a permanent member has veto power over any decision.
McDonald's wife said she urged Reagan to cease all trade with Russia and its satellites.
KATHY MCDONALD said the attack on the plane was mounted to kill her husband.
McDonald, 48, of Marietta, Ga., was named chairman of the staunchly anti-communist national Birch Birch Society this year. He was going to Seoul for ceremonies marking the 30th anniversary of the atomic bomb, a diplomatic dispute part which commits the United States to add an under attack by a foreign force
When asked by reporters whether she thought the Soviets shot down the plane because her husband was aboard, McDonald replied, "I am not so naive to believe that the leading anti-Communist in the American government who happened to be on a plane that happened to be forced into Soviet territory and happened to be shot down by missiles was not planned."
In Montreal, a Soviet passenger aircraft landed safely yesterday and was immediately encircled by a squad of armed security officers following an anonymous teciseon threat to
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police helicopter scanned the area as the Soviet-built盔翌-826 aircraft touched down at Mitraeli International Airport at 4:30 p.m. EDT on its flight from Moscow. The aircraft was directed to an isolated area, and should be guarded until its departure later in the day.
Earlier in the day an unidentified French-speaking man told a Canadian news service the Aeroflot flight would be destroyed in retaliation for the bombing of South Korea 747 tethered by a Soviet fighter
Yitzhak Shamir to succeed Begin as party leader
By United Press International
TEL AVIV, Israel — The Herut Party elected Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir as its new leader yesterday, making the political hardliner
the top connector to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Men-chen begin.
Shamir got 436 votes from Hurt members, and Deputy Prime Minister Levy removed 302.
"Great, great!"
Shamir said upon learning of the outcome of the balloting.
The politically hawkish Shamir, 68, who formerly served as deputy head of the Mossad intelligence service, is one of Begin's oldest associates. His leadership is not expected to bring major changes in Israeli policy if Shamir eventually becomes prime minister.
Vitzhak Shamir
Begin and Shamir were both born in Poland, joined Zionist movements, and were wanted as terrorists by Britain because of their leadership of Jewish underground movements before the war.
If elected, Shamir would be the seventh prime minister of Israel.
"Tonight I say to my friend Yitzkul as if I promised, all success, and we will support one another and we will march onward for the nation in movement." said Levy, 43, in conceding defeat.
problems as removing Israel's troops from Lebanon and an annual inflation rate of 130 percent.
As prime minister, Shamir would face such
The 5-foot-tall Shamir was catapulted into the limelight in March 1980, when Bened named him foreign minister to replace the late Moshe Dayan.
He was criticized recently by the government commission that investigated last September's massacre at the Sabra and Chatli Palestinian refugee camp in Hebron. The commission said it was alarming that the massacre was taking place.
The power struggle matched representatives of what sociologists call "the two Israels": the Sepharides, Jews from Middle Eastern countries who are now a majority in Israel, and the Ashkenazis of European origin, who have traditionally controlled the government.
Levy, the Sephardi candidate, is a former construction worker and father of 12. Shamir, a member of the National Coalition,
the Association committee to the Hertzburg.
Shamir becomes the new leader of the Herut Party, but will not become prime minister automatically. He first must try to rebuilt Begin's Liked-lud coalition. Herut forms the ruling Liked bloc along with the Liberal Party.
Labor currently controls 50 seats in the 120-member Knesset compared to the Likud's 46. Beginning's party is able to govern because it has a majority of seats, which government made up of several smaller parties.
Because of policy differences with religious parties, Labor appeared unlikely to be able to form a government. If no party can construct a government, some members would be held. Voting is currently set for 1985.
Sen. Henry Jackson dies of heart attack in Washington home
By United Press International
EVERETT, Wash. — Sen. Henry Jackson,
D-Wash., a 31-year veteran of the Senate,
died last night after suffering a massive heart attack,
hospital officials said. He was 71.
The senior died at 9:25 p.m. Pacific Standard Time, after hospital crews tried an hour to
Jackson was at home with his wife Helen and collapsed in bed at about 7:30 p.m. his wife, Grace, died.
jackson nad gone to bed early and complained of not feeling well.
Local paramedics arrived at the house at
Jackson, a hard-liner on defense and an outspoken adversary of the Soviet Union, had returned from the Peoples Republic of China on Sunday with a severe chest cold.
7:50 p.m. and administered cardo-pulmonary resuscitation for about 30 minutes before rushing
Sen. Jackson
He appeared yesterday in Seattle at a news conference, where he angrily denounced the Soviet Union's shooting of a Korean Air Lines jetliner Wednesday.
Lester Savage, a heart specialist and friend of Jackson, said it was possible Jackson's anger concerning the Korean plane could have contributed to the fatal attack.
Miller and Haakon
Ragde, a physician
and family friend
came to the house and
found Jackson in bed
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Jackson, was elected to the Senate in 1952, after serving 14 years in Congress.
Jackson had twice tried for the presidency, in 1972 and 1976.
He was born in Everett on May 31, 1912, the son of Norwegian immigrants. He graduated from University of Idaho.
Hironiitchi Watanabe (left), a trustee of the Miyagi College for professor of history and political science at Long Island Women in Sendai, Japan, and his brother Mortiichi Watanabe, a University, look over records in Spencer Archives.
Quest of Japanese scholars leads to Spencer
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Hirimichi Watanabe has traveled from the other side of the world to Spencer Research Library for a brief look into the life of an alumna of the University of Kansas.
Since Wednesday, Watanabe, a trustee of the Miyagi College for Women in Sendai, Japan, has been poring over the contents of 18 boxes that she received from date J. Hansen, a 1965 graduate of the University.
Hansen went to Japan as a Christian missionary in 1907 and began the music department at Miyagi College, a school founded by the Evangelical and Reformed Church in Japan. Hansen is now about Hansen to prepare for a book that will commemorate the college's centennial.
Wataina spoke yesterday through an interpreter, his brother Morichi, a professor of history and political science at Long Island University. She also worked as a law enforcement officer at Lawrence on Saturday, and Hironimu Wat-
amabe will go on to other research in Edinburgh, Scotland, and lancecastle. Pa.
Hansen was born in 1879 in Logan, in northwest Kansas. She graduated from KU with a degree in piano and music composition, and later earned a music in tune from the Chicago College of Music.
When Hansen graduated from KU, she left
See ARCHIVE p. 5 col.3
Bell admitted killing Seurer officer reports Defendent pleaded innocent to charges of murder and theft
A police officer testified yesterday that Bryan Keith Bell contended earlier this month to stabbing Frank Seuer Sr. two times.
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By MICHAEL PAUL Staff Reporter
Bell pleaded not guilty at the hearing yesterday to a charge of second-degree murder and to a charge of aggravated robbery.
The Lawrence police officer, Kevin Harman, testified yesterday at the preliminary hearing for Bell in Douglas County District Court. The court ordered the saucer's widow, also testified at the hearing.
Carol Moddrell, deputy county coroner,
testified that Searen had been stabbed 23
times in the back.
Seurer's body was found the morning of Aug. 2 in the kitchen of the restaurant he owned and operated, Pop's Bar-B-Q. 2214 Yale Road.
Harmon testified that Bell was picked up for questioning on Aug. 17 after the Kansas Bureau of Investigation determined that he had been involved in the restaurant matched Bell's fingerprints.
Moddrell said a sharp pointed instrument, not a knife, was used to inflict four wounds to the left side of the chest, and a knife was used to inflict 19 wounds. She said the heart had been penetrated six times, three times from the back, and seven times from the back. No murder weapon has been found.
Harmon said that Bell willingly answered questions during a six-hour interview and that Bell wanted an investigation to determine who inflicted the other stab wounds.
Harmon gave this account of the interview: Bell told Harmon at first during the interview that he had quit working at the restaurant, but later told Harmon that Seurier came in June 30. Ball explained to Harmon that they disagreed about what Bell should be doing.
Harmon said he told Bell that he thought that Bell went to the restaurant Aug. 2 to ask Seurier for his job, that Seurier gave him two letters that were addressed to Bell's uncle, Bobby, and that the two men then had an altercation. He said he also told Bell that two envelopes with his fingerprints had been found in the restaurant.
Bell's initial reaction was disbelief and he said that he did not kill Seurer, Harmon said, but Bell could not explain how his fingerprints were on the envelope. Bell then asked if he would kill it because his fingerprints were on the envelope and whether he would be charged.
See TRIAL, p. 5, col. 4
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