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Show pages Worlds Fair To Clean Up On Opening? world's fair its dress NEW ORLEANS (AP) million held re- Saturday is opening day. Workers were spreading patches of asphalt, wiring lights, hammering displays and shoveling up junk to ready the site for ceremonies. Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige is expected to fire 84 skyrockets to launch the fair. Gov. Edwin Edwards and some 400 legislators and staff from Baton Rouge, hauled in by chartered buses, wandered around the dusty fairgrounds on the banks of the Mississippi in a preview. We never finish anything on time down here anyhow, philosophized James Brown, Louisiana secretary of state, after a look around. The official view was upbeat. "Were in good shape; we will be ready to go, said Jim Brandt, vice president of planning. The International Hall, where many of the 23 nations had their exhibits, was roped off to keep spectators from slowing down last-minu- work. a matter of logistics, he said. Construction bills for the final month are due soon. Last month, the fair got an emergency $10 million loan from the state to cover them. Brandt said this months bills will be covered by revenue generated. Mississippi, with a state pavilion in the Great Hall, had the only show in full swing, with musicians and singers on stage and a buffet serving up fried chicken, hot catfish, hush puppies and pecan pie. Scaffolding still stood along walls in the Louisiana Pavilion, where Lt. Gov. Bobby Freeman and House Speaker John Alario cut the dedication ribbon. One of the exhibits is not on land d but water. The Eagle, a sailing ship that the Coast Guard uses for training and show, is tied up for a week at a fair dock, near the Enterprise, a prototype of the space shuttle. three-maste- Petr Spurney, president of Louisiana World Exposition Inc., asked the preview crowd to withhold judgment until after the opening, when debris had been hauled away and order restored. Spurney recalled that when he was trying to persuade the Soviet Union to participate in the fair he ran into the same questions about security that the country voiced in withdrawing from the Olympic Games at Los Angeles. A Civil District Court dismissed a suit Thursday against the citys amusement tax, challenged by two of the 200 concessionaires at the fair. An appeal was filed. The amusement tax has long been a sore point among entrepreneurs who operate in New Orleans. It brings the total tax on goods sold at the fair to 14 percent 15 percent after July 1, when the state adds a penny to its sales tax. The City Council refused to reduce it, saying it would strip $6 million from city welfare programs. Fair officials predict 88,000 people will throng through the mermaidand sea monster-festoone- d on gates opening day. Twelve million customers must pass through the gates for the fair to break even by clsing day, Nov. 11. Admission is $15, $14 for children or senior citizens. N.Y. Police Arrest 3 for Theft of $6 Million in Gold NEW YORK (AP) -- men - Three the theft were arrested Friday in last year of $6 million in gold chains stolen from last year from a vault at a jewelry wholesaler, police said. Police recovered 33 gold chains from one of the men, but it was not known immediately if they were from among the 900 pounds of gold chains stolen April 2, 1983, from a vault at Gold Heart International Ltd., said Officer Fred Elwick. A police task force that had been investigating the burglary arrested Ronald Wright, 36, and Charles Fleischer, 45, both of New York City, and Nickolas Salchick, 64, of Spring Valley, N.Y., Elwick said. All were charged with burglary; Salchick, who had the chains, also was charged with possession of burglars tools, Elwick said. Salchick also had an electronic bypass device which is used to get through alarms and a walkie-talki- e set to monitor police communications, Elwich said. Fleischer also was wanted on a Dade County, Fla., warrant alleging possession of stolen property, Elwick said. The officer said he did not know what led Investigators to the three, adding that the investigation was continuing. In the robbery, burglars got into office of the jewe-ler- y the second-floo- r wholesaler and broke through concrete walls to two vault. get into the walk-iThe burglars apparently spent several hours in the vault before triggering an alarm. Arriving security guards found punches, crowbars and sledgehammers on the floor, Elwick said. s. By Sandy Johnson Associated Press Writer The political landscape tilted toward the West on Friday as Walter F. Mondale, Gary Hart and the Rev. Jesse Jackson steered their Democratic presidential campaigns through Nebraska and Oregon, site of primary skirmishes next week, en route to California and the biggest delegate prize of all. In Omaha, Hart criticized President Reagan for proposing inconsistent economic policies, saying he can do that because actors are trained to say the most shameless things with a straight face. As Hart left for Oregon, Mondale arrived in Nebraska to condemn Harts lack of leadership and his position on arms control. He has now taken over the past two years seven basic inconsistent positions on the issue of our time. It took him nearly a year to endorse the freeze and then he build-dowthe proposal, which is at war with the freeze, Mondale said. International Olympics Before flying west, Jackson continued his plea for a truly international Olympics, saying the Reagan administration had not gone far Associoted Press Laserphcrto enough to persuade the Soviets to let A1 Carter waits at the entrance to the Louisiana Worlds their athletes attend the summer in Los Angeles. games it He when to be in line first Fair. opens Saturday. hopes The things they have done are in the context of the evil empire rhetoric, Jackson said. Hart, the favorite in both Nebraska and Oregon, hopes to put together a string of late season primary and caucus victories, building on victories this week in his home state of Colorado, Indiana and Ohio, to sway have speculated it could be due to the momentum his By Howard Kurtz way before Calicultural Writer Post preference, which isnt to fornias Washington primary say (Hispanic families) wouldnt be June 5. The No. 2 offiWASHINGTON if a house in they living cial at the Department of Housing In the interim, Nebraska and Orecould afford it. . . . They said theres and Urban Development said last voters go to the primary polls gon a preference for extended families week that many Hispanic families next Tuesday, followed by caucuses is . That . . truly in Idaho living together. live in overcrowded housing beMay 24. But those three speculation. They have no scientific states cause that is a cultural preference together have only 85 national to back that up. data among Hispanics. convention delegates to offer, comHUD officials said their annual That is. as I found out, a characpared to 306 in the Golden State. housing survey, based on census teristic of Hispanic communities, irWith the stakes that high, 29 Demd of the nadata, found that relevant to their social and ecomembers of the House of ocratic tions overcrowded rental units are HUD conditions. nomic from California occupied by Hispanics. Defining Representatives on the three major television called Undersecretary Philip Abrams said one perovercrowding as more than in an interview. It is a cultural networks Friday to withhold primary-son per room, they said that 5.7 pertold. Im preference, day projections that could affect overin lives of the population cent in the California priturnout voter be if some Hispanics might Asked crowded housing, but more than 17 bemary. overcrowded in d Hispanic-occupieunits housing of living percent cause of poverty, Abrams said, I The congressmen claimed 400,000 are overcrowded. dont think so. Im told that they dont mind snd they prefer, some prefer, doubling up. Boston develAbrams, oper, was resending to questions about why HlM has placed a numLOS ANGELES (AP) An FBI Tisa said he wasnt sure. Weitzber of. small communities on its prison ty list for a lew housing construc-gran- t agent ended 15 days of testimony in man repeated the question. the John Z. De Lorean cocaine trafI guess it was ours, the governprogram. ficking trial Friday by reluctantly Abrams said he had no choice bements, Tisa responded. I have no further questions, cause Congress directed HUD to admitting that the government deWeitzman said. award the grants based in part on vised a plan to keep the automaker Minutes earlier, Weitzman asked overcrowded housing, a factor he involved in a drug deal after he said said favored communities with he had no cash. pointed questions about the governMoments after the agent left the ments directorial role in the script large Hispanic populations while exfor the De Lorean "sting operation. stand, drug enforcement agents cluding most big industrial cities. He noted that the government chose wheeled a courtroom into the shopAsked for comment by The Washthe cart three with boxes drug to be involved (cocaine), leadping large several Hispanic ington Post, that it selected the drug dealer De which 53 said contained they pounds ers took sharp exception to Abrams Lorean would meet (William Morof cocaine. remarks. gan Hetrick) and that it conceived The drugs, which were seized That is really a very racist rethe alternative payment plan. Lora De from in the mark, said Rep. Robert Garcia, And John De Lorean did not give ean case and ultimately were shown chairman of the congressional De to were you removed any money, correct? asked Lorean, Caucus. These people quickly Hispanic have no concept of what is going on from the courtroom. The agents said Weitzman. Yes said Tisa. in America. They really live another they would keep them in their custody until the case is over. world. t; n HUD Official Says Hispanics Like Overcrowded Housing - California voters stayed home in 1980 after hearing network projections before the polls closed. Hart, Mondale and Jackson were all converging this weekend at the meeting of the Association of State Democratic Chairs in San Francisco. site of the national convention two months from now. The meeting ostensibly was for a final review of arrangements for the nominating convention but it also opportuprovided a nity for the candidates to court party officials who will name a large bloc of convention delegates. Mondale stole the spotlight early on when his staff released a list of 31 state party leaders who were supwhile the porting the Hart campaign could name only two state party leaders outside Colorado who were supporting the senator. In Washington Friday morning, Jackson asked the president to make a televised national statement of welcome to the Soviets and to directly communicate to the head of the Soviet Union (Konstantin head of Chernenko) to assure him that he state to head of state would do everything in his power to make his athletes welcome and that they would assure good, fair and hospitable treatment. New Direction At a rally in Newark. N.J., Jack-so- n sounded a little like Hart and his new ideas theme when the black presidential candidate told a crowd of about 3,000 that we need more than just a new president. We need a new direction. Its time for a change. Back in Omaha, Hart compared Reagans approach to the federal budget deficits to a driver who has done the damage and now wants to walk away from it as if it weren't ever his fault. one-thir- front-runne- Robert Kennedy, Edward Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. While en route to Oregon, Hart said the American public may be willing to support full diplomatic recognition of the Vietnamese government in exchange for learning the fate of more than 2,000 U S. servicemen still missing. "Clearly, we're not going to get that issue resolved until we re prepared to at least discuss those relationships," said Hart. "Reagan's not willing to do that. So in effect the MIAs are being held hostage to Reagan's ideology." The question of the MIAs came up in Omaha when a high school junior whose uncle was shot down over Vietnam asked Hart what he would do to determine the fate of America r, MIAs. Roofers Body Located in Blast Rubble - The PEABODY, Mass. (UPI) body of a roofer was pulled Friday from the rubble of an explosion and chemical fire that engulfed a downtown leather tannery and two surrounding blocks, sending more than 100 people to hospitals. The body was identified as Gerald Raymond, 23, of Haverhill, who was repairing the roof of the Henry Leather Co. with two other men when the explosion occurred Thursday. Raymond's two were seriously burned. Officials of Henry Leather, where the fire began, estimated damage at $4.8 million for their building alone. The blaze also left 19 other companies without quarters. In Taunton, officials offered to let the leather company move to a building being vacated by another tannery. Henry Leather officials said they would consider the offer as a temporary solution but hope to rebuild their destroyed building. Firefighters found Raymonds body in the back of the tannery as they hosed down the smoldering ruins. They said Raymond was either blown off the roof by the explosion or fell trying to escape the flames. And he went on, saying Reagan "proposes a constitutional amendment to balance the budget and he can do that because actors are trained to say the most shameless things with a straight face. Hart never spoke the words; they' were included in a written statement distributed to reporters. Hart also paid a visit to a traditional Democratic watering hole in Omaha, Duffys Tavern, which has played host to previous presidential hopefuls such as John F. Kennedy, Agent Details FBIs Role in De Lorean Deal amer - Why the hell should Hispanics be satisfied with overcrowded housing? Because we like to stick together? . . . For Phil Abrams to make a statement that Hispanic people prefer to live in overcrowded conditions is crazy. Garcia added that the Reagan administration has refused to recognize the housing shortage while cut- ting most subsidized housing programs. Abrams said he was basing his remarks on a briefing from officials in HUDs research office. He modified his remarks slightly in a second interview this week, saying that income might be a factor in Hispanic overcrowding. HUDs research officials, he said, FBI agent Benedict J. Tisa spent his last moments on the stand Friseries of day answering a rapid-fir- e questions by De Lorean attorney Howard Weitzman. finiTiniviimivnir Nv In the final question, Weitzman So, as I understand it, if Mr. De Lorean had not come up with the promissory note, he would have been out of the deal, correct? asked Weitzman. Yes, said Tisa. And whose plan was it, sir, to come up with the alternative? asked Weitzman. concessions and frequently changed his testimony during his prolonged explanation of the FBI sting and his undercover role as a crooked banker. Before the agent left the stand. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Perry returned to the lectern briefly to have Tisa clarify a point. 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