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University Daily Kansan, January 21, 1982
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Regan says recession 'deep' as GNP drops 5.2 percent
WASHINGTON—The nation's gross national product dropped 5.2 percent from October through December, the government said yesterday, and Treasury Secretary Donald Regan conceded the nation was in a "deep recession."
Regan sharpened his criticism of the Federal Reserve Board's tight money policy, saying it hasn't helped recovery from the recession.
The criticism followed President Reagan's news conference comment Tuesday that the Fed was "sending the wrong signal" to businesses who are holding back on new investment. Many analysts in and out of government blame the GNP plunge on high interest rates.
Regan said that instead of spreading out its cutbacks in money supply through 1864 "eighty percent of what we had wanted in the reduction in income" would have been paid.
money supply in 1982. "We had been calling for the rate of money (growth) that had been in the last year of President Carter's administration—which had been in the 9 percent range—to come down in the 7 percent range," he said.
"We had asked that in 1892 it come down to the 6 percent range, in 1893 to the 5 percent range and by 1894 hit 4 percent."
the 6 percent range and by 100 percent i it present."
Thunderbird investigation continues
INDIAN SPRINGS, Nev. — An Air Force team yesterday began a second day of trying to find out why four experienced pilots of the Thunderbirds air-demonstration team dove to their deaths in the desert Monday.
The Thunderbird plots, at the controls of Northrup T-38 jet trainers, were practicing a "line aforest跑" in which the four red, blue and white aircraft fly wing-to-wing at 400 mph, about 100 feet above ground; sharp climb several thousand feet, execute a roll and resume their original positions at
Amid speculation that one of the pilots miscalculated and the others followed the leader in formation to their deaths, Maj. Gen. Gerald D. Larson and his air disaster experts will have preliminary findings of the air accident in three weeks, said Air Force officials.
in three weeks, said Air Force officials.
A memorial service for the pilots is scheduled for this afternoon in the Nellis Thunderbird hanger, now containing only two of the six-plane air fleet.
New evidence given in Atlanta trial
ATLANTA—Prosecutors in the murder trial of Wayne Williams disclosed yesterday that they supplied the defense with evidence that may connect Williams with seven of the 28 slayings of young Atlanta blacks, although Williams is officially charged on only two counts.
The disclosure came when Defense Attorney Al Binder asked the judge to limit the expert testimony for the prosecution to reports made to the defense.
Binder's request, on which the judge will rule today, was apparently aimed at limiting the speed of boardman Washington FBI to tessilely to testify about fiber evidence. Washington FBI
The prosecution's circumstantial case rests almost entirely on its claim that fibers found on the bodies of the two victims came from a rug in Williams' home. The defense is trying to persuade the jury that the fibers did not necessarily originate there.
Delay tactics stall bill, leaders say
ATLANTA—The Georgia House killed the Equal Rights Amendment by a 2-1 margin yesterday, rejecting appeals for passage by two former presidents and impassioned pleas by feminists and black lawmakers for a "vote of courage."
It was the fourth time Georgia's conservative and rural-dominated legislature has refused to ratify the ERA. The vote came on the heels of a joint plea by former Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford to ratify the controversial amendment.
The ERA is all three states short of the required 38 for ratification and the ratification deadline is June 30, 1982. The Oklahoma Senate rejected it.
ERA defeated by Georgia House
ASSUMPTION — the nation's civil rights leadership accused the Reagan administration yesterday of using delaying tactics to undermine passage of legislation that would prevent the return of the 1976 missile deal.
Benjamin Hooks, chairman of the leadership conference on civil rights, joined Seed, Edward Kenney D-Mass., and Charles Mathias, R-Md., in a debate about gun control.
They denied in a news conference that they were accusing President Obama of encouraging policies that created a perception of racism in the administration.
I suspect there is a race somewhere around. Tooks said.
After one previous delay, the Justice Department gained a one-week delay in the start of Senate committee hearings on several voting rights extension bills.
U.S. vetoes anti-Israel resolution
UNITED NATIONS—The United States vetoed an Arab resolution yesterday in the U.N. Security Council that would have branded Israel as an aggressor for annexing the Syrian Golan Heights and called for voluntary sanctions against the Jewish state.
The veto automatically killed a decision that otherwise had garnered enough votes to be adopted. The vote was 9-1, with five abstentions; Britain, France and Spain all voted against it.
Jordan had introduced the resolution Tuesday night as a softened version of an earlier proposal that demanded mandatory sanctions against Israel,
The revised resolution envisaged only voluntary sanctions, including a cutoff of aid to Israel. But the United States, which is seeking to avoid upsetting the planned Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai in April, viewed its language as too strong to simply abstain.
Saudi sheik hit with $3 billion suit
Both suits, filed in Superior Court by noted divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson on behalf of 23-year-old Sheika Dena Al-Fassi, named Sheik Mohammed Al-Fassi as the defendant.
community AP tests as well as two allegedly polygamous marriages the 28-year-old sheikh contracted under Saudi Arabian law. The civil action seeks to have his extradition from Jordan suspended.
LOS ANGELES—A member of the Saudi royal family was slapped yesterday with a $3 billion divorce suit—the largest in history—and a separate court action seeking to break up a harem he allegedly keeps in a Florida hotel.
Mitchelson, who represented Michelle Triola Marvin in her landmark "palmily" suit against her former lover, actor Lee Marvin, the suit was the first ever pursued under a California law permitting dissolution of polygamous marriages.
Correction
Due to a reporting error, the Jan. 19 Kansan incorrectly stated the amount of discount given at the Jayhawk Bookstore. The Jayhawk Bookstore will offer a 2 percent discount on cash purchases of all books until Friday.
Jet's recorders found
By United Press International
WASHINGTON-A Navy diver recovered two vital "black-box" recorders yesterday from the wreckage of the Air Florida jet that crashed into the Potomac River. Investigators pronounced the devices in "excellent condition" but refused to discuss the contents.
Divers also brought up two more bodies from the icy waters for a total of 58 victims recovered. Sixteen are still missing from last week's accident that killed a total of 74 passengers on the plane.
Witnesses said one body wore a jacket with epaulets on its shoulders, indicating he may have been the copilot of the Boeing 737.
Francis McAdams, a National Transportation Safety Board member who is overseeing the probe, said he had listened to the cockpit voice tape, which recorded one half hour of voices and other noises in the cockpit.
The cold river water preserved the bodies so that they are "not much different" now from when they said James Shugart, a police inspector.
Although both the cockpit tape and the flight deck recorder tape appeared in excellent condition, he refused to talk that was on the cockpit voice recorder.
Release of information from either recorder at this time would cause premature speculation about the cause of the crash, be said.
The crash killed 78 people—74 on the plane and four on the commuter-clogged 14th Street bridge that was clipped by the jetliner as it went down. Four passengers and a flight attendant survived.
"But we can enhance that and we can filter out the background noise and we will get a good reading of what the crew was saying."
Because of background noise and various clicks, the voices of the crew are not intelligible at this time, McAdams said.
The flight data recorder will enable investigators to determine the jet's speed at takeoff and in its brief flight.
The cockpit voice recorder will help investigators determine who was flying the aircraft and who was searching for it. They'll gear up and cleaning the plane, McAdams said.
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Explosion traps 7 in mine
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GRETHET, Ky.-An explosion so powerful it blackened a mountainside and hurled debris into treetops 500 feet away trapped seven men in a southeastern Kentucky coal mine yesterday.
Five rescue teams clawed their way through the rubble attempting to reach the miners, reportedly the mine owner and his two sons.
The cause of the blast was not known
The miners were believed to be trapped in a mountainside tunnel about 700 feet horizontally from the base of the mountain. RFH Coal Co.'s number one mine.
Willard Stanley, state mines and minerals commissioner, said rescuers dug about 500 feet into the
tunnel and established a ventilation system that would permit them to move farther. But, they were stalled because the equipment heavy equipment could move, he said.
The blast was the worst Appalachian coal accident since December, when 24 men were killed at three mines in a six-day period. A cave-in at Bergoo, W, Va., on Dec. 35 killed three men, and eight died in a Dec. 7 blast at Topmest, Ky. The next day at Palmer, Tenn., 13 miners were killed in a blast apparently caused by a gas explosion.
"The 10 a.m. CST blast was so forceful that bits of a coal-conveyor belt were tossed to treetops, and near the mine were blackened
"It looks worse than Topmost," Stanley said. "There's more disturbance on the surface. It was probably a more violent explosion."
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