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I ne for piCking . money from ck up your April 10, 1979 on tract with The owan and Vol. 111 No. 174 c 1979 Student Publications, Inc. Iowa Cit 's Morning Newspaper 10 cents' -Op Four Western journalists believed executed while entering Uganda Carver accused NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) - Ugandan stepped off a smuggler'S boat. Residents In Kampala said Amin, who pollce elecuted four men believed to be The men were interrogated all day a few days ago appeared close to defeat, Friday and were then shot, the sources of bribing official W.tern journalists, diplomatic ,ourees had moved fresh troops from the north .ald Monday . The JournaUsts had said. Into his virtually deeerted capital. For reportedly croued Lake Victoria In a Western embassy officials were not the past three days, crack "RhIno" partner Eugene Houey were aCCUMd of Lance's gesture on behalf of Carver eoffee smuggler'. boat to cover the war aUowed to see the bodies, so no positive brigade soldiers have been engaged In giving a $1.5 million bribe to an Arabian and Holley was to telephone Eleanor In Eastern AfrIca . Identification could be made. heavy fighting with elements of the oil officlalln 1976 to protect oil drilling Connors, confidential assiltant to Uganda's foreign ministry has con Two other Europeans - a Briton and a 2O,ooo.strong Tanzanian Invasion force . rights In Qatar. presidential advlier Hamilton Jordan, firmed four foreigners who came to that Dane reported missing several days ago that surrounds Kampala on three sides. Carver and Houey, who eventually In February 1978. ~ asked 'her to country In a boat across the lake were - were captured by Tanzanian troops loat their drilling rights and a reported arrange a meeting between Holley and The Ugandan troops, supported by $17 mUllon on their venture, appeared a State Department offictal, the suit shot, but claiml the four were Tanzanian near Kampala and are safe, the sources tanks and other armor, apparently tried mercenaries. said. In federal court In Miami and conaented said. to smash their way out of Kampala to to a court order barring them from The end result waa a aesaIon in the The sources, howev~, are "virtuaUy Another newsman, Jan Stage from Entebbe and Its International airport certain" that the vlctlma were four Copenhagen, Denmark, said In an in making further overseas payoffs. The Arab nation of Qatar in March 1978 some 25 miles to the south, but the suit was the Justice Department's first involving Carver, Houey, an offtciaI of Swedish and German journallats who terview with UPI that he escaped fighting was inconclusive. disappeared while trying to enter Uganda after being Interrogated and civil enforcement of the Foreign the Qatari government and Andrew Uganda to report on the war. beaten in Kampala by President ldi Residents reported the crackle of rifle Corrupt Practices Act, a stiff law Killgore, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar. The v1cUms are believed to be Swedish Amln'a secret police. fire In the distance, but said the center of aimed at curbing overseas bribes. DurIng that meeting, the suit IBid, newsmen Arne Lemberg, 38, of the Stage said he was pummeled with Kampala was quiet - 100 quiet for the "I ... have an unblemished record of Carver told KIllgore and another U.S. Expreu,n newpaper and Karl Bergman, rifles, kicked, forced to crawl around a Ugandan dictator. , accomplishments In my business and official that' In. 1976 he had paid $1.5 mlllion to All Jaldah, Qatar'. former 31, of Svenalta Dagbladet, and German room and robbed of most of his money AmIn ordered the city"s work force to personal affairs," Carver said from his newsmen Hans Bollinger, 34, of the and possessions before being rescued by return to Its jobs Monday, but only a Miami residence. "The actions I took In director of petroleum affairs, for on drilling rights. Gamma Photographic Agency and diplomats, escorted to the border of sprinkling of shops and businesses this matter were on the advice of ex Carver has given more than $I Wolfgang Stiens, 30, who was working for Kenya and released. reopened. Roy J. Carver perienced engineers, oilmen and other 5ter" magulne. Nigeria - regarded as black Africa 's professionals who were knowledgeable mUllon to the UI - moat recently a $2 The four journallats had hired a coffee peacemaker - has Issued an appeal to The government issued a new By United Press International about the way business Is conducted ... " million donation to help the UJ smuggler's boat In the Kenyan town of Tanzania and Uganda to use statement Monday saying that unless all The suit also disclosed that former Hospitals complete a $34 million Kisumu and aMounced they Intended to "moderaU.on" in the confiict and to try to shops reopen within two days, they will A Justice Department bribery in federal Budget DIrector Bert Lance pavilion. cross Lake Victoria. settle the five-month~Jd war. be immediately confisc\lted and handed vestigation has implicated Muscatine telephoned the WhIte HoUse to seek help He also contributed to the renovation The diplomatic sources said Ugandan A savage battle between the opposing over to new owners. industrialist Roy J. Carver, whose for Carver and Holley when their Qatar of Old Capitol, endowed some officials had confirmed four "white troops engulfed the outskirts of Kampala Sudanese newspapers reported donations to the UJ total more than $8 investments were In jeopardy. But professorship and helped supply fur persons" were arrested by police near Monday as an enraged Amln threatened Monday that as many as 200,000 refugees million . investigators said there Is no evidence nishings for Hancher Auditorium. A the tiny police station Ilf Kloga, about 1M! to conflsca te shops If owners defy his had fled Uganda In the last few days and In a federal court civil suit filed that Lance knew about the bribe when wing at the U1 Museum of bears his miles east of Kampala Friday as they back-!.o-work decree. that the flood of evacuees Is continuing. : Monday in Miami, Carver and business he contacted the WhIte House. name. Voight, Fonda, 'The Deer Hunter' win top Oscars HOLLYWOOD (UP1) - Jon Voight Deerhunter as best picture scuffled with appearance since undergoing cancer tation. Steve Martin and Bernadette It was to be a big night for Olivier, who Beatty's romantic comedy, Heaven and Jane Fonda, who played the tragic police. Members of the group Vietnam surgery in January, and Sir Laurence Peters arrived to cheers from several has been nominated for 11 Oscars - Can Wail, was pitted against two Viet. lovers of the Vietnam movie Coming Veterans Against the War carried sighs Olivier, an Oscar nominee and In fragile hundred in the bleachers who greeted the winning In 19-48 for Ha mlel - who was to nam war fiiml, The Deer Hunter, and Home, captured the Oscars for best actor accusing the film of being racist. health, upstaged other movie stars. celebrities delivered in limosines on a be presented with a special award for his Coming Home for which Voight was and actress and The Deer Hunter won John Wayne, making his first public Both old timers arrived at the Los cool, clear Southern California night. contributions to motion pictures. ,. nominated best actor. best picture of the year In the 51st annual Angeles Music Center early lind were A small disturbance was created by an The Deer Hunte r was the favorite to Academy Awards Monday night. virtually unnoticed by hundreds of anti-war group active during the Viet win the award for best picture In com Beatty, tying Orson WeUes' recQrd for It was the second award for Fonda, celebrity watchers gathered in nam war . They carried banners reading, petition with Coming Hom., An Unmar· four nominations - acting, writing, who won best actre for Klute in 1971. It bleachers. "HeU no, we won't go away," and other ried Woman, Midnight Expreaa and producing and directing - stood little was the first Oscar for Voight who first Most of the nominees remained out of anti-war slogans. Heaven Can Wail . chance of becOming a quadruple winner. gained fame and his first nomination In sight until the program began, including 1969 for Midnilht Cowboy. leading contenders Warren Beatty, Jane Fonda 1)Iayed the unfaithful wife of an Fonda, Jon Voight and tpe r~t. American officer In Vietnam and Voight For Wayne, it was his first public And the winners are ••. played her paraplegic lover In the appearance since his cancer operation HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - The complete CalifornIa Suite. Heoven Can Wait - Paramount. dramatic anti·war story. Jan. 12. list of winners of the 51st annual Motion Best achievement In directing - Best achievement In costume design - Maggie Smith won the best supporting The former Oscar winner entered the Picture Academy Awards: Michael Cimino - The Deer Hunter. Anthony PoweD - Deoth on the NUe. actress for the comedy Calfjor"la SuIt., Music Center through a back entrance Best picture - Tile Deer Hunter. Best Live Action short film - Teen-age Best achievement in film editing - and Christopher Walken won the best dressed In casusl clothes and looking Best perfonnance by an actor in a Father - New Visions Inc. Peter Zinner - The Deer Hunter. supporting actor In the drama Tht DteT pale and drawn. He entered the pavilion leading roJe - Jon Voight - Coming Best Animated short film - Special Best achievement In Bound - Richard Hunter . unrecognized by the crOWd . Home . Delivery - NaUonal Film Board of Portman, William McCaughey, Aaron Michael Cimino won the award for best Wayne was there to present the Oscar Best perfonnance by an actress In a Canada. Rochin and Darin Knight - The Deer direction for Tht D,.r Hunter, which for the best picture of the year.