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University Daily Kansan, September 7, 1982
News Briefs From United Press International
Polish Embassy captured; martial law ordered lifted
BERN, Switzerland — Polish terrorists yesterday stormed the Polish Embassy in Switzerland, took 13 hostages and threatened to blow the building up unless martial law in their homeland was suspended and political prisoners were freed.
passengers were freed. Four hours after the terrorists seized the embassy in Bern and took control, Swiss radio reported gunfire inside the embassy. Police could not confirm it.
The official Polish news agency PAP said the Polish Foreign Ministry had asked Swiss authorities to secure the safety of the hostages — 12 diplomats and one civilian — as soon as possible, but it was not clear whether the use of violence had been authorized.
whether they take an oath or not. In this case, Swiss police said the terrorists were in telephone contact with authorities in Poland.
One report said the terrorists had more than 50 pounds of dynamite and PAP said that at least one of them was armed with a submachine pistol.
pistol.
Bocci said he would blow up the entire embassy, terrorists and hostages alike, if Polish leader Gerald Wojciech Jaruzelski did not end military rule, release all political prisoners and abolish all prison camps by midmorning tomorrow.
Turkey savs Iraqi rockets sank ship
The Turkish government said yesterday that one of its ships was sunk and three of its seamen killed in an Iraqi attack on Kharg 'Island, Iran's largest oil refinery.
largest oil refinery.
The ship, Mars Transporter, was sunk late Saturday as it entered the Persian Gulf port on the island, the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement.
statement:
"According to information gathered," the Turkish foreign ministry said, "our ship was sunk by rockets fired from land or by helicopters of the Iraqi army, after sustaining two or three rocket hits."
Iraq warned three weeks ago it would attack any ships near Kharg Island or other vital targets if Iran did not halt its 2-year-old war against Baghdad.
Bagnoat.
Unconfirmed weekend reports from Iraq said four ships, including two oil tankers, were destroyed in Saturday's attack. But the reports specified neither the type of the two other ships nor the flags they flew.
Israel may retaliate; top Arabs meet
Israel threatened yesterday to retaliate against Syria for the abduction of eight soldiers as PLO leader Yasser Arafat met with Arab leaders to discuss President Reagan's Middle East peace plan.
Arab leaders delayed the formal resumption of their 12th summit until Arafat's arrival. The summit is scheduled to last three days.
until Arafat's death this issue will be discussed within the framework of Reagan's initiative unveiled last week, as well as in relation to Saudi Arabian and Tunisian positions effectively acknowledging Israel's right to exist.
Reagan's plan calls for a self-ruling Palestinian entity linked to Jordan on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and an immediate freeze on Jewish settlements in the territories captured from Lebanon in the 1967 war.
Israel quickly rejected Reagan's plan and on Sunday ordered new Jewish settlements set up in occupied territory.
Commercial rocket test successful
ROCKPORT, Texas – From promoters of America's first commercial rocket test-fired a miniature version, resembling a "stovepipe," yesterday and said signs were good for a scheduled launch tomorrow, desite some malfunctions.
Space Services Inc., hopes to become the first private American firm to commercialize space.
As workers attended to last-minute details, SSI officials said everything was on schedule for ignition of the sophisticated 43-foot rocket from a small concrete pad in a sandy cow pasture.
Rocket is fit a small concrete pad to lift it. The 13,592-pound Conestoga is to lift off from a 3-foot launch stool on concrete slab. The booster will generate 46,000 pounds of thrust in 60 seconds and then quit.
Jerry Lewis gets $28 million for MD
LAS VEGAS, Nev.  The Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon, bucking economic hard times, collected more than $28 million in cash and pledges yesterday in a 21 1/2-hour television marathon, $3.5 million short of last year's effort.
The total collected for the Muscular Dystrophy Association fell short of the $31.5 collected last year.
$99, 45, 328 \times 99 = 88,076$
88,076 / 99 = 88
Lewis said the money and pledges totaling $28,415,339 "was a respectable figure":
respect. He staged his 17th annual Labor Day telethon, named "The Extra Special Special," at the Caesars Palace Sports Pavilion.
special Special, at the College of Arts,
Lewis, assisted by co-hosts Ed McMahon and Chad Everett, told the audience the dream of a scientific breakthrough for treating muscular dystrophy "is almost a reality."
Lewis referred to a recent report by research scientists who described a protein that may be responsible for Duchene muscular dystrophy, the most serious form, a strain that strikes boys and usually kills them by age 25.
'Woodstock of 1980s' a success
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The man who invested $12.5 million in promotion of the three-day STAF Festival of rock and technology may end up in the black, it was reported yesterday, but it will take about a month to clean up the trash left by fans.
Stephen Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers Inc., said he would stage another rock festival, possibly next Labor Day.
stage aboard a Rock festival reservation. Billed as the Woodstock of the 1880s, the holiday weekend fair of rock music and high technology shows by manufacturers was termed a success by Wozniak and by fans alike.
The orderly tone of the festival, in a large public park near the small suburban community of Devore, surprised officials.
The mostly young crowd, who fought 106-degree temperatures and smog by dousing themselves with water, paused Saturday with 230,000 fans converging on the Glen Helen Regional Park.
Only 36 people were arrested, mostly for drugs and petty theft.
Only 36 people were arrested, mostly for drugs and jelly theft. More than 2,000 people were treated at the medical tent for various ills, including drug abuse, sprains and asthma-like conditions caused by swirling dust.
Correction
Because of an editing error, the Kanans incorrectly reported in its last issue that commissioners Don Binns, Mayor Marci Francisco and Nancy Shontz on Tuesday last year in private. Commissioner Tom Gleason, not Binns, met with Francisco and Shontz.
Stephan opposed Commission to debate quorum increase
By DAN PARELMAN Staff Reporter
Lawrence City Commissioners have responded with surprise to the state attorney general's disapproval of the commission's proposal to raise its quorum. But they did not say the attorney general's comments would change how they plan to vote Tuesday on the proposal.
Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan said Thursday that an attempt by the commission to raise its quorum would be unfortunate and that if he found the move to be illegal, he would not hesitate to stop it.
"Excellent, excellent. I'm tickled to death to hear it." Commissioner Don Binsis said Friday after hearing Stephan's words. Binsis opposes raising the quorum, the number of commissioners required, in a meeting for congress to be conducted.
Binnis he wouldn't be surprised if the commission raised the quorum Tuesday despite Stephan's comments. He said, however, that he hoped Stephan's words would keep the commission from acting.
Commissioner Tom Gleason proposed last month that the commission discuss raising its quorum from three to four. Gleason has said the current quorum frustrates commissioner's attempts to talk to each other.
The Kansas Open Meetings Act states that the majority of a quorum of a government body, two in the case of the commission, cannot meet in private to discuss business. By raising their quorum to four, two commissioners could discuss commission business in private.
"Hia (Stephan's) opinions are instructive, but they don't have the force to persuade."
Gleason said he did not think Stephan had studied the commission's case.
Commissioner Nancy Shontz said Friday she thought the attorney general's office had said it was legal for a government body to raise its quorum. Brad Smoot, deputy attorney general, he said he had told the commission at a meet-up that raising its quorum was an option. However, Smoot and Stephan said Thursday any such statement was not an opinion of the attorney general.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the commission will consider an ordinance to license and regulate video game arcades and distributors. Before passing the ordinance, the commission must set the license fee, Gleason said. All the commissioners seem to want to pass the ordinance, said Binns.
The commission will also consider an ordinance that would allow private clubs to sell 3.2 percent beer after midnight. City law prohibits beer sales after midnight on the night Blmse threw the ball and said they proposed ordinance would pass.
Rounding out the commission's 20-item agenda will be the consideration of a resolution to the approval of public opinion polls. At its last meeting, the
commission gave permission to the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice to conduct a citywide opinion poll on a nuclear weapons freeze.
The commission has disagreed on how many commissioners' votes should be required to approve a proposal to conduct an opinion poll. Bibns said a unanimous vote should be required before an opinion poll is approved.
"Otherwise you're going to be snowed under with all kinds of polls," he said.
Gleason he thought a 4-1 vote would suffice. If a unanimous vote is required, a commissioner could block the authorization of a poll simply because he opposes the opinion sampled in a poll, he said.
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