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University Daily Kansan, August 21, 1980
Capsules From Kansan wire services
Explosion in Iran kills 90
An accidental blast at an explosives dump in southwestern Iran killed 90 persons and seriously injured at least 32 others, Tehran radio report.
Another 32 people reportedly were hospitalized with severe injuries.
Explosions ripped through the village of Gachsarm in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan Monday after explosives stored in a home were ignited accidentally by welders. The explosion spread to an explosives dump owned by a construction company.
President Abohassan Bani-Sadr rushed teams of doctors to the site by helicopter and Iranian army and revolutionary guards were aiding relief efforts, the radio said in broadcasts monitored in London.
Villagers rushed to the site of the explosion at the first blast, and moments later the entire stockpile blew up, killing a total of 90 persons.
The radio also said an Iranian general wanted in a July attempt to overthrow the Islamic regime had killed himself rather than be taken by him.
10. Conduct a series of tests on Gen. Hassan Yazdi, who had been in hiding since the coup attempt, shot himself through the head moments after revolutionary guards arrested him at an un disclosed location, the radio said.
At least 70 people already have been executed for their part in the abortive coup.
'Rat harborer' gets jail term
GREAT BEND (UPI)—An 83-year-old man who lived amid a household of sentenced to a year in jail for contempt for refusing twice to clean the horns.
City officials have done battle with the man, Abram Leedy Crouse, for several months and claimed his home was a public nuisance and a health hazard because of his collection of junk, which ranged from old tires to the remains of slaughtered hogs.
Crouse was jailed July 18, when Associate District Judge William Laughie ordered that a court-imposed contempt for wasted the city's orders to clean up his big green yard.
City officials had filed a petition alleging that Crouse allowed old car tires, other assorted junk and "putrefying vegetean wastes" to accumulate in his house. Rats swarmed in the area, and enough materials had gathered to create "an unsanitary condition."
The property was "really sick," said Sheriff Gene Marks. "There ain't no doubt about that. The rats were probably about as big as he is."
Laughlin said the sentence and how long he actually planned to keep Crouse in jail were two different things, and predicted the elderly man would be able to take his place.
Reagan relies on state GOP
TOPEKA (AP)—The chairman of the Reagan-Bush campaign organization in Kansas said Tuesday that it would work closely with state and county Republican Party organizations.
we will operate in close cooperation with the Republican state organization and with Republican county committees," said Duane S. "Pete" McGill of Winfield.
"We don't plan separate 'store front' headquarters in the various counties; we will be working with the party."
McGill said Reagan-Bush state headquarters were opened Tuesday in the Ramada Inn Downtown, Toeeka, where the state headquarters are.
State campaign leaders also were chosen. Walter McGinnis, Mission Hills,
was named treasurer and Jance Hardenbury, Haddam, was named
treasurer.
James T. Jeffries Jr., Lenaca, was named chairman in the 3rd Congressional District. Two chairmen have been named for Johnson County, the district's most populous county. They are Matthew Peters and Don Eddington.
MGill said the major efforts of the Reagan-Bush campaign organization in Kansas would be devoted to getting prospective voters registered and enrolled.
"We are really confident that Reagan has a strong base of support among men in Kansas, but it doesn't do any good unless they get out to vote," McCain said.
Train crash kills 62 Poles
WARSAL, Poland (UPI)—A freight train missed a stop signal, headed down the wrong track and collided head-on with a crowded passenger train before dawn Tuesday, killing scores of people in the worst rail disaster in Polish history.
At mid-evening, the death toll stood at 62 dead with 50 injured, but officials said the toll was expected to rise.
Spokesmen for the Polish Ministry of Transportation would not say how fast the trains were traveling, but the impact of the collision demolished the engine and first two cars of the passenger train, which was crowded with vacationers en route to Lodz. Poland's second largest city.
A number of other cars derailed and tumbled off the tracks. Only crumpled bits of sheet metal were left of the cabins of the crushed passenger cars.
Soldiers pried apart the wreckage and carried bodies to the shade of a nearby grove of trees.
Cranes were used to clear the main track of the wreckage, but the task took hours.
The calamity shocked Poland's Communist leadership. Party chief Edward Gierek and Premier Edward Babich, both currently preoccupied with strikes on Poland's Baltic Sea coast, came to the scene to offer their condolences.
Experts said the crash was by far the worst rail accident in Polish history. A government commission was formed quickly to determine its cause.
Navy gay discharges highest
The Navy is discharging significantly more women and for women than the Army or Marine Corps, military records showed Tuesday.
One Pentagon official who has followed personnel trends in the military said, "It's really not so surprising that the Navy figures are so much higher."
UPI polled the services after a recommendation Monday by a Navy board to discharge 18-year-old sailor Alicia Harris for lesbian activity.
Navy prosecutors attempted Tuesday to convince an administrative hearing board that Fireman Apprentice Wendie Williams, 25, had a lesbian affair with an 18-year-old female sailor already found guilty of homosexual activity aboard the USS Norton Sound.
"I's my view that it has very much to do with the kind of life in the Navy—in aboard boarded ships—separated from family. That kind of life en-
lance me."
The Navy said that it would "show that there was a love affair of a sexual nature between Wendi Williams and Alice Harris aboard ship" and that it also would present evidence of an earlier love affair between Williams and Williams. The Navy said that she would be given eight hearings on charries against female sailors aboard the Norton Sound.
Navy prosecutor LI. Andrew Hilber said, "We will be showing sexual preference, but sexual preference is not the ultimate conclusion of this research."
"Sexual preference can only be relevant as it relates to showing that misconduct." The first witness against Williams, L. L. Debra Stilner, testified she saw Williams and Harris sitting on a couch in a lounge at 4 a.m. on the women's legs. the women's legs were intertwined and "I thought it was inappropriate."
Although lights were dim, Stiltern said she was able to see that both houses were closed and I "had some notion there was some homosexual act going on."
In the scramble to have a green campus ready for the deluge of fall semester students, Facilities Operations workers
sometimes have been the unwitting creators of water hazards for early arrivals. This student braves the shower in front of Summerfield Hall.
DAVE KRAUS/Kansan staff
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Valve break balts water
Coffey said the area around the 900 and 1000 blocks of Maine and Alabama streets was affected. Water use was restored before noon.
The plot reported the fire when he was about 50 miles from Riyadh, lost contact briefly with the Riyadh control tower and then regained communications as he was returned for an emergency landing, the report said.
The report said fire broke out aboard the airline's Flight 163 from Karachi minutes after it took off from Riyadh, the Saudi capital on the eastern side of the Arabian peninsula, for the Red Sea port of Jidda, the gateway to Mecca.
A broken valve in water lines left some Lawrence residents on Alabama and Maine streets without water for about two hours Tuesday morning, said Roger Coffey, assistant director of utilities at the Lawrence Water Plant.
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265 feared dead
The plane landed on the main runway and taxied to the end of an older runway.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP)-A Saudi Arabian TriStar jetliner caught fire shortly after taking off from Riyadh Tuesday, returned for an emergency landing and burned on the runway. All 265 people aboard were killed, the Saudi state radio reported.
Most of the passengers were Pakistani Moslems on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of the prophet Mohammed in western Saudi Arabia, the Karachi office of the Saudi airline reported.
Flames engulfed the craft before the emergency exits could be opened.
If the death toll of 265 is confirmed, it would be the fourth largest in aviation
But "as the tongues of flames shot out the windows of the plane, it became impossible to open the doors from outside or inside", said a statement from the Saudi civil aviation administration.
As fire engines, ambulances and firefighting helicopters raced toward it, the pilot reported he was trying to send the passengers down escape chutes
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