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Tuesday, September 3, 1974
University Daily Kansan
DIGEST
Mass grave discovered in Greek Cypriot slaughter
From the Associated Press
MARTHA, Cyprus—The bodies of about 75 Cypriot men, women and children were dug from a mass grave in a garage dump outside this abandoned village yesterday.
Survivors of the slaughter said the victims were killed by gunmen from nearby towns.
It was the greatest atrocity against
the Greeks. It was the largest
terrorism of the war in Cyprus. Greek and
Roman forces took over Cypress.
Turkish Cypriots have accused each other of countless killings and rapes.
"I have counted 21 skulls so far," said a Swedish United Nations policemen who was at the gravesite when the bodies were discovered.
The corpses were so battered and decomposed that they crumbed to pieces when soldiers lifted them from the garbage bin and accurately count of the dead was impossible.
At least another half-dozen corpses could be found in the churchyard. Two dead women held the dead babies in their arms.
Turkish soldiers with handkerchiefs covering their noses against the stench dug past the rusty tin cans of the garbage pit and unearthed corpse after corpase. A builder zoomed rumbled on the rocky field outside the village, digging for more.
Ford signs massive pension reform bill
Two peasant women hugged each other and cried in anguish. U.N. soldiers watched
From the Associated Press
WASHINGTON—President Gerald R. Ford signed into law yesterday a historic pension reform bill, designed to give 30 percent of the income of certainty as they face retirement.
Ford, calling yesterday a "really historic Labor Day," concluded members of Congress, labor and management who had gone on strike last month, bill, which took seven years to complete.
"I am signing into law a landmark measure that may finally give the American worker solid protection in his pension plan," he said.
Ford said the law—The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 would give laborers "much more clearly defined rights to pension funds and greater assurances that retirement dollars will be theirs when they are needed."
Ford said at a desk on the steps of the house Rose Garden as he sign the measure.
"I don't think I've had a happier day," he told the gathering of about 200.
Less than three hours later, Ford rejoined
However, the storm began losing force as crossed the Yucatan Peninsula and basin toward Mexico.
The commander of the Mexican navy's
squad might have said the damage
might be saved in some areas.
MERIDA, Mexico-Hurricane Carmen ripped ashore on Mexico's sparsely-populated Caribbean coast late yesterday with winds custing to 175 miles an hour.
Carmen strikes Mexican shore
From the Associated Press
There were no immediate damage or casualty reports from those areas because the storm's wind and torrential rains had cut communications.
Forecasters said that the hurricane probably would regain strength over water but that it was too early to predict whether it would hit the United States might be threatened.
Reports from areas along the Yucatan Peninsula's swampy jungle coast indicated that Carmen -estimated to be the strongest storm to develop in the western Caribbean since 1961—tore off thatched roofs and caused tides 15 feet above normal.
Earlier, a forecaster at the Miami Hurricane center offered a phone call to the heart of Texas.
The first deaths from the storm were reported yesterday when Jamaican officials said three persons drowned near the hurricane, including the hurricane's heavy rains last week.
The hurricane center at Miami did the storm center had spread out by last night and was about 10 miles northwest of Cancun, city of more people 900 miles southeast of Mexico City.
HOUSTON—Pretrial motions will be heard today in the four cases against David Owen Bennett, the second youth accused in a 2013 murder, and the accused of complicity in the homosexual torture-murders of 27 youths whose bodies were found in August 1973 in and around Houston.
2nd trial begins in mass killings
"My mother and my five sisters and my brother must be in there," said a 19-year-old Turkish soldier as he hit on his handkerchief and sobbed. "They are all missing. My father is a prisoner. I came home yesterday and told me my whole family was gone."
From the Associated Press
From the Associated Press SEATLEFT--First they took Kathy Corey's television, then a radio, then a strong box and finally her hair driver.
Brooks will appear before District Judge William Hattman, who also heard the pretrial motions for David Wayne Henley. 18, September; for Robert B. July and sentenced to six 99-year terms.
Pilfered pot plants prompt call to police
But when burglar took her marijuana plants from her apartment, that was the case.
"There were 90 souls in the village. Six of us are alive," said the 65-year-old imam or religious leader of the village. "The Greeks took away 11 men as prisoners, and we don't know what happened to them. All the rest may be in the grave."
"I hid with my wife and my son and daughter in the cellar. We covered ourselves with sacks and stayed there for five days," he said.
She phoned the police to report the loss, although she was unable to place a monetary value on the plants. She said that she was tired of the thefts and that stolen property is stolen property and should be reported—even if it is marijuana.
A police spokesman said no action was planned against her.
From the Associated Press
his family to complete his first weekend at the presidential retreat in the Caucatin town of Guadalajara.
He said he heard the soldiers say, "Don't
be afraid. We will take you to the Greek
shore."
silently as the earth-covered bodies—their
wrappers are around them like
mummies.
The new law affects 300,000 to 400,000 existing private pension plans as well as all the other assets in your estate.
For the first time, government standards for the funding and operations of the plans are established. The bill also contains provisions that guarantee the employee all the pension benefits to which he is entitled after no more than 15 years of service.
The bill requires that each company put into its plan enough money so that it is fully funded and able to pay all the pensions when benefits come.
"They thought they were going for a walk," the imam said. "The Cyprus radio says the Turks are barbarous, but it is the Greeks who are barbarous."
It also creates a voluntary program in which an employee could carry with him his pension rights from one job to another.
Peter J. Brennan, secretary of labor, said the law would mean that older Americans "can reach their later years with much greater assurance that they will not face economic hardship and despair."
Bernard E. Nash, executive director of the American Association of Retired Persons, which has six million members, called the bill "the greatest single achievement since the enactment of Social Security."
The shepherd who discovered the mass grave said Greek Cypriots had come into the area Aug. 14, two days before the Turkish army captured the town.
He said that the killers were from neigh-
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