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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Thursday, Sept. 5, 1985
News Briefs
Ex-Green Berets file suit to release POWs
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Two former Green Berets, saying they collected data on prisoners of war during intelligence missions in Korea, fitted suit yesterday to force President Reagan to demand the release of any POWs in Southeast Asia.
The two men, retired Maj. Mark Smith and Sgt. Melvin McIntire, Fort Bragg, N.C., filed the class action in U.S. District Court through attorney Mark Wape on behalf of all living POWs.
Smith and McIntire said in the suit that they were assigned to the Army Special Forces in Seoul, Korea, from 1981 to 1984.
Ex-EPA official freed
PLEASANTON, Calif. — Rita Lavelle, the former EPA official convicted of perjury in the 1983 Superfund toxic waste cleanup scandal, was freed from prison yesterday on good behavior, say prosecutors in a pass of the White House" in a confrontation with Congress.
Lavelle, 37, served 4 1/2 months of a 6-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution.
"As far as I know I am the first woman to be destroyed in a political firestorm between the executive and legislative branches of the federal government," she said.
HOUSTON — Punishment for a Virginia teen-ager who became violent after using LSD at a Grateful Dead concert will include a stipulation that he not attend any event. He will also be subject to a judge, a judge ruled yesterday.
Concerts off limits
Season Woody Densen also placed Judge Foley, 17, of McLean, Va., on five years' probation and fined him $500 after the youth pleaded guilty Tuesday to drug possession.
"I hope this sends a message to people who are going to go to rock concerts and use LSD," Densen said. "I'd guessimate that much higher than 75 to 80 percent of people who go to a concert by the Grateful Dead probably are under the influence of drugs."
From Kansan wire reports.
Case to be reviewed
High court stops execution
United Press International
STARKE, Fla. — The U.S. Supreme Court, in a rare reversal, cancelled the scheduled execution of Willie Jasper Darden yesterday and granted a full review of his conviction for killing a businessman and molesting his wife during a $15 holdin
The high court's decision in Washington came at 11:59 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, just seven hours before the Supreme Court's *Sparky*, the Florida electric chair.
The court first denied Darden's motion for an emergency stay of execution by a 5-4 vote, with Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissenting.
Darden's lawyers then returned to the court and requested a full review of the case — a move that requires the approval of only four justices.
Officials said the vote on petitions for a full review were rarely revealed
Calling the case "an unusual situation," he said, "In view of the fact that this is a capital case with petitioner's life at stake, I feel obligated in this case, where the authorities are awareablyibly and unable to meet for conference, to join in granting the application for stay."
by the court, but Justice Lewis Powell gave a brief written comment attached to the court's order.
Florida State Prison spokesman Vernon Bradford said Darden, the second-longest resident of Florida's death row, had expected to die and was going about his business when the reprieve came.
Darden was convicted of the Sept.
8, 1973, murder of Lakeland, Fla.
furniture store owner James Carl
Turman.
Darden's Supreme Court appeal was based, in part, on what the defense called outrageous closing arguments by prosecutor C. Raymond McDaniel — "a driving diabolical diatribe" that prejudiced the jury.
McDaniell told a jury Darden was an animal, who shot Turman and a 16-year-old boy, then tried to force Turman's wife to commit a sex act "while her bleeding husband lay in a rainstorm at the door."
"I wish (Turman) had had a shotgun in his hand when he walked in the back door and blown (Darden's) face off," McDaniel said. "I wish that I could see (Darden) sitting here with no face, blown away by a shotgun. ... I wish someone had walked in the back door and blown his head off at that point."
Darden, 52, was convicted Jan. 23, 1974, and has been on death row since Jan. 29, 1974. He is surpassed as the longest resident there only by Howard Douglas, who arrived Dec. 5, 1973. Darden has won two previous stays of execution.
Indian party figure killed by gunmen
From Kansan wires
NEW DELHI, India - Three suspected Sikh extremists yesterday shot and killed a senior member of India's ruling party who was on a "hit list" of Indian politicians marked for death by militant Sikhs fighting for the independence of their home state of Punjab.
Arjun Dass, 46, a New Delhi Metropolitan Councilman, a member of the Congress-I Party and a personal friend of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was shot to death at his office and auto workshop in south Delhi, police said.
Dass' bodyguard was also killed and his personal assistant was critically wounded in the attack. Five of them were injured, four of them seriously.
Gandhi's government immediately imposed special security rules on the capital prohibiting gatherings of more than four people. Checkpoints
were mounted at Delhi's airport and at railway stations and main roads in an effort to trap the killers.
A police official said a bearded Sikh and two clean-shaven men drove up to Dass' shop on a motor scooter.
One man stayed behind and kept the scooter running. The other two opened fire with a fully automatic sten gun — a type of submachine gun
and a revolver, the official said.
"They shot the security guard first as he tried to pull out his service revolver and then fired at Arjun Dass, who was sitting five feet inside the entrance to the office," the official said.
The office and shop were spattered with blood and strewn with spent caustics.
Witnesses told the United News of India news service the killers shouted "Long Live Khalistan" as they fled.
Titanic wreckage found in one piece
From Kansan wires
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland — Scientists exploring the wreckage of the Titanic with a robot submarine 20,000 feet underwater said yesterday they spoted luggage and dishes amid the debris and warned that any boat they recover treasures to the vessel would be "financially stupid."
Robert Ballard, senior marine scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, told Canadian television in an interview televised yesterday that the Titanic appeared to be in one piece.
"The fact the ship is in total darkness adds to that feeling of eeriness."
Ballard said he planned to return to the site, possibly next summer, to inspect the wreckage close-up in a small manned submarine.
"It's like an old friend," said Ballard. "It's so nice to see it, to know exactly where we are as we move across the ship."
and bridge area of the Titanic and its first deck.
He said yesterday that a remotely controlled camera yielded vivid color pictures of wine bottles, undamaged
"The hull is basically intact," he said. "It appears to be in one piece, except for the wreckage that came out the bow. We have to do some more work near the stern."
Ballard, who heads the 47-man expedition on board the U.S. Navy-owned Knorr, said exploring the Titanic was "like going back in time."
Ballard said he was not surprised to find the Titanic in one piece
'it's in a marvelous state of preservation. Mother nature is doing a much better job than we could possibly do.'
A joint U.S.-French expedition found the Titanic Sunday about 370 miles southeast of Newfoundland in North Atlantic waters 20,000 feet deep. It was found with the Argo, a robot submarine with special sonar and underwater camera equipment.
- Robert Ballard
Robert Balaird senior marine scientist Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
plates and a small flagpole on the bow "still standing there totally pristine" on the upright ship.
The Titanic was on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York in 1912 when it struck an iceberg and sank, sending 1,500 of the estimated 2,200 passengers and crew to their deaths.
Ballard said scientists had concentrated on photographing the bow
because it was a new ship, but was surprised to find it upright rather than lying on its side.
"It would be ridiculous for anyone to try and recover the wealth on board. I can't believe the wealth would equal the cost to get it," he said.
"The debris area, where the boilers came out, took a lot of material with them ... china, dishes, porcelain and baggage. (The Titanic) is in a remarkably good state of preservation," he said.
Ballard said it would be "finan-
cically stupid" for anyone to try recovering the Titanic's treasure.
Valuables in the ship's strong room are said to include diamonds that were worth about $7 million in 1912, although the Titanic Historical Society bought the field. Mass., maintains that there is no evidence of any fortune aboard.
Ballard was uncertain whether anyone could legally attempt to recover the Titanic, but he expressed hope that the U.S. and French governments would declare it an uncharted ocean. In addition, the U.S. Navy officials to check the legal implications of declaring the ship off-limits to fortune hunters.
"I would certainly hope they would leave the Titanic where it is." Ballard said. "It's in a marvelous state of preservation. Mother nature is doing a much better job than we could possibly do."
Texas oilman Jack Grimm, who has financed two expeditions to look for the Titanic, said Tuesday he would make an attempt to salvage it.
Mortar fire in Ireland wounds 30
United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Guerrillas fired 18 mortar rounds across a river into a police station and training center yesterday, wounding 30 people.
No one was injured seriously. The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility.
The attack was launched at 7:50 a.m. from a truck parked in a construction company yard across a river that flows past the police facility in the town of Enniskillen, 85 miles west of Belfast. Police said the truck was stolen from a family that had been held hostage by gunmen overnight in their home.
A total of 18 shells were fired from homemade mortar tubes, and three of the shells hit the heavily fortified compound, causing structural damage and starting a fire.
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