FBI Kilis Hijacker at Portland Airport
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Daily Weather Partly cloudy with a chance of foggy brains. Barometric "finals" pressure above normal. Highs, not until next week. Lows, in the gutter. Chance of Teen Soviet satellites falling, 100 percent. Chance of grades falling, 95 percent. Chance of snow falling, unlikely. Pullman, Washington Vol. LXXXIX No. 74 Established 1894 Friday, January 21,1983 FBI ki lis hijacker at Portland airport by Bob Baum freeze. Associated Press Writer ., At that time the suspect made a sudden motion with the box as if to throw it at the agent (who) fired one shot." Baker said. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP - A man claiming to FBI agents here would not identify the hijacker. have a bomb and saying he wanted to go to Afgha- But Dick Paulson. spokesman for the Washington nistan was shot and killed Thursday after he hi- Department of Corrections. said the FBI told him jacked a Northwest Orient jetliner carrying 41 they found identification on the body saying he people from Seattle to Portland, authorities said. was Glenn Kurt Tripp. 20. of Arlington. Wash .. He was identified as a man arrested 21/2years ago who attempted to hijack a Northwest Orient flight for attempting to hijack a jetliner. In July 1980. Paulson said Tripp was on 20 years' "The passengers and crew are safe." said Brent probation for first-degree extortion and first- Baskfield, a Northwest Orient official. degree kidnapping in that incident. FBI agents stormed the Boeing 727-200 about In the earlier hijack attempt. Tripp. then 17. 21/2 hours after the plane landed. shooting the claimed to have a bomb in a briefcase and deman- hijacker once with a .38-caliber revolver as pas- ded $100.000, authorities said at the time. He held sengers slid down an emergency exit chute. said the plane 10 hours at Seattle-Tacoma International FBI agent William Baker. Airport before being arrested. "It was a planned assault," said airport police Passenger Gene Macellari , a union organizer chief Donald R. Jones. from Seattle, said the man "said something to the A shoebox that the man said held a bomb did not attendant about getting on the phone and telling contain any explosives, he said. them we're flying to Afghanistan. I didn't believe The crew of Flight 608 had separated the man it." from the passengers, talking to him in the other- Passengers Larry Larsen of Hood River and wise vacant first-class section. police said. John Boyle of Falls City, Wash., said the man Negotiators talked the man into releasing abo~t spoke with a heavy accent. Boyle said the man half the 35 passengers and, as they left the craft. tal.ked belligerently, saying the United States had law officers who had crept aboard througha cock- failed to do anything to help the Afghans against pit window confronted the man. The hIJ~cker. the Sovi~t Union. The man said he had to get home described as in his early 20s and from Washington to hIS wife and two children. Boyle said. state, said he wanted the plane refueled for a flight Authorities said a Boeing 727 does not have to San Diego. Baker said. .' enough. range to get from the United States to An agent confronted the man. ordenng him to Afghamstan without several refueling stops. Look up to the skies! by the Associated Pt:ess remote control. and Dwayne Valencia "We haven't determined if that (ejecting of the Evergreen Staff fuel core) is so," said an unidentified official. "We hope so." Salsbury Between midnight Friday and midnight Monday. The satellite has a 30 percent chance of coming With finals knocking at our doors many students will be look up to the skies; an 8,000-pound present from down on land with only a 2 percent chance of spending most of their time indoors at a desk. Study the Soviet Union may be landing m your back- hitting the United States. breaks usually become a welcome respite. Terry Mutter yard. While most of the satellite is expected to burn Pentagon spokesman Henry Catto stated yester- up m the earth's atmosphere during reentry. some finds a moment of solitude near Pullman. day Soviet satellite COSMOS 1402, which has debris and possible radioactive material could sur- been tumbling toward earth at an mcreasing rate. vive. posing a hazard to populated areas. may hit the earth late Sunday night. Where the The probability of exposing at least one person satellite will hit has not been determined. to a harmful situation is one in 10.000, while Three budget cuts send "We can't predict where, with any certainty, debris could hit an area 30 miles wide and 500 until just at the last before it comes in," Catto said miles long. when asked to forecast where the satellite's debris If the Pullman area is affected, city and uni- will reach the earth's surface. Representatives versity sirens immediately will sound with a from the Federal Emergency Management Agen- steady blast lasting three to five minutes. The 303 employees away cy said there likely would be no more than a "45- public should tune to the local Emergency Broad- to 50-minute warning of where the affected area casting System, KWSU radio 1250 AM, for in- by Kim Capponi Lane Rawlins told the Budget Committee might be." formation and instructions. In case the Pullman Evergreen Staff Wednesday. The satellite may be carrying 100 pounds of area is affected, the public should report any fallen "The whole of the environment of the current uranium in its nuclear fuel core. However, the debris to the Pullman or Campus Police Depart- Three reductions cutting $17.4 million from the biennium in coping with three major reductions, soviets claim to have ejected the fuel core by ments immediately. university's budget in the last two years have including hiring and pay freezes, has had a de- hampered the effectiveness of nearly every prog- trimental impact on employee efficiency ... " the ram, according to the statement issued to the letter said. Office of Financial Management in Olympia. The state-imposed reductions began witha cut In the letter to OFM, Academic Vice President of 5 percent in December 1981 to help ball the Mob leader murdered and Provost Albert Yates detailed what previous state out of serious budget shortfalls. cuts have done to the university to show no further The 5 percent cut meant trimming $9.3 million cuts can be absorbed this late in the biennium. from the original $196.7 million allocation given LINCOLNWOOD, III. (AP) - Millionaire it's apparently a murder. I don't want to characte- A particularly distressing effect of the cuts, the to the university by the legislature just five months mob figure Allen Dorfman, convicted last month rize as to what kind of a murder it was." letter said, is the ability to recruit and keep quality earlier. of conspiring to bribe a U, S. senator on behalf of Lincolnwood police spokesman John Janacek, faculty. Additional cuts were again implemented in the Teamsters union, was shot and killed gang- asked whether he thought the motive was robbery The loss of quality faculty will have "severe April 1982 with $3.6 million being trimmed from land-style Thursday in this Chicago suburb. said, "No, it sounds more like a hit man slaying. " long range implications," Yates wrote in the the orginal allocation, and again in July 1982 with Dorfman, 60, was shot five times in the head Patrick Healy, executive director of the Chica- letter. $4.4 million being cut. with a .22-caliber revolver at I :07 p.rn, while on go Crime Commission said he believed the shoot- Because of faculty being lured away by better With administrators facing a potential 2.2 per- his way to lunch with an associate at the Lincoln- ing was a mob hit. offers, and emergency lay-offs, the university has cent reduct jon effective March 1, talks of trim- wood Hyatt Hotel, said Lincolnwood Police Chief Because Dorfman was 60 and facing a long lost 103 full-time faculty and 200 full-time staff ming another $3.8 million from an already bare Daniel Martin. prison sentence, he was "a good candidate" to positions. account are turning to talks of impossibility. His companion. Irwin Weiner, was walking in cooperate with authorities, Healy said. "Third Larger class sizes, fewer offerings, and stu- If the March cut is implemented, the state will front of Dorfman between two parked cars in the parties standing on the sidelines would know this. dents being turned away from overloaded classes have asked for $21.2 million, or 11.5 percent back from the original $1%.7 million allocation. hotel parking lot when two men approached, I'm surprised he (Dorfman) lasted this long." have been one result. Fewer research projects are "annC:lUnced a holdup and began shooting," Mar- Martin said police were questioning Weiner also a result. In addition, the government exchanged $18.2 tin said. and three other witnesses. Weiner, a former bail The instructional dollars of support has been million of the university's building account for Dorfman was shot at close range in the side and bondsman, was not a suspect in the shooting, reduced from $373 to $281 for each student, or a operating funds. back of the head, Martin said. At least five spent Martin said. He added that there was noatrernpt to total of 25 percent, the letter stated. In Yates' letter, he said taking building funds .22-caltber shell casings were found at the scene. carry out a robbery although Dorfman and Weirier Less support for each student means fewer tech- and.using them for general operating monies in- In recent years, .22-caliber bullets in the head had stopped at a ne~:by bank before the shooting.