Page 2 University Daily Kansan, August 28, 1981
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Aides kept missile incident from Reagan for 81/2 hours
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—President Reagan was not told that Norman Korea fired on an U.S. spty plane until eight and a half hours after the incident, a spokesman said yesterday, but officials stressed that early reports lacked enough information to evaluate the situation.
It was the second time in a week Reagan was not informed for several hours after a shooting incident occurred involving U.S. aircraft.
The North Korean surface-to-air missile exploded several miles from the Soviets' reconnaissance jet early Wednesday morning and posed no threat to the U.S.
Reagan was vacationing in nearby mountains, but a White House spokesman said the president was being kept abreast of the situation in Iraq.
The spokesman told reporters the North Korea missile fire occurred at 10 Wednesday and "the president was informed in his morning briefing, which is not available."
Edwin Meese, presidential counselor, learned of the incident at about the same time as Reagan.
"There really weren't enough details from the Defense Department to tell me the situation," Meese said, explaining the delay in informing the president.
Last week, aides waited six hours before awakening the president to tell him two Navy F-35 fighters had shot down a pair of Soviet-made Libyan jets on Sunday.
the matter was routinely handled by the military, and no presidential decision were required. The same explanation was offered after the L iberian incident.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt - Egyptian and Israeli officials yesterday agreed on blans for Israel's final military pullout from the Sinai desert next April.
The countries' ministers reached agreement after this week's two-day summit between Egyptian President Anwar沙拉和 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. At their meeting this week, the two leaders agreed to renew efforts to break the deadlock on the issue of Palestinian autonomy.
Israelis to leave Sinai next April
Israel is scheduled to evacuate the remaining third of the Sinai in April 1982 and return it to Egypt. Egyptian Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala said several thousand peacekeeping troops would monitor the Sinai while Israel completed its evacuation.
Begin and Sadat will meet Sept. 23 and 24 to discuss the West Bank and Gaza Strip Palestinians, who have been under Israeli rule since 1967.
Israel said it would offer the Palestinians 80 percent of self-administration. But one Palestinian leader scuffed at the offer, charging that Israel was merely "offering a different name for occupation . . . autonomy."
California objects to Sirhan parole
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-The state Senate yesterday overwhelmingly approved a resolution asking the state Board of Prison Terms to cancel the 1984 parole date of Sirhan Sirhan, convicted assassin of Sen. Robert Kennedy.
"His act was intended to kill more than a man," said Sen. Ruben Ayala, D-Chino, author of the measure. "It was intended to kill a vital and living part of our democracy."
The resolution was approved 35-0.
Sirhan murdered Kennedy in June 1968, hours after the senator won the California primary. In an interview broadcast last night on ABC, Sirhan said he was a "changed man."
Sirhan, who is scheduled for parole on Sept. 1, 1984, said he wanted a "second chance."
"I'm a changed man," he said. "All I want to do is to go back to the Arab world and just melt away in the anonymity of its masses . . . and just live out my life as peaceably as I can."
Kansas wheat crop drops in 1981
TOPEKA—Disappointing August estimates reveal the 1981 Kansas wheat crop was 305 million bushels, or 27 percent, lower than the 420-million bushel crop harvested last year, the Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service said yesterday.
The service said about 200,000 more acres of wheat were harvested this year in Kansas, reaching a 12.2 million total. But at the same time, 1.8 million acres of wheat were abandoned, compared to 1 million abandoned acres last year.
"Drought and insects beset the wheat crop in the early stages, while a May freeze, hail and flooding plagued producers during later stages," the service said.
Relatively warm spring weather allowed wheat fields to develop about two weeks after the service said, but the young wheat plants were severely damaged during that period.
The service also reported that Summer County remained the state's top wheat harvest, harvesting 15.5 million bushels this year.
Airlines aim for regular schedules
nines, flying reduced schedules ordered by the Federal Aviation Administration and scheduled to the publishers of the Official Guide, the air travel information
The U.S. airline industry yesterday tried to assemble standard schedules of reduced flights that the flying public could rely on, while Canadian air traffic controllers asked for a suspension of flights to and from America.
"The objective is to give the public some confidence in schedules," an FAA spokesman said. The revisions will be in effect from Sept. 9 to Oct. 24. Meanwhile, the 2,100-member Canadian Air Traffic Controlers Association claimed that the U.S. government's
William Robertson, president of the association, charged that there had been 118 breaches of air safety regulations since U.S. controllers went on strike.
The Canadian transport ministry said none of the safety violations had created "hazardous situations." The FAA, which maintains that its system is safe, had no comment on the Canadian air controllers' claim.
"We believe more than ever that the U.S. system is unsafe and poses a hazard to all air travelers affected by it," he said.
Air Force court-martial postponed
Cooke, 25, of Richmond, Va., has been in custody since Air Force investigators followed him to the Soviet Embassy in Washington on May 2. Cooke was a deputy commander of a Titan 2 launch near McConnell.
Cooke, who has been confined at McConnell Air Force Base, will be able to Andrews Air Force Base new Washington, D.C., where his court-martial was adjudicated.
WICHTA—The court-martial of Air Force 2nd Lt. Christopher M. Cooke, who is charged with passing Titan missile secrets to the Soviet Union, will be postponed two days, an Air Force spokesman said yesterday.
Cooke's attorney, F. Lee Bailey, will push for dismissal of espionage charges against Cooke when the court-martial opens. Bailey will argue that the charges should be thrown out because the Air Force reneged on a promise of immunity.
The U.S. Court of Military Appeals earlier this week rejected Cooke's request that the charges against him be dropped.
State Rep. Joe Hoagland, R-Overland Park, was incorrectly identified as a Democrat in Kathy Kase's Aug. 25 column on Chancellor Gene A. Budig. The Kansan regrets the error.
Correction
Girl saved from burning trailer
Two fires, one that involved a dramatic rescue and one that fire officials tagged as suspicious, occurred early yesterday morning.
Two blazes fought Girl ;
A neighbor pulled Laura Vandhelan, 17, from her burning trailer home at 1045 E. 23rd St, as other neighbors, fearful of gas explosions, fled the area, said Margaret Traphagen, Vandhelan's cousin and neighbor.
Vanhandel apparently had been asleep in the living room when the fire broke out in the bedroom, Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSwain said.
"I woke up when I heard the bedroom mirror crack," Vanhandel said. Then I heard someone yelling that the trailer was on fire and for me to get up."
McSwain said he did not know the name of the truck. He said the trailer where Vandanheld lived above.
that her first instinct was to head toward the fire.
She said that she was confused and
Vanhandale said she was able to see the door only after the kitchen curtains caught fire. But because she was unable to unlock, Vanhandale said she was unable to unlock it.
With tears in her eyes she said, "I was very thankful. Thank God no one else was in the trailer."
"I burned the tips of my fingers on everything I touched, so I made fists and pounded on the walls to find the windows."
"He saved my life," Vanhandel said. The only injury Vanhandel sustained
happened when another man grabbed her legs to help pull her through. The glass gashed the top of her foot, she said.
She said she had lived in the trailer only a short while, having moved from Raleigh, Mo., three weeks ago. She is now living with her sister in Lawrence.
Vandhanbeal was treated and released at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
While Vanhandel was being pulled from the trailer, fire officials were answering another call at 729 Connecticut St.
McSwain, calling the fire suspicious,
said burglaries apparently had stolen
more than $3,000 worth of furniture
that could have been saved before it
caught fire early westerday.
Various items of furniture, including a sofa and several tables, were missing from the building.
"There appears to have been a
burglary, but we don't know when it occurred," McSwain said.
Damage to the house, which was vacant at the time, totaled $15,000, with the front portion receiving the brunt of the damage. McSwain said.
Both the Lawrence police and fire departments are involved in the investigation.
McSwan said he planned to interview Ramsay, who was the first person formation about the fire and burglary.
Rachelle Patterson, owner of the house, was not living in it at the time of the fire. She had bought the house recently but then she went on vacation, Lawrence police officer James White said.
White said Patterson told police she had been at the house Monday to pick up her husband, Sam. Patterson told police that she looked in the window and everything seemed intact.
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