Scientist responsible for faulty cloning suspended LA JOLLA, Calif. (AP) - A scientist who mistakenly cloned the wrong virus was temporarily suspended from his job, and locks were changed and guards posted at his laboratory after someone stole a bottle of dangerous rabies vac- cine virus, university officials said yesterday. The scientist, Dr. Samuel Ian Ken- nedy, a researcher in recombinant DNA cloning at the University of California at San Diego, acknowledged last week that he had accidentally cloned a virus in violation of federal guidelines. HIS ONE-DAY suspension was lifted "once the lab was secure," Chancellor Richard Atkinson said Tuesday at a news conference. He said a police in- vestigation will find out whether a student prank or "sabotage" had been aimed at the controversial cloning labs. "We are not discounting the possibility" of sabotage, Atkinson said. The 32-ounce bottle of rabies vaccine virus, which was taken Sunday night from the fifth-floor lab on this cliff-top campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was found unopened on a fourth-floor stairwell. IN A TELEPHONE call to a reporter afterward, a man who identified him- self only as a former student, claimed responsibility for the theft and said: "It was pretty stupid, I guess." Dr. John Holland, one of two resear- chers who shared the lab with Kennedy and who was using the rabies vaccine in his work, said he also got a call from the alleged thief, "and I told him to get immunized - I told him his life was in danger." Holland said the virus was a weakened laboratory strain used to vaccinate puppies. Although the caller described his ac- tion as a lark, Kennedy disclosed a series of threatening telephone calls to his home and "possible sabotage" at work since last October. "SOMEWHERE between six and eight calls have been made to my home from an anonymous caller over the last several months saying the work I'm doing is dangerous and must be stop- ped," Kennedy said. The Michigan Daily-Wednesday August 13, 1980--Page 9 Proud Papa Pe Pe, the male giant panda at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, paces in the zoo's panda quarters soon after his mate, Ying Ying, gave birth to the first panda cub born naturally in captivity. KHOMEINI MEDIA TES: Feuding Iranians meet From AP and UPI Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini con- ferred separately with Iran's feuding president and prime minister Tuesday, offering advice on choosing gover- nment ministers and urging a new "atmosphere of understanding" in the country ministers and urging a new "atmosphere of understanding" in the country. But in a bleak sign for the American hostages, an influential Moslem cleric exhorted the Iranian faithful to press on with their "confrontation with the American superpower" for the sake of the Iranian revolution:. AT THE same time, President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr was reported to have lashed out again at the fundamen- talists who forced him to accept Rajai, an Islamic hard-liner. For the 52 American hostages, it was day 283 in captivity. Although Rajai's selection brought Parliament a step closer to its long- awaited hostage debate, the fate of the Americans remained in the background of a political struggle that Bani-Sadr was still waging despite losing the fight over the choice of a prime minister. REPORTS FROM Tehran said Bani- Sadr told a rally at a mosque Monday t6 beware of "the partisans of Islamic despotism who wish to monopolize power" - an unnamed but un- mistakable reference to the fundamen- talists who control Parliament and who dictated the choice of Rajai, a former education minister, over the objections of Bani-Sadr, who favored a more moderate candidate. "For the nation to be truly governed, it is necessary that its governors represent all tendencies and not just one group," Bani-Sadr was quoted as saying. Khomeini summoned Bani-Sadr and Rajai to separate meetings to discuss the appointment of a Cabinet and other matters related to governing Iran now that the last piece of the post- revolutionary power structure has been put into place with Rajai's over- - whelming endorsement by Parliament Monday. Tehran Radio said Khomeini also met separately with Parliament speaker Hojjat Ol-Eslam Hashemi-Rafsanjani, other government officials and with Ayatollah Mohammed Beheshti, leader of the fundamentalist bloc in Parliament. S. African violence erupts Johannesburg Star reported. CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Jansen, a building contractor, died Riot police armed with shotguns sealed yesterday of burns suffered the night off entrances to a black squatters' before when a mob set fire to his truck camp last night after mobs attacked as he drove past Crossroads, police passing vehicles for the second straight said. 'day. HEAVILY ARMED police in Police said an unidentified black man camouflage uniforms closed off the en- was dragged from his truck by rioters trances to the camp, which is home to and decapitated, bringing the death toll more than 20,000 blacks, in a pouring to three in the violence at the rain and officers said order was being Crossroads Camp. restored. THE TWO OTHER men killed in the The violence erupted Monday when violence linked to a bus boycott, George police pulled several blacks from an Beeten, 58, and Frederick Jansen, 46, unlicensed taxi. The "pirate" taxis were white. have been transporting workers who Beeten, who moved with his family to have joined in the two-month-old South Africa from black-ruled Zim- boycott of buses to protest higher fares. babwe six months ago "to live in a safe Beeten was working as a supervisor and peaceful country" was-stoned and at a farm. His wife, Doreen, said they hacked to death Monday night after his came here with their four children to car was stopped and set afire, the escape racial violence in Zimbabwe.