December 4,1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 2
The University Daily KANSAN
Democrats keep O'Neill;
Michel holds GOP spot.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats elected Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr to a final two-year term as their leader yesterday after conservative Rep. Charles Stenholm of Texas withdrew his threat to challenge O'Neill.
The Democrats also re-elected Rep. Jim Wright of Texas — O'Neill's likely successor as speaker in 1987 — as Democratic floor leader. Republicans retained Rep. Robert Michel of Illinois as the GOP leader and Rep. Trent Lott of Mississippi as his top deputy.
Salvadoran hunting leftists
SAN SALVADOR, EI Salvador — About 1,000 army troops yesterday hunted leftist guerrillas who claimed to have killed 60 U.S.trained soldiers in one of their biggest victories of the civil war, military sources said.
Rebel Radio Venceremos said guerrilla forces Saturday killed 60 soldiers, wounded 43 others and captured 46 in fighting at the border near Bakersfield, 23 miles southeast of San Salvador.
Kids charged with extortion
NEW PORT RICHKEY, Fla. — A 12-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy have been arrested and charged with the kidnapping of a schoolmate and stealing from his home.
The two are accused of threatening the fourth-grader unless he paid them and left the back door of his house unlocked on Saturdays.
The extortion, which took place over a two month period, was discovered when the victim's mother saw him giving the girl money. The mother told deputies about $750 in cash and property had been taken from the house.
Spaghetti, wrestling on menu
INDANA, Pa. — A college fraternity by yesterday had sold oodles of charity tickets for tonight's male-female spaghetti wrestling matches, with 300-pound collegiate ugly king Bruce Morgan also slated to grapple with women.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Tau Kappa Epsilon members will admit 250 onlookers at $4 a crack to the basement of the house to view the spectacle.
Twenty women, who will wear bathing suits, will wrestle one another. The evening's testivities will be topped by Morgan, who was elected ugliest college rale this fall.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Minister, Flynt start libel trial
By United Press International
ROANOKE, Va — A jury was selected yesterday to hear a $45 million libel suit the Rev. Jerry Falwell filed against magazine publisher Larry Flynt for portraying Falwell as an incessant drunk.
U. S. District Judge James Turk seated an eight-woman, four-men jury after four hours of questioning behind closed doors. The trial was recessed for the day after opening
"This case doesn't relate just to Jerry Falwell, but whether a publisher can maliciously attack an individual without being prosecuted would be a disaster." I just plan to make him pay the piper.
FALWELL, THE FOUNDER of the Moral Majority, charged he was labeled by Flynt and Hustler magazine in advertisements appearing in the November 1983 and January 1984 editions.
The ads depicted Falwell as a drunk whose first sexual experience was with his mother in an outhouse. In fine print, marked with an inscription, the ads read "words: 'Ad parody: not to be taken seriously.'"
Flynt, the publisher of the sexually explicit magazine, did not appear in court on the first day of the trial. But his attorney said he was expected to testify.
epected to fail. Both Falwell and Flynt have received death threats in the past, and courtroom security was tight.
"I think this is a classic case, whether or not public figures — including the president of the United States and the pope of Rome — can be massacred in public," Falwell said.
HIS ATTORNEY, NORMAN Grutman, said in opening arguments that Hustler was "dicated to the exploitation of sexuality and hate." He also said Flynt reached "new unprovoked attacks and debauchery," in unprovoked attacks designed to assassinate Falwell's character.
Flynt's attorney, Alan Isaacman, called the ads "absurd, preposterous, outrageous and unbelievable." He said Falwell was not responsible no one could have taken the ads seriously.
Issassam also claimed Falwell used the ads to his advantage, sending out censored copies in a fund-raising campaign that brought $800,000 to his television ministry.
The ad parody was meant "to poke fun at Mr. Failwell," who had made himself a public figure through his frequent stands on moral issues. Issacman said.
United Press International
CHICAGO — Teachers walk the picket line in the cold on the walkout by 28,000 teachers closed the city's schools, giving first day of their strike for higher wages. Yesterday's 440,000 students an early holiday.
Grenadians choose new Parliament
By United Press International
muddied dirt paths throughout the lush. 133 square mile island. The polls closed at 5 p.m.
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada — Greendadis elected a new Parliament yesterday in the island's first elections in eight years. The elections took place 13 months after a U.S. invasion topped a Marxist government
Grenadians chose 15 representatives to Parliament, which will replace an interim governing council that has ruled since the overthrow of the Marxists.
Voters were standing in line at many of the 197 polling stations when they opened at 7 a.m. local time, despite a downtour that
A LIGHT BUT STEADY late turnout was reported in rural areas
Officials said final results may be known early today. Sir Paul Secon, the island's governor general, will ask the winning party to form a government.
There were 48,000 people registered to vote. A spokesman for the interim government said the turnout dwindled when the hot summer ended. The number covered their heads with towels. Greedians
were allowed by law to take time off from work to vote.
About police officers and troops from neighboring Caribbean states enforced security throughout the island, maintaining a low profile with intermittent jeep patrols.
The major contenders were the New National Party, a moderate coalition led by former Chief Minister Herbert Blaine, 66, and the right-wing Grenada United Labor Party led by Sir Eric Gairy, the island's last prime minister.
THE TWO PARTIES were the only groups running full slates of candidates.
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