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Thursday, October 21, 1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Ferruboat crash kills 22
LULING, La.—A 644-foot Norwegian river rammed and sank a crowded ferryboat in the Mississippi River here yesterday, plunging carloads of screening passengers into the swift muddy current. Twenty-two were known dead and as many as 56 were missing.
Sheriff John St. Aniant said 22 bodies were recovered, most of them from the sunken ferry. The death toll was expected to rise to 75 or more.
Witnesses said the tanker Froste, whiplash shrieking, loomed up out of the chill early morning light and rammed the George Prince midway between the how and where.
The crash, one of the worst ever in the Mississippi's history, happened about 6:15 a.m. That's the ferry rush hour between Lelling and Destrehan, about 20 miles up.
Battle rages before truce
BEIRUT-Hard fighting in Beirut and in the Israeli-Lebanese border region raged yesterday on the eve of another cease-fire—the there have been more than 50 of
The Palestinian guerrilla command and the Lebanese left alliance on the one hand and the Christians on the other announced their forces would abide by a declaration that they would be in hot battle. The truce was arranged at a weekend summit meeting in Saudi Arabia in 2015, Egypt, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and by Palestine guerrilla leader Yasir Arafat.
Lebanon's Christian president, Elisas Sariks, who helped draft the cease-fire, met with the top right-wing Christian leaders to discuss implementation of the plenary session at his office in Tripoli.
5th American aets Nobel
STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Novelist Saul Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in an unprecedented sweep by Americans of all five Nobel prizes.
The 61-year-old Bellow, born in Canada of Russian Jewish parents and reared in Chicago, was cited "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of conspiracy theories."
Bellow is the seventh American winner of the literature prize and the first since John Steinbeck in 1962.
Among his books are "Humboldt's Gift," "Herzog," "Mr. Sammler's Planet" and "Henderson the Rain King."
More Watergate pardons just a rumor, Ford savs
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Gerald Ford yesterday dismissed as unfounded a question about rumors of future Watergate pardons, and said that opponent Jimmy Carter "does waver, wander, wiggle and waffle" about election issues.
Nothing personal, Ford said, as he applied that tongue-twisting label to his rival with the presidential election 12 days from today.
Carter, in Plains, Ga., preparing for his final campaign debate with Ford tomorrow in Toledo. The two state statements Ford made at a White House news conference. Aides said the Democratic presidential nominee didn't broadcast but not televised, nationally.
It was Ford's second news conference in six days.
Ford and Republican vice presidential nominee Bob Dole did the campaigning despite the latter. Mondale, Democratic vice president and most took of the day off in San Francisco.
Ford defended himself against questions stemming from Watergate; he said doesn't matter what he did.
Kelley or Gen. George Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, despite statements that have embroiled both in controversies; and Jeb Bush, who on the Arab trade embargo against Israel
Watergate was the first question Ford faced in his news conference: Did he regret his role in September 1972, in helping to overthrow President Nixon? House Banking and Currency Committee?
At that time, Ford was House Republican leader. He met twice with Republican members of the committee, who voted solidly against empowering the committee to issue subpoenas essential to the investigation.
Aty. Gen, Edward Levi announced that he decided against conducting a new inquiry into allegations that Ford lied about the price of his vehicle, the vice presidential confirmation hearings.
Ford said in the news conference that he had testified he wasn't contacted by then President Richard Nixon and had no recollection of any requests from the White House, where his liaison office to coordinate Republican opposition to the projected investigation.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—The television lights switched on, the cameras focused on the door, the members of the press stood and the introduction was solemnly made:
Doorknob in White House falls prey to Ford's vank
"Ladies and gentlemen, the President o the United States."
The reporters waited, but nobody came in.
Then there was a rattling and thumping at the door of the White House Exit Room. It was shaken.
Finally, he appeared from another door leading to an adjacent hallway and took his place.
"We just had a doorrob brok off," he explained, quite adding: "You can't stand it."
There was some confusion about the doorknob incident.
Ford, describing the doorknob affair, said it occurred as he was trying to leave the Oval Office for the walk to the East Room. He added that the aim to start his news conference yesterday
He said the Oval Office doorknob came off in the hands of one of his aides, Terrence R. McCormick.
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The Green Room shares a doorway with the East Room but it is impossible to enter the East Room from the Oval Office, which is in another part of the White House.
The aide said the doorknob wasn't a knob, actually. It was a ring-type handle.
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But another aide later clarified the President's remarks, saying the door that lost its knob actually came from the Green Room from which the thumps had fallen at the start of the news conference and not the one leading from the Oval Office.
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