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Wednesday, April 4, 1979
University Daily Kansan
IVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Capsules From the Kansan's Wire Services
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Bhutto's execution confirmed
KARACHI, Pakistan-Former Pakistani Prime Minister Ali Bbutto was hanged early today, the Pakistani government radio reported.
Earlier a newspaper, the Daily Jang, had reported the execution in a special edition, but the government did not confirm the hanging until hours after the execution.
Bhutto, 51, who was ousted in 1977 by the current government of President Mohammed Zulai ul-Haq, was convicted of ordering the death of a prisoner.
On March 26, a seven-day countdown before the execution of Bhutto was begun by the Zia government. On Monday, the lawyers for Bhutto's wife and daughter were told that his relatives should prepare for their last visit with the former prime minister.
On March 18, 1978, Bhutto was convicted with four security force officers on murder compcrtary charges. He appealed to the Pakistani Supreme Court for an injunction.
Bhutto refused to ask Zia for clemency, saying that do so would be an admission of guilt. He ordered his family to follow his lead.
Mayors elected in three cities
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—Incumbent Mayor Jack Reardon won his bid for a second term yesterday.
Hearden beat Patricia Sedlock, a school board member who had hoped to become the city's first woman mayor. The vote was nearly 3-1 in Reardon's
In Chicago, Democrat Jay Borne scored an overwhelming victory to become the first woman mayor of the city. In the primary, Borne had beaten the candidate, former State Representative Dana Roe.
Topekans returned mayor Bill McCormick to his fifth term and approved a pair of bond issues to construct two new schools. The bonds were made in 2013, the year the Topeka City Museum was established.
Begin, Sadat will meet again
CAIRO, Egypt — President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin decided yesterday to meet in the Sinai and Israel's Negev Desert.
The announcement was made just before Begin flew back to Israel, following the first journey by an Israeli prime minister to Arab capital.
Begin said that he had the feeling that he and Sadat had become friends and during their talks they had solved problems that would have taken 16 weeks.
Begin and Sadat said they would telephone President Jimmy Carter to inform him of the latest developments in the peace process, set out under the treaty framework.
The Begin-Sadat friendship has grown despite opposition to the peace treaty by Arab leaders.
The Arab League voted over the weekend to punish Egypt for signing the treaty by breaking most political and economic ties with Egypt.
Threat posed by reactor ends
HARRISBURG, Pa. A—gas bubble no longer poses any significant danger of explosion at the disabled Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, a federal offermentation facility.
However, speculation arose that the crippled reactor might have to be junked.
Harold Denton, of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said he was not sure how long it would take to bring the reactor to a cold shutdown.
Denton said the temperature in the nuclear core remained stable at 280 degrees Fahrenheit.
Robert Bernero, an NRC decontamination expert, said that it could take as long as two years to clean up radiation in the plant, but that he thought the plant would be able to do it.
Silkwood attorneys rest case
ORKLAHOMA CITY—Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Karen Silkwood contamination trial rested their case yesterday after Silkwood's mother and
Silkworm's sister said that Silkworm was afraid of the Kerr-MegGee Plutonium plant where she worked and that Silkworm was planning to quit her job.
Silkwood's sister, Rosemary Porter, 26, testified in federal court that she had talked on the telephone with Silkwood several times before Silkwood's death.
Porter and Silkwood had told her that she would leave her job at the Kerr-Mege公司 by early December 1974. Silkwood died Nov. 13, 1974, en route to what others have testified was a meeting to present to a New York Times reporter evidence of alleged malice control fraud at Kerr-Mege.
Silkwood's family filed an $11.5 million personal injury suit against Kerr-Metee, alleging that the company's negligence caused Silkwood to be comp
ERA survives rescission test
TOPEKA - A Kansas Senate committee yesterday rejected a resolution that would have rescinded Kansas' ratification of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
The resolution failed on a voice vote to pass the Kansas Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
State Sen. John Vermillion, R-Independence, who sponsored the resolution, said he did so to express his disapproval of the extension of the ratification
The original deadline for three-fourths of the states to ratify the amendment was March 22, but Congress extended the deadline三年。Thirty-five of the states had not been ratified.
Strike's impact called limited
WASHINGTON - Laber Secretary Ray Marshall said yesterday that a three-day old shutdown of major national trucking firms was causing only limited
He said if the strike continued, there could be severe economic disruptions across the United States. The automobile industry has been the principal victim of the strike involving companies and teamsters who haul much of the nation's general cargo shipments.
Marshall also said the government had no immediate plans to seek a court-ordered end to the labor dispute with the Teams union.
Study questions danger of pill
More than 60,000 auto workers at 18 plants were laid off or working shorter shifts yesterday because of parts blamed on the strike.
NEW YORK—New statistical studies reported yesterday questioned the validity of British studies that said women who had used oral contraceptives were more likely to have abortions.
Christopher Tietze, a biostatisticist for the Population Council and one of the authors of the study, said the risk of taking oral contraceptives was affected by age.
The authors of the new study, however, said that their findings did not mean the risk associated with the use of oral contraceptives, but that the risk had been reduced.
He said the results showed the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease in men and women aged 15-44 from 1950 to 1978.
He said the results showed the numbers of deaths from cardiovascular diseases among women had declined much more rapidly than had rates for men.
this contradicts a 1977 British study by the Royal College of General Practitioners who found that oral contraceptives were more susceptible to cardiovascular diseases than other methods.
Weather...
Snow will end in the morning and it should be sunny and warmer by this afternoon. Temperatures will be in the high 45s, according to the National Weather Service.
TOPEKA (AP) - A resolution calling for creation of a special legislative committee to investigate the safety of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant now under construction near Burlington was introduced yesterday in the Kansas Senate.
Wolf Creek inquiry possible
If both houses adopted the resolution, the Legislative Coordination Council, which handles legislative business when the full Senate is not present, would be authorized to appoint the commissioners.
However, the spokesman, Bob Rivers, did not rule out the possibility that the National Regulatory Commission might change its role to deal with the Three Mile Island plant's trouble.
A SPIKESMAN for KG&E, one of the companies building the plant, said
yesterday that nothing had occurred so far to cause the firms to alter construction
The resolution came out of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, which also plans to include a $50,000 appropriation so that experts can hire experts to assist in the inquiry.
THE RESOLUTION would charge the committee to study:
- The safety of nuclear powered electric generating plants generally.
The special committee would be asked to report its findings by Dec. 1.
- The effect of a nuclear accident in $^{47}$ annas on the state's citizens.
- The safety of the Wolf Creek raucy
specifically.
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence, a member of the Ways and Means Committee and once on the staff of the old Atomic Energy Commission, said the hired experts should take a "new approach" to nuclear safety being taken by the two utilities that are building Wolf Creek
BERMAN SAID they also could look into the feasibility of the utilities, plans for on-site construction and planning.
Gov. John Carlin also has assigned Joseph
Execution appeal denied
Mrs. Evans' petition challenged the constitutionality of Alibaba's death penalty law and alleged that Evans was obliged to deal rationally" with his legal problems.
State attorneys argued that a psychiatrist's opinion cited in the petition was based on "scant information and secondhand knowledge."
MORILE, Ala. (AIP)—A federal judge refused last night to block the Friday electrocution of condemned murderer John Watson after his parents' mother did not have standing to appeal.
Evans has refused to appeal his case. There are reports that Evans has agreed to pay damages after the attack.
Bely Evans, of Beaumont, Texas, filed an appeal on her son's behalf on Monday, despite his repeated insistence that he did no further legal efforts made on his behalf.
U. S. District Judge W.B. Hand's decision followed Gob. Fob James' earlier refusal to see a delegation from Armenia In the Iraq war that also was seeking to stop the execution.
Hand agreed, saying the report was not sufficient to stay the execution pending a settlement.
King, state energy director, the leader of monitoring safety aspects of the Wolf Creek
Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which alleged an error in Evans's trial.
The sentence was upheld first by the
Carlin has conceded that the state had little authority over the Wolf Creek facility unless it could be proved that it posed a safety hazard to Kansas residents.
THE NRC; not the state, licenses nuclear plants.
No such hazard can exist, presumably, until the plant eyes into operation in 1983.
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals and by the state Supreme Court.
Berman said if the Legislature were convinced that there were problems with the Wolf Creek facility and if the utilities declined to hold up construction until the problems were solved, the Legislature still declined to abate a 1976 contract under which the state sold the utilities water from John Redmond Reservoir for use in the plant.
--both actions undoubtedly would precipitate lawsuits, with the courts决定
In addition, Berman said, the Legislature could order the Kansas Corporation Commission not to include the Wolf Creek facility in the utilities' rate bases.
If no court intervenes, Evans will be the first inmate executed in the United States since Jan. 17, 1977, when Gary Gilmore died before a Uttah firing squad.
He is to be electrocuted at 12.01 a.m.
Friday at Holmman prison near Aitheor for
the execution of Mr. Shadwick.
Evans, 29, has said repeatedly that he wants to die rather than be imprisoned for
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