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Van Orden said she'd get even' COLUMBUS, Ind (AP) - A witness has testified that three weeks before the fatal shooting of former Evansville Mayor Russell Lloyd, the woman accused of the murder said she intended to "get even" with Lloyd and two other officials. As testimony began Monday in the trial of Julie Van Orden, 37, of Evansville, Republican precinct committeman George Horn said he went to her home to recruit her as his vice committeewoman and she related troubles she was having with her neighbors. Horn said Ms. Van Orden said she intended to "get even" with Lloyd, Vanderburgh Superior Court Judge William Brune and City Building Inspector Joseph Freeman over a house she was buying on contract. Horn said Freeman, who has since died, loaned Ms. Van Orden $3,000 to build a garage. He testified that she was "very, .very mad” because during costruction, Freeman demanded the money back. A complaint was lodged against her because her house had no plumbing and attempts were made to close the alley near her home. She was unable to collect on a judgment she received in Brune’s court against a man who struck her pickup truck. Horn said Ms. Van Orden told him she had worked for a night club and Lloyd had her fired. According to Horn, she said, “All politicians are liars” and she intended to "get even with the whole bunch.” Horn said she referred to no .one by name in threat but horn "said he assumed she meant Lloyd, Brune and Freeman. He said he did not believe she intended to carry out any threat because “when a person gets riled up they’ll say anything. ” J Patrolman Jimmie Gaines, the first police officer to arrive at the Lloyd home after March -18,1980, shooting, said he found Mrs. Lloyd and her children in 3he kitchen. . Gaines said Llyod was lying im the floor near the door between the kitchen and dining toom and Mrs. Lloyd had his head in her arms She told -Gaines she heard a woman and -her husband arguing and then heard three shots. -i Lloyd, who was not mayor at the time, died two days after the shooting without regaining consciousness. The trial was moved here on a change of Venue motion
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Craig Bartlett displays the sales receipt for the 1973 Ford Pinto he bought for $1 from a Richfield, Minn., auto dealer who obviously has the Christmas spirit. When Barlett and his two children walked onto the White Bear Lincoln-
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U.S. weighs punitive actions against Libya
c. 1981 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON - President Reagan and his top national security advisers met on Monday to discuss possible punitive economic and political measures against Libya that could include an embargo on the import of Libyan oil and a ban on travel by Americans to Libya. White House and State Department officials stressed, however, that the policy review by the administration had been
Record U.S. deficit in 'B2 unless new cuts, forecast warns
WASHINGTON (AP) - A deepening recession is pushing the federal budget toward a record $lO9 billion deficit for 1982 and even greater red ink in subsequent years unless there are drastic new spending cuts, according to a revised ad-
under way since the summer, well before the administration’s latest concern over reports that Col. Moammar Khadafy, the Libyan leader, had sent agents to this country to try to assassinate Reagan or other prominent officials. There was no immediate announcement on the results of Monday afternoon’s National Security Council meeting on Libya. Dean Fischer, the State Department spokesman, said earlier that decisions elating to
ministration forecast. Administration sources said the forecast projects a $162 billion deficit by 1984, climbing interest rates by next summer and unemployment persisting at its current rate of 8.4 percent or higher for all of 1982. On the brighter side, it predicts strong economic growth in excess of 5 percent a year for 1983 and 1984, and a continued easing of inflation to below 5 percent by 1984. The sources who revealed details of the updated forecast did so on the condition their
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future American economic and political relations with Libya were expected “in the near future.” The policy review, Fischer said, had been started several months ago in response to the administration’s oft-stated concern over Libya’s activities in support of radical groups in other countries, and what Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. has called Khadafy’s backing for “international terrorism.”
names not be used. The new deficit estimates are the largest yet projected by the administration, which came into office saying it would get the deficit down to $45 billion in 1982 and balance the budget by 1984 “It’s a mammmoth problem, a monstrous problem,” one source said Monday. The new forecast prepared by economists at the Office of Management and Budget, Treasury Department and Council of Economic Advisers was presented to the president last Friday as he conferred with his advisers on a new round of budget cuts for fiscal 1983, which begins next Oct. 1.
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The reports about the assassination squads, which have been given official credence by the State Department were viewed by department officials as increasing the likelihood that the administration would announce some punitive steps against Libya, even though discussion of those moves had been begun prior to the assassination alert. Khadafy, in an interview over American television on Sunday, denied having anything
Reagan, who is scheduled to send Congress his 1983 budget plan within two months, is expected to propose severe reductions in social programs beyond those he obtained from Congress for the current fiscal year. However, growing resistance to another round of drastic cuts both in Congress and among Reagan’s own Cabinet is raising questions about whether the president can make much headway in reducing the burgeoning budget deficits solely through reductions in non-defense programs. Reagan plans to spend the next two weeks listening to his Cabinet secretaries appeal
Kentucky blast kills eight miners
TOPMOST, Ky. (AP) - A powerful explosion blasted mud through a coal mine Monday, killing eight miners a half-mile inside the mountain, officials said. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. Willard Stanley, state mines and minerals commissioner, said rescue workers found five bodies in the Adkins Coal Co. No. 18 mine about 10 p.m., seven hours after the explosion. Two more bodies were found shortly after midnight, said the Rev. Charles Wilcox of the Appalachian Regional Hospital system. He delivered the news to the waiting families. Shortly after that, the final missing body was found, said Bill Riley, public information officer with the Kentucky State Police. The miners, who were not immediately identified, had been working 2,500 feet from the entrance of the mine at ground level. Witnesses said the blast was so strong it splattered mud and water against a cliff 280 feet from the mine mouth and broke a headlight on a Jeep parked about 125 feet away. The five bodies recovered were to be taken to Beaver Creek Elementary School, where tlr miners’ families had gathered to await word. A ninth miner, Roy Conley,
to do with such assassination plots. But the State Department, in an unusual statement, said that while it hoped Khadafy’s statement meant he would abandon “the use of terrorism and assassination” in his foreign policy, “we have strong evidence that Khadafy has been planning the murder of American officials both here and overseas.” The talk about assassination threats has begun to dominate discussion in Washington.
proposals by budget director David A. Stockman to slash spending or phase out a variety of programs that include housing subsidies for the poor, employment and training, urban development grants for local governments, energy programs and individual
190 hostages remain captive on four hijacked jetliners
By The Associated Press Air pirates who hijacked four commercial airliners in two separate attacks Monday held about 190 hostages today in Europe and the Caribbean and refused to give up. The hijackers of three Venezuelan airliners took off from Honduras and Guatemala with an estimated total of 150 people aboard. A total of about 129 other passengers were released earlier. The two DC-9s en route from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and a Boeing 727 from Guatemala City arrived in Panama this morning. The nationality, number and goal of the hijackers still was unclear more than 20 hours as-
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had been working with the eight others but had gone outside to work on a defective motor shortly before the blast occurred, officials said. Among the wives at the school was Orie Slone, whose hUsband, Robert, apparently was one of the men in the mine at the time of the blast. “The doctors...didn’t want her to come up here” because she is pregnant, said her mother, Susie Johnson. “They said she could have her baby any minute. This will be her 10th one. They’ve got seven living and two are dead. ” Albert Alexander, district manager for the state Department of Mines and Minerals said blasting powder used to remove coal from the mine could have been the cause. “The possibility now is that it could have been powder, but it’s
Robot stabs worker TOKYO (AP) A 37-year-old factory maintenance worker was stabbed to death by a robot that suddenly started up and pinned him against another machine, a government report said today. It was the first recorded fatality blamed on one of the approximately 70,000 robots in use in Japanese industrial plants. The accident occurred at the Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Tokyo last July, but it was kept secret until today, after the investigation was completed. The investigators said the victim, Kenji Urada, stepped across a safety barrier and inadvertently triggered the robot, whose arm stabbed him in the back.
Security has been visibly augmented wherever officials such as Reagan or Haig go, leading Mrs. Reagan to say Monday that “It’s very difficult to go to church because you feel self-conscious about being Xrayed and so on.” She said to reporters, however, that “I’m very happy to have it.” Reagan, chatting with reporters at the White House, was asked about Khadafy’s charge that the administration was inventing the assassination story.
assistance plans known as “entitlements.” Up to now, the president has rejected Stockman’s suggestions that he cut deeper into his record defense spending plan or seek significant tax increases to help offset the record
ter they commandeered the three planes Monday in a coordinated operation during domestic flights over Venezuela. Conflicting reports said they were Venezuelans demanding $lO million and the release of 12 prisoners in Venezuela, Salvadoran leftists or Puerto Rican nationalists demanding independence for their island from the United States. The fourth plane, a Libyan Boeing 727, landed in Rome today with 46 people aboard after spending six hours in Beirut and three in Athens. The airliner was com-
Protest by Sakharov
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MOSCOW (AP) - , mdrei Sakharov’s hunger strike is mobilizing West European support for his demand that the Soviet government let his daughter-in-law join her husband in the United States. The daughter-in-law, Liza Alexeyeva, 26, said she was ordered to report today to Ovir, the organization which issues exit visas to Soviet citizens. “It could mean anything, maybe permission and maybe a refusal," she told reporters. The president of the Belgian Communist Party charged the Soviet government with “un-
too early to determine,” Alexander said. “You have a lot of odor (of powder) that indicates it was, and some other things that indicate it wasn’t,” Stanley said. “We found some explosives and detonators that weren’t detonated.” Asked if the explosion could have occurred while the miners were taking blasting materials into the mine, Alexander said, “There’s a good chance of it, yes, sir.” Stanley said the rescue teams worked in shifts, digging into the mine and erecting ventilation apparatus to force fresh air farther into the mine. Officials said most of the trapped miners were in their 20s and were from the Beaver Creek and Carr Creek communities near the mine.
“I wouldn’t believe a word he says if I were you,” the president replied. When told that Khadafy had dared the United States to make its evidence public, Reagan said, “We have the evidence .” Reporters at the White House and State Department pressed the spokesmen to make public the evidence it claims to have about the purported plot, but both Larry Speakes, the deputy White House press secretary, and Fischer declined to do so.
tax cut approved last summer. However, the new deficit figures coupled with growing resistance among some of own Cabinet secretaries to deeper cuts may persuade Reagan to reconsider his opposition to defense cuts and tax increases, some advisers say.
mandeered over Italy Monday by three Lebanese supporters of Imam Moussa Sadr, the leader of the Shiite Moslem sect in Lebanon who disappeared after a state visit to Libya in August 1978. The Lebanese Shiites charge that Col. Moammar Khadafy, the Libyan leader, is holding him prisoner, but the Libyans said he left Tripoli by plane for Rome. The hijackers issued a statement demanding a U.N. investigation of Sadr’s disappearance. They also demanded that the Lebanese government break diplomatic relations with Libya and make public the “judicial file” on Sadr.
justifiable administrative and judicial measures" against the dissident nuclear physicist and said it was giving socialism a “bad image." Hundreds of Parisians demonstrated in support oi Sakharov outside the Soviet Embassy and the office of the Soviet airline Aeroflot on the Champs Elysees. The International Sakharov Com mittee scheduled a torchlight vigil outside the Soviet Embassy in Copenhagen, Den mark, Thursday night.