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University Daily Kansan, October 17, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Civil rights leaders endorse Reagan
DETROIT—Ronald Reagan won the surprise endorsement of two longtime civil rights leaders yesterday while campaininato in Detroit.
The main event of Reagan's day was to be a rally in Birmingham, Mich., a wealthy Republican-dominated suburb. However, the surprise announcements by former Martin Luther King Jr. associates Ralph David Whitney and Robert F. Kennedy for the day for Reagan, who called their endorsements a great help to his campaign.
An aide called it the campaign's "October surprise," a reference to the belief among Reagan's associates that Carter will spring a surprise foreign policy.
The endorsements were strong denunciations of Carter and somewhat lukewarm approvals of Reagan. Williams said, "Ain't to way in the world brother Reagan can do worse than Jimmy Carter . . . Ronald Reagan did a man for more black people in California than Jimmy Carter did in Georgia."
Abernathy said that he had worked for Carter in 1976 but that Carter had not kept his campaign promises.
"Poor black people cannot make it under this system for another six months." he said.
Abernathy is former leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Reagan and Carter were to appear last night on the same stage for the first time in the campaign at the nonpolitical Alfred E. Smith charity dinner in New York.
Iragis nearer to capture of Abadan
BASRA, Iraq - An Iranian military communique indicated yesterday that Iraq was making headway in its drive to capture the oil center of Abadan. However, in Khormarshahr, 12 miles to the west, Iran said soldiers and civilians had repulsed Iraqi forces in street fighting.
Air raids by warplanes of both sides hit each other's capitals and oil installations on the 25th day of fighting between the two nations.
A late dispatch from Iranian military headquarters, broadcast by Tehran Radio, said, "The Iraqi mercenaries are advancing toward Abadan along the road."
The Iraqi said Wednesday that they had cut off all roads leading to Abadan, making overland reinforcement by Tehran virtually impossible.
Both Abadan and Khorramshahr are located along the Shatt al-Arab coast, in Iraq's northwest. Its apparent drive to the extant Iraq's long outlet to the Persian Gulf.
Iranian reports said most of the Iraqis had been driven out of Khorramshahr in street fighting. There was no independent confirmation of reports by state media.
In a related development, diplomatic sources said France would send a dozen warplanes and other war material to Iraq, possibly as early as next month. The U.S. did not offer any guidance.
Algerian ruins topple in aftershocks
AL-ASNAM, Algeria—Periodic afterschocks rumbled across the earthquake-shattered city of Al-Asnam yesterday, toppling some ruins and hampering rescue workers in their search for victims of last week's disaster.
Authorities said more than 6,000 dead had been identified since Friday's duake quake. There were no known casualties from the four shocks yested.
Unlike earlier aftershocks, yesterday's tremors were confined to the 60-mile-wide area of destruction around Al-Asnam. Previous shocks had been felt as far away as the capital city of Algiers, 120 miles northeast of Al-Asnam.
However, the new tremors did slow the recovery of bodies from the city's crumbled masonry, six days after the quake claimed an estimated 20,000
Officials said a 10-month-old child, crying but apparently not seriously injured, was pulled from the floor in a central market. The infant had the first person recovered since Tuesday.
The screaming baby joined two sisters and two brothers retrieved alive earlier from the twisted masonry.
One of the aftershocks tumbled ruins in the ravaged downtown area. The Algerian geological survey office said the tremors could be expected to become less severe and less frequent, now that the critical period had passed.
Doctors in Al-Asman continued vaccinations against scarlet fever, typhoid and cholera among at 200,000 refugees. Airplanes dropped DDT and decontaminants in areas where carcasses of dead sheep and cattle littered hillsides and stagnant pools of water had collected.
Storms buffet Rockies, Great Plains
A snowstorm buried parts of the Rockies under nearly a foot of snow yesterday and thunderstorms on opposite sides scattered the Great Plains, creating a thick layer of frost and bristling clouds.
The wintry storm system over northern Colorado swathed the Rockies in deep snow. Heavy snowwalls were reported in lower elevations of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Heavy snow warnings were issued in parts of Montana.
Ten inches of snow was reported at Billings, Mont., and Rawlins, Wyo.
Ten inches of snow was reported at Billings, Mont., and did, Buttle, Mont. Pocatello,
Idaho and Lake County. Reported upward? No.
Thunderstorms, high winds and heavy rains raked the Plains.
A tornado battered a trailer home near Taloga, Okla., injuring a couple and their baby. No one was seriously hurt. The same twister moved to the Sellano area, where a girl suffered minor injuries when she was struck by flying glass. A concrete plant, two homes and a barn were damaged by the tornado.
Severe thunderstorms and tomatoes swept across Nebraska, breaking a spell of warm, dry October weather and bringing to some areas the first substantial rainfall in a month. Some farm buildings were damaged, but no injuries were reported.
Winds gusts to 50 miles an hour raked parts of Kansas. Rain fell from the Kansas to central Texas and from eastern Nebraska to southern Minnesota.
20-year-old convicted in KC slaving
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Twenty-year-old Walter Blair Jr. was found guilty in the murder-for-the-ridley slaying of Kansas City art student Katherine Jo Allen.
The jury that convicted Blair will decide his punishment today. He could be sentenced to death in the gas chamber or life in prison without parole for 50 years. If the jury recommends death, the case automatically moves to the Missouri Supreme Court for review.
Blair was found guilty of killing Allen to prevent her from testifying against a man accused of killing an infant, and abducted and killed a woman in connection with the accused murder.
The jury that heard the three-week capital murder trial in Jackson County Circuit deliberates for more than six hours before reaching the verdict.
In a last-ditch effort to secure acquittal for his client, Blair's attorney said Blair might not have understanded his rights at the time of his arrest. At that time, Blair waived his rights to have an attorney present and confessed to the crime.
On Aug. 19, 1979, Allen was kidnapped from her midtown apartment, shot in the head and killed in what police said was a murder-for-hire scheme.
Police said Blair was to be paid $60,000 to kill Allen before she could testify that Allen was arrested three days after Allen's death and held in lieu of $9 million bail.
Muskie denies rumors of parts-hostage swap
WASHINGTON (UP1)—Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said yesterday that he was ready to discuss the hostage crisis with Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Ali Rajai. He denied reports that America would trade spare military parts for the 52 American hostages.
speach at the Woman's National Democratic club, said, "We indicated early on our willingness to discuss with the government of Iran this hostage question."
Rajai is in New York to speak at today's UN Security Council debate about the fighting between Iran and Iraq.
Muskie, answering questions after a
When asked if the United States was considering a deal involving delivery of military spare parts to Iran, Muskie answered, "I have seen the rumors."
Later, when speaking to reporters, he said, "There is no such proposal. There is no such deal. I will put it very definitively. No."
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