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THE LAWRENCE DAILYThursdayDecember 22,1988 Lawrence, Kansas 28pages* Vol. 130, No. 35725 centsmore Bushnominationslikely todayWASHINGTON (AP) —President-elect Bush has chosen Atlanta educator Louis Sullivan as his secretary of health and human services, pushing aside a controversy over Sullivan’s abortion views, and will name him to the Cabinet barring any last-minute hitch, sources said today.The sources, who commented only on condition they not be named, also said Bush was ready to announce his selectionRelated story, page 6Cof Chicago transit official Samuel Skinnerfor transportation secretary.F ormal announcement was expected in mid-afternoon pending the outcome of a high-level staff meeting, said the sources,Bush had hoped to name Sullivan and Skinner earlier in the week. However, Sullivan, who would be the first black in Bush’s prospective Cabinet, encountered stiff resistance from anti-abortion activists over his views on abortion.Three conservative lawmakers active in the anti-abortion movement met with Sullivan Wednesday. They said he assured them he supports banning most abortions and holds positions similiar to Bush’s on the highly charged issue.Sullivan, a 55-year-old physician, is president of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.Skinner, 50, meanwhile, was summoned to Washington today, his fourth trip to the nation’s capital in less than two weeks. Sources say Bush offered him the job of transportation secretary earlier, but the president-elect held off making the selection official because he wanted the Sullivan matter settled.Skinner, an attorney who heads the Regional Transportation Authority of Northeastern Illinois, was active in Bush’s presidential campaigns in 1980 and 1988,After filling the HHS and transportation slots, Bush would have named 10 people to his Cabinet and would have four positions to fill.©Large portion of aircraft, mostly the rear section, crashed into houses and*came to rest onhighway A74.Large portion of aircraft, mostly the front section, crashed on hillside.itWiWreckage strewn over 10-mile area (approximate).■farsiihIA74§810 milesi-1- -»— ,i.ilt;jir.tfi'ii’j.:*m.m-' 1V‘.«*\Hl■ Vfr1», My ttH'-1,*•!?'*In:■■ i • • 111■!u»11 . i* i’i •:iV’i v 11 *■ *:i i ;• i‘:;:mi(fit.k200 miles*1*V.\ .IMUlUllhH mmPan Am 747 leftLondon’sHeathrow airport bound for New YorkLondonWAV:c-• • •v.vTv.*. v /.v.v . /aIIII0I9 • III I IIMIIMMMt*1tM 1 I Ml • t‘,l! *..»•*» 1.4 I • till’ 4.* ■ !•« »j. ■ i lt;. t. - -.-.j .. v . .Source: AP, Press AssociationmmsumA P/Karl GudeTerrorist threats cited in crashof Pan Am planeLOCKERBIE, Scotland (AP) — A Pan Am jumbo jet apparently exploded in the air before crashing and killing all 259 people aboard, and investigators focused today on terrorist threats to place a bomb on a Pan Am airliner.U.S. embassies had posted warningsthat a bomb threat had been made on aPan Am jet flying from Frankfurt to the United States sometime in December.The wreckage of the Boeing 747 bound for New York with Christmas travelers scattered bodies and wreckage over a wide area and ravaged Lockerbie village. The doomed Pan Am Flight 103 originated in Frankfurt aboard a different plane.Twenty-two people died on the ground, most of them in cars hit by wreckage, said Desmond Park, deputy chief executive of the area’s local council. He said the information was from other town authorities.THE PLANE smashed into the ground, destroying 40 houses, triggering an explosion at a gas station and engulfing cars in flames.The death toll on the plane rose to 259 today when it was discovered that another flight attendant was on board, said Pamela Hanlon, a Pan Am spokeswoman in New York. The victims included U.S. servicemen, 38 students from Syracuse University and an Associated Press executive and five of his family members. Partial passenger lists released py the airline did not indicate any Kansans were on the flight, but those lists were incomplete.Neither Scottish Secretary Malcom Rifkind, the chief British official at the site, nor U.S. Ambassador Charles Price would speculate on the possibility ofsabotage, but both the International Air Transport Assn. and the British Airline Pilots Assn. said that was the most likely explanation.IN WASHINGTON, a U.S. government source said the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, Finland, received a telephone threat about two weeks ago from a person claiming to belong to the Abu Nidal group, a radical Palestinian faction that has been implicated in terrorist attacks.The caller said a bomb would be placed aboard a Pan Am plane and that it wouldMore on the crash, page 7Cbe carried by a woman, said the government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.The government source said that threat was the basis for posting notices at U.S. embassies.In Moscow, the U.S. Embassy last week warned American diplomats that a bomb threat had been made against a Pan Am flight flying from Frankfurt, West Germany to the United States sometime in December. The warning left it to the diplomats’ discretion whether to change travel plans.PRESS ASSOCIATION quoted intelligence sources as saying the tip came from Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service.An anonymous male caller to The Associated Press in London claimed responsibility for the disaster and said it was in retaliation for the shooting down of an Iran Air Airbus by the U.S. Navy cruiser Vincennes in July.Wall Street firm agrees to pay $650 million fineNEW YORK (AP) — After asserting innocence for more than two years, Wall Street powerhouse Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. agreed to plead guilty to six felonies and pay a record $650 million fine to settle the biggest securities fraud case in history.The plea bargain agreement is the most stunning break yet in a criminal probe of the nation’s fifth-largest investment firm, which bankrolled some of the biggest corporate takeovers of the decade through its pioneering use of high-yield “junk bond” securities.The agreement, announced Wednesday by U.S. Atty. Rudolph W. Giuliani, does not protect Michael Milken, Drexel’s senior high-yield bond executive and a key target of the criminal probe.The investigation already has cost Drexel nearly $2 billion in lost business and legal expenses, sapped morale of its 10,000 employees and seriously undermined what many consider Wall Street’s most aggressive and able financier.SOURCES FAMILIAR with Drexel’s decision who spoke on condition on anonymity said its board of directors agonized Wednesday afternoon before approving the settlement, which would brand Drexel as a felon but spare it a potentially ruinous, drawn-out trial.The settlement would mark a completeSee Drexel, page 7AMl.‘.'-.'■•A-■VsJV'•‘i:i-W*1‘I-*’11M'*V' Jn J J f ■/«, -. . •*! «v f''v' K. V I./i’tUV%■1 :T _ -*i-;•i-.V-V '.I':VI.e.g?•V!IN'-ViV■-wmi’trfr'cySL»'i.S.'sxfesa*,.tAi.r '•.•'V -’-11... ,.vl;•T-lVV'' v-'V.--Vi-i .1 .V. r-1day. The display, sponsored by the Vinland United *■ °he.southt:f 460 leads to a barn, rtiarked by■ y-y..• Vlt;:v.:•:'• V-AiVTrucking figurefined $960,0001 •......... .... * ■ * ' ' ■' • • - *-.* * • 4-..... * ;for tax evasionKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman who, with her husband, hid $1 million worth of valuables in three states after the couple was charged with tax evasion has been sentenced to 30 years in prison and fined $960,000.U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple, imposing what was believed to be the stiffest sentence ever in a U.S. tax case, rejected the results of a psychiatric examination that concluded Trula Walker could be manipulated by male figures in her life. The exam had been done at Mrs. Walker’s request.Mrs. Walker, 47, of Springfield, also was ordered Wednesday to make restitution to the employees of Campbell 66, a family trucking company that prosecutors said the Walkers milked into bankruptcy by skimming profits to avoid taxes. Her father, Frank Campbell, founded the company that once operated in 13 states.A U;S. District Court jury in August found Mrs. Walker guilty of five counts of tax evasion and one count of conspiracy.Mrs. Walker’s husband, Randall, earlier was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined $980,000. At the time, U.S. Atty. Robert Ulrich called it the stif-fest sentence in a tax case, noting that A1 Capone got only 13 years.The Walkers were charged with conspiring to appropriate funds from the trucking company for their personal use. The money taken was not reported to the Internal Revenue Service as income.INSIDE TODAYJayhawks slip by Texas TechKansas University frittered away an 18-point halftime lead, but the Jayhawks men's basketball team eventually managed to trip Texas Tech, 81-80, on Wednesday night in Lubbock.PAGE1DThe weatherThe weather won't feel much like Christmas, but Friday should give you a warm glow, anyway. Sunny, high 58.2 arrested in spy operationAn Army intelligence specialist and a Turkish-born Floridian were arrested Wednesday, breaking what American officials called a major espionage operation.PAGE 2APAGE 2AIndexArea report.......2BCalendar......1C-3CClassified......4C-6CComics...........8CCrossword........5CDeaths...........7 AEditorials.........4AHospitals.........7AMarkets 6CSports........1D-6DTV...............8CVariety...........1BWeather..........2AQUOTABLE: According to our knowledge, it (the PLO) has not changed its skin, its habits, its evil charter and the terror that it uses.— Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak ShamirCorps approves retail center's permitBy JOHN TAYLOR J-W Staff WriterThe big item on the Chelsea Group’s wish list will not come until after the Christmas holiday,David Longhurst, a Lawrence buisinessman assisting the East Coast-based developer, said he is making arrangements with city officials to pick up a permit on Tuesday from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that will get the group’s riverfront development on track. The corps permit is the last of 10 state or federal permits necessary before construction can begin on Chelsea’s riverfront factory outlet shopping center on the banks of the Kansas River.John Tatschl, a spokesman with the corps Kansas City office, said Wednesday the permit has been approved throughout the various corps departments. The permit will be issued after Chelsea, city and corps officials sign the document and an accompanying “letter of execution.”ISSUANCE OF THE permit is being delayed until Tuesday, however, because corps officials who are authorized to sign the letter won’t be in the office until then,Tatschl said.The permit includes a series of steps that Chelsea and the city must follow to protect bald eagles, which have used the riverfront in past winters as a roosting and feeding site. Last month, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks issued a state permit covering similar “mitigation” requirements to protect the eagles.The eagles already have shown up on the river this winter. During the National Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count conducted Saturday in theSee Corps, page 7A. / *mk’bifH ckin ranrpr fir' •* 'V ■ ' :*• ' /•'. i - .1 ’ *' -7 • V,-'•J'rpik::!'!: •j/,77/7.y,‘7VOSTONVisfill)NwbThewbr)kisthelatestdevelopmeht;in. lasting remission after s * ; lo^e^d||^ij.Mjy.)imiv/a new
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