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College food fight brings riot squad, state of emergency MURFREESBORO, N.C. (AP) - Six-hundred students flinging turkey, mashed potatoes and chairs in a college cafeteria turned a food fight into a riot until police broke it up with nine arrests and the mayor declared a state of emergency. “It was funny for a while, but it got too funny,” Mayor W.W. Hill said Wednesday night after declaring an emergency in the northeastern North Carolina town of 3,500 people and banning alcohol sales for 12 hours. “We’re a little liberal in this college town we bend a little,” Hill said. "But when the buck has to be stopped, we stop it.” Estimates of damage to the Chowan College cafeteria ranged from $2,000 to $3,000, officials said. "Food was all over the ceiling,” said town police Officer Tommy Gee. who arrived soon after the worst of the rioting. “The floor was such a mess you couldn’t walk on it. It was a total wreck." Police Chief Robert Harris said he and three officers went into the cafeteria and found “students just screaming and hollering, throwing food and trays, breaking up furniture they broke the door open, too.” Some of the doors were broken down by panic-stricken students after a college official tried to calm the crowd by locking the exits. Harris said nine students were charged with inciting to riot. They were held on $2,000 bond and scheduled for court appearances Tuesday. More arrests were expected, police said. No serious injuries were reported. “I was in the cafeteria when it happened." said infirmary night nurse Marie Elliot. “I haven’t seen any injuries. The biggest thing I saw was somebody got hit in the back with an apple and got a pretty good bruise.” “Food was flying everywhere, and dishes and trays,” said Darryl Bryant, a student from Woodland. “I got hit in the right eye with an apple and swung around to get out of the way and then got hit in the left eye with a plate.” Students said the melee began Wednesday afternoon at a local tavern where students were taking advantage of reduced beer prices. Witnesses said someone stood up and announced plans for a food fight later at the Halloween banquet, which was held in the cafeteria. The cafeteria at the school, which has 1,100 students, was decorated with crepe paper for the occasion and a special meal of turkey, yams and mashed potatoes was being served. “I locked the doors because I thought when they realized the doors were closed they would stop,” said assistant cafeteria manager Larry Lassiter. “But it got worse, so I opened the doors.”

Aging Soviet sub runs aground in Swedish waters

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) Sweden says it may try today to free an aging Soviet submarine snared inside restricted Swedish waters when it ran aground. The government, angry over the intrusion, barred Soviet salvage ships from trying to rescue the sub, hung up in 40 feet of water four miles off the Swedish coast in the Karlskrona archipelago.. The diesel-powered Whiskeyclass submarine, carrying a crew of 54, ran aground Tuesday night about 12 miles south of the major Swedish naval base at Karlskrona, on the Baltic Sea 300 miles south of Stockholm. Swedish navy spokesman Bertil Lagerwall said 10 Warsaw Pact vessels, including salvage craft and two warships, massed just outside Sweden’s 12-mile territorial limit as the Kremlin tried to get permission to rescue the sub. He said Swedish helicopters, toipedo boats and coast guard craft were watching the sub and the Soviet-led flotilla. More

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Declining consumer demand at root of layoffs

By DIANE M. BALK Associated Press Writer Slumping sales mean Evansville’s largest employer will close 12 days during the next two months. RCA at Bloomington is laying off about 400 people at its VideoDise and color television plant. At U.S. Steel in Gary, a spokesman says 3,100 people are now on layoff. Full employment is normally 20,000. Is it coincidence or is it a trend?

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waters but could not explain how his vessel had come so far inside the archipelago,” Andersson was quoted as telling the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. “The captain, who was absolutely shattered by the incident, would only say he was on ‘a mission’ and that his home base was Kaliningrad,” in the southern Baltic, Andereson was quoted as saying. The commander of the Soviet

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Morton J. Marcus, research economist at Indiana University, said in a telephone interview Wednesday, “It’s hardly coincidence. They’re all responding to the same economic conditions. Consumer durable purchases are not moving as much as these firms would have liked.” Whirlpool announced Tuesday slumping sales of refrigerators and air conditioners mean the Evansville plant will close for 12 days in November and December. The

sub, identified as Capt. Gushin, claimed the vessel ran aground because of a “navigational error due to a faulty gyro compass and bad weather. “You have only to look at the nautical charts to realize that this is virtually impossible,” said a spokesman for the Swedish naval staff, Jan-Ake Berg. “To get that far inside the archipelago requires very careful navigation.” Swedish Foreign Minister Ola

announcement was made as hourly employees were returning after a two-day layoff. The plant has been closed four days this month and will close eight days in November and four in December. Officials said the shutdowns will prevent further layoffs and allow some assembly lines at the company’s two Evansville plants to remain open at least part-time. In late August, the company laid off 800 employees. On Oct. 2, the firm began laying off

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Ullsten also termed the Soviet captain’s story “unacceptable” and demanded an explanation from the Soviet government in a sharply-worded protest note. He said Sweden “looks very

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another 270 workers. The firm now has about 4,000 production employees, down from more than 6,000 earlier this year. RCA, one of Bloomington’s largest employers, currently has about 4,100 workers. A spokesman said 300 employees from the VideoDise manufacturing line will be laid off along with 100 from color television manufacturing. Last week, General Electric Co.’s refrigerator plant at Bloomington halted production

seriously” on the intrusion. Gushin asked for Soviet tugs to tow his vessel free. The Foreign Ministry refused and said Swedish salvage ships were ordered to the area.

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for two weeks until Nov. 9. About 200 workers are affected. A U.S. Steel spokesman said, “The order book is just pretty weak. It’s been developing the *past several weeks, a gradual increase in layoffs and, furloughs. When we’re going flat out, all of our employes, managment and hourly, we’re looking at a figure pretty close to 20,000.” He said a future turnaround “in large part is determined by the national economy. If the automobile business improves,

Suspect hunted in rape of girl, 13

OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (AP) Police say they have cleared a suspect in the abduction and rape of a 13-year-old Oakland City girl who with her 11-year-old sister accepted a ride with a man. Gibson County Sheriff Roger J. Emmert said Wednesday medical tests showed the older girl had been raped. He said detectives were given names of additional suspects by the girls and police were interviewing them. Emmert said the girls accepted a ride with a stranger who offered them marijuana. He said the pair originally told police they were trick-or-treating when they were out Tuesday night. In another interview Wednesday, the girls told police the man asked them if they wanted to smoke marijuana. Deputy David Knowles, the

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if people start purchasing big ticket items such as washers and dryers,” that will help. Marcus said Whirlpool and RCA are slowing production because of declining consumer demand. High interest rates are partially responsible for the drop in demand, he added. “The question really is what’s going to be the duration of these layoffs? That I think is difficult to tell.” Marcus said the effect of the Reagan administration tax cuts also remains an unknow .r

investigating officer, said the younger girl apparently escaped when the man took them to a wooded area northeast of town. Knowles said she ran to a nearby house and the sheriff’s office was called. Knowles said the older girl was taken back to town and released by the man. The 13-year-old girl was treated for minor injuries at the hospital and released. Knowles said he was unsure whether to call the case a kidnapping since the youngsters, who he declined to identify, accepted the ride. “But then the man didn’t let them out when they wanted out,” he said. Knowles said the girls told him they had protested when the man told them he was going to take them into the country. They reported the man told them he had a gun but did not see one.

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