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Show Page Two The Daily Vuk Chronicle, Yfedawaday, April 4, ItM OUTLOOK fROU Chlnaeo former buys 1st cor PEKING A successful chicken fanner has become the Cm Chinese peasant to buy a private car, the Peking Daily reported Tuesday. The fanner, Sun Guiying. paid $4,650 for her new Japanese Toyota. Sun, a member of a suburban Peking commune, sold 70,400 pounds of eggs last year and made a net profit of SI 8,500 a fortune for China, where the average worker cams less than $50 per month. Peasants like Sun, who only a few years ago would have been denounced as greedy capitalists, are now portrayed as models of success through private enterprise and other capitalistic reforms launched by China's new leaders. Peking Daily carried a front-pag- e picture of the smiling farmer's family in front of their new d Toyota, which the newspaper said they would use to "help make business contacts and promote egg sales. silver-colore- Group decries savage torturo LONDON Amnesty International Tuesday described methods of torture and mistreatment of prisoners occurring in nearly 100 nations that it said include beatings, electric shocks, sexual abuse, burning with cigarettes and mock executions. The human rights organization said that torture is applied d systematically in scores of countries as pan of machinery to suppress dissent." A 261-pareport, Torture in the Eighties, listed 66 countries from which Amnesty International said it has received allegations of torture, and cited another 30 nations where it said there had been some reports of gross mistreatment. "In the torturer's electrode or syringe is the power and responsibility of the state," the report said. Most of the countries named are in the Third World, but the report also cited the Soviet Union, South Africa, Israel and Poland. The report also mentioned reports of ill treatment of prisoners in Canada and the United States, where there were allegations of heatings, kickings and spraying of Mace into prisoners' faces. "state-controlle- ge Fathers to watch execution Elmo Patrick Sonnier apparently will die in Louisiana's electric chair Thursday morning, watched by his victims' fathers. Sonnier's appeals have been exhausted and Gov. Edwin &M&2 M00 0 On IMTGSJATlOiJAL" USSITCD Edwards said he would not intervene in the execution, scheduled between 1:01 a.m. and 4 a.m. EST Thursday, unless new evidence is presented. The fathers of the two teenagers Sonnier killed asked to witness the execution, and authorities granted that request Tuesday. I didn't have any reason not to let them," said Corrections Secretary C Paul Phelps in Baton Rouge. "I'm going to get the same thing out of the execution that Sonnier did to my boy, said one of the fathers, Lloyd Le Blanc. Sonnier, 34, of St, Martinville, La., was convicted of abducting two teenagers from their parked car in a lover's lane, raping the girl and then killing both. His brother Eddie, who held a flashlight for him while he executed them, was also sentenced to die, but the sate Supreme Coun reduced bis sentence to life in prison because he was not the triggerman. India's cosmonaut launched Women priests for RLDS? Firewater in short supply A Soyuz T-- ll rocket blasted off from the 8.-0- 8 Soviet-Frenc- INDEPENDENCE, Mo. Wallace B. Smith, president and prophet of the Reorganized Church.of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has presented a document authorizing ordination of women to the church's priesthood. The revelatory document was issued Tuesday on the third day of the RLDS world conference, which continues through Saturday. It must be considered by the Orders and Quorums of the Church before being received as "the mind and will of God," according to a statement released by the church. The document will come up for a vote Thursday. "All are called according to the gifts which have been given them," Smith's document stated. "This applies to the priesthood as well as to any other aspects of the work. Therefore, o o W to register over 100 classes O o ff rrr finite Still time r to register for Institute classes O O O O O O O O The Mormon Religion PARKER, Ariz. The river town of Parker had plenty of water Tuesday but was running out of liquor because of a dispute with the Colordo River Indian Tribe. The Indians have adopted an ordinace that requires liquor distributors to pay a $1,200 annual license fee to cross their reservation, which surrounds Parker. Tribal officials warned that contents of unlicensed delivery vehicles crossing the reservation will be seized. Two of the three major distributors serving the town United Liquor Co. and All American Distribution Co. are refusing to make deliveries to Parker. . , United Liquor last week left its Parker deliveries at a watering spot called the Petrified Inn off the reservation and suggested retail customers pick up their orders there. Officials of the state Board of Liquor License and Control, NYC goos for Mondale O Q NEW YORK ' O O O Union Programs Chair pe rson (A basic class for IDS non-LD- delegate-ric- h Applications are now available 0 O and O people 10 Central O Mon. 12:05 O James S. Arrigona O or 10 Central O Wed. 9:55 O Michael R. Brandt O 0 O O O OOO'O O O O OOO0 Walter Mondale scored a comfortable victory Han in the New York Democratic presidential primary Tuesday night with Jesse Jackson running up a heavy black vote. Mondale ran strong across the state, even in the rural areas and suburbs where Han has scored well in the past. The strength of Mondale 's vote came from New York City, which provides more than half the statewide tally. With 25 percent of the districts reporting, Mondale had 133,745 votes or 50 percent; Han had 94,930 or 35 percent, and Jackson had 34,365 or 13 percent. over Gary available. 00 0000 0 00 Jlmtfirh SPRINGFIELD, Me. said the "drop" apparently is illegal without specific authorization from the state. A third major distributor, Arizona Distributing Co., is "taking its chances," said Yuma branch manager Larry Hodges. State liquor superintendent Lloyd Robertson said he was aware of the problem, but does not have the answers yet. He said he planned to discuss the matter with the attorney general. Phil Younis, owner of the Little Brown Jug liquor store, said, "We have enough stock so far not to need any deliveries but I don't know what's going to happen when we run out." o o Still time Amputee eagle Uvea, breeds mangoes and two Soviets to the Salyut-- 7 space station. Soviet television showed the spacecraft roaring off in a fiery a.m. EST from a launchpad at the Baikonur blaze at cosmodrome in Kazakstan, 1 ,200 miles southeast of the capital. h mission It was the first televised launch since a 22 months ago. India's first man in space, Rakesh Sharma, 35, and Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Malyshev' 42, and Gennadi Strekalov, 43, were shown briefly during liftoff braced against the force of gravity. The cosmonauts are scheduled to dock Wednesday with the 41,580-poun- d Salyut-- 7 space station, which has been orbiting the eanh for two years. Cosmonauts Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovycv and heart specialist Oleg Atkov have been on board the station since Feb. 9. MOSCOW Central Asian desert Tuesday carrying India's first cosmonaut with his own supply of curry, guavas and o o . us A bald eagle had to have a wing a of flying mishap, but will spend the rest of amputated because his life in a breeding program. "It's alive, but I'm afraid it will never fly again, said John Wybc, chief of natural history for the Missouri Conservation Department, Monday. "The wing was badly torn and became infected. It had to be amputated." The bird was bun about a week ago when it crashed into a fence near Mount Vernon, which is about 30 miles west of Springfield. Department officials said the eagle might have been pursuing a rabbit. What makes this bird special is that it's one of Missouri's few homegrown eagles. Wylie said the eagle was one of three tagged birds set free last year at the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Missouri. "This is the first bird we know of that's met with an accident," . Wylie said. "There's no telling how far he might have gone. We know for sure he came over from Poplar Bluff, and he might have flown as far south as the Gulf of Mexico and was on his way back." O r do not wonder that some women of the church are being called to priesthood responsibilities. "In the ordaining of women to priesthood, let this be done with all debberateness, Smith said. Allowing women into the RLDS priesthood "culminates a process of establishing equality among the sexes, which began 1868 when women were authorized to have equal privileges of voice and vote in the Church's conferences," the church statement said. In 1972, all church leadership roles, except the priesthood, were opened to women. Smith's document also calls for acceleration of the building of a temple prophesied by Joseph Smith Jr. in 1831 and proposed W. Wallace Smith in 1968. The temple by President-Emeritwill be built in Independence. S and n 'rt VHi 3 Student-at-Lar- ge They can be picked up in the Union office and are due April 18th a Further information available in Room 228, Union. it is Students, Get Involved!! 41 |