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Show Pae 14-T- HE HERALD Provo Tells Plan to luh November 22 171 Wednesday Castro Calls U.S. Agents Idiots After Year-Ol- d MiGs 'News' - President Fidel Castro Cuba il'PIi announced today that Cuba will free 3 000 political and said prisoners if America offers them sanctuary them I don t think the United States can deny Castro in a swipe at Amer.' a s intelligence comSoviet MiG-2jet munity, also said Cuba has ha American intelidiotic and the a for year fighters it all along ligence agency should have known Castro his voice rising in anger told a news conference the Soviet planes were for defensive pur poses and the planes had taken part in the celebra Hon of the Cuban revolution last January President Carter last week ordered spy plane flights over Cuba to see whether the MiGs are armed with nuclear weapons in violation of the I S Soviet HAV ANA missile crisis settlement "Why this farce, this pseudo-crisis- 1J62 Castro 0 asked "Yes, we ve had MiG-23- s since last year," he replied in answer to a question "Eight months ago they started to fly It's no secret They are tactical, defensive "What kind of country is it to promote a crisis that Cuba has Mil, 23s'' he said Castro said the United States shouldn't complain because it has thousands of planes and hundreds of atomic bomcs The Cuban leader made the state ment at the 1 Price of Gold Plunges Amsterdam. Many Explosives Stolen - GRAND COULEE DAM, Wash (UPI) A large number of explosive devices were stolen from a government magazine at Grand Coulee Dam, the Bureau of Reclamation reported Tuesday. Among the items taken were 146 percussion caps. d 30 to 100 feet of fuse, 20 dynamite boosts, half-poun- bridge wire caps and red Hoffman, 45 perforation eggs. Bureau of Reclamation spokesman, said each dynamite boost and perforation egg was equivalent to two to three sticks of a dynamite. Birthday Reveling Fatal - New York Times (UPI) mailroom clerk, celebrating his birthday was shot and killed by plainclothes police Tuesday night after he and two other apparently drunken companions assaulted the officers, hitting one of them over the head with a bottle, police said. A second member of the group of Brooklyn men was wounded. A Police Department spokesman said the Times employee had turned 25 on Tuesday and the three "were celebrating. Evidently, they were intoxicated. They picked on the wrong car." NEW YORK A Central U.S. Areas Getting Dense Fog By United Press International Thick fog reduced visibility to as little as 20 feet in the Southern Plains today and the National Weather Service warned Thanksgiving travelers to be prepared for snow and ice in the Central Plains and mountain states. Fog extended from Louisiana to Colorado and western Kansas early today. Flights into Denver's Stapleton International Airport experienced long delays because of poor visibility. In central Texas, motorists reported they could see only 2V teet aneaa of their headlights. Numerous automobile accidents were blamed on the fog, but no serious injuries were reported. The NWS posted travelers advisories for dense fog from southeast Louisiana through Texas and into the foothills of Colorado. More warnings for motorists were issued throughout the Central and Northern Plains, where a wide band of light snow and freezing drizzle glazed highways. Snow also was reported hampering travel in the California Sierras and in Nevada's Tahoe Basin. Winter storm watches were posted from Colorado through Michigan as a system posed a threat of developing into a snowstorm later today. However, the NWS indicated the storm was not expected to develop to the intensity predicted earlier Light snow fell over southern New England early today. Except for the mountains, the region received its first measurable snowfall of the season Tuesday Accumulations were generally less than 2 inches, but icy bridges and unprepared motorists resulted in numerous accidents and at least three deaths. By Ualted Preni latentitional Temperature and precipitaperiod tion table for the ending at 4 a m Pacific Ume. as prepared by the National Weather Service in San Albany Albuquerque Atlanta Bakersfield Bismarck Boise Boston Hi U Pep 28 15 02 Oklahoma Omaha Citv 38 37 21 19 ... 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M 48 M jj He said if not they would meet again to discuss alternatives The l'nited States has a quota of 50 prisoners per month along with 100 relatives Castro said it took the United States three months to screen and clear the first 46 released prisoners who arrived in the United States Oct 21 Castro said only since President Carter took office had it been possible to release prisoners because all other presidents from John Kennedy to Gerald Ford plotted against Cuba "Until the Carter administration, there was hostility against Cuba.'' he said d 1 POLICE IN ALAMO in San Antonio, Tex., bushed on Broadway Tuesday as HEIGHTS Kerr drove to work. survey bullet holes in an automobile driven by Assistant U.S. Attorney James Kerr, 28, which was am received from - A poster calling for Vice TOKYO (UPI) to replace Hua Kuofeng as Premier Teng Hsiao-pinpremier may have prompted Chinese Communist leaders to convene a meeting to thrash out their politics. Japanese reports said today. "All the people would be at ease under Teng Hsiao-Pinat the helm." said the poster that appeared Tuesday on a wall in Changan Street, a major thoroughfare in downtown Peking The phrasing was a sarcastic twist of a statement made by the late Chairman Mao TseTung to Hua. his protege in 1976: "With you at the helm, I am at ease " g g The Japanese Kyodo news agency said that party officials already may be sorting out the power struggle behind closed doors. Nicaragua Border Closed - MANAGUA, Nicaragua (UPI) President Anastasio Somoza today ignored a deadline for his resignation and Costa Rica broke ties with Nicaragua and closed off the border. San Jose severed diplomatic ties with Managua and shut down the border crossing in Penas Blancas stranding dozens of freight trucks on both sides -after a border clash that killed two Costa Rican soldiers and a Nicaraguan. The violence with its southern neighbor and tension in the capital convinced many Nicaraguans another civil war was brewing like the one in September that killed more than 1,500 persons, most of them civilians. U.S. Missionaries Injured Four prisoners MANILA, Philippines (UPI) armed with improvised knives seized four American missionaries as hostages inside the national prison today but police troopers rescued them and killed their captors. two Three of the Americans were wounded seriously The Americans were identified as Steve Riggle, Livermore, Calif and his wife Becky; Paul Adams, e Ventura, Calif., and Olga RobertSbn, a Philippine resident. Riggle was stabbed in the chest and was undergoing surgery. His wife suffered a gunshot wound in the right hip during the rescue by troopers as the prisoners were making their getaway. , long-tim- Peace Move Said Folded - Prime Minister SALISBURY, Rhodesia (UPI) Ian Smith's government says the U.S.British peace initiative has collapsed, leaving it with no other choice but to press ahead with its plan for an "internal" settlement In Washington, a State Department spokesman said Tuesday the United States and 3ritain had temporarily abandoned their efforts to arrange a peace conference between Smith and his three black and the Patriotic Front guerrillas. Iran Troops Open Fire - TEHRAN. Iran (UPI Government troops today opened fire on demonstrators in Tehran's bazaar and the military-legovernment rushed tanks into the streets of the capital for the first time in 11 days. One of the approximately 200 demonstrators who paraded through the market area's narrow teeming streets was reported shot in the leg. d New Cabinet in Portugal - Probing an Attempt Nader Team Urges To Kill Federal Attorney Darvon Ban; Says UPI SAN ANTONIO. Texas The Boyd, about attempted shooting of an assistant U.S. attorney at a major intersection apparently was a "contract-signeassassination." says U.S. Attorney Jamie Boyd President Antonio Portugal (UPI) Ramalho Eanes today swore in Portugal's new in"the most dependent government of technocrats in a move conservative" since the 1974 revolution sidelining the country's deadlocked parties for the second straight time. Premier Carlos Mota Pinto, Europe's youngest at 42, took the helm of Portugal's 10th cabinet with a promise to rule in austerity. whose one-thir- d Two men wearing black gloves and shooting from the back of a stolen van ambushed assistant U S. Attorney James Kerr, 38. firing at least 19 shots from an M-- l carbine and shotgun into the hood and windshield of his car. Kerr, former head of a narcotics task force in the Western District of Texas, who has been outspoken on drug Texas-Mexic- sassination attempt." After the daylight attack near a busy city street. Kerr was placed under protective guard at Methodist Hospital and reported in good condition Tuesday with minor cuts from flying glass. Hospital officials early today refused to comment on Kerr's condition or whether he was still under care in the officially Postal Service Plans to Test New Computer Mail System for overnight delivery anywhere in the country. The plans announced Tuesday were the latest in a series of steps General William Bolger aimed at using computerization to rescue the independent federal agency from mounting losses and increased private competition. Bolger said if a yea$3 million rlong. laboratory satellite cceeds, test of the system su- the service probably will try a three-ttest of the o program years. within three A decision on whether e to ever install implementation would be a matter of public policy that should be left to approval if the tests are 84 RCA Corp. ty ings, a nine-digzip code to speed and economize it mail sorting, and an electronic system for sending messages overseas at low cost. He said he hoped the moves will enable the independent agency to "live within its income." The new program called the Electronic Message Service System was developed in three studies costing more than $5.5 million over the last debt-ridde- few years. The key development was a printer which, upon receiving impulses from a satellite, high-spee- d analgesic drug. A recent FDA publication said "the majority of propoxyphene related deaths occured in patients with histories of suicidal tendencies, emotional disturbances or misue of alcohol, tranquilizers or other central nervous system depressants." A spokesman for the Nader group said Califano referred Wolfe's inquiry to the Food and Drug Administration, asking "rapid review and recommen- dations." has studied successful. the proposal for two Bolger, since he years and concluded that became postmaster it probably would cost the general last year, has Postal Service 2 cents to pushed the Postal Service transmit each letter, plus toward a test of an 7 cents to 8 cents to electronic system for deliver it a maximum mass commercial mail- of 10 to 11 cents. The FDA said it would make the review "promptly and very carefully." Wolfe said that in 1977 there were 589 propoxyphene deaths reported to the Drug Enforcement Administration, and 2,154 such deaths were recorded in the last four years. 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Utah 84003 Phone 374-934- 375-838- 3 steel-haule- strike flared on western Pennsylvania highways last night and early today Pennsylvania State Police said four trucks in western Pennsylvania were hit by gunfire while another seven were hit by bricks or bottles thrown full-scal- Style cuts, Blow styles, Permanents, Tints, Manicure, Conditioning degrees at Fort Myer;, Fla. Today's low was 16 degrees below zero at Havre, Mont shooting narcotics cases. "At this point in time, the FBI does not have the motive in the shooting." Morrow said. T. National Weather Service, excluding Alaska o y ... .... NEW YORK (UPI) -The highest temperature reported Tuesday to the d - WASHINGTON (UPI) Ralph Nader s medical study group wants Darvon banned or strictly controlled as an "imminent hazard," and calls the painkiller the "deadliest prescription drug in the U.S." Dr Sidney Wolfe, director of the Health Research Group, said in many cities more people die from overdoses of Darvon than from heroin or morphine He asked Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. to take immediate action, and said selling Darvon is "tantamount to legalized dope." The generic drug is propoxyphene, or DPX. Most of it is sold under brands called Darvon, Darvocet. Darvocet-N- , Darvon-and Darvon Compound 65. put out by Eli Lilly and Co. A Lilly spokesman said the drug "has been carefu-land thoroughly evaluated by expert groups over the years, including the FDA and DEA in recent traffic problems at the border, had predicted a "new gang war" in the narcotics underworld because of recent massive illegal exchanges of stolen American cars for drugs in Mexico Last month he said, "I think there is an international underground hit squad here (in San Antonio) stronger than ever." Although Kerr had been active in prosecuting narcotics cases including years." the current prosecution of a major "We're not aware of any significant new evidence cocaine smuggling operation in El Paso that suggests a change in its status," he said. "We 12 his the with Justice feel during years very strongly that when taken as directed by a Department, neither Boyd nor Morrow physician, propoxyphene is a safe and effective would link the with ducked behind the dashboard of his Lincoln Continental and was not seriously injured. However, the hood and fender on the driver's side of his auto were riddled with bullets in what federal authorities were considering "an as- WASHINGTON (UPI) The Postal Service deep into electronic innovations plans to test a new computer mail system that could eventually allow citizens to send letters via satellite Deadliest U.S. Drug jurisdiction covers of the U.S. Mexico border and deals with numerous narcotics cases, told reporters Tuesday after meeting with Kerr at the hospital. "It has the overtones of a contract-signeassassination. It's scary " Earlier. Rep Henry B Gonzalez, . 01 Extremes (UPI flying glass. felephoto) hospital. ) Kerr minor injuries only FBI Weather and Hawaii, was KSeHH I ... .... 29 59 Brownsville 02 GARDEN CITY. Idaho UPI Shortly after mid night Tuesday the wpiting ended for Francis E Mike Carter 74, garden City A State Department spokesman telephoned the news that seven members of his family including his daughter Tern 24 were dead in Guyana and that only his two sons Tim 30 and Michael 20. survived the massacre at Jonestown Earlier Carter learned that Tim is among those arrested in connection with the slaying Saturday of and four others at an' air Rep Leo Ryan port in Guyana Besides Terri other members of the Carter family reported dead were Tern s husband. Lieu Jones 22 reported adopted son of Peoples Temple religious cult leader, Jim Jones. Tchioc Jones, their year-oi- d son, Michael's wife, Gloria; Kawan Carter, Micha el's year-olson, Tim's wife, Josalin, 22. and son Malcolm, their year-ol- d Carter said it will take a while before the full impact of their deaths sinks in adding, "It was the same when my mother passeu away until a couple of months later." Then I cried my eyes out." He was philosophical, however, about the family's final 18 months of life at the Peoples Temple commune m Jonestown, Guyana "They had a very happy life," hew said. "They were happy as the dickens and now that they are up in Heaven where they belong they don't have to be put through this screaming life like we have to. God probably needed a couple of angels." rangement LISBON, Mercury Readings Throughout Nation flbv - lose of the meeting with 75 ( uban exile leader who burst into applause at his remarks In Moscow the official Novosti news agency quoted authoritative Soviet sources as saying the MiG 23s shipped to Cuba are purely defensive and do not threaten the security of the l'nited States Caitro said Cuba will release a minimum of 400 prisoners per month, an estimated 200 to 250 of whom want to live in the United States Those to be freed constitute 80 percent of those in Cuban jails "I don t think the l'nited States can deny them Castro said that if the L'nited States agrees he will meet again with the delegates to formalize the ar Poster Signs China Shift - LONDON (UPI) Mixed fortunes greeted the U S dollar on world money markets today but the price of gold fell sharply Gold skidded 12 625 an ounce on the London market and fell $ ISO an ounce in Zurich Opening prices were $197 875 in London and (198.875 in Zurich. Changes in dollar exchange rates were small It dropped slightly in London, Tokyo, Milan and Brussels but rose equally slightly in Zurich, Paris and ftLLw sT i U.S., World News in Brief 92 Idaho Family Reported Dead in Guyana; 2 Survive 7 in free 3,000 756-762- 3 |
