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Monday, July 2, 1979
Summer Session Kansan
THE SUMMER SESSION Capsules From staff and wire reports
Executive reunited with family
TOLEDO, Ohio–William F. Niehous had a tearful reunion with his family yesterday after spending nearly 3% years as a captive of Venezuela leftist
meticulous, more than 40 pounds under his normal weight and wearing a beard and shoulder-length gray hair, was rescued twice—once Friday in a gun battle between two policemen and two of his captors, and again Saturday after he became lost on his way out of the lunge.
Niehous said he had spent most of his time in the jungle during his captivity, covered only by a plastic sheet which had been hung from the trees.
The 48-year-old businessman was abducted from his Caracas home Feb. 27, 1976 by seven men. He was manager of the Venezuelan branch of Owens
He said he had never lost hope and had been confident his abductors would release him alive.
Gas truck explodes in DeSoto
DESOTO- No injuries were reported after a gasoline tanker truck exploded early yesterday while filling a service station storage tank here.
the blast occurred about 5:30 a.m. at a Vickers Oil Co. station on old Kansas Highway 10 in east DeSoto. The Johnson County sheriff's office said the fumes ignited, damaging two storage buildings near the above-ground fuel tank, but leaving the service station unadmaged.
Residents of two nearby houses were temporarily evacuated while firemen from DeSoto, Monticello and Shawnee investigated the damage.
Burd, Soviets discuss SALT
MOSCOW-Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, arrived in the Soviet union yesterday. Kremlin officials possible problems in U.S. government support of the SAINT-PATRICK plan.
Earlier in the day, the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, lashed out at Senate Republican Leader Sen. Howard Baker for trying to give the Soviets an "ultimatum" that they must accept Senate amendments to the newest arms pact.
hird, who will tour Leningrad for two days before going to Moscow, is expected to urge the Russians to reconstitute themselves to the Senate adjustments
Byrd also may travel south to the Crimea in the hope of discussing SALT with Soviet President Leonid L. Brezhnev.
Relief food gone in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua—The Red Cross said yesterday it had out of food for 150,000 refugees in Managua and predicted disaster if relief planes, carrying supplies to the flooded city.
Meanwhile, government warplanes bombed Masaya, a rebel stronghold 20 miles south of Managua, reportedly killing 80 persons. A broadcast by the guard radio station reported battles along the Costa Rican border between forces of President Anastasio Somoza and the Sandinista guerillas.
People lined up yesterday morning at Red Cross centers in Managua for rice, beans or powdered milk, but received nothing. The Red Cross said towns all over Nicaragua were out of food and medicine because officials in countries with supplies were afraid to send relief planes.
Earthauake damages Panama
PANAMA CITY, Panama—An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale rocked western Panama and eastern Costa Rica yesterday, cracking buildings, roads, and homes.
One person was injured by a falling piece of wood but his condition was not serious.
Panama's national guard reported that in David, about 30 miles from the Panama City airport, a wall caved in at a high school and doors and windows were broken at a bank.
"Some sections of David are without water and power. Apparently the generating plant was damaged and it appears some of the water mains were
Waverly Person, a spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo., said the earthquake occurred at 10:37 a.m. Friday.
In San Jose, the Costa Rican capital, residents said they did not feel the
quake. There were no reports of damage in nearby cities.
Mo. nuclear plant investigated
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Federal regulators are investigating reports of faulty construction and maintenance of the Callaway County nuclear power plant near Fulton, Mo., a plant with the same design as the Wolf Creek power plant near Burlington.
Officials of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission told the Kansas City Star that 24 large bats in the cooling system were too short to be held by nuts and knives.
The commission also said it scaled Union Electric Co. of St. Louis, owner of the plant, in February and April for sloppy practices that could cause safety problems.
Although both problems have reportedly been corrected, an NRC inspector examined the plant Friday. An NRC decision on the safety of the plant is expected.
Carter calls for Korean talks
HONOLULU—President Carter, ending his eight-day Far East trip, announced that he had invited North Korea to join in formal talks to discuss
Later in the day, he warned U.S. consumers that the recent 60 percent increase in oil prices by OPEC makes a recession much more likely than before.
Korean proposal, made with the approval of South Korean President Park Chung-hee, will join in three-way peace talks and a start process at resituated aimination of fires.
The president said he and Congress were working on a new emergency gas rationing plan to have on a standby basis.
Carter also said a force made up of House and Senate members and a group of state lawmakers would be studying inflation with hopes of finding solutions to the upward price trend.
Declaring his trip to Japan and Korea a success, Carter said, "We have accomplished all the goals we set for ourselves."
Some truckers endina strike
The 400-member New Jersey Council of Independent Truckers voted to recall pickets and return to work today, and truckers in Georgia, New England, western South Dakota, Washington state and northern Arkansas-southern Missouri area also voted to go back to work.
But elsewhere, independent truckers held meetings to decide whether to go back to work following the announcement of the federal government's six-point plan.
NEW YORK—A horn-blowing convoy of 25 trucks drove through Times Square yesterday to demonstrate continued support of a nationwide shutdown.
But national truckers' spokesmen refused to endorse an end to the protest and truckers in Pennsylvania, Colorado and Alabama to continue striking.
Truck traffic has steadily increased in most parts of the country since the Carter administration announced its plan to support uniform weight and size regulations and equitable distribution of diesel fuel. The plan also designated eight interstate highways as "safe corridors" for the headquaters.
Scattered skimners were reported in western Texas and Colorado and garbage and concrete blocks were dumped on Interstate 75 in Illinois last weekend, but
But the International Truckers Association estimated yesterday that 50,000 truckers were still off the job Saturday.
Weather
It will be hot today and tonight with afternoon temperatures in the high 80s. Skies will be clearing throughout today and tomorrow with a 20 percent chance of rain.
Proxmire rule pleases KU profs
By MARY JO HOWARD
Some University of Kansas professors are pleased about a Supreme Court ruling last week that will allow scientists to respond legally to charges made by Sen. William Proxime, D-Wis., that their research is a waste of taxpayers' money.
Michael Crawford, a professor of anthropology at KU who is doing a $300,000 study on the aging process of Mennonites, said in day that he was pleased about the decision.
Staff Renorter
Proxmire is being sued for libel by a psychology professor from Michigan State University, whose study on why humans and animals have similar brains was one of Proxmire's Golden Fleece awards.
The Court ruled last week that Proxmire's status as a U.S. Senator did not give him a right to vote.
"UNSCRUPULOUS POLITICAL leaders like Proxima are trying to make political hay and, in doing so, defame the scientist," he said.
Crawford's project is part of a joint effort by the United States and the Soviet Union to the countries that make up the people longer live than the United States. The Mennonites are being studied and compared with the Akkasians, a group of Aborigians extraordinarily long-lived, Crawford said.
Proxnire gives the tongue-in-cheek awards to research projects that he deems useful.
"Some projects may sound frivolous," he
has said, but actually the may have great
importance.
Crawford said results from his study
Schieflebusch recalled an instance a few years ago when Proxime attacked the work of a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
"A project title may denote something that on the surface seems silly but in "U," he that on the surface seems silly but in "U," he
RICHARD SCHIEFELBUSCH, director of Child Research at KU, said he also was pleased that Proxime would not be immune from libel charges.
might give a key to prolonging human life.
The professor, David Premack, was doing a study on chimpanzee language, Schiefebusch said, and Proxmite gave the study a Golden Fleece award.
"I was incensed with Proxmire's attitude," Schiefelbusch said, "because the results of that study were directly used to help in a study done at KU on the development of language for the severely mentally retarded."
Scheifbellech study that not only were the results of the Premack study used at KU, but also at USC and USM.
"ON THE SURFACE the chimp work looked like a rip-off," Schiefsbusch said. "its implications weren't apparent. That's the danger of a political analysis of a militaristic situation. A politician can't know the literature and history of a project from title."
Scheiflebusch said that in the past there had been an anti-science attitude among voters, and that Proxmire knew this and capitalized on it.
"A political figure is to some degree in showbiz, he said. "There has to be a bit of the spectacular in him. I don't think Proxmire is a bad actor. I think he felt there is room for a watchdog, which there is, but I feel that he didn't check his sources very well."
Royals have wild and crazy fans
By RICK JONES
Staff Reporter
Every major league baseball team worth its salt has its own special contingent of wildly enthusiastic fans who seem to love the game more than anyone else have than all the other fans put together.
At Wrigley Field in Chicago they're known as the Bleacher Bums. At Fenway Park in Boston they're called the South Stand Superfans.
And at Royals Stadium in Kansas City, just south of the team-team bullden deep in right field there is a group of questionably sane fans known as Cat's Crazies. They inhibit the 2,500 seat right-field bleachers, where admission is $1.50.
"I AM THE MAN who gets this crowd going," Graves said at a game Friday night. "And when we get going, we can more noise than anyone in the league."
Named after Lemuel "Topcat" Graves, unnamed head cheerleader and self-proclaimed "crystal of Calex Corner," he was one of the great powerers of his hard-dressed cheerleaders.
Dressed in a powder-ball suit, Gravens charged up and down the axles, starting from the rear of the machine.
The fact that Kansas City trailed most of the night and eventually lost 14-2 to the California Angels didn't seem to bother either Graves or the fans.
Whenever Amos Otis stepped to the plate, Graves started yelling "A.O., A.O." In a matter of seconds, the fans in right field would be viling with him.
The familiar chant will then sweep along the huge arc of Royals Stadium until it reaches the grandstand.
THE RIGHT-FIELD Crowd Friday night was unwilling to sit still for more than a minute. Someone would throw a frisbee or a beach ball, which would hit them.
"We want it back," the crowd would
hand ran off with the conflagrated beach.
Friday's right-field crowd also had a knack for putting away large quantities of beer, hotdogs and whatever else the vendors brought into their midst.
Jimmy Dixon, a beer vendor at Friday's game, said he sold beer more than twice as fast in the right-field bleachers than he did anywhere else in the stadium.
"I can get rid of two cases before I even make it down to the bottom row," he said.
"There isn't anybody else in the stadium who can drink beer as fast as these people."
"All you can do is stand up and watch for trouble, because you know it's going to be hard."
THE BEER HAD an effect Friday night, as at least two fights broke out in the right-seat seats. They were broken up immediately by policemen in riot gear.
Although many regulars sit in the rightfield bleachers at Royals Stadium, Graves probably has the record for attendance during the last three years.
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The fans booed loudly when the police walked up the aisle with one of the fighters and cheered wildly when the fighter waved and smiled at the crowd.
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"These people are here to get rowdy," said one policeman at the game. "They come out to right field because they know how to handle it, there is going to be drinking and yelling."
"I vowed then and there not to miss another game."
"I've missed three games since 1976," he said, and "I made them up in Chicago last year. We took a busload of fans up there and drove to Atomica at Cornesy Park they almost killed me.
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