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i'IIII.ANGIST DEFENDERS take time off to eat in the recently captured Holiday Inn during heavy fighting this weekend. This
k the first picture takeit inside of the hotel since the fighting began.
Knight murder
still ai mystery
PHILADELPHIA Even though two of the three
suspects in the murder of wealthy newspaper editor John S.
Knight 3rd have been found, some questions remain.
Knight was stabbed eight days ago in his $1,050-per-month
apartment overloOking Rittenhouse Square.
After five days of intensive investigation, police on Thurs
day named three 'suspects. Hours later, one suspect turned
himself in and a second was found in southern New Jersey,
shot through the head. The manhunt now is centered on the
third suspect, an farmed and dangerous" man with a record
of at least 50 arrests.
Police officials have kept a tight lid on official comment on
the case. But all week, the city's three newspapers were filled
with the tales of unnamed police sources about the killing and
Knight's life.
But the questions remain: What was the relationship be
tween the three suspects. all from lower-middle class
backerounds. - andlKnight, a well-eduatecLcultured man who
was the likely heir to his grandfather's fortune? How did the
three men get inside? What was the Motive?
Knight, 30, was the grandson of theieditorial chairman of the
Knight Ridder newspaper group, one of the nation's largest
newspaper chains. He had studied. with
Harvard and Oxford.
Outwardly, he had little in common the three suspects.
The motive, say police was robbbry. Silverware, jewelry
and an expensive wristwatch were liken, but left behind were
hundreds of thousands of dollars in' rt works. Police will not
elaborate on their reason for the motive.
Rebels surrender,
AMSTERDAM,;The Netherlands (AP)
- Six South yoluccan gunmen
surrendered peacefully yesterday,
freeing 24 hostages from a train they
hijacked 1.2 days'ago. Officials said no
concessions had been made to the young
rebels.
Soldiers who had ringed the train
during the entire ordeal cheered and
waved Dutch flags as the siege ended.
and more flags were raised in the nearby
• (}wn of Beilen, 90 miles north of
nisi erd'am.
Anot her gang of Moluccan extremists,
owever, continued to hold 25 hostages
it the Inchinesian consulate in
\msterdam. Dutch radio reported that
several shots rang out inside after the
train hijackers surrendered, but police
said I he report was a "fable."
A Justice Ministry spokesman said the
host ages freed from the train-- 17 men
For 'jocks, junkies, jerks, Greeks'
USG to sponsor dot
By MIKE MENTREK about 150 questions to, (debjrmine the
Collegian Staff Writer compatability of each participant. These
The ad calls it "a date match for questions are divided into three
everyone jocks, junkies, jerks, categories: attitudes ' and. values,
Greeks. dormies, townies ...;" the background and appearances, and
project's coordinator calls it the biggest - shared interests.
event of Winter Term; officially, it's The background and appearances
called Date Match 16. section of the form deals with limiting
For the record, Date Match '76 is a statenients about a prospective match's
computer .dating sepiicv being sport- physical characteristicsi
sored bY the Undergraduate Student ; For example, an applicant must
Governnient as a money-making decide about his date's minimum height
project. Jim Minarik, business manager ; and weight, hair length, moustache or
for USG, is quick to point out this will not r sideburn length and eve theamount of
be the aVerage, run-of-the : mill computer make-up the match w . There are
dating service. ;.!
also questions about the date's attitudes
"By no means should this come.off as on drinking, drugs, and r igion.
a Lonely 'Hearts Club kind of thing. We The'second section of e application
really feel it's an alternative form ;of lists 50 areas of interest ncluding sports
entertainment this Winterigerm. We , (scuba, pinball, spectator, music
want everyone to have a good time." ! t country-western to opera), reading and
Questionnaires for Date Match '76 will eating habits (vegetarianism, health
be availble in dorm areas, the HUB, ;foods). Applicants must identify
and the Daily Collegian beginning Jan. 5. themselves in each area on a scale
Participants must encloses3.so with the f ranging from "leaves me cold" to
returned application; but ;if the ap- "much into it."
plications are sent !in groups of six or In the attitudes and values part of the
more, the price is reduced to $225 per i ques ti onna i re, part i c i pa nt s are m aid .
person. All forms must be returned by i give their reactions to a series of
Jan. 16. Date Match is open to all single I,statements on a variety of topics. The
studenti, faculty and staff. ; Istatements range from ,"I am proud of
The application includes a list of lnv b o d y an d looe t o a b oa , it off,' to
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and seven women ranging in age from a
16-year-old boy to a woman of 72 were
in "reasonable" shape apd were taken
directly In hospitalsifor checkups.
The gunmen were taken to different
police stations. They could face murder
charges for the deaths of three men in
thetrege. The engineer at l id another man
were killed in the initial attack Dec. 2
and a third man was executed two days
later.
A seventh gunman v.tholwas evacuated
from the train with 'serious injuries after
a mAterious,explofifon Dec. 5, has been
charged ,with murder. e maximum
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penalty for murder in the Netherlands is.
life imprisonment, limit to 20 years.
The rebels lad de nded that the
Dutch government help, them in their
quest for an independent homeland in
the South Molucca Islands of Indonesia
and safe passage out of the country.
The story broke early Dec. 7, when Rosemary McKinnon, a
houleguest of Knight's, alerted a doorman al i the Dorchester
Apartments about the slaying. She herself h d been stabbed
as she fled.
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F'43311 the beginning; Joseph Golden, head of the detective
divi r on, divulged only the most balic facts abut the killing.
B I unnamed detectives told reporters that a meticulously
kep diary, tape recordings and photographs of nude young
men all items found in Knight's apartment Were being
used for clues about the slaying suspects. • j
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Philadelphia Daily News where Knight worked as special
projects editor, reported the pictures and diaziy led in
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yes igators to the city's gay community, where they sought
pus ible homosexual contacts Knight may hae had. •
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Tie Daily New said Knight had written a ( bout hcmosexual
contacts in the final diary entry and said he as tienefitting
froth psychoanalysis.. ti ,'
Golden would not comment on the newspaper accounts or on
whdt was removed by police or the suspectS from
Knight's apartment. • ' t i
On Wednesday, Golden admitted police weretellow, ing*ds
invalvirtg .homoselaints But a day later, inl annountinwthe
arrest warrants for the three suspects, he repeatedly refused
I o discuss what police knew about the privatelives of the three
men. The warrants were for murder, three counts of robbery,
attempted murder,• aggravated assault and criminal con
spiracy.
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The next morning one suspect, Steven Maleno, 25, of
Philadelphia, surrendered to police. Later Friday morning
another suspect, jsais Melendei, 20, was found sholdead near
a south Jersey golf course.
SI ill at large is Salvatore Soli, 37, a convicted drilguser
free -hostages-
The Moluccas . were,incorporated into
Indonesia when the Dutch ended colonial
rule in the archipelago 25 years ago. The
Moluceans staged an unsuccessful
rebellion lin 1950 and tens of thousands
subsequently fled to Holland.
he Dutch government has said from
the start there can be "no question" of
meeting the Mo!oceans' political
demands
Agt said
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Dutch gi
Indonesi.
The e d of the ;Beilen ordeal came
after a f nal round! of hegoliations with
South MI luccan mediators and a night of
sub-freezing temperatures. The heating
system in the fourarriage train has not
functioned since the explosion more than
a week ago. T--
Tike most pets.", The section- also deals
wi9i attitudes on politics, -women's
liberation, religion, racial discrimina
tion, drugs and premarital sex. '
About two weeks after the question
naire is filed, the applicankeceives the
names and telephone numrs of from
three to -15 other participants the com
puter -has chosen as _ matches. Each
match is ratedi by percentage `of
compatibility in. the categories of at
titudes, background and appearances
and shared interests. If the computer
cannot come up with at least three
matches ifor an applicant, the price of
the Date Match is refunded.
The Dale Match '76 Dance will be held
Feb. 6 r , inßec Hall. Minariklsaid dance
tickets a
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will be 'available to non
participa ts. A rock group or local disc
jockey is • gSought for the event.
For those Who may , have answered
"leaves ,tne -eoldl' to the application
questiorft`dancintat dances," USG will
include With each list $5 to $lO worth of
discount ',coupons 'at local restaurants
and theaters. i
The 1 Dale Match computer, work is
done by j -Int i Research of
Bloomington, I 'ana. The :company
developed the Date Match idegi about 2 1 / 2
years ago, and first used it at the Indiana
and Justice Minister Dries van
the government had made "no
cession" to the hijackers: The
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Beirut cease-fire unstable
BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Although
fighting died down yesterday after the
bloodiest week of the .eight-month civil
war, the state radio warned yesterday
that the lates t t cease-fire between the
warring Christian and Moslem
militiamen Wals not holding and all roads
in Beirut werelunsafe.
Australian ',and Canadian civilians
were urged to leave Lebanon: American,
British and German nationals already
had been told to get out.
Beirin Radi,o_ reported an "extensive
exchange of fire" on the outskirts of
Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest city,
where Moslems leftists in the :Kobbeh
area t'ought with light-wing Christian
factions from the nearby town 'of
Zghorta.
A Military Ispokesman said, uniden
tified gunmen attacked a police station
in Tripoli, killing an army corporal and
wounding two soldiers. Severesoldiers
were kidnaped in Tripoli and two of them
were killed.
At Zahle, near Beirut, army troops
exchanged fire with an ammunition
convoy and killed three armed inen and
wounded a fourth, he said. Several army
volunteers were kidnaped and killed
near the southern border with Israel, the
Tax battle turns on '76 votes
WASHINGTON (UPI) The main
question in President Ford's spending
and tax battle with Congress is not
whether the >ax cut should be extended,
hut whose strategy will get the most
votes in the 1976 presidential election.
The bill extending this year's tax cuts
for six more months has passed the
House and is expeGtkd to reach the
Senate floor today. ItTifffuld be:ready for
Ford's almost certain veto this week.
news analysis ,
Ford wants a spending ceiling on the
fiscal 1977 budget before approving any .
tax cuts, but most congressional leaders
are predicting a certain override, thus
providing a tax-cut extension with no
speriding limit
From i he start, almost no one believed
Sadai predicts Mideast treaty
By UPI
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said
yesterday he was certain Syria would
sign a second disengagement accord
with Israel and again urged the United
States to open a dialogue with the,
Palestinians.
But Sadat told the Paris magazine'
Nouvel Observateur he no longer knows
what the Palestinians want and added,
"That is the drama. Believe me, that's
the entire problem. And it is tragic."
Diplomatic sources in Cairo, where
French President Valery Giscard
d'Estaing wound up a five-day visa, said
President Ford would visit Egypt in
April.
Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres
said on American television yesterday
the establishment of a Palestinian slate
on the borders of Jordan and Israel
would pave the way for the introduction
of Soviet arms into the area and pose
new dangers for Israel.
Peres, who arrived in the United
States Saturday on an arms purchasing
mission, said, "Such a Palestinian state
will have Russian arms ... which will
menace our- parliamant, our populated
areas, and in addition to that, they may
transfer the Fatah guerrilla bases from
Lebanon to the West Bank, making life
al mttst impossible for all of us."
He also reaffirmed Israel's refusal to
take part in any United Nations debate
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Psychologists and human develop
ment researchers at kJ have approved
the application questions as valid
detei-miners,of hiiman cicompatibility.
roups of-20 or mire Persons who sign
upi p for Date Match will be eligible for
s i i
pl'otos in daily Date Match ad
v rtisements under the caption "What
kidof people sign up for Date Match
'76? ,
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like the ad says, tacos,
matzoh balls, anarchists, reactionaries,
hippies, narcs ..."
Weather
!Extremely interesting and quickly
(taming weather pn the way for State
College.
.Becomingoniitly cloudy with
dowers developing today. Showers will
heavy 1 during the afternoon and,
temperatures also will be quite warm.
High 60.1 Cloudy tonight With 'much
colder air around midnight, with
showers turning to snow flurries. Low 30.
,A few snow flurries early Tuesday then
I:timing *ally cloudy and mid. High 37, .
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Monday, December 15,1975 " '
Vol. 76, N 0.187 12 pages University !ark, Pennitylvanhi
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
spokesman said.
In downtown Beirut; right-wing
Phalangists stormed into the Jewish
quarter, chasing leftist Moslem gunmen
out of one section. A small synalgogue
attached- to the Alliance-lirael-
Universal school and the schoolhouse
itself were badly damaged:
The radio said gunmen had erected
_ roadblocks on the main high Way to
Damascus and on the southern road to
- Sidon.
Known casualties in clashes between
Moslem leftists and right-wing
Christians topped 550 dead and 800
wounded since Dec. 8. Scores of persons
were missing believed killed.
The factional war, which began in
i*rit, has killed nearly 5,500 persons and
about 11,500 have been wounded.
Fighting in Beirut still centeatd on the
luxury hotel disttict where leftist forces
tried ,to drive out the right-wing
Phalangist defenders of the Holiday Inn.
A leftist attack Sunday morning again
set fire to the already blackened
towering building on the Beirut seafront.
The Phalangists were still there,
defying rocket and machine gun fire and
the occasional shell from recoilless
cannon.
Congress would allow taxes to rise in an
election year, and there was little
chance Congress would accept Ford's
demand for, a spending ceiling on a
budget it has not yet seen, especially in
the first year of its remodeled budgeting
process.
The question in Washington circles,
therefore, became whether the voting i
public wouldlscw Ford's demands as an
effort to Gnat' control - and cut federal
spending or as an impractical, purely
political move-
With formerTatifornia Gov. Ronald
Reagan's popularity among
Republicans and independents rising in
the polls. Ford's advisers sense that
picturing Ford as a determined budget
cutter would help him with GOP con
servatives.
Democrats are convinced the public
at which the Palestinian Liberation
Organization is represented.
The communique listed a new arms
industry for Egypt as one cooperative
venture in which France will contribute
knowhow - and "third parties," likely oil
rich Arab states, will supply thecapital.
Sadat told reporters, "We in the Arab
world have suffered from a monopoly of
arms by the big powers. So we have now
asked for French help to establish an
arms industry. The answer from
President Giscard d'Estaing was
completely firm."
There was no mention of direct French
military aid to Egypt in the com
munique.
In Jerusalem, the Israeli cabinet
began debate on a $l2 billion budget for
1976 that contains the most drastic
cutbacks in government spending in
Israel's history and is designed to slice
the standard !of living by 3 per cent to
Merry Olde England
"GUESTS MYST HAVE NAYLES cleane or they -wyll dysgust theyre table
companyones," ordered King (Joseph) WigleY at last night's Olde English
Madrigal Dinner in Kern. The jester. Thu Fitzgerald, rests momentarily on his
monarch's shoulder before setting out to do more mischief to 131 guests. The
second annual• Madrigal Dinner, complete with medieval costumes, minstrels.
trumpet fanfares, boar's , beads and flaming - plum 'nodding. was sold out both
Saturday and Sunday Meas. It was sponsored
, by the Graduate Student
Association andthe Graduate Commons.. ,
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The Australian and Canadian em
bassies announced in newspapers
Sunday their nationals in Lebanon
should take immediate steps to leave
Lebanon.
Similar appeals from the British and
German embassies were made over the
weekend. The American and other
foreign embassies had previously urged
their nationals to leave Lebanon.
The government's Coordination
Committee, comprising representatives
of all political factions and the
Palestinians, met past midnight trying
vainly to hammer out an agreement on
obeying the cease-fire which should have
gone into effect early Friday.
'Newspapers speculated-new foreign
diplomatic initiatives may be needed.
Fortner Premier Abdullab Yafi flew to
Damascus after meetings with Premier
Rashid Karami. Syria has been involved
three times in previous mediation at
tempts which did meet with a measure
of success, but fighting' has always
broken out again.
The newspaper An Nahar said there
was a suggestion to forma mediation
committee of the foreign:ministers of
Syria. Egypt, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi
Ara bta which would come to Beirut.
will see through what they view as
impractical demands from Ford which
could scut t le the new budget process.
The budget process is probably the
only serious nonpolitical issue involved
in this dispute. Last year,' Congress
passed the New Budget Act which was
designed to replace chaos with order
when the legislative branch votes on the
administration's budget proposals.
Under this law, Congress must
determine a ceiling on fiscal 1977
spending, but not until next spring after
Ford's budget has been submitted and
Congress !' as had a chance to study it.
Democrats fear that enactment of
Ford's ceiling now would make a
mockery of the budget process and
weaken it at a time when it already has
enough trouble surviving the politics of
Congress.
combat inflation. Fully 38 per cent of the
budget would go for defense.
lii his Paris interview, Sadat was
asked about Syria signing a second
agreement on the Golan Heights front
with Israel. "Certainly they will sign. I
have no doubt abliut it," Sadat said.
"I have said to President Ford during
his visit in Washington: It is absolutely
necessary that a dialogue is opened
between the Palestinians and you."
Sadat said. "It will be necessary, if you
really want to resolve this question, for
all parties concerned, including the
Palestinians, to sit around one table."
Sadat said, "It is necessary to create a
Palestinian state on the Jordanian West
Bank and in,Gaza."
But asked about what the Palestinians
want, Sadat replied, "I will tell you the
truth. I no longer know what they want.
Truly, sincervk . I could not say. Who
else knows"
by Julie Cipoila