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Show Reagan Warned Organized Crime on Rise WASHINGTON Congressman Bill Nelson says hes hav- ing a ball hanging around in the weight- - t less cabin of Columbia, whose Florida landing has been moved up to Thursday. Landing Set for Tomorrow Columbia Will Return Day Early To Keep Other Flights on Track James Fisher Orlando Sentinel CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Hoping to make sure Columbia begins its next mission on schedule, NASA decided Tuesday to bring the space shuttle back to Earth on Thursday, a day earlier that) planned. Landing is set for 6:28 a m. MST at Kennedy Space Center. Columbias four-da- y mission, 24th in the shuttle program, began Sunday after repeated launch delays. Only three other shuttle flights have lasted fewer days. Shortening the mission will give shuttle workers an extra day to prepare Columbia for its March 6 launch, the third of a record 15 flights planned this year. The landing Thursday will be the first in Florida since April 1985, when Discovery blew a tire and suffered brake problems when it touched down on the space centers concrete, three-mil- e runway. Since then, all : shuttle flights have ended at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where the dry lake-be- d runway is wider. Columbia has been equipped with a new nose-whesteering system to ease brake wear. The shuttles launch delay has pushed back the next shuttle mission two days until Jan. 24, when Challenger will carry New Hampshire high school teacher Christa McAuliffe aloft. Were not going to miss any objectives by cutting short Columbias mission, said flight director Jay Gret ne. The ship needs to come back and gel into the processing stream. Another reason for the early retun, is to get two straight days of good weather in case a first landing attempt is postponed. Favorable conditions are forecast Thursday and Friday, but not Saturday. By - ' y Earlier in the day, Nelson gave mission control a report on one of his medical experiments and said he is having a ball. Later, a videotape made by another crew member showed Nelson spinning himself in weightlessness around the cabin. The crew, which released a $50 million communications satellite and conducted a variety of experiements, will begin packing up Wednesday. Three of the shuttles major experiments also are not working properly, which provided less incentive to stay in orbit longer. When you put it all together, it just makes sense, said Milton Hel-flianother flight director. n, The crew members, including Rep. Bill Nelson, were given the news Tuesday afternoon. Continued From l nity, had been in for nearly two decades. But she reappeared on the Hollywood scene in a big way in 1984 when she was chosen to replace an ailing Barbara Bel Geddes as the matriarg chal Miss Ellie in the nighttime TV soap opera, DalLs. That engagement ended badly a year later when, with Bel Geddes return to good health, the show's producers dumped Miss Reed. She unsuccessfully sued for reinstatement to her job, but did receive a $1 million settlement. Despite the unpleasantness of that show, Miss Reed will almost certainly be remembered by most Americans of a certain age as the perfectly coiffed mother of the program that bore her name. Her late husband, Tony Owen, was the executive producer, having designed the show for her, and together they kept it going for eight years on ABC. It ran for four more years in daytime reruns on that network and, still in syndication, is seen currently in some cities on independent stations and cable channels. Miss Reed, by the early 1960s, was tiring of the grind of raising her own family and working long hours at the A-- semi-retireme- nt long-runnin- TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) Libya invited all foreign residents of Tripoli to a reception in the city's largest hotel Tuesday and 1,500 diplomats, oil workers and technicians turned up for soft drinks and assurances. Daw Swedan, a ranking official at the Foreign Ministry, called the reception a belated Christmas and New Year celebration. Let us pray that God may help to make those trying to sow differences to understand that human beings are more important than guns, he told the guests, including some Americans. We pledge to seek peace and friendship, and to work together with all peoples, Mosall communities and members of all churches lems, Christians, and even Jews." In accordance with Libyan law, only soft drinks were served. studio. And there was not an awful lot of challenge to the job. There are only so many ways of hovering and I've used all of them, she told an interviewer in 1962. "Besides, the kids are taller than I am now and have you tried hovering over someone you have to stare up at? When ratings slumped and the program folded in 1966, Miss Reed found time to concentrate on her own family and grapple with problems bigger than Mary Stones. She had been trained in the studio star system to keep her opinions to herself. She had been cast in movies, for the most part, as a wholesome girl. She had been a lifelong Republican. But suddenly, secure financially, Donna Reed spoke up. She surprised many in Hollywood in 1967 when she became active in the antiwar movement and was named Beverly Hills cochairman of Another Mother for Peace, an organization opposed to continuing U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Miss Reed also was active in an unsuccessful power initiative drive in 1974. Donna Reed had become something more than an Iowa farm girl anti-nucle- The wife of a British oilman attending the party told reporters of growing shortages of some foods and oth- er necessities, but added: Despite the fact that you can't get bread or soap powder or toilet paper without standing in line, we still have a good time here, she said, insisting on anonymity. The Reagan administration ordered about 1.500 Americans working in Libya to leave by Feb. 1 or face possible prosecution in American courts. Many have decided to defy the presidential order. One resident from Eastern Europe also spoke of food shortages in Tripoli. He said he witnessed a skirmish among Libyans that broke out in a small food store when a small consignment of bananas arrived from Nicaragua. Adviser Says Firms Upping Transfers To Libya to Beat Reagans Embargo - U.S.-owne- In particular, the Reagan adminis- tration accuses Libya of aiding the Palestinians responsible for the Dec. t - A blue-ribbo- n federal commission told President Reagan on Tuesday that organized crime is entrenched in Americas marketplace and is "increasingly using labor unions as a tool to obtain monopoly power. The Presidents Commission on Organized Crime, winding up the first comprehensive investigation of labor and management racketeering since the McClellan hearings three decades ago, said consumers "unknowingly pay a surcharge to organized crime for a wide range of goods and services," and that federal enforcement efforts are fragmented and inadequate to stem the tide. Just two days earlier, Reagan, in an article for The New York Times Magazine, wrote that for the first time in our history, we finally have the mob on the run and boasted that organized crime convictions had quadrupled since he took office in 1981. But Commission Chairman Irving R. Kaufman, who presented the panel's report to Reagan at the White House, said, There has never been a coherent federal strategy to attack organized crimes corruption of our business institutions and labor organizations. In a summary released to reporters, the commission criticized prosecutors who merely count bodies as a measure of succonvictions cess, and said, Instead, a new strategy must be developed to bankrupt individual mobsters and to discourage union officers, employers, and public officials from accommodating organized crime. The panel, appointed by Reagan in 1983, faulted his administration for certain political alliances, saying, for example, that "long delays in reaching a resolution of a Department of Justice investigation concerning International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Jackie Presser have led to a . . . concern whether Press-er'- s support of the administration in the 1980 and 1984 election campaigns influenced the conduct of the investigation. . j Jacqueline Kimberly a iz- Placldo Domingo Dave Durenberger heir James, told Circuit Jacqueline Kimberly, wife of Kleenex 19 in 1969, man she wed at age Judge James Stewart she still loved the but wont live with him anymore. She said he chased her with a knife, mail and broke her records. pulled a gun on her, opened her all. it Kimberly denied wife, and asked the judge to deny He said he still loves his her request for a divorce. Stewart didnt say when or how he would rule. nuptial agreement limiting a Mrs. Kimberly wants a divorce settlement overturned and $42,000 a year in alimony. Kimberly depending on said his 1969 fortune of $4:7 million to $6.6 million has dwindled so that he cant afford it. whose accountant is counting pre-marit- - Placido Domingo, Spanish opera star, and pop superstar Julio efIglesias each plan to record a song promoting Barcelona, Spains forts to become the site of the 1992 Olympic Games, the national news agency EFE said. A spokesman for CBS records Spanish subsidiary said Domingo and Iglesias recently accepted an invitation from the city Olympic Committee to assist in the promotion, EFE said. Barcelona is competing with Paris and Birmingham, England, for the summer Games. Sen. Dave Durenberger who was arrested for disorderly conduct in a flap over a taxi at Bostons Logan International Airport, said he was wrong for mouthing off at a state police officer. The Minnesota Republican was arrested after he tried to bypass a line for taxis at the airport on his arrival for a speaking engagement in Boston, said Sgt. Jim Sartori, a spokesman for the state police. No formal charges were filed because a magistrate found the arrest complaint to be without grounds, Sartori said. I mouthed off to the cop. I shouldn't have and later I apologized to him, Durenberger said. It was one of those freak things that I never should have let get started. Tribune Wire Services Cancer Claims Actress Donna Reed, 64 Libya Throws a Party for Foreigners U.S. comTRIPOLI. Libya L PI panies have increased transfers of money and equipment to Libya in an attempt to beat President Reagan's Feb 1 economic embargo against the nation, a Western adviser to the Libyan government said Tuesday. The adviser, who asked not to be identified, said foreign subsidiaries of U S companies that were not wholly d appeared to be exempt from the embargo. U S. companies are stepping up thpir transfers in advance of the Feb 1 deadline, the adviser said without providing specific details On Jan, 7 Reagan imposed economic sanctions against Libya to retaliate for Libya's alleged suppor( for terrorists. Reagan set a Feb 1 deadline for U S companies either to leave the North African country or to sever all commercial links with it (AP) Spotlight attacks at the Rome and Vienna airports in which 19 people were killed and 120 were wounded Libya has praised the attacks but denied any involvement. Libyan officials are meeting in Europe with representatives of various U.S companies to discuss the effect of the embargo, the adviser said. Mohammed Mongush, secretary for Libya's $15 billion Great River project, left Tuesday for 27 Man-Mad- Plane Flies 2(M) e Switzerland, but the purpose of his visit was not disclosed. The project is aimed at pumping water from under the southern desert to Libya's coast. U.S. companies, including Kaiser Engineers Inc of Oakland, Calif and a New Jersey firm whose name was not immediately available, also are involved in a $3 billion project to build an aluminum plant and refinery , in Libya. Feet Under Jet Preparing to A singleWICHITA, Kan (AP) engine plane flew about 200 feet beneath a TWA Boeing 727 preparing to land Tuesday at Wichita's Mid Continent Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said The pilot of the Trans World Airlines Flight 437 originating in Boston with a stop in St Louis was making its approach about three miles south of the airport at 4 26 pm when a Itnd Cessna 172 passed below it, an FAA spokesman said The FAA's preliminary report indicated the small plane had just taken off from the airport, said John Swank, public affairs officer for the FAA's central region in Kansas City, Mo The TWA flight, which was at an altitude of about 2 500 feet, did not have to take evasive action, he said i who, according to her studio biography in the 1940s, had helped her parents around the house by driving a tractor and milking the cows. Mullenger Jan. 27, Iowa, she was, by all accounts, a typical farmers daughter, occupied with farm work and her high school studies. She was elected Campus Queen of Denison High. She loaded her possessions into an old car and headed west, seeking not fame and fortune, but a clerical career. She studied stenography and other secretarial chores at Los Angeles City College, appeared in a few campus plays, and was elected CamBorn Donna 1921 in Denison, pus Queen in 1940. Legend and the studio biographies claim that Miss Reed put Hollywood on hold for a time, waiting until she picked up her business degree. Then she tested opposite Van Heflin at and was signed to a contract. The early films included Shadow of the Thin Man, (1941); The Courtship of Andy Hardy," (1942); "Calling Dr. Gillespie, (1942); See Here Private Hargrove, (1944); The Picture of Dorian Gray, (1945); They Were Expendable, (1945), and It's a Wonderful Life, (1946). Donna Reed, William Holden accept Oscars at 1953 gala. The g actress died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer. Oscar-winnin- U.S. to Put Heat American Fighters Scramble On Allies to Libyan Jets Intercept U.S. Join Sanctions Continued From A-- l companies seeking new business in Libya and banned the sale of equipment containing uinique Western technology. Opposed. It has Belgium agreed to confer with European Common Market partners on a joint position at a special meeting in Luxembourg on Jan. 27, but the government said it would not try to stop a scheduled trade mission to Libya later this month by 14 companies from Belgium and Luxembourg. i'' Denmark Undecided, but leaning against. Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jense- n said he will discuss them with Washington but is "in doubt about the value of imposing sanctions." Undecided. Prime Japan Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone said his country is studying the American request but that "Japan will act according to its own judgment on what measures to take." V Greece No. The government said it would go ahead with negotiaantitions to sell Libya a Greek-buil- t aircraft system. Whitehead will visit nine of the NATO allies beginning Wednesday in hopes of persuading them to reduce their ties with Libya. He will confer with officials in Canada. West Germany, France, Turkey, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Belgium and Britain Secretary of State George P. Shultz declined over the weekend to give up hope that the allies would eventually agree to cooperate I don't think it's a thing." he and said It's a consciousness-raisinlong term effort that we are involved in " K Continued From A-- l Ocean to join the Coral Sea because of the tensions with Libya. The sources added, however, the Navy had not received any orders to prepare for a retaliatory strike against the North African country. According to the sources, the incident involving the two Libyan fighters and a Navy EA-- 3 electronic-surveillanc- e plane from the Coral Sea occurred at midday local time Monday, meaning during the early morning in the United States. The sources said the Soviet-mad- e MiG-2- 5 fighters appeared as the EA-flew over the Mediterranean waters northeast of the Libyan capital of Tripoli and north of the Gulf of Sidra. After the pilot of the surveillance plane detected the Libyan fighters and notified the Coral Sea, two U.S. fighters were scrambled by the carrier, one source said. But the Libyans had already begun leaving the area by the time the American fighters arrived, he added. There were two MiGs that showed 3 Plane and nosed around, said one source. They came fairly close. up But they made no threats, no menacing gestures, and then they peeled off and went away. There was nothing hostile and it was a rather unremarkable intercept. The sources said they could not be positive the planes were flown by Libyan pilots, but we assume they were. They were definitely Libyan planes. They said the Coral Sea is in the Ionian Sea, to the south and east of Italy, due north of Libya. The carrier was described Tuesday as conducting routine operations. The sources said the EA-a large, e jet packed with sophisticated electronic listening gear, is often used to conduct lone reconnaissance missions. The planes can carry large amounts of fuel to linger in an area for several hours. twin-engin- One source said it was not that unusual for Libyan fighters to be detected in the area. U.S. Asserts Ship Protection Right WASHINGTON (AP) - The United the ship to go on to Fajaira in the States asserted Tuesday the right to have Navy warships protect American freighters against forcible actions" in the Persian Gulf but refused to say whether interceptions by Iran would be resisted. The ambiguous U.S. stance was taken at the State Department where spokesman Charles Redman cautioned Iran thit boarding ships to look for weapons for Iraq was "a potentially dangerous game." Six armed Iranian sailors stopped the President Taylor on Sunday, boarded it for 1 hour and 45 minutes, found no war supplies and permitted I United Arab Emirates to pick up cargo for India. The administration on Monday said Iran, which is at war with Iraq, appeared to be acting within its rights. Twelve American passengers on the President Taylor said they feared the Iranian marines would kidnap them. e heard about hostages so often that we were scared of becoming captives when the Iranians boarded the ship, Frances Kirner, of Belmont, Calif., told The Associated Press. gun-totin- |
