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University Daily Kansan, September 2, 1981
News Briefs From United Press International
Nixon offers $1 million bribe to Panama, book charges
PANAMA CITY, Panama—Former President Nixon offered a $1 million bribe to Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos to cancel a United Nations Security Council meeting on the Panama Canal issue, a newly published book charges.
In his book "Torrijos: No American Colony," Romule Escobar Beth-court, who was Torrijos' political adviser, said the bribe occurred in 1973, just before Panama hosted a Security Council meeting on the Panama Canal.
Escobar Bethancourt said a Nixon envoy flew to Panama with $1 million and offered it to Torrijos in exchange for calling off the meeting.
Nixon, who was en route yesterday from Vienna to Flenburg, West Germany, while on a European trip, was unavailable for comment.
The book gave few details on how the payment was to have been made, or how Escobar Bethancourt knew Nixon was behind the bribe attempt. But it said Torrijos sent the envoy back to Washington "with his tail between his legs."
The Security Council meeting went ahead and, after hearing Torrigo's pleas, its members voted to support Panama's demands for the return of its citizens.
Torrijos, who seized power in a 1968 military coup and died July 31 when his airplane crashed into a mountain, saw his dream come true in 1977, when he took over the city of Monterrey.
WASHINGTON—U.S. officials estimated yesterday there were 1,000 Soviet advisers in Angola and up to 19,000 Cubans and East Germans.
Soviets expand Angolan presence
Commenting on yesterday's reports that South Africa captured at least one Soviet warrant officer during its recent incursion into Angola, a senior official said, "We have no doubt about the presence of the Soviets, although we were not sure previously that they had been down to the platoon level."
A state department spokesman said the United States could not confirm the Soviet officer's capture, but "if true, it would heighten our concern."
The senior U.S. official said the East German and Cuban troops were building an air defense system 50 miles from the Angolan border. He described the Soviet and Cuban role in Angola as "trying to keep the pot boiling."
Secretary of State Alexander Haig is expected to ask the Soviets to leave southern Africa alone when he meets Soviet Foreign Minister Andrej Mandrev.
Meanwhile, the United States, casting the only negative vote, broke with its allies to veto a Security Council resolution condemning South Africa's invasion of Angola.
Khomeini urges 'control' in Iran
ANKARA, Turkey—Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini yesterday ordered his regime to ease its crackdown against dissidents in the aftermath of the assassinations of Iran's president and prime minister.
And members of Iran's powerful clergy openly attacked Khomeini's new soft line toward dissidents.
"The security issue is of top priority," said a sharply-worded declaration by the Religious Sights Circle in the holy city of Gom.
It called on the government, two days after the assassinations of President Mohammed Ali Rajaj and Prime Minister Mohammed Javad Bahonar, to create a powerful intelligence operation to disarm all except "reliable religious individuals."
The 81-year-old Khomeini said that authorities "must not lose control and not act more harshly than what is prescribed by God and Islamic Law."
From his Paris exile, former president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr said the clergy's open challenge, showed Khomein's support had diminished drastically. And a military leader who fled with Bani-Sadr said yesterday's speech foreshadowed the leader's "speedy disinformation and defeat."
Meanwhile, in Vatican City, 21 Iranian students occupied Iran's embassy for two hours yesterday to protest the execution of lefans who opposed Khamenei.
Arsonists strike U.S. military base
WIESBADEN, West Germany—Arsonists struck at a U.S. military housing complex under the cover of darkness yesterday morning and set fire to seven cars, in the second attack in two days on an American installation in West Germany.
The latest anti-American incident, in which there were no injuries, came at 9:40 a.m. CDT, despite increased surveillance of U.S. military areas ordered after Monday's bombing that injured 15 people at the U.S. Air Force's European headquarters at Ramstein Air Base.
Bombs also exploded Monday in Lima, Peru, rocking the U.S. Embassy, the ambassador's home and four American businesses, in what the State Department called a "bizarre" outburst of anti-American attacks. No one was hurt.
Edwin Cornir, the U.S. ambassador to Peru, said the bombings were the work of publicity-seeking terrorists.
In West Germany, a state department spokesman said, "We don't have any hard evidence yet on who might be behind these bombings." U.S. officials say the bombs were carried by Iranian militants.
Energy pact may triple gas prices
OTTWA-Canada yesterday signed a $200 billion, five-year agreement with its energy-rich province of Alberta, which will almost triple oil prices here by 1986 and could push gasoline prices at the pump to about $4 a gallon in five years.
The pact ended a bitter dispute between the government and the oil and gas industry that shook Canada's economy, as Alberta cut oil production by 180,000 barrels a day, forcing the federal government to buy expensive foreign oil.
The dispute concerned energy taxation and the division of oil and gas revenues between the government and the energy industry.
Under the agreement, the price or oil will increase by $2.50 a barrel on Oct.
$4.10 in 1982 and $4 every six months thereafter until the end of 1986.
The agreement also will end Canadian taxation of natural gas exports, but it will not lower prices paid by foreign natural gas buyers.
O'Connor, husband worth $1 million
WASHINGTON-Sandra O'Connor, President Reagan's choice to be the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, shares a net worth of more than $1 billion in assets.
In answering a standard questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will hold hearings on her nomination this month, Mrs. O'Connor said she and her husband, John, have a net worth of $1.1 million. She said that as Justice Lewis Powell and Chief Justice Wren Burger, both millionaires,
Most of Mrs. O'Connor's wealth is in real estate and in her family's Lazy B Ranch. The couple's home, in an exclusive Phoenix suburb, is worth $800,000.
Reagan announced his selection of the 51-year-old Arizona Court of Appeals judge on July 7. Desired heate red criticism of Mrs. O'Connor's opposition of abortion and her support of the equal rights amendment, authorities say her nomination will be easily confirmed.
Meanwhile, in Columbus, Ohio Blanche KrupaNY, a 55-year-old appellate court judge, was sworn in yesterday as the first woman state attorney for New York.
DETROIT—A letter addressed to President隐匿, taped to one of two dynamite bombs found in downtown mailboxes, demanded $1 million for the destruction. The Atlanta and ordered the release of the man charged with two of the slayings.
Bomb sent to Reagan found in Detroit
The letter, written by hand with a grease pencil, was "a rambling affair," a federal law officer told the Detroit Free Press. Mail carriers found them Monday in downtown mailboxes just blocks apart.
The letter also reportedly demanded that Reagan use the term 'real Native Americans' when referring to black citizens and told him to 'stop unjustly cutting' federal budget programs affecting blacks.
"At one point, it (ordered the release of the man being held in Atlanta
(Wayne Williams), because the killings were actually a conspiracy between the FBL, the CIA, and the Ku Klux Klan," the officer said.
Among other demands was that each family of a child slain in Atlanta over the last decade be held accountable.
The second bomb, which was addressed to the Detroit News, contained
FBI agent John Anthony said yesterday the FBI, the Secret Service, and Detroit police were conducting a joint investigation.
a copy of the first bomb's letter to Reagan.
The bombs sparked a rash of phony bomb threats that kept police and specially trained bomb-sniffing dogs working into the early morning.
"We have some theories" about who might be involved, "but we won't discuss it," the special agent Radford of the deceased. Jones refused to discuss the letters.
The two bombs each contained six sticks of "very old and unstable dynamite" and a blasting cap. The Detroit Police bomb squad carried the bombs from the crowded downtown street corners where mail carriers found them, and detonated them on Belle Isle, rocking the island park on the Detroit River, and startling bystanders.
Investigation nears close
Police said the bombs may have been the work of the same person or people, and were handed out other explosive devices might have been planted throughout the city.
FORT SCOTT, Kan.—Although police continue to protect a dozen leading citizens a jail inmate claimed were targets of a murder conspiracy, the city manager said yesterday a lack of evidence to believe the story was a fabrication.
City Manager Don Munsell said the investigation was nearing an end and probably would close this week.
So far, he said, authorities had found no evidence to support claims by an informant that 14 city flicks and community leaders targeted of an attack.
"There has been no evidence to support the informant's charges," Munsell said. "There is no evidence, no motive, no suspect."
Two of the people identified on a 14 occupation list published by the Fort Scott Tribune were out-of-town residents.
The list included Tom Eblen, executive editor of the Tribune and a form.er Gannett professional-in-
residence at KU's William Allen White School of Journalism.
The intended victims of the airstep plot were identified by occupation and not by name. Police officers were assigned to protect the residents.
Munsell said one man on the list continued to be the object of "fairly heavy security", but only spot checks by police continued on the others.
Rumors of the "hit list" were traced to the Bourbon County jail and inmate Louis "Osei" Cotton. He told police of a plot to kill a specific city official.
Renovation to be completed early
The inmate took three stress tests that showed he was giving valid information concerning the alleged list, but Cotton refused Friday to submit to the judge by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which pulled out of the case.
"We still don't know at this time why this person was able to pass the psychological stress evaluation." Hunt did. "The lie detector is 100 percent accurate."
The renovations include repairing the roof, waterproofing the foundation and making the entire building more fire-resistant. The hardscaped, Wiechert said.
Marvin Hall renovations will be completed Oct. 1, two weeks ahead of schedule, said Allen Welchert, director of facilities planning.
The $2.8 million-project was started last August by the R. D. Andersen construction company of Topeka.
"Fortunately, we were able to do the whole project the way we wanted to." Wiechert said, referring to the new features of the building.
Although their self-imposed deadline was not met, the company made an effort to allow furniture to be shipped from the building sooner, Wclewich said.
forts to finish the project by the beginning of this semester.
The firm, Wiechert said, was very cooperative and made special ef-
Furniture will be put back into the building Sept. 21, but the elevators will not be installed until Oct. 1. Martins will house the School of Architecture
The contractors put in jury rooms, with lighting and displays designed especially to help instructors to help students' designs. Also included in the collection are center where students can view architectural slides, Wiechert said.
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