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Tuesday. February 15, 1977
University Daily Kansan
News Digest
From our wire services
Drought threatens power
SAN FRANCISCO - Northern California, from two years of drought, face the possibility of power blackouts this summer because of reduced hydroelectric power, prompting a state energy officials' call for a "shotgun wedding" of major utilities.
The critically low level of reservoirs—as low as one quarter of capacity—and less snow than normal in the Sierraver that less water will be available to residents.
The "shotgun wedding" would involve pooling the resources of competing companies.
Panama talks begin today
PANAMA CITY, Panama—United States and Panamanian negotiators met separately to plan strategy yesterday on the eve of their negotiations to decide future control over the 51-mile-long Panama Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The talks, expected to last about 10 days, will be the 17th in the current series. Negotiations for a new treaty have been underway since a series of anti-U.S. Riots.
Both sides have professed their optimism over the new round of talks today, the first since President Carter took office.
Soviets conduct space tests
MOSCOW—Two Soviet cosmonauts completed their first week in space
vesteday with a series of technical and biological experiments.
The Tass news agency said the cosmonauts, Viktor Gorbatko and Yuri Glazkov,
"feel fine."
The two cosomatsians blasted off from the Central Asian site aboard Soyuz 24 Feb. 7 and linked up with the Salyut 5 space station the following day.
7 and link up with the Satuyt 5 space station the following day.
"The main part of the program of the latest two working days was technical,
technological, medical and biological research and experiments." Tass said. The comsnationals carried out crystal studies, medical checks at rest and while conducting the experiments.
Flunt bail set at $$$55,000
CINCINNATI-The First Ohio District Court of Appeals yesterday set bail for convicted Hutchester man Adam Worley, $50,000 and attorneys for his case who have jumped from jail with $10,000.
Flint has been in jail since last Tuesday afternoon when he was convicted of engaging in organized crime and pandering obscenity in publishing Hutter, a lawmaker.
Carter welcomes Portillo, vows stronger relations
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Carter vowed to strengthen United States relations with Mexico yesterday as he welcomed Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, the first foreign head of state to visit the White House since Carter assumed the office.
"Our problems are mutual. Our future must be shared," Carter said during the interview.
"I will go even further than is required through diplomatic courtesy . . . to tie our countries together in an unprecedented and continual demonstration of common purpose, common hope, common confidence and common friendship." Carter said.
Loper Portillo, who promised "good faith and good will," told the chief executive that "I'm certain we can solve our problems and consolidate our friendship."
The welcoming ceremony was marked by the elimination of a few frills that normally accompany the arrival of a foreign head of state.
The Army herald trumpeters, who traditionally play "Hail to the Chief" on the President's arrival and "Ruffles and Fourishes" when the visiting dignitary appears, were eliminated, along with the tunes. Also abolished was the traditional march by the red-coated Marine Band and a display of state and territorial flags.
The ceremony, however, included a 21-gun salute, the playing of the national anthems of the United States and Mexico, a review of troops and welcoming speeches. Carter thanked Lopez Portillo for "an ardent effort to foster public concern" by offering to export additional oil and natural gas to help the United States during the recent energy crisis.
Boy detained in slaying of 3
LARNED (AP) – A 15-year-old boy was detained yesterday by juvenile authorities in connection with the weekend slayings in a young brother, who were shot to death.
The youngster, Michael Wurm, was charged with juvenile delinquency following a detention hearing Sunday before Judge Philip Aldrich of the Pawnee County District Court. A continuation of that hearing was scheduled today.
The youth was taken into custody after the bodies of Joe Wurm, 36, his wife, Diane, 35, and their son, Jim, 9, were discovered in the home-marshouse shortly after midnight Saturday.
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WASHINGTON (UPI)—Secretary of State Cyrus Vance headed for the Middle East yesterday in quest of a lasting settlement between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
ISRAEL in the U.N.
In advance of his late-eventive departure on the week-long mission, United States officials described it as "the first step of a long-term effort to ensure that the on part of the Carter administration.
Vance's schedule called for him to arrive in Israel today, then carry his diplomatic efforts to Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (UPI)—A twocourt-martialled Army veteran who admired Adolf Hitler, had sweatstains tattooed on his arm, was killed five persons including a policeman
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. February 16th, 1977
The officials said Vance intended to have a "fairly intense, detailed discussion" with the leaders of the countries on a series of issues. They gave this rundown:
State Department officials traveling with Vance described the trip as "a means of coming to grips with the issues. This will be a useful experience." In the process of getting the negotiations started, "I
Vance's trip to seek a lasting settlement
Kansas Room in the Union Refreshments served
- Palestinian representation. The Israelis will they will refuse to negotiate in any forum where the Palestinians are a member of the Palestinians must be insisted the Palestinians must be included.
State police described the murders as an "execution-style slaying." Their only cleo to get involved was a girl named Kaitlyn.
"Killing four people over $30 doesn't make a whole lot of sense," said Sgt. Don Aldrich, spokesman for Indiana State Police.
Hitler admirer kills five, himself
POLICE said the muscle-bound gunman, Predwain Cody, 32, shot himself in the head when he entered the building.
- The form of a Geneva conference. There could be a preliminary conference, or there could be a series of working groups to settle details before the main conference takes them up. Again, there will be no American initiatives, the officials said.
yesterday, then shot himself to death in a rage over a two-week job suspension.
American officials said the solution may lie in changing the charter of the state to recognize the right of Israel to exist as a state. But they said Vance was going with no predetermined set of ideas on this question, which he described as "the best option" he felt.
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The climate of peace. The officials said Vance will ask all leaders in the area to exercise maximum restraint in what they see necessary to interfere with the negotiating process.
Their mother was wounded, but escaped by pretending to be dead after shocks ripped through her.
HOLLANDSBURG, Ind. (AP)—Four brothers aged 14 to 22 were by shotgun blasts to the head in "execution" style yesterday after being ordered to lie face down on the floor of their family's mobile home.
The mobile home was in an isolated, woody hill in the hills of western Indiana.
- **Arms sales**. The officials said Vance will be discussing arms salts with all the Middle Eastern countries, seeking ways to cut down on them. Vince and President Carter both have said cutting back on the quantity of arms salts, especially to troublesome areas such as the Middle East, will be a major goal of the new administration.
Vance says he believes that a series of factors—including a more moderate tone from the Arab bloc and the move up of Israeli elections to May, instead of the fall—means chances for an overall settlement are better than they have been for years.
Vance's trip will be followed by a series of visits to Washington by Middle Eastern leaders, including, according to the U.S. officials, Israeli opposition leaders who will face the ruling Labor party in the May elections.
4 brothers shot, killed
workers and a New Rochelle policeman when he reported back to work at the Neptune Worldwide Moving Co. from a two-week suspension.
His body was found behind a makeshift barricade in a company vice president's office on the top floor of the two-story building. The president quietly left this quiet, New York city bedroom suburb.
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Police, fearful that Cowan still had hostages, did not move in for more than three hours after the gunman killed himself. He was able to secure a safe set in by the jungle, they found his body.
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These meetings will be held on campus at the Lutheran Student Center, 15th and Iowa, on Wed., Feb. 16 at 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 17, 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Fri., Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 19 at 10:30 p.m. and again at 1:30 p.m., Mon., Feb. 21 at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. and TWO FINAL MEETINGS, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
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Cowen had told co-worker he planned to "get the man who suspended him because Cowen was rude to a customer, but that dispatcher Norming Bain, escaped injury.
Police said Cowan shot the first patrolman on the scene, Alen McLead, 32, as the officer stepped from his car at 7:50 a.m. at the courthouse and two co-workers inside the building.
Cowan, who arrived at work wearing an Army field shirt and a German military helmet, also wounded five other persons, including three policemen.
Police Commissioner William Hegarty said that at one point during the 10-hour ordal, Cowan "made direct physical threats to people with him, placing weapons next to their heads and—in one case—in their mouth."
Cown, described by some co-workers as "a class A guy," but a man who "was not fond of blacks and Jews" ignored the pleas for father and two brothers to give up himself.
His only direct contact with authorities came at 12:30 p.m. when he 'telephoned the police' to report an incident.
demanded food- potato salad and coca-
and apologized to Mayor Vincent Rippa for
the insensitive remarks.
Cowan was a bodybuilding enthusiist whose picture appears in the current issue of the reader-photo section of the magazine Muscle Training Illustrated.
Friends said he was also a devoted admor of Adolf Hitler. Neighborhood teenagers said he often showed them his gun and his collection of Nazi muggerabilla.
Jim Murray, a friend, said Cowan "had swastikas and symbols tattooed all over his arms." But he described Cowan as "mostly quiet. He would have a few drinks and he'd start talking about Germany. He read books about Germany all the time."
Hegarty said police searched Cowan's room at his parents' home. He said they found "evidence indicating some allegiance but the commissioner declined to elaborate.
While Cowan had told neighborhood youngsters he was a Vietnam veteran, a Pentagon spokesman in Washington said he attended the time in the Far East but rather in Germany.
He was court-martialed twice, the spokesman said, once for being absent without leave and one for leaving the scene of a motor accident in Germany.
He received a six-month sentence at hain labor for the second offense and a $55 per month fine. But he was discharged from the Army before completing the prison term,
The Pentagon spokesman said Cowan, who was awarded a "sharpshooter" rating with the M14 rifle, received an other than honorable discharge. The Privacy Act, however, precludes military officials from disclosing the exact nature of the discharge.
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