European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday september 7, 1977 top Hanafi gets 41 to 123 year Washington up the Hanafi Muslim Leader convicted of Mastermind ing the takeover of three buildings that resulted in the death of a Young reporter last March was sentenced tuesday to 41 to 123 years in prison. Hamas Abdul Khaalis 55, accepted the sentence without emotion from Superior court judge Nicholas Nunzio who ordered the him returned to a maximum Security prison. During the siege 149 hostages were held at the b Nai b Rith International Headquarters the National islamic culture Center and the District building Washington s City Hall. Before sentencing Khaalis told the judge this is my country. Allah will judge us All and it is a country on the Road to self destruction. And you can use my help. I won t apologize for standing up for the respect and character of my Faith. It was a Good asks for leniency he asked for leniency to continue his work As a fighting Federal prosecutors asked for life imprisonment. They petitioned Nunzio to give Khaalis sentences totalling 123 years. They asked for a minimum of 45 years to life imprisonment for the 11 Hanafi followers convicted of at least eight kidnapping charges general conspiracy and one count of As Sault with a deadly weapon. Khaalis was convicted of the same charges plus one count of second degree murder two of assault with intent to kill and 24 counts of kidnapping. Each conviction carried a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. After a trial of nearly two months the Hanakis were convicted july 23 by a jury of10 women and two men. Murder conviction during the takeover of the District build ing a local radio reporter Maurice Wil Liams was shot to death. Abdul Muzikar also known As Marquette Anthony Hall was convicted of the murder. Prosecutors have asked for a sentence of 90 years to life for Muzikar. The trial of Abdul Aziz who served As the Hanafi spokesman during the takeover but did not take part in the siege also begins tuesday. Aziz is charged with purchasing two guns after he had been convicted of felonies and committed to a mental institution. Blast sinks Sloop in . San Francisco a a 39-foot Sloop exploded and Sank at the san fran Cisco yacht club. Police who said the origin of the explosion was undetermined said no one was aboard at the time and no injuries were reported. Experimental College course How to build an atomic bomb Storrs Conn. A from the folks who introduced a marijuana growing class at the University of Connecticut s student run experimental College comes a new class How to build an atomic course is being offered this fall to draw attention to the dangers of nuclear Power says the College s hand Book which has just been released. The description adds that the course won t try to build an actual atomic bomb nor will it try to get nuclear a Anthony Esposito a staff member of the experimental College said the course would involve Only Public information such As May be found in technical journals he said the course is planned to de Termine if a group of intelligent people can come up with plans for construct ing a crude atom bomb. By demonstrating the comparative ease with which an atomic bomb can be made the collective Hopes to Demon Strate that the danger of atomic terror ism is real and even probable if the spread of nuclear Power plants is not stopped the College College s marijuana growing class stirred controversy this summer but it was permitted to proceed when officials determined that participant would not be breaking any Laws. The experimental College support itself with student fees uses University building space but is not under direct control of the University administration. Five miss America contestants take a walk on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City n.j., for photographers. From left Beauty on Parade Cathy Labelle miss Florida Susan Perkins miss Ohio Terri Bartlett miss Virginia Patricia Paugh miss West Virginia and Jennifer Woychik miss Wisconsin. The final selection will be made saturday night. A photo voyager 1 begins tests 700,000 Mes in space Pasadena Calif. Up voyager 1, was 9.25 million Miles away travelling at following a flawless labor Day launch 21,792 . From Cape canaveral was testing solar wind and interplanetary plasma tuesday As it sailed toward Jupiter at nearly 23,000 Miles an hour. The spacecraft the second voyager to be launched but to first to reach giant Jupiter was nearly 700,000 Miles from Earth. Voyager 2, launched aug. 20, workers who allegedly kept $5 million find Are probed new York a four workers the Fortune was discovered last Decem cleaning out a warehouse allegedly found Ber while the four workers were cleaning because Jupiter was moving toward the voyager project manager John Casani said from a spacecraft Point of View the launch was absolutely voyager 1 tuesday performed computer programmed sequences to calibrate its instruments and was Reading radio wave from stars. A Jet propulsion Laboratory spokesman said the speeds Given were speeds relative to Earth. Voyager 1 was moving along at22,967 ., but Earth was moving in somewhat the same direction on its orbit around the Sun. But relative to the Sun which is nonmoving the spacecraft was going along at 87,022 . It was moving even faster from Jupi Ter s viewpoint 93,865 Miles an hour $5 million in an old trunk decided to keep it and now reportedly Are under investigation by the Manhattan District attorney s office. In by to reported monday that the Money in $50 and $100 denominations with consecutive serial numbers had been untouched for 20 years. Authorities reported out the Morgan storage co. Building at 80th St. And third Avenue in preparation for an auction of some of the building s contents according to in by. The station said the trunk that contained the Money had been left at Morgan 20 years ago by a hungarian doctor. The doctor and his wife have since died. 1 is scheduled to reach Jupiter in March 1979, four months before voyager2. Both space probes will be hurled toward ringed Saturn by Jupiter s Gravity and will eventually travel out of the solar system into interstellar Bane of jul said scientists will be by were tipped off by an intermediary who investigators reportedly Are working on Able to communicate with the spacecraft of Tif res Al let a a m a a Al a. Ato. O f if if Ujj to of vow few it i a i allegedly helped the workers Exchange the theory that the doctor had acted As a some of the old Bills some dating Back As front for an organized crime member far As 1929, for newer ones. Members of Morgenthau s detective District attorney Robert Morgenthau staff have recovered More than $300 000 of was not immediately available for com the Cache from Safe Deposit boxes at Banks ment on the Story. In Manhattan and Queens. As Long As the attitude control Gas which determines which direction they will Point holds out even up to 100 years. It was estimated however that the Voy agers will receive Earth commands for at least 30 years. Louisville March notes anti busing rioting of 1975 Louisville by. Up on the second anniversary of anti using riots in the Louisville area police monday night broke up an unruly crowd of demonstrators who had set three bonfires injured a Black girl with a thrown Brick and harassed several motorists. The group represented the remnants Ofa throng of about 400 protesters who had participated in a riot anniversary March along Busy Dixie Highway from Valley High school to a shopping Center and then Back. Jefferson county police used a circling police helicopter to warn demonstrators to disperse immediately. Some 100 riot equipped police below were prepared to use tear Gas if necessary but the crowd dispersed i thought for a few minutes we were going to have to use Gas to get some of them to leave said police chief Russell Mcdaniel. But the situation was not nearly As bad As it was a year Mcdaniel said Jacqueline Bedford 9, suffered a bruised forehead when someone threw a Brick at the car in which she was Riding with her family As they passed the March. Officials at a nearby Hospital said the child was not Hurt seriously. The chief said four persons in another passing car complained to police that a group of demonstrators started a fistfight with them but no arrests were made. Damage was reported to at least two other cars
