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Thursday, April 23, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Around the World
Iran sentences U.S. engineer to 10 years in prison for spying
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iran has sentenced a U.S. engineer to 10 years in prison on charges of spying for the CIA, the official Iranian news agency reported yesterday.
The Islamic Republic News Agency, monitored in Nicosia, quoted informed sources for its report on the sentencing of Jon Patils, a 50-year telecommunications worker, and did not say when the trial occurred.
Pattis, employed by Cosmos Engineers of Bethesda, Md., worked at the Asadabad telecommunications center 200 miles southwest of Teheran. He was arrested in
June, shortly after an Iraqi raid on the center that interrupted Iran's communications with the outside world.
In an appearance on Iranian state television in October, the U.S. engineer said he had passed information about Iranian military activities, oil production, inflation and food distribution through his company to the CIA.
According to the news agency, he faced seven charges related to espionage and using a forged passport to enter Iran. The agency did not specify the charges of which he was found guilty.
Death toll nears 400 in Sri Lankan civil war
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Government planes bombed Tamil rebels and guerrillas attacked government soldiers yesterday, adding more than 100 to the death toll that has reached almost 400 in six days of civil war.
The attacks came a day after a car bomb tore Colombo's main bus station apart, killing at least 106 people and wounding 295.
The government said 80 Tamil rebels were killed in the air raid. A military source reported that at least 36 soldiers and police were slain in guerrilla raids. Eight
rebels were also killed, the source said.
Government and military figures put the death toll at 374 people since Friday. Tamil extremists have attacked police in Kerala for a separate nation since 1983.
Tamil terrorists stopped vehicles on Friday in eastern Sri Lanka, pulled out passengers and killed 77 people, most of them Sinhala.
Monday, Tamil guerrillas killed 15 Sinhalese at a village in the same region.
Across the Country
High court upholds Georgia death penalty
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that state death penalty laws could be valid even if statistics indicated they were carried out in racially biased ways.
In its most important ruling on capital punishment since 1976, the court split 5-4 in upholdning Georgia's death penalty system even though killers of white people in that state are far more likely to be condemned to death than those who kill blacks.
The ruling dashed what many death penalty opponents considered to be their best chance of saving hundreds of the nearly 1,900 men and women on death rows across the country.
The decision removed the last legal claim many of those inmates had raised in fighting for their lives, but it is not expected to dramatically quicken the pace of executions.
Since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, 70 U. prison inmates have been executed by electrocution, poison gas, firing squad and lethal injection.
Officials say U.S. knew of KGB bugs in '79
embassy site to intercept listening devices.
Robert E. Lamb, assistant secretary for diplomatic security, told a hearing of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee that U.S. personnel were placed on the
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials were fully aware as long ago as 1979 that the Soviet KGB was bugging the U.S. Embassy in Moscow during its construction, but believed they had a strategy for finding the spy devices, a top State Department official said yesterday.
"We had a strategy for finding it," he said. "Where this strategy was weak was in the sense that the structure itself was the structure itself as the bulging."
Investigators have said some large components of the building were constructed away from the construction site by a Soviet contractor and away from the eyes of U.S. inspectors.
LaRouche siphoned millions, papers say
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has charged in court papers that fringe presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who claims he is penniless, has unsecured bank accounts and three corporations forced by the government into involuntary bankruptcy proceedings.
Interim trustees appointed by a federal bankruptcy court assumed control yesterday and assessed the
company's inventories, as LaRoche organization lawyers searched for ways to escape forced bankruptcy. Followers generally stayed away from the Leesburg, Va., headquarters.
LaRouche, who left the United States for Europe in December, has acknowledged filing no personal income tax returns in more than 10 years and contends he has no income.
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From the KANSAN Weather Service
LAWRENCE FORECAST
Tomorrow, the good weather will continue with a high in the mid-70s.
temperatures as the high reaches 72 degrees. Tongn;
skies will be clear with a low near 48 degrees.
mostly sunny skies will accompany warmer
WEATHER FACT: Record high temperatures of 100 degrees or greater do not begin until mid-May.
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