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Thursday, August 31, 1978
University Daily Kansan
NIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press Internationa
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Ambassador's kidnapped son killed
MEXICO CITY—THe day of the Mexican ambassador to the United States, who was kidnapped Tuesday night by guymen who attacked the car in which he was traveling.
One member of the family had denied the reports of the kidnapping but two others said it was true.
Police officials had Hugo Margin Jr., 35, was kidnapped near his home on the south side of the Mexican capital by armed men who shot at Margin's
Eduardo Margain, the victim's brother, had said in a telephone interview, "My brother suffered an attack of appendicitis and is here in the house."
K.C. police look for shooting suspect
KANASIS CITY, Mo.—Police searched unsuccessfully yesterday morning for a male occasion of execution of abducts fixed inside Interstate 635.
a smaller mirror, two reps of a blind being raised in slow motion. He then closed the window and let it rain on the windshield of his car was shattered by a gunshot. He was treated at a
Chase increases prime lending rate
A man who lives along the interstate about nine blocks south of the first reported shooting told police he heard what sounded like shots whizzing through the street.
NEW YORK—The Chase Manhattan Bank, in action quickly followed by other major banks around the country, yesterday increased its prime lending rate from 9 percent to 9.25 percent in response to Federal Reserve Board attempts to tighten credit.
The action left the prime rate at its highest point in more than three years. Analysis said they expected all of the nation's banks to raise their prime rates by 10%.
The prime rate, the interest charged on loans to the banks' most creditworthy customers, is not directly linked to the mortgage of personal loan markets, but rather to the risk-taking of borrowers.
Dollar plummets on Tokyo market
TOKYO - The dollar took an abrupt swing down yesterday, losing in one trading session half the ground it had struggled to gain against the yen in recent weeks.
Tuesday's announcement of the almost $3 billion U.S. trade deficit for July had driven the dollar down sharply in Europe. The Tokyo currency market, however, was closed for the day by the time of the announcement and the next until yesterday. It came quickly, as the dollar plummeted by more than four vow.
As one point yesterday, the U.S. currency dropped to 188.20 yen before creeping up to close at 189.725 yen, down from Tuesday's mark of 194.30. The U.S. dollar has recovered by more than a quarter.
Agency issues 'hatchback' warning
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued a warning to owners of hatchback cars to avoid driving with children in the luggage compartment.
Administrator Joan Claybrook said the agency has received increasing reports of motorists driving with the hatchback door in the up position, often because they are less aware of it.
She said the agency had received reports of at least 12 accidents in which passengers were thrown through the open rear hatchback, resulting in five
In addition, operating the vehicle with the hatchback open may expose all occupants to concentrations of exhaust fires containing deadly carbon
KPL rate rise called unnecessary
TOPEKA-Kansas Power and Light Company officials could have avoided the need for an emergency rate increase had they shown proper management skills, attorneys representing low income electric users of KPL charged in documents filed with the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Kansas Legal Services Inc. of Topeka is acting as an intervenor in opposition to a KPL application for an immediate interim rate of $30 million.
The document filed with the commission charges that KPL management decided to gamble in its November 1977 rate increase request by not using the funds.
Instead, the group charges, KPL, chose to use a proposed test year based on projected information of the future, an approach rejected by the Commission (10).
Union hints at NY press strike end
NEW YORK—a Leader of the striking pressman's union said yesterday he counterproposal read in New York's three strike-bound daily newspaper the strike.
The optimistic remark came from William J. Kennedy, president of the striking pressman's local, as he prepared to return to the bargaining table with the publishers of the three newspapers. He declined to discuss contents of the union contract offer.
Court suspends Farber's sentence
TRENTON, N.J. — The indefinite jail sentence of New York Times reporter
Mary Koehler was suspended by the New Jersey Supreme Court
peppling on appeal and being convicted.
The court stayed all civil and criminal penalties against Farber and the Times. As a result of the ruling, Farber was released and a $5,000 a day fine for the crime.
The Supreme Court took jurisdiction of the case from the Appellate Division of Superior Court. A hearing was scheduled for Sept. 5.
Farber and the Times were guilty of civil and criminal contempt July 24 for defying court orders to surrender their files on the murder case against D.J.
Farber had been held in the Bergen County Jail since Aug. 4. The Times, thus far, had been fines $110,000 for civil contempt.
Army analyzes missile silo liquid
WICHITA - A special Air Force team from Texas conducted analyses yesterday of an acidic solution in the bottom of a Titan II missile so where
The team of two chemists, an engineer and two technicians pulled samples from the silo to determine the exact composition of the remaining liquid.
Capt. Alan DeFend, information officer at McConnell Air Force Base, said it was not anticipated that the silo would be drained before Friday.
Two more airmen suffering vapor inhalation from the leak of the rocket propellant nitrogen tetroxide last Thursday were airlifted Tuesday night to Scott Air Force Base, Ill. The two airmen had been released from the air base hospital but reported back in with new symptoms.
Two testify in massage parlor suit
TOPEKA- Two Swainee County county sheriffs deputies tested yesterday they visited massage parners under and gained evidence for prostitution.
The testimony was offered in a suit by a massage parlor challenging a new county resolution prohibiting messages between persons of the opposite sex.
Deputies Marcia McClimans and David Zweifel said they visited massage parlors to learn about the techniques used and to learn about possible prostitution. McClimans posed as a prospective massuuse and Zweifel posed as a prospective customer.
Weather
The weather will remain hot, and temperatures are predicted to reach the mid to upper 80s today. It will be partly cloudy with light southeasterly winds, a heat wave is expected.
EL DORADO (AP) - A Butter County District Court jury last night convicted Jimmie K. Neilms and Walter Myrick on four felony counts, including premeditated murder and murder in the commission of a killing of a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper in May.
Two convicted in trooper's death
The jury of seven women and five men deliberated less than four hours before finding Nelms, 31, and Myrick, 25, guilty of all the charges against them in connection with the death of Conroy O'Brien. 26. Besides murder, they were convicted of
The two Tulsa, Oklah, in handcuffs the first time since the trial began, jittered while his teammates chanted.
aggravated  kidnapping and unawful possession of a firearm.
JUDGE PAGE Benson told the defense attorney that they would have 10 days in prison for being a witness.
In his instructions to the jury yesterday afternoon, Benson said that under Kansas law, if either man assisted in the criminal case of the crime, without assistance, corrupted the crime.
In closing arguments, prosecutor Norman Manley urged the jury to use common sense and to think about human nature. He then laid shoes taken from Nelms and Myrick and placed the clay replica of O'Brien's head nearby, adding, "We're not saying you men stood exactly like O'Brien. We don't know exactly where they stood."
HOLDING A color photo of the trooper,
blood streaming from his head. Manley
Plans made to measure auto exhaust
PHILADLPHIA (AP)—More than three million cars and light trucks in the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas will have to be inspected annually for exhaust pollution levels because of a consent decree approved by a federal judge.
The program is designed to bring the two areas into compliance with the Federal Clean Air Act of 1970. The agreement, signed Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Louis C. Browne and federal court suit by the U.S. Environment Protection Agency and a coalition of environmental groups against the state Department of Transportation.
films sua
Dir. & written by Charles Chaplin, with Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. This is Chaplin's spool of and warning humor, which is a bit darker, and it has his Little Trap finally growing up. Chapkin plays a double role (a Jewish barber & as Hilder parody) & Oakie is hilarious as a pompom with his sword. $1.00 7:30 pm Woodruff Audt.
Thursday, August 31
THE GREAT DICTATOR
(1402)
Friday & Saturday, September 1 & 2
charges, made conflicting statements as to who pulled the trigger.
Dir. John G., Avidsen, with Sylvester Dr. John Tallia, Halla Shire, Burgh Meredith, Merrill Lynch, and others to ensemble acting, good editing, and an exciting musical score helped to make this movie with the Academy Award for best picture. Be sure to see it, or see again!
added "Do we know this is what they left—a fine young trooper dead."
ROCKY
On the witness stand, Swain said he saw fire coming from the gun Nellis was holding but in statements made on different occasions to law enforcement personnel the day of the incident, Swain said he did not see who fired the shots.
Manley went on to say the pair had “sixty feet of premeditation”—the distance between the trooper's car and where the body was found. And further, he said, premeditation was proven by not one bullet, but two.
$1.50 3:30 7:00 & 9:30 pm
In later rebuttal arguments, Manley said "because of Walter Merkler, Conry O'Brien is in his grave just as surely as if he Myrick had pulled the trigger himself. Last May 24 a young highway patrol trooper asked these two men 'Please don't do this to me.' Today, you hear these two defendants say 'Don't do this to me.'"
Dir. John Landis, Cameos by Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Bill Bley. In the tradition of "The Great Depression," much better, "Kentucky Fried" parodies television news shows, disaster movies, and live-action films. $1.50 12:00 Midnight Wooldurf Audt.
September 1 & 2
Midnight Movies
THE KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE
Wednesday, Sept. 6 LA DOLCE VITA
Dir. Federica Fellini; with Marcelo
Mastaniolini, Anouk Almeia, Anita
Ekberg (italy/subtilties, 180 m, blw)
$1.00 7:30 pm Woodruff Aud.
Friday, Sept. 8 PROVIDENCE
THROUGHOUT THE testimony the state has tried to show Nesm pulled the trigger. But the prosecution's star witness, Stanford Swain, who has pleaded guilty to lesser
Dir. Alain Resnais, with Ellen Bursten,
Dirk Bogarde, John Glejgud, Resnais's first English-language film, Written by David Kowal.
Friday: 3:30 and 6:30, Sat. 7:00
MYRICK'S ATTORNEY, Gene White, offered no defense witnesses for his client and made no opening statement. In his defense, he claimed he was angry, disgusted and offended today as I was on May 24. I have never been exposed to a more outrageous, offensive, senseless attack.
Dir. Paolo & Vittorio Tavani, with Omero Antonelli, Fabrizio Fonte, Italian/subtitleled.
7:00
PADRE, PADRONE
Saturday, Sept. 9
PADRE, PADRONE
3-30 & 8:30
PROVIDENCE
7:00
"That means if you go ye yes suh, no suh long enough, the white man will think
Monday, Sept. 11
THE FALL OF THE
ROMAN EMPIRE
(1964)
Rusty Dass, Nelms' attorney, charac terized Swain as 'Gon. Ton.'
Dir. Anthony Mann, with Sophia Loren,
Stephen Bann, Alec Gleeson, Christina
Halperin and a cast of thousands.
One of the best examples of the epsilpectacular.
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