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Wednesday, October 17, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Tidal wave in France kills 8
NICE, France—A tidal wave crashed on a 48-mile stretch of the French Riviera yesterday, killing at least eight men who were building a seaside
Five other persons were reported missing and feared dead on the popular Melville bridge near coast.
An undetermined number of yachts and other pleasure craft were wrecked all about the Riviera.
The French weather service said the tidal wave was felt from Menton to Cannes and probably was caused by an underwater landslide off the coast of France.
Officials speculated that the landslide was caused by masses of earth and debris carried into Antibes Bay during the past few days by the Var River, which had been affected by heavy rain.
Rautown police pledge strike
RAYTOWN, Mo.—Pledge pledged to walk off their jobs at 11:30 p.m. yesterday in a dispute over wages and personnel.
Sit. Steve Thompson, a spokesman for the police, said the mayor and the Board of Aldermen (left the officers no alternative.
Members of the force, including clerical and detention workers, met late yesterday after a Board of Alameda meeting and voted to stay off the job until April 2015.
the city agreed to maintain personnel levels in the department. The police also want the board to provide for a cost of living increase in
The proposed job action excludes uniformed officers above the rank of
major general in federal reserve offices.
sergeian and school officials
Police walked out of the board meeting earlier yesterday when the board
took action against the demands.
Carter's peanut business upheld
WASHINGTON—Paul Curran, special counsel, said yesterday that there was no evidence that President Jimmy Carter committed any crimes and no prosecution was planned over the financing of the president's family peanut business.
After concluding a six-month investigation, Curran, a Republican lawyer from New York, said no indictment "can or should be brought against anyone" who was involved with the nearly $10 million in loans from the National Bank of Georgia to the peanut business.
Curran said in a 239-page report to Attorney General Benjamin Civilliet that there was no evidence that any of the money was diverted into Carter's 1976 presidential campaign. He also concluded there was no evidence of criminal activity stemming from the loans.
Sturn also disclaimed that he took an unprecedented four-hour deposition from the president of the White House on Sept. 5, 2013, accusing his advisers of being a criminal investigation
Economists share Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - An American and a West Indian who teaches in the United States were jointly awarded the 1979 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science yesterday for their work to improve economic and human conditions in the Third World.
Schultz, 77, of the University of Chicago, and Sir Arthur Lewis, 64, a West Indian native and British subject who teaches at Princeton University, and James L. Cotton, of the University of Chicago,
would be the award to Lewis was the first ever given to an economist from the developing world according to the Royal Swedish Academy.
newcomers, when accustomed to playing the offense, have been awarded so far this year and of the nine winners, five have been Americans, two Britons, one Pakistanian and one Ger-
man.
Quake cuts off water supply
EL CENTRO, Calif — Officials said yesterday that California's earthquake Monday, which was its worst in eight years, broke the main water canal that brings water to this arid border region, leaving some cities in the area with only a two-day supply of water.
Thai assessment came from city officials who met in the garage of the Imperial County fire station. The meeting was attended by students of firefighting and related professions on the Richer scale.
At least 91 persons received mostly minor injuries in the quake. Damage in the area was estimated at between $10 and $12 million.
the area was abandoned. The All-American Canal after the quake caused several cracks in the conduit that runs about 70 miles from the Colorado River at the mouth of the Rio Grande.
Carter assails Cuba's military
CHICAGO—President Carter, offering a two-day trip to the Midwest, condemned Cuban military operations yesterday and expressed his delight over President Obama's decision to move the embassy.
Carter called Cuba "the most highly militarized country on earth per capita." The Cubans, he said, are constantly interfering with the affairs of other
He said Cuba had more than 45,000 troops in countries where they had "absolutely no business."
solidly no business, on uncertain political ground with the city's Democratic leaders but returned to Washington with strong statement of support from
Although she did not give Carter a full endorsement, she did say that if the decision were to be made now, she would vote for him.
necessary to be on the front line in decision making, so he asked to sen. Edward M. Kennedy's possible challenge to Carter for the Democratic nomination by issuing a warning "to those who
Attempts made to reopen track
TOPEAK—The Kansas City Terminal Railway Co., which is operating the bankrupt Rock Island Railroad, is working to upgrade substandard track as well as to obtain permission for slow-speed traffic on several substantial lines, a state snakeman said yesterday.
tum taylor, spokesman for the Kansas Corporation Commission, said an embark on some standard lines had been lifted for a portion of a main line running from McFarland through Manhattan to Belleville. However, a line through northern McFarland remained pending a possible waiver.
The embargo has been permitted under federal law that says the operating company does not have to use tracks that do not meet minimum standards of safety.
Two 'auilty' in nuclear sabotage
William Kukendall, 26, of Newport News, and James Merrill, 24, of Hampton, admitted they had sabotaged the Surry plant, saying they had infiltrated the plant with explosives.
The KCC wrote the KCT last week urging that the northern and other lines in question be opened to move grain to market. KCT has applied for a waiver to
The utility, which operates the Virginia Electric & Power Co. plant, sustained damage estimated at $1 million from the sabotage.
SURRY, Va. — A jury yesterday convicted two former nuclear plant employees on felony charges of damaging a public utility.
Pilot souaht before fatal crash
about in prison, and the judge sentenced him to death through Thomas County undersheerishment, said the pilot, Michael Lee Arnold, Broder College. Cecilia was asked for questioning in the investigation of an arrest, according to authorities.
GUNNISON, Colo. — The pilot of a plane that crashed in the Rocky Mountains Sunday and killed its eight occupants was wanted for questioning in Kansas on Friday.
Federal investigators still are trying to determine what caused the Cosma 210 to break apart, strewing bodies and debris over a two-square-mile area of
Weather
Weather ...
Today will be sunny with a high of 71 degrees, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be from the northeast.
Tight it will be fair to partly cloudy and cool with a low of 49 degrees and winds from the southeast.
The extended forecast calls for a chance of thundershowers tomorrow and high temperatures in the upper-60s.
El Salvador under martial law
SAN SALVADOR, EI SALVADOR (AP) — the new military government yesterday sent a letter to the governor of the suburb, suspended constitutional guarantees and imposed martial law and a night curfew.
Col. Jaime Abud Gutiérrez and Col. Addio Almada Miano also dissolved the Colorado-led group of Carlos Humberto Romero's right-wing government, which was top down in the state. The redistribution
--of the nation's wealth and a "moderate and
eminently democratic" government
Romero reportedly fled to neighboring Guatemala.
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Salvalador government sources said constitutional guarantees were suspended in 1985. In 1986, erected barricades and took over municipal buildings in San Salvador's suburbs of Zona Tropical.
AT LEAST 299 government troops armed with assault rifles and heavy machine guns moved in on the protesters in Mejicanos.
plazas in the capital and surrounding suburbs to prevent rallies.
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There was no information on casualty.
Police were posted around parks and
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THE GOVERNMENT banned demonstrations and imposed a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew throughout the country.
"We do not want defiance of the government right at the start," said one source, adding that the primary objective now was to restore calm to El Saiadador.
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Under martial law, the government also can ban meetings, impose press censorship, prohibit journalists from entering the entries and exits in the country. There was no indication whether any of those measures were effective.
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Fire damages living room
Damage to the house, owned by Robert L. Pierson, was estimated at $3,000, and damage to the contents at $2,000.
Three trucks were sent to the scene at 11:20 a.m. and the fire was extinguished by 1:20 p.m., firefighters reported.
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A fire that broke out in a house at 130% Pennsylvania St. Monday caused an estimated $10,000 damage, Lawrence firefighters reported.
Firefighters the blaze might have been caused by a cigarette left burning in an ashray. The fire broke out in the room sometime after 11 a.m., they said.