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Thursday, September 9,1976
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From the Associated Press
Train. bus crash kills 2
LAFAYETTE, Ore.—A train slammed into a school bus yesterday, killing two children and critically injuring several others. Witnesses said the bus driver may have been struck.
Eyewitness accounts indicated the bus either stopped or slowed to a near stop, then crossed the tracks on the outskirts of Lafayette.
The train was a Southern Pacific locomotive pulling a caboose
The bus carried 49 children
"He was laying over the steering wheel," she said. "He kept saying over and over, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I didn't see it."
Wanda Stafford, 13, who received minor cuts and bruises in the crash, said bus driver Ricky Raker, 14, was the last person off the bus.
Federal pensions changed
WASHINGTON—The Senate voted yesterday to end the automatic 1 per cent increase in cost-of-living raises in the pensions of retired federal civil service
In its place, the Senate adopted by voice vote an amendment to the legislative
amendance bill, providing cost-of-living adjustments every six months.
Since 1969, retired civil service, military and foreign service employees received a 4 per cent pension increase each time the cost of living increased 3 per cent over
The 1 per cent “kicker” was intended to compensate retired employees for the time lag in computing cost-living pension increases.
Murder inauiru ordered
TUPPERA-GOV. Robert Bennett yesterday ordered a full state investigation into a fatal attack on 8-a-year-old Parsons girl by a mental institution resident.
The governor said in a public statement he had asked Dr. Robert Harder, secretary of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services," for a full report of
Sherri Janssen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Janssen, died in a Joplin, Mo., hospital of injuries she suffered in the attack.
Parsons police said witnesses had told of seeing a man pick up the child and throw her to the ground several times.
William Daley, Lahey County attorney, identified the man as a 19-year-old resident of the Parsones State Hospital and Training Center.
The attack allegedly occurred about six blocks from the institution and about a block from the home of the child, who officials said was on her way to kin-
A hospital source said the patient had been gone from the hospital only about 15 or 20 minutes.
Lack of compassion cited; American Party files suit
By The Associated Press
President Ford and Jimmy Carter sparred at a distance yesterday about compassion and human rights, while a third political party threw a legal challenge at the first Ford-Carter debate, set for Sept. 23 in Philadelphia.
Ford continued working at the White House as Carter, after hunting Jewish votes in Pennsylvania, brought his presidential challenge to the nation's capital.
The President, in a back yard news conference, accused Carter of showing indexness and "lack of compassion" in his address to Clarence Filey, FBI director.
Ford hit at Carter because the Democrat said he didn't know whether he would keep Kelley as FBI head if elected, after earlier saying as president he would have fired him on the basis of information about him and services he received from FBI subordinates.
The lack of compassion, Ford said, stems from the fact that Kelley got the services and accepted gifts from subordinates at a hospital. Kelley was terminally ill with cancer.
As these indirect exchanges went on, the
sponsoring League of Women Voters Education Fund announced that the first of three planned Fort-Carter debates will be held in Philadelphia and will run 90 minutes.
As previously announced, the questions
will deal with economic and domestic issues.
Meanwhile, the American Party, which has put forward a ticket for the past three elections, filed suit in federal court to halt the debates.
Its complaint said the 'so-called' debates are a political event staged for the media and aren't bonafide news events, eligible for legal protection because of equal time requirements of the law."
The national networks plan to broadcast the debates live as news events, which would exempt the broadcasters from having comparable time to other candidates.
In another development, Gulf Oil Co. "former chief lobbyist retracted his contention that he had given Bob Dole, GOP chairman of the House, a copy of Dole, who had been asked by the Watergate special prosecutor about the matter, accepted an apology from Claude Wild Jr., the lobbyist. Dole called the matter 'un妥然的' and told Mr. Dole we were moving ahead with the campaign."
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP)—Switzerland statements by cadets accused in the West Point cheating scandal depict a climate marked by the casual exchange of test answers and the possibility of buying an innocent verdict if accused.
Accused West Pointers recount cheating scandal
The affidavit, 150 of them signed by about 60 cadets, told of lying, stealing and killing a policeman.
"I remember many instances in which pool sessions were given by someone who was a member of the team, sword. "The size of the pool sessions ranged from five to 10 to literally the entire company, and from there it spread to other teams. "Then the regiment, usually by word of mouth."
The affidavit tells of "cool" cadet honor representatives who will cast the single innocent vote needed to exonerate a suspected violator, of a $1,200 bribe to one honor representative, of falsely filleted-out charges of false advice from unsuperclassen to cheat.
These documents, implicating an additional 687 cadets in the scandal, were given to the White House Saturday in an effort by attorneys for cadets already
charged to get those accused reinstated on the university system are victims of a defective hysician system.
The documents were shown to the Associated Press yesterday, one day after a grace period ended in which cadets could avoid two years of enlistment service by obtaining an grated homework given in an electrical engineering course last spring.
The affidavits were disclosed on the condition that names of the cadets who signed them and of the cadets cited be kept confidential.
So far, 149 cadets have admitted guilt, been convicted by boards of officers or left court. The case is still under investigation.
Of the 203 cadets implicated so far—nearly a quarter of this fall's senior class—was that the last batch.
Violation of the honor code, which says a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do," is punished by expulsion. Suspected violators first face a cadet honor subcommittee, then a 12-member honor board, which must vote unanimously on an allegation. Boards of officers hear appeals.
Wallace says bedroom tapes domestic matter
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP)—Gov. George Wallace said yesterday that a recording device had been discovered in his bedroom at the governor's mansion. But he said it was a "domestic matter between my wife and myself" and didn't involve politics.
Rumors had been circulating throughout the capital that Wallace had discovered an electronic eavesdropping device in his bedroom, planted by his wife, Cornelia, as well as a supply of tape recordings made by the instrument.
In a hastily called news conference, Wallace said "there were some tapes and a device . . . purely domestic . . . all that was in danger . . . no one harmed, no one hurt." He declined.
On Tuesday, a Montgomery television station reported that Wallace's phones in the governor's mansion had been tapped by his daughter but with the knowledge of Mrs. Wallace.
The station reported that 200 tapes of the governor's business and personal calls were discovered during the summer by state troopers. The station said that Wallace, former of the discovery, ordered his wife from the mansion and threatened to divorce her.
Later, the report said, the governor relented and his wife returned.
"I've been listening to the stories about a separation," Wallace said. But, he said, at the time his wife was supposed to have been married she was "in Florida with my daughter Loe."
Referring to his relations with his wife as a result of the incident, Wallace said, "I think we can better resolve our differences, and I hope that this is purely a domestic matter."
The 57-year-old Wallace is paralyzed from the waist down as a result of an assassination attempt at a Laurel, Md., murderer during his 1972 presidential campaign.
Cornellia, 37, was with her husband when she was battered. She wasn't at yesterday's news.
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