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News Briefs From United Press International
Candlelight vigil honors Vietnam victims, veterans
WASHINGTON—"Gerald L. Aadland." The name, solemnly intoned, marked the opening yesterday of a five/day national salute to the victims and veterans of the Vietnam War.
A candlelight vigil at the National Cathedral began at midmorning as organizers of the event began reading the roll call of the 57,939 Americans killed and missing in Vietnam.
Americans killed and misused a surprise visit to the cathedral at dusk President Reagan made in the vigna. Aides, citing security concerns, had said earlier it was unlikely Reagan would participate in any of the public events of the salute.
public events of the shale.
The capstone ceremonies will be the formal dedication Sandra S. Keller's stark, chevron-shaped black granite Vietnam War Memorial, located near the Lincoln Memorial on the Washington Mall, inscribed with the names of the dead.
The dedication of the memorial, built with $7 million in private contributions raised by the Memorial Fund, will take place after a parade of 15,000 veterans down Constitution Avenue Saturday. Organizers expect 250,000 people to attend.
CHICAGO - Democratic challenger Adalai Stevenson III said yesterday he would demand a recount of figures showing that Republican Gov. James Thompson won re-election in the closest governor's election in modern Illinois history.
Stevenson to ask for ballot recount
New figures released yesterday showed Thompson won by a margin of 5,344 votes.
Stevenson had counted on picking up enough votes in the Chicago campaign to wipe out Thompson's unofficial lead of 9,401 votes, which was announced Friday after a vote-counting process was delayed by wet ballots and faulty computers.
animals and faulty computers. But Michael Lavelle, chairman of the Chicago Board of Election Commission, noted that the former U.S. senator had gained only 4,092 votes in a canvass of Chicago ballots. Thompson had 1,814,255 votes to Stevenson's 1,808,911 statewide.
KCC asks for rehearing on rate hike
TOPEKA—The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to conduct a rehearing on its decision to grant Cities Service Gas Co. a rate hike.
The motion for a rehearing said the KCC and Gov. John Carlin wanted a rebuke because they thought the "purchasing patterns of Cities Service Gas Co. had resulted in unnecessarily high natural gas prices to consumers in Kansas."
The rate hike raises gas prices by $66 million in Kansas and by more than $136 million in a five-state area that includes Kansas.
In addition, the KCC charges that the FERC's decision was arbitrary and capricious because the commission did not address the KCC's concerns about Kansas ratepayers.
Man holds hostages in high school
BURKE. Va—A former student, upset by an argument with his girlfriend, yesterday shot at her and took nine hostages in a high school. He released three in exchange for coffee and a fourth because she asked to go.
The man, identified as James Stevens, 18, fired several shots at police and at his girlfriend, a student at the school, forcing authorities to evacuate the school, police said. No injuries were reported.
suit the school, police said. No injuries were reported in the two people remained captive, including the school principal, John Alwood.
Teachers said the rifle-tooting man was able to pass almost unnoticed through the hallways at Lake Braddock High School about 1:30 p.m. because they thought he was in the school production of the musical,
Police spokesman Warren Carmichael said the young man was armed with a 22-caliber rifle with a telescopic sight.
Man awaits hearing in jail deaths
LOXI, Miss.—A former mental patient was ordered held without bond yesterday to await possible grand jury action on capital murder charges in the deaths of 27 prisoners in the Harrison County Jail fire.
ranges in the deaths of 21 presidents. Robert Eugene Eates, 31, was brought before Harrison County Judge Danny Guice for his initial appearance pending a formal hearing set for Nov. 17.
If convicted, Pates could be sentenced to die in the state's gas chamber.
No plea was entered at the hearing. Guice appointed two Biloxi attorneys, Jim Rose and Earl Stegall, to represent Pates after the defendant said he had been drawing Social Security disability benefits and had no money to hire a lawyer.
and no money to hire a lawyer.
A special grand jury will meet next week, but District Attorney Albert Necaia said it probably would be the following week before the Pates case was submitted to the panel.
Arafat may be invited to visit U.S.
TEL AVIV, Israel - The United States and the Palestine Liberation Organization are conducting indirect negotiations that could lead to an invitation for Yasser Arafat to visit Washington, an Israeli newspaper reported yesterday.
reported yesterday. The Hebrew newspaper Ha'aretz, quoting Arab sources, said the negotiations were being conducted through Morrocan and Saudi intermediaries.
The United States is demanding that the PLO grant Jordan's King Hussein the mandate to represent the Palestinians in autonomy talks, the newspaper said.
The autonomy talks, on granting the Palestinians limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank, have until now been between Israel and Egypt with U.S. mediation.
Washington is also demanding that the PLO accept U.N. resolutions 242 and 338, His aretz said, which recognize Israel as a state.
Spy pleads guilty, gets prison term
LONDON—A British spy pleaded guilty yesterday to providing the Special Union with top U.S. and British secrets "of an exceptionally grave nature" for more than a decade and was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Geoffrey Prime, 44, got three more years for indecent assault against three young girls — the sex charges that tripped him up.
three young girls — the sex charges; Prime's spying was caused by accident — a matter of deep trust and interest in British government. After his arrest on the sex charges he confessed his sexual transgressions and his spying to his second wife, Rhona, 37.
Prince, a Russian language specialist, was a government translator for nine years. In 1976-77, he worked at the Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham, Britain's top secret electronic intelligence base, which shares its secrets with the United States.
IRA gunmen kill British customs officer
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Irish Republican army gunmen shot and killed a British customs officer near the Irish public border yesterday on the one of the opening of Northern Ireland's new local parliament, police said.
By United Press International
Armagh is southwest of Belfast and is about 10 miles north of the border with the Irish Republic.
than 24 nurses. The officers officer died instantly when two hooded IRA gunmen armed with automatic weapons opened fire on his automobile at close range as he was leaving his post near the outskirts of the city of Armagh, police said.
It was the third IRA killing in less than 24 hours.
THE VICTIM'S identity was not immediately disclosed, but police said the man was married, in his 50s and the father of three children.
Pollice said the victim was a member of the part-time Ulster Defense Regiment militia that helped police an unidentified IRA, which claimed responsibility for the killin-
Fifty minutes after the Armagh attack "a number" of masked gunmen raided a golf clubhouse in the city of Newry, 35 miles south of Belfast and 20 miles from Armagh, police said.
The gunmen ordered occupants out of the building and detonated at least 100 pounds of explosives causing extensive damage but no injuries, police said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the Newry attack but police sources said the assault appeared to have been carried out by the IRA, which is especially active in the border area.
THE IRA EARLIER claimed responsibility for planting a car bomb that killed an off-duty police officer and a female passenger at Emniskillen Tuesday.
The upsurge of violence endangered
the opening of the assembly, Britain's latest attempt to reconcile the majority pro-British Protestants and the minority Roman Catholics who seek some form of link to the Irish Republic.
Nine other people have died in sectarian violence since the assembly election O=t. 20.
Northern Ireland Secretary James Prior said the 78-seat assembly would convene today for the first time in eight years, although 19 seats would be vacant because of a boycott by the two parties representing most Roman Catholics.
Abilene, Leavenworth both want Nixon Library
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Volumes of documents and tapes chronicing Watergate and the presidential years of Richard Nixon may find a permanent home in Kansas.
each other.
Among other cities submitting offers is Independence, Mo., home of the Truman Library.
Despite tangential relationships between their cities and the expresident, both Abilen's Chamber of Commerce and Leavenworth's City Commission will bring to the Nixon library to Kansas.
Stan Mortonson, Nixon's attorney,
said that he would not say how the
offers were ranked because alisey
tends to pack a packing order among
them.
the Franklin Exp. my practice "IT'S BEEN my practice not to comment on how they are ranked." Morton said. "There are many sites and they're varied in rank and location."
location.
Neither Abilene nor Leavenworth has strong historical ties to the ex-president, but Abilene Chamber of Commerce president Ray Wyatt said Nixon served as vice president to
Dwight D. Eisenhower for two terms, which gave his city a valid claim to be the home of his library.
"Having the Eisenhower Library is something that set us apart from other interested cities," he said. "We fell it, would give us an edge."
But Robert VonSchlemer, chairman of the Leavenworth City Commission's Committee for the Nixon Library, said that Ablene's Eisenhower library would be a disadvantage.
person.
He said Kansas' central location in the country would make it a good location for the museum.
advantage.
"WHY WOULD a president want to plunk his library down next to another president?" he said. "As humans we don't want to live in shadow of another person."
Leavenworth is an army town, VonSchlemmer said, and that should appeal to the ex-president.
"We have 100 to 110 foreign officers graduate from the General Command Staff College every year, and they say they felt more secure under President Nixon than any other post World War II president," he said. "We feel the library would be a valuable addition to our town."
Leavenworth has been considering acquiring the library for several months, he said, but had not made a formal announcement of any nightly commission meeting.
BECAUSE of the stormy nature of Nixon's resignation from office in 1973, the commission had expected some resistance from the public.
"I was waiting for some opposition last night, but there wasn't any," VonSchlemmer said.
Jill Merrill, public affairs officer for the U.S. National Archives, said the Nixon records were among the most extensive of any president
If either Leavenworth or Ablene gets the library, more than 40 million pages of textual material, 11,000 cubic feet of gifts, 3,100 feet of audio visual material and 6,000 hours worth of tapes will make the VA a center across the midwestern United States into Kansas, she said.
Even if Nixon makes a decision on a library site soon, too much declassifying and reviewing of the material has to be done to release it in the near future.
future.
"WE DON'T anticipate being able to make any of this material available
to the public before 1984 or '85," she said.
Textual material would be released in segments as it was declassified, but the infamous tapes would be released as a whole. At present only about 30 percent of the tapes have been declassified.
declassified
Leavenworth and Abilene have potential sites, but Leavenworth has earmarked a 10-acre plot, while Abilene will wait for more feedback before making its decision.
VonSchlemmer said his committee had spent a lot of time making sure Leavenworth wanted the library.
"We have been very careful of not forcing this on the community," he said. "I would not want to see the nature of the city change. Bringing 250,000 people a year into a town has some effect, but if we can't do it right, we don't want to do it."
He said history would make President Nixon appear as a better man than the present assessment of him.
"History is the final judge," he said.
"When historians start looking at him closely, through these records partially, I think we'll see a different picture."