Page 2 University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1983 News Briefs From United Press International Hinckley takes overdose in possible suicide attempt WASHINGTON — John W. Hinckley Jr., acquitted by reason of insanity of trying to kill President Reagan, took an overdose of drugs yesterday in a presumed third suicide attempt, officials said. Doctors said the dose was potentially fatal, but they expected Hinkley to survive. They declined to say what drug Hinkley took or when. Jim Levy, a physician and president of Greater Southeast Community Hospital, where Hinckley was taken, said Hinckley was in serious cut "We have every reason to believe he is going to be all right," Levy said "I will not be able to tell you until the next 24 hours whether he is But hospital officials declined to call this incident a suicide attempt pending a full investigation, although one doctor said that was a A federal jury acquitted Hickley June 21, 1982, of charges of attempting to kill Reagan and shooting three others on March 30, 1981. EPA says dioxin data was withheld WASHINGTON - Several of the Environmental Protection Agency's top dioxin experts for months were denied access to sample results from Missouri sites contaminated with the highly toxic chemical, agency officials said yesterday. Three EPA officials told United Press International that assistant EPA administrator Rita Lavelle, who was fired last week by President Reagan, restricted access of members of a special Chlorinated Dioxins Working Group to the data The sources said such data was routinely provided to the group in the past. The Missouri sites, including Times Beach and a residential area in the St. Louis suburb of Imperial, are a pressing problem for the agency, which has come under fire from Congress. Lavelle denied that the dioxin group had not been provided full access to sampling data Duffield case may remain a mysterv OLATHE — A spokesman for the Kansas City Metro Squad which investigated the beating death of two sisters says it is doubtful authorities will ever know who killed the girls. "We have followed every lead that has come to our attention and we have nothing pointing to a suspect." Detective Clarence Luther, spokesman for the Metro Quad, told the Kansas City Star. "We may never know who did it." The Metro Squad, which interviewed 165 people trying to determine who killed 17-year-old Kelly Duffield and her 12-year-old sister Jamie Lamel, also questioned the truth of the story. Janelle was killed during a Jan. 28 attack in her parents' Olathe home. Kelly was abducted and her frozen body was discovered Feb. 7 in the spillway of a lake. Gov. John Carlin has offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. Skiers die in Italian cable car crash CHAMPOLUC, Italy — Three cable cars carrying skiers atop the Alps crashed more than 160 feet to the ground yesterday, killing 10 people and critically injuring two others, police said. By early evening, all the accident victims in the Val D'Aosta resort had been identified as Italians. About 50 miles away in Modane, France, an avalanche overwhelmed a group of skiers at the Alpine resort of Val Meinier, killing two of them, both French, police said. The group was sking at high altitude in an ara ca not considered part of the authorized ski runs, officials said. The cable car crash occurred on the 6.538 foot-long Champolac-Ajax cableway. Witnesses said one car on the lift broke loose from its cable mooring, smashing into two gondolas that were following it. Indian rioters·killed on election eve NEW DELHI, India — Police, battling roiters who attacked a police station in a wave of violence in Assam, opened fire yesterday and killed four people on the eve of elections, officials said. The killings in the northeastern state pushed the death toll to 85 in a 13-day campaign by Assamese protesting Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's refusal to strip the voting rights of some 4 million immigrants from Bangladesh. The latest killings occurred near Marigaon, officials said. At least half the state's 8 million native Assamese were expected to boycott the three-day elections for the state assembly and lower house Claiming to fear cultural annihilation by the Moslem and Hindu Bengalis, the mostly Christian Assamese want the elections postponed until the immigrants are expelled Drug fugitive caught at baby shower MIAMI — Martha Libya Cardona, the nation's 1. woman fugitive and thought to be the matriarch of a large cocaine ring, was arrested at a festive baby shower in Miami's Little Havana district on information from her ex-boyfriend, authorities said yesterday. Cardona, 36, the object of a nationwide search since she jumped $1 million bail two years ago, was arrested Saturday. Brent Elaton, a spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Cardona's ex-boyfriend, Mario Estevez, who called himself "the Cuban spy," led agents to a restaurant where the baby shower was being held. When Estevez and agents arrived at the baby shower, two men who appeared to be bodyguards fled with a violin case and a guitar case. Cardona, the alleged head of a 70-member cocaine smuggling network, faces trial on cocaine and weapons charges in U.S. District Feasting marks the Year of the Pig PEKING — The Year of the Pig came in yesterday with people from Peking to the sunny beaches of Thailand feasting, gambling and enjoying the summer. In the Chinese capital, the stroke of midnight Saturday triggered a series of firecracker explosions, while on the nationalist island of Taiwan, people settled down to family meals and gambling games. Businesses and government offices in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore will remain closed for at least two more days to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Chinese astrology says the Year of the Pig is good for business and industry and enjoying life. In Peking, Premier Zhao Ziyang observed the holiday in an address to 4,000 people at the Great Hall of the People. He called on the nation to speed up government and economic reforms. Israeli demonstrators protest as Sharon remains in Cabinet By United Press International JERUSALEM — Ariel Sharon formally stepped down as defense minister yesterday but retained a Cabinet seat. The Israeli government said the move fulfilled the recommendations of the Beirut massacre commission. "I state again I will comply with the Cabin's decision to transfer the portfolio of defense minister," Sharon wrote in a two-paragraph letter that avoided saying that he was resigning from the post. "I wish to state that I have no intention to resign from the government and I intend to continue to serve as a minister." the letter said. Sharon covered the letter to Prime Minister Menzel before the weekly Cabinet session. to serve in the government as a minister without portfolio but that officials had not yet said what he was going to do in the Cabinet. CABINET SECRETARY Dan Meridar said that Sharon would continue Thousands of demonstrators marched in Tel Aviv Saturday, calling for Sharon's ouster from the Cabinet. Opposition Labor Party leader Shimon Peres said the commission report asked Sharon must leave the government A senior Israeli official said Israel's ambassador to the United States, Moshe Arens, was "the preferred candidate of the prime minister" and that Meridor had already phoned the envoy to sound him out about the job. Interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press, Arms declined to comment on blog. Meanwhile, a Palestine Liberation Organization spokesman said yesterday in Algiers, Algeria, that Palestinian leaders had agreed at a summit THE LEADERS met until yesterday in talks preparing for a crucial meeting this week of the Palestine National forces and guerrilla forces and political leaders. to let Jordan's King Hussein mediate in their search for a homeland. Ahmed Abdul-Rahman, head of the PLO information office, said, "There is agreement that there will be a confederation with Jordan." The spokesman said the exact role of King Hussein was not defined, but stressed "we need Jordan" in his speech. The president Reagan's Middle East peace plan. Sources at the meeting said the leaders had not reached agreement on the Reagan plan, which called for a Palestinian entity on the Israeli-backed West bank under Jordanian supervision. Israel has rejected the plan. Cypriots re-elect centrist president By United Press International NICOSIA, Cyprus — President Spyryk Kyprianou, backed by Cyrpus powerful Communist Party, was re-elected in the second year term as the island nation leader. Jubilant supporters drove through Niceia's streets honking horns and shouting slogans in a noisy ending to the island's 23 years of independence. With nearly all the votes counted, Cyprus radio and television said Kyprinouroa's centrist party received 42 percent of the vote, but predicted in a pre-election opinion poll. Right-wing rival, Glaffos Clerides, 63, the pro-Western leader of the Democratic Rally Party, was second with 33.8 percent. Vassos Lyssarides, 62, head of the Socialist party Edek, ran third with 9.4 percent. absolute majority, a run-off election was to be held Feb. 20. If no candidate had received an Some 327,000 Greek Cypriots, who form 82 percent of the population, were eligible to vote in the election. 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