Page 2 University Daily Kansan, October 2, 1981
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Abscam conspirator fighting to keep congressional seat
WASHINGTON—Sen. Harrison Williams Jr., D-N.J., claiming the government used a con man to convict him of bribery charges in its Abscens investigation, said yesterday a word to expel him from the Senate would mean the same man had conned the Senate.
Williams filed a $6 million suit charging that the government used Melvin Weinberg, a convicted felon, to masseid him into making deals before hidden evidence was discovered.
After a U.S. District Court convicted Williams of conspiracy and bribery layover, the Senate Ethics Committee recommended his expulsion from the Senate.
"A con man framed me and he did it under the direction of government operation and with the approval of high government officials," Williams
"If the Senate rushes to expel me, a con man of the most disreputable background would be conning the Senate."
The senator said he would fight until he was vindicated in the Senate and in criminal court.
the legal costs of that fight in the trial court and in the ethics committee, preparation of a civil suit and an appeal of his conviction, could reach $1 million.
"It is a shocking thing for people to know you have to have $1 million to defend yourself," Williams said. "Shocking."
Exiled Iranians form government
PARIS—Former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadi and Massoud Rajavi, a leftist leader, said yesterday they were setting up a government-linked institution in Tehran.
Their joint statement said Bani-Sadr would be temporary president and Rajavi would act as prime minister. A statement that May has made is the
Rajavi is now head of a guerrilla movement that has been fighting the Ayatollah Ruhholl Khomeini's revolutionary guards in Iran.
France did not say whether it would allow Bani-Sadr and Rajawi, escaped together from Iran July 29, to set up the government-in-exile.
Both were allowed to stay in France only if they agreed not to take part in political activity.
Plot to seize Indianapolis reported
INDIANAPOLIS—A bizarre plot by a group of criminals to take over the city of Indianapolis, assassinate the county prosecutor and kill a large number of police officers was foiled when a robbery to finance the scheme failed, a newspaper reported yesterday.
According to the Indianaapolis News, the scheme also included extorting money from business owners and blowing up City Hall with grenades.
The story said the group was made up of from 40 to 70 convicts in and out of prison who also planned to take over all drug and prostitution operations in
But the takeover was aborted, the newspaper said, when the first of a series of robberies meant to finance the plot failed.
Beirut blast rocks street. kills 83
BEIRUT, Lebanon—A massive car bomb exploded yesterday in front of an office of the Palestine Liberation Organization, killing at least 83 people and wounding more than 250.
The 220-pound bomb blasted a narrow street, which was crowded with shoppers and merchants, tearing the facades form buildings and twisting cars into burning wrecks.
An unidentified man telephoned a state-run Lebanese television station to report the liberation of Lebanon from foreigners was responsible for the explosion.
The PLO blamed Lebanese agents of the United States and Israel for the attack.
U.S. tests another nuclear bomb
YUCAZA FLATS, Nev.—U.S. scientists yesterday detonated an underground nuclear bomb with a maximum punch equal to 150,000 tons of TNT, seven times larger than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in World War II.
The blast, code-named "Paliza," originally was set to be detonated at 8 a.m. CDT, but scientists twice delayed the detonation to take advantage of more favorable winds.
Nuclear tests are not conducted when winds are blowing toward Las Vegas, about 95 miles south of the test site. The procedure is a precaution in case test explosions release radioactivity.
A Department of Energy spokesman said there were no problems with the test, the 13th announced nuclear detonation of the year at the Nevada site. He said the effects of the explosion, which occurred 1,548 feet beneath the desert, were not felt in Las Vegas.
Soviets to purchase extra wheat
MOSCOW—The Soviet Union will buy 18 million tons of grain instead of the 23 million the United States offered for sale through next October, U.S. officials said yesterday.
The Soviets already were guaranteed the right to buy eight million tons for the grain year, which began yesterday, but U.S. negotiators offered an extra 100 million tons.
Officials said the Soviets probably would buy 10 million more tons of grain than their eight-million吨 guarantee.
At the current market price of $160 a ton, the 18 million tons of wheat would be worth $2.8 billion
Donald Novotny, a U.S. Agriculture Department officials, said the Soviets said this would be "bear from a record year" for their domestic grain crop.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that the Soviets would hold an average tons of grain this year, compared with their target harvest of 238 million
Nominee won't promote right to life
Koop, President Reagan's choice to head the Public Health Service, told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee that he would not use any of his power.
WASHINGTON-C. Everett Koop, nominated to be U.S. surgeon general, said yesterday in his Senate confirmation hearing that he opposed federal funding for abortions, but he said he would not use his new job as "a pulpit . . . on the pro-life circuit."
"I think I've said enough and written enough about the right to life," Koop said.
The surgeon general directs the government's vast system of hospitals and research facilities and directs federal health education programs. The office probably is best known for its health hazard warnings on cigarette packages.
No senator expressed opposition to pediatric surgeon Koop's nomination during the one-day hearing. Some officials predicted the Senate would give him easy approval after it returned Oct. 14 from its recess.
Savings and loan changes urged
WASHINGTON—The administration said yesterday it would ask Congress to give savings and loan associations the powers of commercial banks, including investment and expanded checking and consumer and commercial lending.
A Treasury department statement said President Reagan endorsed the Senate's request and said they would be submitted to Congress. Officials expected the Senate to approve the request.
"While the proposed new powers would not exceed those of commercial banks, they would give the industry more flexibility." Donald Regan, treasury secretary, said yesterday.
Hyatt Regency reopens with new terrace
By United Press International
That faith also was expressed by Janes McClune, president of Crown Center Redevelopment Corp., which owns the hotel, and by a technical committee that earlier yesterday said the remodeled Hyatt was safe.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-The Hyatt Regency Hotel reopened its doors yesterday on a renovated lobby and registered its first guests since July 17, the night two suspended walkways collapsed and killed 113 people.
The hotel opened without fanfare and without any ceremonial reopening of doors. The first guests walked into the lobby—part of a $5 million renovation—and signed in at 3 p.m. 40 guests registered in the first hour.
After registering, one guest, Vic Victoria of Fullerton, Calif., looked up where the skywalks had been. When the replacement, a second-floor terrace, was pointed out to him, he said he wasn't worried.
"Crown Center believes the hotel has been improved, thoroughly inspected and is safe and ready to reopen." McClune said. "We would not return it to operation if we did not believe it to be safe."
The hotel's general manager said the Hyatt lost $5 million in canceled business while closed, but he said the outlook was good. By the end of the year, the company will handle more 60 percent of converts, 19,000 delegates, hotel officials. Last night, officials expected that 180, or 25 percent of Hyatt's rooms would be
The new terrace was just one of several reinforcing changes that investigators said would make the Hyatt safe beyond a doubt.
occupied. They expect 50 percent occupancy through the month.
said Robert Gaynor, the committee's coordinator.
A special committee that examined the $5 million renovation issued a summary to the City Council saying there was no reason to question the hotel's safety. The summary also listed several of the changes, including a 120-foot truss to help support a glass atrium roof above the four-story lobby.
Gaynor said that because the building was built by human beings, it would never be free of the possibility of human error.
"Based upon its review, it is the opinion of the technical committee that there is no valid reason to question the safety of the Hyatt Regency Hotel,"
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"I can only say to you that to our knowledge, no building anywhere has been so thoroughly studied for safety, and probably ever will be again," Gaynor said.
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More than 100 consultants were involved in the technical committee's review which included the inspection of thousands of documents and 39 interviews with more than 50 people involved in the disaster, Gaynor said.
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