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People in the news Pueblo commander fears for hostages Lloyd M. Bucher, who was held by North Korean captors for nearly a year, says he fears Americans might make scapegoats of the hostages in Iran if they are freed as a result of any United States capitulation to Iranian demands. Bucher, the commander of the Pueblo in 1968, when it was seized, signed a forced confession to spying inside Korean waters. "I believe I was made a scapegoat,” Bucher said Wednesday from his home in Poway, Calif. “And I think it’s possible that the guys out in the field,” he said in a reference to the hostages, “might be made the scapegoats in Iran.” Bucher, who was imprisoned with 82 crewmen of the Pueblo, a naval intelligence ship, was criticized harshly by military leaders for confessing under torture that the Pueblo was a spy ship. The officers and crew were released after the United States government signed a confession of spying and apologized to the North Koreans. “It was wrong of the United States to get us out of Korea that way,” the former commander said. “I think it would be wrong for the United States to get the hostages out of Iran that way, too.” • Effective Friday, the third anniversary of the sentencing of Patricia Hearst Shaw on a bank robbery conviction, Mrs. Shaw has been taken off her probation period in California. She had served nearly two years of a sevenyear sentence before receiving a pardon from President Carter last year, and was to have been on probation for the remaining part of her sentence. The 25-year-old newspaper heiress’s probation reduction, in Los Angeles, was protested by one of the prosecuting attorneys, Mike Carroll. He argued that Mrs. Shaw had enjoyed leniency in sentencing and that completing the full probation term would not have been “too onerous a burden.” Mrs. Shaw was sentenced for acts she committed after joining the so-called Symbionese Liberation Army, the radical group that kidnapped her in 1974. She now lives in Redwood City, Calif., with her husband and former bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. • NEW YORK (AP) the word from Dennis Christopher, who played the fast-pe-daling, impressionable young hero of the hit movie, “Breaking Away.” The role has meant that Christopher is called on a lot these days anytime events focus on cycling. And Thursday, he was here to promote a Central Park “bike-a-thon” to raise money for cerebral palsy research. He said it was great seeing the photographs of all the people who bicycled around the Big Apple during a recent transit strike. But he said he no longer rides bikes himself. “I act,” he said. • CHUR, Switzerland (AP) Twenty months after they exchanged vows in Moscow, Christina Onassis and Sergei Kausov have been divorced in Switzerland. Swiss lawyer Ettore Tenchio said Thursday the divorce was granted on the grounds of “irreconcilable differences” between the Greek shipping heiress and her Soviet husband. The divorce took effect Wednesday, three weeks after a property settlement hearing. However, Tenchio refused to disclose details of the settlement. Mrs. Kausov, daughter of the late Aristotle Onassis, has been a legal resident of Switzerland since 1975. She was not available for comment. • LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) Entertainer Wayne Newton is in the market for the troubled Aladdin Hotel after a sale to comedian Johnny Carson apparently fell through, state gaming officials say. Gaming Commission Chairman Harry Reid said a contract will be signed next week between Newton and the Strip resort’s current owners.

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HOLLYWOOD For Eva Marie Saint, “The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb” was more than just a made-for-television movie that would give her an opportunity to work in England and Egypt. “I had been thoroughly impressed in ‘King Tut’ lore even before the part was offered to me,” she said. “When the exhibit was touring here, I went to see it several times and came away on each occasion with a marvelous sense of wonder at the splendor that was contained in his tomb. “Going to Egypt to see the actual burial place and the remaining 90 percent of the artifacts was the answer to a dream. And, of course, I scoffed at any idea of a ‘curse’ attached to King Tut. I’m as superstitious as any actress, but curses are not particularly believable to me.” The company began its shooting in the fabled Valley of the Kings, although the Egyptian government would not allow them to film directly at the Tut tomb. It was recreated in every detail, however, and Saint proceeded to portray an American reporter among the press gathered to record the historic dig. lan McShane was cast as Howard Carter, the archaeologist who searched for the burial site and finally located the fabulous treasures. They had just begun filming, Saint recalled, and she was doing a scene with McShane in which both were riding in an ancient touring car, heading across the rocky hills in the hunt for the tomb. “We were parked at the edge of a cliff,” Saint said with a slight shudder, “waiting between takes. Suddenly, for no explainable reason, the car began rolling backward. lan shouted, ‘jump’ and pushed me out the side just before the car headed over the edge. Unfortunately, his foot was caught and he couldn’t get out in time.” McShane was somewhat fortunate, however. He managed to free himself before the car began tumbling over and over, and escaped with his leg broken in 10 places. He was forced out of the production, however, and they started all over again. The*producers went back to England and were happy to sign Robin Ellis for the Carter role. Ellis, “Masterpiece Theater” fans will recall, is the dashing hero who made “Poldark” such a rousing success. “This time, they took no chances,” Eva told us. “Robin

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LLOYD BUCHER: Knows feeling DENVER (AP) Donna Kehler put on a bikini, climbed aboard a camel and rode around a downtown plaza for an hour singing “Dixie” and throwing chocolate drops to bystanders all to win third prize in a radio station contest. Denver radio station KIMN had asked its listeners what they would do for a pound of gold. The winner is going to cut his car in half. The runner-up must sit in a bathtub full of beer while playing cymbals and a trombone. Mrs. Kehler’s stunt Wednesday was good for a trip to Mexico. She shrieked when she got a look at Clyde the camel, but the contest promoters made her carry through her stunt. Mrs. Kehler’s husband also was a good sport about the whole thing, although his task was somewhat less glamorous. Bob Kehler, an Air Force sergeant, was sent to stand behind Clyde with a shovel. • NEW YORK John D. Backe resigned abruptly Thursday night as president and chief executive officer of CBS, No reason for the resignation of the 47-year-old executive was given in a terse late-evening corporate announcement that left most CBS executives stunned and puzzled. A spokesman said only that the resignation was made at a meeting of CBS’s 15-member board of directors. The announcement said that Backe’s duties as the No. 2 official of the $1.5 billion entertainment and communications enterprise would be assumed temporarily by William S. Paley, chairman of the board; John R. Purcell, executive vice president; Gene F. Jankowski, president of the CBS Broadcast Group, and Walter R. Yetnikoff, president of the CBS Records Group. Backe had been president and chief operating officer of CBS since October 1976 and had assumed the duties of chief executive officer from Paley in May 1977. His salary has been in the area of $760,000 a year, and CBS officials said last night that his contract was not due to expire until May 31, 1983. Backe’s predecessor as president, Arthur R. Taylor, also had resigned abruptly, CBS officials recalled Thursday night. • LANSING, Mich. (AP) jury,” a prosecutor said after three women rejected a deal and elected to stand trial on charges that they were wearing only their shoes and a coat of mustard when arrested in a panel truck. Doshaline McCuin, 29, Charlene Roper, 26, and Sandra Lewis, 25. pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges of indecent exposure and joyriding in connection with the April 17 incident. Assistant County Prosecutor Kim Eddie said authorities offered to drop the indecent exposure charge in exchange for a guilty plea on the joyriding count. Said their lawyer, John Mertz: “Near as I can tell, they’re not guilty of any crime.”

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