Fuel-loading was beginning at the Wolf Creek nuclear-power plant in East Central Kansas just a day after the Nuclear Regularity Commission granted a low-power license for the $2.9 billion project.

A few residents reported the blooming of crocuses in some locales here, welcome signs of spring after a bitter winter period with twice the normal amount of snow and bitter cold.

Supporters of a mandatory vehicle seat belt law were trying to drum up votes in the legislature. If they cold not generate at least 63 House votes in favor, the issue was likely to be dead in the water until the 1986 session.

The Lawrence Education Assn. privately endorsed four of the six candidates for the April 2 school board election but chose not to go public for the time being.

Three armed men calling themselves members of the Armenian Revolutionary Army surrendered to police in Ottawa, Canada, after shooting to death a security guard at the Turkish Embassy and holding 11 people hostage for more than four hours.