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Leaking fumes cause residents to evacuate
LAKE CITY, Fla. — Chemical experts worked yesterday to seal off a leaking railroad tanker that spewed a cloud of hazardous ammonia fumes over a rural neighborhood, forcing 500 residents from their homes.
The tanker was punctured Saturday about 5 p.m. when a Seaboard Coastline train derailed about six miles west of Lake City. Thirty-eight cars derailed, five of them filled with anhydrous ammonia, a firefighter said.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. — Johnmy Olson, the announcer who for 14 years told contestants on "The Price Is Right" to "Come on down!" is dead of a brain hemorrhage. He was 75.
No injuries, explosions or fires were reported but residents of an 8-square-mile area were evacuated as a precaution and kept away overnight.
TV announcer dies
LAFAYETTE, La. — A former Roman Catholic priest who admitted he sexually abused 37 young boys entrusted to his care will go on trial today on criminal charges that could put him in prison for the rest of his life.
Olson died Saturday at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, where he was taken after suffering a stroke Oct. 6, said Marc Breslow, director of the CBS game show.
Monday, Oct. 14, 1985
Ex-priest's trial set
The former Rev. Gilbert Gauthe'a lawyer hopes to convince a jury in the heart of heavily Catholic Acadiana that the priest is guilty of the reason of insanity, that pedophilia is an incurable mental illness.
PEKING — Vice President George Bush began a five-day visit to China yesterday and was warned by Premier Zhao Ziyang that progress in Sino-U.S. relations was "not satisfactory."
Bush lands in china
Bush, whose talks with Chinese officials are expected to touch on mounting U.S. trade protectionism and U.S. ties to Taiwan, responded that both sides needed to "step on the gas" to improve relations.
From staff and wire reports.
Soviets warned to evacuate embassv
United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A man claiming to represent a Muslim fundamentalist group said yesterday that three Soviet hostages would be killed and the Soviet Embassy blown up unless the mission was closed within 48 hours, a Christian radio station said. A man who said he represented the Islamic Liberation Organization, which took responsibility for kidnapping four Soviet Embassy officials Sept. 30 and killing one of them two days later, telephoned Voice of Lebanon radio with the threat yesterday afternoon.
The caller also warned the Druse Progressive Socialist Party fighters and other militiamen guarding the fortified Soviet Embassy in Muslim west Beirut to stop protecting the mission and not to interfere.
Six abducted Americans also are being held in Lebanon and the Islamic Jihad terror group Saturday released a blurred photograph of what it said was the body of executed hostage William Buckley. The terror group and offered to exchange the body for 100 Palestinians jailed in Israel.
The Islamic Jihad also released a lengthy statement that threatened
In Washington, the State Department said it had seen the photograph and doubted it was Buckley, a law enforcement officer kidnapped in March 1984.
the lives of five other Americans kidnapped in the past 18 months.
After the Soviets were abducted last month, about 100 Soviet citizens were evacuated from Lebanon. About 49 diplomats and the wives of two of the hostages are thought to have remained in the embassy.
The caller said those remaining at the embassy should be evacuated within 48 hours or the three hostages would be killed and the compound
blown up. The three are attache Oleg Spirine, embassy physician Dr. Nikolai Sversky and commercial attache Valery Mikrov. The fourth was consular secretary Arkady Katkov.
The Christian radio station said it could not supply the text of the caller's brief statement in Arabic.
Security was beefed up at all Soviet institutions in Beirut after Katzov's death. Soviet-made T-54 tanks manned by Drusse militiamen are positioned around the embassy and armed men are stationed on the roofs of buildings overlooking the mission.
Leaders differ on ways to end apartheid
From Kansan wires
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — White opposition legislators and exiled black guerrilla chiefs said yesterday that their meeting had produced agreement on the need to dismantle apartheid and establish a united, non-racial, democratic South Africa. But they said they disagreed on how to do it.
A joint statement issued by leaders of the opposition Progressive Federal Party and executives of the outlawed African National Congress reported differences of opinion on the roles of armed struggle and negotiation in bringing about change.
The ANC has said it plans to step up a campaign of violence to undermine white-minority rule. The Progressive Federal Party opposes the use of force. The PFP is seeking to arrange a national convention on South Africa's future, but the statement said the ANC did not see at the present moment a climate under which the ANC could consider a negotiated resolution of the crisis.
The meeting arranged by the PFP, which controls 25 seats in the 165-seat white South African parliament, followed a similar one last month between July and December to give five prominent white South African businessmen.
by whites outside the government to directly involve the ANC, which says it has the support of most of South Africa's blacks, in talks on the country's crisis.
The Progressive Federal Party-ANC statement was issued in Lusaka, where the talks were conducted Saturday. Party leader Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and ANC Secretary-General Alfred Nzo answered questions during a joint news conference.
The meeting was the second attempt in a month
The statement by the legislators and the ANC said both groups favored the release of political prisoners including former ANC leader Nelson Mandela.
Poles hold an election, disagree about turnout
From Kansan wires
WARSAW, Poland — Poland held its first parliamentary elections in five years yesterday but protests in at least two cities marred government efforts to demonstrate a new stability in Poland. The government reported a 75 percent turnout despite Solidarity calls for a boycott.
In Nowa Huta, a steel town in southern Poland on the outskirts of Krakow, plainclothes security officers used tear gas and trunches to about 200 demonstrators, most of them young, carrying a Solidarity banner.
Witnesses said that the protest, which included incidents of stone-throwing at polling stations and police cars, lasted about an hour and that scores of arrests were made.
Urban said voter turnout apparently was heavy nationwide. Lech Walesa, Solidarity's former chairman, said, however, indications were that most voters in his home city of Gdansk observed the boycott.
Government spokesman Jerzy Urban said some policemen were injured in Nowa Huta.
Urban said at a Warsaw news conference that early official estimates indicated turnout was running at 60 percent in local council elections in June 1984.
Because the Communist Party carefully screened all candidates and reserved 85 percent of the 460 seats in Parliament for itself and two smaller allied parties, the only issue in doubt was whether a million eligible voters would cast ballots.
Solidarity, which had called on Poles to boycott the elections because independent candidates were not allowed to run, said its pollwatchers reported the turnover was much lower, especially in the Baltic cities around Dgansk.
Blood donation for self-use increases because of AIDS
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Thousands of people in the United States are storing their own blood for use in elective surgery because of fear of catching AIDS from unknown donors, it was reported yesterday
The Los Angeles Times reported doctors, hospital officials and blood bank directors said the number of people who had blood drawn for their own use had more than 10 million and was growing steadily as people realized their own blood was the best they could get.
Experts say they are sure newly instituted tests for AIDS, which hospitals and blood banks now use on all blood collected, are close to infallible. But there is still public concern.
tient is still scared to death about the obtaining of getting AIDS from blood," said Dr. Dennis Goldfinger, director of the blood bank at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Autologous donations — made by people who donate blood for their own use — are made only for people who are anticipating surgery within the next 35 days, the maximum time blood can be kept without freezing.
If you ask the patient, the pa-
Many hospitals accept blood from donors targeted for a specific patient, but most blood banks in the country will not take designated blood because they think it offers no greater guarantee of freedom from contamination than blood from unknown donors.
Poll says prayer OK in schools
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — While many Americans clearly favor a return of prayer to the classroom, a surprising number — 25 percent — say they think the separation of religion and government, a pillar of the Constitution, is a bad idea, according to a recent poll.
The Media General-Associated Press poll surveyed 1,412 people on school prayer and said support for silent prayer in American schools with majorities in every age, race, ethnic and political group supporting it.
However, most Jews opposed school prayer. Jewish leaders have expressed concern that the nation's religious beliefs impose its religious beliefs in schools.
On Oct. 3, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-4 for a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow silent prayer in public schools. If approved by Congress and ratified by 38 states within seven years, the proposal will become law and reverse a June ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which barred public schools from having moments of silence if students were being encouraged to pray.
Seventy-four percent of the respondents in the Media General-AP poll said prayer in schools did not violate the constitutional principle of private school. Seventy-even percent said it did violate that principle, and the rest were unsure.
When asked whether church-state separation was a good idea, 66 percent said it was a good idea, while 25 percent said it was not. The rest were unsure.
Almost 30 percent of Protestants and 20 percent of Catholics, said church-state separation was a bad idea. Almost all the Jewish citizens favored constitutional separation of government and religion.
On the question of school prayer, 87 percent favored a moment of silence in which students could pray if they wanted to, and 10 percent opposed the idea. Sixty-three percent favorea a moment of silence in which students were encouraged to pray, and 32 percent opposed the idea.
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