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Thursday, July 19. 1979
Summer Session Kansan
THE SUMMER SESSION Capsules From staff and wire reports
Gold prices up; dollar drops
LONDON-Gold prices went over $300 an ounce for the first time ever yesterday and the adults dropped on foreign exchanges because of uncertainty over how much a single gold bar would cost.
Gold, which 18 months ago sold for around $170 an ounce, closed in Zurich at 61.25 an ounce, up $5 from Tuesday and in London at 300.75, compared to March's closing price of $61.19.
The dollar hit a near nine-month low against the West German mark—1.8566
marks, compared with 1.8152 Tuesday.
The British pound climbed to another new four-year high against the dollar to close at £2,815, up from Tuesday's £2,706.
In Tokyo, the dollar opened more than two yen lower today—at 213.60 yen compared with yesterday's close of 215.775.
Gas shortage not intentional
WASHINGTON—An administration official says government investigators have decided that oil company executives did not deliberately create the
The official, who declined to be identified, said the investigation by the Justice Department and Energy Department reportedly found that oil companies may have held too much oil out of production, but did not set out to create a shortage.
The final report of the investigation, which has been underway for several months, is expected to be released soon.
The oil companies were accused by Energy Secretary James J. Schlesinger of stockpiling excess amounts of oil rather than refining it as gasoline, a claim that was contested.
Poll shows Americans hopeful
NEW YORK—An Associated Press-NBC News Poll indicates that President Carter's speech Sunday night helped convince millions of Americans of the importance of a public health system.
The poll, taken Monday and Tuesday, indicated that Americans are both worried about the next 10 years and confident about the nation's longterm
Thirty-four percent of the 1,600 adults interviewed nationwide said they thought life would be better in this country 10 years from now and 31 percent said they thought life would be worse. Others said they thought life would be about the same or that they weren't sure.
Fifty-eight percent said they had a lot of confidence in America's future and 32 percent said they had some confidence in America's future. Others said they
Seventy-eight percent backed massive spending to develop a synthetic fuels program and 17 percent did not support it.
Thirty-nine percent of those questioned said they thought science and technology would be successful in solving the crisis and 50 percent said science would not be successful.
Angered cabbies block traffic
NEW YORK—Thousands of irate taxi drivers paralyzed traffic yesterday morning in a huge and多次 violent demonstration for a 90-c fare惹事
Confrontations erupted between protesters and motorists as the cabiles drove onto bridges, tunnels and roadways, got out of their cars and refused to leave.
Police arrested six taxi drivers and one motorist. Two cabbies and a police officer were similarly injured during a scuffle outside the Lincoln Tunnel.
One taxi driver suffered an apparent heart attack on the 59th Street bridge and was rushed to a hospital.
The taxi drivers were pressing for a fare hike that would raise the initial charge assessed before mileage rates were added from 75 cents to $1.25.
Conspiracy investigation urged
WASHINGTON—Congressional investigators urged the Justice Department to investigate allegations in the case that Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. conspired to assume those responsible
The House assassinations committee concluded that Kennedy's assassination was "an individual organized crime leader or a small combination of leaders."
The report, released Tuesday, also said there was substantial evidence that a group of non-conferencesers in St. Louis had offered a $50,000 bounty for King's visit.
But the committee agreed with previous decisions that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the shot that killed Kennedy and that James Earl Jawson downed Kung.
Rep. Louis Stokes, D-Ohio, chairman of the committee, said he would meet with Attorney General Griffin Bell to discuss the panel's recommendation that Bainbridge be reinstated.
Officials favor Carter, Reagan
KANSAS CITY, Mo.–President Carter and former California governor Ronald Reagan were the choices for president in 1980 among county officials
Of the 328 delegates who responded to the survey at the National Association of Counies convention, 99 percent of the democrats chose Carter and 27 percent of the Republicans.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was chosen for president by 11 percent of the Democrats and California Gov. Jerry Brown had less than 2 percent of the population.
Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., and former Texas governor John Connally each received support from 15 percent of the Republican delegates. Former president Gerald Ford had 13 percent of the support and Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., had less than 2 percent of the support.
Of those listing Independent or no party affiliation, 29 percent said they supported Carter, 16 percent said they supported Kennedy and another 16 percent said they were not sure. Ford and Connally each had 10 percent and Reagan followed with 6 percent.
Convict fights execution order
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —The Florida Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear arguments tomorrow on a request by convicted killer Howard Virgil Lee Douglas for a stay of execution and an order overturning his death sentence as illegal.
Douglas' execution has been scheduled for 7 a.m. July 26 under a death warrant signed Tuesday by Gov. Bob Graham. Saraasota attorney Larry H. Spalding asked the high court to overturn the sentence because Douglas was found guilty of torturing his daughter, which he sinfully recommended that he receive life imprisonment for a brutal 1974 murder.
Public Defender Elliott Metcalf of Sarsaota also filed papers asking U.S. Public Judge Ben Krentzan of Tampa to stay the execution and review the case.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP)—Interim President Francisco Urcuco resigned last night, 36 hours after he replaced exiled Anastasio Somoa, a adviser advised said. He was taken to Las Mercedes inland airport to be flown out of the country.
Somoza's replacement steps down
Urucuro left his fortified bunker and drove to the airport with an unidentified woman.
The presidential adviser, who asked not to be named, would not say where Urucany was located, but he told the United States negotiated his departure with Sandinista forces, or with the rebel-backed five member junta, which was expected to stay in the Central American country within 24 hours.
As the presidential limousine pulled into the military terminal at Las Mercedes, two soldiers fired shots over a car carrying reports and said, "Don't stop here!"
URCYUO ANGERED the United States by refusing to hand over power to the rebel junta. He left the bunker immediately after a meeting with U.S. Ambassador Lawrence Pezzullo, who was recalled earlier in the war to Panama, then returned to Manana.
fighting in the countryside during the day and Urcuyo had reinforced the guard around the sandbaked Managua headquarters he inherited from Somoza.
The Sandinstina-backed junta returned to Nicaragua earlier yesterday to lead the country's military coup.
Earlier yesterday, the rebels who drove Zoome into exile said his army gave up. The government denied it, but detectors flew most of the air force's planes to exile in Honduras.
MOST OF SOMOZA'S supporters who had been staying at a hotel for the past month fled for the airport after reports of Urcuyo's departure.
About 300 members of Somoa's elite black beret battalion were seen chatting in the lobby with assault rifles and military radios.
After a seven-week fight that left the Sandinistas in control of most of Nicaragua outside the capital, Somozna fook out early on Monday to establish a state. Legislators named Urcuo president.
New fighting broke out when Urcuoy, instead of offering a cease-fire, told the rebels to lay down their arms. Aides said he was on the verge of killing the end of Somoza's term—Dec. 1, 1880.
Outside the hotel, some women cried as the husband arrived, arranging transportation immediately to the hotel.
guard surrender from noon to 2 p.m. Uru-
cyou's government denied the report.
THE REBELS announced the national
Sporadic firefight could be heard from several parts of the city, Junta spokesman Manuel Espinoza said in San Jose, Costa Rica, to take over Managua guard command posts.
Fourteen Nicaragua air force military and transport aircraft arrived yesterday at an air base in Honduras carrying 186 personnel, including a number of guard officers and men, according to a Honduran government communique. The statement said all were for political asylum. The number of guardmen was not immediately disclosed.
Sources in Honduras said the defectors abandoned a bombing mission ordered by Urucau's administration, bombed and killed two students at the international airport, and fleed to asylum.
NATIONAL GUARDSMEN also took over two cargo planes being used to haul Red Cross relief supplies, loaded them with supplies from the destination not immediately known. A spokesman for the Office of Information and Press, Francisco Mora, denied they were fleeing the country and said the planes were carrying medical equipment. A report said families of guardmen were sent
A Sandinista spokesman in San Jose, capital of neighboring Costa Rica, said the five junta members went to rebel-held Leon. The government said it would set up their provisional government there.
The junta's foreign minister, the Rev. Miguel d-Escoto, said junta members Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, Alfonso Robelo Callejas and Sergio Ramirez during a tour of the plane during the night and joined guardian leaders Moussa Hassan and Daniel Ortega.
TROOPS OF THE national guard's Panther unit moved into guard Urucuo sandbagged bunker, carrying 4.2-inch mortars on the backs of trucks.
Sporadic battles were reported in Massaya, 20 miles south of Managua near the Costa Rican border. National guard officers confirmed guard forces withdrew from Granada, about 40 miles southeast of Massaya, and to Sindanda guerrillas. Granada had been one of the few population centers remaining in government bands.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Holding Carter said Urucuyo's decision to retain power had led to a "serious and deteriorating situation." State officials say he might depart Somoa from his luxurious cate in Florida until Urucuyo stepped down.
Questions about abandoned bodies continue
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Questions about the discovery of 32 bodies at a defunct mortuary continued to mount yesterday as morticians prepared to perform burials that should have taken place as long as 20 months ago.
Police said four of the 32 bodies may never be identified.
How the bodies accumulated in the macabre setting of the midtown Kansas City Mortuary Service for 20 months without bringing action from relatives of the deceased or city or county officials remained a mystery.
The case took yet another ironic twist
when mortenly operator Donald Coldsnow told James McGilley Jr., chairman of the Missouri State Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors, that urns containing the ashes of two elderly sisters were also somewhere in the house.
Coldsnow, who has been unavailable for comment to newsmen, was quoted by McGilley as saying he would get the ursa soon as police would let him in the two-story frame home that housed the mortuary service.
Halstead said police had not restricted Coldsnow from the house.
Identification of the bodies has been made
Two girls, one 10 and the other 16, were lested on death certificates as suffering from alcoholism.
through wrist bracelets from hospitals or nursing homes and papers found in the caskets with the bodies. Two of the deaths were recorded in December 1977, and one older woman who died in the Costco Body Hotel fire in Kansas City in January 1978.
Police, city and county officials have said they are baffled why Coldsworth would allow a body to be buried by burry them or dispose of through medical schools as he was contracted to do.
Coldswain has told police the situation was prompted by "business and personal" harassment.
Police questioned how so many bodies could have remained without relatives inquiring about the burial, even though the deceased had been buried somewhere and some of the deceased had no next of kin.
The bodies will be buried today and tomorrow in a section of Mt. Olivet Cemetery on the city's east side, with four caskets to a grave McGilley and other morticians will assist in the burial, with one providing burial plots at no charge.
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