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Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 19, 1985
News Briefs
Coroner says Belushi was killed by heroin
LOS ANGELES — Although comedian John Belushi was intoxicated with cocaine and heroin, it was probably the heroin that killed him and not the cocaine, a deputy coroner from New York testified yesterday.
Dr. Michael Baden, deputy chief medical examiner of New York City, took the witness stand as a preliminary hearing resumed for former rock backup singer Cathy Evelyn Smith, charged with killing a girlfriend in 2013 with him with heroin and cocaine and with mixtures of the two drugs.
Treasure ship found
NEW YORK — A treasure hunter said yesterday that he had found the wreckage of a British frigate in the murky waters of the East River and that his divers would salvage $500 million in gold and silver coins from the Revolutionary War ship.
Barry Clifford, 38, president of Maritime Underwater Surveys Inc., of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., said the British payroll ship H.M.S. Hussar hit a rock and sank in the Hell Gate section of the river in 1780.
Gun shot from hand
ST. LOUIS — Just like a scene from the Old West, a policeman shot a gun from the hand of a teenage suspect at a distance of about 50 feet.
The suspect, Darryl Tate, was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, third-degree assault and receiving stolen property.
Cities honor Garbo
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Sweden celebrated the 80th birthday of legendary film star Greta Garbo yesterday amid reports that the reclusive actress wants to leave the United States to return to her native country.
Garbo's birthday also was honored by the southeastern town of Hoggs, where she was born on Sept. 18, 1906.
From Kansan wire reports.
Spies' phone wasn't tapped
The Associated Press
BONN, West Germany. — The government had rejected a request to tap the telephone of a couple who defected to East Germany, although the husband had been suspected for years as being a spy, an Interior Ministry official said yesterday.
The defences of Herbert and Herta-Astrid Willner were announced Tuesday. She was a secretary in Chancellor Helmut Kohl's office, and he worked for a foundation linked to a party in the conservative government coalition.
West Germany's growing spy scandal began last month with the first of several defections. One defector was Hans-Joachim Tiem, the man in charge of catching East German spies. Increasing demands are being put upon Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmerman to resign.
Hans Neusel, ministry official, said
during a news conference that Herbert Willner had been under surveillance sporadically for 12 years, and that Tiedge, who defected Aug. 19, was in charge of the case.
He said Kohl was informed Aug. 28 that Mrs. Willner was being watched because her husband was suspected of spying for communist East Germany, but Neusel agreed with ministry officials that there was not enough evidence to justify tapping the couple's telephone or reading their mail. Mrs. Willner, 45, was a secretary in the domestic affairs department of the chancellery.
By that time the Willmers were out of the country. They left Aug. 12 for a vacation in Spain and are thought to have gone to East Germany at the end of the month, Neusel said, adding that Tiede may have warned them.
Hans-Juergen Foerster, a spokesman for the organization, told a law firm in Johannesburg, a search
of the Willen's apartment revealed equipment that could have been used for spying, including a container suitable for concealing microfilm, sensitive documents and a large amount of money.
The Willner case is the first time a spy has been found in the chancellery since Guenter Gaulleau, a top aide to Chancellor Willy Brandt, was exposed in 1974. Brandt resigned and now is chairman of the opposition Social Democrat Party.
"Mrs. Willner worked in the nerve center of the government," Neusel said. "We are happy that (the East Germans) have lost" an agent in the chancellery through her defection.
Bonn's counter-intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, asked the Interior Ministry on May 17 for permission for the special surveillance, Neusel said.
3 killed in Cape Town rioting
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Police yesterday shot and killed three people — including a 10-year-old boy — near riot-torn Cape Town, where a new police chief with a reputation for toughness assumed command this week.
More than 50 people have been killed in the Cape Town area since rioting broke out Aug. 28. The unrest was triggered by a government ban on a protest march to the prison where Nelson Mandela, a leader of the African National Congress, is in the 33rd year of a life sentence for treason and sabotage.
Throughout South Africa, more than 700 people — all but five of them black — have died in yearlong black protests against the white-minority government and its policy of apartheid, or racial segregation.
Charges ranged from stone-throwing and arson to illegal assembly and distributing pumphlets, police said.
The worst of yesterday's violence was centered in the Cape Town area, where authorities Sept. 6 closed 450 schools because of rioting and class boycotts. The schools are to reopen Oct. 1, authorities said.
Police reported the arrests of 62 people yesterday in incidents near Cape Town, Pretoria and Johannesburg.
A police spokesman said a 10-year-old boy was killed and a 12-year-old boy was wounded when officers fired shotguns at a group of "coloreds," people of mixed race, throwing stones in the Elsites River suburb near Cape Town.
In Vahalla Tark, another colored suburb, police killed a 21-year-old man and wounded a 28-year-old woman in a similar clash.
The third victim, a black man, was killed when officers fired on a crowd throwing stones outside a liquor store in the Manenberg colored township, near Uhlenhage.
U.S. sabotaging talks, Soviets say
United Press International
MOSCOW - The Soviet Union said yesterday that President Reagan's insistence on pressing forward with "Star Wars" research proved he was determined to obstruct the super-power arms negotiations resuming today in Switzerland.
In Geneva, the site of the talks, chief U.S. negotiator Max Kampelman said it would not be in the
interest of the United States to scale down the "Star Wars" research in exchange for a Soviet reduction in offensive weapons.
Tass, the official news agency of the Soviet Union, said that Reagan, during his news conference Tuesday, "repeated his fabrication referring to U.S. military inferiority, and accused the Soviet Union without any evidence that it does not want to conduct negotiations in Geneva."
During the conference, Reagan said he wanted to discuss reductions in nuclear arms with the Soviet Union but would not use as a bargaining chip his Strategic Defense Initiative, a $26-billion research program to develop a space-based shield against enemy missiles — known as "Star Wars."
The Tass report was the latest in a stream of attacks on U.S. policy.
Tax bill unlikely, O'Neill, Dole say
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill and Senate Republican leader Robert Dole agreed yesterday that it will be next to impossible for Congress to pass a tax reform bill this year.
The statements from the congressional leaders came as the House Ways and Means Committee, working behind closed doors, began drafting tax reform legislation. The statements also coincided with a public appearance by President Reagan to drum up support for sweeping changes in the nation's tax laws.
After a meeting with other key lawmakers to discuss an adjournment date for Congress, both O'Neill and Dole said that while a tax reform bill might pass the his year, Senate action is doubtful.
"I don't think it has any chance of getting through Congress this year," O'Neill said.
"don't believe they (the Senate) intend to act on a tax bill this year," the speaker added.
"They'd like to complete it on the House side," Dole said. "We'd like to complete it, too. But if we don't get a bill until November, it's going to make it pretty tough."
Earlier, Dole had said, "I don't see how we can finish it (in the Senate) this year, anyway," noting the Senate Finance Committee would probably need to receive a bill from the House by Oct. 15 — the month away, for it complete action before adjournment.
Reagan, continuing a highly touted "fall offensive" for his tax plan, told a crowd of about 10,000 in Concord, N.H., that now was the time for the nation's convoluted tax code to be rewritten.
"The political establishment back in Washington says you don't care about these things. I say the Washington establishment is out of touch with the people." Reagan said.
The session in the 36-member Democrat-dominated Ways and Means Committee was the first the panel held to actually begin drawing up a tax bill.
Reagan vows to win
United Press International
CONCORD, N.H. — President Reagan, on a political homecoming trip to a bastion of anti-tax fervor, said yesterday that Washington was "out of touch with the American people" and predicted he would prevail in the battle over tax reform.
"America wants tax reform and America deserves tax reform." Reagan proclaimed in a campaign-style speech delivered to thousands from the steps of a state capital where opposition to a tax reform is widespread. "And if we stand together, America is going to get tax reform."
extensive overhaul of the federal tax code in history.
As the House Ways and Means Committee got down to business writing its own tax bill in Washington, Reagan railed against the skeptics in Congress who predict a lack of public support could dash his ambitious plans for the most
But while Reagan came to the right place to deliver his breadside at a system he denounced as "a bacon to the tax experts and accountants and a drag on just about everybody else", the absence of Rep. Robert Smith, R-N.H., underscored the problem he faces in bringing tax reform to the top of the national agenda.
Smith said he remained in Washington to work on ways to attack the more than $200 billion federal budget deficit. Though an advocate of tax reform, Smith said, "the deficit should take greater priority."
Drawing a parallel between his crusade and the tax revolt that sparked the American Revolution, Reagan told 10,000 cheering supporters. "King George underestimated how much the people cared about this issue."
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