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University Daily Kansan
Friday, April 18, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
AMHERST, Mass. — A 17-year-old boy drank cyanide-laced Kool-Aid on live, closed-circuit television and died on the floor of the Hampshire College studio while his brother and friends urged him to quit joking, students said yesterday.
Teen drinks cyanide on live TV program
When Andrew L. Hermann refused to quit his act on the comedy show, students carried him to a bar where he later discovered he was dead
Police refused to comment on the suicide reports by students involved in the production.
DURHAM, N.C. — Sheriff's candidate Bill Allen collapsed with a heart attack during a speech and an opponent saved his life by administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Politician saves rival
Allen, 55, was in serious but stable condition yesterday at the Duke Medical Center.
He collapsed during a speech, and opponent Jimmy Lively, who was waiting to speak, provided first aid that kept Allen alive.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A 54-year-old man convicted of terrorizing his former employer told a judge he too old to go to prison and asked instead for a public stoning.
Man asks for stoning
But Ellsworth Donald Griffith's request had one catch, said prosecutor Odell McGhee. He insisted that sin be allowed to cast stones.
McGhee said Judge Richard Strickler sentenced Griffith to five years in prison Wednesday.
Stations give free gas
BANGOR, Maine — A local service station's promotion to sell cheap gas turned into a price war with free gasoline.
The Paul Bunyan Exxon Station began selling unleaded gas for 38.9 cents per gallon. By noon, the invaders had knocked over a gallon of gas for 29.9 cents.
The Exxon station dropped its price to one-tenth of a cent, and Irving started giving gas away. Then Exxon did, too.
From Kansan wires.
Westerners targets of terrorist violence
United Press International
Murders, kidnappings, explosions, bomb threats and American evacuations swept Europe and the Middle East yesterday in the aftermath of U.S. air strikes against Libya and Trinoli's calls for vengeance.
The main targets were Americans, whose president ordered the Tuesday attacks on two Libyan cities that reportedly killed Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy's prime minister approved the first bombing missions from English soil since World War II.
in major developments yesterday:
■ Three Western kidnap victims were slain in Lebanon in revenge for the attacks on Libya.
The State Department ordered the evacuation of dependents and non-essential personnel from Sudan after the Tuesday night shooting of an embassy communications officer that the White House said bore the
mark of a Libyan operation.
**Worldwide Television News in New York said Beirut staffer John Patrick McCarthy, a 29-year-old Briton, was abducted by gunmen as he was on the way in a two-car car to its capital's international airport.
■ Guards at London's Heathrow Airport found explosives in the luggage of a woman boarding an Israeli EI Al Airlines Boeing 747 to flight Aiv carrying 480 people. The woman is launched for her Arabic boyfriend.
■ Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who has access to intelligence information, said attackers Wednesday night hurled two gasoline bombs at a U.S. airport in Tumaco, Tumaco neighborhood country to Libya. No injuries were reported.
Robert Lamb, the State Department's director of security, said there had been a dozen bomb threats since Tuesday's assault against what
Washington said was a hotbed of terrorism run by Khadafy.
■ Gunmen from an alleged pro-Liyanan group fired a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades at the office of British Ambassador John Gray.
Khadafy's Libyan Radio, reflecting anger over Tuesday's aerial bombardments and particularly the death of his 15-month-old daughter, Hana, had urged Arabs to "kill the Americans . . . where you may happen" the 'sleaker of an innocent child does not deserve mercy."
But the English may have been the first to feel his wrath. An Irish diplomat in Beirut, who declined to be identified, examined the bodies of three Westerners who were killed, as well as two men who point-blank range earlier in the day.
He was asked if they were United Nations journalist Alec Collett and teachers John Leigh Douglas and Paul Padfield, all British kidnap
victims. He replied that he thought so.
It was not clear, however, who the victims were. A previously unheard of group calling itself the Araat Fedayeen Cell claimed responsibility for the slayings, saying they had killed "a responsible officer of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and two British intelligence officers."
At about the same time, British journalist McCarthy was kidnapped by four gunmen on the way to Beirut airport. His whereabouts were
Lamb said that since the wave of U.S. Air Force and Navy bombings of Tripoli and Benghazi, bomb threats to U.S. embassies around the world had been running at a dozen a day and that the State Department had given credence to about half the callers.
He also said that of the 263 American diplomatic missions abroad, there were 60 or 70 he was concerned about.
The State Department ordered evacuation of all dependents and nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Sudan after communications officer Salah al-Moutabbi called to the head Tuesday night in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum*.
The assailant was not identified, but White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the shooting "bears the marks of a Libyan-type operation."
Thousands of air travelers were evacuated from Terminal One of London's Heathrow Airport after security agents found a bomb in the baggage of an Irishwoman who was shot dead by her boyfriend. She was ticked on an Israeli-bound flight carrying some 400 people.
All flights from the terminal were suspended for several hours. Police detained the woman for questioning and launched a London-wide search for a man identified as Nezar Hindawi.
New York Times wins 56th award
Newspapers win Pulitzer Prizes
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times each won two Pulitzer Prizes yesterday, and the San Jose, Calif., Mercury News was honored for exposing transfers of wealth by deposed Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos.
The Denver Post won the public service award for a report revealing that most missing children are involved in custody disputes or are runaways. The report helped allay fears stirred by exaggerated statistics, the Pulitzer jury said.
The Pultzer for investigative reporting was won by jeffrey A. Marx and Michael M. York of the Lexington, Ky., Herald-Leader for a 1975 national award to University of Kentucky basketball players.
The Pulitzer for national reporting was shared by the Dallas Morning News and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Lonesome Dove," Larry McMurtry's novel of the American West, won the Pulitzer for fiction. There was no drama awarded given for the 13th year since the prizes were established in
New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin won the Pultizer for commentary that, according to the Pultizer board, "consistently championed ordinary citizens."
reporter and a former Times reporter shared the award for general non-fiction. The Times' now has won 56 Pulters, over three times as many as any other paper.
Times reporter Joseph Lelydel won for his book "Move Your Shadow: South Africa Black and White," and J. Anthony Lukas, the former Times reporter, won for "Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families."
The Times won Pulitzer for explanatory journalism and music criticism, and a Times
The Times' Donal J. Henahan was cited in the category of music criticism.
The Pulitzer jury said they cited the Herald's Edna Buchanan for her versatile and consistently excellent police reporting.
Herald photographers Carol Guzy and Michel DuCille won for their photographs of devastation caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia.
The Mercury News series on Marcos and his associates, by Lewis Simons, Pete Carey and Katherine Ellison had a direct impact on subsections of the story. In the United States, according to the jury.
The Dallas Morning News' Craig Flournoy and George Rodrigue received the national reporting award for their report on subsidized housing. The reporters uncovered patterns of racial discrimination and segregation in public schools, and spurred significant reforms, the jury said.
The Inquirer's Arthur Howe was cited for his reporting on massive deficiencies in Internal Revenue Service processing of tax returns —
reporting that eventually inspired major changes in IRS procedures and prompted the agency to make a public apology to U.S. taxpayers.
Knight-Ridder Newspapers Inc. won seven awards yesterday, including those won by the Inquer and the Miami Herald. The two that went to the Inquer were that newspaper's ninth and 10th awards since 1975.
The prize for specialized reporting was won by Andrew Schneider and Mary Fat Flaherty of the Pittsburgh Press for their investigation of probabilities in the country's organ transplantation.
The prize for feature writing was awarded to John Camp of the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press and Dispatch for a series on how the American farm family was dealing with the worst agricultural crisis since the Depression.
Jack Fuller of the Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer for editorial reporting for his discussion of constitutional issues, and Jules Feiffer of the Village Voice in New York won the award for editorial cartooning.
Tom Gralish of the Philadelphia Inquirer won the feature photography award for his pictures of the city's homeless.
in the arts categories, the Pulitzer for biography was awarded to "Louise Bogan: A Portrait," by Elizabeth Frank. The history prize went to ". . . the Heavens and the Earth: a Political History of the Space Age," by Walter A. McDougall.
House member asks for support of contra aid bill
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House Republican leader Robert McKinley mounted yesterday for at least 36 Democrats to help him salvage President Reagan's request for aid to Nicaraguan rebels.
Michel, R-III, must obtain the signatures of k's majority of the chair, 218 members, to bring a petition to the council.
There are 182 Republicans in the House and Michel must hold these forces while gaining support from Democrats. Speaker Thomas McCutcheon has held high task and it was unlikely he would succeed.
On Wednesday Michel deliberately scuttled the process under which Reagan's proposal was being considered. 12
The House was virtually certain to kill the measure and accept one that denied any lethal assistance to the Nicaraguan rebels until at least late July.
The White House opposed this plan, as well as the legislative vehicle that would carry it — a $1.7 billion appropriations bill that Reagan threatened to veto
Michel's Republicans wrecked the process by voting for an amendment to deny any aid to the rebels, a manure that blocked thousands of people from accessing the continent only clothes, food and medicine but not arms.
O'Neill will spend the spending bill from the foor and Michel needs a fresh vehicle to carry the cargo.
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