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University Daily Kansan
Nation/World
Wednesday, March 5, 1986
WASHINGTON — The Secret Service arrested a man trying to deliver a report to President Reagan yesterday when White House guards found a gun in his car.
News Briefs Armed man arrested at the White House
WASHINGTON — The government's broadest gauge of future economic activity fell 0.6 percent in January, but economists yesterday dismissed the setback as an isolated incident.
Secret Service spokesman William Corbett said Chandler Clary, 33, of Columbia, S.C., was charged with violating a city ordinance against carrying unlicensed weapons and ammunition.
Corbett said Clary drove to a public gate at the White House and told the guard he was delivering a report. In response to a question, he said he had a gun in the trunk. After he consented to a search, officers found a loaded .38 caliber pistol and 12 bullets and arrested Clary.
Economic index falls
The Composite Index of Leading Indicators fell from a high of 174 in December to 173, according to a report released by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. It was the first and largest monthly decline since April 1985.
Shanty blocks school
WALTHAM, Mass. — Students blocked the Brandeis University administration building's entrance with an anti-apartheid shanty and a fence yesterday to protest the school's investments in firms with ties to South Africa.
School officials made no immediate attempt to remove them but ordered workers to widen two cuts in the fence to give employees access to the building.
Hose aimed at queen
SYDNEY, Australia — Protests broke out on Queen Elizabeth II's Australian tour yesterday after two youths tried to douse her with hoses.
Police said Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip had just entered a hotel when two unidentified 18-year-olds turned on water hoses from a rooftop across the street. No one got wet, police said.
From Kansan wires.
The Associated Press
Kennedv summary released
LOS ANGELES — A summary of secret police files on the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy made public yesterday said that investigators could find no evidence that convicted gunman Sirhan Sirhan had accomplices.
The 1,453-page summary of more than 50,000 pages of documents in the main investigation file says the inquiry into the slaying was marked by confusion, mystery and outright lies by purported witnesses.
Critics said the summary was inadequate and called for immediate release of the full file.
called for minimum training.
"This commission for 17 years has refused to give up records that have been given up in every other assassination case," said Paul Schrade, a former Kennedy aide who maintains that there are doubts about whether Sirhan acted alone.
vestigated a number of allegations implicating Sirhan and other individuals or groups in conspiracies to kill Kennedy.
The commission recommended that Mayor Tom Bradley appoint a separate committee to handle the editing of the full file, and to set a timetable for their release.
The summary, in a section discussing the investigation of possible conspiracies, said police in
"The notoriety which accompanied the assassination and the mystery surrounding Sirhan's character and background made the subject of conspiracy fertile ground for evoking unusual responses from the general public," the report said.
"Opportunists, political adventurers and publicity seekers came forward to volunteer that they had seen or spoken to Siran or that they had information which was valuable to the investigation.
"Investigations were made into each allegation with generally negative results," the summary said. "The majority of the persons making the allegations were found to be lying for one reason or another."
Although the summary said that "several allegations . . . were valid in one way or another," it added that most were found to be generally not important to the overall investigation.
Sohrade, in arguing for release of the full file, was joined by scholars and an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. They said laws
governing public disclosure of records required the commission to open all files.
"There are just too many questions that have been raised in this case for any reasonable person to have any confidence in those conclusions," Schrade said.
At a hearing last month, commission members denied they were unduly delaying the release of some 50,000 pages of information.
Kennedy was assassinated June 5, 1968, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where he had been celebrating his victory in the California presidential primary. Sirhan was convicted of the murder in 1969 and remains in prison.
Schrade, who was hospitalized for 10 days after being wounded in the shooting, repeated his contention that the files contain a statement from an FBI investigator indicating that there may have been a second gunman at the hotel. The agent said two bullets unaccounted for by investigators were found lodged in a doorjamb, according to Schrade.
Providing information to historians is as important as shedding light on possible conspiracy theories, he said.
Aquino questions Marcos' properties
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — The government of Corazon Aquino said yesterday that it had new evidence indicating that ousted President Ferdinand E. Marcos, his family and friends may have plundered up to $10 billion of the nation's wealth.
Former Sen. Jovito Salonga told a news conference that documents found at the presidential palace after Marcos abandoned it Feb. 25 link Marcos to purported illegal purchases of property in the United States.
member commission that Aquino created last week to recover wealth that the Marcos family and its associates allegedly accumulated under dummy names during Marcos' 20-year rule.
Salonga is chairman of a five-
Salonga said about $5 billion to $10 billion was involved in the investigation of the Marcos fortune.
The estimate was the largest yet. The 1985 national budget of the financially strapped Philippines was $3.3 billion.
everything it could to speed up the recovery of the assets. He said the monies were stolen from the pockets of the Filipino people.
Rep. Stephen J. Solarz, D-N.Y., told a news conference at Manila airport yesterday that he thought the U.S. government should be doing
Solarz, chairman of the House subcommittee on Asian affairs that recently conducted hearings on Marcos' alleged holdings in the United States, said there was persuasive documentary and evidence that the Marcoses controlled a real estate empire in the New York City area of up to $350 million.
Lawyers for Aquino's government obtained a court injunction in New York on Sunday barring the sale of five New York properties allegedly
owned or controlled by Marcos.
Meanwhile, most members of the Philippines' highest courts resigned yesterday to give Aquino's week-old government a free hand in revamping the judicial system. The system is composed of Marcos appointees and has been viewed with distrust by the public.
Among those resigning was senior Associate Justice Claudio Teekanhee, who swore in Aquino as president hours before Marcos fled for Hawaii. It is predicted that Aquino will name Teehankee chief justice.
Libya OKs suicide squads for attack on U.S. interests
The Associated Press
TRIPOLI, Libya — The legislature of Col. Muammar Khadafy's Libya has called for formation of suicide squads to attack U.S. and Israeli interests and has threatened those nations' embassies, the official JANA news agency said yesterday.
JANA said the legislature, called the General People's Congress, approved the resolutions Monday night as it ended a seven-day annual session.
The agency said the congress also
urged Arabs to impose an economic boycott against the United States to retaliate for the U.S. cutoff of commercial ties with Libya.
The General People's Congress follows the wishes of Khadafy, who has no official title but has ruled Libya since a 1969 coup.
In a related development, the 50-member Organization of African Unity yesterday condemned what it called provocations, threats and acts of intimidation by the United States against Libya.
Higher ages for drinking cut fatalities, study says
United Press International
WASHINGTON — States that raised their legal drinking age reduced the number of young drivers involved in fatal auto accidents by 13 percent in 1984, according to a federal safety study released yesterday.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an agency of the Transportation Department, said the conclusion was based on its recent statistical analysis of 13
states that raised the drinking age to 19, 20 or 21.
The states covered by the study were Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee and Texas.
The safety agency said applying the 13 percent cut to the 44 states that had drinking ages higher than 18 in 1984 resulted in saving about 700 lives nationwide.
United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Shuttle commission investigators led by astronaut Sally Ride inspected Challenger's launch pad yesterday as part of a secret fact-finding tour setting the stage for a possible public hearing on Friday at the spaceport.
The commission subcommittee also toured the launch control center, from which the start of the ill-fated flight of the shuttle was controlled, NASA spokesman Hugh Harris said. But exactly what the committee was investigating was withheld even from space center officials.
Other members of the panel investigating the Challenger explosion, including moonwalker Neil Armstrong and former test pilot Chuck Yeager, spent the day at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
See related stories p.11.
Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, is head of the commission's mission planning and operations committee, which is investigating crew safety, shuttle mission planning and schedule pressures.
A third commission group was scheduled to visit the Johnson Space Center today before joining the rest of the commission in Florida. Sources said the panel might hold a public hearing at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday. All previous hearings have been in Washington.
Rear Adm. Richard Truly, new associate administrator for space flight and the chief of the shuttle program, planned to fly to the shuttleport tomorrow for a three-day visit.
Off the coast of Florida yesterday, salvage crews labored to make up lost time in the recovery of a 4,200-pound section of Challenger's left-hand rocket rocket, resting on the ocean bottom in 210-foot-deep water.
Panel begins inspections at spaceport
The salvage bid is seen as a crucial dress-rehearsal for eventual attempts to recover wreckage from the shuttle's right-hand booster in 1,200 feet of water, a depth beyond the normal range for diving operations.
A rupture in the side of the right-hand booster is thought to have led to the explosion. Recovering debris from the right-hand rocket booster could help investigators pin down exactly what happened.
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