September 6, 1984 Page 2
NATION AND WORLD
The University Daily
KANSAN
Marshals seek cult leader for information on guns
YELLLILLE, Ark. — Federal marshals began a manhunt yesterday for the leader of an armed racist religious cult to question him about the purchase of guns found in the possession of another man accused of killing an Arkansas state trooper.
trooper
Jim Ellison, spiritual leader of The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, is wanted for ignoring last week's subpoena from an Oklahoma grand jury investigating trooper's death.
The Johnson County sheriff's office had been ordered to evict the group by Tuesday from its 224-acre wilderness encampment north of Yellville near the Missouri border because it had defaulted on a $75,000 mortgage.
Car bomb kills four in Beirut
BEIRUT. Lebanon — Assassins detonated 155 pounds of explosives packed in a Mercedes Benz as former prime minister Selim Hoss passed by in a Buick yesterday. At least four people were killed and 25 wounded, but Hoss survived the blast.
blast.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed Hoss's driver, two police escorts on motorcycles and a 64-year-old woman tenant of an apartment building, a police report said.
Hoss, 54, is a Sunni Muslim and the current Education Minister.
It was the first fatal car bombing in the Lebanese capital since July 4.
Gave's father to stand trial
LOS ANGELES — The father of slain soul singer Marvin Gaye was ordered yesterday to stand trial on charges he killed his son in a violent dispute at their South Los Angeles home.
Marvin Gay Sr., 70, was ordered to be arraigned in Superior Court Sept. 20. The Grammany-winning entertainer was shot through the heart during an argument with his father April 1. The elder Gay remains free on bail.
Gay has pleaded not guilty, claiming in an interview that he fired the gun in self-defense during an argument with his son, but that he thought the weapon was loaded with blanks.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansas incorrectly reported yesterday that the first subdivision of the University Corporate and Research Park was at the intersection of West 15th Street and Lawrence Avenue. The subdivision is at the intersection of West 15th Street and Wakarusa Drive.
United Press International
PORTLAND, Ore. — Democratic presidential candidate Walter Mondale and his running mate Geraldine Ferraro don raincoats as Oregon greets them with typical weather — rain. Mondale and Ferraro addressed an enthusiastic crowd of 1,500 supporters who endured a steady rain to greet them yesterday.
United Press International
Mondale will initiate arms talks, if elected
By United Press International
Walter Mondale took his foreign policy and defense plans to a political lions' den yesterday, and said if elected president, he would call on the Soviet Union to join him in arms control negotiations within six months.
As Monday spoke bluntly about the danger of nuclear war at the American Legion national convention in Salt Lake City, President Reagan told a conference in Chicago that the United States had regained hope and moved toward restoration of old values under his leadership.
The vice presidential candidates also were on the road in the middle of the first week of all-out campaigning. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro remained on the West Coast to appear with Mondale later in the day in Portland, Ore.
CAMPAIGNING IN PADUCAH, Ky. Vice President George Bush responded to Monta'le's vow to call Soviet leaders as soon as he was inaugurated, by saying, "Let him try."
At a news conference, Bush said, "Maybe they (the Soviets) would negotiate if Mondale plans to eliminate the MX missile, the B1 pumper, and pushes for a nuclear freeze."
Monday said Reagan was the first president since Herbert Hoover not to meet with Soviet leaders, and added: "The issue is whether he has set on a course toward peace and a safer world. In my judgment, he has not."
He even makes jokes about nuclear war,"
Mondale said, "But nuclear war is not funny."
Mondale said negotiations were vital for world survival.
"Every day we fail to open negotiations with the Soviets is another day we slip toward Armageddon." he said.
If he were elected, he said, he would "declare a temporary moratorium and challenge the Soviets to join us."
"I AM ANNOUNCING NOW that on the very first day as president, I will call on the Soviet leadership to meet me within six months in Geneva for fully prepared, substantive negotiations to freeze the arms race and to begin cutting back the stockpiles of nuclear weapons." Mondale said.
In his Legion speech, Mondale outlined his defense program, including asking allies to carry a heavier burden, shifting from nuclear to conventional forces, reforming the Joint Chief of Staffs and improving Pentagon management.
Monday was interrupted several times by polite applause. He spoke to about half of the 7,000 delegates and guests who applauded Reagan Tuesday.
Reagan used his Chicago appearance to argue that economic recovery rather than increased taxes would reduce federal deficits, but primarily concentrated on the improvement in the national state of mind since 1980.
FOUR YEARS AGO, he said, "it seemed to many that America's well finally had run dry from a philosophy of bigger and bigger government."
Shuttle return puts program on track, NASA savs
By United Press International
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — With the national anthem booming over loud speakers. America's third space shuttle made a flawless landing yesterday and put the space program back on track
"I think only in America can we make things like this happen," said mission commander Henry Hartsfield.
continuation.
Discovery flashed out of an orange sunrise and took its six-member crew to a smooth touchdown after a six-day orbital voyage that covered 2.49 million miles, clearing the way for a shuttle launch a month for the rest of this year.
HARTSFIELD, CO-PILOT Michael Coats and crew members Judy Resnik, KU alumnus Steven Hawley, Richard Mullane
and Charles Walker bounded triumphantly out of the shuttle, got a quick medical checkup and flew to Houston.
checkup and new to the field.
They brought back a secret hormone purified and concentrated in weightlessness by a commercial biological processor. The material was flown to St. Louis in a stainless steel vat for initial processing
steel汽 for initial procurement. Walker, who operated the medicine maker for McDonnell Douglas, thanked the National Aeronautics and Space Administration "for a tremendous opportunity to see what we as humanity can do out there."
humidity can do little.
Left in space were three communications satellites, the most ever launched on a single shuttle mission. Each was reported working normally in its proper orbit. The satellites were the first launched by a shuttle since the double failure of two similar satellites last February because of rocket trouble.
BEFORE LEAVING THE base where 10 of 12 shuttle missions have ended, the six space fliers thanked NASA and Air Force workers for their support.
"I'd just like to thank everybody for the opportunity I just had to have the experience of a lifetime," said Coats. "Flying a space shuttle is just an incredible experience."
Mullane said, "It's just a super vehicle and it performed superly."
Discovery returned from space showing the discoloration of its fiery dive into the atmosphere, but was reported in "beautiful" condition by Jesse Moore, associate NASA administrator for space flight.
administrator to space. "I just can't say enough about this magnificent flying machine," Moore said after the 8:38 a.m. landing.
This flight brings us on back to schedule again so that starting in October, we will
essentially be launching once a month through the rest of the year."
THE TWO SATELLITE failures in February disrupted the program, and then June's unprecedented launch pad fizzle for Discovery added to the problem. The aborted flight forced NASA to combine the June mission with what was to have been Discovery's second mission this month.
Two of the three satellites launched by Discovery used rockets identical to the two that failed in February Moore said this "gives us all confidence" in the rocket motors.
Discovery's veteran sistership. Challenger, is scheduled to take off from Cape Canavaler, Fla., Oct. 1 on the next shuttle mission. Discovery is to fly again Nov. 2.