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Show f i THE HERALD, Provo, Sunday, September 24, 1972 Scotland Yard Becomes Center To Combat Death-bv-Ma- il Bombs LONDON (LTD booby traps in the - Army Finally Talks About 3-Y- murder-by-ma- il li A- - " I ;A Aj ' i opened one of the f trapped packages. Since then authorities in West European, North American, South American and African countries, as well as Israel itself, have discovered other ' C r .. 6jz S ' - ' . S . attempts of Arab terrorists against Israeli officials continue to be intercepted, dogs trained to sniff out explosives are added to the measures Above, a employed against the scene in Rome where a dog investigates mail sacks arriving at Leonardo da Vinci Airport. Below, these two booby trapped letters, mailed in Holland, were sent to prominent Israeli officials in Jersualem, bringing to over a dozen the number of such letters received in Jerusalem in the past several L letter-bomb- s. I J - s - '1 V - - , AS THE DEATH w , lJ- i ' i . ' ' L j f , ; . - f- r s, " , ' ? T 1 days. These are addressed to Arieh Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency, and to Jacob Tsur, chairman of the Jewish National Fund and former Israeli ambassador to France. The search for the senders has centered on the fanatical Black September Group which claimed credit for killing 11 Israelis at the Olympic Games in West Germany. One Israeli diplomat, an agricultural attache, has already been killed when he opened one of the letters. It happened last Tuesday in the Israeli London embassy. deadly envelopes. , ; ; ,' ; ! ; Extra Guards guards have been placed on both Israeli and Arab embassies in Wes;arn Europe. Postal authorites tightened security but many said that because of the volume of mail handled it would be impossible to detect all of the bombs if the campaign continued. No one thus far has claimed responsibility for mailing the packages but at least one other - bomb, found in London, : ! ; ! I I ; ; i ; ' I 111 tit' -- I. I con- -' tained a pamphlet from the Black September. Scotland Yard detectives earlier this week visited Am-- ; sterdam but the center of the investigation switched back to London when Toorenaar said: ."There is absolutely nothing more we can do about it. Our investigations went as far as possible and is at dead end." A spokesman at the Rotter-- ! wil Top Black Journalist Found Dead U.S. Agriculture Department Eliminates Wheat gating the possibility of homicide. Strickland, twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, was lying in a pool of blood in his shower when officers responded to the call of a neighbor who said he heard the water running continuously. Dr. George Curtis, medical examiner, declined to speculate on the circumstances of death until he could conduct an autopsy. However, police said several bullet casings were found outside the bathtub and the death had the appearances of a homicide. Since accepting his assignment as an assistant dean of arts and sciences at Harvard, Strickland had been living alone in an apartment here. His wife, Barbara, and four children remained in Detroit where he worked for a newspaper. Police said Strickland, who had been visiting colleges around the nation recruiting blacks for the Harvard graduate school, did not appear to have engaged in a struggle. There also was forced entry. no sign of The Wayne State graduate gained prominence in the 1960s for his writing and coverage of such events as the 1967 Detroit rDts. Plunge of Japan Bus TOKYO (UPI)- -A bus packed with tourists skidded off a road in the Japanese alps east of Tokyo today and plunged 150 feet into a river, killing 11 persons and injuring dozens of others, police reported. A police spokesman said the bus carried about 50 passengers. He said a rescue party has recovered 11 bodies and brought dozens of other passengers to hospitals. Police said most of the injured were in critical condition. Cancer Treatment THIS EXPLORER UNMANNED SATELLITE, designed to monitor space radiation, was soaring into space Saturday Export Subsidy cents to $2.44 a bushel from Thursday's price of about $2.26. The new price, which is the same for export as in domestic markets, was about 50 per cent above the $1.63 which the Agriculture Department maintained with its subsidies during summer. An announcement after comthe period of heavy Russian modities exchanges closed Fri- purchases from nearly July day said the export subsidy until late August. When would be dropped to zero on unexpectedly large Monday. The subsidy had been Soviet orders sent U.S. domes slipping in stages since the Soviet sales, sagging to 19 cents Thursday and 14 cents before 3:30 p.m. Friday. The Soviet purchases of 400 million bushels of wheat had created a domestic shortage, according to millers and bakers If WASHINGTON (UPI) who asked the Price Commishas any funny ideas anybody sion last month for permission about messing around with to increase bread prices as a Woodsy Owl, forget it. The result. United States Senate has voted Elimination of the subsidy, to make it a federal crime. which had allowed exporters to Woodsy who? buy wheat at high domestic Woodsy Owl, that's who the prices and sell it abroad at wide-eyefeathered cartoon lower rates, automatically pet of the U.S. Forest Service raised the export pi ice by 14 whose slogan, "Give a Hoot cents. In addition, officials said .Don't Pollute," is the symbol of domestic prices rose another 4 the government's latest anticents Friday. pollution efforts. An agriculture spokesman Woodsy is a sort of second said the export payment was cousin to Smokey Bear, the because, "in o'ir dropped longtime Forest Service hero of judgment, the subsidy is not fire prevention. Woodsy was needed to increase sales at this born last year as the environpoint." mental ' answer to Johnny of The combination the the lean, clean woodsdomestic price hike and the Horizon, man the Interior Department subsidy elimination boosted the uses to urge the public to keep export price of hard red winter federal lands clean. wheat at Gulf ports Friday by With no dissent the Senate (UPI)-T- he WASHINGTON Agricult are Department without warning has eliminated its wheat export subsidy driving export prices 50 per cent higher than those charged on massive wheat sales to Russia this 18 tic wheat prices soaring earlier this summer, the Agriculture decided to hold Department export prices at the $1.63 level which had been in effect for about two years. Before news of the Russian sales spread, domestic and export prices had been close and the subsidy together bridging the gap was only about 2 cents per bushel. Just Don't Mess Around With This Woodsy Owl - d, after a successful launch, above, Friday night from Cape Kennedy. The orbit of the satellite is expected to take it halfway to the moon. Explorer Satellite Soars Into Orbit After Successful Launch By AL ROSSITER Jr. UPI Space Writer ica's CAPE KENNEDY cer treatment three times as 47th Explorer sateleffective as the X - Rays or lite soared away from Earth gamma rays most commonly Saturday to prove the turbulent used in radiological sea of space halfway to the moon Either of the two lethal rays, and study the interaction of solar he noted, will destroy cancer gases, radiation and magnetic cells, but like a flame thrower, forces. One of the they destroy healthy cells as spacecraft's well as they sear through the objectives is to learn more flesh to reach a malignant about violent solar radiation tumor. storms like the one that warped earth's magnetic field last Agnew said the pi meson which he likened to a hand month and caused power and grenade can be "aimed" and radio blackouts in the northern controlled as to the distance it moves before it zeroes in on a malignant cell which it literally explodes with no damage to surrounding tissue. The meson treatment has By United Press International been developed over recent GROUCHO RELEASED LOS ANGELES years through research with the (UPI) -GLos Alamos laboratory's giant roucho Marx, who suffered a 800 million equivalent volt pro- series of mild strokes in a ton accelerator. traumatic reaction to the killing Agnew said Friday scientists of Israeli athletes at the now are prepared to launch Olympics, will rest at home for clinical trials of the treatment eight weeks before returning to and he predicted that at some his concert tour. time during the projected five-yeA spokesman for the research effort a machine comedian said Marx was will be perfected that will per- undergoing nursing care mit pi meson radiation therapy at his home after being at the local hospital level. released from Century City The research project, Agnew Hospital Thursday. said, will be carried out in conjunction with the University of GETS GOLD MEDAL New Mexico medical school and NEW YORK (UPI)-Bo- bby the National Institute of Health. Fischer, the world chess He said the lab also will con- champion, received the gold duct research with stable, non- medal, the city's highest award, radioactive isotopes of carbon, in City Hall ceremonies Friday. At the champagne reception, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur in an effort to perform myriad Fischer said "I never thought medical tasks ranging from di- the day would come when chess agnosis to the tracing of lethal would be on the front page of pesticides through the ecological New York newspapers and get chain. only one paragraph in Pravda. "It is anticipated that these (isotopes) will be used in future years in the diagnosis of metabolic diseases such as diabetes, impaired liver function and thyroid disease," he told (UPI)-Amer- therapy. studying the Egyptians Dutch postal system there. He said the Egyptians were is there because "Holland rendering technical aid to Egypt, including the training of these postal people." BOSTON (UFO Joseph Strickland, 44, one of the nation's leading black journalists and a dean of Harvard University, was found shot to death in his apartment early Saturday. Police said they were investi- Die In session of the Colorado Medical Society, meeting in Colorado Springs, were told Friday that a new method in the treatment of malignancy soon may be in the hands of doctors as a result of research with the recently completed $60 million proton accelerator at the Los Alamos, N.M. scientific laboratory. Harold N. Agnew, director of the Los Alamos facility, told doctors at the convention the' accelerator the largest of its kind in the world offers a can (i O ' 1 1 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. employeswere ; o (UPI) Thanks to a tiny subatomic hand grenade called a "pi meson," the next five years may hold at least a ray of hope for victims of what now is considered uncurable cancer. Delegates to the 102nd annual dam post office denied local reports of unrest among the because several ; ?3 Encouraging TTT Extra O v - was booby-- 1 girl- friend by claiming he was in a rough, tough outfit." The GI sent the picture to his girl, who passed the photograph and her boyfriend's alleged information about it to a U.S. newspaper in 1969. The paper printed the photograph. Vietnamese soldier was dead before the fall. The spokesman would not comment on why the Army had consistently refused to give its version until Friday. 1 n v said spokesman The Army said the North Amsterdam Postmark Like many of tne other the lives of Israeli attempts diplomats in various parts of ; Army trying "to impress his the bomb said they found the message: "And you shall pay wherever you are." the envelope An because an unidentified GI was very superior" detonator addressed to the former ambassador and signed by the Black September terrorist group which has claimed responsibility for the Munich Olympic massacre. Military police who detonated the world, Vietnamese soldier falling to his death from a U.S. helicopter over South Vietnam. Friday that misconceptions arose about the photograph defused. In the latest reported case, the Israeli embassy at Phnora Penh, Cambodia, received an envelope full of plastic explosive and a "very effective and postmarked in Amsterdam. Gerard Toorenaar, Amsterdam's police chief inspector said Friday "I am fully convinced that one man came to Holland with the letters, carefully put the correct value of stamps on them and dropped them in a number of public mail boxes." The campaign claimed its first and thus far only fatal victim Tuesday, an agricultur- al attache at the Israeli embassy was killed when he Photo ear WASHINGTON (LTD The Army las ended three years of silence about a photograph showing a North allegedly Defused campaign have begun to arrive from all over the world at Scotland Yard's special branch which Saturday became international coordinator of investigation for the case. A Yard spokesman said the packages a little thicker than a normal envelope were being sent to London for forensic examination after first being anti-Israe- 31 Utah-P- age States, Canada and Sweden. It also will serve as a radiation warning outpost for the Apollo 17 astronauts when they fly to the moon in December on the last planned lunar landing expedition. d The $8 million,' satellite, known as IMP for Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, was launched Friday night by a $6.5 million Delta rocket that was visible to "bird watchers" for more than four minutes of its climb into space. United drum-shape- Officials at the satellite Friday approved a bill making it a federal offense by a $250 fine to use Woodsy's name, picture or slogan without the permission of his boss, the secretary of agriculture. The bill would also let the secretary set and collect royalties for manufacture of Woodsy items, just as he now the Colorado medical group. does for rennxketion of SmoAgnew also revealed that scientists at the lab have come key. "What," demanded Senate up with a dramatic new Republican Leader Hugh Scott diagnostic technique that also when the bill came up, "is a may owe day spell an end to the Woodsy Owl?" threat of cancer. I "I think it has something to He said researchers have de- -' do wiih ihe Forest Service and veloped a system whereby cells, a campaign to bring about tinted with fluorescent dye, are f protection of environment," passed beneath a laser beam. answered Democratic Leader Under the beam's intensity, all Mike Mansfield. will glow, but diseased cells "If it is for the ecology or for have been found to emit motherhood or for the flag, I more fluorescence than healthy have no objection," Scott said. ones. 4- fyf - - f 1 "All our indications are that it's right on the button," said Jeremiah Madden, assistant project manager. But he said it will be a month before all the satellite's instruments are working and "we can't really say we're a success until we have them operating." If all goes according to plan, a small rocket motor in the satellite will be fired when the craft reaches its peak altitude Monday afternoon. This maneuver should propel the Explorer into a orbit ranging from 127,000 to 860-pou- People in the News ar control center in Greenbelt, Md., reported today that the spacecraft was in a normal preliminary orbit ranging from 161 to 147,500 miles from earth. All systems were working as expected. I pess that's my fault." near-circul- ar CHARTER NEGOTIATED BUENOS AIRES (UPI)-Suppo- rters of former dictator Juan D. Peron are negotiating with Alitalia Airlines to charter a plane to return him home from exile in October or November, an airlines spokesman said. The charter would cost at least $70,000, he said. Peron, now in exile in Madrid, has been nominated for president by Argentina's party, although the has forbidgovernment military den him to run. Justi-cialis- 155,000 miles high. The satellite carries 13 sets of instruments from government laboratories, universities and industry to investigate the wind of electrically charged solar gases flowing from the sun, cosmic rays powerful enough to penetrate three feet of lead and a complex tangle of magnetic forces. ta Light Plane Crash Kills 2 POPE MAKES APPEAL VATICAN CITY (UPI)-P- ope Paul VI has asked Italy to divorce NEWARK, N.J. (UPI)- -A abolish its law. light plane carrying U.S. mail after minute The Pope made the appeal as crashed o:.e President Giovanni tikeoff from Newark Airport Leone made a state visit to the 3arly today, killing the pilot and passenger, police said. Vatican. In New Jersey Italian yi - , U i |