Hutchinson News (Newspaper) - October 13, 1992, Hutchinson, Kansas The Hutchinson News October Year 121 102 President Bush may be ahem behind in the but he beat Democrat Clinton in the bidding Sunday at the Great Outdoor Underwear Festival in Diane one of the events holds of boxer shorts signed by Bush that sold for A pair of undies autographed by Clinton and his running Al brought a mere One In three workers surveyed by an insurance company had neutral or negative feelings about their which could lead to diminished pro and problems at Of those who said they had a bad su 76 percent said coworkers talk about leaving the 68 percent said they are tired during the workday and 65 percent said their productivity could be The survey was taken by the Paul Fire Marine Insurance the nations largest medical liability ankles all were a with ink and on display as human canvasses showed off their body art for each other and a panel of judges at the seventh annual Tattoo Festival in New This is not a moment for This is a mo ment for exhibitionism exhorted Ari a New York film maker who served as master of Powerful radio telescopes in Mojave Desert and Rico turned their antennae on Monday to the system atic search of the sky for signals from intelligent civilizations on other On a date picked to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Chris topher Columbus arrival in the New the effort If the telescopes pick up indications that life flourishes somewhere else in the Earth would be forever The political and religious implications would be as TV Thought for the day There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has Franz Austrian author Yesterdays temperature extremes at Low 15 at Intercepted letter DOUGLAS MURPHY Christopher Columbus Hutchinson Dear We hope you sailed through your students Hutch Quake toll soars Rescuers search for survivors of Egyptian quake The Associated Press Egypt One of the strongest earthquakes to hit Egypt in modern times toppled buildings Monday and caused deadly stampedes of panicked The goverment said 370 people were killed and more than A holding her dead son and shouting for was pulled Caslello from the rubble of a building more than seven hours after the midafternoon earthquake that registered on the Richter Many victims were trampled to including more than 100 schoolchildren in the Cairo said Rida an assistant interior They were killed as they rushed from swaying Rescuers struggled into the night to dig survivors from de Authorities declared a state of emergency in this city of 14 mil lion The quake was centered about See Page 2 Associated Press photo Cairo resident Samia Ragab Khalil grimaces in pain after being rescued from the rubble of a building where she spent eight hours buried with her dead Visitor from the past Students at Union Valley Elementary School cheered Columbus Monday morning as they honored the Anglo ex plorer who landed in the New World 500 years Columbus was personified by Principal Douglas who answered students questions Photos by Don about his The students had been preparing for Columbus Day since the beginning of the school Stu dents painted performed a mu sical play and sang songs in the hour long Report Iran buying nuclear warheads The Press WASHINGTON Iran has made a deal with the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan to buy four nuclear the leading Iranian opposition group said Mohammed tor of international relations for the Peoples said Mujahedeen agents inside Iran obtained information about the The warheads have been paid for but not he In Sundays presidential independent Ross Perot touched on the widespread fears of nuclear weapons proliferation from the former Soviet Russia and its republics are out of Youve got every rich Middle Eastern country over there trying to buy nuclear as you well And that will lead to another migraine headache down the Perot Answering President Bush mentioned his pact with Russian President Boris Yeltsin to do away with most inter continental We made dramatic he The Mujahedeen report comes a month after prime Sergei pledged on a visit to Israel that his country would sell none of the nuclear weapons it inherited with the breakup of the Soviet Nuclear weapons will not be not to Iran or any other Kazakhstan is peace Tereschenko told Israeli President Herzog and re the statement for Israeli Radio on the largest of the newly independent Muslim re publics of Central is one of four former states with nuclear weapons the Soviet Union left on its said in a state In attempting to acquire nuclear the mullahs pursue no objective but to export their religious He said the Islamic Republic of Irans defense Akbar visited Kazakhstan in July to finalize the In a column Monday in the Washington Rowland Evans and Robert Novak said the Muj report matches in reports received sev eral weeks The columnists quoted Bush administration officials as saying the deal might have been con cluded by Russian military The State Department was closed for the Columbus Day hol But one who re quested said from home that a claim similar to the had been made earlier this year and officials had not confirmed The official would not comment on the cur rent Another official cautioned that the Mujahedeen has a stake in any report that makes the fun Muslim leaders of Iran look the opposition which is based in Iraq and main tains a substantial lobbying office in has provided ac curate information on Iranian nu clear activities in the Determined Columbus found a backer at last Editors note This series takes a look at the Chris topher Columbus and his historic voyage of By Harry Levins Louis You wouldnt want to sit next to Christopher Columbus on a long airplane He had a zealots gleam in his He brooded and He teemed with He led in He made outlandish The bureaucrats he buttonholed no doubt wondered in quiet anxiety how to get rid of this But anxiety always stalks great If Christopher Co lumbus didnt make things easy he did make didnt he washing ashore in For Columbus put down roots as had many be fore He married into minor had a son and went into the But in he returned to To the Columbus sailed to maybe to To the he cut below the hump of Africas To the he reached the On his trav he heard strange saw strange In the he is supposed to have seen a pair of drifting corp ses with flat To they looked To the south and he heard tales of manmade items sticks and such washing up when the wind blew from the Then Columbus stumbled onto theory that the Ori ent sat just across the Ocean That set Columbus to poring over books Ptolemy and the with their stretchedout Asia and shortened In his Columbus stretched and shortened even See Page 2 iaj If Q Juet for If you could an where would you go II t Q Which No Christopher Columbus Under the MB the South Pole Note ad Australia percent b Anthropologists who live 5 Anthropologists who live with primitive people Asia BEH ol Men Sept 30 k 4 iy KR Group Couple seeks probe over slain poodle By Alan Montgomery The Hutchinson HALSTEAD A Halstead couple said they will seek a criminal investigation into the shooting of their blind poodle by a Halstead Tommy and Connie Stuff lebean said their 17yearold was snared by the dragged two blocks beside a car and then shot in the head after he strayed about two blocks from their home on Halstead City Administrator Don said the ani officer resigned Monday from his month post after being har assed to the point that his pregnant wife was said an extensive internal review of the dogs shooting was at his and the probe did not lead us to conclude that any thing wrong had In the of the dog rep resented a threat to the citi the administrator No information that we have indicated We think that was a judgment call that we Stufflebean said she and her husband had raised their dog from the time it was a The black dog was kept in the except when it was let into the yard for brief It had eye cataracts and was she On the day of the an had let Bear into the yard and then was on the phone for several The dog wandered When he re the dog was Stuff lebean began looking for After two the Stuff called the animal control who said he had not seen the Stuff lebean See Page I r