Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1976-06-29
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"1Ilc.agent for >- 4·2424 in the news--~ Mercenaries sentenced to die LUANDA, Angola (AP) - An to Angola, appeared to wilt when the The mercenaries were recruiteCt to understand them ... • armies" to Iring down black Africa's American and three British soldiers of verdict was aMounced. No testimony fight for pro-Western factions in the "We do not believe the death sen revolutionary governments and said fortune were sentenced Monday to die or witnesses had accused him of civil war won by the Soviet-backed tence Is justified under international the Individual mercenaries were ~ ie~ly before a firing squad for thei'r part in murdering anyone . Popular Movement for the Liberation "", ... law," the spokesman added. He "instrwnents in this political or the Angolan civil war. One of the Brit The Americans given prison terms of Angola following the country's refused to say what the United States chestration ... ons had admitted ordering the were Gustavo Grillo of Jersey City, Taxes independence from Portugal last might do on Gearhart's behalf. The U.S. Central Intelligence IDS massacre of 14 other British mer N.J., who was sentenced to 30 years, November. Between 12,000 and 15,000 Carl Acker said in Sacramento he Agency was declared guilty of WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted on cenaries who refused to fight. and 21-yearold Gary Acker of Cubans fought on the Popular and his wife were "happy to hear that bankrolling the mercenary reo Monday to freeze individual income·tax Sacramento, Call!., sentenced to 16 Movement side. Two Americans and seven British our son's llfe Is to be spared, but we're cruitment program in both countries TERA withholding rates through Sept. 1. years. lultuq". citizens were sentenced to prison The death sentences must be con· deeply concerned and upset tha t as part of "Dr. Kissinger's new look in The action was taken because Congress will The Britons sentenced to death were not be able to complete work on a major tax· terms ranging from 16 to 30 years by a firmed by Angolan President others are not to be," foreign policy after Vietnam, which Cypriot..oorn Costas Georgiu, known revision bill before the last year's tax cuts expire people's revolutionary court that Agm.tinho Neto. British lawyers here meant changing the color of the cor by the alias Col. Tony Callan, plus Acker said he had no plans to try to on Thursday. called the 13 defendants "war prosti· for the trial said they would appeal for pses." Andrew McKenzie and John Derek see his el-Marlne son, adding: "Tell Should the cuts not be renewed, it would mean tutes." clemency for aU four. ... a $18O-a·year tax increase for a typical family of Barker. The swaggering Callan ad him we're happy for him." The tribunal said the FBI "had .."'. ----~ ____ ..ttl ....... Daniel Gearhart, a 34-year-old mitted killing one other mercenary The U.S. State Department con· The final verdict Monday accused preciSe knowledge of this traffic in [)&I fO\eI'I ~ """"""", four. The two-month extension of the cuts was at Vietnam veteran who left his wife and himself and ordering other men to kill demned Gearhart's death sentence as the United States and BrItain of war prostitutes and did nothing to In m ..n mol'l COli. _k. tached to a minor House-passed bill affecting children in Kensington, Md., to come 13. "unwarranted by the facts as we complicity in recruiting "private disturb it." ~I tht b"1 insurance companies. liI.bl.? That bill now will be returned to the House for Ius 120 depIII~ (ludel2t ,1111 action, presumably before Thursday. OUI miter I"•• IIff, Irlll rUII In ••llng, txlrl lasses. lI.xlblt Switch I mllny Olhtr LONDON (AP) - A bogus courier collected 2 rite now million pounds - about $31,2 million - in 1.'1479 currency at London's Heathrow Airport and got II St. No. 10 away with It, the state-owned British Airways lowII 52240 said Monday night. CI.,lftln IOWII CIty & The airline refused further comment, but DnMolntt airport soures said the theft was discovered by a ©1976 Student Publications, Inc. Vol. 109, No. 21 Tuesday, June 29, 1976 Iowa City, Iowa 52242 10 cents security firm that called at the airline warehouse to collect shipments on behalf of client bankers. A warehouseman told the company the money already had been collected by a courier claiming to be froQ} a security company, the sources said. Scotland Yard said it had officers at Heathrow ~ijackers hold investigating. Streets • The Iowa City Council will consider an or Jet, passengers dinance tonight to close two street segments bordering the downtown Plaza Centre One construction site. If passed, the ordinance would close College Street between Dubuque and Clinton streets and in Uganda also Dubuque Street between College and Washington streets. The temporary closure KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Palestinian extremists allowed 256 would go into effect Thursday and expire Dec. 31. Air France passengers and crew to leave a hijacked plane but The proposal to close the segments was made kept them in custody at Entebbe airport Monday. They made to alleviate a safety hazard caused by a fence unpublished demands and threatened to blow up the jetliner around the construction site. The fence protrudes unless they are met. about halfway into the intersection of College The official Uganda Radio, reporting the hijackers' threat in a and Dubuque streets. news broadcast, urged Ugandans to stay away from the airport Members of the council also thought this or and not risk action that might provoke the Palestinians. dinance would provide an opportunity to study The government said the hijackers insisted that Ugandan street closure for future reference when security officers stay at least 50 yards away from the plane. discussing proposed street closures in the urban The passengers, Including about 1M) Israelis and at least nine renewal 'program. ' Americans seized with the plane Sunday, were reported in good condition and not panicky. I • Diplomats said negotiators led by Ugandan President ldi Amin Lett ce and French Ambal88dor Pierre Renard persuaded the No, this Is not the new look for urban renewal. Neither Is it Plaza City (wbat's leftoflU July 1-5. And although tbe clrculls setting up Palestinians to let the passengers and crew leave the aircraft and The UI has no plans to review its "two-bowl" rest in a transit lounge. where they were fed but remained under lettuce buying policy after all . Centre One, despite wbat skeptics say .. U's tbe tent for The Great on what used to be known as urban renewal land, all those city planners with the IIgbt bulbs over their beads are there by sheer their captors' control. The Daily Iowan Byron Burford Circus of Artistic Wonders, whlcb wlll play In Iowa reported last week that the coincidence. Honestly. The Dally Iowan/Lawrence Frank Air France officials in Nairobi, capital of neighboring Kenya , review of the policy that offers both Teamsters said the hijackers presented Ugandan officials with demands and United Farm Workers (UFW) brands of written in Arabic. They said the demands were not known , pen· table lettuce in UI food services had been ding their transiatlon. postponed from this summer to next fall. Uganda said only that the Palestinians would make their in However, Ul President Willard Boyd said House payroll Dlethods revaDlped tentions known in due course. There was no official report of any Friday, "I have no intention of reviewing the progress in efforts to free the captives. policy. I think it's worked quite well." WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Hays, 65, resigned as head of the com· ployers. Uganda Radio broadcast a long statement by the hijackers, Philip Hubbard, UI vice president for student Administration Committee implemented mittee after Elizabeth Ray, 33, accused - Abolish the members' $1, 140 postage Identifying them as members of the Popular Front for the services, said last week that the UI would sweeping changes Monday in House pay . him of putting her on the committee allowance and take away their ability to Liberation d Palestine, a radical group that broke nff from the .'maintain the status quo until school resumes in roll and expense account procedures, payroll to provide him with sex. Hays draw up to $11,000 a year for travel and Palestine Liberation Organization. the fall" in order to take advantage of the broad carrying out orders from the Democratic concedes having had a "personal stationery. The statement condemned France as a tool of U.S. lmper.laltsm, student opinion available when everyone returns Caucus inspired at least partially by the relationship" with her but says she was - Remove the authority of members to attacked Israel, denounced what it called reactionary regimes in to campus. Capitol payroll·sex scandal. hired to do committee work. save left-over stationery money for their Egypt and Syria and appealed to revolutionaries everywhere to mSWED. But Monday Hubbard said, "What I was But Chairman Frank Thompson Jr., 0- The revisions were originally drafted by personal retirements. unite to liberate the world. basically trying to get across was that we were N.J., said the panel left it up to the Rules a task force created by Speaker Carl - Require accountings of expenses and "Glory and Immortality to our martyrs," the statement said. 1:30·5:30· 7:Jt. definitely not going to review it this summer, and Committee whether to send the House a Albert, who said he established it because employes to be released publicly every "Victory to the world revolution." if we did anything we would wait until fall.