October 29, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily KANSAN
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Ford workers cast votes; approval of pact is likely
DETROIT — About 114,000 workers at Ford Motor Co. plants nationwide wrapped up voting yesterday on a new law that would approve Approval of the pact is virtually certain.
United Auto Workers officials said the final results would be made public today, although results during the past week showed the three-year contract winning the support of about 72 percent of the rank-and-file.
Trial starts in Dallas murders
DALLAS — A Moroccan waiter accused of killing six people when a woman spurned his offer to dance on towed trikes with the lowest mass slaying in the history of Dallas.
Abdelkrim Belacheh, 39, is charged with six counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the June 29 blood attack on Club and Club, a bar in affluent north Dallas.
Witnesses said Belachbeh walked to his car to get a gun after Marcelle Ford, a 32-year-old Grand Prairie, Texas, woman, refused to dance with him. When he returned, he shot her in the chest and head, then went down the bar "shooting people off barstools." Police Sgt Bill Parker said.
Couple charged in girl's death
AURURN, Maine — A mother and her boyfriend were charged with murder after authorities found the blistered body of a 4-year-old girl stuffed in an oven, officials said yesterday.
Responding to a report of smoke wafting from a unit in a tenement building, police Saturday afternoon burst into the couple's apartment and found the crumpled body of Angela Palmer in the electric oven
Police arrested the girl's mother, Cynthia Palmer, and her live in companion, John Lane. They were being held in the Androscoggin County jail yesterday.
Mail lost for year is recovered
WAYNESBURG, Pa. — When the folks in Waynesburg said "It's in the mail," they weren't lying. As many as 14,000 been in the mail — for more than a year.
The missing mail episode began around Aug. 2, 1983, when several trays of mail from Wynnesbury were shipped in a sack containing the bagging, said a Pittsburgh host office official.
But instead of going through the sorting process, the letters were sent to a storage area, where they were covered by empty mail sacks.
Compiled from United Press International reports.
NEW YORK — About 18,000 runners kick off the New York City Marathon at the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Orlando Pizzolato, 26, of Italy, won the marathon yesterday in 2:14:53. Grete Waitz, 31, of Norway, was the women's winner with a time of 2:29:30. After some early morning fog burned off, increasing heat and unusually high humidity plagued the race. A 48-year-old French runner, Jacques Busserea, collapsed and died as he approached the Queensborough Bridge, about 15 miles into the 26-mile course, police said.
Struggle for top posts may shake up Senate
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A five-way free-for-all for a leadership post and tight elections in Illinois and North Carolina could lead to significant changes in the Senate's top power structure even if Republicans retain control Nov. 6.
Five candidates want to succeed retiring Senate Republican leader Howard Baker, and possible losses by Sen. Jesse Helms, R.N.C., and Charles Percy, R-III, could lead to a shuffle of committee chairmen.
If the Democrats regain majority control, a prospect not considered as bright as earlier this year, veteran Democratic leader Robert Byrd and the committee chairmen deposed in the 1880 GOP coup would once again take over the Senate.
By virtue of seniority, Sen. Barry Gold water, R-Ariz., will succeed retiring Sen. John Tower, R-Texas, as chairman of the Armed Services committee.
ONE CHANGE ALREADY is certain if the
BREAKERS hang on to their majority.
The five announced candidates for the post of Senate Republican leader, who will be elected by secret ballot in a closed meeting late next month, are: Robert Dole of Kansas, James McClure of Richard Lagar of Indiana, James McClure of Halo and Pete Domenici of New Mexico.
The consensus, about a month before the voting, is that none has enough votes to win on the first ballot in the low-man-out field. It is the more second-round power than his rivals.
THE ELECTION OF Dole, McClure or Domenici would open up chairmanships, the selection of Lugar or Stevens would not certainly a consideration when the votes are cast.
Naming Dole or McClure could be painful for the Senate's conservative wing. Two liberals, Bob Packwood of Oregon and Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, would step in as chairmen of the Finance Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Nor does there seem to be a way for the conservatives to block either Weicker or Packwood that they did another liberal — Sen Charles Mathias, R.M.d., four years ago.
At that time, Sten. Srom Thurmond of South Carolina, who was the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, used his seniority on the Judiciary to chill that chairmanship, with Tower successor Daniel Kubrisky. Matias was effectively blocked out.
DOMENICI, WHO IS considered certain of re-election, as is Stevens, would be succeeded as Budget Committee chairman by Ben William Armstrong of Colorado, who will succeed the current chairman anything. Armstrong is considered somewhat more conservative than Domenici.
Percy and Helms are in the midst of the toughest re-election campaigns of their careers, and the defeat of both, or even one, would mean more changes at the top.
Helms is chairman of the Agriculture Committee, a post he has promised his North Carolina constituents he will retain — no matter what.
His defeat, however, would hand the chairmanship to Lugar, unless the Indiana senator wins the leadership post. In that event, the senior pecking order is: That Cochran of Mississippi, Rudolph Boeschwitt of Minnesota and Roger Jepsen of Iowa, all of whom are in various degrees of re-election troubles.
SHOULD ALL THREE HUE — an unlikely,
prospect — chairman would be Sen.
Pelosi.
Baboon-to-human heart transplant causes stir Animal-lovers protest 'torture' of operation
By United Press International
LOMA LINDA, Calif. — Animal rights activists, outraged by the transplant of a baboon's heart into the body of an infant girl at Loma Linda University Medical Center, yesterday picketed the hospital during a news conference.
About 15 demonstrators marched in front of the hospital. One carried a sign reading,
In earlier reports yesterday, several animal rights activists displaced the opera
"I hope someone at least prayed for that baboon," said Dr. Donald Doyle, a head and neck surgeon active in animal rights causes. "I know I will."
Javier Burges, head of a Pasadena group that opposes animal experiments, called the Office of Animal Experimentation.
Lacy Shellon, also involved with animal rights, said, "Instead of one death, now there will definitely be two — the baby and the baboon."
She said the doctors who performed the surgery Friday to save the life of the child, known only as Baby Fae, had killed a
"If this isn't child abuse, I don't know what is," she said.
perfectly healthy baboon in order to prolong the child's suffering.
Burgos, co-founder of Students United Protesting Painful Research Experiments on Sentient Subjects, or SUPPRESS, said that animal heart transplant recipients animal hearts into humans had failed.
"I hope it doesn't work," he said, "because if it does, they'll demolish baboons even more than they do now."
He said the medical establishment was acquiring a "spare parts mental."
"They think this is just like a Pontiac, and they can go out and repaint the carburator."
they can go out and replace the carburator. Shelton, coordinator for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said she was outraged by the transplant.
"We object to the senseless killing of the baboon. We object to the extreme suffering of the child." she said.
Doyle said that after reading of the operation, he wondered how the baboon was
"Obviously it died," he said. "The baboon is an organ garden and they harvested its heart."
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