September 19, 1984
NATION AND WORLD
Page 2
The University Daily KANSAN
Balloonist breaks ankle, sets his sights on Pacific
MONTENOTte DI CAIRO. Italy — Joe Kittinger ended the first solo trans-Atlantic balloon flight in a clump of trees on the Italian Rivera yesterday and was whisked to a hospital with a broken ankle in Miami — “Why not the Pacific Ocean now?”
Court upholds Abscam ruling
"Hello baby, we did it," the balloonist from Orlando, Fla., told his girlfriend, Sherry Reed, moments later he was doused with champagne by his flight crew and loaded into a helicopter to be flown to a hospital in Nice, France.
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court yesterday upheld the Abscams conviction of former Rep. John Jennette, D.S.C., for taking a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as Arabs seeking special favors.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, voting 30; said Jenrette "exhibited a willingness to commit illegal acts," and rejected arguments that he was entrapped into taking the bribe from bogus Arabs.
The court also rejected Jennette's claim that the FHI undercover Absam operation was so outrageous that his conviction made the money should be overturned.
United Press International
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A grand jury will investigate the alcohol poisoning death of an American International College freshman after a fraternity "spaghetti ritual" pledge dinner, officials said yesterday.
Assistant Hampden County District Attorney William W. Tehan Jr. said he expected the case would be presented to a Hampden County grand jury next month.
James F Lenaghan Jr., 19, of Waterton, died Feb. 23 in the Zeta Chi fraternity house after participating in a "spaghetti ritual," during which students drink wine and eat large amounts of spaghetti, vomit and continue eating.
Man plays courier to the dead
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A terminally ill cancer patient says he has been deluged with calls from people responding to his offer to deliver messages to the dead for $20.
"The response I'm getting — well, I'm way over my head," says the patient. Ken McAvoy, who is suffering from a malignant brain tumor that his doctor says will probably kill him the end of the year
McAvey said he was guaranteeing in writing that he would locate deceased loved ones after his own death and "spiritually deliver" the messages
Compiled from United Press Interna-
tional retros.
NEW YORK — Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko arrived at Kennedy International Airport to begin a visit that
will include meetings with President Reagan and Walter Mondale. Gromyko yesterday was to address the United Nations General Assembly.
Gromyko arrives in U.S. for talks
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromykov arrived in New York yesterday under heavy security for a visit that will include an address to the U.N. General Assembly and meetings with President Reagan and Walter Mondale.
Gromyko arrived on a special Aeroflot flight from Moscow at Kennedy International Airport Anatoly Dobrynin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, and Oleg Trovanovsky, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, boarded the plane to greet
A 10-car motorcade then whisked Gromov to the Soviet UN mission in Manhasset.
The foreign minister made no comment at the airport
candidate, and George Shultz, secretary of state, before traveling to Washington for talks with Reagan the next day.
Gromyko will meet Sept. 27 in New York with Mondale, Democratic presidential
Mondale pledged to be tough in his talks with Gromyko and vowed not to attempt to conduct foreign policy on behalf of the president.
"I want that meeting to be successful, as do all Americans." Monday said yesterday.
Gromyko was expected to visit the United Nations in time for the assembly's general debate. The debate is scheduled to follow an interview with Reagan to the 30th session on Monday.
Gromyko was to address the General Assembly yesterday as head of the Soviet delegation to the three-month political session. He has spoken to the assembly almost every year since he assumed his post in 1967
Diplomatic sources think Gromyko will focus on the U.S-Soviet relationship and will seek to strengthen ties.
has done in the past without fail.
Gromyko's return to New York was marked by effort from both Washington and Moscow to revive U.S.-Soviet relations, which dropped to a low since the Soviets walked out of the intermediate nuclear weapons talks in Geneva last year.
Mondale said that it was pretty pathetic that Reagan was not meeting with his Soviet counterpart, Konstantin Chernenko, but the president well in his talks with Gromykov.
Reagan said yesterday that he had invited the Soviet official to the White House to ease suspicion and hostility and secure a safer environment by controlling nuclear weapons proliferation.
In an address Monday, Mondale said, "I cannot help but think of the needless baggage Mr Reagan brings to that meeting — a bag full of names calling name calling to hair raising joke telling.
Crew seized by U.S.S.R. may be freed
By United Press International
MOSCOW — The skipper of an American supply ship seized by Soviet authorities a week ago said yesterday he and his four crewmen would be freed soon, even though he refused to sign a paper saying he deliberately entered Soviet waters.
"They've told us we're going home in the next couple days and we believe we are," Tab Thoms told United Press International. "We're still here in town where the Americans were being held."
A State Department spokesman in Washington said a Coast Guard cutter had been dispatched to rendezvous with a Soviet ship and pick up the five men. He said the U.S. ship should reach the rendezvous point sometime today.
Though the ship was seized last Wednesday, U.S. officials were not advised until Friday. The State Department probed Navy officials for forming Washington of the men's detention
Thoms, 25, said the conditions at the building where he and his colleagues were being held were bad but that the men were basically "okay."
"We are all Christians and we believe God sent us for a reason, possibly to learn," he said.
Thoms denied that his ship, the Frieda K. was in Soviet water when it was boarded last Wednesday by Soviet soldiers armed with guns and knives.
The Frieda K. was boarded after it pulled up to another ship in the Bering Strait to inquire how to avoid reefs that surround the ship. The ship turned out to be a Soviet warship. The ship turned out to be a Soviet warship.
"I checked out my navigation equipment, which showed I was in U.S. waters, but they the Soviets) wanted me to sign a paper saying I was here and not here," he said. "But we've been taught never to sign anything we don't understand."
He said he has resisted pressure to sign the paper — written in Russian and presented to him for his signature. The five seamen, from Homer, Alaska, and their vessel were seized by Soviet authorities in the Bering Strait which separates Alaska from the United States. He is also said to deliver fuel, water and other supplies to Point Lay, above the Arctic Circle.
The boat was returning to Nome where it was last heard from "well within American waters in the Chukchi Sea." U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Mike Hiley said in
The crewmen are the captain's brother, Tate Thoms, Mark Halpin, Robert Miller and Charlie Burrall.
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