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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
Combat engineers will go to Costa Rica, official says
WASHINGTON — A top defense official said in an interview published yesterday that the United States would send as many as 1,000 combat engineers to Costa Rica — some of them near the Nicaraguan border — for building projects.
Undersecretary of Defense Fred Irie said in the interview that the dispatch of combat engineers would be the first such joint exercise in Costa Rica. The Costa Rican exercise would boost the number of U.S. military personnel inside Costa Rica and Honduras to 5,000.
Secretary of State George Shultz, traveling in Asia with President Reagan, confirmed that Costa Rica wants the U.S. to help in the development of areas near the Nicaraguan border, but declined to say whether the aid would be provided
The interview said that some of the engineers would work near the Nicaraguan border where Nicaraguan anti-government guerrillas operate.
Board will investigate derailment
MARSHALL, Texas — The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate why no order was issued to reduce speed because crews were working on a section of track where an Amtrak train derailed, killing people and injuring more than 100 others, an official said yesterday.
Donald Engen, a member of the board in Washington, said federal authorities were expected to remain in the area all week and that the investigation would center on the section of track where the train derailed.
Ninety-five percent of the 950 feet of track that was torn up and fractured in the wreck Saturday was recovered and will be analyzed for content and brittleness, Engen said.
Workers to rally against Grevhound
PHOENIX, Ariz. — As today’s noon deadline approached, striking Greyhound employees yesterday planned rallies and symbolic “walk away” to show disdain for the company, which intends to resume bus operations Thursday — with or without them.
Amalgamated Transit Union officials have said locals around the country plan to group at Greyhound bus stations for the noon deadline for returning to work. Company officials have said they will begin hiring replacements once they know how many employees will return to work.
In Dallas, union officials said strikers would be at the bus station for the deadline, at which time they would throw Greyhound letters about the deadline in the trash.
GOP governors open winter meeting
CHICAGO — The nation's Republican governors opened their winter conference yesterday confident of President Reagan's chances of re-election but less sure of how to increase their own thin ranks.
a devastating 1982 election cut their number from 23 to 16, and this year, when Democrats captured all three governorships on the ballot, the defeat of Republican Gov. David Treen of Louisiana left only 15 Republicans in the state houses.
"Most certainly the accomplishments of the Reagan administration will cause all of us to fall behind the leader," said Robert Orr, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Andropov said to be losing power
NEW YORK — Soviet leader Yuri Andropov is ill at a sanitarium near Moscow and already has lost much of his political power, Newsweek magazine reported yesterday.
The magazine, quoting Soviets sources, said although the 69-year-old Andropov is expected to recover his health, he may never again wield sword-like weapons.
One source said Andropov's kidneys had deteriorated to the extent that his doctors were considering a kidney transplant — or that he may have already had one.
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The sources agreed, however, that Andropov would recover and predicted, "he will appear soon, perhaps this month."
YMCA floors may house prisoners
PITTSEBURGH — College students are upset over plans to house prisoners in the top floors of a YMCA across the street — many "Y" members aren't doing jumping jacks for joy either.
Faced with a federal court order to reduce population at the Allegheny County, Jail officials plan to buy the downtown YMCA land.
A sales agreement approved last week by the YMCA's executive committee calls for floors one through six to be used as a gym for "Y" members, while floors seven through 15 will be used to house up to 214 "nonviolent" inmates.
The building is directly across the street from Point Park College.
'Hee Haw' star Junior Samples dies
CUMMING, Ga. — Country comedian Alvin Junior Samples, who
played a laugable good of 'boy on the television show "Hee Haw." died at home yesterday of a heart attack.
Samples had returned home last week from an Ankita hospital where he had been treated for a breast
A lifelong resident of rural Cumming, Samples and Associates has become the company that produces the syndicated show "The Larry King Show."
Samples most famous skit on the show was a parody of a used car salesman's television advertisement. The bumbling Samples kicked the audience off the phone.
WEATHER FACTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST TO 7 PM EST 11-14-83
Today will be fair across most of the nation.
Locally, today will be mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers, according to the National Weather Service. The high will be in the mid- to upper 50s.
Tonight will be clear with a low 30 to 35.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the mid-50s.
Grenadian Marxist leaders mav face trial
By United Press International
POINT SALINES, Grenada — American military officials yesterday turned over to Caribbean authorities 31 leaders of the militant Marxist government topped by the U.S.led invasions and said they might be put on trial.
Among those handed over from the prison camp at Point Salines to Caribbean authorities at the Richmond Hill Prison outside the capital, St George's, were members of the former Revolutionary Military Council that held power after the overthrow of Prime Minister Maurice Bishon.
In a brief exchange with reporters, a former member of the military council said Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard and another council member were behind Bishop's overthrow and subsequent execution.
CAPT. LESTER REDHEAD, speaking at the prison camp, said Board he was the real power following the customer to the 16-man council was only a front.
"The military council never met," said Redhead, peering through ventilation holes in a three-by-eight-foot isolation cell.
Redhead, Abdullah and five other council members — along with former Information Minister Selwyn Strachan and former Prison Commissioner Justin Roberts — were in the group turned over to Caribbean officials.
Bishop, three ministers and at least 13 others were killed Oct. 19 by soldiers of the People's Revolutionary Army, Redhead said Lt. Iman Abdullah, also a council member, was responsible for the slaving.
Capt. Russell Cancella, of the 118th Military Police Company and head of the prison camp, said intelligence officers who interrogated the prisoners found there was reason to believe they "may be criminals."
HE DID NOT know what would happen to the 31 but said they could be put on trial. He was uncertain as to what charges they might face.
Another 'U.S. military official said Abdullah had cooperated and was the one who showed them the graves where they were buried in the church and three of his aides were found.
"Abdullah did it, man," Redhead said.
Meanwhile, the diary of a man who apparently was a top military official in Grenada's former Marxist government 'shows the country was preoccupied
The Washington Post, in its early Sunday editions, said Rep. Don Ritter, R.PA., found the diary a week ago in the James River. The four quarters at Rupert in St. George's.
with getting Soviet and Cuban protection against U.S.-backed counter-
IN JULY, THE WRIER concludes that the "revolution will have to take serious measures to protect itself" from what he calls "counter-revolutionaries in Trinidad, U.S. and Venezuela."
The writer lists almost weekly meetings with Cuban or Soviet diplomat
A Pentagon spokesman said in a report published yesterday that Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger approved the restrictions placed on news coverage during the invasion of Grenada.
Weinberger said on Oct 26, the second day of the invasion, the decision on news coverage was made by commanders in the field.
In Havana, President Fidel Castro and a military honor guard led a solemn ceremony yesterday to receive the bodies of 24 Cubans killed in the invasion and said they died fighting "Yankee aggressors." Earlier he
THE 21 BODIES were among 42 returned Saturday to Holguin, Cuba, where a special team of forensic doctors identified the 24 as Cubans killed in the fighting, the Cuban press agency Prensa Latina reported.
announced a five-day national period of mourning.
Earlier, military officials on Grenada also freed 74 of the Grenadian soldiers and militiamen held since surrendering in the invasion.
Some said they had been mistreated by U.S. military police, who reportedly kicked them and called them "dogs." But many of the prisoners said such treatment was unusual and reserved for troublemakers.
The prisoners were among some 1,300 members of the army and miltta who surrendered to U.S. and Caribbean forces in the Haiti. The officers of Governor General Sir Paul Saul Coon.
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