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Wednesday, November 29,1978
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University Daily Kansan
Capsules From staff and ware reports
Building to have safety check
PITTSTURB—Classes in Pittsburgh State University's science building have been temporarily cancelled until further safety checks are made on the 60-year-old building.
one building, making it one of the most important and architecturally significant ones up to a quarter-inch in the north and south sides of James B. Appleberry said surveyors noted cracks in the stairwell leading to the President
Appleberry had notified state officials, including Gov. Robert F. Bennett and Gov. elect John Cardin, of the initial findings. A surveyer is
scheduled to return to the campus on April 5. Bids will be opened Dec. 7 on a new vocational technical institute building to be used for temporary relocation of Carney Hall classes. A nine-month construction period is expected, officials said.
Investigation called thorouah
WASHINGTON - Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark said yesterday that the Justice Department did not take control of the investigation of Martin Luther King's assassination because it would have worsened relations between him and late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
He praised the professor of racism and "quality of racism" Hoover's attitude toward King, a civil rights leader, the PH investigation of the killing was over.
vigilaries and the firefighters. Clark insisted before the House Assassinations Committee, which has handled the FBI and Justice Department, saying they failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy in the April 4, 1968, assassination of King.
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A committee report also has concluded that there was inadequate Justice
Department supervision of the investigation.
Department supervision or the investigation. Ray currently is serving a 99-year prison term for the assassination. He has recaptured a confession he made before pleading guilty to the assassination in 1969.
Ambassadors leave Romania
VIENNA, Austria-Romanian leader Nicola Ceaucescus' opposition to increasing Warsaw Pact defense spending has prompted other pact members to recall their envoys from Romania, diplomatic sources in Bucharest said yesterday.
day.
The sources said by telephone that ambassadors from the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Germany and Czechoslovakia left Bucharest by special planes yesterday "for consultations."
The report could not be confirmed in the official news media or through the foreign ministries of the countries.
foreign ministries of the country.
Sources here saw the reported action as a response to Ceaușescu's statement Monday that he rejected outside interference in his army and refused to raise the Warsaw Pact defense budget at a recent summit in Moscow.
More anti-Mao posters put up
TOKYO--Another wall poster attacking the late Chairman Mae T-seung went up in Peking yesterday within 24 hours of Vice Premier Heng Shi-pin's suggestion that critics should lay off of the "great helmsman" who died two years ago.
In Tienannen Square, thousands of Chinese gathered last night to demand more political and economic democracy and the rebalancing of some leaders in China. The event was organized by a group of some leaders.
casistent on sapling, as service said the latest anti-Mao poster, signed by restaurant workers, accused Mao of making the state his own property, like a
The post queried the need to fire former Chairman Liu Shao-chi during the 1960s. Cultural Revolution simply because he disagreed with Mao about his policies.
The first attacks on the once-sacred image of Mao came two weeks ago, followed by flurries of wall posters in the same vein.
Carter to act new peace plan
Egypt is to send President Carter modified Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty proposals that may prolong the Washington peace talks, authoritative sources said yesterday in Cairo.
said yesterday. The ambulance the proposals Sadat is sending to Carter sought to persuade Lois the decision to take its "take-it-over-leave" stance on the U.S. draft treaty, showing Arab critics that Sadat was committed to the Palestinian cause and showing the world that he wanted to keep the talks going.
The sources said Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khaïli would fly to Washington today with the Egyptian proposals.
Showboat survivor files suit
TOPEKA—A man whose wife and unborn daughter were killed when the Whippoorwill came into contact with Lake Pomona June 17 during a storm is now seeking an unspecified cause for his death.
The lawsuit was prepared on behalf of Michael Patterson of Topeka. Patterson was one of the survivors among the 60 passengers on board, but his pregnant wife, Judy, was among 15 persons killed. Her unborn child was listed as the 16th victim.
at the skin vectur. In an unspecified amount of damages and alleges that Whip-powell owners Bruce L. and Vedra Rogers were negligent in operating the device.
SHOWCASE.
The suit, the first legal action seeking monetary damages as a result of the accident, was mailed Monday for filing in Osage County District Court, the county where the incident occurred.
Post-Dispatch resumes talks
ST. LOUIS—Talks on economic issues between a nine-union Unity Council and the strikebound St. Louis Post-Dispatch resumed yesterday, but Teamsters said they had been able to stay put.
By a vote of 31-1, the Teamsmets, which represent dockhands at the Post, voted to press men on picket lines.
All unions but the Teamsters and the Graphic Arts took part in yesterday's session with federal mediators. The negotiations were not expected to deal with the manning issue, which led to the pressman's strike Nov. 20, shutting down both the Post and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Globe-Democrat is shut down because it is printed by the Post under contract.
Mark and Gary Stern, brothers who have put out strike papers in other cities, including New York, said yesterday they hoped to have a daily newspaper on Saturday.
Judge upholds women's suit
BOISE, Idaho—A federal judge has ruled that the city of Boise improperly fired six female police employees last year after what he called an "absurdy" mistake.
the women, who have denied they are lesbians, sued the city for $10 million, claiming that their constitutional rights of due process were violated and that the city did not protect their rights.
U. S. District Judge Ray McNichols, who ruled in the case, did not order the women reinstated, but he ordered attorneys for both sides to prepare memoranda on damages. He indicated that arguments might be held next sorning on the women's request for $10 million plus legal costs.
The investigation was launched after citizens complained that the women were seen in public as lesbian couples and made no secret of their sexual preferences. A female city employee also alleged that a fellow female worker who was her coerentmate made a sexual advance.
The six women who sued were two dispatchers, a dispatch supervisor, two officers and an animal control officer. A seventh employee was fired but did not
Skies will be partly cloudy today with temperatures reaching into the upper
atmosphere, so that at 15 to 30 miles an hour. Tomorrow the temperatures will reach the 90s.
Weather ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The assassinations in San Francisco are sparking worry among the nation's city officials that violence may be spreading as a means of settling routine political disputes.
"We all live with this daily," says one mayor, "I've had meetings with Mafia types, labor hoods and Black Panthers. You always figure that in a political meeting, the weapons will be words."
City officials fear for own safety
The mayor made the remark in an offend conversation to colleagues, many stunned by Monday's murders of Mayor George Osborne and Superintendent Summons about 3,200 officials here for the annual meeting of the National League of Cities publicly expressed dread at realizing that the murders seemed to stem from a political confrontation between a random lunacy.
"More and more, I'm afraid the weapons will be weapons."
earlier incidents — in 1976 in Newark, Washington, D.C., and earlier police reports on day-to-day disputes in government.
JOEL WACH, a thoughtful city councilman from Los Angeles, reflected the feeling of many officials, saying: "There's just no way to deal with inside political violence. There's no way to protect yourself from your colleagues."
Here is a way to begin. We ask the question, 'beyond any question of security,' he said. We talking about the basic ways to settle a political conflict.
The Moscone and Mil murkers were at least the fourth violence attack at a major city hall in three years. The
It was noontime in April 1976, when Charles Hopkins entered a temporary city hall in Baltimore with guns blazing. He shot two City Council members, killing one. The next day, Mr. Hopkins said he was really after Mayor Willam Schafer.
In Washington, Mayor-elect Marion Berry—then a city councilman—was wounded as a band of Hanafi Muslim gunmen shot their way into the office of the City Council president. The incident was part of a takeover of three buildings, stemming from the Hanafi's grievances with the District of Columbia Superior Court or less sensitive cases. A prosecutor said in over demand that American movie owners stop showing the considered sacrilegious by Hanafi leaders.
The trigger to Hopkins' explosion: he was frustrated with the bureaucratic rumour about his application to open a restaurant. Hopkins went to trial and was found innocent by reason of insanity.
In Newark, City Councilman Anthony Carrino and 50 constituents smashed through the locked door of Mayor Kenneth Gibson's office to confront Gilson over his choice of an out-of-owner for a top police post. The intruders were
Gibson, who was not actually attacked physically,
pressed charges of assault and malicious damage against
him. But not an Essex County grand jury declined to bring an indictment.
What concerns city officials meeting here is that all these instances of violence exploded out of nowhere from people involved in established governmental and political processes.
Mayer Torn Bradley of Los Angeles, personally stunned by the death of his San Francisco political allies, said, "The public is the real loser, not only because of the loss of George Moscue and Harvey Milk, but because the system suffers when people in public life are faced with these sorts of attacks."
Bradley's posture, reasonably enough, was one of helplessness. Moscone's meeting with his alleged assailant was nothing more than one of dozens of routine meetings that every mayor conducts daily.
Moscone allegedly was killed during a late-morning conference with Dan White, who had resigned as a supervisor but then told Moscone he wanted his job back. Before he was shot, Moscone apparently told White that he would appoint someone else to the post. White then allegedly shot Milk and later surrendered to police.
Mayor Daniel Whitehurst of Fresno, Calif., reflected humor. "I hate to think I will have a gun every time I am in the park."
Former supervisor charged in murder
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Former Supervisor Dan White was charged yesterday with the murders of Mayor George Mossone and Supervisor Harvey Milk under a law that calls for the death penalty.
District Attorney Joseph Freitas said at a news conference that the two-count complaint, filed in Municipal Court, cited murder under "special circumstances"—a crime covered by the death penalty in California.
rie said White, 32, would be arraigned today.
FREITAS CHARGED that White killed Moscone and Milk, the city's first avowed homosexual supervisor, "in retaliation for and to prevent the performance of the official duties" of the two officials.
The two were shot to death before noon Monday—Moscow in a conference room of his office. Milk is White's former officer, surrendered to police 45 minutes later.
In addition to the two counts of murder, White was charged with possessing and using a firearm, a 38-caliber revolver, during the assassinations.
"I THINK everybody has a breaking point," said Supervisor Lee Doleson, who visited a weeping Hill in this cell at the University of Texas just a normal, devoted young father."
A colleague who visited White in prison said yesterday that White was "a casualty of pressure" brought on by money problems and the birth of a baby.
The bodies of Moscone and Milk will in state today at City Hall. Moscone will be buried tomorrow, and Milk is to be cremated Friday night.
The assassinations occurred a half-hour before Moscone was to name a successor to White on the Board of Supervisors.
White had resigned from the board on Nov. 10, saying he could not support his wife, Mary Anne, and his 4-month-old son, Andrew, on the $9,000 supervisor's salary plus the money he made from a fried concession on Fisherman's Wharf.
BUT AFTER securing a $10,000 loan from his 16 brothers and sisters, White asked Moscone to reappoint him to the board.
Last Friday, however, suspecting he would not get his job back, he grimly told reporters. "The gloves are off."
Board president and now acting Mayor Dianne Feinstein said of White: "He went through a few months of very hard work, financial problems and a new baby. It had triggered a sense of hopelessness."
Appeal of cults called stronger for affluent
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lower-class teenagers are less likely than their more affluent peers to get mixed up with religious or racial cuts because they "can recognize a street hustle," a California psychiatrist savs.
"Very few of the cuts are able to recruit lower-class young adults, either black or white," concluded Margaret T. Singer, a graduate of the University of California in San Francisco.
IN AN article in a recent edition of "Journal," published by the National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals, Singer asserted: "Lower class women are more likely to know there are no free dinners and no free meals. They can recognize a street hustle."
The report was written before the ritualistic mass suicide earlier this month involving more than 900 members of the Islamic church commune at Jonestown, Guayana.
Singer said there were about 250 different cults and the larger and more prominent ones used extremely sophisticated methods, which were taught to their followers.
THESE METHODS include getting close enough to gaze into a person's eye to determine if the person is a warm, living person. You may recruit or one who would be hard to get.
The psychiatrist said she based her
interviews with 264 young
people with ADHD.
In times of changing social values, these various groups offer a lure of simplistic answers that someone finds irreasible, but they also provide group therapy sessions for cult drop-outs.
"FOR THE young adult who is in a mild to moderately depressed period due to what we might term being between things—such as between high school and college, between jobs, between romances ... the cuts offer immediate solutions to these issues," she wrote.
"Cults supply their members with ready-made decisions about careers, dating, sex and marriage, and the 'meaning of life.' In return, they demand total obedience, which they maintain through various programs of coercive persuasion."
After one flea from a cut, Singer said, it takes from eight to 18 months to re-create a wound.
Mountaineering Seminar
Harry Barber, leader of the '76 US-USSR Mountaineering Exchange will speak on "Climbing in the Soviet Union." Seminar will feature films on many first rock and alpine ascents.
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