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University Dailv Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, April 23, 1986
News Briefs
Vietnam War veteran executed in Florida
STARKE, Fla. — David Livingston Funchess, a Vietnam War veteran who said combat trauma made him a killer, was executed yesterday for killing two people during a 1974 robbery.
Funchess, a black former Marine who received five commendations and a Purple Heart in some of the bloodiest fighting in a vetam, when he surged in the electric chair at Florida State Prison.
Prison uprising ends
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. -- Assault teams hurling concussion grenades and firing plastic bullets stormed a cell block at Indiana State Prison yesterday and freed three guards held by convicts armed with seized brooms in the second inmate uprising in six weeks.
He received two five-hour stays before the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to dismiss his final appeal, rejecting arguments that combat trauma left him incompetent to stand trial.
Four guards, two inmates and two assault-team members were injured in the six-hour standoff but not serotis, prison officials said.
AIDS victim avoided
KOKOMO, Ind. — More than 20 students began classes yesterday at a temporary school set up to get them back to teenage violence victim Ryan White.
Classes were held for 21 sixth and seventh-graders at a makeshift school in a former American Legion hall in Russiaville, about three miles outside Kokomo.
The parents started the school and are paying for it.
Prisoner is forgotten
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A woman was left in jail for 89 hours and had to drink water from a toilet to keep it dry. James Dunning said yesterday.
Cassandra Jones, 25, was sentenced Friday to 3% hours in jail, but a deputy forgot her and went home for the weekend. Dump
Jones was discovered Monday morning and taken to a hospital where she was fed intravenously and released.
From Kansan wires.
Reagan furthers warning
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, emboldened by the attack on Libya, warned yesterday that those who target Americans for terrorism should ponder a record of miscalculation in time as underestimated U.S. resolve.
Determined to press the issue of terrorism in talks with allied leaders, Reagan hammered away at threats to democracy in a salute to the war effort. He asked me to think that has soared in size and influence during his administration.
Despite public debates that arise in the American political system, Reagan said, no foreign power should attack the United States; unity where terrorism is concerned.
"Those who are tempted to do so," he warned, "should reflect on our national character — on our record of
littering history with the wreckage of regimes who made the mistake of underestimating the will of the American Civil War, and their national valor."
Earlier in the day, the White House praised a decision by the European Community to reduce diplomatic ties with Libya, but said Reagan would urge even tougher measures at the Economic Summit next month.
"This is the kind of cooperation that is essential if we are going to combat terrorism on an international basis," said White House spokesman Larry Speakes. "Quite frankly, though, more needs to be done."
The action Monday by the 12 EC foreign ministers was portrayed as a boost to Reagan's hopes to forge a consensus on terrorism when he gathers with the leaders of the major industrialized democracies May 4-19.
Confronted with evidence of Libyan involvement in terrorism, the EC foreign ministers decided to cut the staffs of Libyan embassies and consulates in Europe and of Euro-Asia. This meant the movement of Libyan diplomats and clamp down on Libyan nationals suspected of terrorist links.
in Tokyo.
Britain took 2 Libyan into custody for revolutionary activity yesterday, including a pilot who volunteered to form a suicide squad to attack U.S. targets and vowed to quickly deport them.
Home Secretary Douglas Hurd said he ordered the deportations in light of the latest information about the involvement of those concerned in organizing Libyan student activity in support of the Khadafy regime in the United Kingdom.
Soviet Union charges losses in raid hidden
United Press International
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union, in what one diplomat called an attempt to convince Americans their government is lying to them, had its leaders arrested. States had hidden the true extent of its losses in the raid on Libya
The United States has acknowledged that one F-115 fighter-bomber was lost in the April 15 attacks on Tripoli and Benghazi, and five other F-115s and two A-6 carrier-based jets aborted their missions because of mechanical failures.
But Foreign Ministry spokesman Vladimir Lomeiko said Soviet intelligence using national
technical means — intelligence methods such as spy satellites — determined at least five U.S. planes were lost in the raid.
"The American Air Force suffered considerable damage and this fact is hidden by authorities in New York, where the expression of omnipotence," he said.
"Two aircraft were discovered on the ground and two were lost, as it was regarded by national technical means.
"So we now have information about five, but some others speak about six aircraft lost," he said.
Lomeiko refused to discuss whether the planes were destroyed or damaged.
Two Poseidon subs will be dismantled
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United States has begun notifying allies that President Reagan will order two Poseidon submarines dismantled to comply with the SALT II arms limitation treaty, administration officials said yesterday.
The officials said the message, being conveyed to the allies this week before Reagan heads to the Economic Summit in Tokyo, was qualified by a warning that SALT II limits might be exceeded in the future if there were clear military reasons to do so.
The issue will arise next month when a new Trident submarine, the USS Nevada, begins sea trials. Its 24-long-range nuclear missiles will push the United States beyond a 1,200-launcher limit set by the SALT II treaty, which was signed in 1979 but never ratified.
To remain in technical compliance, Reagan has decided to order two old 16-missile Poseidon submarines dismantled — the same approach he took last June when a Trident went to sea.
But officials made it clear that the decision would carry with it a warning that they would not be bound by SALT II in the future.
would not be final until arms control advisers Edward Rowney and Nalie Nitze ended consultations in allied capitals this week. No annotations were filed before Reagan leaves Friday for Indonesia and Japan.
In laying the foundation for exceeding the treaty in the future, White House spokesman Larry Speakes emphasized that SALT II was an unratified treaty that would have expired Dec. 31.
They said Reagan's decision
Adm. William Crowe Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a house subcommittee Monday that he found it very difficult to continue its work to abide by what the other party to the contract did not.
However, 219 members of the House urged Reagan in a letter to continue his five-year policy of not undercutting the treaty as long as the Soviets respected its provisions.
provision. The administration left room for a decision to dismantle the two Poseidons.
The White House statement signaled an attempt to strike a balance between hardliners, who have called on Reagan to counter Soviet treaty violations, and some officials who have shown concern about the damaging effect of an outright violation of SALT II.
Arms tested despite protesters
United Press International
PAHUTE MESA, Nev. — A nuclear warhead was exploded below the Nevada desert yesterday in the third announced U.S. test of 1986, despite the reported presence of four protestors on the classified research reserve.
four protesters on the class-action case.
The blast, code-named "Jefferson," at the Nevada Test Site swayed high-rise resorts 104 miles away in Las Vegas.
Department of Energy officials detonated the weapon even though anti-nuclear groups said four members of the Rocky Mountain Peace Center were guided into the government compound by members of Greenepeace.
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory warhead, with an explosive force of between 20-150 kilotons, was exploded without incident in a vertical shaft 2,000 feet below the surface at Pahute Mesa at 8:30 a.m., according to Energy Department spokesman Jim Boyer.
The maximum designed force of the punch was equal to 150,000 tons of TNT or nearly 12 times larger than the atomic bomb that flattened Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
The whereabouts of the four reported infiltrators was not known. Government officials said no one was observed in the vicinity of ground zero, the site of the test blast.
Steve Rohl, a spokesman for Greenpeace in Las Vegas,
said the anti-nuclear commandos did not have a radio
and were not communicating with other protesters outside the test site.
sure the test will fail.
"We believe they know that the test went off and are probably making their way now to Area 2, where the next blast is planned for Thursday," said Rohl.
Area 2, located at Ranier Mesa, is about five miles from the site of yesterday's test.
From the site of your institution. The Department of Energy has not announced the scheduling of any future tests beyond Jefferson because of national security.
national security.
Jessie Cocks of the American Peace Test said a large demonstration was planned for today at the entrance of the Nevada Test Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
"Jefferson" was the 649th announced nuclear test at the test site since the beginning of nuclear weapons testing in the Nevada desert in January 1951. The United States has conducted 444 announced underground nuclear tests since the signing of the Limited Test Ban Treaty in August 1963.
Wanted man returns for infant
The Associated Press
night at her home in Baltimore City and the abduction of the baby from a foster家 in Anne Arundel County.
BALTIMORE — A man who abandoned his baby on an airplane when he fled a drug arrest returned for the child two months later, forcing a social worker at gunpoint to take her foster home, police said yesterday.
Warrants were issued yesterday for the arrest of William Thomas Forrer, 32, and the child's mother, Joyce Ann Khlpa, 27, after the kidnapping of the social worker Monday
Police said the couple thanked social worker Lynn Martin for taking care of the baby and gave her $200 to help the family can near the foster home in Pasadena.
Forrer, who was also accused of escaping from a Florida prison, posed as an FBI agent to force Martin to help him take the infant from the foster parents, according to authorities.
Officer V. Richard Molloy, Anne Arundel County police spokesman, said federal authorities tried to arrest Forer in February at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport.
"He had boarded a plane but they had picked up narcotics in his baggage," Molloy said. "He boiled from the plane, leaving his 6-month-old old child and $35,000 in cash. In his escape he attempted to run down a couple of troopers."
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