Page 6-Saturday, September 27, 1980-The Michigan Daily Oktoberfest bomb kills at least nine, injures 67 From AP and UPI MUNICH, West Germany-At least nine people, including one child, were killed yesterday when a bomb exploded in a waste basket at the main entrance to the Munich Oktoberfest beer festival just 10 minutes before closing time, police said. At least 67 people were injured when the blast struck on the sixth day of Munich's traditional October revel, police said. Taxi drivers said they halted their vehicles at the sight of the bodies of the dead and wounded strewn across the streets surrounding the Theressien- wiese, the giant 1-square-mile open area where the Oktoberfest is held each year. CITIZENS REPORTED feeling the force of the blast several miles away. Police said it was not known what caused the explosion, the first such catastrophe ever to strike the Munich Oktoberfest that regularly draws tens of thousands of American and other tourists to the city. The area around the Theresienwiese * ti was closed off by police minutes after the bomb blast first was reported around 10:20 p.m. (4:20 p.m. Edt), just 10 minutes before the beer taps of- ficially stop flowing in the tents and stands erected around the merry-go- rounds of the Oktoberfest, police said. A SPOKESMAN FOR the police department, asked about the possibility of a ,terrorist attack said, "No one can say yet." He said police knew of no threats of warnings prior to the blast. Private doctors were called to the scene and personal cars were used as emergency vehicles in addition to am- bulances, fire and police cars. Many of the wounded were waiting for streetcars and cabs near the site of the explosion and "that's why the catastrophe was especially great," a. fire department spokesman said. "It's gruesome chaos here," the driver of one of the first fire trucks on the scene reported to the central station by radio. "A terrible catastrophe." Police were examining the remains of the trash can to determine what caused the blast. A spokesman for the fire department said, "It must have been a very powerful bomb." It was not known if any foreigners were among the casualties. U.S. trailing others in cancer research LAST NIGHT TONIGHT 8 PM 4«' GaR';' presents f WASHINGTON (UPI)-Leaders in the cancer research field warned yesterday the United States is in danger of. falling behind other nations in basic science because of lack of money for equipment and personnel. "This country is beginning to lag behind Europe and Japan in our capacity to mount the kind of high technology needed for today's basic research," said Dr. Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan- Kettering Cancer Center. OTHER COUNTRIES "have allocated resources to their biologic science establishment which will assure their superiority unless our current trend is- reversed," said Dr. J.E. Ultmann, director of the Univer- sity of Chicago Cancer Research Cen- ter. The warnings came in testimony before the House Aging Committee, which heard more than a dozen prominent scientists report on the Canterbury Loft 332 SOUTH STATE, ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 48104 313 665-0606 results of their week-long symposium on cancer and aging. The scientists urged that adequate funding be provided for laboratory renovation and construction. THOMAS CITED several significant advancements in basic research, but said they are largely the result of work begun 30 years ago. "Today's most exciting and useful technologies, recombinant DNA and the making of pure antibodies by hybridomas, can be traced back to work done in the 1950s, at a time when no one had the faintest notion that such work would ultimately become useful," Thomas said. Recombinant DNA technology devleoped the gene transplant techniques by which scientists are beginning to produce human hormones and other substances from bacteria "factories." Thomas said it is doubtful such basic research could be maintained in the future: 'WAtCH OUTJ 2YY ,zafliI WILL CQ M Diamond helper AP Photo Muskegon police find something fishy in this tuna casserole. Seven gold men's diamond rings, stolen Thursday from a jewelry store, were hidden in the casserole which was cooking in a house the police were searching. Panel says pamin-killer being advertised illegally s LANSING (UPI)-The Toxic Sub- stance Control Commission, prompted by an advertisement hailing the "miracle solution of the '80," warned yesterday the solvent DMSO is being illegally offered for sale in Michigan newspapers. The ad, spotted by commission Chairman Rick Halbert in a free "ad- vertiser" circulated near his Battle THE U. OF M. 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The solvent has been used with animals and on a prescription basis but has not been cleared for general human use by the U.S. Food and Drug Ad- ministration, Isleib noted. Sirhan: Memory triggered. slaying LOS ADGELES (AP)-Sirhan Sirhan says a combination of liquor and anger over the anniversary of the 1967 Arab- Israeli war triggered his actions the night he assassinated Robert Kennedy, an Arab-American leader who inter* viewed Sirhan said yesterday. "You must remember the circum- stances of that night, June 5. That was when I was provoked," Sirhan says in a transcript of an interview with Dr. M. T. Mehdi, president of the New York- based American-Arab Relations Com- mittee. "That is when I initially went to observe the Jewish Zionist parade in celebration of the June 5th, 1967 victory over the Arabs. That was the catalyst that triggered me on that night." MEHDI, READING from the tranW script of Monday's prison interview with Sirhan, said the Palestinian refugee also told him: "In addition, there was the consumption of liquor, and I want the public to understand that." And, Mehdi said in a telephone inter- view from New York, Sirhan believes he is now a political prisoner who is serving a longer prison term than mos convicted murderers in California because his victim was a prominent political figure. Mehdi said Sirhan told him Kennedy was his political hero until he ad" vocated the sale of 50 Phantom jets to Israel during the 1968 presidential campaign. But he said he was provoked by "the circumstances of that night" the assassination occurred. HE SAID HE was sorry for the Ke- nedy family, but felt they should 'be: sorry for the death of Arabs killed by@ American arms sold to Israel. Asked whether he had any Amrican heroes; Sirhan replied: "President Kennedy was until he betrayed my opinion of him."~ He said his quarrel with Robert Ken- nedy was political, not personal. Sirhan was sentenced to death in 1969 for the Kennedy murder, but the sen- tence was subsequently reduced to life' imprisonment. By Sept. 1, 1984, when Sirhan is next eligible for parole, he will have served 16 years in prison, and Mehdi said the' Community Release Board has admit- ted in letters that term is four years longer than the average for convicted first-degree murders in California. Mehdi said he has made arrangemen- ts for Sirhan's return to any one of five Arab countries and is starting a drive to get Sirhan released. Police seek Buffalo killer From AP and UPI BUFFALO, N.Y.-Buffalo Police are seeking a white man who killed three black men andj critically wounded a fourth in execution-style shootings. The three b lek men and a black teen-ager were all shot with a .22- caliber gun within a 36-hour period in the Buffalo area earlier this week: Tests of casings, and spent shells, found at two shooting scenes in Buffalo and the one in Cheektowaga showed the shots were fired from the same weapon, Sgt. McCarthy said. "WE'VE BEEN following up leads and tips coming in over the telephone," McCarthy said. "We've been on the go all day. But so far there have been no arrests and no suspects." "The entire community is concerned with the thought that there apparently is someone wandering around, killing people at random," Buffalo Police Commissioner James B. Cunningham said. Leo Donovan, chief of Buffalo's homicide squad, said the gunman aparently is a person with a hatred for black men. THE FIRST SHOOTING victim wasW Glenn Dunn, 14. He was shot to death Monday night while seated in a car at a supermarket parking lot. On Tuesday in Cheektowaga, Harold Green, 32, was shot while eating in his car at a fast food restaurant. He remains in critical condition at St. Joseph's Intercommunity Hospital. Tuesday night, Emanuel Thomas, 31, was talking with a friend on a street corner only seven blocks from where Dunn had been shot when the gunman* slipped up and shot him in the head. The following day in Niagara Falls, Joseph McCoy, 43, was walking along a street when a man fired at him with'a gun concealed in a paper bag. McCoy was dead on arrival at a hospital'. Police said descriptions received from witnesses at the shootings indicate the gunman is white. i l_