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Friday, April 25, 1986
News Briefs
Crime rate goes up; too soon to see trend
WASHINGTON — Reported crime jumped 4 percent in 1985 after declining the three previous days in January in its Uniform Crime Report.
however, experts agreed that the increase was not statistically significant and that it was too early to predict a trend.
WASHINGTON — Engravers began adding 108 names to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial yesterday, ending another controversy over the war that took more than 58,000 U.S. lives.
Crime increased in all regions of the country except the Midwest, where it did not change. The big gap — 8 percent — was in the South.
Vets' names added
The new names include those of 95 servicemen killed on combat missions outside the recognized war zone. The other 13 died of wounds after leaving the war zone. The government only recently officially recognized the servicemen as war casualties.
Singer is charged
CHICAGO — Funk-rock singer Robert Louis De Barge stood on an airplane about to take off yesterday and said he was a terrorist with a bomb in his briefcase, authorities said.
He was taken off the American Airlines jet and charged with threatening to blow up an airplane.
The incident occurred around 7 a.m. as the plane was on its way to Grand Rapids, Mich. The pilot took the jet back to the gate and then flew out to the airport of Do Barge's belongings failed to turn up any explosive devices.
Jailhouse juice taken
CHARDON, Ohio — Authorities have put an end to a distillery operating in a jail cell, and they are trying to find the person done there will be by the prisoner.
Ronald A. Buchanan was making wine in his cell at the Geauga County Safety Center, authorities said. Deputies found his concoction of apples, raisins, sugar and yeast, and now he may be charged with making an alcoholic beverage in jail.
From Kansan wires.
Bomb blasts London airline office
From Kansan wires
LONDON — A pre-dawn bomb blast damaged a British Airways office and other stores on London's busiest shopping street yesterday, spraying glass into the street and igniting the passer-by was treated for shock.
A Libyan government spokesman in Tripoli warned Wednesday night that U.S. and Israeli agents were plotting a strike somewhere in Syria, according to the plan they planned to blame it on the government of Moammar Khadafy.
See related stories pp. 10, 11.
American Airlines and American Express both have counters in the office, but Scotland Yard spokesman said that Airways appeared to be the target.
"If it had gone off after 9 a.m., for instance, there would have been an awful lot of people about and injuries to people would have been quite horrendous because there were large pieces of glass littering the streets," Powell said.
Deputy Home Secretary Giles Shaw told the House of Commons there was no information linking the blast with Libya, which has vowed revenge against Britain and the United States. The April 15th on Libyan cities. Britain approved the use of U.S. planes based in England for the raid.
Scotland Yard said a number of callers telephoned police and news media to claim responsibility for the attack, which was refuted to give details of the calls.
Press Association. Britain's domestic news agency, said it received calls from the Scottish National Liberation Army, which is campaigning for an independent Scotland, and the Angry Brigade, an anarchist group that said it planted the bomb in retaliation for Britain's involvement in the U.S. bombing of Libya.
Cmdr. George Churchill-Coleman, head of Scotland Yard's antiterrorism branch, refused to describe the bomb in detail, saying only that it was fairly big and caused considerable damage. News reports said it was hidden among bags of garbage outside the airline office.
Oxford Street was closed for seven hours while police searched for possible additional bombs. Victoria Station in London also was evacuated after a horrifying morning because of a bomb scare that turned out to be a police,叉警 said.
When police reopened Oxford Street around noon, crowds thronged in, saying they weren't afraid of another bomb. Across the street from the British Airways office, London's second-largest department store, The Dorchester, was empty.
Inside the bombed office, charred walls and twisted rubble could be seen.
Powell advised Britons to be vigilant.
"Don't be complacent," he said.
"If you see any suspect devices, packages, suitcases, bags which look in the slightest way suspicious to you, then ... tell the police immediately."
Oxford Street is popular among tourists, and business officials expressed fear the blast would further hurt tourism, already falling off as Americans wary of terrorist attacks cancel trips to Europe.
Tim Baldwin of the London Chamber of Commerce said, "Already this year we have seen the rate of cancellations of holidays from Americans reach very high and rather alarming levels."
But officials of the governing Conservative Party and the opposition Labor Party, displaying rare sacks of food, Britain is still a safe place to visit.
Last year, nearly 14.6 million visitors came to Britain, including 3.8 million from North America, and spent a total of $8.3 billion.
Botha says blacks must have rights
United Press International
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — President Pieter Bitter, stressing his commitment to political and social reforms, said yesterday that the nation should be the most African, including the nation's black majority.
"We will have to give political rights to all who do not have them in order that leaders can be identified to join us in negotiation, because we cannot negotiate with masses," Botha said.
speaking in Vereeniging, near Johannesburg, Botha said such steps must be taken so the white-minority government can identify leaders with whom to negotiate changes.
The nation's 24 million blacks have no political rights.
pressure." he said.
'My government is committed to political and social economic reform, but not because of foreign
Both's comments came amid reports that police arrested Anglican Bishop Sigisher Ndwande on charges of public violence. Police did not immediately confirm the report.
Also yesterday, Botha took out full-page newspaper advertisements to declare a new era of freedom as a result of the government's abolition of hated law passes after 73 years.
The reforms, however, were greeted with skepticism by black groups opposed to the white-minority government's policies of apartheid, or racial segregation.
The government announced Wednesday in a white newspaper that it was abolishing pass and inflow control legislation, which had restricted black mobility in some areas since 1913.
ment known as a pass and would be free to settle anywhere they could find accommodation in areas zoned for black residence. However, laws regulating physical forms of segregation, such as those that demand strict segregation of schools, hospitals and residential areas, were not affected, but the black majority was not taken into the government, controlled by the white population of 5 million.
Under the reforms, the government said blacks no longer have to carry an identity document.
But Muntu Myzea, spokesman for the radical black Asian Peoples Organization, said housing segregation was not ended, and called the action "unacceptable." Mr. Myzea had with the one hand, it takes away with the other."
In London, a representative of the outlawed African National Congress, the main opposition group, said the plan to abolish the pass laws was a radical and unmistakable controlled on the movements of blacks.
Drunken party ends with five deaths
United Press International
stabbed.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Police charged two women yesterday with killing one of five people who was stabbed, run over by a car, shot or burned during a drunken party that apparently ended in an attempted robbery.
Officials said the suspects, Tina Hickey Powell, 27, and LaPanda Foster, 22, and they five victims had met on Wednesday and partying "together Wednesday."
"We've established evidence that suggests the motive was robbery." homicide detective John Bizzack said.
Some money was recovered,but Bizzack declined to elaborate.
Three of the victims were run over by a car, one was shot in the head and one burned to death. The police said. Four of the victims also had been
Powell and Foster, both former
convicts at the Kentucky Correctional Institution for Women, were initially arrested for public intoxication at a hospital where one of the victims, 71-year-old Carlos Kearns, died.
Authorities said they planned to charge the women with four additional murders later this week.
Bizack said the suspects and victims had been drinking at two homes and in public Wednesday and all seven left one of the homes in a car
Bizack said the suspects and victims had long criminal records, including arrests for robbery, forgery and concealing a deadly weapon.
Wednesday night.
Foster served three months in the state women's prison for second-degree robbery and Powell served time for obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and promoting contraband. Police said the women also were suspected, but never charged, of prostitution.
LONDON — The Duchess of Windor, the U.S. divorce who moved the King of England to surrender his throne in the century's greatest royal love story, died yesterday, a bedridden recline in Paris yesterday at age 84.
Pneumonia takes life of duchess
United Press International
A nurse for the duchess' physician, Dr. Jean Thin, said she died of bronchial pneumonia.
The duchess' death came almost 50 years after King Edward VIII of England abdicated with an announcement broadcast to a stunned crowd, and gave up Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced Baltimore socialist.
"I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duty as king as I would wish to do, without the help and support of the woman I love," he said.
Wallis Warfield Simpson, then still married to Ernest Simpson, met the Prince of Wales at a dinner party in London in 1830. They discussed the differing British and U.S. attitudes toward central heating.
The duchess will be buried Tuesday next to her husband in the royal burial ground at Frogmore near Windsor Castle.
Their love blossomed and led to Simpson's second divorce.
The church, the government, the commonwealth and the royal family opposed the marriage. Simpson even begged the king not to abdicate.
But he chose love. His brother ascended to the throne as King George VI, and Edward and Simpson both died in his days he said he never regretted it.
For 30 years, the royal family shunned the Duke of Windsor — the title he took after his abdication — and instead gave his niece he married seven months later.
The duke and duchess spent those years in wandering exile. They finally settled in a mansion in the Bois de Bologne.
Until her husband died in 1972, the duchess retained the glitter of the high-society figure she had been all her life. But when the duke died, she dwindled to a frail, bedridden recluse, reportedly not always aware of her surroundings. For her last six years, she never left her bedroom.
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