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Four who survived war prison camp meet after 32 years MC CLURE, 111. (AP) Four men who were thrown together in a prisoner of war camp far from their Southern Illinois and Indiana homes 36 years ago, have rekindled some old memories. On Saturday, for the first time in 32 years, the four who had called themselves “the survival pack" got together again in this Southern Illinois community to reminisce. “The four of us boys buddied together all through prison camp," said Doyle Annable, a rural mail carrier from Cypress. “We try to get together once in a while but it's been 32 years since we were all together at once.” Annable, Alonzo Dawson of Mount Vernon, and Harold Vander Reyden of Goshen, Ind., got together Saturday at the home of Earl Anderson for “a lot of reminiscing, a lot of talk and a lot of eating," Anderson said. “We’ve gone through something not many go through," Annable said. “It puts you closer than your own family.” Anderson. 60, was a 23-year-old lead scout for the 30th Division when he was captured on a night patrol on Oct. 14, 1944, and sent to Stalag 28, a prison camp. At the camp he met Annable, who had been taken prisoner in September, the first of the four to be captured. Annable had escaped twice before when liberated by Italian and French underground forces. Dawson was the second of the four to be captured and was, at barely 19, “the baby of the bunch," he said. His three buddies, he said, “feel like part of my family. When we do see each other, we say we’ll get together more often. But with this rat race of life, we just don’t get around to it.” The four men remember that the Germans only gave them soup to eat, but managed to get by on food boxes sent by the American Red Cross. They shared anything they could possibly get with each other, Anderson said. “The survival pack is what we called ourselves.” After six months in captivity, they were put on a death march “trying to keep us away from the American troops,” Anderson said. “There were 1,450 people when we started and we marched. the best we could figure, about 800 kilometers. When we were liberated, there were 252 left,” Anderson said. Anderson is now a school bus driver and a retired mechanic. Vander Reyden is retired from being a selfemployed carpet and linoleum dealer. Dawson is a farmer and works for a stove company.

Court nixes girl's bid to play on boys'team

(c) 1981 The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - Junior and senior high schools and colleges have won implied permission from the Supreme Court to segregate their sports teams by sex. Without comment Monday, the justices turned down the appeal of an 12-year-old Illinois eighth grade girl who wanted to play on the boys’ basketball team. The justices’ action left intact a ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that it does not violate either the Constitution or federal law to have singlesex teams. Unless another federal court rules differently, putting the issue back before the Supreme Court, that will be the prevailing view.

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The sex-segregated sports issue was taken to the court by Karen O’Connor, reportedly a gifted basketball player at MacArthur Junior High School in Prospect Heights, 111. She was rejected, solely because of her sex, when she sought a try out with the boys’ team. She and her parents then sued in federal court. They argued that it was sex discrimination to exclude a student from the team where competition is more challenging when that student was capable of making that team, regardless of sex. Rejecting her challenge, the Circuit Court said that so long as a school provides equal funding, equipment and facilities for boys’ and girls’ sports, there is no violation.

Battle of budget: Take two Reagan, Congress return from holiday ready for rerun of spending showdown

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan, “fired up and ready to tackle the budget” after a Thanksgiving holiday in California, is preparing to go another round with Congress in the battle over federal spending. But presidential spokesman Larry Speakes said Monday that administration officials are encouraged by reports from Capitol Hill indicating a compromise. is likely before the government runs out of money again in two weeks. Speakes told reporters returning to Washington aboard Air Force One that White House officials have a “good feeling about the progress we’ve made on the Hill” since Reagan’s veto last week of an emergency spending measure passed by Congress. Republican congressional

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leaders "feel they can come up with a consensus piece of legislation (Reagan) can sign,” Speakes said. In a brief stop Monday at a Republican fund-raiser in Cincinnati, Reagan slapped back at his chief political rival, House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr.,

Missile talks will be secret

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) - U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators get down to their first bargaining today after agreeing to a news blackout on their talks to limit the deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. The two delegations were to meet at the offices of the U.S. Arms Control Agency, where the ill-fated SALT II treaty was negotiated, following a

who last week accused the president of ignorance on budget matters. “Speaker O’Neill says that I know less about the budget than any president he’s ever known,” Reagan told an audience that had paid from SI,OOO to $25,000 each to see him. “Well,

preliminary session Monday of delegation chiefs Paul H. Nitze of the United States and Yuli A. Kvitsinsky of the Soviet Union. Nitze told leporters the meeting was “cordial and businesslike.” He said he and Kvitsinsky agreed to keep the discussions secret because “it is only by mutual respect for the confidentiality of these proceedings that we can hope to look at the

maybe we’re not talking about the same kind of budgets. I presided over eight balanced budgets as governor of California, and he’s only seen a balanced budget once in his 27 years in Congress. And I could point out that since I became president, there hasn’t been a

hard issues which divide us and to search for solutions that will assure security and reduced tensions.” He said the public would probably be told the date and place of meetings “and little else.” “We want these talks to succeed,” he added. “This arrangement will help us work toward this goal.”

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federal budget for me to look at.” Referring to the emergency spending bill that he rejected last week, Reagan said: “Now there the speaker was right about the things I don’t know. I didn’t know that it was considered impossible to veto a continuing resolution. So I vetoed one. “Now, Nancy and I have flown to California for the holidays, and now we have flown back here, and I am still waiting for the sky to fall. And it hasn’t. You know, if it goes on like this a fellow might be tempted to try doing some of those other things they say are impossible, like reducing the size of government, eliminating inflation, reducing tax rates and maybe even having a budget before we are finished. ” Reagan stopped in Cincinnati

after a Thanksgiving vacation at his California ranch. After Reagan returned to the White House late Monday, Speakes told reporters that the president was “rested and relaxed” but was “fired up and ready to tackle the budget.” The Ohio stop was the president’s first public appearance since reports surfaced last week that a Libyan “hit team” might try to enter the United States and assassinate Reagan or some other top American official. State and local police were told of the purported threat, and their forces, bolstered by federal officers, were very much in evidence at the Greater Cincinnati Airport as well as along the route to and at the Hotel Westin where the presidential party made a onehour stop.

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