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University Daily Kansan, April 15. 1983
News Briefs From United Press International
15 killed in Philippines in bombings, rebel attacks
MANILA, Philippines — Communist rebels killed 12 soldiers in ambushes in the northern Philippines, and in the south three people died in bomb blasts blamed on Moslem separatist guerrillas, reports said yesterday.
Manila's Bulletin Today newspaper, quoting military sources, said the ambushes took place Wednesday in the towns of Tubo and Tugong in Abra province. There were no reports of rebel casualties.
The communist New People's Army is active in several mountain provinces in the northern Philippines as well as on the island of
Authorities said that in the city of Zamboanga on Mindanao, six bomb blasts killed three people and wounded at least 12 others. Military officials said they suspected the bombs were planted by the Moslem Moro National Liberation Front.
Budget committee upholds tax cut
WASHINGTON — The Senate Budget Committee yesterday killed a Democratic move to repeal the third year of the Reagan tax cut, then recessed until next week when efforts to break a deadlock on taxes failed.
The committee was forced to recess at midday to seek a compromise on how much to raise taxes.
By an 11-11 vote, the panel defeated a motion to raise $30 billion next year by repealing the 10 percent income tax cut scheduled to take effect July 1. Ties are the same as rejections.
The committee, which is drafting a federal budget for fiscal 1984, has handed President Reagan defeats by cutting his proposed military spending increase in half and by approving $11.3 billion more for non-defense domestic spending than Reagan wants.
Judge invalidates "Baby Doe" rule
WASHINGTON — A federal judge yesterday struck down the government's three-week-old "Baby Doe" rule, which sought to keep hospitals from letting handicapped newborns die with withholding food or medical care. The Reagan administration promptly announced it would
District Judge Gerhard Gesell decided the regulation was "arbitrary and capricious" in increasing the government's power to police hospital nurseries.
The regulation, backed by President Reagan, required hospitals that receive federal funds to post notices reading, "Discriminatory failure to feed and care for handicapped infants violates the Rehabilitation Act of 1973."
Walesa's wife questioned by police
WARSAW, Poland - Gdansk police yesterday interrogated former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa'a, wife about her husband's secret rendezvous with fugitive underground leaders, but she said she refused to answer any questions.
A bulletin issued by the Solidarity fugitives confirmed they had talks with Walesa earlier this week and called on Poles to show opposition to the government in demonstrations May 1.
Walesa was interrogated for five hours Wednesday about his talks with the tigitives. His wife, Danuta, spent 2½% hours at police headquarters yesterday, a family spokesman reported. The police repeated the same questions asked to her husband, the spokesman said.
El Salvador official may be ousted
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — El Salvador's air force chief yesterday put off a threat mutiny against Defense Minister Jose Guillermo Garcia and hinted that the beleaguered military leader would resign next week.
Garcia, who has been defense minister since 1979, has been accused by younger officers of incompetence in the war against leftist rebels
Col. Juan Rafael Bustillo, the air force chief, said he would wait until next week to undertake any protest against Garcia, whose resignation
One air force officer, who wished to remain unidentified, said the majority of the officers supported Bustillo's demand.
PLO's tribute plan troubles leaders
WARSAW, Poland — Polish officials tried yesterday to resolve a diplomatic dilemma over the Palestine Liberation Organization's plans to pay tribute to the Jewish heroes of the Warsaw ghetto uprising despite objections from Arabs and Jews.
both Arabs and Jews angrily protested the PLO's plan to lay a memorial wreath at the monument to those who died fighting Nazi troops in the World War II uprising.
Polish authorities said there were no protests and that the PLO was not part of the government's observances of the 40th anniversary of the uprising. But Faud Yassin, the chief of the PLO mission in Warsaw, said that he had been invited to participate and that he intended to do so.
NASA officials doubt satellite's fate
WASHINGTON — Two control jets on the communications satellite launched from the space shuttle Challenger last week may have been damaged by the rocket that left the satellite tumbling in the wrong orbit, the space agency said yesterday.
NASA said diagnosis of the trouble and determination of how to work around it would delay attempts to move the satellite into a stationary orbit by several weeks.
Project manager Ronald Browning said that he was not as optimistic about the fate of the satellite as he was a week ago but that he still hoped
It was launched from the Challenger April 4 and ran into trouble when the rocket that was to push it into the stationary orbit had control problems.
BOGOTA, Colombia — Guerrillas yesterday freed Texaco executive Kenneth Bishop after 38 days in exchange for a $1 million ransom. Bishop left Colombia for the United States immediately after his release.
$1 million frees Texaco executive
Colombian national police officials said a $1 million ransom was paid to the People's Revolutionary Organization, a previously obscure guerrilla group, for his release.
Clarification
In yesterday's Kansan, a co-coordinator of services for victims of domestic violence recounted personal experiences that occurred prior to her present marriage. The Kansan deeply regrets any distress its reporting of the experiences might have caused the woman and her family.
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Williams quits, avoids prison
By United Press International
CHICAGO — Teamsters President Roy Williams will resign as head of the nation's largest labor union in order to stay out of prison while he appeals his bribery conviction, his attorney said in court yesterday.
Raymond G. Larroca, representing Williams, told a federal judge that Williams would sever all ties with the union in return for his freedom on bail during the appeal of his conviction for trying to bribe a U.S. senator..
LARROCA MADE the comments in an emergency hearing before U.S. District Judge Prentice H. Marshall, who presided at the trial of Williams and four others and sentenced Williams two weeks ago. At that time Marshall will be tried in a federal court. Williams to remain free on appeal bond if he be brought out of the union.
The emergency session came just hours after the U.S. Court of Appeals refused to delay Williams' surrender date set for today at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., where he was to undergo a 90-day medical examination. He suffers from emphysema.
Marshall, who last week denied Williams' request for a delay in
reporting to federal prison, scheduled a hearing for today to rule on the ball
WILLIAMS, 67, was in fair condition at Park Lane Medical Center in Kansas City, Mo, where he was admitted about noon Tuesday complaining of acute respiratory distress. He spent 24 hours in the intensive care unit in serious distress and was admitted to a private room. Doctors said his condition had improved to fair and stable.
In a 2- to 1 ruling, the Appeals Court ordered Williams to report as ordered
Williams was one of five men convicted of trying to bribe Cannon. They were charged with offering Cannon, who is no longer in the Senate, a bargain price on a piece of land owned by the Teamsters in Las Vegas for his help in scouting legislation to do deregulate the trucking industry.
Williams was convicted in December of conspiring to bribe Sien. Howard Cannon, D-Dev., to win Cannon's aid in scouting legislation to deregulate the
trucking industry. The legislation passed and Cannon was never charged
ONE OF WILLIAMS co-defendants, insurance man Allen Dorfman, was gunned down in a suburban Chicago parking lot in January. Also convicted in the bribery case were reputed syndicate figure Joseph "Joey the Clown" Lombardo and two Teamster pension fund officials.
The dissident Teamsters for a Democratic Union movement yesterday said it had learned that Williams received $344,467 from the union and that he paid personal attorney fees for his defense in the bribery-compensation trial.
FBI says one man robbed area banks
By United Press International
TOPEKA — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday it thought the same gunman was responsible for a string of seven bank robberies — two of them at Lawrence banks — in Kansas and Missouri since March 4.
Special Agent Max Geiman of the FBI's Kansas City, Md., office said authorities hoped to arrest a suspect by blitzing the media with photographs taken of a gunman by bank security officers during several of the robberies.
GEIMAN, WHO declined to release the total amount of money taken in the robbery of Mr. Reed at the Flieshill State Bank and Trust of Topeka provided authorities with the
Relying on eyewitness descriptions and hidden camera photographs, the FBI and local police departments all of the robberies, Geiman said.
most detailed photograph of the man to date.
He said the man entered a savings and loan association within a block of Fidelity State about an hour before the bank asked and asked a seller to change a $20 bill.
"Apparently there were a number of employees there and he left," he said.
IN WEDNESDAY'S robbery, the man — believed to be between 25 and 35 — asked a teller for change, pulled a wallet and demanded money, Geiman said. The teller complied and the robber fled. No one was injured.
The gunman was believed to be the same man who held up a branch office of Farm and Home Savings in St. Louis, according to the Fidelity robbery, authorities said.
Two of the robberies occurred at Lawrence banks. The American Savings Association of Kansas, 2435 Iowa St., was robbed April 1, and a branch of the Douglas County State Bank was robbed March 4.
Police have been unable to determine the license number on any of the gumman's escape vehicles. Geiman has numerous vehicles to flee robbery scenes.
GEIMAN SAID THE FBI entered the investigation because FBI protection was given to all federally insured or chartered financial institutions.
Lost B-52 is found; crew dead
By United Press International
ST. GEORGE, Utah — Air Force investigators reached the scene and began picking up the pieces yesterday of a B-52 bomber that crashed into a mountainside and killed all seven crewmen.
A Strategic Air Command spokesman said there was no word on the cause of the accident, which maneuvered in combat training maneuvers Monday.
"THERE HAS been no speci-
culation as to cause of the crash," said Col. Richard Kline, information officer at SAC headquarters in Chicago, where accident investigation board is on scene and will try to determine that."
The wreckage was discovered at the 7,000-foot level of a Southern Utah mountain four days after the crash, which had occurred 22 miles northwest of the desert community. It lay strenuously over a 10-mile radius.
One of the victims was from Salina. He was identified as Col. Caroll G. Dumber, 45, an extra crew member and safety observer.
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