Kidnappers kill
By ED BLANCHE
Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon Kidnappers
of four Soviet Embassy employees
killed one of them and said yesterday
the others will die unless Syrian
backed militias halt an offensive
against Moslem fundamentalists in
the northern port of Tripoli.
An anonymous telephone caller
claimed a second captive had been
killed, and another said Moslem ex
tremists planned to blow up the em
bassy.
The battle raged on for control of
Tripoli, where more than 500 people
have been killed and 1,100 wounded
since Sept. 15. The militias supplied
by Syria, Moscow’s main ally in the
Middle East, have the fundamental
ists cornered with their backs to the
sea and Syrian artillery has joined
the battle.
The body of cultural attache Arka
dy Katkov, 32, was found yesterday,
shot once in the head at close range.
It was sprawled on blood-stained
rocks near the Cite Sportive, a stadi
um adjacent to the Sabra Palestinian
refugee camp, which was destroyed
by shellfire in Lebanon’s decade-long
civil war.
An anonymous caller claiming to
speak for the Islamic Liberation Or
ganization gave the location of the
University President Bryce Jordan presented his annual State of the University
address yesterday afternoon in Schwab Auditorium to about 300 administrators,
Jordan focuses on renovations
By DAMON CHAPPIE
Collegian Staff Writer
Eleven scientific buildings at Uni
versity Park are set to undergo exten
sive renovations as part of the largest
academic remodeling program in the
University’s history, University
President Bryce Jordan said yester
day.
When the renovations expected
to cost $25.7 million are complete,
“Penn State will be well on its way to
a first-class scientific plant,” Jordan
told a 300-member audience of ad
ministrators, faculty and students
during his annual state of the Univer
sity address.
In all, 638,700 square feet are ex
pected to be renovated, including five
buildings used by the College of Agri
culture as well as the Mechanical
Engineering Laboratory and Electri
cal Engineering West. Also slated for
repair at a cost of $5 million are
Chandlee and Mueller laboratories.
The money for the repairs is com
ing from the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, not the University. Jordan
said the reason for so much renova-
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body in a telephone call to a Western
news agency.
“We have carried out God’s sen
tence against one of the hostages and
we Shall execute the others one after
the other if the atheistic campaign
against Islamic Tripoli does not
stop,” he said. The four Soviets were
abducted Monday in two separate
incidents in west Beirut, the capital’s
Moslem sector.
The Islamic Liberation Organiza
tion, a Sunni Moslem fundamentalist
group, is allied with Tawheed, the
Islamic Unification movement,
whose black-scarved warriors are
fighting for their lives in Tripoli.
Another caller, also purporting to
speak for the kidnappers, telephoned
Beirut’s Moslem radio station Voice
of the Nation and said another cap
tive had been killed. Police said no
second body had been found.
In a third call, to a Western news
agency, a man who said he rep
resented the Islamic Liberation Or
ganization said the extremists would
blow up the Soviet Embassy unless it
was evacuated within 48 hours.
“After carrying out previous warn
ings to wipe out members of the
Soviet diplomatic corps and mem
bers of the KGB (secret police) ...
these people have 48 hours in which to
evacuate the compound,” he said.
“Otherwise it shall be brought down
tion is that the state’s economy is
improving and money is becoming
available for badly needed repairs.
Jordan said, as he has done repeat
edly during the past two years of his
presidency, that the University is not
getting enough money from the state
for its operating budget.
Only seven other states give less
money to their public universities
than Pennsylvania, Jordan said.
“Penn State operates with the low
est state appropriation per student of
any public university within Pennsyl
vania,” Jordan added.
The president said he is placing
hope in recommendations that have
developed into a new funding formula
made by a committee that studied the
state’s system of financing.
The new funding scheme would
give money to the 18 state-supported
universities on a differential basis,
“supported by proven performance
and differentiated missions,” Jordan
said.
Nicknamed “differential funding,”
the formula would result in more
money for Penn State rather than
other state universities such as
Hudson dies after yearlong battle with AIDS
By RICHARD BENKE
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES Rock Hudson,
the cinema idol whose gallant admis
sion of a yearlong battle against AIDS
won sympathy and attention for vic
tims of the disease, died yesterday at
his home. He was 59.
“Please God, he has not died in
vain,” his friend and one-time co-star
Elizabeth Taylor said in a statement.
Hudson, star, of “Giant,” a “A
Gathering of Eagles” and several
frothy comedies with Doris Day on
film and “McMillan and Wife” and
“Dynasty” on television, “died
peacefully in his sleep at 9 o’clock this
morning,” publicist Dale Olson said.
“Life is eternal, and I know I will
see him again,” Day said in a
statement. “Working with him was
unlike working with anyone else. We
had a special humor between us and
we always laughed and had fun to-
Collegian
Soviet
on their heads; that is, at 4 p.m.
Friday. It (the deadline) will not be
extended.”
There was no way to authenticate
the calls.
The Islamic Liberation Organiza
tion’s statements about the kidnap
pings have been accompanied by the
Lebanese identity cards of two of the
hostages and photographs of all four
with pistols held to their heads.
The three remaining abducted So
viets are commercial attache Valery
Mirikov, press attache Oleg Spirin
and Nikolai Sversky, an embassy
doctor. Police earlier had identified
Mirikov as Valery Kornev.
The embassy employees were the
first Soviets among the 35 foreigners
kidnapped in Lebanon since January
1984. Katkov was the first of the
hostages known to have been killed.
A missing Dutch priest and British
teacher were found dead earlier this
year, but no group claimed to have
kidnapped or killed them.
Fourteen other foreigners six
Americans, four Frenchmen, three
Britons and an Italian still are
held.
The Americans and Frenchmen are
thought to be in the hands of the Shiite
fundamentalist group Jihad Islami.
It has said it will free them if
Kuwait releases 17 comrades impris
oned for bombings there in 1983.
faculty members and students. Jordan discussed renovations on campus as
well as the progress of his administration’s strategic planning program.
Bloomsburg and Lock Haven because
those schools do not offer costly doc
toral programs in areas such as sci
ence, engineering or agriculture.
Jordan acknowledged that differen
tial funding will not be fully imple
mented this year as the state
Department of Education fine tunes
the guidelines during the next few
months. 1
The administration is not banking
everything on the expectation of get
ting more money from the state but is
greatly increasing its efforts to raise
dollars from private sources. That
effort is resulting in the University’s
first five-year capital fundraising
drive that is expected to pull in more
than $2OO million.
Jordan said a major priority for
money coming from both the state
and private sources: is to improve the
University’s library collection. The
administration is preparing to re
quest money to improve the content
of the libraries at University Park in
the capital budget request that will be
submitted to Harrisburg early next
week.
gether. I’m really going to miss
him,” she said.
At the White House, President Rea
gan issued a statement saying: “Nan
cy and I are saddened by the news of
Rock Hudson’s death. He will always
be remembered for his dynamic im
pact on the film industry, and fans all
over the world will certainly mourn
his loss. He will be remembered for
his humanity, his sympathetic spirit
and well-deserved reputation for
kindness. May God rest his soul.”
Taylor; who starred with Hudson in
“Giant” and “The Mirror Crack’d,”
was one of his closest supporters in
his final days, and was co-host for an
AIDS benefit Sept. 19 with actor Burt
Reynolds.
Hudson donated $250,000 to the ben
efit, which grossed more than $1.2
million for AIDS research, and sent
his last public words:
“I am not happy that I am sick. I
am not happy that I have AIDS, but if
Supreme Court lifts TMI stay
By KRISTINE SORCHILLA
Collegian Staff Writer
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday lifted a stay on
the restart of Three Mile Island Unit I nuclear reactor,
which has been shut down since an accident at the
adjacent Unit II reactor in March 1979.
By an 8-1 vote, the High Court rejected an emergency
plea from a citizens’ group that claimed starting the
reactor would harm the environment and health of
nearby residents, said Ralph Neidig of TMI public
information.
Kay Pickering of TMI Alert, the citizens’ group
appealing the restart, said TMI Alert members are
“very dissapointed that the full court would not hear
(the appeal).”
The group’s members, however, will file an appeal
today with the 3rd Circuit Court of Apppeals in Phila
delphia, Pickering said. The appeal requests an inves
tigation of the character and integrity of General
Public Utilities Nuclear Corp., the owners of TMI, she
said.
Previously, TMI Alert, the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, the Union of Concerned Scientists and Nor
man and Marjorie Aamodt, formerly of Chester
County, appealed the Unit I restart. These groups have
asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to hold
further public hearings on TMI management compe
tency and plant safety, but these requests were never
granted, Pickering said.
'David Runkle, Gov. Dick Thornburgh’s press secre
tary, said the governor thinks the Commonwealth and
all other concerned groups presented the strongest
possible case to the Supreme Court. Thornburgh now
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in speech
Jordan noted that the strategic
planning program his administration
initiated two years ago is on schedule
with preliminary results becoming
public in November.
Strategic planning is the process of
looking in detail at every aspect of the
University with the goal of improving
the quality of education and capabili
ty of service to the world.
“The major units in the University
have prepared preliminary strategic
plans. Based on our study of those
plans, we will be in the position to
take certain recommendations to the
Board of Trustees after the New
Year. Other recommendations will
follow in the Spring of 1986,” Jordan
said.
Jordan has said before that the
changes may be significant in the
way many department and programs
are operated. The new School of Com
munications, which consolidated the
School of Journalism, the depart
ments of speech communications,
telecommunications and film, is an
early result - of strategic planning,
Jordan said.
that is helping others, I can, at least,
know that my own misfortune has
had some positive worth.”
The office of Rexford Kennamer,
Hudson’s physician, said it would not
comment on the immediate cause of
the actor’s death. Coroner’s spokes
man Bill Gold said it would not be a
coroner’s case, since Hudson had
been under the care of a physician.
Only the staff at Hudson’s home
was there when he died, Olson said.
There will be no funeral for Hud
son, whose remains were cremated,
he said. In lieu of flowers, it was
Hudson’s wish that donations be
made to the American Foundation for
AIDS Research, Olson said.
Hudson’s homosexuality had been
rumored for years. Even after his
illness became known and several
magazines carried sympathetic arti
cles describing Hudson as gay, the
actor kept silent.
In 1955, Hudson married his agent’s
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expects all Pennsylvania residents, regardless of their
on the restart, to make responsible decisions
to comply with the Supreme Court ruling.
Although the governor’s office is aware that TMI
Alert will file an appeal today, Runkle said he did not
know the contents of the appeal and could not comment
on it.
“The governor has always been in support of com
mercial nuclear power and has never opposed the
restart of TMI,” Runkle said. “His concern centered
on public health and safety.”
To insure that the public is not endangered through
the restart, Thornburgh has instructed several state
agencies including the Department of Environmen
tal Resources and the Pennsylvania Emergency Man
agement Agency —to closely monitor plant operations.
TMI and GPU officials are “enormously pleased
with the Supreme Court decision,” Neidig said.
The plant has been kept at operating temperature
and pressure using non-nuclear power since June 8,
Neidig said. Officials of TMI and GPU are unsure at
this time when the NRC will authorize the full restart,
he said.
Following the NRC’s May 29 ruling to allow the
undamaged Unit I reactor to resume operations, the
3rd Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay on the restart
on June 7. On Aug. 27, the appeals court upheld the
NRC’s decision and ruled that TMI could resume
operations as scheduled at 4 p.m. Sept. 25.
However, on Sept. 25, TMI Alert appealed to U.S.
Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr., who
extended the stay indefinitely until the court could
examine the appeal.
State
votes
LCB powers
By KRISTINE SORCHILLA
Collegian Staff Writer
The state Senate yesterday
voted 44-4 to transfer the power of
liquor law enforcement from the
Pennsylvania Liquor Control
Board to the state attorney gener
al’s office.
The bill will authorize the LCB
to continue licensing liquor estab
lishments. It is currently being
reviewed by the General Assem
bly and faces abolishment at
year’s end if it is not renewed will
retain the power to license liquor
establishments.
The bill must now go through the
state House of Representatives
before reaching Gov. Dick Thorn
burgh’s desk.
Robert Gentzel, press secretary
for the attorney general’s office,
said he could not speculate on
when the bill will be presented to
the House.
According to the bill, all enforce
ment agents and records under the
LCB would be transferred to the
attorney general’s office, Gentzel
said, adding that Attorney Gener
al Leßoy Zimmerman has stated
his office may need to expand to
properly enforce state liquor laws.
“Zimmerman has said that 200
enforcement agents are probably
not enough if-the legislature’s goal
is major improvements in liquor
enforcement;” Gentzel said. “We
would probably have to employ
some more (enforcement
agents).”
The Senate approved the en
forcement power transition be
cause it believed liquor licensing
and enforcement should not be
delegated by the same office, Gen
tzel said.
Sen. J. Doyle Corman, R-Centre,
secretary, Phyllis Gates. The new
lyweds had a much-publicized honey
moon in Florida, but separated the
following year and were divorced in
1958. Hudson never remarried.
People magazine reported this year
that the marriage had been set up by
Universal Studios to dispel rumors
about Hudson.
“There has never been any defini
tive statement about that from any
one, including Rock himself,” Olson
said yesterday.
Hudson, 6-foot-4 and ruggedly
handsome, was a perennial top-10 box
office attraction during the 1950 s and
1960 s when big studios created stars
and built movies around them.
Rarely without work after making
his film debut in “Fighter Squadron”
in 1948, Hudson turned to TV after 61
films. He starred for six seasons as
the police commissioner in “McMil
lan and Wife” with Susan Saint
James.
Senate
to transfer
‘Basically (LCB
officials) enforce the
law against
themselves. It’s like
the fox watching the
henhouse.’
—State Sen. John
Shumaker, R-Dauphin
who voted in favor of the bill,
proposed an amendment to the
bill. It includes a clause forbidding
any member or employee of the
LCB or the attorney general’s
office to accept commissions or
gifts from anyone in the liquor
business, said Elizabeth Sage,
Corman’s legislative assistant in
Harrisburg.
The previous clause forbid all
LCB employees from accepting
commissions or gifts, Sage said,
adding that Corman thought the
clause was too broad.
Another amendment to transfer
liquor law enforcement powers to
the state police was rejected 38-10
Tuesday. Corman voted against
this amendment.
The bill to transfer liquor law
enforcment power from the LCB
to either the state police or the
attorney general’s office was
sponsored by Sen. John Shumak
er, R-Dauphin.
Previously, Shumaker said he
opposed the LCB’s retention of
enforcement powers because it
also licenses state liquor establish
ments.
“Basically they enforce the law
against themselves,” he said.
“It’s like the fox watching the hen
house.”
Rock Hudson