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Wednesday, November 8, 1978
University Dally Kansan
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
35 charaed in Iranian unrest
TEHRAN, Iran—Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi's two-day-old military government, trying to quell violent opposition to the monarch's authoritarian rule, announced the arrests yesterday of 35 former ministers and ranking civil officials.
At the same time, officials at Reza Pahlavi Hospital said retired Air Force Gen. Ali Mohammed Khademi, dismissed as manager of director of Iran Air, died from a gunshot wound received Sunday. The officials and they thought the dead was Iran's most recent attacker, who finally said he was attacked at a hotel in a Tehran suburb by unidentified youths.
Military police arrested about 35 of the 52 persons on a government wanted list on charges ranging from corruption to misuse of power and authority.
Among those arrested was Gen. Mentulah Nasiri, former head of SAVAK, the Iranian secret police.
Ghandi back in Parliament
NEW DEHLJ, India- former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, swept from power 20 months ago by vote reaction to her emergency rule, has recaptured a
Kiran today showed that she had defeated her main opponent—Venerda Patil of the ruling Jamaat Party—in Chikmagalur, a district in Karnataka.
south india tricolor campaign in Indore, where he won 60 votes in the ballots from Sunday's by-election, Ghandi, 60, had 214,974 votes to 148,328 for Patil, the United News of India
The by-election, called after a member of her "Indira Congress" Party resigned in June, was the first political contest Ghandi has entered since her defeat in the March 1977 general election. The downfall of her regime brought Prime Minister Morarji Desalai's Janata Party to power.
Staten Island ferry crashes
NEW YORK - A State Island island ferry carrying 2,000 passengers across the fogbound New York harbor yesterday crashed into a concrete seawall at the tip of lower Manhattan, tossing the passengers about and peeling the steel deck back like a sardine can.
Officials said 123 persons were treated at five hospitals and dozens more were given first aid at the scene.
fractured spine and the other with a possible heart attack
The conditions of two people were listed as serious—one with a possible fractured spine and the other with a possible heart attack.
The patient was offered when
Other injuries ranged from broken bones to cuts and bruises suffered when the ferry struck the seawall at an estimated speed of 3 to 4 knots.
The accident was the first major ferry accident here in 20 years, and the city Department of Transportation announced it would open a board of inquiry. A
riot to murder Davis alleged
HOUSTON—Defense officers yesterday added a subplot to the murder-trial of oulen Cullen Davis with questions about a mystery figure they believe was a bombing suspect.
AN FBI agent, Ron Jannings, refused to answer defense attorneys' questions about David Binion, a man they claim was singled out by Davis' wife, Priscilla.
The line of questioning lent a bizarre twist to the courtroom proceedings, because Davies is on trial for attempting to hire someone to murder the judge.
Davis was found not guilty earlier this year of killing his 12-year-old step-daughter during a midnight shooting spree at his $8 million Fort Worth mansion in August 1576. Mrs. Davis was wounded and her lover, Stan Farr, 30, also was killed.
In response to reporter's questions, defense lawyer Paul Burleson said Mrs. Davis had tried to hire Brian to kill her husband. The defense contends Davis
2nd man charged in scandal
SAN DIEGO—A man said to be knowledgeable about computers was arrested by the FBI yesterday on charges of shielding Stanley Mark Rifkin, a computer consultant accused in the alleged theft-by-wire of $10.2 million from a California bank.
**Liam Wolfson, a 33-year-old free-lance photographer described as a former computer consultant, was accused of harboring, concealing and trying to**
Rikin had been arrested Monday while alone in Wolfson's apartment in Carlsbad, N.M., the FBI said. Wolfson was arrested at his Oceanis office on Thursday. A warrant has been issued for him.
The FRI said RiBnRup will $8.1 million of the money stolen in a sophisticated scheme from the Security Pacific Bank to buy Russian diamonds worth $13 million.
Rikin, 32, has been charged with interstate transportation of stolen property and ordered held for the Nov. 17 hearing in lien of $6 million bail.
Former boxing champ dies
GREENWICH, Conn. — Former heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunnel died yesterday at Greenwich Hospital at the age of 80, a hospital spookman
The hospital would not disclose the cause of death or other details. Tunney had been hospitalized several weeks ago with circulatory problems.
unney won the world championship from Jack Dempsey on Sept. 23, 1926,
and retained it on Sept. 23, 1927, in Chicago.
EPA approves pesticide use
WASHINGTON—The Environmental Protection Agency yesterday tentatively approved continued restricted uses of endrin, a pesticide linked to birth defects.
Final approval was subject to review and comment by other government agencies and private groups.
The EPA proposed the use of endrin to control army and pale western cutworms on wheat, borers in sugar cane and western meadow mice. The agency also proposed its use on some pine tree seeds and seed crops and on cotton in restricted locations.
Under this action, the pesticide could be used only if precautions were taken to reduce the risk to human health, fish and wildlife.
EPA Administrator Douglas Costie said endiron had caused birth defects in laboratory animals, could pose the same danger to humans and was a threat to humans.
The decision followed more than two years of review by the EPA. More tests on the pesticide still are planned.
Receipts higher than expected
Kalb and James Bibb, state budget director, admit they have no ready explanation for the increase in collections, even after making allowances for
TOPEKA- State sales tax receipts are up more than 20 percent so far this year, according to figures released yesterday by Secretary of Revenue Kent
Suit filed after cable accident
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—A $4.5 million damage audit has been filed against Six Flags Over Mid-America on behalf of a 12-year-old girl who was injured in a cable car crash on Saturday.
The suit was filed Monday in St. Louis Circuit Court on behalf of Jennine Weeks of Chesterfield, M., who suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries after a crash on the A73.
Her 10-year-old sister Trisa, 15-year-old cousin Kristen F. Johnson and 25-year-old uncle, Clark F. Johnson, were killed in the accident.
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Democrats hold on to Congress
Mississippi voters, however, installed Thad Cochran as the state's first popular-elected GOP senator.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Democrats renewed their lease on Congress last night in elections studded with Senate updates like that which ousted Republican Sen. Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts.
While Republicans were scoring limited gains in the House, Senate content was producing a standoff, despite some gains.
And GOP leaders rejoiced in state house gains that pointed to a pickup of at least a half-dozen governors in the state.
Rep. Paul E, Tsongas, 7, beat brooke, the Senate's only black member, who saw his campaign crippled by admitted misstatements about his personal finances in divorce testimony.
IT WAS an election night without a clear pattern: while Democratic Sen. Dick Clark was conceded defeat to Republican Roger dePoes in Japan, Democratic Gov. J.J. Exon was celebrating a Senate victory in adjacent Florida.
In Minnesota, Republican leaders for the Senate seat that once held, by the late Hubert H. Humphrey and Joseph McCarthy, were defeated in the 1984 election.
Rudy Boshwitz, 48, a piano manufacturer, led Sen. Wendell Anderson, who had himself appointed to succeed
David Durenberg, 44, a Minnesota lawmaker, was abashed of Democrat Bob Short in the contest for Humphrey's seat.
NETWORK PROJECTS called both Republicans the victors, and said Rep. Albert Quae had been elected to Minneapolis.
Cochran, 40, a congressman, broke the Democratic grip on Mississippi Senate seats in a three-way race against Democrat Maurice Murray and Charles Evers, brother of Governor Rick Snyder, who pulls on the black vote apparently helped Cochran win.
In Maine, Rep. William S. Cohen, 38 lived up to his billion as a Republican corner by defeating Democratic Sen.
in new york, Bill Bradley, of Princeton and New York
kickerbacks basketball, fame, beat conservative
reputation.
In Oklahoma, Gov. David Beren won what had been a Republican Senate seat. In South Dakota, Rep. Larry Doleman was elected in Iowa.
REPUBLICAN SEN, Robert P. Griffin of Michigan had sent to Carl Levin, 44, a former president of the Detroit
New Hamshire voters unseated Gov. Meldrim Thomson,
that most ardent of conservatives, electing Democrat Hugh Gallen, 54, a former state representative. Gallen chinched in on Thomson's favorite issue: opposition to a state sales or tax law. Thomson's government over a utility rate increase the governor had approved.
Gov. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr. of California won his second term bid, and with it he opened the prospect that he may yet challenge President Carter's renomination. He also defeated Lauren V. Younger, has never quite said no to that possibility.
But WHILE New Hampshire dumped a conservative Republican governor, Massachusetts elected a conservative governor.
IN TENNESSEE, Senate Republican Leader Howard H.
maker JR. won a third term, battling Democratic Jane
Klassen as an independent senator.
Republican Gov. James R. Thompson of Illinois led in his second term bid and he, too, has presidential ideas.
Republican Rep. William L. Armstrong was ahead of Democratic Sen. Fryd K. Haskell—one-sided a national ballot challenge.
Gordon Humphrey, Republican, a conservative and an airline pilot, was ahead of Sen. Thomas D. McIntyre in New York.
Kansas sent Nancy Landey Kassamble, daughter of Alf Landon, 1936 presidential candidate, to the Senate.
AT THE White House, Carter followed the returns, then telephoned some of the winners and some of the losers. Press Secretary Jody Powell said the trends pointed to "a very good result," for the Democrats, saying they might lose 10 to 15 seats in the House, which isn't bad in an off-season election.
Republican National Chairman Bill Brock said his party was "an outstanding day" pointing to Jebsen's victory and the election.
Brook said a gain of seven or eight Republican governors would "make an enormous difference in the political mix"
REPUBLICAN Richard Thornburgh was elected governor of Pennsylvania, beating Peter Flaherty to succeed Democrat Milton J. Shapp, and Brock cted that as evidence of GOP headway in states that will be crucial in the election.
In Virginia, Republican John W. Warner, former secretary of the Navy and husband of Elizabeth Taylor, led Democrat Andrew P. Miller for the seat of retiring Republican William Scott. Miller said he would await an official vote count before accepting what appeared a narrow verdict in favor of Warner.
rust in 1974, the last mid-tenth balloting, the turnover came to 39.6 percent of the voting age population, and only 38 per cent of those under 50.
A record 155.5 million Americans were qualified to vote.
In A CAMPAIGN that took him to 19 states, President Carter urged people to get out and vote—Democratic. "Sick with me," he said, asking for a vote of confidence in his programs, notably the wage-price restraints he in
The Republicans mounted a national campaign, too, featuring former President Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, and a corps of would-be presidential contenders to outweigh their 189 credentials in a warmup year.
A 33 percent income tax cut was the Republicans' chosen issue. But according to public opinion polls, the voters were more concerned about rising government spending than about the GOP tax cut.
THOSE POLLS also showed they were more concerned about inflation than anything else, and saw restraint in the growth of government and its budget as the best way to counter the rising cost of living.
1ne people should send a message that they are going to elect candidates who cut the size of government, cut their tax burdens and listen to their concerns for a change," said Republican National Chairman Bill Brock.
SEVENTY-THREE House members, 151 of them
were voting before the voting began for lack
of anything but token responses.
The problem for his side was that the Democrats said those were necessarily their concerns.
Democratic Sen. J. Bennett of Louisiana won reelection in advance by capturing a majority of the vote in 2016.
It was a big year for congressional retrentures, and as a result, the 96th Congress will have an unusually large freshman class. Thirteen senators and $8 House members retired or lost in primary elections. So did 15 governors.
THE CAMPAIGN was by far the costliest ever.
The Federal Election Commission reported that candidates for the House and Senate raised $245 million in campaign season would reach $145.9 million. That covers only federal offices, not the gubernatorial and state campa-
All told, 611 state legislators were elected Tuesday. The Republicans, who have control of both branches of the legislatures in only five states, were anxious to make headway in gaining their position, but hold fewer than one-third of the nation's legislative seats.
So the national committee invested more than a million dollars in legislative campaigns, hoping to get on a comeback route in time to gain some clout before the state renew congressional district boundaries to reflect the 1800 census.
Voters backing pocketbook items
Americans who have been complaining about high taxes and government spending apparently took their anger with them to the voting booth yesterday.
Early returns from Alabama, Illinois,
Missouri, Texas and Michigan showed
better performance.
taxes or spending. A proposed tax cut also be- led by a slight majority in North Dakota.
An exception to the trend was in Arkansas where a proposal to exempt some items from registration was passed.
BALLOT MEASURES in Idaho, Oregon
County votes approve incumbents, liquor
While election upstems were rocking the rest of the state, Douglas County voters gave their incumbent state legislators another term, approved liqu-by-the-drink and elected a former county commissioner to the County Commission.
Voters in Douglas County followed the rest of the state in choosing victims in the election.
Only one local race hung undecided until the 6th annual reported "the race for the 5th annual district"
John M. Solbach, Democrat, won the race for the 45th legislative district after waiting until 1:40 a.m. today for the Deerfield precinct to deliver its votes.
THE UNOFFICIAL VOTE total showed Solbach beating his opponent, Ken Whitenight. Republican with 51 wins and 29 losses, Solbach was 4,063 for Solbach and 3,853 for Whitenight.
Douglas County voters approved liquor-breaking in restaurants by 82.5 percent, a measure that provoked a provol prediction by the leader of the measure in Douglas County, Jes Sanchez.
Santaiuaria organized the drive to obtain the option of selling liquor by-the-drink. He was the owner of a large liquor store.
"IT'S A GREAT DAY," Santalaria said.
"The vote was pretty much true to form.
"It's about time Kansas as a state came out of the dark ages. We'll be first class citizens now, along with our neighbors in the state, and we must compete for the convention business."
"I predicted a two-to-one margin and it will be about that."
Incumbents Mike Glover, Democrat for the 42nd district, and John Vogel, Republican for the 43rd district, both won their bids for re-election with about 54 percent of the vote.
JR, Repubilican, by a vote of 3,360 to 2,819.
Vogel, wom over 40 years. Suprica JR,
vom over 282.
IN THE COUNTY Commission race, former commissioner Walter Cragan, Democrat, won with $2 percent of the vote in opposition. John Sutner Republican, polled 3,164 votes.
In the state wide elections, Douglas
the voters went with the eventual
women.
The county picked John Carlin for governor with 10,045 votes. Gov. Robert Bennett received 9,099 votes, Barry Beets, Beverly Clark, Frank Shelton received 34 votes for governor.
For the U.S. Senate race, Douglas County tallied 10,065 votes for Nancy Kaebaum, 9,857 for Bill Roy, 432 for James Maher and 113 votes for Russell Mikels.
ROBERT STEPHAN took the majority of the county votes for attorney general with 10,899 votes. Incumbent Curt Schneider received 8,875 votes.
The total number of votes cast fell within Douglas County Clerk Delbert Mathia's prediction of 20,000 to 21,000 votes, as 20,745 were cast.
turnout in Douglas County showed 38.7 percent of the registered voters made it to the ballot.
All of the vote totals will be unofficial until the Douglas County Commission canvasses
and Nevada were almost identical to Proposition 13, the California initiative which cut property taxes by half. Others differed in detail, but were similar in spirit. More than half were initiatives resulting from private drives. An overview of the proposals:
ALABAAM: A constitutional amendment to reduce assessment rates. It was designed to hold down increases from a court-ordered property reapraisal.
ARIZONA: Proposition 101 to limit state spending to 7 percent of personal income.
ARKANSAS: A constitutional amendment to exempt medicines and medicines from the tax.
COLORADO: Amendment No. 2 to limit increase in state and local spending to increases in population and the Consumer Price Index increases already are limited to 7 percent.
HAWAII: A constitutional amendment to link spending increases to the state's economic growth and require a refund to taxpayers when the state general fund surplus is at least 5 percent for two consecutive years.
IDAHO: Proposition 1 to limit property taxes to 1 percent of market value.
ILLINOIS: An advisory referendum asking whether voters favor a mandatory cellphone law.
MASSACHUSETTS A constitutional amendment to allow the Legislature to set separate assessment rates for different categories of property.
MICHIGAN: The Headache amendment to limit state spending; the Tisch amendment to cut property taxes; and an amendment to the system of payments to parents for schooling.
MISSOURI: A measure to let the Legislature and state tax rates if there is a change in law.
NEBIRASKA: Proposition 302 puts a 5% per cent limit on annual increases in state revenue.
NEVADA: Question 6 to limit property tax to a maximum of 1 percent of full cash
NORTH DAKOTA: Measure No. 2 to cut state income taxes for individuals.
OREGON: Measure No. 6 to limit all property taxes to 1½ percent of market value; Measure No. 11 to cut property taxes to 50%; Measure No. 12 to provide a comparable rent for renters.
SOUTH DAKOTA: Amendment D to require a public referendum or a two-thirds vote of the Legislature before taxes could be increased.
TEXAS: An amendment to tie spending to economic growth and require public hearings on tax boosts bigger than 3 percent.
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