November 5,1984
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NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily
KANSAN
Attorneys ready appeals for condemned murderers
STARKE, Fla. — Defense attorneys yesterday planned strategy for last-minute appeals to save two convicted men who were prosecuted Wednesday at Florida State Prison
The condemned men are Timothy Charles Palmes, 37, who took part in the torture murder of a Jacksonville businessman on Oct. 4, 1976. and Chester Custer, 52, who killed a golfer during the robbery of a Pompano Beach golf course Sept. 19, 1980.
Nine people - seven of them this year - have been executed in Florida since 1979. That is the most for any state since the 1950s, when its ban on capital punishment in 1976.
Boys' death linked to game
LAFAYETTE, Colo. — Authorities investigating the murder-suicide of two brothers speculated the deaths resulted from the older boy's fascination with the medieval mythology game Dungeons and Dragons.
Daniel Ethan Erwin, 16, and Stephen Ray Erwin, 12, were found Friday lying side by side under a railway trestle a mile from their home. Authorities said Steve shot his brother in the head with a 22-caliber revolver, then shot himself.
Other youngsters who knew the boys thought their deaths may have involved Dungeons and Dragons, a fantasy in which players assume characters and work through a series of mazes to earn rewards and avoid falling into a dungeon.
L.A. drug raids prove fruitful
LOS ANGELES — Police broke down doors and windows in a crackdown since Thursday that netted nearly 700 suspected drug dealers.
By early yesterday, 682 arrests were recorded and more were expected as a 300-member narcotics task force continued its work.
Police said the crackdown was intended to discourage drug dealers, not to seize large amounts of contraband.
Fugitive murderer captured
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Police arrested a fugitive murderer who has lived since 1979 under assumed names and disguised his appearance with wigs and moustaches.
Joseph Lister, 36, convicted of murdering Kenneth Dunlap of Manchester. N.H. was arrested in Providence Saturday night after saying he was a policeman. He will be arraigned today on a charge of impersonation an officer.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
Nicaragua election over; Sandinistas favored
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Tens of thousands of Nicarguars voted yesterday despite an opposition boycott in the first national elections since the ruling Sandinistas overthrew dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1979.
The candidates of the leftist Sandinista Front, who were expected to win overwhelmingly, called the elections in an effort to ensure the rule and avoid feared U.S. military action.
President Reagan paused yesterday from his campaign for tomorrow's U.S. presidential elections to label Nicaragua's elections "phony." But Sandinista junta leader and presidential candidate Daniel Ortega named them Nicaragua's "first free elections."
AN IMPRESSIVE GOVERNMENT campaign to get out the vote appeared to be working in Managua and in provincial capitals where housewives, workers and
uniformed soldiers waited for hours in sweltering heat to choose among candidates representing seven political parties.
The turnout appeared heaviest in the capital, where 25 percent of the nation's 3 million people live. After the nearly 4,000 polling places closed at 6 p.m. (7 p.m. EST), election officials said they did not expect any returns until several hours later. The official announcement of winners will be Wednesday.
A president, vice president, and a 90-member Constituent Assembly that will write a new constitution will be elected. The president and vice presidential terms are for six years.
"THIS IS A great experience for us," said Ortega as he cast his vote in Managua six minutes after the polls opened. "It is the first time in Nicaragua history that we are really voting. It is a historic moment for our people."
And in the lakeside city of Granada, a cigar-chomping woman named Alicia Chamorro smiled and said, "I'm for the
(Sandistima) Front. I am for Daniel" — a view voiced by many workers and peasants.
While Nicaraguans voted, the government reported U.S.-backed "counter-revolutionary" rebels Saturday ambushed and killed four Sandinaists in Quilai, Nueva Segovia 162 miles north of Managua.
The two strongest rebel groups fighting to overthrow the Sandinista government had called an election-day truce, and the government charges could not be independently confirmed. No incidents were reported yesterday.
THE SANDINISTAS SAID they expected 80 percent of the 1.55 million registered voters — half the population — to hand them a landslide victory over the minor opposition candidates, most belonging to parties that support the government.
The main opposition group, the Democratic Coordinating Council, boycotted the elections, charging voter intimidation and lack of electoral fairness.
1. imagine that the Committee for
Sandista Defense is here, watching and checking to see who is who voting," said a government worker who refused to give his name at Managua's "Los Angeles barrio"
Lottery worker Caetano Sanchez disagree.
"Well, yes, a lot of people are here because they think the committee is checking or that they are going to take away their ration cards, but that isn't true," he said.
WITH THE ELECTIONS timed deliberately two days before U.S. elections, the Sandistas feel they will be in a stronger position to challenge the 'cission' with an elected government in place.
The elections were originally scheduled for 1985, but the Sandinistas say candidly the vote was changed because they felt it might have been more favorable to passing his opposition to their leftist government.
Ortega has charged repeatedly, including in a U.N. address Oct. 15, that Reagan is planning an invasion soon after his own re-election.
Reagan, Mondale persist in campaign's final davs
By United Press International
President Reagan, smelling a possible 50-state landslide in tomorrow's election, made an unscheduled stop in Walter Mondale's home state of Minnesota yesterday to ask for votes in the state his Democratic rival has the best chance of winning.
In Rochester, Reagan spoke to reporters during a hastily arranged airport news conference while on Air Force One waited outside to whisk him on to St. Louis. Reagan said he could not resist the temptation to step in Mondale's back yard, "particularly when I know my opponent's spending so much time in California."
Mondale told both minority groups that
Reagan's last minute political maneuver came as poll after poll showed a big win for the president. The final Washington Post-ABC poll showed Reagan ahead 57 percent to 39 percent, with a strong lead in 45 states and a chance of capturing all 50.
But there was no veil of doom in the Democratic camp as midweek fought on despite the odds. He campaigned from the puliton of a black Baptist church in Memphis, then flew to Texas, seeking Hispanic votes in the Rio Grande Valley.
Reagan was insensitive to their needs and uncaring.
In Memphis, Mondale warned the black congregation that if Reagan won a second term, a majority of the Supreme Court may retire, leaving the body to the far right.
"Mr. Reagan fetts four more years and the far right, Jerry Fallwell and his crowd, may get five more justices and then where do we go for justice?" Monday asked.
Mondale said Reagan did not understand that civil rights for minorities made America strong.
"This is something we do for everybody and they are turning their backs on civil
Contradicting most of the polls, the latest National Public Radio-Louis Harris poll yesterday showed a strong last minute surge for Mondale although Reagan still had a commanding lead. Harris said that in the past two days Mondale had narrowed the gap by 4 points, from 16 percent to 12 percent but that Reagan still had a 55-43 lead.
Both Mondale and Reagan wound up Midwest campaigning yesterday and headed for California, where the president will spend Election Day at his ranch. Mondale will fly home to Minnesota for the voting.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Vice President George Bush addresses an interviewer's question before his appearance on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley." During the program, Bush downplayed the likelihood of cutbacks in Medicare, the health-care program for the elderly.
A Christian-Muslim DEBATE !
"Christianity and Islam"
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES
MUSLIM SIDE
A Mathematician Cath. Chris., who converted to Islam
1. Gary Miller
2. Steve Johnson
CHRISTIAN SIDE
BY
A Former Jesuit Priest, who converted to Islam
PLACE: BALL ROOM ,
The Navigators Area Representative
1.Gene Tuel
Southern Baptist Campus Minister
2. Rick Clock
KANSAS UNION
TIME : 7:30 P.M. , MON. , NOV 5TH , 1984
FOR COUNTRY & COMMUNITY
Walter Mondale—President
Geraldine Ferraro—Vice President
James R. Maher—US Senate
Jim Slattery—US Congress
Lawrence L. Seaman—State Senator
Jessie M. Branson—State Representative 44th District
John M. Solbach—State Representative 45th District
Betty Jo Charlton—State Representative 46th District
Michael G. Glover—District Attorney
David Hopper—County Commissioner 2nd District
Linda Lubensky—County Commissioner 3rd District
Deborah Sampson—County Clerk
Ruth Vervynck—County Treasurer
Sue Neustifter—Registrar of Deeds
Merle Rothwell—Sheriff
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