The Michigan Daily-Thursday, January 10, 1980-Page 11' M r Saudi Arabia beheads 63 convicted of seizing mosque PUT'EI lUST FO A AWAY If you can live without your cigarettes for one day. you might find you can live without them forever. R ADAY.o RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP)- Saudi executioners in eight cities yesterday beheaded 63 of the religious zealots who seized the Grand Mosque in Meccas, Islam's holiest shrine, last November, the official Saudi news agency said. The executions were decreed by King 9haled after the country's religious leaders issued an edict specifying the crime of attacking the mosque was punishable by death in accordance with the Koran, the Moslem holy book. Beheading is the traditional method of execution in Saudi Arabia, and is usually carried out in public. THE BEHEADING of the mosque at- tackers was carried out in a number of areas in the vast desert kingdom in an apparent move to show that the 0jthorities were in full control of the situation. Those executed included Juhaiman Bin Seif, the military commander of the fanatic Mahdist group which attacked the mosque. He was a member of the dissident southern Saudi tribe of Al Otaiba. The announcement said 41 of those executed were Saudi citizens. The others° were 10 Egyptians, six South Lemenis, three Kuwaitis and one each rom North Yemen, Sudan and Iraqu. EARLIER, THE Saudi government said foreigners in the group had acted out of religious conviction and no foreign powers were involved in the mosque affair. The group's overall leader, Moham- med Bin Abdullah Al Qahtani, self- styled messiah of the Shiite branch of Islam, was killed during the two-week siege of the Grand Mosque by Saudi oops, after its seizure by the religious slots. The attack- on the mosque occurred in the early hours of last Nov. 20 as the Moslem world was celebrating the ad- vent of the 14th century of the Islamic lunar calendar. The Grand Mosque is inside a 38-acre compound housing the Kabaa, which Moslems believe was built by the prophet Abraham. THE GUNMEN sneaked into the ' osque during dawn prayers; held bout 50 hostages, including some Dorm fo4 -ContinPed from Page 1) food merger seems to be going smoothly, and they add they have had few complaints. But at least one administrator is not pleased. Carl Cristoph, Hill area food service director, said he is "'not happy" *rith the operation. "I'm not real excited about it," he said, "but I'm just doing my job." RESIDENTS WHO have' to walk to get their weekend meals appear more upset with the system than those residents who host the hundreds of hungry trekkers. But several students at Couzens were angry with their guests from Alice Lloyd. "They abuse the cafeteria alot," laimed Russ Rudd, who works in the ouzens cafeteria. OTHER RESIDENTS complain the merging of the populace of two halls makes for an uncomfortable eating at- mosphere. "It tends to destroy the community of the dorm," said John Douglass, a resident director of Alice Lloyd. Saudi government officials, and demanded at gunpoint that their leader Qahtani he recognized as the messiah. Saudi troops and special security for- ces finally flushed the gunmen out of their positions in the mosque's rooms and corridors to the courtyard, then to its underground tunnels. The Interior Ministry gave the following updated casualty figures for the mosque battle: SECURITY FORCES: 127 dead and 451 wounded. Attackers: 75 killed in battle, 27 dead in hospital later and 15 bodies found in the tunnels-total dead 117. The total number of attackers arrested was given as 143. Of these, 63 were executed, 19 have been sentenced to prison terms, 38 were released as in- nocent, while 23 women and children will be sent to corrective institutions "to be taught how to be good Moslems." The attack on the Grand Mosque sparked violent anti-American riots in several Moslem countries, after the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, blamed the United States and Zionism for it. Two Americans were killed when a mob attacked and set fire to the American Embassy in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Shortly after the attack on the mosque, the Saudi government replaced the commanders of its security forces and the police, apparen- tly for their failure to anticipate the ac- tion. Ford trial jury nearly selected CONT#;CT LENSES Prices for contact lenses Special $178.59 until July 25 Dr. Paul C. Uslan, Optometrist 545 Church Street 769-1222 by appointment WINAMAC, Ind. (UPI) - Neither side in the reckless homicide trial of Ford Motor Co. would say yesterday whether they would seek testimony from the sole survivor of a fiery Ford Pinto accident that killed three teenagers. The three teen-age girls were killed on a road near Goshen when their stalled Pinto was struck in the rear by a van and burst into flames. The driver of the van was the only survivor of the ac- cident. CHARGES FILED against Ford in the case allege faulty design made the Pinto gas tanks susceptible to ex- plosions in rear-end collisions. Jury selection continued yesterday in the Pulaski Circuit Court trial of the nation's No. 2 automaker. Three more jurors were seated, bringing the panel to eight. Both sides said they hoped a jury of 12 plus three alternates might be com- pleted by Thursday. Elkhart County Prosecutor Michael Cosentino declined Wednesday to say if he would call the driver of the van, Robert D. Duggar, 21, Goshen, as a wit- ness. Ford attorneys said they had not decided whether they would call Duggar to testify. Earlier yesterday, one prospective juror was dismissed by the prosecution after she raised q'uestions about the in- dictment of Ford and not the van driver. "IT SEEMS TO me that an individual was responsible," said prospective juror Mary Korner. "Just from what I've heard or read, it seems like they are suing the wrong person." The prosecution also rejected another potential juror, Chester Poor, who said,/ "Any car will explode if it is hit just right." Once testimony begins, Ford attor- neys are expected to challenge the con- stitutionality of a 1977 state law on which the indictment was based. The law allows businesses to be prosecuted on criminal charges. Feds giving fuel funds to poor who pay no oil bills WASHINGTON (AP)-Thousands of the nation's poor who live in in- stitutions and have no heating bills to pay are receiving federal fuel assistan- ce checks anyway this winter, the government acknowledged yesterday. Most of the poor who receive Sup- plemental Security Income (SSI) payments also are receiving the checks-a onetime payment ranging up to $250 each-under the new "energy crisis assistance program" approved by Congress last November. THE RECIPIENTS are getting the checks regardless of their living arrangements because the government wanted to implement the program quickly, a spokeswoman said. As a result, some SSI recipients-the aged, blind or disabled poor-who live in foster care homes or certain nursing homes and do not pay separate fuel bills od merger irks One of the consequences of the The fo program is that many people are just skipping their weekend meals, rather was appr than face what those students feel is the', ts, who a inconvenience of eating at another by the stu dormitory. Judy Messrhore, a Mosher advisory Jordan resident, said she has only eaten students at Markley twice because "there are residence just too many people." evaluates NORM SNUSTAD, associate director services of housing, said absenteeism for Sep- housing d tember and October for all residence measure halls, grew an average of only .035 per bysthet cent from the same period in 1978. Associat But figures compiled by Carl said he w Cristoph, the food service director of vote. the Hill area residence halls, show that BUT T in the first ten weeks of last semester, students weekend meal attendance of Mosher- marknext inwee Jordan students fell off 19 per cent from mittee w last year. Snustead was quick to point that the v out the figure doesn't take into con- should be sideration the fact many Mosher- One of Jordan's residents eat their weekend ported th meals at Stockwell, accounting at least Mack, aj partly for the high absence rate,.ad"ti many od service consolidation plan oved last winter by the Regen- acted upon a recommendation udent rate study committee, an committee comprised of four and two staff persons from e halls. The committee s the cost and feasibility of offered to students by the department. The consolidation was unanimously supported rate study committee, and e Housing Director Snustad vas "surprised" by the student 'HE feeling of the irritated appears to 'have. made its a report to be made public k, the student rate study com- ill recommend to the Regents weekend food service program discontinued. the few comments which sup- e program came from Cheryl junior in Mosher-Jordan, who sa good way to save money." still will receive fuel assistance payments. scorsMohr O1f Cecil Frank, a spokeswoman for the Social Security Administration, which $5 x,<, N administers the fuel assistance progrram, said the checks were mailed x y''<'..a.E s4; deliberately without regard for the recipients' living arrangements. 'THE WORK IT would take to.........K distinguish between SSI recipients >'' funds might not get to people in time to ".........Y do any good," she said. ___ 4PLUM . .. . The fuel assistance program is ex- pected to cost $1.35 billion. Of the total, ULTR A1ArI-' $1.2 billion is being distributed by the FAINE Department of Health, Education and$FLAIR Welfare as energy allowances and $400 . 3. million is allotted to SSI recipients. Estimates of the number of persons involved who do not incur heating ex- ; 4 uy penses of their own were unavailable. v N MEDICAL SCHOOLxwE,'.'. FOR YOU i.AOQ4 First year openings in Feb., May, and ;I Sept. 1980 in a new fully accredited English Speaking Foreign Medical School for holders of Bachelor's Y ' '" degrees. There are also Advanced standing classes for holders of cer- tain post-baccalaureate graduate and professional degrees. Some w..°.".# . classes will be in the U.Ss.A s. mr For Information Call or Write:M. 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