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University Daily Kansan, October 22, 1984
News Briefs From United Press International
Crew flees natural gas rig after blowout causes fire
MORGAN CITY, La – A natural gas well 85 miles into the Gulf of Mexico blew out seven hours earlier a fire that sent flames 350 feet into the water. The 42-well is the city's second oil facility.
The cause of the blowout was not immediately known.
No one was injured on the Chevron USA Inc. offshore drilling platform, company spokesman Newell Schindler said. The blowout occurred about 2 a.m., but the fire did not ignite until 12 hours later, he said.
Firefighting equipment was on its way to the rig late yesterday and a semiumbersible rig was also preparing to drill a relief well at the site.
If the relief well successfully intersects with the existing well, schindler said, drilling mud would be pumped into the hole in an effort to increase water pressure.
Natural gas escaping from the well fed a fire that damaged parts of the rig, officials said.
Schindler said the workers were moved to a nearby structure in evacuation capsules, self-propelled vehicles that float on the water.
Police find more poisoned Tylenol
CHICAGO — Another bottle of poisoned Extra-Strength Tylenol was found among bottles pulled from shelves of a store a half block from where one of seven victims of the cyanide-Tylenol murders bought her medication, police said yesterday.
Police superintendent Richard Brzezcek said a laboratory found the bottle yesterday while testing random samples of Extra-Strength Tylene removed from stores in the Chicago area. Capsules in the bottle contained cyanide, he said.
Brzeczek said the bottle came from a Dominick's Finer Foods store a half block from a drugstore where airline flight attendant Paula Prince worked.
The hunt for James W. Lewis and wife, Leann, a couple suspected in the killings, was concentrated on Eastern and Midwestern cities.
Rains burst dam, kill 15 in Spain
VALENCIA, Spain — Flood waters slowly began to recede today in southeastern Spain where 15 people were killed and 100,000 others were wounded.
"The fear is over," said Jose Domenech, mayor of Tous, where a 240-foot dam on the Juncar river collapsed, sending millions of gallons of water cascading into nearby towns.
Authorities said the floods killed at least 15 people. Another 23 were reported missing.
The floods were spawned by torrential rainstorms Wednesday and yesterday along the Levantine coast between Valencia and Alicante, on Monday.
More than 100,000 people were forced to abandon their homes and seek refuge in private houses, schools, churches and public buildings.
Polish official says artists released
WARSAW, Poland — The new minister for art and culture said in a televised speech yesterday that he personally had intervened to win the Nobel Prize.
The new minister, Kazimierz Zygulski, assumed his post two weeks 'ago in a cabinet shuttle.
"When I was taking over the post, I turned to the minister of the interior to release from interment all those whose activity is connected with the sphere of the ministry of culture," he said in a television address.
He did not say how many intermed writers, actors, musicians or other individuals involved in cultural affairs were involved.
Nor did he say whether these people were included in the 308 interned people military chief Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski announced 10 days ago would be freed. About 3,000 members of the outlawed trade union Solidarity are still intermed.
Arabs fail to oust Israel from U.N.
WASHINGTON — Arab nations abandoned efforts to oust Israel from the United Nations today and lost a similar move to kick Israel out of a U.N.-affiliated conference in Nairobi, Kenya.
Delegates at the International Telecommunications Agency conference in Nairobi adopted a British compromise that condemned Israel for its invasion and continued presence in Lebanon but did not ban it from the conference.
The 157-member conference approved the compromise resolution by four votes.
The United States voted against the condemnation resolution
"I hope this is the climax to recent moves to exclude Israel from international agencies," said U.S. chief delegate Michael Gardner.
Parole hearing for Sirhan delaved
The hearing was postponed at the request of Sirhan's attorney, Luke McKissack. Board spokesman Joan Cavahagh said the request was granted on the condition that a hearing be held sometime before the end of next May.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The State Board of Prison Terms has postponed next month's hearing for Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted rapeman who was indicted in connection with the murder.
McKissack said he decided to waive the hearing so he could appeal the decision the board made last May, which canceled Sirhan's previously scheduled Sept. 1, 1984 release date.
The board said Sirhan's record of violent and abusive language toward prison officials was not known to the parole panel that set the release date in 1975.
Sirhan is serving a life sentence for killing Kennedy in 1968 at a Los Angeles hotel the night Kennedy won the California Democratic presidential nomination.
Stephan to aid state in gas rate suit
TOPEKA — Attorney General Robert Stephanie agreed yesterday to approve Kansas should legal action be necessary to suspend a natural disaster.
Nell Woerman, a spokesman for Stephan, said a lawsuit seeking an injunction could be filed in federal court as early as Friday to stop the natural gas wholesaler's second rate hike this year.
State utility officials have said the rate hike — $66 million in Kansas and $136 in a five-state area including Kansas — would raise the price of natural gas in an average household by $98 a year.
In addition, Cities Service was granted a rate increase in April that will boost gas prices for a typical household by about $45 a year.
Kansas Corporation Commission spokesman Tom Tayler said the combined rate increases would be "devastating" to many Kansas consumers.
Election of IRA members worries Ulster
By United Press International
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Three candidates from the political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army scored victories in Northern Ireland's assembly elections yesterday, triggering warnings of new trouble in Ulster.
Republican Sinn Fein candidates won 10 percent of the vote and scored their victories in widely separated parts of the province, mainly at the expense of the traditional, moderate Roman Catholic church. The Social Democratic and Labour Party.
"We have seen the resurgence of Sinn Fein in Ulster," said the Rev. Ian Paisley, Protestant leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, which
Protestant leaders, who have vowed never to share power with Catholics, were quick to cast gloom over the assembly's future.
opposes sharing power with the minority Catholics. "We are up against a
WITH 31 out of 78 contests declared, the complex, proportional representation voting system gave Protestant parties 19 seats. Sinn Fain won three seats, the moderate Alliance Party three and the SDLP six.
The victories by the three Sinn Fein candidates appeared to deal a blow to British government hopes of creating a forum for uniting the Catholic minority and Protestant majority in the province.
Paisley, who easily won an assembly seat in North Antrim, said the victories by Sinn Fein meant Northern Ireland was "faced with a crisis."
The moderate Catholic party was trailing the radical Sinn Fein. Both Catholic parties have pledged to boycott the assembly.
"Obviously we are pleased," said a Sinn Fein spokesman. "The British
Gerry Adams, prominent in the Republican movement since the 1960s, said, "While the British Army remains with them (the IRA) will be in there fishing."
government will have to reassess its position by abandoning the present plan (for assembly) and coming to see only option is to get out of Ireland.
ADAMS POLLED 9,740 votes on the first ballot, 4,500 more than his nearest opponent representing the moderate Catholics in the province.
Adams, 33, a former prisoner in the Maze, has been in and out of prison since the mid-1960s for terrorist activities. He once headed up secret negotiations between the IRA and the British government in 1972.
Adams called his election "not a personal one but one for the struggle." Owen Carrion, member of the board of directors of the MCA, assign manager for IRA hunger striker
Bobby Sands, who died in 1981, was elected for Sim Fein in Fermann and south Tyronne Sim Fein's third victory in the election with the election of James McGuinness.
DESPITE THE three Republican victories, Protestant candidates were leading in many of the 78 races in the assembly.
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The election was held under heavy security with more than 20,000 police officers.
Simn Fein has promised its candidates would not attend any assembly
The election is the first in Northern Ireland in 10 years, since Britain took over direct administration of the province in 1972. Despite British hopes that the assembly will work to resolve the sectarian violence that has claimed more than one million lives since 1972, most of the candidates have vowed to boycott the assembly.
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