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University Daily Kansan, July 8, 1983
News Briefs
From United Press International
Anti-Khomeini hijackers free 184 hostages in Paris
PARIS — Acting on orders barked out by an exiled guerrilla leader, six Iranian hijackers opposed to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini freed 184 hostages from a commandeered jumbo jet yesterday and surrendered without a fight.
The six hijackers threatened to show up at ANA air base (air base) after a group of militants with Mafia links with Iran's outlawed leftist People's Muhaijade guerrilla movement.
The aircraft, with 394 people aboard, was hijacked Wednesday on a flight from Tehran to the southern resort of Shiraz and was forced to land in Kuwait where half the passengers were freed before the jet went on to Paris.
Iran immediately asked for the hijackers' extradition, but French government spokesman Max Gallo said they might be given political asylum, if requested. He said they would face charges of hijacking, which carried a maximum sentence of five to 10 years in jail.
The sky pirates claimed at first to be members of the Mujahideen guerrillas, but later said they commandeered the plane "on our own initiative in order that all might know Khomein's crimes."
Court rules for speedier executions
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Wednesday gave death penalty states the ability to speed up executions.
From now on, when an execution date is imminent, the 12 U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals may step up the speed with which they handle a case.
The courts may compress the time they usually take to consider an appeal and — if they issue a rejection — let the execution take place on
Although the ruling affects death penalty claims only when they reach the federal appeals court, the results are crucial. Those courts generally are the next-to-last hope for inmates trying to avoid execution.
Thatcher miffed at steel restrictions
LONDON — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher angrily denounced President Reagan's new steel import restrictions yesterday, as a "deplorable" reversal of the cooperative spirit reached by Western leaders at the Williamsburg summit.
The government has urged the Common Market to consider suing the United States for damages over the new import restrictions on specialist steel.
In the declaration issued at the end of the Williamsburg meeting May 30, the government chiefs of the world's major industrialized nations pledged to halt protectionism and eventually reverse it by dismantling trade barriers.
William Brock, the top U.S. trade official, said the U.S. action was consistent with the rules of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
The American move was made in response to complaints from U.S. steel producers, many of whom are facing commercial disaster from declining orders.
Abscam offenders begin jail terms
Three years after their convictions in the Abscam bribery investigation, six men, including three former congressmen, began serving their prison sentences yesterday for their roles in the scandal.
Reporting to prisons across the country were former Reps. Michael Myers, D-Pa.; Raymond Lederer, D-Pa.; and Frank Thompson, former Camden, N.J., Mayor Angela Richette; former Philadelphia Councilman Louis Johnson and Philadelphia lawyer Howard Criden.
Nineteen people were convicted on a variety of charges as a result of the FBI's 1980 investigation in which agents posed as wealthy Arabs offering bribes to politicians during secretly videotaped encounters.
Police search Rome for kidnappers
Emanuela Orlandi, daughter of Ercole Orlandi, a messenger in the canal ante-chamber, disappeared from a city center street June 22.
The kidnappers announced their demand for Agca's release in a telephone call to the city council. They were trying to convince the city whether they belonged to a terrorist group.
Newspapers speculated that the kidnappers were Italian right-wing extremists acting on behalf of the Turkish Gray Wolves organization to which Agca once belonged.
Six Western hostages safe for now
NAIROBI, Kenya — Guerrilla in Sudan threatening to kill five Western aid workers, including two Americans, backed off their second deadline yesterday and negotiators inched toward a settlement, Sudanese government officials said.
The Southern Sudan Liberation Front guerrillas had threatened to kill the hostages at 8 a.m. yesterday if their demands for shoes, clothing, drugs and $189,000 were not met.
The abductors originally said they would shoot their captives Wednesday but were persuaded to postpone the execution at least one
The two American hostages were identified as Ron Pontier, 29, of Clermont, Fla. and John Haspels, 36, of Lyons, Kan.
Oil spill kills sea cows, fund reports
The fund reported that more than 50 dugongs, a rare sea mammal, have been counted on eastern Gulf beaches.
GLAND, Switzerland — The Persian Gulf's mammoth oil spill has wiped out all the region's dugongs, or sea cows, as well as inflicting unprecedented harm on other wildlife and coral, the World Wildlife Fund said yesterday.
The report also soo scientists and have recorded numbers of dead turtles, dolphins, fish, sea snakes and birds.
Three Iranian wells in the Nowruz offshore fields are dumping 1,200 barrels of crude oil daily into the Gulf.
The Iran-Iraq war has prevented technicians from capping the wells and launching clean-up operations.
Girl goes to Russia to see Andropov
BOSTON — Eleven-year-old Samantha Smith headed for Russia yesterday with hopes of asking her host, Soviet leader Yuri Andropov. "Why do we keep making bombs for a war if there's no one to start it?"
Samantha's original letter to Andropo seeking his assurances of peace was published in Pravda, the Soviet daily newspaper. Getting no direct reply, she wrote the Soviet ambassador in Washington.
Several days later, she received a two-page letter signed by Andropov assuring her he was committed to peace and inviting her family to tour Russia for two weeks as guests of the Kremlin.
Panel OKs export of flammable fabrics
WASHINGTON — The Consumer Product Safety Commission, following a 4-1 vote, issued an order yesterday that relaxed restrictions on the export of clothes, carpets and other fabrics that fail to meet U.S. fire safety standards.
By United Press International
COMMISSION CHAIRMAN Nancy Steeples defended the approach as practical and Commissioner Terrence Mullen was named president of businesses compete, but Commissioner
The action will allow foreign countries — many of which have no such standards — to decide whether they want to accent such goods.
Under the previous policy, in effect since 1975, any product made in the United States that did not meet the standards of the Flammability Fabrics Act of 1933 could not be sold domestically or overseas.
This new policy allows the export of any product, even those initially made for domestic use and taken off the market, that they violate flammability standards.
The only export exception was on products specifically manufactured for overseas sale and about which the delivery received prior notification of that fact.
Edith Sloan opposed the move on moral grounds.
Sloan said, "The easiest way to
In their order, they cited 1978 congressional amendments to the Flammability Act in which, they said, "Congress evidenced its intent that the responsibility for protecting citizens of other countries lies with the governments of those countries, not the commission."
describe the moral forces at work is to refer to the ancient directive "Thou shall not kill." '
COMMISSIONERS SAM Zagoria and Stuart Statler joined Steors and Scanlon in voting for the change.
Under the revised policy, any product that violates the flammability standards can be exported if the company
first, gives the commission 30 days notice.
During that period, the commission would inform the foreign country where the company wants to sell the merchandise.
"WHAT THIS DOES is basically put the decision-making in the hands of the foreign country," said Steerls. "I have had meetings with representatives of several foreign countries and I haven't seen any negativism."
Scanlon said he would like to see the relaxation extended to export restrictions now imposed on the more than 15,000 goods covered by the Consumer Product Safety Act and the Federal Hazardous Substances Act.
Five states ordered to revise desegregation plans
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Education Department is giving five states until Aug. 15 to revise their college desegregation plans or face a possible cutoff of federal education funds, a spokesman said yesterday.
One of those states, Georgia, has refused to overhaul its college graduation exam, which has been called discriminatory by civil rights groups,
and says it may go to court over the matter.
AN EDUCATION DEPARTMENT spokesman said Georgia, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Florida and Arkansas were notified in letters dated June 30 that the government had turned down their court-ordered plans. The rejection of North Carolina's plan applied to the state's community college system
The letters, addressed to the governors or top education officials of the states, were signed by Harry Singleton.
assistant secretary of education for civil rights.
Singleton wrote that the plans contained many good features, but were unacceptable and needed improvements overall.
THE PLANS WERE required when Judge John Pratt of the U. S. District Court of the District of Columbia ruled March 24 that the states failed to meet earlier, court-ordered, full desegregation.
Pratt had ordered the Education Department to decide on the new plans by June 30. He told the department to
begin enforcement procedures by Sept. 15, either through civil action or by cutting off education funds, unless proposals are suitable.
In order to give the states another chance to comply, the department gave them until the middle of next month to submit revisions.
GOV. JOE FRANK HARRIS of Georgia held a news conference in Atlanta Wednesday where he said he would submit an amended plan for the state's 33 colleges and universities by Aug. 1.
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