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Friday, September 1, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press Internationa
Indian tribe sacrifices 4 members
NEUQUEN, Argentine—Indians sacrificed a 23-year-old woman and three small children, members of their own tribe, during rituals led by a Pentacostal
Police said Wednesday the four tribe members were killed because they were thought to be possessed by the devil. Several members of the tribe and the
N. Korean vice president demoted
TOKYO—North Korea's Vice President Pak Sung-chul has been demoted from second to fourth place in the political hierarchy, the official Central News agency reported on Wednesday.
Pak was replaced by Premier Li Jong-ok, who was third in the leadership under President Kim II-sung.
Rail strike halts trains in Zambia
LUSAK, Zambia—A strike by employees of Zambia Railways shut down the rail system's operations throughout the African nation yesterday.
Anderson Kazaka, the railroad's general manager, said the strike was called to protest delays encountered in the industrial relations court, which approves
Teachers' strike idles classrooms
Teachers across the country were striking yesterday against schools with a total enrollment of more than 150,000 students.
About 4,200 teachers remained on strike in New Orleans. A judge in Marion, ID, agreed to allow teachers jailed for contempt to be released to participate
About 50,000 students were out of class because of strikes in Rockford, Collinsville, Edwardsville and Waterloo. III. Walkouts in Susquehanna, Allegheny and Jefferson counties in Pennsylvania kept 9,000 pupils home. There were also strikes in Michigan and Ohio.
WASHINGTON - New statistics released yesterday by the Department of Commerce point toward a major slowdown in economic activity. The department's report said its index of economic indicators declined 0.7 percent in July, the first downward tilt in the index since January.
The index is intended to predict trends in the economy. The Commerce Department said five of the 10 individual statistics available for the July index declined. They were sales deliveries, stock prices, the money supply, new orders and building permits.
WICHTA-Air Force missile experts plan to train 110,000 gallons of acid solution today from a Tau II missile complex where an airman was killed last month.
Acid to be pumped from Titan site
A Wichita contractor dealing in industrial waste has been hired to remove the acid. The disposal should take 24 hours, Alan DeFenor, information officer at Wichita City Utilities.
There are no plans to evacuate the area during the removal.
Woman strangled, K.C. police say
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Jackson County officials said yesterday a woman whose nude and decomposed body was found in an abandoned apartment
Authories are trying to identify the body, which was found Wednesday. Police speculated the body had been in the apartment from four to seven days.
Hartford sues coliseum builders
HARTFORD, Conn.—The city of Hartford has filed suit against contractors and designers for losses suffered in the collapse of its Civic Center coliseum building in the fall of 2013.
The suit did not specify any amount of damages, but city officials estimated the loss at $7.5 million. Travelers Insurance has also filed suit for more than $14 million in a lawsuit against the company.
Among those named in the city's suit are Bethlehem Steel Corp. and Gilbane Building Co.
Nuclear test detonated in Nevada
LAS VEGAS AS—An underground nuclear test with a yield of between 20,000 and 100,000 tNT was detonated yesterday in the Nevada Test Site. It was the largest atomic explosion ever conducted.
Department of Energy spokesman Dave Miller said there were no problems with the weapons-related test, which was code-named "Panir."
50 GSA fraud charges predicted
WASHINGTON—The head of the General Services Administration predicted at a news conference Wednesday that a federal grant jury investigation will result in bribery and fraud indictments against 50 people, including GSA employees, employees of agencies it serves and private vendors and contractors.
Administrator Jay Solomon called upon the 35,000 employees of the GSA to tell what they know about payoffs their colleagues took from contractors.
GSA officials have estimated the scandal has cost the government $66 million in fraud, mostly in overpayments to contractors who were paid more than competitive prices, provided inadequate work or products, or were paid for work that was never done.
15 hijack junk, sail to Hong Kong
HONG KONG—Fifteen Chinese refugee hijackings a fishing jink in a Chinese village bordering Hong Kong and forced its three-man crew to sail to the British coast.
The hijackers fled when the junk landed on a Hong Kong beach, but authorities were able to arrest 11 officials said.
Police mistakenly rig couple's car
ST. LOUIS - A search was under way late Thursday for an elderly couple who drove off from ST. Louis-Lambert International Airport after police, conducting a training experiment for dogs, mistakenly attached defiance to the bottom of their car, according to Col. Leon Griggs, airport director.
He said police were conducting an experiment with dogs trained to sniff out explosives when the dynamite was placed under the car.
Griggs said it was highly unlikely the dynamite would explode because it contained no fuel, but efforts were being made to locate the couple.
Hours listed for Labor Day
The Kansas Union will be open regular hours, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. Food service will be available in the Deliatess from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and the H-E-B from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The three-day Labor Day weekend will be the last holiday for students until Thanksgiving vacation begins Nov. 22.
After a first taste of classes this semester, students will get their first extended week-end because classes will not be held Monday.
The Union will be open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday and closed Monday. The Union's bookstores will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
Watson Library will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, noon to midnight
Sunday and closed Monday. It will open 8 a.m. Tuesday.
The Green Hall law library will be closed Sunday but will be open 8 a.m. to midnight Monday.
The Kansas will not publish a Monday edition but will resume publication Tuesday.
Weather
The Labor Day weekend will bring cloudy to partly cloudy skies with temperatures today and tomorrow in the high 80s to low 90s, the National Weather Service reports.
Southerly winds of five to 10 miles an hour today will be followed with a low tonight of 60 degrees, a weather service spokesman said.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — In a surprise bargain, blemishes Liberation Army founders William and Emily Pierled guilty yesterday to the 1974 kidding assaults at Heath but they insisted they were proof of their identity kidding which stunned the world.
Harrises plead guilty to abduction
"The plea does not mean we have feelings of remorse," Harris said. "Instead, we feel pride in what these actions were able to accomplish."
EMILY HARRIS, 31, pale and puffy-faced from three years in prison, fought back tears as she vowed her and husbands' griefs over the streets as people committed to change."
Attorney Leonard Wenglass, who represented Harris, said the move means the prosecutor has no choice.
Harris, 33, facing a courtroom audience which applauded him loudly, said the Heart kidnapping had proved to the world the noower of revolutionary ideals.
last criminal charges facing participants in the underground group.
The guilty pleas closed the book on the
Heart, 24, heirs to a legendary publishing fortune, became the nation's most famous kidnapper victim on Feb. 4, 1674 and was dragged from her Berkeley apartment.
The Harris sat facing the judge, their hands clasped, and pleaded guilty to four separate charges: kidnapping Heard; robbery of a neighbor; kidnapping one of His师的 neighbors, Peter Benenson, and falsely imprisoning another neighbor, Stephen Suenaga. They also adjudicated a case against him.
Golde accepted the pleas and dismissed the remaining charges. Sentencing was set
TO RETURN for the pleas, Assistant District Attorney Alex Selvin requested dismissal of seven other charges, including assault and kidnaping for the purpose of bodily harm.
Alameda County Superior Judge Stanley
The Harrises are serving sentences for a Los Angeles conviction of kidnapping and robbery in the bungled holdup and shootout of sporting goods store, which involved Hearst.
They were sentenced to 11 years to live in the case, but the California Community Release Board recently said they would be released in April 1980. The sentence banged on yesterday's guilty pleas would add $3\frac{1}{2}%$ to that time.
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