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University Daily Kansan, October 25, 1983
NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
NBC's Jessica Savitch dies in Pennsylvania car wreck
NEW HOPE, Pa. — Television anchorwoman Jessica Savitch was found dead yesterday along with a New York Post executive in an overturned car at the bottom of a murky canal.
Police said the car carrying Savitch, 35, an anchorwoman for NBC-TV, newspaper executive Martin Fischbein, 34, and a petiberian husky apparently ran off the road, flipped upside down and plunged into the canal, where it became mired in mud beneath 5 feet of water.
New Hope Police Chief Walter Everett said the couple had last been seen having dinner at a local restaurant around 7 p.m. Sunday and apparently drove In the rain from the restaurant's parking lot onto a towpath along the canal
He said that they apparently had tried to avoid a car parked in the narrow roadway, but veered too far to the left.
Man charged with threat to Reagan
AUGUSTA, Ga. — A man who took seven people hostage at the exclusive Augusta National Golf Club and demanded to meet with President Reagan was declared fit yesterday to face charges of threatening the president.
Charles Harris, described as a coon-hunting, hard-drinking "good ol' boy," was transferred yesterday under heavy guard from University Hospital to an isolated cell in the Richmond County jail after a doctor arrived on hand and found him inside the court. He had complained of chest pains after his arrest Saturday.
The unemployed millwright is to appear before U.S. District Judge Dudley, Rowen in Augusta today to be advised of charges against him.
Texas AG investigates Continental
HOUSTON — The Texas Attorney General's Office is investigating whether Continental Airlines violated the state deceptive practice act by selling tickets for flights the firm knew it was canceling, officials said yesterday.
Assistant Attorney General A.D. Downer said Continental might be guilty if the company sold tickets after deciding to file for bankruptcy and to reduce its flight schedule.
Continental spokesman Bruce Hicks had no comment on the investigation but has said repeatedly that Continental tried until the last hour to avoid filing for bankruptcy by reaching voluntary cost-cutting agreements with labor unions.
Stock market recovers from plunge
NEW YORK - The stock market rallied to finish mixed yesterday after plunging at the outset in reaction to the killing of U.S. Marines in Lebanon.
The Dow Jones industrial average, down 15 points at the outset, closed up .0,10,a1.1,248.98.
The New York Stock Exchange index eased 0.02 to 95.72, and the price of an average share decreased one cent.
Prices plunged at the outset on news of the bombing deaths of Marines in Beirut and an unexpected $2.4 billion increase in the nation's money supply that dashed investor hopes for easier Federal Reserve credit policy.
Red River overflows into lowland
OKLAHOMA CITY — Miles of sparsely populated lowland along the Texas-Oklahoma border were under water yesterday because of record-setting flooding along the normally placid Red River.
Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh said that he would request federal assistance for flood victims today. Damage to three flood-affected counties has been placed in the millions of dollars, but no firm estimate was available.
"There's just not much down there," said National Weather Service hydrologist Eldon Beard, who was expecting the river to crest at 37 or 38 feet yesterday afternoon.
Beard said he did not think that the crest would drop much before the river emptied into Lake Texoma, but he said the lake should be able to handle the influx of water.
Airing of De Lorean tapes irks judge
LOS ANGELES — A federal court judge indefinitely delayed the start of John De Lorean's cocaine trafficking trial yesterday and complained that airing of FBI videotapes by CBS could have "devastating effects" on the case.
U. S. District Judge Robert Takasugi, who issued an order Saturday blocking CBS and its local station from broadcasting the tapes, appeared grave as he said that an appeals court reversal the next day was "improper, disrespectful and certainly not . . . productive."
Takasugi also delayed a continuing pre-trial hearing on the admissibility of polygraph evidence to Nov. 8, and said he would set a new trial date at the time. The trial was to have begun Nov. 1.
Immigrant accused of aiding Nazis
CLEVELAND — A war refugee who came to the United States in the late 1956s was actually a "handmaiden" of Nazi persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union during World War II, a government attorney said yesterday.
yesterday.
The remarks came in the first day of a deportation hearing for Alexander Lehmann, 65, Cleveland, who is accused of participating in war crimes and lying on his immigration forms.
wai crimes and lying. Lehmann did not attend the hearing before Federal Immigration Judge Adolph Angellini because he suffered a heart attack Saturday, said Jerome Weiss, one of Lehmann's attorneys.
Angelilli adjourned the hearing indefinitely yesterday pending a medical report on Lehmann.
WEATHER FACTS
Today will be fair across most of the nation.
Locally, today will be partly cloudy with a high around 60.
Tonight will be fair with a low around 30.
Tomorrow will be sunny with a high around 70.
Grenada expects attack from neighbors
Marines prepare to evacuate U.S. citizens
By United Press International
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Three helicopters and a U.S. Navy jet carrying Marines landed in Barbados yesterday, possibly to evacuate Americans from nearby Grenada, where the new military government said it was preparing for an attack by its Caribbean neighbors.
A U.S. C-9 jet carrying about 60 Marines landed in mid-afterpart, and the soldiers began transferring equipment and rifles from the jet to three helicopters on the flight deck. They parked nearby at Barbados' Grantley Adams International Airport.
to invade Grenada as the nation's pro-Cuban military charged. Grenada said it had mobilized "thousands" of Cubans to help with the invasion from other Caribbean nations.
Grenada's Revolutionary Military Council was mobilizing troops for what it called a possible invasion following last week's coup.
"They could be employed as one of the options to evacuation and safety of American citizens in Grenada," said Mr. Baldwin, who served for the U.S. Embassy in Barbados.
U. S. diplomats were frustrated in efforts to charter a plane to evacuate American citizens from Grenada. Western diplomatic sources said soldiers fired small arms at a light plane that flew into the country Sunday carrying American diplomats. No one was hit, the sources said.
MORGAN REFUSED TO say where the aircraft and Marines had come from, or whether the troops would be
Three U.S. citizens, however, arrived in Barbados from Grenada yesterday. A U.S. embassy spokesmen identified the three as Joy Renner of Morristown, Tenn., who is more than seven months pregnant and the wife of a student at St George's University, and Greg and Joan Klebe, Peace Corps volunteers in St Vincent who were visiting Grenada when the corn occurred
THE KLEBES'HOMETOWN was not immediately known
seven-nation Organization of Eastern Caribbean States of mobilizing troops for an invasion. In Dominica, 200 miles northwest of Barbados, Prime Minister Mary Eugenia Charles confirmed that OECS nations had sent troops to Barbados for what she called a "training exercise."
Grenada's new ruling council said on Radio Free Grenada that two unidentified warships cruised within six and eight miles of the coast, accused Jamaica, Barbados and the
Charles, who disbanded her country's military forces following a 1980 coup attempt, said Dominica sent members of its police force to participate in the exercise that was in accordance with the group's regional security system "in view of the situation in Grenada and the proximity of one of the members."
Charles was referring to St. Vincent, 50 miles north of Grenada. A 10-ship U.S. task force enroute to Lebanon with Marine replacements was diverted toward Grenada after the coup last week in which at least 17 people were killed, including Marxist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, and 69 wounded. But Pentagon sources said the ships would only "swing by."
GRENADAS MILITARY rulers, believed to be more pro-Cuban than Bishop, sent a telex to the U.S. Embassy in Barbados stated that they
had "no desire or aspiration to rule the country" and would turn control over to a "broad-based" civilian cabinet within 14 days.
They reiterated that all foreign citizens were safe and free to leave. There are about 800 Americans on the island, mostly students and faculty at the St. George's University Medical School.
U. S. and Canadian diplomats in Barbados had previously arranged with Grenada's military rulers to form a diplomatic force and evacuate any of their citizens.
CANADIAN DIPLOMATS said approximately 20 Canadians wanted to leave. U.S. officials were unsure how many Americans would go.
The airplanes were still on the ground at midday yesterday, and U.S. embassy sources said it appeared that the airlines had not made any negotiations were continuing.
Grenada announced that its airport would re-open and a curfew would be lifted during daylight hours, but a charter plane was turned away when it attempted to land carrying journalists yesterday morning.
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