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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Tuesday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
April 14, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 132
(USPS 650-640)
Daniloff tells his story in talk on Soviets
Nicholas Daniloff, former Moscow Bureau Chief for U.S. News and World Report magazine, tells how the Soviets arrested him in August in retaliation.
for the arrest of accused Soviet spy Gennadi Zakharov. Daniloff spoke last night at Hoch Auditorium.
By PAUL SCHRAG
During Nicholas Daniello's 13 days in a KGB prison in September, he wondered: "Will I just stay here and rot?"
Staff writer
But Daniello, then Moscow bureau chief for U.S. News and World Report (now Reuters), said the move was good.
The Reagan administration obtained Daniloff's release 30 days after he was arrested by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. Daniloff described his ordeal and commented on U.S.-Soviet relations last night in Hoch Auditorium as part of the Student Senate lecture series.
"If there is anything that the Daniloff affair has taught me, it is that when something goes wrong in Soviet-American relations, we need to say so loudly and clearly and firmly," he said. "At the same time, I am sure you don't know about that don't talk to each other about the serious issues at hand."
Danioff now is diplomatic editor for U.S. News and World Report. He is on leave, writing a book about his experiences in the Soviet Union and about his great-great grandfather, a Russian who was exiled as a revolutionary in the 19th century.
Danioff said he was framed when a person he had trusted gave him an envelope containing photos of Afghanistan marked top secret. The envelope's contents constituted the evidence against him.
He spent 13 days in a cell that was three paces wide and five paces long, eating buckwheat gruel and lots of mashed potatoes. His interrogators pointedly informed him that his charge of espionage was punishable by death.
"I feel angry as hell at the KGB," he said
The Reagan administration handled the negotiations for his release well, Daniilo said. The arrangement essentially was a swap, he said, despite administration denials. In the deal, the United States released a
Soviet arrested for spying, and the Soviets also allowed a dissident to emigrate to the West.
Serving as a journalist in Moscow was a difficult assignment, Daniello said, because he had to operate in a hostile environment.
"You live with the constant realization that your room is bugged and that you are being followed by the people there's a tremendous loss of privacy."
He said he did not regret having taken the risks involved in his assignment, although he had been forced to pay a price. He said journalists in the Soviet Union could do little to avoid arrest.
"If they're going to get you, they'll get you," he said.
Daniloff said the recent scandal in which U.S. Marines compromised security at the U.S. embassy in Moscow was a disgrace and an
astounding catastrophe Marines were involved in a sex-for-secrets swap with Soviet women.
Daniloff said the policy of openness under Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was a breath of fresh air. He added, "The way he talked about boat but that, it was difficult to
"I never doubted that U.S. Marines would commit sex, but I was surprised that they committed treason," he said.
predict how far the reforms might go.
He said he hoped for progress in the new round of arms negotiations.
"I think they're quite serious about arms control," he said of the Soviets. "They have a terrible economic problem, and Gorbachev realizes that it's important to reduce the amount of money spent on the military and refocus it to the civilian economy."
4 die in cargo plane crash near KCI
Slattery says aid safe from Congress
Staff writer
By JOHN BUZBEE
TOPEKA — Congress will ignore the Reagan administration's recommendation to slush student financial aid in Jim Slattery, D-Kan., said yesterday.
"There's no way in the world that we can justify cutting back student financial assistance," he said at a news conference in the state Capitol.
The federal budget passed by the U.S. House last week calls for a raise in student financial aid to keep up with rising tuition costs, please above inflation for Pell Grants.
Mark Tallman, director of legislative affairs for the Associated Students of Kansas, said the Senate should not be as generous to financial aid.
"The Senate comes in below the House, where there's a kind of a compartment."
That compromise might allocate the same amount for financial aid next year, but after inflation it actually could mean a loss.
The budget bill also condemns the administration's proposal to charge Haskell Indian Junior College student Liam Dufferty. Haskell doesn't charte tuition now.
"With the specter of the deficit overhead," Tallman said, "it's not time to talk about growth."
The Associated Press
Tallman lobbied for student issues in Washington earlier this year. He said financial aid was becoming a partisan issue, and Democrats favored it more than Republicans. But Republicans in Congress agree more with Democrats than with Reagan on the issue, he said.
"We are opposed to the idea of putting that kind of tuition charge on students," he said.
"Student aid has been cut relative to tuition," he said. "Student aid has still not een adequate to keep up with costs."
Even if financial aid spending does keep up with inflation, students still are losing out because tuition is rising faster than inflation, he said
Slattery is also working to ensure that students in farming families get fair consideration for financial aid. They may look like they are able to
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A cargo plane crashed in light fog last night in a field near Kansas City International Airport, killing four people aboard, authorities said.
The four-engine Boeing 707 crashed at about 10 p.m. as it was preparing to land at the airport en route from Wichita, said Ron Cop, regional duty officer of the Federal Aviation Administration.
See SLATTERY, p. 6, col. 3
Rescue workers prepare to remove a body from the wreckage of a Boeing 707 that crashed last night about 10.
The bodies of three crewmen and a passenger were recovered, said Harold Knabe, a Kansas City, Mo., Fire Department spokesman.
Source: Associated Press reports
The crash occurred just southwest of the airport, about 20 miles north of downtown. Visibility in the area at crash site was limited by light fog to about one-half mile.
Knabe said that he did not know exactly what happened but that he thought the pilot was making an approach to KCI coming in from the south.
Knabe said Environmental Protection Agency officials were going to test the creek water for contamination.
Witnesses reported seeing a burst of orange flame when the plane crashed in a field, radio station KCMO reported. The fire was under control about an hour after the crash, said Deputy Fire Chief Charles then her oracle at U.S. Interstate 435 and Barry Road.
Firefighters had to smother the fire with foam, hand-carried in buckets from trucks about 125 yards from
A Kansas City, Mo., police spokesman said witnesses reported that they saw a spark in the air. They reported a minor explosion followed by another, very loud, explosion while the plane was still in the air.
Chuck McCardie of the South Platte County Fire Department said the plane carried at least one pallet of kerosene.
The fuselage was in three pieces, which were found within 100 yards of each other. Knabe said. He said the fuselage was scattered over about five acres.
The wings were in the creek bed, and the tail section was on the other side of the creek, opposite the two large sections.
McCardie said trees were clipped in a 200-yard swath.
A Kansas City, Mo., firefighter said two large sections landed on the bluff above the creek bed. One-third of the passenger section, including the cockpit, also was above the creek bed.
the site, Knabe said. Water also was used.
"We fought the terrain more than the fire," said a Kansas City firefighter of the ankle-deep mud and grassy, swampy field.
Crowd control and the terrain around the wreckage hampered firefighters.
Kansas City, Mo., Police Chief Larry Joiner said the crowd was crawling through the woods near the wreck, prompting police to have perimeter patrols around the wreck
area.
The lack of a large road into the wreck area also hampered firefighters, Joiner said. The only roads into the wreck site were small gravel and mud roads.
The plane was registered to Burlington Air Express, formerly known as Burlington Northern Air Freight. A Burlington official in Wichita said the company had been using a Boeing 707 for nightly service to its headquarters in Fort Wayne, Ind.
A woman who answered the phone at the company's headquarters in Fort Wayne said there would be no comment on the crash.
The official, who wouldn't give his
name, said the flight originated in Oklahoma City. The overnight service delivers both small packages and heavy freight, he said.
The accident marks the first time a large plane has crashed at the airport since it opened in 1972.
Kansan reporters Paul Belden and Alison Young contributed information to this story.
Kansas man sentenced to 20 years in prison
By KJERSTI MOEN
Staff writer
KANSAS CITY, MO. — A Kansas man who allegedly supplied cocaine to people arrested in a Lawrence drug roundup this summer was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for cocaine-related crimes committed in Missouri.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs gave Norton the maximum sentence of 20 years on each count. Norton will serve the two sentences concurrently.
The man, Frederick W. Norton, 33,
of Goddard, was convicted March 2
in U.S. District Court in Kansas City,
Mo., of one count of conspiracy to sell
cocaine and one count of possession
with intent to distribute cocaine.
The prosecuting attorney, assistant U.S. attorney Linda Sybran, sales associate Norton his sentencing. "We need him to be a significant drug dealer."
Norton's crimes were not directly related to the Lawrence drug arrests that led to the convictions of former University of Kansas executive secretary Richard von Ende and Lawrence attorney Bradley Smoot. However, previous testimony indicates that Norton was in Lawrence as well in Kansas City, Mo., according to a court affidavit, Mo..
According to an affidavit filed in the Douglas County District Court, Rugles said that Norton had supported Mr. Ward's claims of cocaine through a middleman.
Samuel Ruggles, Lawrence resident, who was convicted in June in Douglas County District Court of selling cocaine in Lawrence, told the special agent who arrested him that Norton was his supplier.
In 1978, Norton and Ruggles were arrested together in Austin, Texas, and both were charged with possession of hashish.
Norton said in court yesterday that the scope of his connection with Ruggles was exaggerated.
"Some of the hearsay of the multi-
tune of cocaine such as kilos, I don't
have a problem," he said.
Ruggles received the most severe sentencing in trials resulting from the Lawrence drug investigations in the summer. He is serving a five- to 15-year prison term at the U.S. Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth.
Sybrant said that Norton also had assisted the FIR in Wichita in 1983 and at Iowa.
Norton's lawyer, David W. Russell,
said that Norton had agreed to help the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency frame his Colombian cocaine suppliers in spite of the Colombians' threats to physically harm him and members of his family.
Court officials would not say where Norton will serve his 20-year sentence, which is expected to last about seven years. His whereabouts are being kept secret to prevent his accomplices from attempting to free him and to protect him from possible harm from his suppliers in Colombia, officials said. Norton appeared at yesterday's trial.
Russell said before the sentencing
Russell said before the sentencing
See SENTENCE, p. 6, col. 3
Going for the gold
The Midwest's best triathlete, Clark Campbell, a former KU student from Coffeyville, has begun to compete on the national triathon circuit, while training for his dream of competing in the 1992 Olympics. See story page 9.
Power of the mind
Jan Erland, director of MemExPan, teaches seminars to help students become better readers, writers and listeners by exercising the parts of the mind that organize and retain information. See story page 3.