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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 37 (USPS 650-640)
BEEF BEEF BEEF
Mild Details page 3.
State troopers find 2 inmates after car chase
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Two men who escaped from the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing on Friday were captured yesterday afternoon in Wabauseen County and by 6:50 p.m. were back in the Lansing prison, a prison spokesman said yesterday.
The men, Randy Lynn Mahlandi, 26, Mulvane, and Rickie Cagle, 35, Farmington, Ark., were apprehended by Kansas Highway Patrol officers who trooper spotted the stolen car they were driving, prison officials said.
Sgt. Larry Fox, Kansas Highway Patrol, said he was driving on Interstate 70 about 3 p.m. yesterday when he heard a radio dispatch about a stolen car.
"The sheriff's office in Oksaloosa said some people had been tied up, and the suspects had stolen their car," he said. "They gave the description of the car and the license number."
"They had no sooner finished the report than I saw the car."
Fox said the car was westbound on I-70 in Shawnee County near the Wabaunsee County line.
The trooper said he called in his position and followed the car off the road.
Fox was driving a car that didn't have lights on top, and he said he didn't think the convicts recognized him as a trooper until he turned a corner and exposed the shield on the side of his car.
"The speed picked up a little then, but we were driving over bad country roads, so we're not going too fast. We were keeping the car on the road," he said.
The chase continued over the rural roads in both Shawnee and Wabaunse Counties, Fox said. On Keene Road, about 1 ½ miles from I-70 in Wabause County, the men stopped the car and ran east through a field and partially wooded area.
Fox was in the search by Capt. Terry Scott, Sgt. Bud Stewart and Trooper Dave Bogina of the Kansas Highway Patrol. Trooper Kerry Zimmerman was flying a highway patrol airplane overhead. Fox said
Trooper Zimmerman saw the men from the air, and reported their position.
"They were pretty close to where we'd been walking," Fox said. "We'd seen two big buck deer run out of an area with three trees, and thought we'd better find out what scared them."
"We walked over and, one at a time, about 30 seconds apart, they both stood up and raised their hands. They surrendered to us."
After the arrest, the highway patrol officers were joined by officers from the Shawnee County Sheriff's Department and the Wabaunsee County Sheriff's Department.
The prisoners then were taken to the Shawnee County jail, he said.
Jefferson County Sheriff's officers reported the convicts had stolen the car from a couple living near McLouth.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
The men broke into the home of 81-year-old John Willitts and his wife, Dorothy, 75. The escapes entered the couple's farmhouse at about 1:10 a.m. Tuesday, cut the phone lines and tied the couple up, a sheriff's officer said.
The men left without hurting the couple, she said.
They took a 22 caliber automatic rifle some money and a green and white gun.
After about an hour, the couple freed themselves, drove to a relative's house in McLouth, and reported the incident.
See ESCAPE, p. 5, col. 1
Student coaches Steve Aleman, Hutchinson senior, and Sarah Duckers, ball practice. Their team won, 73-70, this morning. A crowd of about 6,000 Salina graduate student, urge the white team on at a special Jayhawk basket watched the practice, the first of the season.
Brown takes seat as students coach
By Chris Lazzarino Sports editor
The Kansas basketball team held its biggest practice session of the century early this morning, and 6,000 screaming students were there to be a part of it.
The festivities began shortly before midnight, with the KU kep band providing the fanfare. The
"students sang the "National Anthem" like they've never sung it before, the "Alma Mater" was actually accompanied with its lyrics and the "Rock Chalk Chant!" rocked.
Screams of "Hit it!" came a bit early, and there were few alumni there to silently chastise the overzealous students for "ruining" their ancient cheer.
The exclusive seats along the side of the court were distributed in a fair and just manner. First I come, first served.
On this night, the student was king.
Finally, the clock struck midnight. It was Oct. 15. The basketball season had officially arrived.
came in all shapes and sizes, much to the appreciation of the crowd.
The players ran onto the court amid fanatical cheers. Slam dunks
After the slams and jams were over, it was time to get down to business. A scrimmage of 40 minutes was set to begin, but head coach Larry Brown was not coaching.
On this night, the coach was
See BASKETBALL, p. 5, col. 3
Yugoslavia considers request for leader
United Press International
Inmates want hijackers moved
Yugoslavia said yesterday that it would soon answer a U.S. extradition request for the Palestinian accused of masterminding the Achille Lauro hijacking, although he reportedly left the country. Meanwhile, the body of an elderly man — perhaps the American reported slain by the pirates — washed onto the Syrian coast.
In Rome, Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi said Italy allowed Palestinian Liberation Organization official Mohammed Abbas to leave that country despite U.S. objections because Abbas held an Iraqi diplomatic passport and was immune from prosecution.
The four men accused of hijacking the Italian luxury liner and killing Leon Klinghoffer, 69, as the ship was off the Syrian coast were transferred last night to an unidentified maximum-security prison in Italy.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Daniel Lawler said, "Syrian authorities have discovered the body of an elderly man washed up by the sea on the Syrian coast near Aleppo and are now trying to identify the body."
It was near Tartus on Oct. 8 that the pirates allegedly shot Klinghofer, a stroke victim confined to a
United Press International
SYRACUSE, Sicily — Some 220 small-time criminals in the prison holding the four Palestinian hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro fear a terrorist assault on the convent-turned-jail, officials said yesterday.
The prison, a 17th-century building converted from a minery in 1854, stands virtually unprotected in the middle of it.
Two prisoners, acting on behalf of the rest of the local prison population, met with warden Carmelo Giulli to tell him that they were worried about an attack to free the hilackers.
"Be calm," Guili responded. "We hope they'll take them away soon."
Despite extraordinary security measures ordered for the hijackers, relatives of local prisoners also were worried about the possibility of an assault on the jail. "The prisoners here are chicken thieves," said one
relative, using an Italian phrase that means petty criminals. "Put them together with those kamikaze and something has to happen."
The prison has a history of escapes. Just 10 days before the hijackers were placed there, a prisoner serving a two-month sentence succeeded in fleeing but later was recaptured.
Reporters who took up positions outside the jail the day the hijackers were transferred from Sigonella military base outside Catania, Sicily, said initial concern at the prison was "like a coander."
The tour hijackers, thought to be jailed in a single cell either in or near the women's section, are being watched around the clock by a special detail of 10 agents, prison officials said.
Security quickly improved.
All 72 regular prison guards are on duty and are not allowed to leave the premises, officials said.
wheelchair, then dumped his body and wheelchair into the Mediterranean.
The hijackers face Italian charges in the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, seized off the Eygptian coast Oct. 7.
"We have not identified the body ourselves," Lawler said. "We were told (Sunday) the Syrians saw the body and they thought it might be Leon Klinghoffer."
by the Justice Department, contained evidence including transcripts of ship-to-shore conversations "allegedly indicating direct involvement of Abbas with the kidnappers."
In Rome, Craxi told an emergency Cabinet meeting called to discuss the Oct. 7 hijacking that the Egyptian plane carrying Abbas and the four hijackers was on an "official mission."
tradite Abbas, but Yugoslavia did not respond yesterday and the PLO said Abbas had left the country.
Abbas was in Italy with the hijackers last week when the warrant was issued, but he was allowed to fly to Yugoslavia. Washington in turn asked Yugoslavia to arrest and ex-
Abbas, leader of the Palestine Liberation Front, a PLO splinter
CBS News reported last night that a warrant for Abass's arrest, released
group loyal to PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, was on an Egyptian airliner with the four Achille Lauro bijackers when it was intercepted by U.S. warplanes and forced to land in Sicily on Friday.
"Abu Abbas was the holder of an 'Iraq diplomatic passport,' Craxi said. "The plane was on an official mission, considered covered by Islamic immunity and extraterritorial status in the air and on the ground."
"Abbas was just passing through Yugoslavia on his trip out of Italy," said the official, who would not comment on Abbas' destination.
An official at the PLO office in Lagos said Abbas already had left Nigeria.
Abbas' departure could not be independently confirmed. CBS News, which interviewed Abbas on Sunday, interviewed him again yesterday in Belgrade. Abbas again insisted that he would not connect with the hijacking.
State Department officials had no confirmation of reports that Abbas had traveled to South Yemen. But a department official dealing with the matter noted that since there were no U.S. diplomatic relations or an extradition treaty with that country, the chances for extraditing Abbas would be nil.
AIDS policy pigeonholed for now by officials
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Although other colleges and universities are making policies regarding students and faculty who might have AIDS, KU officials said yesterday that the University does not yet need such a policy.
Administrators say move is not necessary
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said there was no indication of an AIDS problem at the University of Kansas.
He said no policy would be made until medical experts knew more about the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus and had conclusive evidence about how it could be transmitted.
A policy would be made only if professionals saw a potential threat to public health, he said. Then adhoc plans would act on the professionals' advice.
Ambler said students' rights could be violated if restrictions were placed on AIDS patients before health officials know more about the disease.
James Strobli, director of student health services at Watkins Hospital, said health service officials would pass on to administrators any
government recommendations. The government has no such recommendations right now.
Strobli quoted a hospital statement paraphrased from a United States Public Health Service statement: "Although the AIDS virus has been found in saliva, there have been no cases in which exposure was shown to result in transmission.
"Ambulance drivers, police and firefighters who have assisted AIDS patients have not become ill. Nurses, doctors and health care personnel
have not developed AIDS from caring for the AIDS patients."
He said AIDS policies were not the focus of the conference but would probably be discussed.
Strobl he said and two other health service officials were going to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wednesday for a conference of health officials from Big Eight schools.
Miller said, "If the crisis hits Lawrence like it has hit the rest of the country, there will be as many cases as there are of gay men now."
"If that happens, we're going to work to insure rights of straights and gay men."
He could not comment on the type of policy the University might enact until more research had been conducted, he said.
He said the University had no need for policies concerning ALDS patients now, and future policies should be based on evidence rather than college administrators.
Craig Miller, president of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said, "The media, the Kansan included, has really bawn a lot of this out of proportion."
Freshman loses life in wreck
Travis Ream, 18, El Dorao freshman, was pronounced dead at the scene, a dispatcher for the turnipke authority said.
Waite's car, which was traveling south across a bridge, struck a guard rail on the west side of the road. The car then went back across both south-bound lanes, struck a bridge railing, became airborne, struck the inside of the northbound lane and landed in the northbound lanes.
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
A KU student was killed Sunday in a two-car accident on the Kansas Turnpike nine miles north of Emporia, Kansas Turnpike Authority officials said yesterday.
The drivers of the two cars were reported to have received minor injuries from the accident. Ream was a passenger in a car driven by Jerry P. Waite, 19. EI Dorado freshman, when the accident occurred. A spokesman said that both men were on their way to visit their families for the evening.
Services for Ream will be at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at Carlsboro's Funeral Home.
In the northbound lanes, the student's car collided with a car driven by Susanna Harris, 21, Wichita senior.
Waite was taken to Newman Memorial County hospital in Emporia by a state trooper. Harris was taken to the hospital by Lyon County Justice Service. Both were treated for minor injuries and released.
Ream is survived by his father, Gary Ream, and stepmother, Loxie Ream, of El Dorado, his mother, Jerry Dickson, of Overland Park, Jerry Dickson, of Overland Park.
He also leaves two brothers, Douglas Ream and John Harding, with the two and two sisters, Kim Handley, Kansai Mayo, and Maris Hardley, El Dorado.