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Thursdav. September 14, 1978
University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From staff and wire reports
Postal strike threats fizzle
WASHINGTON- Threats of wildcat mail strikes fizzled yesterday as a special arbitrator to impose a binding settlement on the five-month-old postal contract dispute.
After holding a final meeting with the Postal Service and three union leaders representing 516,000 workers, postal mediator James J. Healy went into session to discuss the issue.
He will decide two disputed issues: whether to grant union pleas for a bigger pay raise than the Postal Service is offering and whether the current contract ban against worker layoffs should be weakened, as management wants.
wants.
Meanwhile, dissident local leaders of the postal union, angry that Healy's ruling would deny members a contract ratification vote, said they had all but given up earlier plans to stage illegal walks that were to begin last night.
Mideast summit nears close
CAMP DAVID, Md.-President Jimmy Carter intensified his efforts yesterday to nail down a compromise formula for the future of Palestinian Arabs as the Mideast summit moved toward its close.
"We are obviously approaching the final stages," said Jody Powell, White House press secretary, in an overall assessment of the eight-day-old conference among Carter, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.
Powell confirmed that the drafting of final statements had begun. Diplomatic sources said the talks might end Thursday night or Friday morning.
There has been no visible breakthrough on the Palestinian issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Carter has not brought Sadat and Begin together to the
Red Brigades chief arrested
MILAN, Italy — Corrado Alunni, wanted in the kidnap-murder of Premier Aldo Moro and repeted to be arrested in the Red Brigades urban guerrilla in MILAN, Italy — in recent days in Milan.
Police said Alumni, 30, was caught in a terrorist hideout in a suburban district near the Malpensa Airport.
Police said they found large amounts of firearms, ammunition and important documents in the apartment where the arrest took place.
Alumu was considered the leader of the most radical and determined group inside the Red Brigades.
44th county certifies petition
Johnson County county yesterday was the 44th Kansas county to certify the liquor-in-restaurants referendum to put the question on the November general
Officials in Sedgwick County said Tuesday that it would be next week before the check of some 16,000 signatures could be processed for validation of that
the person responsible by the Kansas Legislature this year allows county local options on the liquor question by petition bearing signatures of five percent of a bar.
The new law now is being challenged in the Kansas Supreme Court, which set on Oct. 12 filing deadline for written documents in the case.
However, because the court's September and October dockets have already set, chances appear slim that the case could be heard before counties vote on it.
3 KC policemen suspended
KANKSAS City, Kan. — Three officers have been suspended from the Kansas City, Kan. police department for weeks and a fourth is still under investigation in connection with an officer's fatal shooting.
Jane Phillips, 22, was wounded in the leg Monday by a stray shot as police opened fire on a car that tried to avoid a neighborhood roadblock and run the vehicle.
Phillips was attempting to lead six children out of the line of fire.
Mayor Jack Reardon had promised a thorough investigation by Police Chief Allen Meyers in the face of criticism from neighborhood residents, including a police sergeant whose children were among those playing nearby when the shooting broke out.
Floods hit Texas, Arkansas
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Floodwaters fed by heavy thunderstorms raged through southern Texas and Arkansas yesterday, killing at least nine persons, closing roads, washing houses from their foundations and stranding hundreds of persons.
All roads into Little Rock were closed, a 30-square-block area of the city was evacuated, and Arkansas National Guard troops were sent to rescue persons.
In San Antonio, Tex., a pre-dawn deluge of more than five inches of rain flooded northern portions of the city, blocking freeways and stranding dozens of cars.
The National Weather Service said 5.28 inches of rain fell over a 24-hour period in south Little Rock and up to six inches fell in some areas of San Antoz.
Abortion law declared illegal
The three-judge panel yesterday struck down the section requiring a doctor to tell a woman seeking an abortion that she will be forced to put her child up for adoption.
The court ruled that the requirement violated the equal protection and due process clauses of the U.S. Constitution and the traditional confidentiality provisions.
The court said the requirement calls for the doctor to warn his patient of consequences that should not occur.
Ford indicted in Pinto case
ELKHART,印.—An Indiana grand jury indicted Ford Motor Co. on criminal charges yesterday in connection with a Pinto automobile crash in which three teen-age girls were killed. The jury said Ford knew the Pinto fuel tanks were unsafe but did nothing about the situation.
The panel said the tanks had been rockefishly reckoned and manufactured in such a way that the Pinto would be likely to flame and burn upon rear-end impact.
Ford, which is involved in multi-million dollar civil suits concerning the Pinto, announced in June that it was recalling 1.5 million 1971-'76 Pintos to improve the safety of the fuel tanks, but the recall is just now getting under way.
County to test massage skills
The test, required under a new county resolution to regulate massage parlor, will include 90 multiple choice questions on anatomy, physiology and first aid; it will also test knowledge of the following:
Potato arowers to do battle
BOISE, Idaho—Tired of seeing television husbands choose stuffing over mammals, America's spud guards are squirring off against General Lee.
The National Potato Promotion Board, a Denver-based association, decided recently to launch a campaign to counter General Foods' widely shown competition.
Weather...
Cloudy and cooler today, with a high predicted in the low 80s. There is a 30 percent chance of showers today. Winds will be from the north to 10 miles per mile.
Weapons available to Nicaragua rebels
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)—Just where the weapons are coming from is not clear, but increasing quantities are turning into large numbers that will have to overthrow President Anastasio Somoza.
The weapons include 50-caliber machine guns. Many are of U.S. manufacture, but there are dozens of 7,500-man national guard probably is the biggest source of the guns—taken from fallen garrisonmen, seized from garrisons overrun by rebels or surrendered by them.
BUT THESE observers speculate that the weaons also could be coming from:
*Venezuela*, whose president, Carlos Andres Perez, is a vehement Sooma纠。
- Panama, whose leader, Brig. Gen. Omar Torrijos, has given sanctuary to Sandinista guerrillas who seized the legislative nalace in Managua Aug. 22.
- Clandestine arms markets outside the Caribbean.
Just as uncle is what the Sandistas would do with Niceratua if they manage to
Someza says communist Cuba is behind the unrest, but the Marxist-oriented guerrillas recently have been attracting various political and social colorations.
MANY POLITICAL observers here say only a broad coalition of anti-Somozha nicaragua—including businessmen, workers, church leaders and Sandinistas—could win enough national confidence to govern after Somozha.
The military wing of the Sandinistas has been well-armed since the 1960s, when the group was founded by Carlos Fonseca Amador. He received training in Cuba and was killed in a mountain clash with the national guard about two years ago.
If the Cubans are actively supporting the Sandinistas, they have been careful not to supply any Soviet-bloc weapons. Some political observers say the appearance of a Soviet-linked local bachas that communist elements of the Sandinistas are not prepared to face.
The situation was a drastic change from the recent disorders in Matagalpa, Jinotepe and Diritama, where youths battled troops and earlier mailer handguns and black nowbombs.
One source said automatic weapons were brought to Masaya last week by Sandistas who distributed them to eager youths, then left after the fighting began.
ANOTHER WITNESS said the same thing had occurred in the Central America region.
In all cases rebel ammunition supplies appear low. The rebels complain to newsmen of not having enough ammunition for a long fight.
The national guard has mostly U.S.-made weapons although in the last year it has been forced to turn to other suppliers, especially Israel. The Carter administration suspended arm sales to Nicaragua over alleged human rights violations.
The diplomatic sources, who asked to remain anonymous, say it is relatively easy to snuggle arms into Nicaragua, which has vast unpatrolled jungle borders with Costa Rica and Honduras. They say clandestine coastal landings also are a possibility.
THE SANDINISTAS may be financing the arms purchases themselves. They received $500,000 ransom for the release of 1,300 hostages seized in the capture of the National Palace. The Sandinistas fleto-
mated and were captured by a number of weapons seized in the assault.
Although Costa Rica appears a likely funneling point for Sandinista weapons, the tiny, democratic republic apparently is not providing any guns.
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