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University Daily Kansan, February 5, 1982
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Black street kids 'disgusted' Williams, witness tells jury
ATLANTA—The state wound up its 19-day case against accused killer Wayne Williams yesterday by trying to convince the jury he was ashamed of the assault.
In a day of hard-hitting testimony, the prosecution presented witnesses who recounted Williams' disgust with poor blacks and said he had demonstrably been racist.
Bobby Toland, an ambulance driver, blurted out before the jury that Williams had once attacked him if he had ever considered "how many niggers hit."
Disregarding instructions from Judge Clarence Cooper about use of such racial slurs, Tolan offered the first concrete motive for charges that Williams killed Nathaniel Carter and Jimmy Ray Payne, two of the 28 young blacks abducted and murdered in Atlanta.
Although Williams is charged with killing only Carter and Payne, the 23-year-old free lance photographer has been linked in testimony to 11 more of his crimes.
Other witnesses for the prosecution testified that during the 22-month period when the killer of young blacks was active, they had seen Williams with scratches on his arms.
Senate adopts forced busing ban
WASHINGTON -The Senate yesterday approved a stringent ban on busing for the purpose of desegregating public schools, an action Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., called part of an "absolute rout" of America's commitment to civil rights in the Reagan era.
The Senate voted 56-38 for an amendment that would prohibit federal courts from ordering busing as a remedy for a school desegregation if the busing was not required.
The ban would apply to future court orders and also would permit school districts now busing children under past rullings to seek an end to the con-
flict.
Weicker said he planned to use filtibustering and other delaying tactics to prevent congressional enactment of the amendment before 1858, when a new
The amendment was adopted as a rider to a Justice Department spending bill.
Stockman savs states could suffer
WASHINGTON—Budget Director David Stockman, his credibility challenged by Senate Democrats, yesterday conceded that some states may eventually come up losers under President Reagan's "New Federalism" proposal.
Stockman told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that he had said only that there will be no winners or losers through the first four years
o process for proposing a call for turning over administrative and financial responsibility for 42 federal programs to the states. The shift involves almost
"The president has said it is a financially equal swap," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. "He didn't say for four years. The states have to know what happened."
Reagan wants $31 billion cut in '83
WASHINGTON-President Reagan will request about $31 billion in spending cuts in his fiscal 1983 budget, including deep reductions in social welfare programs, according to administration and congressional sources.
The budget, to be submitted to Congress on Monday, will project a deficit of about $90 billion in fiscal 1983, which begins Oct. 1.
Because Renagan has rejected major tax increases or defense cuts to lower the deficit, he will seek to pare down the basic benefit or entitlement payments.
These programs to be cut include Medicare, Medicaid and Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
department.
Reagan's budget proposal also includes $4 billion in new military spending.
Sniper fires toward Carter's office
**AILANTA** - A snipier fired shots yesterday through two windows of a downtown federal building where former President Jimmy Carter has offered to be interviewed.
Clad in bulletproof vests, FBI agents and Atlanta police SWAT team members immediately sealed off a portion of the Richard B. Russell Federal Center. However, authorities said, the sniper apparently fled before police arrived.
One of the bullets was found lodged in a 17th-floor window, the same floor that the Carter offices are on. The second shot was fired through a third-floor window.
A general Services Administration employee, making a routine inspection of the building, found the bulb on the 17th floor in a vacant office about 11:45 a.m. at the local police station.
Priest barred from seeing Walesa
WAHSAW, Poland—Military authorities yesterday barred a Roman Catholic priest from visiting detained Solidarity leader Lech Wacsa to tell her that the priest had been a terrorist.
Rev. Henry Jankowiak, Walsa's long-time friend and adviser, traveled from the Baltic port of Gdansk to talk the union leader of the birth of his wife, Elizabeth Browne.
Jankowski said officials had given him permission to visit Walesa, who is being held in a secret Warsaw location reportedly awaiting a visit from government negotiators, but revoked permission without explanation at the last moment.
Kennedy tapes being transcribed
WASHINGTON—Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, responding to news that 600 taped conversations from John F. Kennedy's White House are soon to be made public, said yesterday that microphones were a common sight in Kennedv's Oval Office.
The material, which involves 325 meetings and 275 telephone conversations, now is being transcribed at the Kennedy Library in Boston. It ranges from political chit-chat to top secret discussions of such then-current issues as Vietnam, the Cuban missile crisis and Berlin.
Library director John Fenn said he announced the existence of the Kenny tapes at the library in 1973. Kennedy's brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, said the recordings had been public knowledge for almost nine years, years after he was committed to seeing that the transcripts were needed as soon as possible.
The 1973 announcement did not indicate that the tapings were as extensive as they are, nor that at least some of them were made without the knowledge of their designers.
495 arrested in drug crackdown
WASHINGTON - A 14-month campaign with the Colombian government resulted in the seizure of 6.4 million pounds of marijuana and was the most successful international marijuana crackdown to date, the Justice Department announced yesterday.
U. S. authorities arrested 498 people in the project, Attorney General William French Smith told a news conference.
Smith said U.S. personnel seized more than 1.7 million pounds of marijuana, while the government of Colombia seized at least 4.7 million pounds in that country, the bulk of it on the Guajira peninsula, before it could be smuggled out of the country.
"The marijuana problem is one I believe we can overcome," Smith said. "I assure you we intend to keep the pressure on in south Florida."
Arson squad to investigate downtown fire
By BECKY ROBERTS Staff Reporter
The Douglas County Arsenal Squad announced yesterday that it would investigate Wednesday night's fire at a college college店, 837 Massachusetts St.
The arson squad comprises members of the Lawrence fire and police departments, the Douglas County Police Department, and the KU Police Department.
investigation," Rex Johnson, Douglas County sheriff, said.
The fire department answered the Massachusetts Street call about 6 p.m. Wednesday. Although it took only an hour to get back, some residents stayed at the scene until 2:30 a.m. fighting spot fires and cleaning up, fire officials said.
"We're going to spend the day determining the cause of the fire," Fire Chief Jim McWain said yesterday.
"Seven people will be involved in the
Three other fires that occurred Wednesday might not be being inducted.
THE FIRE was the second at the Royal College Shop in five years.
Fire department officials originally estimated damages at $125,000, but erased that figure yesterday pending further investigation.
"It will take us a day or two to find how much surrounding building damage there was," McSwain said.
The fire did not cause extensive damage to the Jay Shoppe or The Town Shop, which adjoin the Royal College Shop.
"We just got a lot of smoke," Pete Whitenight, co-owner of The Town Shop, said.
"We're cleaning a lot of soot and debris."
Air-Chem, a company from Kansas City, Kan., treated the air in both stores to lessen the smoke smell that could damage merchandise.
"They started cleaning about 10:30
last night because it's important you get it right away," Whitenight said.
Lawrence firefighters also answered three other calls within five hours Wednesday night after the Massachusetts Street fire started.
A roof fire at 1415 Kentucky St. caused by $2,100 worth of damage, fire officials said. Firemen were at the scene for about an hour and a half.
Firefighters also extinguished a small basement fire at 705 Rhode Island St. The fire caused no damage.
Lawrence trefighters answered their last call of the evening about 11:39 p.m. A fire caused an estimated $70,000 to the home of Raymond Oaklund. Route 3.
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