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Show a & 7il 9 Vol. 224, No. 56 Salt Lake City, Utah Fans Still Wednesday Morning ontinu By Rick Hampson Associated Press Writer From the city where he rose to stardom to the city where he was shot down. John Lennon was remembered Tuesday on the first anniversary of his death by fans who listened to his words and music. At vigils and concerts and meetin Liverpool, in New York ings fans and around the world recalled Lennon as a rock 'n' roll dreamweaver, working class hero and househusband. If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads, the former Beatle once sang. Dakota Vigil Cuba Arrests Latin Guerrillas bar-racad- neo-Goth- ic fell. Lennons widow, YokoOno, apparently was not inside. A spokesman said she had gone off in seclusion with her son, Sean, to meditate. Protest In San Francisco, where Lennon performed in his last live concert as a Beatle in 1966, a man and a woman protesting the nuclear arms race and marking the anniversary of Lennons death climbed up the side of a high-ris- e office building. They were identified as .Edwin Drummond, 36, an experienced British-bor- n r, climber, and Lia 21. The climbers halted between the eighth and ninth stories when building officials removed a pane of glass from a window on the ninth floor, blocking their ascent. n Sim-nache- Reversal Ends One-Mon- th WASHINGTON (AP) House negotiators reversed themselves Tuesday and narrowly accepted an administration-backed compromise to deadlock over a break a month-long $11 billion farm bill. vote came after Agriculture Secretary John Block warned the House-Senat- e conference committee that this was our last chance to pass any kind of commodity price support package. Some committee members said it would be extremely difficult to get the bill through the House, which voted against peanut and sugar supports in October. The key 8-- 7 Major Parts the Among major items in the compromise are the specific support levels for major commodities over the next four crop years, continuation of the food stamp program, authorization to continue agricultural research and maintenance of the governments food for peace program. An elated Block said the compromise was one that the administration will be supporting and will be actively working to assist in its passage through both the Senate and the House. I will recommend that the president Block said in sign this legislation, response to a question. This is our only chance and it looks like a good one. Rejects Package The House had rejected the key package on dairy, grain and wool vote on Monday. The supports by an change in position came when Rep. James Weaver, D Ore., who opposed the package Monday, failed to vote on Tuesday and Rep. Tom Coleman, who was absent Monday, supported the package. 8-- 7 Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page z- Page Amuseint Brudge Business Classified Comics Editorials Foreign Lifestyle Associatea Press Laserphoto San Francisco policeman negotiates with protest- - C-- 7 8 1 C-- 6 8 4 Wrtliitsday National Obituaries Pub. Forum Regional Sports Star Gazer Television Washington s Page 5 D-- 7 9 5 C-- 7 C-- 5 Iorccasl ConSalt Lake City and vicinity slues. fair with warm tinued generally Highs near 00. Lows in the 3'Vs Weather details on . D-6- Today's Chuckle This is the season when parents develop a fear of being with their children in a store full of toys a sort of Santa Claustrophobia ing climbers Edwin Drummond and Lia Simnacher. The diHirs of ail thnv plane opened and the 102 passenger were treed, almost simultam eusly Radio Havana . said The passengers and crew members were taken awav to rest while those who commandeered the planes wen-takeinto custody." the broadcast, monitored in Miami said. The broadcast did not sa where the hijackers were taken or what arrangements were made. It was not immediately known if the three teams of hijackers collected their ransom money somewhere along They were protesting Venezuelas support for the junta in El Salvador and demanded $30 million and the release of political prisoners in Venezuela. A Venezuelan official indicated his government would immediately seek return of the planes, release of the hostages and extradition of the skvpi-ratereiterating Venezuela would not meet the demands of the hijackers who were believed to be members of the leftist Venezuelan Red Flag organizathen-route- . tion. Capt. Jorge Jurado, administrator of Panama's Torrijos Airport, ordered the planes to take off after each was filled with 3,000 gallons of fuel, refusing a request by the stewardesses to disem- bark. Beirut Officials Beirut airport officials at first blocked the airports two runways in an attempt to prevent the plane from landing but relented, apparently after armed sympathizers took over the control tower. Officials said hundreds of armed Moslem militiamen lined the airports runways and gathered in the terminal building as the hijacked Boeing 727 of Libyan airlines landed. Hundreds of Lebanese troops were also in the Soldiers of Fortune an poll ground but dut "'it i hullcngc the militiamen At one point, an armed Shiite militia in the control tower "pulled a gun on the air truffle controller and demanded he w itch on the ruin' ay light to allow the plane to land." a reporter on the scene said. hi a communique read from the plane to the Beirut aiiqiort control tower, the hijackers said they "anted fuel and food, officials reported. We will shoot anyone who gets near our plane without our permission. We will not allow any aircraft to land before wo take off from Beirut. the hijackers told the control tower lt was the fifth hijacking since 1978 staged to win the release of Lebanese Shiite leader Mussa Sadr who disappeared in Libya. Aides Say Deficits Not So Bad Newspapers In an ironic turnabout, President Reagan's conservative economists said Tuesday that big federal deficits aren't so bad for the economy Knight-Ridde- r WASHINGTON after all. Against the backdrop of new budget projections that show deficits topping $100 billion this year and beyond, the presidents top economists sought to downplay the significance of this looming tide of red ink. Concern about the deficits has been misplaced, said William A. Niskanen, a member of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers. We face the prospect of very large deficits for some years. Ex-Gre- en Farm Impasse Fluted Press International Three Moslem fanatics forced the exhausted pdot of a hijacked Libyan Airliner to land in Tehran early Wedstop in nesday after a terror-filleBeirut, where armed supporters lined airport runways to demand the release of their spiritual leader from Moam-ma- r Khadafy Death to Khadafy, the imperialist agent," the hijacker leader. Humze, told the Beirut control tower before leaving Lebanon for Tehran with 41 hostages in a perilous night flight. We have not forgotten our leader, Mussa Sadr, Hazme said. We will get whatever (him) back from Khadafy the cost." The Shiite Moslems claim Khadafy is responsible for the disappearance of their leader in Tripoli three years ago. Libya has said the cleric was last seen in Rome. Irans Foreign Ministry confirmed Wednesday in an announcement, monitored in Beirut. Lebanon, that the its fourth stop Boeing 727 had landed in the hijacking that began over Rome Monday. The plane had stopped in Athens, twice in Beirut, and finally Tehran. In Cuba Meanwhile, eleven Latin American gunmen flew three hijacked Venezuelan jetliners to Havana, Cuba, Tuesday where they freed 102 hostages and turned themselves in to end a seven-natiowild, 'two-daodyssey across the Americas. Prensa Latina, the officials Cuban new's agency, said the three jetliners landed shortly before noon at Havana's the Jose Marti International Airport final destination of the triple skyjack that was punctuated by repeated threats to kill the passengers and blow up the planes unless Venezuela paid a $30 million ransom. d But about 100 wet and cold fans attended a morning vigil outside the Dakota, the apartment building where Lennon lived and died. They stood behind police outside the dark building, holding flowers, candles and umbrellas as a steady, cold rain four-yea- r Price Twenn Five Cents 1981 1 Loyal To Lennon new December 9, ATVfc By Phillip Taubman New York Times Writer WASHINGTON Many former Green Berets, men specially trained by the Army to be masters of the lethal arts, sell their skills to unfriendly governments and repressive regimes, according to federal law enforcement officials and former Green Berets. These operations, concentrated in Africa, the Middle East and South America, are said by these sources to have involved dozens of the thousands of former Army Special Forces veterans, better known as Green Berets. These sources said that in many cases men were recruited by fellow veterans who contended that their missions had been sanctioned by the Central Intelligence Agency. In most cases, such contentions were apparently false, but former Green Berets, accustomed to handling sensitive and often unconventional covert tasks for the CIA while on active duty, assumed that the jobs had been approved by the government. The activities of former Green Berets have recently been a subject of increased federal scrutiny because of disclosures that more than an dozen Special Forces veterans worked in Libya training terrorists in an operation organized by Edwin P. Wilson, a former CIA agent. Wilson has been indicted on charges of illegally shipping explosives to Libya for use in training Berets Train Worlds Despots terrorists and there. is believed to be living Recruited to Assassinate In one instance, the sources said, former Green Berets were recruited to assassinate opponents of the Somoza government in Nicaragua. Others, they said, trained Chilean intelligence agents in martial techniques. Additional public attention has been focused on the issue by the case of Eugene A. Tafoya, a Special Forces veteran who worked for Wilson in Libya. Tafoya was convicted last week of assault in the shooting of a Libyan student in Fort Collins, Colo., in October 1980. As part of his defense, he contended that he had been working for the CIA. Interviews with more than two dozen federal officials and former Green Berets suggest that the Libyan operation run by Wilson was not unique in its use of men who had once served in the Special Forces. These sources provided details about two operattions involving Special Forces veterans, one in Nicaragua and one in Chile. They also cited, without providing details, other overseas operations that employed former Green Berets in Egypt, Zaire, Honduras, Mexico and Argentina. The sources said that some of these operations, like Wilsons terrorist training project in Libya, were contrary to American foreign policy interests because they involved providing specialized military expertise to unfriendly governments or to repressive regimes. United States laws, however, do not prohibit such activities unless the Americans involved become mercenary soldiers, that is, formally enlist in a military service of a foreign nation, Justice Department officials said. Joseph W. Reap Jr., a State Department press officer, declined to comment on the mercenary activities of former Green Barets and referred a caller to the Justice Department. Make Army Career A press officer here, John Russell, said: We have investigated activities of former Green Berets before and found some flaws in the mercenary laws. We found we couldnt go ahead If there is any with prosecution. violation of mercenary laws, well make every effort to look into it and enforce it. The Army, according to a spokesman for the Special Forces, makes no effort to caution active-dut- y Green Berets about becoming involved in questionable activities when they retire. The spokesman, Lt. Col. Harold Isaacson, said that the only caution they receive about applying their skills when they leave the military is a warning not to disclose classified material about unorthodox demolition work. "We dont talk in terms of getting out of the Army, said Isaacson, who is based at. Special Forces headquarters at Fort Bragg, N.C. He added that the Special Forces, while embarrassed by the activities of some former members, could do nothing to control how they apply their expertise in weapons, explosives and communications. Several veterans of the Special Forces criticized the Army as having failed to prepare them to civilian life, thus leaving them vulnerable to recruiting appeals from groups offering to pay large sums for skills that are not in demand outside the military. In the Special Forces they train a man to an almost uncontrollable state, said Rov L. Mathews, a former Green Beret who now works as a police sergeant in Fayetteville, N.C., near Fort Bragg. "You make a man something between an animal and a human being, someone with the instincts of an attack dog. Then one day, without any deprogramming, youre back in civilian life. Theres no preparation. The largest concentrations of Special Forces veterans, according to federal law enforcement officials, Army intelligence officials and former Green Berets, live in Fayetteville and Hawaii, making those areas centers for recruiting and intrigue. (Copyright) Inflation? And Murray Weidenbaum, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said in a prepared statement that he is not worried that record budget deficits could inflation and overwhelm the administrations hopes for economic recovery next year. It has long been an article of Re-Igni- faith among conservative economists that large budget deficits contribute to inflation. And many private economists have warned recently that uncontrolled deficits, this year and beyond, will once again feed the fires of inflation and high interest rates next year, possibly slowing the recovery. Impossible Goal? Weidenbaum acknowledged that substantial deficits ... will rise to concerns that the federal government cannot get its fiscal house in order, that budgetary discipline is an impossible goal, and that inflationary pressures are bound to ingive crease." But. he declared: "I for one do not share those fears. comments came just a few hours before he and other top administration officials opened their review of the 1983 budget by telling Reagan to expect deficits exceeding $100 billion a year through 1984. Blast Ravages Tennessee Coal Mine, 13 Killed By John Nolan An exploWHITWELL, Tenn. sion ripped through a coal mine Tuesday, killing 13 miners in a collapsed shaft 1,200 feet underground, authorities said. It was the third mine disaster in the Appalachian coalfields in the last five days. Emergency rescue teams equipped with air tanks and masks had to crawl through a shaft that is only 36 inches wide in some places to reach the men, a mine company sixkosman said. The cause of the explosion had not been determined. On Monday, eight coal miners died in eastern Kentucky when an explosion trapped them about 2,580 feet inside a mountain. Five IxKlies were found Monday night, and the other three were recovered early Tuesday morning at the Topmost. Ky., mine. The explosion blasted mud and water out the mine's mouth against a cliff 280 feet away. William B. Allison, president of Tennessee Consolidated Coal Co., said in a statement that all 13 men had been found and there were no survivors. He said it was the worst accident in the companys history. The company refused to release the names of the 13 victims, pending notification of their families. The disaster left 24 men dead in mine accidents since Thursday of last week. It was the worst coal mine accident since 15 men were killed last April 15 in an explosion at a mine near Redstone, Colo. Allison's statement said the explosion occurred at about noon CST in what is known as the 003 section of the No. 21 mine operated by Grundy Mining Co., a subsidiary of Tennessee Consolidated. The mine is about 30 miles northwest of Chattanooga in a mountainous area of southeastern Tennessee. Family members gathered outside the company's office at Whitwell Mountain began crying when nimors of the deaths started circulating. Several were comforted by friends. Roy White Sr., a retired miner who worked for Tennessee Consolidated for 28 years, told a reporter before the announcement of the deaths that his son, Roy White Jr., was one of the trapped miners. You dont know when you go underground if you're ever going to see the sun again, and youre lucky if you do," he said. John Parish, press secretary to Governor Lamar Alexander, said in Nashville that an investigation into the cause of the explosion was under way. In a statement. Alexander expressed sadness over this accident and sympathy to the family and friends of the men who lost their lives." Associated Press Laserphoto Mrs. Orie Sloan, widow of Robert Sloan, who was killed Monday in explosion at Adkins Coal Co. mine in Kentucky, lies surrounded by her child ren. Mrs. Sloan is pregnant with eighth child. |
