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University Daily Kansan
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Friday, April 4, 1986
Nation/World
News Briefs
Violent storm leaves mark on mountains
A violent storm yesterday raked the Rockies with lightning, rain and up to 26 inches of wet snow, which closed schools and businesses and tore down power lines.
The bad weather moved into the Plains, spreading rain from Texas to Iowa, causing fender-benders in Dallas and endangered livestock from Wyoming to Kansas.
Showers, thunderstorms and hail soaked Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas and western Missouri. Tornado watches were issued for the region.
Pentagon more secure
WASHINGTON — Security is being tightened at the Pentagon in the wake of the threat of terrorist bombings.
Only Pentagon pass holders will have access to a shopping center at the concourse entrance. The concourse entrance now is accessible to the public by escalators leading up from subway and bus stations.
New check points with armed guards and metal detectors will be moved in. Passes or escorts will be required to enter.
Police reopen case
CROWN POINT, Ind. — A county coroner yesterday accused police of burgling an investigation when they ruled that the death of a man hit on the head 32 times with a claw hammer was suicide.
The Hobart Police Department reopened their investigation this week after a state police report ruled that James Cooley, 52, was murdered last April.
Hobart police originally determined that Cooley's death was self-inflicted.
Bear sues for kicks
SANDUSKY, Ohio - A civil suit has been filed on behalf of a North American black bear whose lawyer says the bear suffered emotional distress and injury after a fracas with a prospective client.
The suit asks $20,000 from William R. Klotz, who allegedly kicked Smokey Bear's trailer after the bear's trainer refused to let him wrestle the bear.
From Kansan wires.
Protesters. police clash on Calif. campus
The Associated Press
The conflict began before dawn when police placed dozens of
Two men were arrested for allegedly possessing firebombs, after police received a threat that California Hall would be burned down, and charred paper was found stuffed in the gas tanks of three university cars, authorities reported.
demonstrators into buses to be taken to Alameda County's Santa Rita jail, said university spokesman Ray Colig. Hundreds of other protesters surrounded the buses, preventing them from moving.
BERKELEY, Calif. — Antiapartheid demonstrators hurled bottles, rocks and eggs at baton-wielding police officers yesterday in a clash which led to 91 arrests, 29 injuries and the destruction of a shantytown on the University of California campus.
At about 7:30 a.m., police in riot gear cleared a path through the crowd. Fighting broke out as demonstrators hurled bottles, rocks and eggs and blocked the buses by hurling trash cans, setting up makeshift barricades and sitting in the way.
professed to be a news photographer.
Eleven protesters and 18 police officers suffered minor injuries, said university spokesman Tom Debley. Colvig said one of the injured people
"I saw a photographer get clubbed, and the blood sprayed all over his camera and clothes," said a student affiliated with a group called the Campaign Against Apartheid. He would identify himself only as Greg. Police threw and clubbed people out of the way, he said.
Alameda County Sheriff's Sgt. William Gonzales said 99 protesters were taken by bus to Santa Rita to be booked. Colvig said about 50 others were photographed and would be subject to arrest later.
All those placed on the buses were served with a copy of a temporary restraining order, issued by a judge
Wednesday and saying the cardboard and plywood shanties were a fire hazard and blocked access to university buildings, according to Coligv. The shacks, which protesters said were symbols of the homes of South African blacks, were then dismantled.
Campus police said several bomb threats had been received yesterday, but that evacuation of university buildings was voluntary.
The shanties were placed at California Hall where Cancellor Ira Michael Heyman has his offices. The building was the same site where 61 protesters, including 21 students, were arrested Tuesday after refusing
to remove 14 shanties. Those shanties were destroyed.
Demonstrators demanded that the university pull out about $2.4 billion it had invested in companies doing business in South Africa. Last month, university regents voted to sell $12.3 million in Eaton Corp. bonds on the recommendation of an investment review committee appointed last year to determine how companies in which the university invests handle their South African operations.
The protest yesterday was among the most violent at Berkeley since the 1960s, when the campus gained an international reputation for student activism.
Panel is suggested to oversee shuttles
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Challenger commission yesterday recommended that an independent safety panel oversee space shuttle travel to end a kind of Russian roulette in which NASA files without fixing problems.
The safety panel, suggested by astronaut Henry Hartfield, was endorsed by commission chairman William P. Rogers.
The commission heard four astronauts say they did not know or realize the seriousness of booster rocket problems. They disagreed over whether an escape mechanism should be added to the shuttle.
The astronauts' ignorance about the rocket problems was another example of a communications breakdown within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that was uncovered by the commission, which is searching for the cause of the Jan. 28 explosion that destroyed Challenger and killed its crew.
"The very biggest problem that must be solved before the space shuttle flies again is communications," said chief astronaut John Young. "Unless we take very positive steps to open safety communications and to identify and fix, early on, safety problems, we're asking for another shuttle accident."
Arnold Aldrich, shuttle program manager at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and a key official in deciding when to launch, said some communications breakdowns
figured in the Challenger accident.
One breakdown was when launche-ve concerns about the booster rocket's performance in cold weather were not passed to him, and he did not discuss them with about extensive NASA reviews of the booster design last summer.
NASA practice, Feyman said, is to review flight problems, agonize over them, and then decide to fly despite the problems. If nothing fails, he said, "it is suggested, therefore, that that risk is no longer so high. For the next flight, we can lower our standards a little bit because we get away with it last time."
After hearing Hartsfield describe the shuttle as a magnificent machine, commission member Richard P. Feynman said it also was a risky machine with flaws and difficulties.
"An argument is always given that last time it worked," said Feynman, a physicist who has won the Nobel Prize. "It's a kind of Russian roulette."
Although most astronauts have said they never heard of problems with O-ring seals on the shuttle's booster rockets, astronaut Robert Crippen testified that he had been told in a formal flight review in January 1985 that a leak was detected.
Crippen and the other astronauts testified that no escape system could have kept the astronauts alive in that situation.
Delinquent renter kills landlord
United Press International
CHICAGO — A 300-pound gumman who was behind on his rent opened fire from his apartment window yesterday, killing his landlord and a policeman, then darted next door and took an elderly woman hostage.
Officials said the gunman, identified by a neighbor as John Pasch, fired more than 30 shots and threw two dead dogs from the woman's apartment while police tried to negotiate his surrender by telephone.
At least 100 police converged on the apartment house, a two-story home converted into a multiple dwelling in a middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's North Side.
Police Superintendent Fred Rice said Pasch was thought to have a rifle and a handgun and alleged to have materials to make explosives.
The gunman's hostage was identified as Jean
Wivatowski. 74.
"All he has to do is walk out his door with his hands
up." Rice said. "We've pulled men back. He won't be harmed."
The gunman, in his 50s and weighing about 300 pounds, had argued with his landlord, Leslie Shearer, 45, before the shooting started, Rice said.
"He was in arrears in rent, three or four months," he said. "That dispute precipitated the shooting."
Before the shooting started, Pasch called th, emergency number and said he was about to make gasoline bombs, police said. He called again and asked if any officer that approached the rear of the building,
Pasch shot Shearer in the abdomen, then fired at police who arrived to help the landlord, hitting tactical officer Richard Clark, 48, in the face and killing him, said police spokesman Tia Vicini.
Pasch then ran out the rear of the building and into the house next door, where he held Wivatoski. krown locally as the dog lady because she owns five mongrels, a neighbor said.
Aquino to talk with leftist rebels
United Press International
MANILA, Philippines — President Corazon Aquino, responding to a proposal by communist insurgents for cease-fire talks, announced yesterday that she would appoint a special emissary to begin negotiations with rebel forces.
Presidential spokesman Rene Saguisag said the decision came after the government received a two-page statement from the underground National Democratic Front declaring its readiness to enter a dialogue aimed at ending armed hostilities.
Saguis said Aquino was in the process of selecting an emissary to contact the National Democratic Front.
The National Democratic Front is the political wing of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines. The Communist Party's military arm, the New People's Army, has an estimated 16,000 armed troops in most of the country's 74 provinces.
Saguisag said the negotiations might be hindered if the
rebels insisted that U.S. military installations be ordered out of the country.
"If there is insistence that the bases be removed or dismantled immediately, obviously there's no point in going any further because this government is committed to honoring the bases agreement until 1991, and at that point Aquino keeps her options open," he said.
"Those are the ground rules. Otherwise, it's a clean slate. The idea is reconciliation based on justice."
Aquino, who has called on the rebels to lay down their arms and help rebuild the country after the 20-year rule of Ferdinand Marcos, met Spanish Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez at the presidential palace yesterday.
Saguasi said the Spanish envoy assured Aquino that Spain would not grant asylum to Marcos. Marcos has been in exile in Hawaii since his Feb. 25 ouster but is thought to be searching for a home elsewhere.
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