Tuesday, July 5, 1977
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EVANS WITT
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EVANS WITT
Associated Press Writer
Two dead in N.Y. bus hijacking
NEW YORK (AP)—A man described as "racially upset!" hijacked an interstate bus yesterday and held 12 to 15 passengers as hostages. He ordered the bus onto busy Kennedy Airport runways while demanding $6 million in ransom and a plane to fly him to New York. A ninth-hour hijacking ended when the hostages were freed and the hijacker was arrested.
Two persons aboard the bus, including the bus driver, were shot and killed by the hacker before the bus was cornered near an authority said. A third man was wounded.
The airport was closed for about 90 minutes, stacking up inbound planes and blocking outbound travelers, while the airlines pursued policemen were on the runways.
At least three other persons reportedly were released from the vehicle unharmed.
THE GUNMAN WAS described as a
spanish-speaking, 5-feet-5, black, wearing
a cowboy hat.
Police later discounted reports that he had one or two accomplices.
The bus was on route from New York City to Vermont at Hartford, Conn., when it was
McGavern, a librarian at the University of Hartford, was shot in the neck when the gunman took over the bus in the New York City borough of the Bronx.
The wounded bus passenger, John McGavern, 50, quoted the gunman as telling his captives he had been badly treated in the United States and wanted to get out.
He was racially upset,very upset about
Pension abuse seen
By BROOKS JACKSON
WASHINGTON—A former federal clerk, drawing a pension because he was classified as totally disabled, opened a juvenile court that allowed to keep his government stipend.
Another "totally disabled" federal pension earned in one year in a particular state.
AS THE EXAMPLES illustrate, a federal bank provides a disability pension. He can make more money in a new career than he did at his old government job and still keep his business afloat.
These cases are drawn from official files of the civil service disability retirement system that pays 279,000 retired federal employees a million a year, financed mostly by taxpayers.
If he cheats by failing to report excessive earnings, there is virtually no chance the government will catch him—except by having a system that will happen is that he would lose the session.
Although such cheating constitutes fraud, Civil Service Commission lawyers say they can't remember the last time anyone was ripped off the disability pension system.
"We've got a liberal disability provision compared to private industry, there's no denying that," said Thomas A. Tinsley, director at the Civil Service Commission.
The vast majority of disability pensioners
probably are playing by the government's liberal rules. The typical disability pensioner has a life expectancy of 30 condition, arthritis or cancer. Disability pensioners have a death rate five to 23 times higher than active federal employees the age of 55. The national disability pensioners report no outside earnings.
Yet officials admit that it is relatively easy to get a pension, that many disability pensioners could still hold a government job and usually use a job that usually *no* unjustified and ununfried.
To get a disability pension a federal civil servant need only be declared medically unable to perform one part of his job efficiently.
THE LAW REQUIRES cancellation of pensions for those who earn, for two years in a row, more than 80 per cent of what their pensions were paid. The rule is easily manipulated or injured.
For example, the pensioner who earned $76,738 in 1974 reported earning only $8,033 the next year. That was less than 80 per cent of his old lob's薪, so he kept his pension.
The commission is all but helpless when pensioners break the 80 per cent rule but conceal their income. Pensioners are required to report earned income by means of a monthly stipend, but the commission makes no regular attempt to verify what they report.
Under the present system, a civil servant may retire after as little as five years employment on a pension of at least 40 percent of the average of his highest salaries and is unable for some medical reason to perform one part of his job efficiently.
McGavern said that after he was shot, the gunman ordered the drive to take the bus south across Long Island to Kennedy, where it crashed through a security barrier and onto the runways of one of the busiest airports in the nation.
the racial situation" . McGavern said in an interview from a stretcher at Jamaica
the bus eventually was cornered at a Trans World Airlines hangar, and McGavern was ordered out to deliver the gunman's demands.
AS THE BUS CAREENED around the runways, the airport was closed to all flights at 2:50 p.m. Not until the vehicle was cornered was the airport reopened at about 4:15 p.m. By that time, domestic and international holiday flights were stacked up
Police vehicles, including a military-type armored personnel carrier loaded with armed New York City policemen, surrounded the bus at the landing field side of a TWA maintenance and administrative building. The airline's heavily secured VIP area.
The dead—a woman passenger in addition to the bus driver—were slain after the crash.
The bus left the Port Authority terminal in mid-Mahanattan, which like Kennedy is operated by the Port Authority of New York and the Lake Erie Railway Junction. VL, via Hartford.
persons at the airport, four of them
children. Two were black and one Hispanic.
One was a boy.
McGaver, heading home to Hartford after a weekend in New York, recalled:
The hijacker reportedly released nine
"We were somewhere in the Bronx when suddenly a young man jumped up in the aisle, pointed a gun and shot me. I think he was aiming for my face."
The gunman then directed the driver to take the bus to Kennedy, McGavern said, warning the other passengers they would be killed if they made a wrong move.
McGavern said that after he was shot, the gunman ordered him to the front of the bus where he was told to lie on the first row of seats.
McGaven said there was no panic on the bus when he was shot.
"EVERYBODY WAS ABSOLUTELY still. It hurt like the dewl." he said.
McGavern said the man, in his late teens or early 28s, launched into a tide about mistreating he had suffered in the United States.
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Amin says he foiled Western conspiracy
LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP)—Uganda's President Idi Amin, addressing presidents of African republics, unified summit conference with a palstressed trapped to his waist, said yesterday he had foiled a Western-inspired conspiracy to murder him and several other African leaders.
A BLACK AFRICAN delegate outside the conference hall turned to a reporter and he was so impressed that he is also the most popular man on this continent. There is a mystique of bigness and arrogance about him that fascinates the average African. If you elected a king of all
Bystanders outside the conference building cheered and applauded Amin for the third straight day when he arrived wearing a dark-blue air marshal's battle dress jacket and red ribbons. He carried a large hunting car that he said was "a gift from the camp."
He was the only chief of state at the summit to be bequeared at virtually every event.
Halfway house searches for financing
The request for about $4,000 was made to the Governor's Committee on Criminal Administration (GCCA) during grant application hearings held in Toopea.
Since a request for funds to begin operating a proposed halfway house for Douglas County ex-offenders was denied the court ordered that we begin having, learn, begin living, eligorily, fit property.
The application, submitted by the Douglas County Transitional House Association, was to have been combined with the FCA to start operating the facility for one year.
According to Elaine Vick, a University of Kansas employee and chairman of the Transitional House board, the reason the funds were denied remains a mystery.
"IT'S A STRANGE thing, we just don't know." Vick said.
Shes said the GCCA had asked about the director of the house and its location in Lawrence, but that neither a director nor a member of the board was until the association had some money.
The purpose of the house is to provide a supervised environment for adults on parole or probation and to help them readjust to society. Vick said.
Vick emphasized the importance of the counseling the offenders would receive
The idea for the house was conceived three years ago, she explained, when for a few months she resumed her college educations at KU. Although their idea was to provide a facility to assist them during enrollment, it was not until the present concept of the halfway house.
We call ours a transition house because sometimes halfway means between prison and society. "Vick said, 'We would also be having to take them out, that they wouldn't have to go to prison.'"
Since then, similar halfway facilities in Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota have been investigated by the Douglas County group.
WETHER A PROBATIAN or paroleee will be accepted into the house, Vick said, would be determined by a screening committee composed of representatives from local law enforcement and the Lawrence Police Department and one or two private citizens from Lawrence.
According to a state parole office spokesman, admittance to the Transitional Court would readiness to return to society. Inspection of prison records for conduct and participation in rehabilitation programs would help explain why such readiness should be "serious" about adjusting, he said.
Vick said that after the offenders were admitted to the program, they would try to find jobs and would receive counseling regarding adjustment to daily living.
She said the counseling available to the house's residents would be helpful because regular probation or parole officers usually don't have time to help in these ways.
"IF THEY CAN DO it for a month or two or three months, then they'd get a pattern set. That's why it's important for the offenders to have this kind of guidance."
in aunton to job counseling, budgeting help would be available, Vick said. She indicated it might also be required that the offenders put some of their salaries into savings as other halfway facilities have mandated.
"It's a matter of just getting up every day and going to work," Vick said. "They need somebody to push them into that and a bombation officer, just doesn't have enough time."
This practice, she said, would make it possible for the offender to pay rent someplace else after he leaves the Transitional House.
because they would be making decisions others had been making for them.
"People who've operated in a free society for a long time can't imagine what it's like to have everything done for you," she said, "and then to suddenly be placed (in a house) where you make all your decisions yourself. This is why a transitional house is important."
THE LENGTH OF STAY for each oeder would depend on the requirements made by the parole offices, but it would probably range from 30 to 90 days. If an offender wished to return to college, Vick said the stav might be based on a semester basis.
One advantage the community-based facilities have over prisons, she said, is they cost less to operate than penal institutions. The main reason is that each offender can pay taxes and help support the house rather than rely solely on outside revenues.
She expressed the hope that the house could be open and operating by Christmas. The sooner community-based corrections facilities like Transitional House could be opened, Vick said, the sooner overcrowded prison conditions could be relieved.
Community-based corrections facilities have also been recommended by prison officials, Vick said, because about half of facilities' crowded conditions could be relieved when released into half- or houses wouldn't be considered a community danger.
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"IT COSTS $6,000 to $10,000 a year to keep a man in prison," Vick said. "As we keep increasing the prison population, I don't know how taxpayers are going to be able to afford it."
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Inside the hall, Amin told the chiefs of state and government representatives of the 49-nation organization, "I captured some of the people who tried to assassinate
"I've got them," he said, "and that will be debated later at the present meeting. The whole Western press knew what was going to happen to me. The Western imperialists were sending people to Uganda to kill me, to Angola to kill President Agostino Neto, to Mozambique to President Mathossek and to Guinea toPresident Ahmed Sekou Toure."
The late President Marien Ngoubi of Congo Republic, murdered in March, was killed in the plane crash.
Amine gain the summit no details of the alleged plot or of the arrested conspirators. He made the revelation on the first anniversary of the July 4-24 raid at Uganda's Islamic troops rescued more than 100 hostages by pro-Palestinian hijackers.
Delegates inside the conference hall responded with a roar of astonishment as Amin solemnly announced that Uganda's Defense Council had awarded him "the highest order of the Conqueror of British Empire" in his order the Council tribute to Amin for forcing the British "imperialists" to flee from East Africa, he said.
IT WAS AMIN' first public admission there was an attempt to assassinate him in Uganda last month. The unpredictable leader, who disappeared for a week amid reports he was killed or wounded in the attack, was surrounded by a belated honeymoon with his wife, Sarah.
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