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From Associated Press reports
Egyptians execute
Sadat assassins
CAIRO, Egypt
Five Moslem fanatics were
executed in succession at dawn
today at a remote army base for
the assassination of Pres An
war Sadat, military legal officials
reported
Two army men died before a
firing squad, and three civilians
were hanged within hours after
Sadat’s successor, Pres Hosni
Mubarak, rejected a plea for
mercy, the officials said
Lt. Khaled Ahmed Shawki el
Islambouly, who admitted lead
ing the attack on Sadat during a
military parade last Oct. 6. and
Hussein Abbas Mohammed, a
sergeant in the army reserve,
were shot.
Abdel-Hamid Abdel-Aal, Atta
Tayel and Abdel-Salam Farrag
Attey were hanged because
they were civilians
The sources, who asked that
they not be identified by name,
said the executions began at
5:30 a m , and the last of the five
died at 7 a m. They refused to
give the location of the base
At the opening trial session
last November, el-lslambouly
admitted leading the team of
assassins who leaped from a
truck in the parade and charged
Sadat's reviewing stand, firing
automatic weapons and throw
ing grenades Sadat and seven
others died in the blitz
Mohammed, Abdel-Aal and
Tayel were convicted of par
ticipating in the attack, for
which the two civilians wore
borrowed uniforms
Atteya, reputed leader of the
extremist group al-Jihad. which
means holy war in Arabic, was
accused of helping plan the at
tack and supplying weapons for
II.
Solar generator
heats 1,500 homes
LOS ANGELES
The energy from sunlight
glinting off the world's largest
solar-powered generating plant
has begun making its way into
the toasters and television sets
of Southern California
The $141 million pilot plant —
1,818 racks of mirrors rotated by
computers to focus sunlight on
a 45-foot boiler atop a 250-foot
tower in the Mojave Desert —
has begun producing commer
cial electricity, officials said
Wednesday
It began sending electricity
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ern California Edison, accord
ing to utility spokesman Robert
Krauch.
As Solar One, built mostly
with federal money, produced
its first commercial power, a
private company announced
plans to build an even larger
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now begins a months-long test
ing phase, during which it will
produce enough electricity dur
ing daylight hours to supply
about 1,500 homes When it
reaches its rated capacity of 10
megawatts, that figure would
climb to about 5,000 The utility
serves 3.1 million customers.
New rules adjust
future timber sales
WASHINGTON
The Agriculture Department
said Thursday that new
procedures have been put intc
effect for selling timber frorr
national forests
R Max Peterson, chief of the
Forest Service, said the
changes "provide a more
prompt and orderly harvesting
of timber, speed the flow of cash
from timber sales to the U S
Treasury and local govern
ments, and reduce the need foi
future timber sale contract ex
tensions.”
Last October, because of the
sagging housing market, con
tractors were offered exten
sions of up to two years in which
to harvest and sell timber
Changes in timber sale
procedures were proposed ir
January.
In addition to the changes
which were put into effect im
mediately. Peterson said the
Forest Service is working on £
policy "which will permit con
tract prices to be adjusted au
tomatically” in the future even’
of severely depressed prices.
Peterson said the adjustmen
policy will be proposed later this
year for public review and com
merit.
Although some of the adopt
ed changes were the same as
proposed in January, others
were modified or discarded
because of public comments,
he said
Further details about the new
procedures are available at
regional forester offices now
and will be available at all Forest
Service offices within a few
days, the agency said.
Greenpeace plan
protests testing
WASHINGTON
The environmental group
Greenpeace announced plans
Thursday to send a ship into
Soviet waters to dramatize their
support for global nuclear dis
armament
The group, known for its ef
forts to stop whaling and seal
pup hunting, also said it will
send a hot-air balloon to various
western U S. cities, capping the
trip with a visit to the Nevada
Test Site
The Russian trip will be un
dertaken by the Sirius, a
converted trawler which will sail
May 15 from Amsterdam By
early June, it is expected to
reach Novaya Zemlya. The is
lands north of the Arctic Circle
have been the sites of Soviet
nuclear weapons tests.
The group wants to check
reports of radioactive con
tamination on the islands, said
Mark Roberts, a spokesman for
the group.
“We’ve asked the Soviets for
their permission, but we haven’t
heard from them yet Hopefully,
we ll be able to work it out
before the ship gets there,”
Roberts said
Greenpeace was formed in
1971 by a small group of people
who sailed to Alaska to protest
U S. atomic tests near Amchitka
Island.
Their U S. protest will focus
on a 70-foot high, three-man
balloon that will lift off Sunday
from Livermore, Calif., near the
site of a U S. atomic weapons
facility.
The balloon will make stops in
Santa Cruz, Calif., Sacramento,
Calif., and Salt Lake, Utah,
before heading back to the Los
Angeles area. From there, it will
head for the Nevada Test Site,
where U S. nuclear weapons
are tested underground.
One of the chief aims of the
group is to win support for a
global ban on nuclear testing.
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April 17,1982
University of Oregon, School of Law
9:00 a.m.—Introduction: Derrick Bell, Dean, School of
Law
9:05 a.m.—Keynote Address: Arno Denecke, Chief
Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
9:30 a.m.—Panel: Selection of the Chief Justice;
moderator: Jim Mattis, director, Oregon Legal
Institute participants: Barnes Ellis, chairman
Commission on the Judicial Branch; Ted Kulon
goski, State Sen. Dist. 22; Bill Rutherford, State
Rep. Dist. 29; Hans Linde, Associate Justice,
Oregon Supreme Court; John Rueling, chief coun
sel, Opinion Section, Attorney General’s office
11:00 a.m.—Panel: State vs. Local Control of Circuit
Courts; moderator: Doug Haldane, assistant dean,
School of Law participants: Elizabeth Belshaw,
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executive director, Assn, of Oregon Counties
1:30 p.m.—Panel: Consolidation of District and Cir
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