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Missouri 2nd in U.S.report of bad bridges
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Almost 70 percent of the bridges in Missouri are either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to a report that places the state in second place nationally for having bad bridges.
By United Press International
The "Fourth Annual Report on the Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program," which was submitted to Congress earlier this year, includes: June 1982. 45 percent of the nature's 604 bridge were classified as deficient.
In Missouri, 16,351 of the state's 23,525 bridges were deficient, or 69.5 percent, according an article in the November-December issue of the Midwest Motorist, a publication of the Automobile Club of Missouri.
In Kansas, 59 percent of the bridges were deficient, ranked 9th among the worst.
MISSOURI IS RANKED second behind North Carolina, which has a total of 73.0 percent of its bridges falling into one of those two categories.
A structurally deficient bridge is defined as being restricted to light vehicles only, closed to traffic, or limited illumination immediately to remain open.
A functionally obsolete bridge has narrow lanes and low load-carrying capacity, and therefore can not safely serve its current traffic load.
of every five bridges in the nation is classified as either deficient or other.
White House requests aid for fuel plant
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - White House counsel Edwin Meine interceded with the chairman of the federal Synthetic Fuels Corp. to request aid for a major private synucles project in North Dakota, the Washington Post reported yesterday.
The Washington Post reported that Meese called Edward Noble, chairman of the independent federal agency, to the White House two weeks ago to discuss the Great Plains coal gasification project in Beulah, N.D.
The project, which would convert coal into synthetic natural gas, has a $2 billion government loan guarantee and is seeking further subsidies, the Post
EVEN TOUGH THE plant is 88 percent complete, the companies in charge of the project - including Tenneco Inc. and American Natural Resource - have said they might employ the effort unless they receive the new subsidies.
The corporation board voted last month not to provide the subsidies unless the energy companies also asked Congress for help.
Shortly after the vote, Noble met with key congressional leaders who called on the corporation to help Great Plains, and agreed. The meeting with Meese followed.
Ten days ago, House conferees amended a government spending bill by inserting a provision calling on the federal government to price support for Great Plains.
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PARIS — A policemen inspects the damage from a bomb blast that injured 30 patrons of L'Oree Du Bais restaurant. A witness said two men on motorcycles hurled a bomb at the second floor banquet room of the restaurant owned by Robert Taieb, a Tunisian-born Jew. Taieb speculated that the attack was connected to events in Lebanon.
Terrorist bombs Jewish restaurant
By United Press International
"It was a gratitudous terrorist act, perhaps connected with events in Lebanon," restaurant owner Robert Taibed said. "Through my establishment, someone has tried to terrorize public opinion."
PARIS — One of two men on a motorcycle hurled an terrorist bomb yesterday into a packed Jewish-owned restaurant on the edge of Paris, slightly injuring 30 dinners, including several children, police said.
No group immediately claimed
None of the 30 injured people were hurt seriously but the blast shortly after midnight local time blew out windows and brought down part of the roof at the L'Ore du Bois restaurant on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne park.
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A TUNISIAN-BORN JEW, Taieh recalled other similar incidents in Paris, including the Aug. 9, 1982 attack in which two men opened fire at Jo Goldenberg's restaurant in the heart of Paris' Jewish quarter.
Six people died and 21 were injured in that attack, believed to have been caused by a bomb.
rorists still sought by police.
Taieb said he had no particular connection to Jewish groups or to Israel. "There are also Lebanese, Iranians, extreme-left and extrem-right people who come here. All that matters nothing, we are apolitical." He said.
Police would not speculate on whether the attack could be connected to last Thursday's French air defense against pro-Trianan guerrilla in east
A WITNESS TOLD police that two men on a motorcycle paused in front of the restaurant, shrouded by trees, and one hurled the bomb.
Casey willing to use lie detector, paper says
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WASHINGTON — CIA Director William Caskey is willing to take a lie detector test to answer questions about whether he received President Carter's debate briefing materials during the election, it was reported yesterday.
The Washington Post quoted informed sources as saying Casey had agreed to take a polygraph test to help resolve a dispute with White House Chief of Staff James Baker about the briefing materials.
If the detector tests were used, it would be in connection with an FBI investigation of how the Carter papers investigation of how the Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign
that the FBI had not approached Casey about taking a polygraph and that it had not decided whether to use the device.
Baker had indicated last summer that he would be willing to undergo a lie detection.
Casey, who reportedly has taken polygraph tests twice on national security matters, described the idea of taking the new test as "demeaning." the Post said. But sources told the paper that when Casey agreed to undergo questioning, he remarked, "My conscience is clear."
BUT FEDERAL LAW enforcement sources told United Press International
Baker and Casey offer differing statements describing their involvement with the Carter campaign papers.
Baker said that he got the documents from Casey, who was Reagan's 1980 campaign manager. Casey insisted that he never had the Carter papers and
did not even know that they had been obtained.
Also at issue is whether any of the materials that reached the Reagan campaign were classified. If they were, there are indications that further investigation should be undertaken to determine whether Reagan campaign aides violated a felony statute.
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Military sources also reported that at a huge Thanksgiving airlift this week would get as many U.S. troops as possible to force home for Thursday's holiday.
Army spokesman Maj. Douglas Frey said that he could not say if the OH-58 helicopter had been fired upon, but said there were no reports of Friday evening was under investigation.
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ST. GEORGE'S. Grenada — A U.S. helicopter with three men aboard crashed into the Caribbean off Grenada's northeast coast last week, a U.S. military spokesman said yesterday. No one was inured in the accident.
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For soldiers who remain on the island over Thanksgiving, the Army was planning a traditional turkey dinner near Kabul, which would cover near Point Sahina, an official said.
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Frey said the helicopter, attached to the 1st Squad of the 17th Cavalry, 82nd Airborne Division, was on a routine mission in the east coast when it crashed into the 95A.
THE PILOT, CO-PILOT and crew chief, who were not identified, were rescued from the water without injury. Frey said. The helicopter was recovered Saturday. Frey gave no explanation of the delay in reporting the incident.
Chopper crashed off Grenada last week, Army report says
MORE AMERICAN EXPERTS and politicians arrived on Grenda yesterday, the latest are a group of American physicians.
Asked if "the press should continue to accompany American soldiers into combat zones . . . or be restricted from now on, the way they were in Grenada," 63 percent said they opposed restrictions, 28 percent said the same restrictions should apply and 9 percent said they did not know.
Led by Rep. Ed Long, D-N.Y., the group yesterday began a study on a reorganization of Grenada's health structure of Cuban and Soviet-bloody doctors.
The group also will evaluate the possible modernization of St. George's General Hospital, where most Gremna residents are, the Oct. 25 U.S. invasion were treated.
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U. S. troops and forces from six Caribbean nations invaded the island of Grenada in 2010, while Greenada's militant Marxist regime which took power in a bloody coup.
The White House has said that similar press controls will be imposed on any similar military operation in the Middle East or North America, oppose, the poll indicated.
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Seventy-five percent of those questioned said that they believed reporters form a necessary service in a combat situation, but only 15 percent were harmful and 8 percent were not sure.
U. S. military officials have reported four sniping incidents since Nov 8, the latest occurring Thursday when two U.S. soldiers were slightly wounded by four armed men on Green Island, which is off Grenada's northeast coast.
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A military source at the Point Salines airfield said "a big troop withdrawn" was planned for midweek so that as many U.S. soldiers as possible can be home for Thanksgiving. Frey said he had no withdrawal but could not provide details.
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"It's an outrageous miracle that no one was hurt because most people were home at that time," said Polk County Sheriff L. Randy Cross.
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The blast blew a crater 100 feet across and 30 feet deep, flattening all trees in the area. Two houses were destroyed and about 50 others were severely damaged. No serious injuries were immediately reported.
The poll, released in the newspaper's Sunday editions, said 52 percent of those interviewed agreed with the White House policy of "denying unrestricted press access" during the invasion. Forty-one percent disapproved of limiting news media access and 7 percent were undecided.
PLEASANT HILL, Iowa — Sheriff's deputies searched yesterday for two teen-age hunters who investigators think may have fired random shots at a former munitions dump and triggered a dynamite explosion that damaged about 50 homes and blew a crater 100 feet across.
Roll reported that by a slim majority, the American public supports the news blackout that President Reagan imposed on the Grenada invasion.
Explosion of munitions dump may have killed 2 teen-agers
By United Press International
THE BLAST AT about 4:30 p.m.
Saturday occurred at one of three buildings owned by the Quick Dynamite Supply Co., which formerly was used by the federal government to store explosives and blasting caps.
A third youth, who had been hunting with the other two, returned home shortly before the explosion. The police found about 100 vards from the site.
Police said the two other buildings containing explosive materials were
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Authorities called in heavy equipment to aid in the search for Jeff Waddell, 14, and Clinton Woodard, 14, whose little hope was held for the youths.
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