Page 4-Wednesday, August 5, 1981-The Michigan Daily Hunger striker unera sparks riots, debate BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP)-Rioters in Roman Catholic neighborhoods threw bricks, bottles, and gasoline bombs at police and troops yesterday after the funeral of IRA hunger striker Kieran Doherty, police said. Security forces retaliated by firing plastic bullets to disperse crowds, they said. No casualties were reported in the clashes. DOHERTY, 25, was the eighth Irish nationalist hunger striker to die in Nor- thern Ireland's Maze prison since the fast began March 1. He was given a final salute by Irish Republican Army riflemen, and buried yesterday alongside two other guerrillas who starved themselves to death. Fifty miles west of here, meanwhile, one of the IRA's latest victims was buried. Two thousand Protestants at- tended the funeral in Omagh of John Smyth, one of two police officers killed in an IRA landmine ambush Sunday, the day Doherty died. Presbyterian clergyman Dr. Ronald Craig denounced the guerrillas as "cowardly" and told the Omagh mour- ners, "White these murders of law- keeping officers continue, how can anyone talk with hunger strikers or others who are in our prisons guilty of murders and other heinous crimes." INDICATIONS HAVE grown that some of the families of the hunger- striking prisoners want the fast-to-the- death called off. It is designed to pressure the British government into giving political-prisoner status to IRA guerrillas. Relatives of the hunger strikers and of 400 other Maze prisoners are to meet Friday to discuss the strike, which some at least believe has become a futile gesture since the British gover- nment refuses to make any con- cessions. But Jimmy Drumm, a senior official of the IRA's political front, Sinn Fein, declared at Doherty's graveside the strike would go on until the British government recognizes special status for convicted guerrillas. "THERE IS NO basis for set- tlement," said Drumm. In New York, meanwhile, an "emotionally wrought" man concerned about hostilities in Northern Ireland threatened yesterday to set off a bomb in a British U.N. Mission and demanded to see that nation's prime minister, of- ficials said. The device strapped to his chest was not a bomb and the man was taken into custody after talking to a police negotiations team and his doctor, authorities said. However, the incident prompted police to evacuate six floors of the Third Avenue building containing the offices of the British Mission to the United Nations. There were no injuries. In Brief Compiled from Associated Press and United Press International reports 28 arrested by FBI in drug 'money laundry' operation MIAMI-Three hundred federal lawmen arrested 28 people yesterday and were seeking 33 others on charges resulting from a 2 -year FBI in- vestigation into the laundering of narcotics money, authorities said. Two of those arrested were ordered held in lieu of $30 million each. Bonds for some others were $15 million. Agents seized bank accounts worth a total $8 million, plus 16 automobiles, five homes, a ranch, and about 13 pounds of cocaine worth $360,000, said Joseph Corless, agent in charge of the Miami FBI. During the probe, called "Operation Bancoshares," undercover agents ran a "money laundry" here that provided drug traffickers with checks and wire transfers which were used to send $200 billion in illicit profits out of the country. More executions in Iran as new prime minister is named BEIRUT, Lebanon-Iranian firing squads executed 27 more people yesterday as newly elected President Mohammad Ali Rajai nominated a fundamentalist leader and disciple of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini for the post of prime minister. Those executed were described as terrorists and supporters of exiled for- mer President Abolassan Bani-Sadr. Rajai named Hojatoleslam Mohammad Bahonar to succeed him as prime minister. The speaker of Parliament threatened more executions to deal with what he called an unprecedented wave of "blind terrorism." Parliament set today for the confidence vote on the appointment of Bahonar as the secretary-general of the dominant Islamic Republican Par- ty. Food lines grow in Romania BUCHAREST, Romania-Six months after Romania announced an "agricultural revolution" to combat a faltering economy, lines are growing at meat stores and the government is warning of harvest shortfalls. Food lines are up to two hours long at butcher shops in Bucharest, and there are spot shortages of cheese, butter, sugar, cooking oil and other items. "People are used to things running out here, but they're worried that it's getting worse," said one university graduate who requested anonymity. In June, the president and Communist Party chief Nicolae Ceausescu, called for a "general mobilization" of farmers, but the government-con- trolled press recently complained of careless work leading to large losses in the current wheat harvest. Western economists based here predict the country's agricultural output this year will barely match 1979 levels, which they say were the worst in recent years. Rookie mistakes bystanders for bandits, shoots 3 NASHVILLE, Tenn.-A rookie policewoman who shot three persons whom she mistook for bandits had undergone special training to teach her to make sound split-second decisions on whether to use her gun, officials said yester- day. A store manager was killed as a result of Joyce Faye Allen's marksman- ship, and two bystanders were wounded. "She received special training for split second reaction," said Maj. J. Bowlin, director of the Metro Police Training Academy, "They go through extensive training on shoot-don't shoot type of situations. If she had failed, she wouldn't be out in the streets." Conoco bid war escalates NEW YORK-The bidding for Conoco zoomed to $120 a share yesterday as Mobil Oil Corp. made an 11th hour attempt to keep rival Du Pont from snat- ching a midnight victory in the biggest and most furious corporate takeover battle in U.S. history. Mobil raised the case portion of its $8.6 billion bid another $215 million, boosting its offer $5 a share to $120 minutes after Du Pont upped its bid to prevent Conoco stockholders from defecting to Mobil at the last minute. If Du Pont should be able to holda majority of the shares, it would almost guarantee the chemical giant's victory. In last-minute legal maneuvers to thwart that possibility, Mobil also asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to block Du Pont from proceeding on schedule to give Conoco stockholders time to properly evaluate the various offers. Mobil asked a federal court in New York for a similar order, but the judge yesterday afternoon denied the request. Financing approved for nuclear plant LANSING (UPI) - Consumers Power Co. was granted permission by the Public Service Commission yester- day to sell $363 million in stocks and bonds to continue construction of the long-delayed and costly Midland nuclear power plant. However, utility officials im- mediately denied a statement by PSC Chairman Daniel Demlow that Con- sumers might go bankrupt without the securities sale. Aides to Attorney General Frank Kelley, meanwhile, said they would seek a court order blocking Consumers from selling any of the stocks and bonds. THE PSC'S decision came on a 2-1 vote following more than an hour of heated debate with Democrat Edwyna Anderson dissenting. Consumers' request to sell the $363 million in securities was the last segment of a 1979 application to sell $564 million in stocks and- bonds. The utility already has been given PSC permission to sell $201 million in securities. Nearly all the money will go toward construction of the Midland plant, which will be the first nuclear facility in the nation to produce both steam and electricity. WORK BEGAN on the plant in 1967 but was delayed several times by lawsuits by the attorney general and consumers groups charging it was too expensive and unnecessary. Consumers originally estimated the plant would cost $370 million and take five years to build. The first unit is now set to be finished in December 1983, with final costs expected to hit $3.5 billion. Anderson called for a full in- vestigation of the need for the plant before allowing the utility to sell any more securities to finance it. SHE SAID the PSC allows Consumers to "put millions or in this case billions of dollars into facilities" that will not be evaluated until the completion of the power plant. But Demlow and fellow Republican commissioner Eric Schneidewind said the utility would be in bad shape finan- cially if it is not allowed to offer the stocks and bonds. "Are you effectively willing to bankrupt Consumers by not approving its securities?" Demlow asked.