Salina Journal, The (Newspaper) - April 3, 1986, Salina, Kansas T 1 1 he Journal 114th year 93 Kansas THURSDAY April blasts four from airplane ls G luggage bomb TWA jetliner bound Foi hurtling can two women three miles skies to their offici A group later claimed for the saying it retaliation for ar in last tary clash with Libya Seven other four in More on the Page 7 aboard the Boeing 840 from Rome safely in Athens 1O minutes a gaping hole in its The explosion at level in rows 1O of the enger blowing one Rich one through the hole as the jet f TWA President ard Pearson said in I A senior Athens had said it occurred in th cargo The airline said 121 on including 111 seven three Earlier accounts said 124 on The flight originated stopped in New was scheduled to go on to after leaving Athens There was a big and then the man beside me was out along with his said a Saudi passenger who was among I felt myself pulled out too and I hung on to nay wifes seat beside Three bodies were found on an unused Greek air force landing strip outside 120 miles southwest of said Chris Police said all four oodles were He identified the dead as Al berto a American Dimitra Stylian a Greek her 25 and her infant grand The babys name and age were not A reporter in Georgios said a shepherd saw trie bodies tumbling from the The villagers found them the partly dismembered body of an elderly a woman and a baby about 18 months and a shattered plane Ser He said part of a leg of a fourth person was Christopoulos at one point said another man and another baby but those reports turned out to be The Palestinian Arab Revolutionary claimed re sponsibility for the bombing in an anonymous telephone call to a Western news agency in The speaking in Pales said the Ezzedine Kassam Unit of the Arab Revolutionary Cells planted the bomb aboard the plane in retali ation for last weeks military confrontation with Libya in the Gulf It was a response to American imperialist attacks against our Arab nation and the Jamahiriya he He denounced American ar and attempts to dominate our Arab and said his group would stage further attacks against targets across the There was no immediate cial Libyan comment on the at A gaping hole Is evidence of an explosion that ripped through a TWA Jetliner Wednesday during a flight from Rome to Explosion On TWA 727 State Waconda Lake development By BRENT Staff CAWKER CITY The state Authority is developing a could allow a proposed private the shores of Waconda T The authority has not voted on land for the although it has according to Lynn A vote is not expected f o six he Wilderness of is considering building the on the north side of the lake in a public between the lake and Burris said the resort fits in with the mission of establishing in that built on state park the di to state It looks Burns It looks like a real nice project for northcentral We want to move fast with approval of the We dont want to impede but we want to make sure everything is within state Local promoters of the resort are pleased with the progress of the I feel pretty positive at this stage that some thing is going to take said John director of economic development for the North Central Kansas Planning and Development I feel the developer is and the local support is Because the development would be on park ground it would require the approval of the park which controls state and the federal Bureau of which owns the land and leases it to the The state Legislature also might have to ap prove the although because the developer is not asking for public money they may be able to proceed without legislative Burris The development would be breaking new officials No other lakes in the state have similar although the authority also is considering a proposal for a resort on Lake El Burris said the staff is looking at requirements and procedures for allowing private development on public park and develop See Page 11 Today Inside gets inoperable letter bomb PRESIDENT or ders what the White House called some of the most tensive reforms of the defense establishment since War See Page Living On the Record 2022 9 17 10 1315 WASHINGTON AP Senate Leader Bob Dole was the of a letter bomb that was intercepted by officials 10 days ago found to be the senators office c It was inter through Dole with the help of intelligence said Walt Doles press We were tipped to it and able to cut it off before it got to Capitol The package was found by District of Columbia postal officials working with the FBI and the office of the Senate sergeant at Riker disclosed the in cident Tuesday in remarks to a Chamber of Commerce meeting in during which he I guess thats one thing about slow battery had Dole said the package had been sent by a former Kansas prison in adding that he had no in dication of a I cant figure out any connec he Packages addressed to congress ional offices routinely have been X rayed by the Capitol post office since an explosion occurred outside the Senate chamber in With the volume of mail the Hill youve got to have a means of checking and thats rou tinely Riker He said the bomb was an isolated 25 Centi Voters to decide on parimutuel lottery TOPEKA AP The Senate Wednesday adopted two resolutions that will allow voters to decide in November whether to amend the Kansas Constitution to permit pari mutuel wagering on horse and dog racing and create a Senate votes were the final action required to put the two issues on the fall The resolutions do not require the governors The wagering and lottery amendments join amendments ap proved in the 1985 session to submit to voters this November amend ments to allow for the sale of liquor by the drink in restaurants and to create a property classification sys The parimutuel wagering pro posal passed the Senate by a vote of The lottery resolution was adopted Each needed 27 votes in the 40member Senate for the re quired twothirds Earlier the House gave its stamp of approval to the lottery amendment without a vote to The House adopted the parimutuel in Proposals to amend the constitution must win twothirds ap proval from the Legislature before they can be placed on the The Senate adopted the lottery resolution late in the 1985 but had to approve it again because of House the House and Senate approved a con ference committee report putting the lottery issue on the The Senate action was no Last the Senate adopted a sim ilar parimutuel amendment with 29 The lottery resolution adopted Wednesday first passed the Senate last session on a 2811 The parimutuel resolution started in the House and the Senate did not amend it went directly onto the November general election An attempt to change the vote date to the August primary failed on a voice vote last The lottery proposal was heavily amended in the House and a confer ence committee had to patch to gether a compromise that included informing the public of the odds of In the resolution will end June unless both houses of the Legislature vote to continue The conference committee re moved a House provision to ban ad of the lottery and dropped a Senate requirement the revenue generated by the lottery be dedicated to property tax Action in the House was delayed Wednesday after a controversy er over an April Fools Day prank in the Joe jokingly tried to have Kerry R named the official state reptile in a that would bestow that designation on the ornate box Patrick failed to see the humor in action and the dispute threatened to kill the lottery when four House members sympathetic to Patrick refused for a time to vote for blocking the twothirds John Carlin strongly sup ported submitting both issues to vot Proponents of the lottery argued it is foolish for Kansas not to keep the money Kansans spend buying lottery tickets in neighboring states mainly Missouri in aud gain tax revenue from They also argued Kansas needed to join the ranks of states with lotteries to give it a more progressive Opponents contended the states actually promoting gambling by op its own lottery was and an abdication of the responsi bility to raise taxes to finance needed governmental They also argued that those least able to buy lottery tickets would use money needed for including to purchase the Some legislators simply noted polls that showed a majority of Kansans wanted to vote on the two issues and said they should be given that op Kassebaum Nicaraguan foes should have voice By NANCY MALIR Stall Writer Opposition to the Nicaraguan gov is being repressed and the United States should be active in seeing that that opposition is Nancy said Wednesday night in I certainly dont think we should be engaged in an but we should be engaged in allowing the opposition to have a she said in response to a statement question ing the morality of intervention in was the speaker at a forum spon sored by the Salina Area Chamber of About 180 people at Besides the Nicaragua several questions dealt with the de pressed farm Kassebaum said the key to improvement there is expanding the market for Kassebaum said there is emo tional divison in where lawmakers are searching for an swers to funding the The contras are soldiers trying to overthrow the Nicaraguan The junior senator said the Sand government has consistently flaunted attempts to She said it was time to call the The Sandinista government would really like to export their brand of revolution where it she Although its not the job of the to act as world Kas said the cant ignore the reality that Nicaragua has looked to See Page 3 m weather makes saps of maple tree farmers Weather KANSAS Winter watch in the northwest of Kansas through tonight Becoming partly cloudy southwest and mostly elsewhere today with developing northwest and possibly becoming heavy toy high in 3O norths to 65 to 75 today night with rain ox likely west and central and low 3O northwest to near 6O Mostly cloudy with a chance for high in northwest to around 70 southeast AP Un bly warm weather is ruining of this years maple syrup and consumers who love to the sweet stuff over their pan will find it scarcer and more which leads the nation in syrup may be to its worst maple syrup sea son on with predictions that the state will produce half of years If we are we will come th half a William deputy commissioner of said the president of the ever York State Maple seasons been so bad we want to talk about The problem has been the warm days and a good cover is the recipe for the best sap This the weather has been too warm to gene rate strong The maple sap is boiled into The season always is tucked between the last days of winter and the first buds on the Once the buds the sap slows and its quality Paine said producers are hopeful some cold nights will re charging the sap flow and the in total David the chairman of maple promotion said his Johnson sugaring operation has generated about compared to last Marvin said he expects the price of syrup will climb this year and some people will have to do I think logically the price is going to go up and some people are not going to get he Mandela returns to her home South Africa AP Winnie Mandela could move freely for the first time in nearly 23 years Wednesday and returned to the home she had been fist raised in a defiant to embrace her Mandelas status changed be cause the white government deci ded not to contest an appeal of the banning order restricting her The woman often called the mother of the whose hus band Nelson has been in prison since had been barred from their home for nine Fellow residents of this huge black town ship outside Johannesburg greeted her with I should never have been away from home in the first Mandela told reporters in the yard of the house she and Nelson once Neighbors Winnie Mandela salutes a crowd outside her and school children clustered I am grateful to no It was my right to be at she No one is grateful for a right that is rightfully Ismail Mandelas said earlier Wednesday that a prosecutor told him the govern ment was abandoning its opposi tion to her January appeal of the banning order against In Johannesburg on Bishop Desmond risking ar rest for said only harsh economic can force the white government to change its course and avert a catastrophe in this The black Anglican bishop said he realized he might be prosecuted for making his first direct call for but he did not care be cause our children are our land is burning and I call the international com munity to apply punitive sanctions against this government to help us establish a new South Africa non participatory and he
