University Daily Kansan, October 16, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
Sky no longer the limit on phone calls
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Passengers on commercial jetliners yesterday were able for the first time to make calls to cities nationwide from on-board pay phones as they flew across the United States.
Calls made from the airborne phone booths, initially available on 20 mostly wide-body planes operated by five major airlines, will cost $7.50 for the first three minutes and $1.25 for each additional minute. But for the first week or so, passengers will be allowed to make calls for free.
To place a call to anywhere in the domestic United States, Alaska and Hawaii, passengers insert a major credit card into the base unit on the phone. Then, after the call is approved, they can take the cordless
phone back to their seats or to other spots in the aircraft to talk for up to 45 minutes.
Market studies predict 20 percent of passengers will use the phones, and the service is expected to expand rapidly.
"IT'S ABOUT THE SAME size as a regular pay phone, but a little smaller — a very neat box," said Fred Noble of Airline Inc. of Oak Brook, Ill., the company providing the equipment to the airlines.
The service, which uses radio waves and requires two small antennas on the underside of the planes, at first will make only outgoing calls, although incoming calls are technically possible.
has two phones in first class on three of its L1011 jumbo jets and expects to soon have up to four phones per plane.
"If public response is good and the demand is there, we'll keep putting them on all our planes." said Berry of DLA Airlines, which now
AL BECKER, A spokesman for American Airlines, which has two phones on three of its DC-10s, said the airline planned to phase in 80 during the next year.
Northwest, Republic and Trans World Airlines also had pay phones available to the public yesterday, and United was conducting equipment tests. Noble said 200 phones were needed for the next year, adding that Pan American, Air One, Eastern and other airlines also have contracted to install the phones.
Airforce, a joint venture of Western Union Corp. and Goeken Communications Inc., is the only company now supplying the service, which has been approved by the Federal
Communications Commission on an experimental basis. Permanent approval is expected next year.
PRIVATE PLANES HAVE had phone service for many years, but pay phones were never before available on commercial flights. Competition to provide the service is expected sometime soon.
The FCC has already approved an application by Air Inc. of Annapolis, Md. Another company, Millicom, is awaiting the go-ahead.
Noble said Airfone had spent more than $20 million on the service, which picks up the phone calls from the aircraft at one of 39 ground stations nationwide. The calls are then completed through the local phone systems or over traditional long-distance telephone lines. The system can now handle more than 300 simultaneous calls.
LBJ aide sides with Westmoreland in CBS suit
By United Press International
NEW YORK Walt Rostow, President Johnson's national security adviser, yesterday denied a CBS account of a 1967 White House meeting in which Gen William Westmoreland was quoted as saying the United States was winning the Vietnam War.
Bostow testified in West-
moreland's $120 million lion suit
against CBS that the intelligence
community was unprepared for the
Viet Cong's Jan. 30, 1968, Tet
offensive, despite indications of "massive infiltration" on the trails into South Vietnam.
one Tel offensive, while a major defeat for the Viet Cong, was a major psychological blow to South Vietnam namese and American war effort.
MUCH OF THE afternoon's testimony was critical of CBS' 1982 program, "The Uncounted Enemy; A Vietnam Deception," which led to the program being shut down. The program said Westmoreland had led about enemy troop strength.
Court was adjourned about 6 p.m until 10 a.m. today.
The Viet Cong's army, he (West-
moreland) said, had leveled off at
285,000 men. And best of all, he told
the president (Johnson), the long
awaited crossover point had been
reached.
In most of yesterday's testimony, Westmoreland's attorney, D Burant, focused on the 1967 meeting in the White House Cabin Room attended by Rostow. He read from the transcript of the program in which CBS correspondent Mike Wallace characterized the meeting:
could be put back in the field. We were winning the war of attrition." Burt asked Rostow if Wallace's comments were true.
"NOT IN MY memory," said Rostow, now a professor at the University of Texas in Austin Heaven. "It's great to be starting much larger U.S., troops into Vietnam."
Rostow said Westmoreland told the meeting the war would last another five years at the current attrition rate, but would last "probably only two years with greater forces"
Westmoreland sought 200,000 more men.
Grandson charged in comatose woman's death
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — A grandson was charged yesterday in the suspected mercy killing of his comatose grandmother, found with a butcher knife protruding from her chest in a hospital intensive care unit.
Cardell Shelton, 29, surrendered to detectives after contacting the homicide squad, a police statement said. He was charged with first-degree murder in the death of his grandmother, Selena Toye, 44.
knife in her chest before dawn Sunday, minutes after a man identifying himself as Toye's grandson visited the woman. Toye had been admitted to the hospital center in July for a heart ailment.
Joseph Schwartz said Sunday night that a mercy killing was "the only motive we have. Why else would she kill a 84-year old woman in a hospital?"
There were no other suspects.
Although a motive was not disclosed yesterday, homicide detective
The Washington Hospital Center said the woman suffered a single wound.
Surgeons failed to save her during a 90-minute emergency operation.
A nurse found the woman with the
scandal.
"She must affirm that (she's) always been a female," Marks said.
Williams, 21, of Millwood, N.Y.
was forced to step down in July after Penthouse magazine an-
nouncement that he had explicit photographs of her with another woman in its September issue.
"There's nothing in there about (nude photographs)." he said. "That's one of the things you can't stipulate, because you have to judge every case individually."
The changes will be reflected in a contract that must be signed by every contestant in all pages of the game and then to the local level, Marks said.
One clause prohibits transsexuals.
The revisions will not specifically prohibit posing nude for photographs.
Regulations for pageant may change
READING FOR COMPREHENSION AND SPEED
"We're tightening up the language, rather than stipulating things. Marry me and you are very pity of mankind or womankind, you never stop."
the pageant officials were shaken this year by the abdication of Vanessa Williams, Miss America 1984, because she posed for sexually explicit photos with another woman that were published in Penthouse magazine, and the disclosure that a contestant in this year's pageant pleaded no contest to shoplifting.
By United Press International
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Future Miss America contestants may have to swear they are not transsexuals, but will not have to promise that they never posed for nude photographs, the pageant chairman said yesterday.
(six hours of instruction.)
Pageant officials were considering new rules and the changes were expected to be adopted in a few weeks, said Albert Marks.
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