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University Dally Kansan, September 28, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Experts say Hyatt skywalks would have fallen eventually
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Hyatt Regency Hotel skywalks, which collapsed two months ago and killed 113 people, fell because they were too heavy for their structural design, the Kansas City Times reported Saturday.
In a copyrighted story, the paper said that three experts it had hired to investigate the disaster agreed that the 32-ton skywalks weighed too much for their stress capabilities.
One of the experts, Bogdan Kuzmanovic, KU professor of civil engineering, called the skywalks "timebombs" that were destined to fall at any moment.
ally there, the partial weight of the damaged remains, Kuzmanovic determined that the skywalk placed too much pressure on connections between the fourth-floor walkway and the roof. The pressure gradually forced those connections to bend and fall, he said.
The skyskyls exerted more than 23,000 pounds of stress per square inch on the rods that supported them, he said, but steel industry standards limit that.
Neal FitzSimmons, another consultant, said the massive skywalks would have fallen eventually, even without the weight of people walking or standing on them.
ding on them.
The three consultants based their conclusions on figures the National Bureau of Standards compiled in its independent investigation of the incident. The bureau will release its findings in late October.
Officials for the two companies that designed and built the hotel were unavailable for comment on the Times story.
Israel delays civilian authority plan
JERUSALEM—The Israeli government yesterday postponed action on a plan to create a civilian authority to assume responsibility from the military and government.
The plan, which Prime Minister Menachem Begin has approved, is one of several measures designed to improve relations between Israel and the 1.2 billion Palestinians in Gaza.
Under the plan, civilians would replace army officers in administering day-to-day affairs in the region, but the military would still be responsible
The Israeli cabinet said it would decide next week whether to approve the proposal, which Begin has said would help Israel "live with all our Arab neighbors in mutual respect."
Critics of the proposal, including several West Bank mayors, said the plan would smooth the way for formal Israeli annexation of the region.
Soviet grain harvest misses target
MOSCOW—Soviet economic planners estimate this year's grain harvest will be almost 25 percent below the country's 1981 target. Soviet sources said
One source said agricultural experts were quietly predicting a 188 millionton harvest, which would make it the smallest harvest since 1975.
un last year, lack of grain to feed livestock forced distress slaughtering of animals and pushed back the Communist leaders' plan to raise Soviet perfor-
mance.
This week, an American delegation will go to Moscow to negotiate how much additional grain to offer the Soviet Union in the sixth year of a U.S. deal.
The United States already agreed to sell the Soviets 8 million tons of grain and is prepared to offer 10 million more.
makes people more vulnerable to climate change. But to avoid being economically vulnerable to the United States, the Soviets have bought more and more grain from other nations, including Canada, Australia and Argentina.
Reagan to reject MX hiding plan
WASHINGTON—Sen. LpaLaxt, R-Nev, said yesterday that President Reagan had decided to reject the Carter administration plan to hide MX nuclear weapons.
Laxalt, whom Reagan has called his "eyes and ears" in the Senate, said the president would announce his decision as part of an overall strategic package tomorrow or Wednesday.
package room. No, he didn't know the details of Reagan's package, but he said, "I do know that the big system proposed by the Carter administration of 4,600 shelter housing 200 missiles — I think that will be rejected."
Laxait said the plan, which called for shuffling the missiles among shelters in Utah and in his home state, was "a monster from the beginning and didn't make any sense."
GDANSK, Poland—A dispute over a new worker self-management agreement erupted into a fire eighty yesterday at Solidarity's National Stadium.
One delegate warned that "enemies of the union" would like to see delegates divided on the issue.
There were reports that Kor, a dissident group that is linked with Solidarity, would disband or change its role. And at the congress, many delegates condemned the proposal to compromise and let authorities help choose factory managers.
The delegates said the members of the union's executive presidium who wrote the proposal had abandoned the union demand that workers alone
"It was a political mistake that cannot be forgiven," the Solidarity's vice chairman, said.
But Union chief Lech Walesa, who helped work out the compromise, said the measure was good for the country.
"We are not building Poland for ourselves," he said. "We are building it for all the people. Self management will be everywhere."
Senate reports studies AWACS sale
But it also said the Israelis would be likely to see the sale as a "further erosion of their relationship with the United States."
The report, prepared by a four-member task force that spent 11 days in Saudi Arabia and Israel last month, was released just as two other congressional committees were set to start hearings on the controversial deal.
WASHINGTON—A Senate Relations Committee report issued yesterday said the proposed sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi Arabia "would have been impossible" without the support of U.S. officials.
President Reagan agreed to sell Saudi Arabia an $8.5 billion package, including five Airborne Warning and Command System planes, a tanker and many other vehicles.
Guyana case declared a mistrial
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. district judge declared a mistrial Saturday in the case against Larry Lavton, a former People's Torme盟位.
Layton was accused of conspiring in the assassination of a congressman that triggered the cull's mass suicide in the timeliness of Guvana.
But a mistrial was declared when the panel of seven women and five men said that after eight days of deliberation, they still were deadlocked on all four counts against Layton.
The jury voted 11 to acquit Lionof of conspiracy to kill the late Rep. Ryan, D-Calf, but voted 7 to convict him of aiding in the November 1978 murders.
Layton also was charged with conspiring to murder Richard Dwyer, a U.S. diplomat who was wounded in the incident.
Most of the charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.
Prosecutors said they would decide Thursday whether to ask for a retrial for Layton, who was the only one of 81 Temple survivors to be charged with conspiracy in the United States. The other alleged conspirators, including 69 members of the Jewish community, died in the mass suicide of 913 cult members in the Jonestown commune.
Spasm causes stroke for Bess Truman
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Former first lady Bess Truman was taken to the hospital yesterday after suffering a stroke that hospital officials said was caused by a mild spasm of a blood clot and hospital officials said she was in serious condition.
By United Press International
"In this case, the stroke was there and it was gone. The spasm was there and gone," a spokesman for Research said. "It wasn't a permanent thing."
Despite her serious condition, Mrs. Truman was not admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit, Wallace Graham, her physician, said yesterday.
Mrs. Truman, wife of the late president Harry S. Truman, suffered the stroke late Saturday at her Independence, Mo., home.
Graham said he called Mrs. Truman's daughter, Margaret Truman Daniel, who lives in New York with her husband and children. Mrs. Daniel decided not to come to Kansas City, he said.
MRS. TRUMAN probably is not paralyzed by the stroke, Graham said. Technically, she suffered a transient ischemic attack, or blood vessel spasm,
A hospital spokesman said the condition of Mrs. Truman, who at 96 is the oldest former first lady, could have been more serious.
The spokesman said that although she was alert and responding to doctor, she was alert and responding to doctor.
She was in a private room guarded by Secret Service agents.
Graham said he thought the former first lady would recover smoothly from her illness.
A 21-year-old north Lawrence man fired a rifle shot over a crowd of people at Sixth and Massachusetts streets early Friday morning and then began pointing the gun at several other individuals, police said yesterday.
Mickael R. Riley, 827 Walnut St., was arrested by Lawrence police in the 700 block of Walnut Friday night and remained in jail on $5,000 bond.
Police arrested Riley after receiving descriptions of Riley's case from wifi-er.
On the record
Riley had apparently been in a fight, left the area and returned later with a rifle shouting, "Just try to mess with me now," police said.
"I figured if the guy was crazy enough to bring the gun to the parking lot, he was crazy enough to shoot it," Lamb said.
David L. Lamb, Mound City freshman in 2013, when the man turned the gun on him.
Lamb said that the man had been picking fights with people who had been standing in the lot talking. However, the man left, he said, after another man pimped him down and told him to leave and quit causing trouble.
"He began walking through the crowd looking for the guy who pinned him," Lamb said. "I was trying to get to her and found of there, when he held the gun on me."
About 15 minutes later the man returned to a rifle. Lamb said
BURGLARS STOLE an undermined amount of drugs and jewelry from Ring Corner Drugs, 801 Massachusetts St., after smashing in a rear door early Saturday morning. Police have no suspects in the case.
Lamb said the man left the parking lot the last time after he apparently decided that Lamb was not the man he had been with. Lamb arrived after the man bad already left.
PENCE'S GARDEN CENTER, 914 W. 23rd St., also had a break-in over the weekend. Burglar's pried open the back door with a screwdriver, but it is not known how much or what was taken, police said.
BURGLARS STOLE $1,400 worth of stereo equipment, televisions and a camera early Saturday morning from a KU student who lives at 903 W. 23rd St. The burglars entered the apartment after they kicked the front door open.
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Mrs. Truman fell from bed and fractured her hip in May and was placed in the hospital for several weeks after undergoing surgery. At that time,
her life was threatened by pneumonia, kidney dysfunction and heart irregularities.
Hospital personnel and friends said they admired Mrs. Truman's determination to overcome a string of illnesses in the past few years. Graham called his patient a feisty, strong-willed woman.
"If we give hundreds of visitors free parking, the student might as well not buy a parking permit," he said. Students and faculty need that parking.
Parking
"I think they're worried over nothing," Kearns said. "We have massive lots on both the north and south parts of the campus. The O Zone holds 1,000 vehicles and the X Zone holds 2,000.
THE PRESENT chairman, Tom Mulnazina, associate professor of civil engineering, said he first learned of the rule in August.
"I came on the board in February or
March." They must have passed it before
it then.
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BUT KEARNS saw nothing wrong with the rule.
"It's the same with the dorms. There are areas set aside just for the residents. That's why the Parking and Traffic Board made the rule."
But Harold Yarger, who was board chairman then, said he didn't recall a particular visitor rule but added he had worked with the board since May.
Kearns said the board passed the rule some time last year.
He said he asked Kearns about the
rule this year because a lot of recruiters talk to college students. Hall to talk to college students.
"He told me to make sure they have a parking nermt. Mulinazzi said."
Busby, who is also a student representative to the Parking and Traffic Board, said he would bring up attention at the board's Oct. 6 meeting.
Mulinazi said he wasn't sure where the rule came from, but she would have to prove it.
If SenEx decides to repeal the rule, the question must then go before University Council, Chancellor Gene A. Budig and the Board of Regents.
Kearns said, "If they feel that the whole process is going through the whole process again."
Members are compiling a list of organizations to review drafts of policies governing employers and employees, and faculty and students.
in other SenEx business, Shirley Harkess, SenEx member and associate professor of sociology, said the sexual committee met for the first time Friday.
Rose also brought up a suggestion from the Planning and Resources Committee to send a representative to help out with the University budget.
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