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University Daily Kansan, October 29, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Election results contested; setback for Thatcher feared
LONDON—The Conservative Party demanded a recount yesterday in a "very close" parliamentary by-election in Northfield, Birmingham, in which Mr. Watson lost to his opponent.
The Conservatives captured the seat with a narrow 204-vote victory in the 1979 general election. Yesterday's contest was regarded as a
Conservative candidate Roger Gale said the voting produced "a very close result indeed" and asked for a recount, presumably because the Labor candidate had taken the election. The second count began immediately.
Election eve surveys in the predominantly middle-class district gave Conservative candidate Roger Gale a slight edge over Labor's John Spellar with Stephen Ridley of the Social Democrat-Liberal Alliance running third.
In a second contest, Labor maintained its half-century control of the blue-collar Peckham area of southeastern London, but the year-old Social Democrat-Liberal Alliance drastically cut into its majority.
Jobless benefits reach record high
WASHINGTON- The government said yesterday a record 4,662,000 workers were receiving unemployment checks. That, along with rising new claims, will boost October's unemployment rate to 10.5 percent, according to a congressional analysis.
The Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration said the 4,662,000 total recipients of unemployment checks eclipsed the previous record of the week that ended May 31, 1975, and reflected an increase of 43,000 from the previous week's revised level.
Bill Maddox, spokesman for the Democratic-controlled congressional Joint Economic Committee, acknowledged that the analysis was tied directly to next Tuesday's election.
director of the Newsroom's office.
"It was felt the Congress and the American public ought to be aware of what the October figure will be prior to the release next Friday," Maddox said.
Protestant gunmen abduct teen-ager
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Protestant gunmen said yesterday they kidnapped a 16-year-old Catholic boy in Belfast in a spiraling spree of sectarian violence that already has claimed six lives in less than a week.
The boy, Eamon Farrell, disappeared Wednesday on his way to get a haircut in the Roman Catholic Falls Road area, police said.
They said detectives regarded seriously a phone call from a Protestant paramilitary organization the BBC in Belfast said it had received.
In Belfast, police destroyed two cars outside the Protestant newspaper Belfast News Letter after false reports of a car bomb, phoned in by someone protesting the conditions of jailed Protestant loyalists.
Three policemen in the Royal Uister Constabulary died Wednesday when a bomb exploded on a country road in Lurgan, southwest of Belfast.
Fingerprint fails to match suspects'
CHICAGO—A full fingerprint found on the box of the eighth known bottle of cyanide-laced Tylenol did not match prints of any suspects in the seven killings, authorities said yesterday.
As task force investigators sifted through a dwindling supply of evidence in search of the killer or killers, the outbreak of copycat tamperings across the nation made consumers and manufacturers litter.
Products poisoned or tainted ranged from fruit juices, soft drinks and miniature candy bars to capsules of Extra-Strength Excedrin and Anacin and eye drops
"I was very lucky I didn't take the Tylonel," said Linda Morgan, a police wife who gave the latest bottle of poisoned capsules to a police
Morgan purchased the bottle Sept. 29, the first day some of the seven Chicago area poison victims died.
Owen challenges Carlin's claims
OVERLAND PARK—Republican Dave Owen, who was defeated by Sam Hardage in the GOP gubernatorial primary, yesterday accused Gov. John Carlin of relying on confusion and misleading claims to further his campaign.
At a news conference at Hardage's campaign headquarters Owen attacked Carlin for saying he submitted the first balanced budget in 10 years.
"The truth is, Carlin's budget was based on non-existent revenue," Owen said, referring to the proposed severance tax on minerals that Carlin built into his budget.
"Under Carlin, Kansas spent $13 million more than it took in for fiscal 1980."
Iailed youth may be tried as adult
WICHITA—A hearing has been set for Nov. 22 to determine whether a 17-year-old high school student, charged with homicide and aggravated robbery in the shooting death of a liquor store owner, can be tried as an adult.
Rogg, who had the authority to release the youth, refused to do so because of the "seriousness" of the crime.
The youth, who has not been identified because he is a juvenile, was ordered held in custody yesterday by Sedgwick County Juvenile Court Ronald L.
An adult also has been charged in the slaying of Virginia Gilbert, who was found shot to death behind the counter of her liquor store in Chicago.
Thaddeus Jones, 26, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, attempted aggravated robbery and possession of a firearm during an arrest.
He was being held yesterday in county jail in lieu of a bond set at $50 million.
Two Berliners escape to West in VW
BERLIN—Love across the Iron Curtain enabled a 41-year-old East Berlin woman and her 20-year-old son to stage a dramatic escape to the West in the false bottom of a 10-year-old Volkswagen.
Their escape, reported in yesterday's newspapers, was the culmination of a love affair that began in 1880 when East Berliner Sabine Berndt met West Berlin truck driver Gerhard Bock at a dance in an East Berlin cafe.
In mid-October, Bock drove his Volkswagen to a camp site in Czechoslovakia where he met Sabine and her son Christian.
The mother and son squeezed themselves into the tiny hidden compartment where they remained for three hours while Bok drove them.
Correction
Because of an editing error, Solveig Thirsteindottir's name was incorrectly spelled in an article in yesterday's Kansan.
Spanish Socialists win Parliament power
After more than 40 years
By United Press International
MADRID, Spain—Spain's Socialists,
led by Felipe Gonzalez, catapulted into
power for the first time in more than 40
years yesterday and won an absolute
majority in Parliament, official government returns showed.
vowed in the campaign to re-examine Spain's participation in NATO and the use of Spanish bases by the United States, will become the nation's new prime minister after Parliament is called into session around Nov. 15.
The Interior Ministry, declaring the returns "practically definitive," gave the Socialists 194 seats in the 350-seat parliament.
The right-wing Popular Alliance, beaded by former Franco minister Manuel Fraga, came in second with 97 seats.
The ministry said the Socialists received 8.5 million votes, or 45.7 percent, to the rightists' 4.6 million votes, or 24.9 percent.
Elegantly dressed men and women turned the voting into a celebration at evening festivities in the capital, and thousands of dancing and singing groups held a rally. Mayor to celebrate the Socialist victory as it was tallied on a huge screen.
THE VICTORY for Gonzalez, who
A record 74 percent of the 26.5 million electorate took part in the third elections since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. As expected, the vote polarized the populace to the extreme right and left.
NETHER OF THE centrist parties,
the ruling Union of the Democratic
Party, and the opposition in
and Social Center, won the minimum 15 seats required to form parliamentary groups.
"The government is very satisfied at the way things, went today." Interior Minister Juan Jose Roson said, "because the Spanish people have shown they can express their will peacefully, and because of the high participation."
Gonzalez, after casting his ballot in Madrid, said he hoped "the electoral process can be celebrated in peace and liberty."
THE VOTE was held under tight security as 130,000 policemen and troops guarded polling stations, government offices, radio and television stations, airports, borders and coastlines to discourage possible coup attempts by right-wing military officers who feared a Socialist victory.
loting, however, was the Basque terrorist bombing of two banks in the northern city of Bilbao, officials said. Two policemen were injured.
Spain, since 1933 a host for two U.S. Air Force bases and a U.S. Navy base, joined NATO last June. During his campaign, Gonzalez pledged to hallitize Felipe Ocampo's morally structure and to call a reformation on continued membership.
GONZALEZ SAID he would also "take a close look" at the recently renewed treaty permitting operation of the Navajo Air Force base, Zaragoza, and the Navy base at Rota.
The vote marked a crucial test for a Socialist bid to form Spain's first leftist government since the Popular Front under the dictator France in the 1936-39 Civil War.
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