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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1977
Death by own guns
12 to face execution
United Press International
NAIROBI, Kenya — A Ugandan
ilitary tribunal has sentenced 12
|gh-ranking officials and
isinessmen to be executed with
every guns they had planned to
ie to overthrow President Idi
min.
The sentence.was announced
onday by Radio Kampala.
Three others connected with the
ot died earlier under mysterious
rcumstanees.
The Radio Kampala broadcast
id the head of the military tribunal
iat heard the case had ordered the
condemned men shot to death
ith the weapons they allegedly
nuggled into the country.
Two other defendants were given
15-year prison terms.
The trial was held in secrecy and
the defendants, who had no legal
counsel, all pleaded guilty last
week, according to Radio Kampala
reports.
Although the 12 doomed men
could appeal to Amin for mercy, it
appeared unlikely that the Ugandan
leader would show clemency.
The alleged plot was said to have
been planned Jan. 25, the sixth an
niversary of Amin’s seizure of power
in Uganda.
A few weeks after the anniver
sary, Anglican Archbishop Janani
Luwum and two top government of
ficials — Internal Affairs minister
Charles Oboth-Ofumbi and Water
Minister William Oryema — were
arrested by Amin’s secret police.
Amin made the three attend a
public rally in Kampala, at which he
vowed to crush his opposition. He
later announced they had died in a
crash when they tried to escape
their military escort in an auto-,
mobile.
Church authorities charged that
the three men had actually been kill
ed in cold blood. Western leaders,
including President Carter, de
nounced Amin in strongly worded
declarations.
Church authorities demanded an
offical investigation of the incident,
but none has been carried out.
Crack!
United Press International
BOOTHBAY, Maine — Glass
panes that once graced Boston’s
John Hancock Tower appear to
be haunted. Wherever they’re
installed, they still crack.
The 4Vfe-by-12-foot panes were
removed from the skyscraper
two years ago after an insurance
company was deluged with
claims for breakage. The big
glass plates — normally valued at
$700 to $800 each — went for
salvage and ultimately wound up
in the hands of a Waterville
dealer who sold them to general
contractor Don Leavitt and other
Maine residents for about $80
each. Leavitt installed three of
them in a house and learned he
had scored no bargain.
“They cracked by themselves,”
he said. “Nobody lives in the
house.”
Only Russel Brace, of Belfast,
had better luck with the glass.
Brace, owner of the Republican
Journal, put 25 of the panes into
the newspaper’s building to
make a long skylight.
“We’ve been very pleased
with them,” he said, but added
he bought some extras, “just in
case.”
Man shoots wife, himself
United Press International
PINEVILLE, La. — A man fol
lowed his wife to work at a hospital
early Tuesday, shot her to death be
fore guards could respond to her
pleas for help and then shot himself
to death.
Police said that about 8 a.m. Billy
Hyde, 45, followed his wife, Elsie,
42, to the Central Louisiana State
Hospital parking lot where she-
noticed him. She called to the
guards, but Hyde shot her in the
head and chest with a .38 caliber
pistol.
Hyde and his wife, a nurse at the
hospital, were separated and were
in the process of obtaining a di
vorce. They were living in separate
houses.
Hyde was dead at the scene and
his wife died enroute to Huey P.
Long Hospital.
Vler schools discriminate,
Jaim Mexican-Americans
United Press International
TYLER — Four Mexican-
merican families yesterday filed
lit against the school district for
rcing them to prove their U.S.
tizenship before allowing their
i»®ildren to enter school without
tying a $1,000 tuition fee.
The suit, filed with the assistance
the Mexican-American Legal De
nse Fund, contends the new pol-
y is discriminatory because it does
lot force all children in the district
vin Wood prove their citizenship.
| The policy was adopted this year
make sure illegal aliens paid for
e schooling of their children,
nder state law, state funds may
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not be used to educate illegal alien
children.
According to the federal court
suit, the 15 children in the four
families were denied entrance to
the Tyler schools because they
could neither prove residence nor
pay the $1,000 tuition.
Dep. School Supt. Wayne Kil
gore said the $1,000 tuition fee was
based on a school audit which
placed the total cost of educating a
child for one year at $1,079.
None of the families who filed the
suit was named for fear of deporta
tion proceedings.
The suit contends only school age
children with Spanish surnames “or
being of Mexican ancestry” have
been required to produce documen
tation of citizenship.
They also claim not enough time
was given by the school district for
any protest of the policy prior to its
approval in July.
The suit seeks an injunction al
lowing the 15 students and others
similarly situated to be allowed to
attend school without documenting
legal status and without paying tui
tion fees.
A hearing on a preliminary in
junction was scheduled for Friday
morning before U.S. District Judge
William Wayne Justice.
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aysWoOB United Press International
on artJPASADENA, CALIF. — A “flaw-
■ss” launch yesterday sent the Voy-
intof arer 1 spacecraft hurtling towards
thenisek Jiipiter and Saturn yesterday and
so dew ientists said there were no prob-
wateri ms such as those that plagued its
ster ship and delayed the flight of
is to ryager 1 for four days.
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>ccer,
them so(
Voyager 1 deployed all booms
id turned on various scientific
istruments as planned and on
hedule without any problems that
isedi lagued the Voyager 2,” a spokes-
Allli lan at the Jet Propulsion Labora-
and tali ny said.
The unmanned spacecraft, carry-
ig254 pound. 1 , of cameras and scien-
ic measuring equipment, rode into
poi
ned
timpiel
s ' f! lie sky atop a Titan Centaur rocket
elded
ipirits
inenh
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blasted off from Cape Canav
eral, Fla., at 8:56 a.m. (EDT)
Monday.
“From a spacecraft point of view,
the launch was absolutely flawless,”
said John Casani, Voyager project
manager at Cape Canaveral.
“I’m tickled pink that things went
off just as I predicted, ” added pro
gram manager Rodney Mills.
Scientists were concerned that the
Voyager 1’s boom carrying cameras
arid other diieritiFiC'gdar ’Arid a‘Hu-
clear generating boom, would not
lock into place after the launch — a
problem that hit Voyager 2 after its
Aug. 20 launch.
But Casani said “the booms are
out and fully deployed and locked
into position.”
After the problem was noticed on
Voyager 2, Voyager 1’s blastoff was
postponed so that corrective mea
sures could be taken.
Although launched second, Voy
ager 1 is expected to reach Jupiter
four months before its sister ship —
now nine million miles ahead — by
taking a flatter, more direct path.
Voyager 1 entered a 43-minute
parking orbit 105 miles above earth
after the firing of its two Titan stages
and the first burn of its Centaur
sf|ige. The craft shot out of the park
ing orbit over Guam with the sefcorid
Centaur bum at 9:49 a.m.
Several minutes later. Voyager 1
fired its own propulsion module,
which was later jettisoned, and was
on its way to Jupiter with a 32,481-
mile-per-hour burst of speed.
Both crafts will focus their scien
tific instruments at five of Jupiter’s
moons, as well as the planet itself.
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