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Show Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 14 Thursday, December 24, 1987 Na tiomml News Von Bulow to divorce - NEW YORK (AP) Claus von Bulow has agreed to his comatose wife and renounced all claims to her vast fortune, two years after his acquittal of attempting to murder her, an attorney says. ' In return for the concessions, von Bulow's stepchildren a lawsuit that claims the Danish socialite tried to kill their mother, their lawyer said Wednesday. wiU drop ce The latest in news from across the United States provided by Associated Press. comatose wife, won't get $$$ Bulow, aaiu the lawyer,' chael Armstrong. Mi- - from a trust fund created for him before she lapsed into a coma on Dec. 27, 1980 He said von Bulow also agreed to vacate his wife's "th Avenue apartment, her beachfront mansion at New- and !ive Eftn5-$120,000-a-yea- r he receives -- He is leaving with nothing other than the personal proper- ty he could Drove he t0 the marriage," said Arln- strong. i He has settled the lawsuit ereSt will VKL)!Sa "Sunny" von ? Engine failure - An : KENAI, Alaska (AP) investigation into what caused a commuter airplane to slam into a house, killing six people, is focusing on why the plane was unable to land safely on one engine when the other enging failed after takeoff. The plane, carrying eight iff 'MS , I l w 1 Kobelnyk said. But Mrs. von Bulow's dren by an earlier marriage, Alex von Auersperg and Annie -P- patrolled mountain roads and combed woods early today for Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped while serving a life prison sentence for the attempted assassination of Gerald Ford. Fromme, 39, was discovered missing from the Alderson Federal Prison for Women at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday during the nightly prison nt check, said Warden Ron Burk- - WASHINGTON (AP) The Soviet Union contributed $5,000 Wednesday to help feed Christmas dinner to some of Washington's homeless people. i I .'.'.I hw.z&3r I , , Pig farmer ponders future of animal - Larry Harper a litter a says he's reluctant BRISTOLVILLE, Ohio (AP) to place his pig on display because he doesn't want to turn the animal into a freak-shoattraction. Harper says he's worried that the animal may have to be destroyed because of health of 16 problems. The pig was among born Saturday to sow on Harper's farm in this northeast Ohio community. "My first instinct was to destroy it I can feel death in six-legg- ed from Kenai, the pilot reported an engine failure, said George Kobelnyk, an investigator with the National Transportation ty. The big question in this out-of-co- - east. Shortly after takeoff case was, it didn't, so why?" Laurie "Ala" Kneissel, reasserted the charge in a $56 million federal civil suit against their stepfather. Von Bulow confirmed there was an settlement, but because of "a mutually desired media peace," said he could not comment further. hart. Other inmates reported last seeing Fromme about 10 minutes before the check began, he said. Sara Jane Moore, who tried to kill Ford 17 days after Fromme's attempt, escaped from the same prison eight years ago but was quickly recaptured. Fromme, a disciple of mass murderer Charles Manson, was not believed to be carrying weapons, officials said. Soviets donate $5,000 to homeless blaze and cleared debris. The Southcentral Air Piper Navajo was heading for Anchorage, 70 miles to the north- ne with chil- then-Preside- as firefighters battled the twin-engi- 56, ALDERSON, W.Va. (AP) . struck a tree or the house and came to rest in the house." A airplane normally can function on one engine if necessary. "They have two engines so the other one can take the airplane to safe- kill his wife, now injections of insulin. olice half-mil- the passengers, the wing acquitted by a Rhode Island jury in 1985 of charges he twice tried to 'Squeaky' escapes from prison people, crashed Wednesday e from the morning a Kenai airport. The crash sparked a fire that gutted the Safety Board in Anchorage. The pilot took off into the wind and crashed at 6:10 a.m. after doubling back and heading downwind, Kobelnyk said. : He was circling to land back on Runway One," Kobelnyk said. "According to one of Von Bulow, 61, was Briefs studied in crash that killed six house, but the owners escaped without injury. Two of the plane's passengers clambered from the burning wreckage and were flown to an Anchorage hospital for treatment of severe burns. The bodies of the pilot and five passengers, including a boy, were trapped inside the wreckage for hours mil w All recruits to NEW YORK (AP) - All military recruits must be test- ed for drug use before they are sworn into the service, d amendunder a ment to a military authorization bill, a newspaper reports. Anyone who fails a urinalysis test will not be allowed to join the service, The New York Times reported in today's editions. The requirement, added to an extensive program of ran little-notice- it already." defense officials who contend existing programs already keep drug use below civilian levels, and that the new tests will add costs at a time when the military budget is being Temporary Saturday closures told - WASHINGTON (AP) It'll get harder to mail packages or buy stamps during the next couple of weekends, and many be tested for drugs dom urinalysis of people who have already joined the service, was an amendment to an authorization bill that President Reagan signed on Dec. 4, the newspaper said. It said mandatory drug testing has been opposed by some Ambassador Yuri Dubinin, presenting a check to Mitch Snyder, an activist for the homeless, at the Soviet Em hoped-fo- r cut. A Pentagon spokesman, Lt. Cindr. Chris Baumann, said Wednesday night that he was somewhat confused by the Times' report since he believed the armed services already were testing recruits. "I came to Washington from the Naval Training Center in San Diego, and we were testing them for drug use while I was out there, over 2 years ago," he said. bassy, said the gift represented "a very humane purpose and nothing else." Dubinin also gave Snyder a Russian samovar and other gifts that can be sold also to aid the homeless, some 3,500 to 4,000 of whom will eat a turkey and ham dinner Thursday at the Convention Center. new post offices won't be built in the next two years under budget cutbacks announced by the U.S. Postal Service. Postmaster General Preston R. Tisch said Wednesday that many post offices will be forced to close their doors the next two Saturdays Dec. 26 and Jan. 2 although delivery of mail will continue on those days. The closings could affect as many as half of all post of fices, Deputy Postmaster General Michael Coughlin said. Saturday closings could continue, or other cutbacks be required, Coughlin said in an interview. This could include closing many post offices a half-da- y each week, with the day of closing depending on local needs, he said. In addition, efforts to save money will require cancellation of virtually all construction projects for which con- tracts haven't been signed, plus service cutbacks that could slow delivery of parcels and advertising mail, Tisch said. The latest developments in Utah and around the Intermouiitam West. 40 inmates moved into new faciiity Briefs DRAPER, Accused rapist to stay in jail - A SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) in accused one man .Spokane of at least nine child rapes in the Spokane area will remain in jail until his trial because of a parole violation, a judge 'says. Paul H. Kalakosky, 34, is being held in the Spokane County Jail on a charge of kidnapping and ane other of rape in a Nov. 7 attack on a girl. : Bond originally was set at $60,000, but Kalakosky cannot first-degr- ee first-degre- be released even if he posts bond because of the parole violation, said Spokane County District Judge John Nollette at Kalakosky's appearance in court Wednesday.. Kalakosky had been on parole from grand larceny and burglary convictions in the 1970s. Court records show Kalakosky also had been charged in 1983 with three counts of indecent liberties, but was aquit-te- d. Record holiday mail in SLC SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -.Employees at the Salt Lake City Post Office processed 3.41 million pieces of first-clas- s mail on Dec. 17, breaking last year's record of 2.81 million for a period during the 24-ho- ur holiday season. ' Further, for the first time '.during the heavy holiday ing period, employees canceled more than 1 million pieces of mail on two separate nights, said postal spokeswoman Beverly Burge. On Dec. 14, postal workers canceled 1,056,000 pieces of mail, and on Dec. 21, 1,048,000 pieces were canceled, she said. Both of those numbers beat last holiday season's heaviest cancellation day at 1,045,000. Since Thanksgiving, mail volume at the office has increased 10.5 percent over the same period last year. Tape gives no clues to crash - The pilot DENVER (AP) ..of a plane approaching Denver's airport reported a "big fireball" on the runway shortly Rafter Continental Flight 1713 crashed, according to an air 'traffic control tower tape re- leased Wednesday. "Tower, somebody's just . -- crashed on (runway) 35 Left, big fireball," the unidentified voice said 72 seconds after Flight 1713 acknowledged clearance from the tower to take off and began its roll into snow and 16 mph north winds. The tape revealed nothing new about the Nov. 15 crash of the DC-which killed 28 people and injured 54, Federal Aviation Administration officials said at a news conference. 9, The (AP) -- Utah Forty inmates have been moved into Utah State Prison's new $9.5 million maximum security section, a modern facili- ty designed with hardened-glas- s cells instead of iron bars. The newly completed d building will house the most dangerous of the prison's population, including six men on death row, said Department of 240-be- Corrections spokesman Juan Benavidez. plane flipped upside after takeoff and broke into three pieces on the runway at Stapleton International Airport. removed Wednesday morning from an overcrowded and antiquated building adjacent to the new one, Benavidez said. He said the remainder of the maximum- - and intensive maximum-security prisoners will be shuttled into the new building within three weeks. One of the first prison duties performed at the new prison unit was the execution of Hi-Fi killer Pierre Dale Selby on Aug. 28. Selby spent his final day in a cell inside the building before he was taken to a d death chamber, strapped to a gurney and executed by lethal injection. "The new building is modern. It allows guards to open doors with levers inside a control booth," Benavidez said. He said because the entire prison area is enclosed with glass-walle- extremely hard glass the inmnto UV on. - vw uuiiub vguards C3n OVPPRPP tivities throughout the structure. The building has a better heating and ventilation system and includes recreation and workshop facilities. The building will help stave off overcrowding at least until the end of 1988 when the building will reach its capacity, said Tom House, deputy warden over maximum security. Dam projects to proceed despite Congressional SALT LAKE (AP) The CITY $4.2 billion water projects construction package included in the federal budget package approved by Congress Tuesday includes $120 million for the Central Utah Project and $3 million for Little Dell Work on the Jordanelle and Little Dell dams should proceed as scheduled this year, even though Congress has appropriated less money for the projects than sought by the Reagan administration, water officials say. The funding for Little Dell, being built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is just more than half of the $5.5 million requested by the administration. Nonetheless, says Nick general manager of the Se-fak- is, Dam. cuts Metropolitan Water District of Salt Lake, "It will allow the federal program to proceed on schedule this year." Jordanelle Dam, being built north of Heber, takes the biggest piece of the $120 million CUP pie. Bone marrow recipient struggles with kidney failure registry, is suffering somp " "It SEATTLE (AP) Six-vea- r- old Brooke Ward of Raleigh, N.C., the first person ceive a bone marrow plant from a donor through a new national to health complications, a tal spokeswoman said. re- trans- found hospi- "She is in serious condition," Susan Edmonds said Wednes donor is day. Brooke had the transplant on Dec. 16 at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She has recently developed kidney failure and pneumonia, Ms. Edmonds said. Brooke was struggling with her third and most severe relapse of leukemia at the time sne received the transplant. Declassified document reveals war radiation release SPOKANE (AP) report detailed Tho Army Corps of Engineers 1958 de- liberately released radioactive at the Hanford nuclear reservation in 1944, five years before the only other known experiment of that type at the reservation, a document says. The wartime research, kept from the public, was to determine how far the winds could carry radiation, said a Julyv- in a conv- - right article carried in today's editions of The Spokesman-Revie- iodine newly-declassifi- down seconds The first erouD of Drisoners were - Declassified in August, the document also lists accidental releases of radiation to farming communities east of the reservation, where farmers now contend they have health problems linked to past radiation emissions. "In 1944, several hundred curies of iodine 131 were purposely released in one emission so that the Army could determine the dispersion and transport characteristics of the atmosphere," the report said. "This was a ment." one-sh- ot experi- By comparison, the Three Mile Island reactor accident in 1979 ejected between 15 and 2 curies of iodine 131 into the Pennsylvania f ountryside, and nearby residents were immediately evacuated. Radioactive iodine 131 collects in fresh milk and vegetables. Those who consume the products can absorb the material in the thyroid gland. Infants and children are especially vulnerable. The December 1944 incident is the second deliberate release of radiation revealed cancer-- causing |