Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 43, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 October 1982 — Page 2

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Chrysler difficult DETROIT (AP) A United Auto Workers leader predicted a close vote today as Chrysler Corp. workers make a "heartwrenching” choice between working without a quick pay raise or walking picket lines during the holiday season. The company’s 43,200 working UAW members, along with an uncalculated number of the 40,000 workers on indefinite layoff, were eligible to vote in the one-day referendum, which both analysts and UAW leaders said was too close to call. The workers are deciding whether to strike at 10 a.m. on Nov. 1 or stay on the job under terms of an expired contract until early next year, when talks would resume.

“I hope that they will vote to extend the (expired) contract; I would not like to see a strike,” UAW secretary-treasurer Raymond Majerus said in an interview Monday. “However, I respect the right of the membership to make that decision.” A new round of contract talks became stalemated Oct. 18 when Chrysler officials told the UAW the company could not afford an immediate raise for autoworkers. Majerus, second in command at the UAW, would not predict the outcome of the vote but said: “The decision to strike is a very difficult one. That’s a heart-wrenching proposition.” Officials at the nation’s No. 3 automaker say a strike could cripple the company, which was saved from bankruptcy over the past three years by worker concessions and government loan guarantees. Asked whether the coming holiday season would prompt some workers to vote in favor of staying on the job, Majerus said: “Obviously it has to be a consideration, but whenever workers are called upon to strike, there’s a sacrifice involved whether it’s a Christmas holiday, a Thanksgiving holiday or a weekly paycheck.” Last week, some local union officials predicted workers would vote to extend the contract rather than face the holidays without jobs. Industry analysts, noting that a strike could have been called without the referendum, said last week that UAW President Douglas A. Fraser had called for the vote to give workers time to consider the consequences. “He (Fraser) has said he doesn’t want to strike Chrysler and that he got the best contract he could get out of them,” David Healy, analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. in New York said.

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More tainted Tylenol is found; suspect quizzed

(c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO An eighth bottle of cyanide-laced Tylenol was found Monday among containers turned in for testing as Chicago police moved in on the prime suspect in the case and questioned him for the first time. The newly discovered bottle of contaminated Tylenol capsules had been tested in the Port Washington. Pa., lab of the Johnson & Johnson Tylenol division after local officials sent it from Chicago, said a member of an investigative task force here. He added that it was turned in to Frank’s Finer Foods store, Briarbrook Commons Shopping Center in suburban Wheaton. The manager of the store, Mark Yep, 19, said only three bottles had been turned in and he believes officials will be able to trace the person who turned in the contaminated container The Wheaton store is near another Frank's Finer Foods store in the western suburb of Winfield, where another cyanidepoisoned bottle of Tylenol was purchased. The tainted capsules from the Winfield bottle resulted in one of the seven area cyanide deaths. The prime suspect, whose existence was disclosed exclusively late Monday in the The Chicago Sun-Times, was questioned in his suburban home by members of a task force that has been probing the Tylenol deaths for a month He is a relative of one of the Tylenol victims who died in late September. The latest Tylenol bottle discovered, investigators said, was a 50-capsule capacity, bearing the lot No. MC2873, and it has been sent to the FBI to be laser tested for fingerprints. At the same time: Roger Arnold, an on-again, off-again figure in the case, met with his attorney, Thomas J. Royce, in Arnold’s home. When Arnold and Royce arrived at the home together, the attorney brushed aside reporters’ questions, observing: “We've got some problems to talk over.” Arnold, who has been described to investigators as a drinking pal of the prime suspect, was arrested Oct. 11 after an informant told detectives he had a white powdery substance in his home along with books describing how to kill people. He was charged with failure to register five guns found in his home and is scheduled for a court hearing Tuesday. Royce, it was learned, met with Fahner Saturday night in Fahner’s suburban home to discuss the possibility of a plea bargain and granting Arnold immunity from prosecution in return for Arnold’s testimony, but no deal was struck. Area 6 detectives, pursuing the reported links between Arnold and the suspect, questioned tavern and nightclub operators in the Near North Side area where poisoned Tylenol capsules turned up in a Walgreen’s drug store and a Dominick’s food store. One of those questioned the operator of the Oxford Pub, further north on the Near North Side —told The Sun-Times detectives visited him Monday night, showed him a picture of Arnold and asked about his drinking companions. The tavern manager said he has known Arnold as a customer for 15 years but couldn’t identify any of his bar buddies.

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Hoosier sues over mouse in his Dew EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) A man who drank from a bottle of Mountain Dew allegedly containing a dead mouse has sued Pepsi-Cola General Bottlers here for $300,000 in damages. The suit was filed in Vanderburgh Superior Court Monday by Jerry Dell, who said he bought the Mountain Dew 0ct.23, 1980, from a drink machine where he works. He said he opened the Mountain Dew, which is bottled at Pepsi-Cola, drank it and immediately became violently ill. Upon examination, Dell found “a dead and putrid” mouse in the bottle, the suit said. The suit contends it is, and will be, difficult for Dell to consume and retain food and drink because of the recollection of the experience. Dell seeks $150,000 in actual damages and an additional $150,000 in punitive damages.

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Excedrin capsules found tainted too DENVER (AP) A man was in critical condition Monday night after taking three extra-strength Excedrin capsules which doctors believe may have been contaminated with toxic mercuric chloride. Authorities urged Denver residents to remove Excedrin capsules from their homes. "We want to make certain the citizens of Denver remove all Excedrin capsules expecially the extra-strength capsules from their homes and that they not take them,” Dr. Barry Rumack of the Rocky Mountain Poison Control center said at a news conference late Monday. In addition, the federal Food and Drug Administration ordered all Colorado stores to remove Excedrin from their shelves and for people to return any unused Excedrin to the stores so that the federal agency can collect them, said Leroy Gomez, director of the FDA's Denver district office William Sinkovick, 33, of Aurora, Colo., was being given antidotes to the substance late Monday at the intensive care unit of Aurora Community Hospital, Gomez said.

killings, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office examined the body of Mary Lou Watkins, 21, and found that her death on Aug 16 was caused by cyanide poisoning. However, sources indicated the case is unrelated to the Tylenol murders. The prime suspect emerged in the case when investigators, drawing on all the evidence collected so far, decided that he may have put cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules on the shelves of several Near North Side and northwest suburban stores to give the appearance that his relative died as the result of a random killer. And he may have been helped by a confederate, investigators said. It was learned that investigators were told the suspect had a violent argument with his kin shortly before the poisonings took place. Investigators now believe six of the seven Tylenol deaths may have been caused to cover up the one killings. But one investigator emphasized that this could be another coincidence that doesn’t lead to an arrest Investigators were told by Arnold that Arnold’s wife was a patient last March in the Central Du Page Hospital in Winfield, across the street from Frank’s Finer Foods, one of the locations where lethal Tylenols were purchased. Arnold once told police he had cyanide in his home which was to be used for “special projects.” In a search of his home, police found books on how to kill people. Finally, Arnold worked for years in a Jewel warehouse in suburban Melrose Park, where he knew the father of one of the Tylenol victims.

The Christians overdid it' Sharon couldn't imagine attack

(c) 1982 The Baltimore Sun JERUSALEM - Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, testifying before the commission of inquiry probing last month’s Beirut massacre, said that “not in our worst dreams did we imagine the scenes of horror that we would discover” in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla Sharon disclosed Monday that a secret decision had been made by the Israeli cabinet June 15, nine days after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, to allow the Phalangists, a Lebanese Christian militia, to move into Palestinian neighborhoods if Israel entered West Beirut. For the first time since hearings began last week, the commission of inquiry admitted a limited number of newsmen. Sharon testified for 2>/2 hours. Sharon, accompanied by his wife, Lily, his press adviser and two legal advisers, sat at a desk facing the three commission members Supreme Court Judges Yizhak Kahan and

Wall Street's worst day since '29 crash

NEW YORK (AP) Traders reeling from the worst day on Wall Street since the crash of 1929 are blaming uncertainty over interest rates for the plunge, but analysts called it just an overdue correction in a “manic-depressive” market. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, which had soared more than 250 points since Aug. 12, plunged 36.33 points Monday to 995.13. It was the average’s largest single-day drop since it fell 38.33 points on Oct. 28,1929. The drop was “an overdue correction in stock prices” in a “highly volatile market,” said analyst Howard J. Abner of Abner Herrman & Brock Inc. The selling was touched off by fears that the Federal Reserve Board had stopped letting interest rates fall, analysts said. After intense speculation that the Fed would cut the discount rate its loan rate to private financial institutions the agency left it untouched at 9.5 percent. That action “was the No. 1 reason in the hit parade affecting stock prices today,” said Jack Baker, head of equity trading at the First Boston Corporation. Monday’s selloff erased more than SSO billion from gains recorded by the market in its rally of late summer and early fail. But Peter Roussell, deputy White House press secretary, said other economic indicators, such as the Consumer Price Index due out today, should be examined before reaching any conclusions about the economy. “We had one bad blip today, but we set other records last week,” he said late Monday. “Let’s see what happens tomorrow.” One broker said the market’s recent wild fluctuations were testimony to a “manicdepressive” mood among professional money managers. Once prices began to fall Monday, investors scrambled to cash in their recent gains, putting added downward pressure on the market. “You’ve got to put today's selloff in its proper perspective,” Abner said. The ruinous 1929 decline occurred from a much lower starting

slls billion deficit now 'not as serious' as $66 billion: Ford

c. 1982 N.Y. Times WASHINGTON Former President Gerald R Ford, making a political appearance at the White House, said Monday that the Reagan administration's slls billion deficit was “not as serious” on a relative scale as the $66 billion deficit of his own administration. “They're serious,” Ford said in discussing the current rising deficit estimates after paying a visit to the president. “But they’re not as bad as some of the doom and gloom people are indicating.” While praising Reagan’s economic program, the former president repeated his call that the administration’s $1,500 billion military spending program be spread over six years, not five, to ease the financial burden on government. “You’d have a highly beneficial cash flow and a material benefit in your deficits,” Ford commented in an appearance at the White House briefing room. He said he had discussed his proposal with Secretary of Defense Caspar W.

Aharon Barak and retired Maj. Gen. Yona Efrat in a lecture hall at the Hebrew University campus. A large aerial photograph of Beirut was on the wall, and Sharon occasionally referred to it during his testimony. Sharon said that, when the Israeli army entered West Beirut the morning of Sept. 15, it met resistance from the 2,000 Palestinian fighters that he said had not left Beirut and were in the Shatilla and Sabra camps and the Fakahani neighborhood. Sharon said he authorized entry of the Christians into the camps Sept. 16, in consultation with the chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Rafael Eitan. Sharon added that Prime Minister Menachem Begin had been told that the Christians were to take certain places in West Beirut, but that Begin had not been told the Christians would enter the camps. Commission members asked Sharon whether Israel should

point, so Monday’s drop “amounted to only 3.52 percent, compared with 12.8 percent on Oct. 28. 1929.” -’ Also, Monday’s volume of 83.72 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange, well below recent trading days of 100 rnillionplus suggested little of the atmosphere of the 1929 panic. Changes in interest rates, which have fallen in the past few months, have become a powerful force on the market, because lower rates tend to make stocks more competitive with yields on fixed-income securities such as bonds. With the dropping rates, the Dow Jones average had hit a 10-year high of 1,036.98 on Thursday. Monday’s decline came across the board. All 30 components of the industrial average finished with losses. The exchange showed only 196 stocks rising in price, with 1,586 declining In other economic developments Monday: —The Treasury Department auctioned about $5.6 billion in new three-month bills at an average discount rate of 8.031 percent, up from 7.437 percent last week. About $5.6 billion in sixmonth bills sold at an average rate of 8.472 percent, up from 7.762 percent. The yields, around 13 percent in early summer, had been falling along with interest rates in general until tly—Three of the 10 largest U.S. oil companies reported profits for the three months ended Sept. 30 two lower and one higher than the quarter last year. No. 1 Exxon Corp. said its earnings were $1.07 billion, down 0.5 percent from the third quarter last year. Phillips Petroleum Co., No. 9, reported quarterly earnings of $131.6 million, down from $192.3 million in the comparable period of 1981. But No. 7 Atlantic Richfield Co. said profits rose 3 percent to $446.9 million. —The National Association of Realtors, a trade group, said in Washington that lower home loan rates this month seem to be leading to an increase ; n resales of single-family houses.

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GERALD FORD No ‘doom and gloom' Weinberger, adding, “I haven’t made much progress.” In commenting on the budget pressures on the administration, Ford also insisted that it was “mandatory” that the government seek savings by considering readjustments in such entitlement programs as Social Security. “I think in some of the entitlement programs there has to be some readjustment,” Ford said. “Just where I’m not going to prejudge.” Ford predicted the

have foreseen the slaughter as a measure of vengeance for the assassination of the Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel on Sept. 14. Sharon responded: “The Arab concept of revenge, as I know it, does not include women, children and elderly men.” Judge Barak recalled reading in the press that, during a cabinet meeting, Deputy Premier David Levi had voiced concern about a massacre. “Didn’t this flash a warning light?” Barak asked. “No, this did not flash a warning light,” Sharon answered. “David Levi did not object to the Phalange’s entering the camps. No one objected. Levi was quoted out of context.” “When did you first hear about the massacre?” Sharon was asked. “On Sept. 17 (Friday), around 9 p.m.,” Sharon answered. “Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eitan called me. He told me that he had just returned from Beirut and said that, in the

congressional election results on Nov. 2 would show this tb-tje “more or less a typical off-yedr election.” with the Republican Party suffering perhaps a 15seat loss in the House K)f Representatives while holding its majority in the Senate. The White House has made a point lately of having leading Republicans come and publicly make such confident predictions, bucking Democratic contentions that a serious defeat for Reagan was in the offing. In defending the president, Ford said the economy Reagan inherited was “very, very sick,” and needed extra time to recuperate. “When you have a cold and the sniffles,” he said, choosing his words carefully, “You can take aspirin and you get cured. When you have pneumonia, you have to have strong medicine and it takes more time to get results.” Praising Reagan for the drop in interest and inflation rates. Ford made comparisons in these areas that were critical of the administration of President Jimmy Carter.

course of the Phalange operation in the refugee camps, they hurt the civilian population above all expectations. Eitan said, and I quote, that the Christians overdid it,” Sharon said. Sharon testified that Eitan had said he was flying to Beirut immediately and would order the Phalangists to stop all further military action in the camps, forbid the entry of additional forces and order them to leave the camps at 5 a m. Sharon said that about (an hour later, he received a second phone call from an officer who reported that Israeli forces had clashed with troops of another Lebanese militia, commanded by Maj. Saad Haddad, wl)o were killing civilians, the Israeli troops opened fire, killed one soldier and captured twp, Sharon said. Sharon said he did not knoNv what Haddad's men were dokjg there and that he was convinced they did not take part in the massacre.