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Show mAvrmmm-- i 1 1 uxxmz CP H " A3 National Thursday. February l.". 1)K Daily Herald. I'rovo, ITah E VSiBI I IVI I ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -Capt. Joseph Hazel wood's attorney questioned the mental stability of the Exxon Valdez' second mate after he testified the skipper knew the seaman he had left at the helm After LeCain's statement, one of Hazelwood's defense attorney told the judge outside the jury's presence that the former second mate had been given leave by Exxon because he was prone to fantastic had problems steering. statements and emotional problems. LeCain testified that the March 24 Lloyd LeCain Jr. said Wednesday that Hazelwood and third mate grounding threw the entire crew Gregory Cousins were aware that into a "brave new world" of seaseaman Robert Kagan was a manship. Defense attorney Dick Madson helmsman when Hazel-woo- d assigned him to the pilothouse said that when Hazelwood left the the night the tanker went aground. ship after the disaster, LeCain told Cousins has denied ever sailing the captain he had two cyanide with Kagan before and said Hazel-woo- d tablets in case he had to commit suicide. never mentioned a problem. Doli-rob- courtship ends before Valentine's HUNTINGTON - The CHRISTOPHER, 111. (AP) courtship of Toby the robot by an infatuated doll named Jodi ended just before Valentine's Day when Toby learned that Jodi had gone to the big dollhouse in the long-distan- sky. Toby's owner, Jim Barclay, a printer and handyman at a medical clinic, said the last of a string of cards and letters arrived Monday with the bad news that Jodi died in a head-o- n collision on the wny from Royal Oak, Mich., to the North Pole. "I had tears in my eyes when I started reading that letter," Barclay said Wednesday. His wife, Margene, "started crying, too," he said. Toby seemed to lose his juice. "He is just standing over there with a blank stare on his face with his black arm band on," Barclay said of the battery-powererobot. Of the practical jokers behind the Mrs. Barclay correspondence swears it isn't her Barclay said: "Maybe now, somebody will come forward." The romance began when Barclay came to work one morning before d Christmas 1988 and found the robot propped in his chair. The note attached to Toby said be was a gift from Santa. Soon after, Jodi began sending Toby cards and letters, expressing her longing for the time they would be reunited at Santa's workshop. The missives arrived about once a month from across the country. With each card, the Barclays and the 50 other employees at the clinic became more curious about the identity of Jodi and of the architect of the elaborate scheme. Interest hit a peak when the Barclays received a hefty ham this past Christmas from Jodi and Toby. No one could figure out how the lovebirds got the gift into Barclay's locked car. No one expected the romance to come to such a sad ending. "I thought we would come in here someday and Toby would be gone and then we would get pictures of them on the beach at Waikiki wearing bikinis and grass skirts," Barclay said. While Jodi's death has brought an end to the romance, it answered a few questions that had nagged at the Barclays. They had assumed that Jodi was a robot like Toby, but the death notice included photographs that revealed her to be a bespectacled Cabbage Patch doll. She posed with the nutty television alien AI.K, her Cabbage Patch sister, Lori. a stuffed pony. Corky, and a stuffed dog named Porky. red-haire- adding that jurors should be told that LeCain has said on occasions that he was a submarine commander in the Falkland Islands, a Green Beret in Vietnam, and a figure in a the scandal. Superior Court Judge Karl Johnstone said he would not permit questioning of LeCain about his mental history because it is "character evidence," prohibited by Alaska law, that did not prove his incompetency as a witness. LeCain, an officer with Exxon for 17 years, was asked by prosecutor Iran-Contr- 's Brent Cole to rate helmsman abilities. "T'd say slightly below normal," the witness said. "I talked to Captain Hazelwood about it. He knew he had a problem. He told me to keep an eye on him when he was steering." On LeCain acknowledged that he told numerous investigators of the crash that he considered Kagan "all right" as a helmsman. you'll be blamed for this?" asked Madson. "I still think he's all right," he testified at one point. "Mr. LeCain, are you afraid Earlier this week, Kagan conceded he was "timid" about steering because he once was accused of Ka-gan- n, Fishermen, merchants fear hardships ot gold-tone- LeCain also declared he was "Ninja trained," said Madson, BEACH, Fishermen and others (AP) whose business depends on a beautiful coastline fear the oil spill that is coating the beach with gooey Alaskan crude will cost them their livelihood. "There's a lot of people who are going to sue," said Dan McCafferty of the Dory Fleet, a cooperative of 20 fisherman at Newport Beach. "It's ruined our business. The fishing here will never be the same as it was." McCafferty and several others plan to seek compensation from British Petroleum American Inc., which owned the oil and chartered the American Trader, and the tanker's owner, American Trading Transportation Co. A class-actio- n lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Los Angeles, seeking compensation for damage and economic losses caused by the spill and the alleged failure to properly clean up the oil. Among the defendants named were British Petroleum and American Trading. . Fish sales in the Huntington and Newport Beach areas has come to a virtual halt since the American Trader spilled 400,000 gallons of crude. The spill occurred Feb. 7 as the tanker tried to moor at an oil pipeline delivery point about two miles offshore. "People heard about the oil spill and immediately assumed we were fishing in the oil," said fisherman Matt Breneman, 22. "We've had the freshest fish II.K III Calif. IIIJJJ oversteering a ship. Hazelwood, 43, of Huntington, N.Y., is charged with one felony criminal count of second-degre- e mischief and misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment, negligent discharge of oil and operating a vessel while intoxicated. The maximum penalty for conviction on all counts is I1 vears in prison and "No, I'm not," said LeCain. Kagan was at the wheel when the tanker ran aground on Reef, causing the nation's worst oil spill. Hazelwood had gone below, and Cousins, who was in control of the bridge, said he noticed belatedly that Kagan was not properly following his orders to make hard turns to evade the jag- 987-fo- ot Bligh $G1,000 in fines." Hazelwood's lawyers say the captain was assured that Cousins and Kagan could execute a maneuver to avoid ice in the shipping lanes near Prince William Sound when he left the ship in Cousin's command. ged reef. Flyers pay too much in air hubs low-competiti- on - mwm. 1 3 WASHINGTON (AP) Airlines are pleased with a study that finds only "pockets of problems" in the industry, but there's concern on Capitol Hill some travelers may be paying too much in cities where there's little competition. Transportation Secretary Samuel h Skinner said the results of a study of airline competition released Wednesday shows deregulation of the industry a decade ago has brought more service and lower fares. But the report also confirmed r nine-mont- congestion and higher fares at some key airports. "Deregulation has worked and the study clearly points out that competition in the airline industry remains strong ... with only pockets of problems," Skinner told a news conference. The problems, he said, include increased congestion at some major airports and 18.7 percent fares at eight hub airports where a single airline dominates. The most concentrated hubs are Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Dayton, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Salt Lake City and Charlotte, N.C. Fares also are higher for flights to larger cities between 250 and 1,000 miles from these hubs, the report said. higher-than-avera- AP Laserphoto Ronnie Warren, left, and Gary King, both of Long Beach, wear ski masks and protective goggles as they help clean oil off the coast in Newport Beach. for years," said Mike Steven Long, a linebaiter with Dory Fleet. "Now our reputation is ruined." Oil had washed ashore and percolated as deep as 3 feet into the sand by Wednesday along about a stretch from Bol-s- a Chica State Beach to Newport Beach, according to cleanup le "It's a sad thing because there's these little sand turtles that the birds eat, and they're all dead," said Ralph Gray, 27, in Balboa, about 10 miles south of Huntington Beach. Volunteers and others had 153 dead birds at last found count, and wildlife rescue workers were trying to save another 329 oiled fowl. 2 satellites launched to "If one lives in the pocket of a problem, it's serious," said Steve Hilton, spokesman for Sen. John a strong critic of Danforth, decreasing airline competition. Hilton said Danforth believes the Transportation Department study adds to evidence of excessive fares on routes where competition is minimal and underscores the need for legislation to increase competition. "The report shows that deregulation is not delivering to the traveling public fare benefits if you happen to live near a airport," said Hilton. He said Danforth believes it is "intolerable to have an industry that is neither regulated nor competitive." Several bills are pending in Congress to strengthen government control over airlines and encourage competition. One would restore some government authority to regulate fares and routes. Only about 10 percent of the total passenger hours flown are in the higher fare markets, Skinner said. Passengers generally get better p service, including flights and more frequent flights, for the higher fares, he said. "Air travelers have benefited unnon-sto- der deregulation through more service at lower cost," the secretary said. "How can you complain when 90 percent of people in this country today are flying with discount fares? The number of airlines increased from 30 to 38 between 1978, when airlines were deregulated, and 1984, but there are only 29 large carriers, with eight of them providing 90 percent of the service. test Star Wars system CORRECTION There is an error on page 7 of the Sears February 11th edition. The Eastwood sectional is incorrectly priced at $899 and $19 per month on Sears charge plus, the correct prices are $999 and $21 per month on Sears charge plus. We regret any inconvenience this error may have caused our customers. c. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Ground controllers readied two new satellites for tests of a "Star Wars" plan to destroy ballistic missiles with laser beams bouncing off orbiting mirrors. "Both spacecraft are doing almost exactly what we expected them to do," said Air Force Col. Tom Meyer, a project official, three hours after the spacecraft were launched Wednesday by a Delta rocket. Meyer said that after several days of checking out the satellite systems, controllers will be ready Girl killed for preliminary tests. Full scale tests of both satellites should begin in a month or so. One satellite carried a mirror designed to reflect lasers fired from a Hawaiian mountaintop back to a ground target to test the accuracy of such a system. The other held sensors for measuring how successfully scientists can correct distortions caused by dust, moisture and gases as the laser beam shoots through the atmosphere. Meyer said the experiment was the most ambitious yet in the Pen after squirting - A RATON i.OUGE. La. (AP) boy shot and killed a girl who had squirted him in the face with a water pistol, police said. "She and another little girl were playing with the water pistols and she missed the other little girl and hit him." said police spokesman Jeff Weslev. teen-ag- e to develop a shield against missiles. space-base- d He emphasized the use of ground-base- d lasers, also called directed energy, is just one part of the project. Also being studied are lasers and other weapspace-base- d ons that would collide with an enemy missile. tagon's program success in the current $313 million mission could help preserve the $4.5 billion that President Bush is seeking for research in budget year 1991 for the Strategic Defense Initiative, or "Star Wars." Some A members of Congress want to cut that amount. g In the project called Relay Mirror Experiment, two ground stations on Maui, Halaser waii, will aim d beams simultaneously at the satellite orbiting 270 miles above Earth. The satellite holds a mirror designed to point a laser beam with an error of less than 57 millionths of a degree. The experiment will use the first two beams as signals to orient its mirror. missile-interceptin- 2,300-poun- 24-in- boy Tequila Peterson, 14, was shot once in the chest with a pistol Saturday and died at a hospital, police said. The assailant, whose name was withheld because of age, surrendered Tuesday and was being held on manslaughter charges, police said. INVITES YOU TO VISIT OUR NEWEST LOCATION 2250 NO. UNIVERSITY PKWY. "Convenience At It's Very Best!" FEATURING: 3iC SQUARES..!! PIE I i WINDER In The Plumtree Shopping Center viGai. ICE CREAM QOQQD i President's Day Special! LOWFAT MILK P I II I: M nU wm VV-- tf O m IMS U Gallon FREE SAMPLE ITEMS ALL DAY, PRESIDENT'S DAY, FEB. 19th! 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