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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, April 9, 1986
News Briefs
'Dirty Harry' elected small town mayor
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif.
— Hollywood tough guy Clint Eastwood was easily elected mayor of the quiet hamlet of Nassau, where he highly-publicized political campaign for so small a town.
With half of the ballots counted,
Eastwood had 1,248 votes, compared to 484 for incumbent Mayor Charlotte Townsend. Two minor candidates combined for a total of 24 votes.
A record number of voters turned out to decide between Eastwood and Townsend, whose quiet nogrowth platform didn't stand a chance against "Dirty Harry's" charisma and fan appeal in the town of 4,700. Eastwood opposes tight growth restrictions.
Shite Muslim hijackers beat and shot Stehem after hijacking the plane June 14 when it left Greece for Rome.
Family sues airline
NEW YORK — The family of a Navy diver tortured and killed aboard a hijacked TWA flight last June sued the airline for nearly $21 million yesterday, charging it was negligent in handling greatly
The suit alleged TWA security personnel at the Athens Airport let one of the hijackers board the plane without physical search even though he off the weapons detector twice.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court by the family of Robert Stethem. 23. of Waldorf. Md.
Jet was overloaded
Peter Boag, chief investigator of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board, said a combination of factors could have caused the crash.
OTTAWA — An Arrow Air jet that crashed in December, killing all 248 U.S. servicemen aboard, was overloaded and probably ice-coated when it crashed, an investigator said yesterday.
Investigators determined the aircraft's takeoff weight was 12,000 to 15,000 pounds more than that calculated by the crew. As a result, Boag said, takeoff speeds were probably lower than optimum.
From Kansan wires.
United Press International
Soviet ambassador, Reagan meet
WASHINGTON — President Reagan and outgoing Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin yesterday set up a top-level meeting for mid-May to lay the groundwork for the still unscheduled superpower summit this year.
Secretary of State George Shultz, briefing reporters on the 75-minute Oval Office meeting between Reagan and Dobrynin said no date was set for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
But Shultz said he would meet Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Washington in mid-May to make preparations for the summit, which he said both sides agree should be held in the United States this year.
Dobrynin's visit to the Oval Office was officially a farewell call marking his return to Moscow after 24 years as ambassador to take up a top-level Communist Party Central Committee foreign affairs post.
The meeting was scheduled for 15 minutes, but went on for an hour longer. Shultz said the fact that it was extended speaks volumes and White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the two men had a lot to talk about.
Reagan and Gorbachev, during their first summit last year in Geneva Nov. 19-20, agreed to hold two more summits; in the United States this year and in the Soviet Union in 1987. But in recent weeks, Gorbachev has seemed to pull away, irritating his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, and there would be no point in having another summit without the prospect of a U.S.-Soviet arms control agreement.
"The meeting with Ambassador Dobrynin was a very substantive, constructive one and I thought advanced matters." Shultz said.
The administration has formally invited Gorbache to a summit in the United States in either late June or late July, but has received no response. Shultz and Speakes said the United States still preferred those dates. But Shultz said, "I
wouldn't rule anything in or out."
Dobrynny, said Shultz, "was at pains to say, 'We're not setting any preconditions.'" Both sides agree there should be a summit in the United Nations with significant substantive results. Shultz said.
Shulz said Reagan congratulated Dobrynin on his new post and the two men touched on all of the issues he had raised.
"We believe the issues are rather comprehensive and so preparations need to go forward across-the-board," he said.
Dobrynin made no public comments.
He said the session did not produce any new proposals to break the impasse on yearlong arms control negotiations in Geneva. Shultz said terrorism was discussed, including problems connected with Libya.
Dobrynin, who also gives up his ceremonial post as dean of the diplomatic corps in Washington, gave Reagan an electric samovar, which is a Russian tea warmer, and a set of figurines as gifts.
Names to be released later in week
100 journalists left in NASA space race
United Press International
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The number of applicants seeking to be the first journalist in space has been reduced to 100 names, project officials said yesterday. The names will be announced later this week.
The pool of 1,703 applications from print and broadcast reporters was pared by journalism schools across the nation. Only two of the 100 finalists dropped out, and they were replaced by alternates, said Eric Johnson, director of the Journalist-In-Space Project.
we have 100 names, but we need confirmation from all 100 that they wish to remain." Johnson
said. "So far, we have had two people drop out. One was a freelancer who dropped out for financial reasons, and the other was a reporter who apparently could not come to an agreement with his employer on taking time off for the project or something like that."
Among the original applicants were several prominent journalists, including former CBS anchorman Walter Crankite, Johnson said.
The Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, headquartered at the University of South Carolina, is coordinating the selection process.
ministration originally planned to launch a reporter into space this fall, but the January explosion of the shuttle Challenger meant an indefinite launch date. Johnson said NASA first wanted to put a teacher in space to replace Christa McAuliffe, who was killed in the accident.
The 100 finalists were selected by 29 journalism schools in different regions of the country. Each school selected five finalists, and the next cut will be made by panels at five other journalism schools. Each school will select eight finalists, for a total of 40. Johnson said.
The National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
Landing gear breaks, but plane lands safely
After the 40 are chosen, a national panel will reduce that list to five names.
United Press International
CHICAGO — The left engine of a United Airlines Boeing 737 scraped the runway and burst into flames yesterday when the plane's landing gear collapsed at O'Hare International Airport, forcing the emergency evacuation of 109 passengers and five crew members.
Firefighters quickly extinguished the fire. An undetermined number of passengers on Flight 732 from Omaha, Neb., to Chicago suffered scratches when they evacuated the twin-engine jetliner on emergency slides, authorities said.
Chicago Fire Department
paramedics treated the injuries at the scene and no one required hospitalization, officials said.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration were investigating the accident.
Firefighters assigned to the world's busiest airport quickly extinguished the flames in the jetliner's engine shortly after it landed at 1:14 p.m., authorities said.
Emergency evacuations were made from the right side of the aircraft, which landed on a runway near the Fire Department's on-field station, United Airlines spokesman Chuck Novak said.
Sakharov trade predicted
United Press International
for betraying NATO pipeline secrets to East Germany.
HAMBURG, West Germany — A television station said yesterday that Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov would be exchanged for Eastern-bloe spies by May on the same Berlin bridge where Jewish dissident Anatoly Scharansky was freed in February.
Sakharov, in internal exile in Gorky since 1980, will gain his freedom by May 18, said the Hamburg editorial center of the German language television network RTL-Pl, based in Luxembourg.
It said the United States was also ready to free some high-calibern agents to obtain Sakharov, a theoretical physicist punished for waging a battle for human rights and disarmament.
In Newton, Mass., Sakharov's wife, Yelena Bonen, discounted the report, her son in-law, Efrem Yankelev, said.
The station, in a statement issued to the news media, said it learned the West German government was ready to exchange Lothar-Erwut Lutz, imprisoned
In Washington, the State Department had no comment.
"There is a good possibility the swap has been already decided and agreed upon," he said. "But there is also a possibility that this is just another bit of disinformation, which we have had a lot of in the past."
Winds delay nuclear test
United Press International
LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A nuclear weapons explosion, scheduled by the government despite congressional protest and invasion of the test site by demonstrators, was postponed yesterday because of the weather.
A dozen anti-test activists, including Daniel Ellsberg, were arrested at the site before the delay was revealed.
In Washington, congressional opponents urged the administration to go along with a current Soviet moratorium on testing and an offer by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to halt all testing if the United States does.
"The Soviets have said they want to stop testing and are willing to accept on-site inspection to verify a test ban treaty." Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., said, "Why don't we call their bluff? If we don't, history will record that it was a Soviet leader who went the extra mile toward ending the arms race and an American president who turned him down."
Seven senators, including Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Gary Hart, D-Colo., held a news conference to criticize the administration's nuclear testing and for refusing to negotiate a test ban with the Soviets.
"The real reason for the administration's rejection of a test ban is that continued nuclear testing is essential to the president's Star Wars program," Kennedy said. "In other words, it is not a good time to stop the nuclear arms race because the nuclear aims has plans to escalate it."
The test blast, code-named "Mighty Oak," had been scheduled for 10 a.m. on the Nevada site. No official announcement was made, but Department of Energy sources said it was delayed because of high winds and would be conducted when weather permits.
About 200 anti-nuclear protesters were gathered outside the 1,350-square-mile research compound about 70 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Six who belonged to the organization sneaked onto the government reserve during the night and were arrested before dawn.
Six more protesters, including Ellisberg, went into the restricted area later and were also arrested.
Ellsberg, who gained notoriety for releasing the secret "Pentagon Papers," said before his arrest.
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