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Tuesday, August 29, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Political columnist Alsop dies
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Joseph Alsop, a political columnist for 37 years, died Monday at his Georgetown home. He was 78.
Mr. Alsop's health had been declining for several months, said Patricia Alsop, wife of Joseph's late brother, Stewart. Mr. Alsop's death was attributed to lung cancer, anemia and emphysema, Patricin Alsop said.
The Alsop brothers began their political writing as New Deal liberals in the spirit of their cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but became more conservative in later years.
Mr. Alop started his career as a newsman at the now-defunct New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University in 1932. Five years later, he began writing a political column for the North American Newspaper Alliance. He wrote his first books, "The 168 Days" and "Men Outside the President." In 1938,
He wrote several other books, including "We Accuse" with brother Stewart.
Syndicate. He also contributed articles for magazines, including The New Yorker.
He retired from daily and weekly writing in 1974, the year Stewart died, but continued to write books and articles.
During World War II, he served as a Navy lieutenant commander and later joined the American Volunteer Air Group as an aide to Gen. Claire Chennault of the Flying Tigers. Mr. Alsop was held prisoner by the Japanese in 1942. Later he served as chief of the Lend Lease Mission to China.
In retirement, he became known for his Asian art collection and was invited to lecture at the National Gallery of Art.
Muppets, founder, join Walt Disney family
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog danced a jig with Mickey and Minnie Mouse as the Walt Disney entertainment empire monday acquired the
The Associated Press
Muppet menagerie and the services of their creator. Jim Henson.
The merger of the two kiddie entertainment giants will blend the colorful characters from "The Muppet Show" — one of the most widely seen TV program in the world with
an estimated 235 million viewers in about 100 countries — into Disney's theme parks, movies, TV shows and retail merchandising products.
Henson also will create new characters for Disney.
SMOG COVERS NEPTUNE: Neptune's ice, volcanic moon Triton is the coldest body ever measured in the solar system, NASA said Monday, and the planet itself has something in common with Los Angeles: smog.
The Voyager 2 space probe also discovered auroras vaguely like Earth's northern lights on Neptune and Titan.
World briefs
Looking backward 3.2 million miles, Voyager 2 on Monday snapped a series of family portraits of Neptune and Triton, appearing as crescents as they were backlighted by the sun.
But unlike Earth's auroras, which glow in visible light as electrically charged particles excite nitrogen and oxygen gases, the auroras on Neptune and Triton are invisible to the human eye. That's because they glow in ultraviolet light caused when the particles excite hydrogen gas.
FIFTEEN ALBANIANS CHARGED: The former Communist Party chief in Kosovo province, Azem Vilasi and 14 other ethnic Albanians were charged with counterrevolutionary activities in ethnic unrest there the state news agency Tanjug reported Monday.
If convicted, the 15 could be sentenced to death. The state news agency reported that Vilasi and the others were accused of trying to destroy fraternity and unity of peoples and nationalities.
The accused "created danger for the life of people ... caused grave violence, imperiled the security and economic strength of the country, which amounted to posing a counterrevolutionary threat to the social system." Tanigu quoted the indictment as saying.
Spasoje Zamfirovic, the prosecutor in the town of Titova Mitrovica, said all 15 organized and supported mass protest meetings and demonstrations of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in November.
BAKKER TRIAL BEGINS: Jim Bakker's fraud and conspiracy trial opened Monday in Charlotte, N.C., with a federal prosecutor accusing the TV evangelist of swindling followers he considered "tacky" so that he could live in high style.
A former aide testified that the founder of the PTL television ministry said he "wanted to be paid like Johnny Carson" and told him how top ministry executives took a cut from the money they raised.
GORBACHEV WARNS LITHUANIA: President Mikhail Gorbachev has told officials of the Lithuanian Communist Party that the Baltic republic has gone too far in its drive for independence, an activist said Monday.
Romalidus Ozolus, a member of the governing council, or Seim, of the Sajdus grassroots movement, said he and four colleagues met with Lithuanian Communist Party chief Algirdas Brazauskaus on Monday after Gorbachev called the Lithuanian party leader on Friday and Sunday to express his concern.
Brazauskas told the Sajdisj members "Gorbachev is concerned about what's happening in Lithuania — that what had happened so far was worth supporting, but that now we'd gone too far," Oloxus said by telephone from the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
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