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News Briefs From United Press International
Social Democrats triumph; Schmidt's status improves
BONN, West Germany — Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democrats scored a stunning victory over their former coalition partner yesterday in state elections that could allow Schmidt to remain in power.
The Social Democrats won 42.8 percent of the vote in the state of Hesse, inflicting a devastating defeat on the small but pivotal Free Democratic Party, Schmidt's former coalition partner that pulled out of his government last week in favor a coalition with the Christian Democrats.
Democrats.
Final results had the Free Democrats with only 3.1 percent of the vote, below the 5 percent needed for representation in the state parliament in Wiesbaden. The Christian Democrats had 45.6 percent and the Greens, an environmental and anti-nuclear party, were given 8 percent, replacing the Free Democrats in Wiesbaden.
Schmidt supporters think the defeat of the Free Democrats in Hesse will enable Schmidt to survive a no-confidence vote in parliament Friday, when Christian Democratic leader Helmut Kohl will try to replace him as chancellor.
Officials say guard, ex-lover fought
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — A prison guard who slaughtered 13 people fought with an ex-lover for custody of their son, authorities said yesterday, and reports indicated the trauma might have been too much for him to hear.
**John to Bear.**
George Bailey, 40, in the Luzerne County jail after his surrender. Same morning, was described by acquaintances as a troubled ex-convict who often boasted he would solve various problems by killing people.
people. Dressed in blue military-style fatigues and carrying an AR-15 automatic weapon, Banks killed seven children including five of his own, four girlfriends and a neighborhood visitor and wounded a 14th person early Saturday morning. The shootings took place about 30 minutes apart in two homes, officials said.
State prisons spokesman Kenneth Robinson said Banks had been on vacation since Sept. 6, but said he could neither confirm nor deny a guard's claim that Banks may have threatened to shoot a supervisor at that time.
Honduran rebels remain in Panama
KANAMA CITY — Twelve leftist rebels who fled Honduras after their failed eight-day hostage seizure will remain in Panama until they are granted political asylum in Cuba, Panamanian authorities said yesterday.
Officials initially said the 12 Honduran guerrillas would leave Panama immediately, but Cuban Ambassador Miguel Bruguera said there were no developments yesterday.
Another official said the rebels, members of the Cichonoero guerrilla group, expected to receive political asylum in Cuba and would be allowed to remain in Panama until the necessary paperwork was completed.
The rebels shot their way into the chamber of commerce in San Pedro Sula, Honduras' second largest city, Sept. 17 and seized 105 people attending a business convention. They released the last of their hostages Saturday and were allowed to leave the country on a flight to Panama City.
Lawver to ask for unwanted appeal
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — An attorney today will argue before the Missouri Supreme Court to overturn the conviction of a confessed murderer who says he wants to die.
From his death-row cell at the Missouri State Penitentiary, Gerald Smith, 23, has been petitioning the court, the prison's warden, reporters and anyone else who will listen that he does not want to appeal his conviction, that he does not want his court-appointed attorney, John Putzel, interfering with his case and that he is now quite ready and willing to die.
Chief Justice Robert Donnelly said then it was impossible for the court to review the propriety of Smith's death sentence without first considering Putzel's appeal.
Smith was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1880 revenge murder of Karen Ann Roberts. 20.
Bail for ex-agent set at $60 million
WASHINGTON — An unprecedented $60 million in bail has been set for an ex-CIA agent held on charges of arms and munitions smuggling and conspiracy to commit murder.
Ex-CIA clandestine agent Edwin Wilson is scheduled to appear today before U.S. District 'Court' Judge John Pratt.
before U.S. District Court Judge George The indictment, among numerous counts, charges that Wilson, 54, illegally acted as an agent for Moammar Khadafy, supplying the Libyan leader with explosives and arms, recruiting former Green Berets to train terrorists and hiring pilots and mechanics to fly and maintain airplanes.
The former intelligence agent also is charged with conspiracy to commit murder and solicitation to commit murder, involving "hit squads" to eliminate anti-Khadafy Libyans in Western Europe, Canada and the United States.
Earlier this year, Wilson was lured from hisilla in Libya to a supposed haven in the Dominican Republic and was forced on an airliner to New York where he was arrested in June.
Burger barons battle over TV ads
MIAMI — The "battle over the best burger" sized yesterday, with Burger King prepared to unleash television advertisements claiming a bigger and better hamburger and archrival McDonald's determined to block the ads in court.
blood. Alam-based Burger King was to launch a new series of advertisements last night on CBS. The ad claimed “independent” research proved both McDonald's and Wendy's plain burgers lost out to Burger King's in consumer taste tests.
The two burger giants have a date in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Eugene Spellman today, where McDonald's hopes to get the advertising campaign blocked.
advertising campaign. Meanwhile, a third hamburger chain, Wendy's, has jumped into the fray. An official for Wendy's issued a challenge to Burger King and McDonald's to hold a "national hamburger taste test."
Correction
Dean Palos was incorrectly identified in Friday's story about downtown redevelopment. He is a planner in the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Department.
New Right fails to reach social goals
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—The New Right, which once dreamed of great triumphs in the 97th Congress, finished its two years crust with defeat bordering
on disaster "I've had my shot at it," said Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. "I did the best I could."
When Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president in January 1981 and the Senate was in Republican control for the first time in a quarter century, the Republican Party had to believe the time had come to push its social goals through Congress.
"I think the (New Right) balloon has been punctured," said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who helped prevent action on the prayer amendment.
Even in the House, still firmly held by Democrats, enthusiasm for the goals
was an act.
BUT THE 97th Congress is all but over and all the social legislation is dead.
There will be no bill outlawing busing to desegregate public schools; no bill to permanently prohibit federal financial aid for abortions; no legislation to permit voluntary prayer in public schools; no constitutional amendment allowing the states and Congress to pass anti-abortion laws.
And there will be no constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget except in time of war — a goal that many of us have. Right. Right and shared by many others.
Abortion and school prayer bills were
demanded by liberal filibusters that could
protect the rights of women.
THE ANTI-SCHOOL busing bill and the balanced budget amendment did win Senate approval but were shelved
The New Right also found a group of senators as determined to block social services and support the poor.
by Chairman Peter Rodino, D-N.J., of the House Judiciary Committee, who strongly opposes them.
Sen. Lowell Wetcker, R-Conn, almost single-handedly delayed for nine months legislation that would have forbidden the courts to order busing students or is made from the student's home — in effect outlawing the practice.
Then Sen, Robert Packwood, R-Ore., with Weicker's help, succeeded in mounting an unbreakable filibuster against the anti-abortion amendment, whose supporters never even reached a majority.
Finally, Weicker, helped by Baucus,
Packwood and numerous liberals, kept
the anti-prayer filibuster alive despite
four attempts to crack it.
A PAINSTAKINGLY negotiated
agreement for time limitations and votes on abortion and prayer amendments collapsed when Helms pulled out. That led to five weeks of filibusters during a period when the Senate was trying to complete the year's essential
Helms, for his part, gave the White House part of the blame for losing the anti-abortion and prayer amendments.
"I don't know of one single vote the White House gained for us, on either the abortion or school prayer issue." Helms complained.
SENATE REPUBLICAN Leader Howard Baker and House Speaker Thomas O'Neill have agreed to recess from the legislature earlier, and to return after the election.
Too few enroll in English 050, prof says
This week Congress plunges into a mass of money and special interest bills before taking a long break for the Nov. 2 elections.
Bv JEANNE FOY
Staff Reporter
Only two-thirds of the students recommended for English 050, a remedial class, are enrolled in the course, an English professor said recently.
Teachers had submitted papers from 250 students in English 101 to a committee for review, he said. The committee recommended that 175 of the 250 take the course, and only 118 actually enrolled, said Michael Johnson, director of freshman and sophomore English.
Johnson said that two-thirds of the original number of students recommended for English 050 was the usual fraction that enrolled in the course, which was first offered in the fall of 1978.
But that fraction is not enough, he said.
IF A STUDENT who is told he needs the course passes English 050 with a 'C', he has more than a 50 percent chance of passing English 101, Johnson said. If the student fails in the competition in English 050, he will probably flunk English 101, Johnson said.
Paul Northam, a graduate teaching instructor for English 101, said only half the students he recommended for English 600 had enrolled in the class.
SOME OF HIS students in the past
The best students in English 600 have problems with subject-verb agreement and other basic grammar rules, he writes. Sixth- or seventh-grade writing skills.
Students in the class have an average English ACT score of 12 to 14, Johnson said. The average English score at KU is 20, and the national average score is 23.
who did not take English 050, despite recommendations that they do so, managed to pass English 101, but only with a tremendous amount of effort, he
On the average, Northam said, those who decide not to take English 600 are more likely.
But although students are told they should take English 050, enrollment is not mandatory.
"English 050 does not offer graduating credits. The University couldn't defend requiring a course that does not cover the subject. It would make students pay for it." Johnson said.
Johnson said he would like to see about 20 percent of the 2,600 students in freshman English classes enrolled in college. About 5 percent are enrolled now.
IF THE DEPARTMENT had more money, it could offer more sections, Johnson said. And if teachers knew
space was available, they would recommend that more students take English 950, he said.
Johnson said the number of students in English 050 was not high when considering that KU has an open admission policy. Even so, Johnson pointed out, KU's average ACT English score is still a few points above the national average.
The class is always taught by an experienced faculty member who is interested in remedial instruction, Johnson said.
EACH INSTRUCTOR is allowed to use his own teaching methods, he said, but one of the most effective techniques has been to have students copy grammatically correct sentences.
Of the eight sections of English 050, one is for international students, and the rest are for native speakers.
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