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News Briefs From United Press International Peruvians continue searching for terrorists and prisoners
LIMA, Peru—Police use helicopters searched the rural Andean foothill yesterday for 150 terrorists and the 304 prisoners who they freed in a convoy of over 600 vehicles.
Interior Minister Jose Gagliardi said the escaped prisoners, many of them jailed on drug trafficking or terrorism charges, escaped during the terrorists' well-organized, five-hour assault on the Ayacucho Prison on Wednesday.
The assault, which began just before midnight Tuesday, was carried out by about 150 hooded and well-trained terrorists carrying machine guns, police and grenades.
Two prison guards and 14 terrorists and prisoners died in the attack.
Reports conflict at crash hearing
WASHINGTON - Faulty equipment, imprecise instructions and conflicting maintenance procedures characterized the de-icing of an Air Florida Boeing 737 that crashed Jan. 13 in Washington during a heavy snowstorm, hearing testimony revealed yesterday.
The National Transportation Safety Board, in its fourth day of fact-finding hearings on the crash, found numerous inconsistencies while questioning officials of American Airlines, which has the contract for de-icing Air Florida planes at Washington's National Airport.
Earlier testimony revealed that 49 minutes elapsed between the plane's last de-icing and its takeoff. One American maintenance official said the de-icing procedures were good for perhaps 15 minutes in snow conditions like those Jan. 13.
Documents revealed the de-icing fluid was half the strength workers base and percent glycol-water mix valve setting produced just 13 percent glycol.
Senate expulsion hearing continues
WASHINGTON - Surrounded by the colleagues who will decide whether he will be the first U.S. senator in more than a century to be expelled in disgrace, Harrison Williams yesterday explained how he got swept up by Abscam.
Williams, a 62-year-old New Jersey Democrat, rising for the first time in his own defense, began a day-long recitation of the events that led to his conviction on bribery charges with a flat declaration: "I am completely satisfied with the times and impropieties, and I will be exonerated in the appeals process."
Williams said it was the government and its informants, not he, who had broken the law. He warned, "If this is the wave of the future, it is the future problem."
Congressmen meet Polish leaders
WARSAW, Poland-A seven-man U.S. congressional delegation arrived in Warsaw yesterday for talks with government officials about the state of U.S.-Polish relations since the declaration of martial law nearly three months ago.
The delegation, led by Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., was welcomed by Deputy Foreign Minister Joel Schapiro and the tour group, the group was told to take with Speaker Simon Walters Gauche.
During its three-day visit, the delegation also is scheduled to meet with government financial officials, Deputy Premier Jozef Ozdowski, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In response to the declaration of martial law Dec. 13, the Reagan ad-
jantage was suspended discussions on all future official ad to Poland and be-
gan a diplomatic visit.
Braniff, plagued bv debts. may fold
DALLAS–Financially troubled Braniff International airlines yesterday asked that other airlines honor its tickets should it fold. The company also announced on Thursday that it would close a major domestic hub.
Braniff President Howard Putnam said speculation on the airline's future had hurt ticket sales, adding to the cash-short company's financial woes.
"A woman called on the phone and asked if her ticket to Honolulu would be in," Patmullan said. "I told her I didn't know. She probably went right in."
The airline, long plagued by huge debt service, registered a record $10.6 billion in short-term cash flow-poble problems. Braniff two weeks ago initiated two-for-one charges.
Nicaragua aids rebels. CIA says
WASHINGTON—The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said yesterday that the CFA had given the canon convincing evidence that NSA was gathering information on them.
Rep. Edward Boland, D-Mass, the chairman, said a briefing by an intelligence team headed by CIA Director William Casey made it clear that the rebels "rely on the use of sites in Nicaragua for command and control, and for logistical support."
Nicaraguan government officials have denied they are aiding the leftist guerrillas in neighboring El Salvador.
"There is further persuasive evidence that the Sandinista government of Nicaragua is helping train insurgents and is transferring arms and financial resources to them."
Ice on road leads to 21-car pileup
BURLINGTON, Kan—Some ice, snow and at least one careless driver combined to make yesterday a day to forget for Ken Rosenberg, just one of the many people who died from this winter storm.
One driver lost control on a bridge on U.S. Highway 75 north of the town and left his car jammed against a bridge abutment. Highway patrol officers said Rosenberg came along later and managed to stop his Jeep in time, but the driver behind him failed.
Within minutes, 21 vehicles were mashed together on the bridge, and a semi-trailer truck jacketed to avoid the cars and blocked all traffic along
Troopers said Rosenburg proceeded north after leaving the pileup, but crashed into another bridge and was thrown through the windshield. He was transported to a hospital.
Country singer receives rock gift
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country singer Barbara Mandrell received a belated birthday present yesterday from the prisoners at the Missouri State Penitentiary—a 600-pound rock from the prison wall bearing the message, "We love you."
"I'll tell you what, it has to be the most unusual present I have ever received," Mandrell said. "It was given with a lot of love and a lot of truth."
Mandrell's birthday is Dec. 25.
Jim Sik, institution activity coordinator of the Missouri prison, said the gift of the rock was the brain child of inmate Allen Locke.
"We dug a rock out of part of the old wall that was built in 1873," Sisk said. "It's a part of the wall that is no longer used."
Mandrell showed her appreciation by sitting on the rock and signing autographs. She plans to show it more by performing for the Missouri prison
KANAS S CITY, Kan.-The University of Kansas Medical Center has effectively frozen the hiring of new employees, except in nursing, Richard Mann, KU director of institutional and personnel services, said yesterday.
Med Center hiring put on hold
Besides stopping hiring, KU business officials will study incoming funds over the next few months and will look for opportunities to improve the director of business affairs, said.
The temporary freeze, put into effect because of budget deficits, will continue until July, he said.
really know what the effects of the program will be, but we're going to try and conserve as much money as possible."
"What we're doing now is putting some controls down on paper—trying to get an idea of what kind of savings we can realize," Mann said. "We don't
Mann said that the Med Center had been forced to freeze hire at the end of last year in the wake of similar deficit problems. These budget problems were later cleared up and hiring restarted, he said.
THIS IS NOT the first time that the Med Center has taken action to curb its budget, which was $142 million for 1982, Mann said.
Nitcher emphasized that the new hiring policy would not damage the quality of care at the Med Center. The hospital has enough personnel now for
Of the 182 operating budget, Nitcher said about $44.6 million must come from the hospital's own revenues. Recently, the hospital has only been at 70 percent occupancy and has not been able to keep up its end, he said.
the amount of patients it receives, he said.
"You have to try and gear a hospital's expenses with its income." Nitcher said. "That' what we're attempting to do now."
LAST DECEMBER, Med Center officials said that a $1.9 million shortage of funds, caused by lagging occupancy rates, would keep them from staying on budget. The Med Center hoped to make up the December losses
in the traditionally busy months of January and February.
"Usually, when we've had this sort of problem, we've experienced a turnaround in January and February," Nitcher said. "This year, we didn't."
Nitcher said that the Med Center has a reserve fund, just like a typical business. He compared the reserve fund to a checking account, saying that the Med Center must keep a balance in reserve.
The Med Center, Nitcher said, must end the year in the black end of the ledger or at least be even. This is where the staff reserve fund comes into play, he said.
Reapportionment map OK'd by committee
By United Press International
TOPEKA—In a move that Democratic legislators said backfired against Republicans, a Senate committee late yesterday approved a congressional reapportionment map that meets major Democratic demands, such as keeping Sedgewick and Wyandotte counties whole.
The Senate Legislative, Judicial and Congressional Apportionment committee spent the first hour of their meeting haggling over politics and maps that Democrats refused to support.
In a surprise move that at first appeared as a nonpartisan effort to get the ball rolling, Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains, submitted a report to motion
Democratic redistricting map favorably to the full Senate.
The 11-nember committee is made up of five Democrats and six Republicans, but that did not prevent the motion from passing on a 7-4 tally. The opposition Gaa, R Wiestwood, and SEN Elwain Fomery, R-Topkace, giving it the nod.
AFTER THE MEETING was ad-journed, Angell rushed from the room and was unavailable for comment. However, Senate Minority Leader Jack O'Connor asked the senate of the approved map, said afterwards that Angell's "show" of non-partisanness had backfired on him and Republicans who opposed the map.
"He just thought that everybody else
thought like he did and would vote the map down,"Steineger said.
"But there are still some Republicans who believe that we should stick to the committee goals and were kind of tired of the game-playing that was going on."
Just before Angell's motion, Democrats on the committee were accusing the Republican chairman and his staff of collusion to cooperate in a bipartisan attempt to
redraw the state's five congressional districts. Angell originally had a motion on the floor to approve a Republic-crowned map that split Wyandotte County, a Democratic stronghold, and McPherson County.
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If you're going to write anything, know what you're talking about. And that means three things: Research, research, and more research. You know the more you can tell your reader.
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No caper is complete without dames (or ladies in proper English). Experience has shown me that in mystery writing, the sexier the dames, the better. Experience has also shown me that sexy scenes make work great. This way where research has the greatest potential, be your own discretion in this matter. But when you write about it, don't be too explicit. That way, your reader gets to paint a more vivid picture.
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O. K., you've got your characters, locations, and dames lined up. Now comes the good part: Putting your caper to paper. There's no mystery to it. As long as you write the ending first, the rest will follow. Write short, terse, to-the-point sentences. Be as clear as possible. And make sure you've got the right stuff around for when you get thristry. After all, writing is pretty thirsty work.
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