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Security around Reagan tightened

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By PHILIP TAUBMAN c. 1981 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The government has received detailed reports that five terrorists trained in Libya entered the United State last weekend with plans to assassinate President Reagan or other senior administration officials, according to top federal law-enforcement officials. The reports, which the officials declined to discuss in detail, have prompted a huge nationwide search for the potential assassins and Americans to whom they might turn for assistance. these officials said. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service have been deployed around the country in recent days to question Americans who have past links to Libya, including veterans of the Army Special Forces, or Green Berets, who have worked in the militant Arab nation in North Africa training terrorists in an operation organized by a former American intelligence agent, Edwin P. Wilson. Agents of the FBI in the field said in telephone interviews they had orders to find and question other military veterans who had worked overseas in mercenary operations and were skilled in the handling of weapons and explosives. Concern about a Libyan threat has mounted in recent weeks as initially unconfirmed intelligence reports were buttressed by information supplied by an informant who has given American intelligence agencies first-hand descriptions of the training and

Van Orden jury is impaneled COLUMBUS, Ind. (AP) - The trial of an Evansville woman accused of killing former Evansville Mayor Russell G. Lloyd is in recess until Monday when opening statements are to be given. A jury was impaneled late Thursday for the trial of Julie Van Orden, 36, who pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. The trial began in Bartholomew Circuit Court Monday. Seven women and five men were selected as jurors after attorneys quizzed 54 people, mainly about their views on psychiatry and the legitimacy of insanity as a defense. Miss Van Orden admitted she shot Lloyd, 47, at his home March 19, 1980. She contends she was insane. Miss Van Orden was arrested at her home about an hour after the shooting and was confined at the Madison State Hospital at Madison after August 1980. She is now in the county jail in Columbus.

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Congressman Claude Pepper (D-Fla.), right, argures with security personnel before finally being admitted to this week's White House Conference on Aging. Pepper, who later addressed the Conference,

Conference on Aging ends with call for Justice study

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senior-cititen groups are hailing the recommendations of the White House Conference on Aging while calling for a Justice Department probe of allegations that the Reagan administration packed the event with partisans. The accusations grew in in-

Key aides guarded WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan’s three top aides are being given Secret Service protection in the wake of reports that a Libyan assassination squad is out to kill high government officials, sources say. Under orders from the president, agents were assigned Thursday to counselor Edwin Meese 111, chief of staff James A. Baker 111 and deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver the men who make up Reagan’s inner command. The new protection became apparent Thursday when a Secret Service agent accompanied Baker to a meeting with congressional leaders on Capitol Hill.

plans for assassinations, according to senior administration officials. They said this informant, who has been closely questioned by the FBI, Secret Service and Central Intelligence Agency, told the government that he helped train assassination teams in Libya and worked on the preparation of specific plans to attack Reagan and other top government officials. These plans, intelligence and law-enforcement officials said Thursday, include a plot to kill Reagan by shooting down Air Force One, the presidential jet, with a surface-to-air missile,

hailed the session's final recommedations. Among them were proposals calling for maintaining current Social Security benefit levels expanding Medicaid and Medicare benefits. (AP Laserphoto)

tensity Thursday as the fourday conference ended with about 2,300 delegates and 1,200 official observers shouting overwhelming approval of nearly 600 recommendations drafted by 14 committees. Among the proposals were maintaining current Social Security benefit levels; restoring the minimum Social Security benefit; ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; expanding Medicaid and Medicare benefits; and instituting tax credits for home care for the elderly. The approval is only tentative. Final results, based on a poll within a month to see how each participant feels on each recommendation, will be published in a conference report, which is due by next June. Jack Ossofsky, chairman of the Leadership Council of Aging Organizations, a 25-group coalition, hailed the recommendations: “Our victory was

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overwhelming.... Somehow or other the truth comes out.” Rep. Claude Pepper, the Florida Democrat who all week had battled and negotiated with conference leaders, called them “wonderful recommendations ” The $6 million conference began Monday amid complaints denied by officials that the committees were rigged with Reagan supporters to ensure that they would produce recommendations in line with administration policies. On Thursday, dissidents said their allegations were substantiated by the appearance of documents that purportedly came from conference files but were not on conference stationery. The documents, circulated by sources who asked not to be identified, purportedly listed delegate “whips” and “adversaries” and the overall number of “favorables” and “unfavorables”.

blowing up the president’s limousine with a rocket or attacking the president at close range with small arms. The informer, who is not an American but was otherwise not identified by these sources, also supplied the government with detailed information about the infiltration of terrorists into the United States. It is not known whether he provided names or descriptions of assassination team members. Intelligence officials said the informer’s account had stood up to intense questioning and his credibility, which is now considered good, had “made believers” out of law-enforcement officials. His information has also been echoed by other sources, including intelligence information received early in the fall that Moammar Khadafy, the leader of Libya, was planning to seek revenge for the shooting down of two Libyan jets in an aerial dogfight with American planes last August. The apparent threat against the president has led to a significant increase in security for Reagan and other top government officials, according to White House aides. Officials said, for example, that Air Force One had been equipped with sophisticated electronic equipment that would allow pilots to evade a missile attack. Reagan has also begun riding in unmarked cars instead of his official limousine in presidential motorcades. In addition, the Secret Service has recently begun sending “dummy” motorcades through Washington that appear to be carrying senior administration officials but actually involve only security agents. State Department officials said earlier this week that security

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Highest level since 1975

Jobless rate hits 8.4%

WASHINGTON (AP) - The jobless rate hit a six-year high of 8.4 percent in November, the government said today, and layoffs triggered by the recession dimmed prospects for a bright holiday season. The Labor Department said the number of unemployed Americans jumped by 484,000 during the last month to 9 million, while the number of people holding jobs declined by 190,000. That took joblessness from 8

Hoosier unemployment at 10.5%

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) For the first time in 13 months, unemployment in Indiana has hit double figures. The rate, as estimated by the Indiana Employment Security Division, rose to 10.5 percent in October. “A sudden downturn” in factory employment, coupled with seasonal changes in non-manufacturing industries, brought the jobless rate to its highest point since September 1980, the agency reported Thursday. The seasonally adjusted jobless rate in that month was 10.7 percent. Reflecting the weakness of the economy, the average work week in the state slipped below 40 hours for the first time since February, the lESD said. Workers’ weekly earnings “fluctuated very little, and construction workers gained from overtime hours worked to complete projects. v “Almost every manufacturing industry reported a decrease, led by steel mills, autos and parts and a seasonal decline in canning,” the division said in its Indiana Labor Market letter. “In non-manfacturing, industry divisions experienced mostly

Strip-search of third-graders is probed

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Jefferson County School Superintendent Donald Ingwerson has reassigned three teachers who tried to locate some missing money by stripsearching 26 third-graders. Ingwerson said the teachers, who were looking for $4 missing from a fund-raising collection, will be assigned to nonclassroom duties until an investigation of the incident is completed. Ingwerson said that he expected some recommendations on the matter from school officials by early next week. When he receives the report, he said he will make recom-

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percent in October to its highest level since October 1975, when the economy was beginning to struggle back from its worst recession since the Great Depression. The latest rise in unemployment was particularly sharp among adult men, the government said. Their jobless rate rose from 6.7 percent to 7.2 percent in November, just below the postWorld War II high of 7.3 percent in May 1975.

mendations to the school board concerning any further action. The incident occurred Monday at Frayser Elementary School. The teacher of the class enlisted two other teachers, took the students into restrooms and asked them to remove or lower at least some of their clothing. The $4 was later found in a locker. Lawyer Stuart Yussman planned a meeting today with parents of one student and said that parents of six or seven other students also were expected to attend. He said the meeting was called to determine whether the parents want to sue the school system or the teachers. Barbara Burrows, president

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for Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. had also been increased recently. Senior intelligence officials said Thursday there was evidence the attempted shooting of an American diplomat in Paris last month was organized by Libya. In that attack, a gunmen fired six shots at Christian A, Chapman, the charge d’affaires at the American embassy, as he was leaving his home. Chapman, who took shelter behind his car, was not hit. The gunman escaped. These intelligence sources also said the United States Ambassador to Italy, Maxwell M. Rabb, was the target of a Libyan assassination plot in October. Rabb was hastily flown out of Milan in October and returned to the United States after security officials learned an attack might be imminent. He has returned to his post, but security measures have been increased. Intelligence officials indicated Thursday that CIA analysts, believe Khadafy’s initial threats following the downing of the. two jets may have been further inflamed by published reports that the American government was considering plans to underwrite an assassination attempt against the Libyan leader. These officials denied that the United States ever contemplated trying to kill Khadafy. “We have absolute, hard proof that Libya has sent assassination teams into other countries,” said a senior intelligence official. “When the first reports came in that Khadafy might be considering attacks on American officials, they had to be viewed seriously, but some of the stories seemed unbelieveable. Those doubts have been overcome by the accounts of the informant. We consider this to be a very serious threat.”

Unemployment also remained extremely severe for teen-agers at 21.8 percent and for blacks, at a record 16.8 percent. For minority teen-agers, the jobless rate was 41.3 percent. Private economic forecasters and officials in President Reagan’s administration expect the current recession to send unemployment even higher, possibly to the postwar record of 9 percent. Since July, the number of

typical changes. The only significantly positive economic change over the year occurred in the services division.” Charles N. Mazza, lESD director of research, said the state’s unemployment rate hasn’t risen as quickly in the current second half of the recession as it did in the first, when the rate rose from 7.4 percent in November 1979 to 11.8 percent in June 1980. The rise is slower “because we’re already so darned high,” he said. Overall employment in October was 2,128,400 jobs, down 13,000 from September and down 14,800 from October 1980. A truer comparison is the contrast over two years, Mazza said. The state has lost 114,000 jobs since October 1979, 63,000 in manufacturing and 51,000 in non-manufacturing. Indiana’s unemployent rate climbed above the national average in January 1979 and hasn’t dropped below it since, Mazza said. “At one point, we were 4Vfe points above the nation, and we’ve never closed the gap to anything less than 1 Vz points.”

of the Jefferson County Teachers Association, said the organization will support the three teachers involved. “I hope it can be settled in a private manner,” Ms. Burrows said. “We’ll certainly stand by them. We will represent them,” she said. “The school system is acutely aware of the gravity of this situation,” Ingwerson said at a news conference Friday. He added that he was concerned that the school have reasonable safeguards to protect student rights. Ingwerson said that the school system has a policy concerning due process, but no policy that directly applies to strip searches.

people who want to work but" cannot find jobs has climbed by 1.5 million. The number of people who held jobs in November stood at 98 million. The government said 364,000 people lost their jobs during November, mainly because of layoffs. Unemployment also rose because there was a greater number of people looking for work but unable to find it.

School Principal Margaret Wright met Thursday with the teachers and was to set up meetings with parents of each student involved. Stories from teachers and students about the extent of the search have conflicted, Mrs. Wright said. She said she didn’t know about the incident until parents called her after school Monday. Had she known the teacher planned the search, she said, she would not have allowed it. Linda Romans said she heard about the incident when her 8-year-old daughter, who was searched, came home from school Monday afternoon. “I think the teacher should be fired,” Mrs. Romans said.

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