University Daily Kansan, October 9, 1984
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NATION AND WORLD
Alabama wins prize for music
By United Press International
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The country-rock group Alabama won the Entertainer of the Year Award for an unprecedented third straight time last night to become country music's all-time top award winners.
Alabama was also nominated for top album, vocal group and instrumental group of the year.
The group's members, Jeff Cook, Teddy Gentry, Randy Owens and Mark Herdon lost in three other categories, but the Country Music Association's top honor brought their total to nine CMA awards.
Canadian singer Anne Murray was the only double winner during the 90 minute show as the industry passed out honors in recognition of styles ranging from hillbilly-country to ticker crossover productions.
Murray's "A Little Good News" was voted best album and best single by the 7,500 voting members of the CMA
"It's only taken me 14 years to get it in my fat little hands," she said, clutching the first of her bullet-shaped crystal trophies. "It feels pretty good."
receiving the second.
Lee Greenwood won Male Vocalist of the Year for the second time in a row, and newcomer Reba McEntire broke down in tears when she won Female Vocalist.
The Statler Brothers were named Vocal Group of the Year for the tenth time "Wind Beneath My Wings" was named 1984's best song, and the Ricky Skaggs' Band received the Instrumental Group Award for the second time running. Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias were voted Vocal Duo and Chet Atkins won the best instrumentalist for the seventh time.
The Judds, a mother and daughter team who describe themselves as "two red-headed country girls," are the most important for rising stars in the industry.
--down the Custer County Courthouse. The riots were protesting a man-slaughter charge against a white man for killing an Indian.
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--down the Custer County Courthouse. The riots were protesting a man-slaughter charge against a white man for killing an Indian.
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--down the Custer County Courthouse. The riots were protesting a man-slaughter charge against a white man for killing an Indian.
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CUSTER, S.D. — Circuit Judge Marshall Young yesterday sentenced American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks to three years in the South Dakota penitentiary, nine years after his conviction on riot and assault charges.
During a pre-sentencing hearing earlier yesterday Banks' attorney, William Kunstler, asked Young to place the Indian leader on parole for the conviction, which carried a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison.
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In a memorandum filed at Banks' pre-sentence hearing, Künstler said the judge had the opportunity to teach racial harmony in South Dakota.
"IT WOULD BE A monstrous tragedy and the punishment out of all
Indian fugitive sent to prison
"WOMEN IN ISLAM"
Means noted that he was convicted of more serious crimes than Banks in the Custer County break-in. He said he originally was charged with seven felony counts but plea bargained his sentence counts to just 30 days in jail.
Kunstler also filed 15 statements of support for Banks from various individuals, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and singer Harry Belafonte.
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Banks has been held without bond in the Pennington County Jail since Sept. 13, when he surrendered in Rapid City and ended an odyssey that took him to Alaska and then to the Onondaga Indian Reservation in upstate New York.
proportions if Dennis Banks were sent to jail by this court," he said. "Now the court has the remarkable difference between racial harmony in South Dakota."
Place: International Room, Kansas Room Time: 7:30 p.m., Tues., Oct. 9, 1984
Before a brief recess, six character witnesses testified on Banks' behalf, including fellow American Indian Movement leader Russell Means.
Leaders of Disney strike arrested
"Sometimes, somewhere the leadership of the state has to start a new relationship with the Indian people." Means said.
After the brief hearing, Kunstler began calling his second round of character witnesses. The 45-seat courtroom was packed and dozens of supporters, including Buddhisthi drums, drums, outside the building
By United Press International
He still faces a federal charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution
BANKS, 47. FLED SOUTH Dakota after his 1975 conviction. He was convicted of riot and assault charges resulting from a 1973 attempt to burn
ANAMEIM, Calif — Five leaders of striking Disneyland employees and an AFL-CIO official from Washington were arrested yesterday as a group of 150 union pickets violated a court order to stay out of the Magic Kingdom.
"willful violation" of a court order and released pending arraignment Nov. 5.
One of the suspects was identified as Jeff Fiedler, an official with the Food & Allied Service Trades department of the AFL-CIO in Washington who recently left to Southern California to help with the strike.
The strikers, some pushing baby strollers, marched into the parking lot shortly after the amusement park opened for Columbus Day, greeting
patrons near ticket booths at the main entrance.
Disneyland officials, carrying copies of last week's court order prohibiting such activity, tried unauthorized pass out the documents to stifler.
Six union leaders who stayed behind were arrested by police for
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shouting slogans like "Disneyland unfair" and "We want a contract." were directed off park premises by union leaders about 10 minutes before police arrived
ALSO ARRESTED WERE Bob Gable, chief negotiator for the striking unions and secretary treasurer of United Food and Commercial Workers local.
By United Press International
Red Cross says drug may have AIDS taint
WASHINGTON - The American Red Cross said yesterday it was recalling 1,900 bottles of a blood-clotting agent used by hemophiliacs because of possible contamination by a plasma donor who may have AIDS.
Scientists have linked spread of the disease to intimate sexual contact, blood transfusions and contaminated
hypodermic needles. The link is only statistical, however, no direct evidence has been found. Most AIDS men are homosexual and bisexual men.
THE RECALL AFFECTS bottles shipped to 12 Red Cross blood distribution centers nationwide anduerto Rico over the past $2^{th}$ months.
Friday after one of 20,000 donors whose plasma was used to produce 1,931 bottles of the Antibemophilic Factor, or AHF, was diagnosed as having symptoms of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, officials said.
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