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University Daily Kansan, November 17, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Jury begins pondering case of arms smuggling to Libya
WASHINGTON—The jury began deliberations yesterday in the trial of Edwin Wilson on charges of smuggling arms to Libya. The defense portrayed the ex-CIA agent as "a spy who was left out in the cold," and the prosecution called it "a case of greed."
The case went to the jury on the second day of the trial after a series of swift developments, including dramatic testimony for the defense by
After about 1½ hours of deliberations, the jurors asked U.S. District Judge Richard Williams to adjourn for the night. The judge said the proceedings would resume this morning.
Wilson, 54, who worked for the CIA from 1955 to 1971 and then began an export business, was charged in this trial with criminal violations of U.S. interstate and export laws for shipping four handguns and an M-16 automatic rifle to Libya.
Wilson, who has been held on $60 million bond, still faces three more trials in Washington and Houston on charges that he helped Libyan Col. Moammar Khadafy get explosives and train terrorists.
Ramp collapse kills state inspector
ELWOOD—A ramp for a bridge being built across the Missouri River completed yesterday, killing a state concrete inspector and injuring at least one worker.
Three of the injured workers were admitted to hospitals.
Officials said the inspector, a woman who was not identified pending notification of relatives, was trapped in the rubble of the ramp for an hour. Officials at the scene said she was an inspector for the Kansas Department of Transportation.
Doniphan County Sheriff's inspector Bobbie Dubach said the woman was inspecting the concrete being poured when the ramp collapsed. She said she did not think any other workers had been trapped.
The ramp was part of an interchange leading to a bridge being built as part of U.S. Highway 36 between Elwood and St. Joseph, Mo.
West German terrorist leader seized
The leader, Christian Klar, 30, West Germany's number one terrorist who has eluded police since 1977, was picked up at Sachsenvald, east of Hamburg, while digging up arms from the secret hideaway, the Interior Ministry said.
HAMBURG, West Germany—Hundreds of elite police swarm the leader of the Baader-Meinhof gang yesterday at a woodland underground arms dump in the second crippling blow against the terrorists in less than a week.
Klar, wanted for six murders and at least two terrorist attacks on U.S. forces, was armed with a large caliber pistol and carried false identity documents.
It was the second blow to the Baader-Meinhof gang, officially called the Red Army Faction, in less than a week. Klar's girlfriend and another woman, both leading members of the terrorist group, were arrested Thursday.
Catholic bishops may OK scriptures
WASHINGTON—The nation's Roman Catholic bishops took a break yesterday from debating a controversial missive on nuclear war to discuss using the same Bible readings for Sunday worship as those heard in Protestant churches.
More than 250 bishops at the annual meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops are expected to approve overwhelmingly the use of "Lectioration for Trial Use," the same scriptural chapter in the church calendar that the Protestants read each Sunday on a limited basis.
The bishops took up a variety of church matters before resuming debate today on a proposed pastoral letter concerning nuclear war.
A third draft of the letter, which condemns first use of nuclear arms and questions U.S. nuclear strategy, will be written when debate ends tomorrow, and the bishops will vote on it in May.
Rebels' time bombs kill 16 in Kabul
NEW DELHI, India—Rebels bombed three restaurants in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 16 Communist Party officials and secret police agents Thursday, Western diplomats said yesterday.
Time bombs planted at the restaurants in the posh Shahri Nau district exploded within 45 minutes of each other, the diplomats said.
The explosions came nine days after an accident involving two Soviet convoys in the Salang tunnel that reportedly killed at least 800 people. The tunnel is 60 miles north of Kabul.
The diplomatists said most of the deaths in the tunnel were caused by suffocation, because vehicles were left idling to keep their occupants safe.
The diplomats cited other reports of increased rebel activity in Kabul, including the assassination of a former government official and sporadic exchanges of gunfire.
The bodies had originally been buried on the desolate South Atlantic islands where they fell, but following a public outcry, they were
Britain brings Falkland dead home
SOUTHAMPTON, England—The bodies of 63 British soldiers and one Chinese civilian who died in the Falklands war came home to Britain yesterday.
In all, 257 British soldiers died in the Falklands war, in which the islands were recaptured from Argentine invaders June 14. By tradition, the battle was fought at Kula in the Falklands.
Of the men killed in the Falklands, 14 were buried at San Carlos cemetery on the islands and three remain buried where they were killed. The rest were either buried at sea or have not been recovered, the Ministry of Defense said.
Scientists' find may be moon rock
WASHINGTON—Antarctic scientists have found what appears to be an extremely rare meteorite that may be a piece of moon rock, the
William Cassidy, a University of Pittsburgh geologist who led the group that found the meteorite, said it could be "among the most significant scientific findings in the field of planetary sciences in recent years."
"It's been suggested for years that fragments have been kickoffed on the moon by meteor impact," Cassidy said. "But this could be the first time we've seen a fragment."
The meteorite was among the last of 378 found in January by a group of seven researchers Cassidy was leading in a region of ice fields known as the Allan Hills, about 140 miles northwest of McMurdo Station, a principal U.S. scientific outpost in Antarctica.
Shuttle completes first commercial flight
By United Press International
Vance Brand, Robert Overmeyer,
Joseph Allen and William Lenoir,
the first four-man shuttle crew, glided to
fawless landing in a spacecraft bearing
the scorches and nicks of five flights
covering more than 10 million miles.
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif.-Space shuttle Columbia's astronauts flow home yesterday from a crash site in Arizona as the start of a spaceflight revolution.
The astronauts guided Columbia through a thin layer of gray clouds to a picture-perfect landing at 6:33 a.m. PST, eight minutes after the sun rose over the Mojave Desert landing site 60 miles from Los Angeles.
spacewalk raised concern about plans for future repair missions involving
The astronauts flew on to Houston after brief welcoming ceremonies.
WHILE COLUMBIA'S two satellite launches in orbit proved the shuttle an able space freighter, the spacesuit failures that thwarted a planned
NASA officials said the next space shuttle crew would attempt a walk during its flight two months from now. If Columbia can be fixed in time, Columbia's crew can be fixed in time.
A team of 200 technicians quickly moved in to prepare Columbia to return to Cape Canveral, Fla., Sunday atop a plane that was delayed due to overhaul before returning to space.
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Associate space agency chief James Abrahamson said Challenger's flight, which will include the launch of a huge rocket, will take place between Jan. 24 and Feb. 4, 1983.
He said the Challenger mission would include a spacewalk if technicians
could find out in time why a vital fan motor failed in Allen's space suit and why a regulator valve let pressure drop in Lenoir's suit while the two were preparing to go outside Columbia Monday.
Testing the new $2 million suits in orbit as soon as possible is important, Abrahamsson said, because they will be needed in April 1848 when astronauts try to snare and repair the broken Solar Maximum scientific satellite.
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