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University Daily Kansan, March 12, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International Harrison Williams resigns during Senate expulsion tria
WASHINGTON—Harrison Williams, D-N.J., resigned from the Senate yesterday, declaring that "time, history and almighty God" would vindicate his conduct in the Abscus scandal.
In an orchestrated drama that spelled the end of Williams' 28-year Senate career, his self-appointed defender, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, rose and solemnly yielded to "the senior senator from the state of New Jersey, Harrison Arlington Williams Junior."
Williams, a once-powerful Democrat, spoke from the Senate floor for nearly half an hour, reading parts of a speech that blamed the Justice Department for "excess zeal" in the Abscense scheme. He had planned to deliver the entire speech if his trial had continued.
Williams concluded: "I thank the Senate as I announce my intention to resign. I have made that decision and I leave in good spirit and good heart."
"I feel no stain. I feel strengthened. I thank you all," he said, and took his seat in a silent chamber.
The drama ended a six-day trial and avoided a seemingly certain vote to make Williams the first senator ousted since the Civil War.
Senators lined up to shake the hand of their veteran colleague, an aloof man, who had led effective legislative battles on behalf of organized labor.
HUD chief defends housing cuts
WASHINGTON-Housing and Urban Development Secretary Samuel Pierce yesterday strongly defended strict enforcement of department regulations that could eliminate some 1,600 housing units for the elderly and handicapped.
Pierce told the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development that as a matter of management efficiency, the department had decided to look at plans to build an estimated 7,200 housing units for the elderly and handicapped.
Most of the housing, known as Section 202, is built by non-profit groups and subsidized by HUD. Some of the prolect authorization dates to 1976.
In January, the department sent a memorandum to field offices informing them it would cancel projects that failed to meet HUD regulations calling for construction of the projects to begin within 18 months of department approval.
200 Indians beheaded in Guatemala
GUATEMALA CITY—About 200 Indian men, women and children were beheaded in four villages on the eve of Guatemala's presidential election last week, a newspaper reported yesterday. Authorities said they did not know who was responsible for the massacre.
The Guatemalan newspaper, Prensa Libre, said the massacre took place Saturday in four villages in the county of Zaculpa in Quiche Province in northwestern Guatemala, the site of increasing activity by leftist guerrillas and government attempts to suppress it.
Because officials have no witnesses, they do not know who killed the Indians, a branch of the Mayan people who populate much of the country, the
It was the second major decapitation massacre the year of Indianains caught in the fighting between leftist guerrillas and Guatemalan armed forces.
Mexico nabs suspected terrorist
MEXICO CITY—Mexican police yesterday arrested a man carrying five
drugs. The man, who could be "Carlos the Jackal," the worst of most international terrorists.
The man identified himself as Justo Ortego Equeraura and said he was a Basque nationalist belonging to the political arm of the terrorist group ETA, who later joined the movement.
The man denied being Carlos, the Venezuelan-born international terrorist who often has worked with Palestinians and other radical Arab rGroups.
Known internationally as "Carlos," or "The Jackal," the terrorist led the kidnapping of OPEC oil ministers in Vienna, Austria, in 1975. He was tasked to have planned the 1976 Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes who 68 billion dollars a Precious Stone to曼陀罗 that ended with the Israel commando raid at Entebbe Airport.
Marathon Oil, U.S. Steel merge
FINDLAY, Ohio-Marathon Oil Co. shareholders voted yesterday to merge with U.S. Steel Corporation for the second largest merger in American corporate history, ending a hard-fought but unsuccessful fight by Mobil Oil Corporation to acquire the oil firm.
At 3:30 p.m. CST, inspectors announced that more than two-thirds of the shares had been voted in favor of the $6 billion merger with the nation's No.1 steel producer. A two-thirds vote was needed to seal the contract, second only to DuPont's acquisition last year of Conoco for $7.8 billion.
Mobil made a vailant fight to acquire Marathon, but U.S. Steel topped the oil giant's effort to acquire a stable stockholder stocks the moment the momentum needed to halt the ripe.
Khadafy calls Reagan a terrorist
VIENNA, Austria-Libyan leader Col Moamman Khadhy denounced President Reagan again as a "terrorist" whose campaign to isolate him has been successful.
Addressing a news conference a day after the United States banned oil imports from Libya, Khadijah expressed anger and scorn for Reagan, whom he accused of encouraging the Islamic State.
"President Reagan tries to terrorize other people," Khadab said. "He started an economic war against Libya. Reagan is a terrorist and a danger."
The State Department repeated charges that Libya supported terrorism and referred to "an outrageous" attempt to blow up the American Club in Benghazi. The United States denied such accusation.
Infection link to toxic shock found
CHICAGO—Toxic shock syndrome, a potentially fatal disease recently associated with menstruating women, has been documented for the first time in 13 men and women who underwent a variety of common surgical procedures.
In all but one instance, staphylococcus aureus, the same bacteria associated with toxic shock in menstruating women, was recovered from the menstrual system.
Outbreaks among post-operative patients were reported in an evaluation of case reports from 45 states from Jan. 1, 1980, to July 31, 1981. Twelve of the cases were from the Eastern U.S.
Town cashes in on Coke's blunder
The disease was due to wound infections the first time a surgical link was reported, researchers at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta said.
The company issued a statement Wednesday saying the caps would no longer be valid.
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — A printing error enabled 50 people to win a total of $100,000 in two days from a "Feel-A-Pear" bottle cap contest run by the
In the contest, players acquired bottle caps printed with single letters. Collecting the necessary letters to spell "home run" netted a $2,000 cash prize.
The "Yes" were supposed to be much harder to find than the other letters, but a printing error resulted in too many of them being distributed in the Company's distribution center.
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