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University Daily Kansan, September 1, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Haig, Vance differ in views on Central America trouble
WASHINGTON — Former secretaries of state Alexander Haig and Cyrus Vance disagreed yesterday about the root cause of Central American warfare during testimony before the new presidential commission studying the region's troubles.
Vance, secretary of state during the first three years of the Carter administration, blamed the problems on basic social and economic ills. Haig, secretary during the first 17 months of the Reagan administration, pointed instead to communist interference.
Vance, a lawyer, and Haig, a retired Army general, appeared separately before the bipartisan commission, whose chairman is Henry Ward Beaver.
Kissinger said at the end of the day, "The views were not unanimous. If there was unanimity at any point, it was that it is imperative we emerge out of these discussions with a consensus."
Top contenders for Begin's job meet
JERUSALEM — The two top contenders for the position of Israel's leader met privately yesterday to negotiate a political agreement aimed at avoiding a power struggle for the job of resigning Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Begin delayed handing in his formal letter of resignation to President Chaim Herzog for at least 24 hours, in an attempt to buy time to block a possible return to power by the opposition Labor Party.
Despite clear support for Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir among Cabinet ministers from Begin's party, Deputy Prime Minister David Levy managed to send the issue before the Herut Party central committee, where he may have an edge. Herut and the Liberal Party make up Israel's ruling Likud bloc.
Strike shuts Illinois, Michigan schools
Strikes by public school teachers caused schools to be closed in Illinois and Michigan yesterday, and school districts in Chicago, New York, Detroit and Pittsburgh were faced with threatened walkouts.
DEM OF MIAMI AND PHOENIX
In Michigan, 14 school districts were on strike, affecting almost 42,000 students and 2,000 teachers. The largest district that closed was Port Huron, with 11,000 students.
In Detroit, negotiations between the school board and the Detroit Federation of Teachers continued in an effort to reach a contract settlement by Sept. 7, when schools open for 200,000 students.
Detroit Schools Superintendent Arthur Jefferson said the union's contract demands would cost the district $109 million. The district is negotiating.
Condemned killer prepares to die
PARCHMAN, Miss. — Condemned child-killer Jimmy Lee Gray,
convinced that he has reached the end of the line in his legal appeals to escape the gas chamber, put his affairs in order yesterday in preparation for his scheduled execution at 12:01 a.m. CDT tomorrow.
His final plea is pending before Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, but the same appeal has been rejected by another Supreme Court Justice.
It asks that the execution be halted on the grounds that Gray is insane and that death by cyanide gas constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
Six planes held in illegal-export case
AVOCA, Pa — Federal agents in northeastern Pennsylvania seized six aircraft bound for Southwest Africa in an investigation into the illegal export of military and high technology equipment, a spokesman said yesterday.
U. S. Customs Service spokesman Richard Finedy said that four planes at the Wilkes Barre-Scranton International Airport and two others at the Hazleton Municipal Airport were seized Friday after being detained 10 days earlier.
10 days earlier.
The case reportedly was turned over to U.S. Attorney David Dart Queen to determine whether the planes, $100,000 single-engine Mooney 201s, were destined for military service in a foreign country.
Oklahoma governor denies request
OKLAHOMA CITY — Gov. George Nigh yesterday warded off pleas for a legislative session to cope with overcrowding problems blamed for a prison riot that left one person dead and 23 injured, and caused millions of dollars in damage.
State Rep. Cal Hobson said he wrote the governor yesterday urging immediate action because of new crowding problems resulting from the riot.
Ex-sheriff, aides accused of torture
HOUSTON — A former east Texas sheriff and three former deputies handcuffed prisoners to chairs, placed towels over their faces, and poured water on the cloth until their victims confessed, another former deputy testified yesterday.
"I really didn't know what to think," said the former deputy of San Jacinto County, Gregg Magee. "It worried me. I knew this wasn't something that was supposed to be going on. It was a frightening ordeal."
Former Sheriff James "Humpy" Parker, 47, and former deputies Carl Lee, Floyd Allen Baker and John Glover are charged with violating the civil rights of at least six prisoners between 1976 and 1980 by torturing them with water and conducting illegal strip searches in the county, which is in a rural area about 60 miles northeast of Houston.
WEATHER FACTS
Today, the weather will be mostly fair across the nation. Locally, today will be mostly sunny with a high around 90, according to the Weather Channel.
Tongtun will be mostly clear with a low in the lower 60s.
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high in the lower 90s.
CORRECTIONS
Because of a reporter's error, a story in the Aug. 25 Kansan incorrectly reported that enrollment in KU classes in Topeka had decreased. Topeka students had not yet enrolled when the story was printed.
3 Americans are among 15 freed Hijackers release last hostages
3 Americans are among 15 freed
Bv United Press International
Four masked gunmen, described as Iraqi Moslem dissidents, freed their last 15 hostages yesterday from an Air France jet at Teheran airport in Iran, two of them taken on two Italian priests, ending a five-day hijacking ordeal, officials said.
"The hostages are well but they have been taken to a hospital for a checkup."
THE HIJACKERS EMERGED from the plane flying into the air to empty
Three Americans were among those released. Iranian officials said the attack was carried out by an American jet.
Clayton L. Thomas of Brimfield, Mass., was one of the American hostages and described the captivity as a terrible ordeal with a terrorist attack on a coach with a helmet on head while shots were fired over him, said his daughter, Wendy Rutanen.
Rutanen said Thomas sounded "really very well."
but he understood they believed they were doing the right thing," she said.
"From one minute to the next they didn't know if they'd be dead or alive.
THE END OF the 3,500-mile drama, aimed at winning political concessions from France, came after Iranian authorities refused to allow the plane to take off, blocking the jet's path with trucks on the runway.
Two Moslem priests — an Iraqi and a Lebanese — talked to the hijackers and urged them to end the seizure of the ISIS leader before began Saturday over western Europe.
"There was a happy ending thanks to the firmness of the Iranian government," said a French reporter at the scene.
In a five-minute news conference at the foot of the gangway, the hijackers, in masks and sunglasses, said they surrendered in return for a pledge from a political asylum. Iranian officials would not say if asylum was granted.
The hijackers, described by Teheran radio as Shiite Moslems from Iraq opposed to the Baghdad regime of Saddam Hussein, read reporters a brief message in English and Arabic denouncing the French and Iraq governments.
FRANCE RECENTLY has supplied arms to Iraq, Iran's adversary in the nearly three-year-old Persian Gulf war.
The plane took off from Vienna Saturday with 114 passengers but the four hijackers released most of their hostages at stops along the way — Geneva, Switzerland, Sicily, and Da Nang. The plane was diverted Sunday in Teheran, where a French couple was freed Monday, leaving 15 hostages on board.
The hijackers forced the Iramans to refuel the jet Tuesday night, threatening to kill an interpreter, and warned French negotiators they would explode it in the air over Iraq unless their demands were accepted.
The four gunmen also had threatened to blow up the plane unless France pulled out its troops from Chad and halted military aid to Iraq
John E. Pfeifer said he found the missing piece of a 4,775-year-old broken tool he uncovered a few weeks away in an Indian burial site in 1961.
"We could have expected anything," said Jeann Perrin, French charge d'affaires in Teheran. "So, of course, we'd very happy about the happy ending."
Dwelling site may be oldest in Northeast
OLD LYME, Conn. — An archaeologist studying the remains of an ancient Indian dwelling site claims that a 500-year-old oldest discovered in the Northeast.
By United Press International
He said carbon-dating determined the spear weight, a piece of carved slate attached to a spear to improve the weapon's balance, was 4.755 kg. He found the missing half of the weapon about 3 feet from the house site.
In the last two weeks, Pfeiffer said, he had uncovered two more sets of post mastitis and stains on the bone that were found in the stock. Fish bones were found nearby.