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(UPI) Without remorse, convicted killer Theodore Streleski left prison after serving seven years for the hammer slaying of a Stanford University professor and refused to promise he would not kill again. "I do not feel remorse. I have nev- MnvKoTFlnd Ptant manager Tom Beal were over come bKes as toey Wed to plug the leak in the tank. Two Shtersako were overcome, but a Charleston hospital nursing supervisor said none of the men were seriously injured, visor sdiu iHMic ui -nnHiWan nvesheation this week tn 931 -ub er felt remorse," the bearded Stre-ils leski, 48, told a crush of reporters when he left the California Medical Fike 65. saiu piaiu oiiicwia wvu n( thp leak He described mercaptan as having a low -ns S'iKS ve Sta dead by now," he "It's the same odor you smell around paper plants.

Thieves steal $2 million in roooery itdti TnvocHontnrs tndav snueht two hanHits' who stole about $2 million from a Brinks armored car counting house leaving behind more tnan i.zd miuiuu "'-j m- Side job. More tnan $1 million in aceumc ik uv ti Kv.in Kv tho rnhhers authorities said Sundav. tn- said, "then I will go to Fairfield, California, the county seat of Solano County in California and file suits against the California Department of Corrections for the bogus paroles." Some faculty members at Stanford anonymously have expressed concern about the former graduate student's pending release, noting his often-expressed animosity toward the school, 40 miles south of San Francisco. Streleski said Sunday he would heed their "hint" and stay away from the university. "If I change my mind, I won't go without public notice," he said.

Dressed in blue denim with a black string tied around his head to keep his long hair out of his face, he said he planned to find a job and a place to live in San Francisco. Streleski rejected parole three times because he refused to accept its restrictions, one of which was to stay out of the San Francisco Bay area. He chose to finish out his term so he could be freed unconditionally. He was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder on a plea of innocent by reason of diminished capacity and sentenced to eight years in prison, then the maximum term for the crime. California voters later toughened the law.

He refused psychiatric treatment while behind bars because he said it would be "indicative of remorse." State officials said they found no "clinical basis" to put him in a mental hospital. Streleski said Sunday he would like to sue state prison officials for defamation in questioning his sanity. were apparent vestigators were expected to know today exactly how much money was taken in saturaay rouuery. State Police and the FBI looked into the possibility the robbery was pulled by an insider. Facility state prison Sunday.

"I have no intention of killing again," he said. "On the other hand, I cannot predict the future." Streleski served seven years and 20 days for the Aug. 18, 1978, slaying of math professor Karel DeLeeuw, his faculty adviser, after planning the murder for eight years. At his trial, he said the slaying was "a rational act" meant to dramatize his claims that Stanford mistreated its graduate students. "If I express remorse, I cut the ground out from under that argument," Streleski said.

He entered Stanford when he was 22 and spent 19 years in an unsuccessful effort to earn a Ph.D. in math. He said the professor he killed once called him a "schoolboy" and made fun of his Oxford shoes. Streleski appeared today on NBC's "Today" show and said he feels "regret but not remorse" for DeLeeuw's wife and called the murder a rational act. He said he has no plans to seek psychiatric help and will not pursue the math Ph.D.

"My immediate plans are to take care of a few interviews booked in San Francisco the next two days," he Brink guara josepii iJtuiuic, "jr at the time of the robbery, was given a polygraph test. Investigators refused to reveal the results LaJoie who has worked tor tne company ior mue yeais, unuuerrcu the armored car building a week before the robbery, police said. ir- niiminaHno onv nnssihjlities." said Detective Thomas Jac- vye ic ui cmmiiauii quard. "This we can only speculate on. There was no sign of forced en try." Hudson to write book about his life NEW YORK (UPI) Actor Rock Hudson is writing a book about his kio kottio with A ins and nrnceeds of the autnbioera- phy will go toward fighting the deadly disease, his publisher said today.

i Hffnrmir on1 Pa whiph ic nnhlichina tho VACAVILLE, Calif. Unremorseful killer Theodore Streleski talks with reporters after stepping through the gates of the California Medical Facility at the end of his sentence for killing a Standford math profes-sor. (UPI) Parents angry over AIDS student going back to his school One engine failed before DC-9 crash book, said the autobiography will be called "My Story." Hudson will dictate his story from his bedside to writer Sara Davidson the spokeswoman said. Avon Books has the paperback rights to Hudson's autobiography, she said. There was no word when the book would be published.

She said she did not know when the deal with Hudson had been made and would not disclose how much of an advance the 59-year-old actor was given. The spokeswoman did say Hudson plans to donate the proceeds of the book to the battle against acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Hudson stunned the world in July when he announced through a. spokeswoman that he suffered from AIDS. The diagnosis had been made: a year earlier.

The revelation that Hudson suffered from the incurable disease, which, most frequently afflicts homosexuals, propelled AIDS to national attention. Amtrak train hils car, kills family SAN JOSE. Calif. (UPI) An Amtrak passenger train going 70 miles- an hour struck a car at a rural crossing, killing the car's occupants father and mother and their five children. None of the 275 Dassenaers or crew members aboard the northbound Coast Starlight were injured in the Sunday evening accident, said spokesman for Southern Pacific, which operates the train for Amtrak "It was the most gruesome accident I've seen in 10 years as a firefight-.

er," said Rudy Cabizas, who arrived on the scene minutes after.the n.m. accident. The engineer threw the emergency brake on the train but it was too late to avert a collision, Southern Pacitic spokesman Andrew Anaerson saw. The train carried the car seven-tenths of a mile down the tracKS, tireiigm-ers said. "ADDarentlv the vehicle was crossing the tracks when it was hit" at a opened without incident.

"We plan to have a temporary restraining order signed by a judge to enjoin the city from allowing a child with AIDS to be mainstreamed into our school system," Granirer said Sunday. The flap followed a Board of Education-backed panel announcement Saturday that the second-grader, who has suffered from AIDS for three years, will be allowed to go back to school today. Officials would not name the student or say which one of the city's 623 elementary schools the student would be attending but officials, including Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones and Health Commissioner David Sencer, said the child would not endanger other children. The second-grader was the only one of four children with AIDS given permission to attend public school after the special panel reviewed their cases. The second-grader, whose symptoms of the disease have been in remission, attended kindergarten and first grade in public school.

The child was described as appearing outwardly healthy. crossing in Coyote, a suburb about 12 miles south of San Jose, police MILWAUKEE (UPI) One of its two engines failed and a stall warning went off before a Midwest Express DC-9 crashed, killing all 31 on board, but officials say the engine failure alone could not have caused the crash. Jim Burnett, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said Sunday investigators have determined that the right engine on Flight 105 was not working Friday when the plane rolled and dived to the ground. He said investigators in Washington also found two warnings on the cockpit flight recorder one for a stall. A ground proximity warning also sounded, Burnett said, indicating the plane was about to hit ground.

"There is a sound of a stick shaker on the cockpit voice recorder, and that sound, of course, is a warning of an imminent stall," he said. "It is not unexpected to hear such a thing on the cockpit voice recorder of a plane that has crashed." When asked if the failure of an engine could have caused the crash, Burnett said the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 was designed to fly with only one engine. However, he said, during an uncontrolled engine failure, engine pieces can scatter and strike other parts of the plane. That, he said, could damage the hydraulic system, which contols horizontal and vertical stabilizers, or the stabilizers themselves. "One engine was not producing power or at least normal power at the time of impact.

We do know the (right) engine is damaged internally. We do know we have pieces of engine parts on the runway and the area adjacent to the runway and I'll let you draw your own conclusions," he said. "It is our policy not to analyze data at this point." Federal investigators planned today to bring a hoist to the muddy field where the plane crashed, hoping to lift the engines and examine them. Burnett said Sunday a second sweep of a runway used by the DC-9 has turned up more pieces believed to be from the plane. About a dozen additional engine parts, as well as pieces of all primary control surfaces, were found, he said.

The first pieces of the airplane found on the runway Saturday were parts of a jet engine compressor blade. Officials have determined the right engine was not functioning because of the way its interior blades were bent. The left engine apparently was functioning properly, Burnett said. The engine on the DC-9 was a Pratt Whitney JT8D-7, an earlier version of the JT8D-15 engine that was blamed for the crash of a Boeing 737 last month in Manchester, England, said Phillip Giaramita, spokesman for Pratt Whitney. spokesman Jack Morris said.

NEW YORK (UPI) Hundreds of angry parents kept their children home on the first day of class today and demonstrated at schools to protest a city decision to let a second-grader with AIDS attend classes. "Enter at Your Own Risk" said a sign posted at P.S. 60, where dozens of parents and students protested. One mother's sign said "Higher Reading Scores Not Higher Risks." "It's emptier than it would be. But we're waiting to get a full count," said Tessie Pearlstein, school secretary at P.S.

60, one of at least seven schools in the borough of Queens where parents boycotted classes. It was not known what school the second-grader was attending. No exact count of the truancy rate was immediately available but district officials were compiling lists to determine how many children skipped classes. The school board spearheading the protest planned to take action in State Supreme Court in Queens against the city and its health and education officials, said Samuel Gran-irer, president of Community School Board 27. The board oversees 29,000 of New York City's 946,000 students in 35 of the city's 913 schools.

A second board District 29 is a seeking a negotiated settlement with the Board of Education, an official said. The rest of the city's system Suspect's defender want more time LOS ANGELES (UPI) The public defender representing accused Night Stalker Richard Ramirez says he will try to delay entering pleas on murder, rape and robbery charges because he needs more time to read the mass of oolice reDorts. Ramirez, the prime suspect in the string of 20 slayings linked to the Night Stalker, was arraigned last Tuesday before Municipal Court Judge Elva Soper, but the entering of pleas was delayed until today. Deputy Public Defender Allen Adashek said during the weekend he will ask for more time to review the reams of reports prepared by law en forcement agencies. Enjoy Alaskan Snow Crab without getting pinched.

17 injured in car bomb explosion If you love crab, your ship has sirloin steak. And your choice of potato or rice. Plus, cheese just come in. But only for a limited time. toast.

All at a snappy little Right now, you can get price. So if you're a crab Sizzler sweet, succulent Alaskan Snow Crab over, sail into Sizzler today. Because an offer like this won't last steamed right in the shell. A thick official Antonio De Reguero. "The blast hit his intestines and his chest." Doctors at the Red Cross Hospital said Brown underwent four-hour emergency surgery and listed his condition as "very grave." Five Civil Guards also underwent surgery for the removal of shrapnel and treatment of severe burns.

Three were reported in serious condition. "It could have been a massacre," said the president of Madrid's regional government, Joaquin Leguina. The bomb exploded just moments after a crowded school bus passed through the square. The bomb, packed with screws, nails and bolts, went off after the Civil Guard van had stopped in the square. Spanish news agencies reported that ETA, the Basque separatist group, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police recovered 30 9mm shells, the type of ammunition normally used by ETA, near the van. ETA, a Basque-language acronym for Basque Homeland and Liberty, has killed 28 people this year in its armed campaign for independence of the northern Basque country, but has not previously planted car bombs in the capital. Since taking up arms 16 years ago, ETA has killed nearly 500 people, most of them members of the army and security forces. MADRID (UPI) A remote-controlled car bomb exploded near a Civil Guard van today, injuring 17 people, including an American businessman, authorities said. A Basque separatist group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police said the attackers opened fire on the van immediately after it was hit by the bomb that shattered windows and damaged cars. The assailants fled in a stolen taxi. Fifteen paramilitary Civil Guards and two civilians were injured in the early morning blast of the bomb planted in a car near the Soviet Embassy. Police said the bomb was triggered by remote control. "All I remember is a huge explosion and tremendous heat.

I felt pain in my chest and hip and saw myself bleeding," said Alfonso Trillo Bernabeu, a civilian who was walking in the square when the bomb went off at about 7:25 a.m. The most seriously injured of the victims was Ken Brown, 40, an engineer from Johnson Johnson headquarters in New Brunswick, N.J., who was in the city on business. Brown, who had been due to return to New Jersey Tuesday, was jogging in the area when the bomb went off beside a van carrying Civil Guards changing shifts at embassies near the Republica Argentina square. "We do not know if he will pull out of it," said company roreven gET If -SSJ S7l Teacher strikes affect 115,400 by Marc McFariand UPI writer Island and 2,105 in Ohio. A walkout involving 350 teachers was scheduled today in the Cleveland suburb of Euclid, Ohio.

That strike would keep 5,400 more students out of school. Striking Pontiac, teachers voted to return to their classrooms today, pending the outcome of a factfinding effort. The district, which has 15,000 students, had threatened to start firing teachers today if they did not end their strike, which began last Tuesday. Wages are the central issue in the Pontiac dispute with school officials calling for a pay freeze. In the Detroit suburb of Ecorse 104 teachers voted to strike Sunday night after working all of last school year without a contract.

There are about 2,000 students in the district. Negotiations in the strike by 3,700 Seattle teachers, substitutes, aides and secretaries broke down early Sunday, and no new sessions were set. The strike delayed the scheduled opening of Seattle schools last Wednesday. STEAK ALASKAN SNOW CRAB Sizzler Steak 'Seafood -Salad 405 E. St.

George Blvd. More than 115,400 students in six states were affected by teachers strikes today and contract negotiations in Seattle, site of the nation's largest walkout, are at a standstill. Some 950 Pontiac, teachers, under the threat of dismissal, agreed to stop their strike today. A settlement appeared near today in the Newport, R.I., teachers' strike, while educators in Pawtucket headed to court after a scheduled bargaining session was unexpectedly canceled. Salaries are the major concern in both strikes.

In Newport, a 10-hour bargaining session ended around 3 a.m. with the report of some progress and plans to meet again today. The strikes affected about 49,062 students in Michigan, 43,500 in Seattle, 19,800 in Pennsylvania, 12,300 in Rhode.

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