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University Daily Kansan, September 19, 1980
News Briefs From United Press International
Titan II explosion rips Arkansas silo
DEMASCUS, Ark.—A Titan II underground missile exploded early this morning and juvenile technicians who were at the base left a fire that lasted last night.
Strategic Air Command officials could not confirm whether the underground Intercontinental Ballistic Muscle was armed with a nuclear
The blast caused SAC officials to begin a temporary evacuation of the area and moved the site. Demascus is located 40 miles west of Little Rock in central Arkansas.
Witnesses reported that the 3 a.m. blast shook the countryside for miles and then sent a hue orange fireball of hundreds of feet into the sky.
SAC reported that Air Force repair technicians were working on the ICBM attempting to repair a fuel leak that started sometime last night. About 12 of them were still present.
Umanian reports report eight people as injured, several of them critically. There are Titan II missile sites in the United States, more than 12 of the 14 where the bombs landed.
Defectors housed in U.S. embassies
The State Department said yesterday that four U.S. Embassies were now involuntary hospitals would be allocated to SOS defenders, including two low-income children.
The department confirmed that the two Cabanes had been in the Ethiopian embassy since May 23, seeking asylum and safe passage out of the country.
The Ethiopian government has refused to let the Cubas be flown out of the country to the United States because they have not formally requested permission.
Earlier this week, a Soviet soldier took refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan and also sought political asylum. He also was unable to obtain a visa.
In addition to the defection efforts in Addis Ababa and Kabul, a large group of Russian Pentecostals have been in refuge in the Moscow embassy for more than a year. In Havana, a large group of anti-Castro Cubans have been in refuge since May.
According to State Department spokesman John Trattner, the unidentified Cuban soldiers in Addis Ababa were climbing the wall of the U.S. Embassy on the evening of May 23, the same time that the hordes of Cuban boat people were arriving in he United States.
Sirhan eligible for sentence reduction
SOLEAD, Calif. – Sirtan Bhalla, behind bars for the past 12 years for a broken neck and for a parole hearing Wednesday to ask that more time be taken of his sentence.
It was the second such appearance in two months for Sirhan, once condemned to die in the gas chamber but spared by changes in California law. Subsequent changes in the law have reduced his life sentence to 18 years and caused him to be jailed on parole, over the objections of law enforcement officers and political leaders.
Sirhan met with parole officers at Soled in July, but the hearing was rescheduled after the 36-year-old Palestinian immigrant demand—and the police officer involved in the incident later agreed.
He has spent the past five years in protective custody at the Correctional Training Facility in Soloaded, a prison in the lettuce fields and vineyards 120 miles north of San Francisco.
Last year, officers reviewing Sirhan's behavior noted that he had aban-
doned hunger strikes and protests and had begun taking self-improvement con-
gruents.
At that time the officers awarded him the four-month sentence reduction that serves as a routine induction for well-behaved inmates. That sentence reduction has been suspended for the first time.
Gangster's death signals mob dispute
ST. LOUIS—Investigators say they fear the car-bomb killing of 78-year-old men. "Horseshoe Jimmy" was last survivor of a bombing that killed at least six for leadership in the race.
Explosives experts returned yesterday to gather more evidence from Interstate Highway 55, where a powerful blast ripped apart Michaels' car Wednesday. Debris from the black Chrysler Cordoba was scattered over a quarter-mile area.
Area authorities have been braced for a possible eruption of violence since the Aug. 29 cancer death of Anthony "Tony G" Giordano,报头 of the area.
Still, police officials said they were surprised by the killing of the aging Michael, who肩头被 the so-called Serving Fist rests on the armor diorama.
"I was astounded when I heard of it," said L.I. Column William E. Brown, assistant chief of police. "I thought he was ready for the old folks' home."
But the prison was hardly on the rooftop's walls. Other investigators said they had met with the syndicate had been on relatively friendly terms in recent years. They said the bombing might have been a warning to the Syrians to stay out of the fight to succeed Giordano.
Police accused of KKK membership
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Authorities yesterday were checking reports that displayed and sold Klan medallions while in prison.
Mayor Paul E. Douthrif Jr. ordered an inquiry by the Internal Affairs unit of the police department. Other investigations were started by the human rights commissioners.
Michael Bowes, leading the investigation by the state and city human relation commissions, and his study started when a black city employee was fired.
Dutchish said the matter may have begun as a joke when an officer bought Klan medalation as a "a curriure item" at a local flea market and displayed it on the wall.
Doutrich said, however, that the police department's inquiry would seek to determine what happened and were actually members of the KKK. He said he would be fired if they were
Keys ridicules Jeffries in radio spot
Bowles he also was checking into allegations that white officers used racial slurs in the presence of black officers, that there was racist graffiti in the men's room of the police department and that black officers were the only ones of supposedly humorous printed matter containing racial epithets.
TOPEKA—The 2nd District Congressional race is heating up with Congressman Jim Jeffreys, a radio commercials and his attacks on Republican Congressman Jim Jeffreys.
In an attempt to pullkeys up from his low standing in the polls, theKeys campaign yesterday was to begin broadcasting a radio advertisement of Jeffries' speech to an April 1979 Kansas Farm Bureau meeting in Washington.
The ad is a two-minute actual recording of Jeffries laughing uncontrollably throughout his introduction of a Kansas colleague. "The voice you heard was Congressman Jim Jeffries," the ad says, "an embarrassment to Kansas."
Jeffries' campaign manager, John Palautos, said the radio commercial "medication announcement" of the keys campaign, when the best thing they were up with was a partnership.
Keys turned on the campaign heat after Jeffries suffered from two blows to his image.
Jeffries kicked off the turnoln when he admitted投票 for a bill without knowing that $7.4 million for two Kansas military projects had been deleted from it. That was followed by a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal as an example of the ultra-conservative "New Right" political movement.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Carter, saying "the press seems to be obsessed with this issue," said yesterday that he did not think Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan was a racist and that he regretted the issue was ever injected into the campaign.
Carter says Reagan campaign not racist
During a half-hour nationally televised news conference, the president faced repeated questions about his suggestion at a predominantly black Atlanta church last Tuesday that "stirings of hate" had been injected into the campaign by use of "code words."
"No, I don't think he's running a campaign of hatred and racism," Carter replied when first asked about what he was about Reagan in his Atlanta remarks.
He said at another point that he ad-mired Reagan for rejecting the Ku Klux Klan's endorsement of his candidacy
"I do not think my opponent is racist in any degree," the president said, rejecting the notion that he personally was running a "mean" campaign.
positive listing of his administration's accomplishments. Questions centered on politics and recent developments in Iran.
While the president's last news conference on Aug. 4 had been devoted entirely to his brother Billy's Libyan ties, Carter opened yesterday with a
In reaction, Reagan's campaign director, William Casey, fired off a telegram to all three commercial networks to demand equal time for Carter's five-minute opening statement, which he said "could not have been a more blatantly political commercial if he had paid for the time...an obvious partisan announcement, not responsive to questions from the press, separate from the press conference."
Court puts Anderson on Ohio ballot
By United Press International
He now lacks his name only on the New Hampshire and Arizona ballots, which have late firing deadlines that the team anticipates no difficulty meeting.
Independent presidential candidate John Anderson got two big boosts yesterday when the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Ohio's attempt to keep a ballot from being filed the required ballot petitions in his 48th state, South Carolina.
The petitions have been certified in 33 states, and are awaiting certification in other countries.
Anderson is in the Washington area to'or the rest of this week, as is Ronald
League of Women Voters debate Sunday in Baltimore.
In New York, ABC-TV announced it would not provide live coverage of the presidential debate. Without President Carter's participation, ABC said, it did not qualify as a presidential debate. Anderson's petitions have been rejected only in Carter's home state of Georgia, where elections officials said there were too many invalid signatures. Anderson's campaign in the state has challenged the counting procedure in court and is awaiting a ruling.
Anderson declared his independent candidacy April 24, and his individual state campaigns, mostly made up of volunteers, began the ballot procedures earlier. Anderson boasted from the state that he would be on all 50 state ballots.
already had passed at that point, but the campaigns filed suit, challenging the constitutionality of requiring earlier deadlines for candidates other than those of the Democratic and Republican parties.
The deadlines of several states
In every case so far, the courts have ruled in Anderson's favor. The certification in North Carolina still is on appeal, but yesterday's high court ruling seems to have put an end to the dispute.
Ohio Secretary of State Anthony Celebrezwe sought Supreme Court review of a federal district court decision that allowed Anderson's nudge on the bailout.
The high court in August declined to give the case faster-than-usual treatment, but changed its mind without explanation yesterday.
On Iran, Carter flatly ruled out U.S. apology to Iran as part of the price for the release of the American hostages.
"The United States is not going to apologize," the president said. He added that the United States should support the idea of an international forum for Iran to air its grievances.
Carter said there had been some apparent progress with the formation of an Iranian parliament, the naming of a prime minister and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's statement outlining Iran's demands.
Carter said the administration was pursuing every "possible legitimate means" to both preserve the nation's honor and integrity and to free the hostages without harm. But, he said, "I predict an early resolution" of the crisis.
However, the questions kept coming during the news conference about whether Carter was running a "mean campaign, and why, if he did not wish to inject racism as an issue into the campaign, he used "code words" and "hatred" in his campaign trail comments.
Carter, replying near the end of the news conference, at one point paused in apparent frustration and seemed to be searching for words.
He then said he had been speaking to a black group in Atlanta who understood 'the code words, the use of the language,' and she wrote that the words states' rights in the South."
"My message to them was that the 'presidential election' is no place for the reviving of the issue of racism under Jimmy Carter and that's how I feel about it," he said.
When you need some notes at 3:00 a.m.,you find out who your friends are.
You left the notes for chapter 6 in the library. A sure sign that tomorrow's test will be heavy with questions from chapter 6. Someone you know is about to get a phone call. He's not going to like it, but he's going to come through. When this is over, do something special for him. Tonight, let it be Löwenbräun.
Löwenbräu.Here's to good friends.