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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, October 27,1982

Copycat craziness: Wave of tampering continues from fruit to laxatives

By The Associated Press The makers of Excedrin ordered their capsules off store shelves in Colorado after one man was poisoned, and reports of product tampering ranging from fruit to laxatives spread across the nation in what a federal official called “a wave of me-too’ crimes.” Consumers scrutinized containers of cold medicines and pain relievers for signs of foul play, and officials in three states warned Tuesday that any Halloween trick-or-treating should be done with caution. In Chicago, where the scare began nearly a month ago with the deaths of seven people from cyanide-poisoned ExtraStrength Tylenol capsules, police searched Tuesday for a woman who lied about her identity after turning in a bottle of tainted capsules. Officials of Bristol-Myers Co., the maker of Excedrin, called the mercuric chloride contamination of their product “clearly criminal” and on Tuesday ordered it withdrawn from store shelves in Colorado. William Sinkovic, 30, of Aurora, who became ill after taking three Extra-Strength Excedrin capsules Monday, underwent surgery late Tuesday to remove the remaining mercuric chloride from his stomach. He was in critical but stable con-

Reagan quotes Psalms as he stumps to 'stay the course'

(c) 1982 The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON President Reagan, after quoting the Psalms in the Bible Belt and delivering a message of economic “hope,” Tuesday returned to the White House to tape his final appeal of the election campaign for more time to turn the national economy around. Buoyed by Tuesday’s report of the latest drop in inflation, Reagan sat down in the White House library to record an appeal asking voters to vote Republican next Tuesday and stay the course, the theme that has dominated his limited campaign appearances around the nation. The Republican National Committee will spend up to $500,000 airing Reagan's fiveminute campaign message on the national networks and 60 local TV stations on Sunday and

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Monday evenings. White House officials said the political broadcast would contain “no new news, no major revelations.” but would echo what Reagan has said on the campaign trail since Labor Day. Tuesday in North Carolina, political bailiwick of Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, Reagan’s only departure from his standard stump speech was to give it a Biblical flavor and to include some of the right-wing themes that he has omitted in less fervent areas. Reagan accused his critics of “trying to scare people and subvert recovery.” Projecting optimism tinged with sarcasm, Reagan went on. "But the picture of fear and despair they paint on the network evening blues is a picture of where American was, not where she’s going. If they can’t encourage,

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dition, said Loann Lawless of Aurora Community Hospital. In Washington, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. said it did not appear Bristol-Myers was responsible. “We are seeing a series of localized tamperings in the Denver area and other sections of the United States,” Hayes said in a statement. “None has been found to be the result of problems or contamination at the manufacturers’ plants, so we must conclude at this time that we are seeing a wave of ‘me-too’ crimes.” In Florida, a Juno Beach policeman was hospitalized Tuesday after he began vomiting within seconds of drinking orange juice from a carton, police said. Officer Harry Browning, 27, was resting comfortably in Palm Beach Gardens Community Hospital today. “He turned colors right before my eyes,” said police Chief Robert DiSavino. The juice had been bought at a convenience store. The county medical examiner’s officer said the carton could have been injected with a product such as insecticide. In Colorado, officials determined that another resident who became ill after taking Excedrin was not poisoned. Emily Jurick apparently just had the flu, said Dr. Barry Rumack of the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center.

if they won’t work with the rest of us, then they should get out of the way.” Reagan acknowledged that unemployment was “far too high,” but insisted: “Just as surely as single-digit inflation started the interest rates coming down, getting these interest rates down so dramatically will drive unemployment back down to single digits too and then we’ll have delivered the knockout blow to the recession once and for all.” For the first time in a campaign speech, Reagan chose to quote the Psalms as saying: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” “America is entering a new season of hope a genuine hope which springs from the vitality of the American spirit. We will put strong wings on weary hearts.”

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President Reagan went down on the farm in Illinois as he continued his campaigning for fellow Republicans. His Midwest visit included a turn at the wheel of a tractor on the farm of Larry Werries at Chapin, 111. Werries is Illinois director of Agriculture. President Reagan campaigned in North Carolina. See story at left. (AP Wirephoto).

Marines' stay to depend upon diplomatic negotiation

(c) 1982 The Baltimore Sun WASHINGTON - The United States dispatched a fresh Marine force to replace the one now in Beirut and prepared for intensive diplomatic efforts to get Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian troops out of Lebanon “as fast as it can be accomplished.” Special envoy Morris Draper is to participate in direct talks between Lebanon and Israel, probably in Beirut, and also is to serve as middle-man for Lebanon and Syria. American policy precludes direct talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization, but Draper will get PLO views through other middle men.

2nd witness dies strangely

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal prosecutor says the strange death of a second potential government witness will not harm the case against former CIA agent Edwin P. Wilson for allegedly aiding Libyan terrorists. The witness, Kevin Mulcahy, 39, a former CIA analyst who was the first person to tell law enforcement authorities about Wilson’s dealings with the radical Arab nation, was found dead Tuesday outside a motel

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Also Tuesday, officials at Stanley Aviation Co. in Aurora discovered a bottle of mercuric chloride was missing from the company’s plant, personnel manager Gordon Shaffer said. But the disappearance had no known link with the Sinkovic case, said Aurora police spokesman Mike Sellman. Mercuric chloride is used in fertilizers and insecticides. The substance was found in 10 capsules turned in by Sinkovic. In Florida’s Highlands County, sheriff’s officials advised area stores Tuesday to remove some fruit punch from their shelves after an Avon Park resident suffered minor mouth burns when she drank from a bottle of the beverage. “Possibly the bottle was contaminated after it left the store,” Sgt. John King said. The bottle, its contents smelling of acetone, was being sent to a state lab for testing, he said. Also in Florida, as many as 60 containers of powdered laxative were found to have been tampered with. No illnesses were reported, but authorities were checking store shelves for suspect containers. Since the Chicago deaths, reports of contaminated eye drops, nasal sprays or mouthwash have been reported in several states including California and Texas. In Ephrata, Wash., store owners returned Dristan capsules to the shelves Tuesday after tests on a suspicious bottle which

It will be a complex process, as officials emphasized Tuesday, but President Reagan has a target date of the end of this year to achieve the troop withdrawals from Lebanon. The length of the Marine force’s stay in Beirut is closely tied to the diplomatic negotiations. The president has suggested Marines will be there until foreign forces are withdrawn. The Defense Department, it was learned Tuesday, has approved the first arms supplies for the Lebanese armed forces, as part of the U.S. effort to build a united Lebanon. Small numbers of 155-millimeter howitzers and armored troop carriers are to be provided.

cabin in rural Virginia about 90 miles west of here. Federal prosecutors in the Wilson case and the FBI mounted an immediate inquiry into the death “as a precaution in the event this was in any way related to the government’s investigations of Wilson and (his co-defendant Frank E.) Terpil,” FBI spokesman Roger Young said. But a deputy in the sheriff’s office in Shenandoah County, Va., said there were no signs of foul play or wounds, and he

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'Prime suspect' label no longer fits Tylenol case

(c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO A man previously considered to be the prime suspect in the Tylenol-cyanide investigation has been cleared after passing a lie test, the Sun-Times learned. In the aftermath of the lie test, it was learned, investigators again were looking at Roger Arnold, 48, previously a subject of hot-and-cold attention, as a source for leads. Arnold and the man who took the lie test have been described by investigators as drinking companions. Illinois Atty. Gen. Ty Fahner, head of a task force probing seven Chicago area capsule murders, said many individuals have taken liedetector tests in the inquiry and many more people will do so. Among those taking the test, Fahner said at a press conference, was Edwin L. Reiner, who voluntarily took one and passed it. Fahner said he reported publicly on Reiner at the request of Reiner’s attorney, who believed media reports were damaging his client’s reputation. Reiner’s wife, Mary, 27, one of the poisoned Tylenol victims, died Sept. 30. The constant presence of state investigators and Winfield police outside Reiner’s west suburban home was described by Fahner as protection for Reiner, not police surveillance. Also Tuesday, an eighth bottle of tainted Tylenol was being tested for fingerprints at the FBI lab in Washington. D C., and Fahner said results were expected Wednesday. This latest tainted bottle was pinpointed

The Pentagon announced Tuesday that an 1,800-man Marine amphibious group had departed Naples in five ships and Friday would replace the force now in Beirut Officials said 1,200 would go ashore, the same number as now, and the others would remain aboard the ships. State Department spokesman John Hughes reaffirmed the U.S. hope for removal of all foreign troops from Lebanon “as fast as it can be accomplished.” He said “a detailed operational plan” for the withdrawals would be the object of the Israeli-Lebanese talks in which Draper will participate.

theorized that Mulcahy may have died of exposure. Mulcahy, an alcoholic who quit drinking several years ago, was reported to have resumed lately. An autopsy was scheduled today. “It’s a tragedy and we’re awaiting the autopsy results,” said E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., chief prosecutor in the case against Wilson here. “But Kevin’s death isn’t in any way going to affect our ability to prosecute Wilson.’’

contained a scratched, misaligned capsule proved negative. In Cape Cod, Mass., pain-reliever bottles were taken from the shelves of one store and mixed nuts were taken from another after they appeared to have been tampered with. In the pain-reliever bottle, one capsule appeared “pinched," police said. The mixed-nuts jar, which had an unbroken plastic' lid, contained a pill similar in color to a peanut, “indicating k spenta lot of time in the peanut jar,” Detective James Lino said. Lino said a Falmouth, Mass., pharmacist identified the pill as a pain-reliever containing codeine. He said it was being tested by the state health department. In Minneapolis, 14-year-old Marlon Barrow drank from a carton of milk containing sodium hydroxide, a caustic chemical used in industrial cleaners, but was not seriously injured, saidDr. Gary Fifield of the Hennepin County Medical Center. : ‘ * In Indiana, state police were investigating a report of a needle found in a banana, and in Arkansas, Crawford County officials > said they had received a report of a needle in a pear and a nail in ■ a snack cake. '••'IMeanwhile Baylor University officials in Texas said Tuesday’ they were considering disciplinary action against a student and * a former student who are marketing a kit to test for poison in over-the-counter pills and sprays.

Monday among containers of Extra-Strengfh; Tylenol that were turned in for testing after the late-September wave of deaths in the Chicago area. Lt. Terry Mee of the suburban Wheaton police said the bottle was turned in Oct. 13 by a woman who identified herself as the wife of Du “ Page County Circuit Judge Duane G. Walter “ and who indicated it had been purchased at a Frank’s Finer Foods store in nearby Winfield. Fahner said the bottle was turned in at the Winfield store. Based on Mee’s account, the bottle was purchased at the same W'infield store where the lethal Tylenol pills were bought that resulted in 1 the death of Mary Reiner. Judge Walter married Edwin and Mary. Reiner on Dec. 8,1979. Mee said the identity of the woman who turned in the latest bottle has not been verified. He said the judge’s wife, Marylou. who is estranged from her husband, denied she had turned in a bottle. Marylou Walter told a reporter. "It sure wasn’t me. Whoever did this has got to be really sick.” The judge said he knew nothing about the Tylenol turn-in. other than that he'd had.investigative inquiries about it. Arnold, meanwhile, appeared Tuesday in Circuit Court on weapons and assault charges unrelated to the Tylenol case. Judge John E’. BoWe continued the case until Nov. 22.

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