University Daily Kansan, December 5, 1980
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Portuguese official dies in fiery crash
CAMARATE, Portugal-Portuguese Prime Minister Francisco S Carneiro was killed yesterday in the flareup of his small private plane, said officials.
Car Saureiro's eight-seat Cessna 410 plane exploded and burst into flames about one minute after taking off from Lisbon. Its Portela International Airport in Brazil was the scene of a crash.
So Carreiro's ruling Democratic Party issued a statement saying there was no indication of sabotage.
Sa Carneiro was a conservative, pro-Western politician who became Prime Minister Jan. 3, 1800. He was locked in a bitter presidential campaign and had just taken off to a rally in Inoport in support of his candidate when the crash occurred. Inoport is 175 miles northeast of Lisbon.
Also killed were Ssu Abacessia, 38, the prime minister's companion; Fakhr al-Din Saadi, 37, and his wife; the prime minister's onestate chief and the two oilists.
Inside a cabinet door and a desk, a plane appeared to have flown into electrical wires, lost altitude and crashed into a two-story
Other witnesses said they heard a loud explosion and rushed from their dinner tables in time to see the small white-and-orange craft fall in flames from the sky.
Flash fire kills 26 in New York hotel
At least 24 others were treated at hospitals for injuries. Nine were admitted in serious condition.
HARRISON, N.Y. — A flash fire broke out during an electronic equipment demonstration at a new hotel-conference center yesterday, killing 26 corporate executives. Many of the dead had been trapped in blazing, smoke-filled meeting rooms.
injured in serious condition.
Most of those killed died of smoke inhalation. Others burned to death,
including five men found trapped in a closet and another five whose bodies
were stacked up against a locked emergency exit door in a conference room.
Survivors escaped by smashing plate glass windows with tables and jumping from the second-story conference rooms to the ground 35 feet below. Hotel guests still in their rooms fled through corridors and down stairways.
The fire broke out about 9:20 a.m. CST in a conference room at the four-story Stouffer's Inn of Westchester, 20 miles northeast of New York City. Arrow Electronic Corp. was demonstrating new electronic equipment at the inn.
It was not known how many of the executives killed worked for Arrow, but some of the victims were believed to be members of the firm's board of
Fire officials said they believed an electrical malfunction had caused the fire, said Harrison Town Supervisor John Passidomo.
"It was like an explosion where you don't have any impact," said Purchase Fire Chief Robert Makowski. "When you pour gasoline and throw in a match, there is a rush. That's what happened in this case. It was like a ball of fire, a flash fire."
Carter to veto $9.1 billion funding bill
WASHINGTON—President Obama said yesterday that he would veto a $9.1 billion abortion bill because it contained a strong anti-busid provision.
Carter said anti-busing language in the bill would have imposed "an unprecedented prohibition" on government use of the courts to ensure that the courts did not discriminate.
The anti-busing amendment was attached to a multibillion-dollar appropriation bill for the departments of state, justice and commerce. The bill also includes $100 million in federal funds.
The amendment would have barred the Justice Department from going to court to enforce school busing for desegregation purposes.
"I have often stated my belief that busing only should be used as a last resort in school segregation cases." Carter said in a letter to Senate Speaker Robert D. McCain.
However, Carter did not veto the bill because of the busing amendment alone.
Carter's decision was a complicated one, because he had to veto the entire appropriation bill to eliminate the busing amendment.
"It would effectively allow the Congress to tell a president that there are certain constitutional remedies that he cannot ask the courts to apply . . . For any president to accept this precedent would permit a serious encroachment on the powers of this office," he said.
A continuing resolution passed by the House and now in the Senate would provide funds to keep the three departments and other agencies operating through next June, but apparently also would continue the anti-busing provisions.
Atlanta task force arrests suspect
ATLANTA—A special police task force investigating the killings and disappearances of 10 black women has arrested a man for trying to grab a woman's phone.
A police spokesman said it was not known whether there was any link between the abduction attempt and the other cases.
Public Safety Commissioner Lee P. Brown identified the suspect as Ronald Larry Johnson, 37, of Forest Park, Ga. He was to face a city court hearing on charges of attempted kidnapping and simple battery later in the day.
Johnson had been arrested about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Brown said 19-year-old Kent Merritt, a black youth, told police that Johnson and another white male attempted to pull him into a green van while he was walking on a southwest Atlanta street Nov. 25. The other man was, not identified.
It was the first arrest by the special 35-man task force that was created more than two months ago in a massive effort to solve the baffling cases,
All of the children found slain or listed as still missing were between the ages of 7 and 15.
The Merritt case is the first to involve a potential victim more than 15 years old.
MANHATTAN-Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said yesterday that the Soviet Union was reluctant to invade Poland because of the potential economic and diplomatic repurcussions, as well as the strong will of the Polish people.
Muskie speaks on Russia at K-State
"The Polish situation has gone far beyond the situation in Czechoslovakia and Hungary." Muskic told a capacity crowd of 1,800 at Kansas State
The former Maine senator made the remarks in a question-and-answer session after his Landon series lecture.
The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries had invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Mustie earlier had stopped in Teopeta to pay a courtesy call on the lecture series' namesake. 1936 presidential nominee Afl Landon. 93.
Sidestepening questions about what action the United States might take if the Soviet Union invades Poland, Mustie said the Soviet understand that military action would jeopardize the benefits of detente, including important trade benefits.
Senate committee selects Kassebaum
WASHINGTON-Kansas Republican Sen. Nancy Landon Kasebaum yesterday became the first woman ever to be named to the Senate Foreign
The only other woman to serve on the committee was Muriel Humphrey, who in 1978 served out the term of her deceased husband, Hubert H. Humphrey.
In being named to the committee, Kassebaum was concerned with army limitations, U.S.-doviet relations, problems in the Middle East and other areas.
Management also said her position on the committee could benefit Kansans. "One of the key responsibilities of the committee is foreign trade, and Kansas' economic health is wed to the success we have in developing export markets for our feed grains," she said.
Bodies of nuns, lay worker found in San Salvador
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador--The bullet-riddled bodies of three American nuns and a lay worker missing for three days were found yesterday in a common grave in rural El Salvador. Officials said all four women had been raped.
In New York, a spokeswoman for the Maryknoll Order, to which two of the dead nuns belonged, said reliable
Silkwood claims dismissed again
A U.S. Embassy spokeswoman confirmed that the four bodies found were those of the three nuns and the lay worker.
DENVER (UPI)-The 10th U.S. District Court of Appeals upheld a lower court yesterday in dismissing two claims filed by heirs of Karen G. Cunningham, a lawyer for both the Kerr-McGee Corp. and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
She said U.S. Ambassador Robert White was present when the bodies were unearthened from a common grave in Florida. The corpson's 24 miles southeast of the capital.
in the suit, Skilwood's heirs said that Kerr-McGee officials had formed a conspiracy in November, 1972 to prevent the woman and other employees from organizing a labor union. The suit said the employees were placed under illegal surveillance, had their phone tapped and were followed.
sources in El Salvador said the army had killed the four women.
In the ruling, the court said an Oklahoma City federal court judge had acted properly in dismissing a civil rights suit against the company and accused that the heirs argued that the court lacked jurisdiction to take such action.
The U.S. Embassy identified the dead women as Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay worker Jean Donovan, of a Cleveland-based religious order; Sister Ia Ford of New York City's Borough of Brooklyn and Sister Mauria Clarke of Bellevue to honor members of the Maryknoll Order, headquartered in Ossining, N.Y.
gravites as being very upset. The four bodies were later taken to a San Francisco hospital.
While refused to make any comment
White was described by witnesses at the
The four disappeared after Sister Kazel and Miss Donovan picked up the two nuns Tuesday at the capital's airport on their return from Nicaragua, airport employees and church spokesmen said.
Judicial authorities in Canton Santa Teresa, near the plantation, said the women had been raped before they were "assassinated."
The victims' bodies displayed heavy-caliber gunshot wounds in the back and shoulder.
A photographer at the gravesite said two of the bodies were partially clad, and the others' clothes were in their bodies. The bodies were buried about six feet down.
Local farmers said they had beard shooting and screams about 11 p.m. Tuesday night. They found the bodies of the women at sunrise Wednesday and buried them on the plantation because "they were not claimed by anyone."
A spokeswoman for the Maryknoll Order said the nuns' friends believed that the Salvadoran military was responsible for the killings.
"Evidence provided by reliable sources indicates the military was instrumental in the death and disappearance of these four women," she said.
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