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University Daily Kansan, October 5, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Draft-registration resister sentenced, released on bail
SAN DIEGO — A federal judge yesterday sentenced draft-registration resister Benjamin H. Sasway to 2 1/2 years in a minimum-security facility but ordered his release on $10,000 bail pending an appeal.
Sasway's bail was posted by the Draft Resisters Defense Committee. Judge Gordon Thompson Jr. ordered compliance with a three-point plan as condition for releasing Sasway: his pledge to remain in the continental United States; his return to college as a full-time student or his taking a full-time job; and his checking in regularly with a probation officer.
Thompson had denied bail for Saway, of Vista, Calif., who was convicted Aug. 26, fearing he might flee to Canada in the style of war
Speaking to the court from notes at the sentencing, Sasway said, "I violated the letter of the law. I have committed an act of civil disobedience. Part of that act is a willingness to take responsibility for that action of civil disobedience. I am prepared to do that."
He is the first person to be convicted of failing to register for the draft since the Vietnam War.
Cessna plants resume production
WICHITA — Cessna Aircraft Co. called hundreds of laborers back to work yesterday and resumed production at two of the company's single-engine aircraft manufacturing plants, a company spokesman said.
Dean Humphrey, director of public relations at Cessna, refused to release the specific number of workers called back to their jobs.
A plant at Störbø Field, between Winfield and Arkansas City, has been shut down since March 29. Another plant in east Wichita that also was shut down is nearby.
A lack of demand forced the plant closings, Humphrey said, but the company's inventory has been reduced enough to justify building more
He said there were 6,200 Cessna workers in the Wichita area, and 5,500 have been laid off in the past year.
Veterans Administration chief quits
WASHINGTON — Robert Nimmo resigned yesterday as the Veterans Administration chief, citing "compelling personal considerations" for ending an embattled term that was clouded by discontent among veterans and charms that he misused taxpayers' money.
The former California state legislator also had been criticized by veterans groups for failing to answer their concerns about the defoliant Agent Orange and other issues. The head of Vietnam Veterans of America welcomed Nimmo's departure.
A spokesman for Nimoim had his resignation “had nothing to do” with numerous charges that he had misused public funds. White House aides riled him over the claims.
Polish bishop cancels trip to Rome
Nimmo will stay on until Dec. 31 to give President Reagan time to name a successor.
WARSAW, Poland - Polish Primate Josef Glemp, a stamina supporter of the Solidarity trade union, canceled his visit to Rome and the United States Monday out of fear Poland's military rulers may use his absence to formally outlaw the suspended union.
Glemp said other bishops would travel to Rome to attend a conference Thursday of European Roman Catholic bishops and the canonization Sunday of Rev. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941.
Glemp said he canceled his trips abroad because of the "the general situation" in Poland. Church sources there said they feared the military leadership would outlaw Solidarity at a parliamentary session Oct. 8-9.
Senior church sources said the missionist and been three's purpose were dissolved he would demand the formation of another Solidarity were dissolved he would demand the formation of another Solidarity.
Hijackers demand asylum in U.S.
SHARAJH, United Arab Emirates — Four hijackers demanding political asylum in the United States seized an Iranian military transport plane, freed all 79 passengers and forced the craft to fly to an unknown destination, officials said yesterday.
The American-built C-130 Hercules transport, apparently carrying Iranian military officials and relatives, was seized on a domestic flight Sunday and was forced to fly southwest across the Persian Gulf to Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates.
The hijackers, three men and a woman, were presumed to be Iranians.
Authorities did not know the plane was hijacked until after it landed at Duban because the pilot radioed airport authorities that he was lost, low on oxygen.
Gulf plant stays closed after arrests
BAYTOWN, Texas — Although four Colorado suspects have been arrested, Gulf Oil Chemicals Co. kept its biggest plant shut down for a fifth day yesterday because of a $15 million bomb-threat extortion plot.
Five bombs were disarmed at the plant last week, one of them exploding harmlessly. An extortion letter reportedly set a Sunday deadline and said that 10 devices were hidden at the Cedar Bayou plant. No more bombs have been found.
Gulf received the threat Sept. 28 in letters to four company executives.
The FBI refused to say what further developments could be expected, but agents went in force to Durango, Colo., to act on search warrants for the suspects.
Gulf and FBI officials have refused to say what relation, if any, the four suspects had with the company. Investigators have said that whoever planted the bombs knew the plant.
GOP chairman to resign in January
WASHINGTON — Richard Richards, the "mats and bolts" Utah politician President Reagan reame two years ago to run the Republican Party, said yesterday that, having lost the president's endorsement, he could not in January.
The Republican National Committee chairman, man in swemper fire from White House political operatives during much of his tenure, said Reagan had not asked him to serve another two-year term, but instead offered to give him a job in the administration.
Richards denied he was being pushed out although Reagan's offer might be regarded as a gentle way of asking him to step aside.
According to stories emanating from the White House in recent weeks, Drew Lewis, secretary of transportation, is likely to be tapped as Richards' successor. But Lewis, a veteran of GOP politics in Pennsylvania, denied the rumor.
Tylenol investigators stymied
By United Press International
CHICAGO—Two batches of Tylenol found under suspicious circumstances tested negative for cyanide yesterday. Frustrated investigators, swamped in an "absolute sea of shopped bottles," were taken to a local kings would not face seven victims.
Police found 16 Extra Strength Tylenol capsules in a stolen car recovered on the South Side yesterday after a man reported an account of Health found no evidence of cyanide.
"ITS A negative," said a disappointed Sherwin Rubenstein, administrative director of the Bureau of Health Regulations. "It's not cyanide."
Part of another batch of Extra Strength Tylenol capsules found last week in a parking lot in suburban Elgin also tested negative at a state lab.
Bob Fletcher, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Law Enforcement, said part of a week's visit by the Elgin police to a state Department of Public
FLETCHER, Rubenstein and other officials were clearly worried about the possibility of finding more victims of the cyanide-loaded Extra-Strength Tylon capsules that claimed seven lives last week. They also were concerned that the killer might poison a similar product.
Health lab in, Joliet and had not yet arrived at the lab.
"We're continuing to wade through this absolute sea of red-topped bottles," said city Health Department spokesman Reggie Jones. City analysts had analyzed the tables and tablets of Tyleneb by midday yesterday and found no trace of cyanide.
Another 1 million capsules tested nationwide since last week were free of cyanide, U.S. Food and Drug Administrator Attorney Arthur Hayes said.
"ALL THE CASES of death and illness have occurred in the Chicago area," Hays says. Despite that, he said, "We are still in a position against the use of Tylenol capsules."
In reaction to the poisonings, the Cook County Board approved an ordinance yesterday requiring seals on bottles of over-the-counter medicines, such as Tylolen. Similar legislation is prepared at the city and state levels.
nationwide, until the Chicago situation can be clarified."
"I don't think any company in the industry would even raise a peep now." Rubenstein said. "It would protect them."
HAVES ALSO announced formation of a government-pharmacy industry task force to work on security measures, such as sealing pill containers, to avoid future cases of deliberate contamination.
The widow of one of the victims filed a $15 million damage suit Monday against McNeil Consumer Products Co., which manufactures Tylenol, and its parent company, Johnson and Johnson Inc. The suit also named as defendants two local supermarkets operated by Jewel Food Stores.
The suit was filed on behalf of Teresa
Janus, wife of Adam Janus, 27, who
was poisoned after ingesting the deadly capsule.
STATE Attorney General Tyrone Fahnner, who previously dubbed the unknown killer a "madman," said he believes the medication was not tampered with until it reached the stores, virtually ruling out the possibility the capsules were exchanged at the manufacturing or distribution level.
Fahner said differences between the tainted capsules suggested that either more than one killer was involved or the suspect was subject to wide-ranging swings of mood and personality. "Some (of the capsules) have been kind of butchered in the way they've been put together and others have been put together quite carefully and that suggests more than one person."
FAHNER also said authorities had no specific psychological profile of the killer or killers. "It's awfully difficult to figure out what kind of person would put random death on the shelf," he said.
High court to tackle tax credit question
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court opened its new term yesterday with an announcement that it will grapple with the knotty problem of whether parents will be able to claim tuition tax credits by allowing their children to private schools.
As the 1982-83 term began, the justices said they would review a Minnesota law attacked as an unconstitutional mixing of government and primary benefits to families with children attending non-public schools.
ACROSS the street from the court, Congress has been wrestling with a proposal backed by President Reagan to raise $300 per student a year in 1985.
Critics say the legislation could undermine public schools by siphoning funds away from them. Final action is not expected on the measure this year.
Convening the 192nd session of the nation's top tribunal on a busy first Monday in October, the justices declared the 10-year-old Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution legally dead, refusing to rule on legal questions left hanging when the ERA failed to win approval by last June 30.
THE COURT bypassed a chance to clarify the troublesome issues of whether Congress may extend the ratification deadline and whether states may rescind approval of constitutional amendments.
The tax credits question is among scores of major cases — ranging from abortion to the use of videotape at a doctor's office before next summer by the nine justices.
The Minnesota tuition tax credit statute allows state taxpayers to take deductions for tuition, textbooks and transportation of students attending any public or private elementary or high school in Minnesota and surrounding states.
The deduction is limited to $500 for each dependent in grades kindergarten through 6 and $700 for grades 7 through 12.
But the appeals panel noted it reached its decision "not without difficulty," and said law provides an "indirect state subsidy" that can be seen as encouraging parents to "to educate and support religion-oriented schools."
in lower federal courts, with the St. Louis appeals court finding that the measure is designed to "provide all taxpayers a benefit . . ."
Critics say the law costs the state $2.9 million each year for the 90,000 students attending tuition-charging non-public schools.
THE STATE law survived two tests
ECHOING criticisms leveled against the national tuition tax credit plan, critics argue that the law attempts to "funnel public tax monies to sectarian schools" and violates the First Amendment prohibition against adding relation.
In addition to hearing arguments on four pending cases, the court also took these actions on some of more than 1.000 cases on its docket:
ANNOUNCED it will examine the favorable tax status of veterans' organizations, which are allowed to use tax-deductible contributions for lobbying although other groups may not do so.
— STEERED clear of a California dispute over hyposis, leaving intact a ruling that bans trial testimony of witnesses who have been hypnotized.
- DISBARRED former Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, who resigned during the Watergate scandal, from practicing before the high court because of a disciplinary suspension by the Arizona Supreme Court.
- — ACCEPTED for argument a dispute over Wyoming's 1981 legislative redistricting plan that gave the state's county县 own state representative
- REBUFFED a plan by the Boston Teachers Union for review of court-ordered hiring quotas for black teacher resulted in layoffs of white teachers
— AGREED to decide whether cities have a constitutional duty to pay medical bills of suspected criminals who are injured while fleeing from police.
Orbiting cosmonauts may set space record
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"our people get all the necessary supplies they can stay up there forever," said Nikolai Rukavikishov, a former cosmonaut and senior official in the Soviet space program.
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union celebrated the 25th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 yesterday by announcing that a Soviet cosmonaut crew now in orbit will set a new space endurance record.
"THIS mission will last for some time," he said of the current flight by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Anatoly Beregovoy. The Salyut 7 laboratory has been orbiting Earth for more than 20 weeks.
Officials said a record flight by Lebebed and Berezovoy was "quite possible," but refused to be drawn into specifying a specific plan for the space voyage.
"Maybe they will become home-sick for the Earth," Rukavishnikov said. The space crewmen, who began their flight May 13, would
have to stay in orbit 42 more days to eclipse the 185-day record, now held by two other Russian cosmonauts.
"We ARE dreaming about space as permanent living quarters," medical expert Oleg Gazenko said.
He said Soviet scientists had considered sending couples into space in the future, and discussed the possibility of a child being born in zero gravity.
Roaid S. Zagweed, director of the Space Research Institute, said the real stars of the past 25 years of extra-terrestrial exploration were the first Sputunk and its descendants, the unmanned payloads of satellites that have extended the reach of Earth. Enclaves like Mars, Venus and the other planets.
A GLEAMING chrome-plated model of Spatkin 1, a beachhall-sized ship with four antennas located in the lobby of the space center.
The original 184-pound satellite rocked the world when it was launched Oct. 4, 1957, opening up the space age and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was a main power in rocket technology.
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