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Tylenol 'suspect' won't surrender

(c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO Tylenol fugitive James W. Lewis is not likely to turn himself in despite pleas for him to surrender, investigators said Sunday. Investigators observed that Lewis, alias Robert Richardson, already is wanted as a suspect in the 1978 dismemberment murder of Raymond West, 72, of Kansas City, and for writing an extortion note demanding $1 million in exchange for a halt in the Tylenol killings. He also faces prosecution for shady land deals in Kansas City and federal mail fraud charges. If convicted of the Kansas City murder, Lewis, 36, would face the gas chamber, investigators said. Acknowledging the slim prospect of surrender, agents concentrated their search for Lewis and his wife, LeAnn, 35, in New York under the direction of Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner, who is heading the Tylenol murder investigation task force. Lewis’ wife, LeAnn, is wanted on charges that she used sic-

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titious Social Security numbers in applying for employment in Chicago. Saturday, Fahner asked Lewis to surrender after the suspect wrote in a letter that neither he nor his wife had any role in the deaths last month of seven Chicago area persons who took Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. The handwritten note, postmarked in New York last week, was sent to the Chicago Tribune along with other material, all of which was turned over to the FBI. The other material included accusations against LeAnn Lewis’ former employer, Winnetka businessman Frederick Miller McCahey, who formerly operated Lakeside Travel Inc., a travel agency. Lewis accused McCahey of involvement in illegal money-making schemes, though investigators said he offered no proof. McCahey’s name came up previously in the Tylenol case in connection with the $1 million extortion letter, on which investigators said they found James Lewis’ thumbprint. The extortion letter, written

'Deep Throat'

John Dean now says it was Haig

NEW YORK (AP) - Convicted Watergate conspirator John Dean claims in a new book that Alexander M. Haig Jr. was “Deep Throat” the source who gave a Washington Post reporter information on the scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation, Time magazine reports. Post reporter Bob Woodward has never revealed the identity of the source who gave him information in clandestine meetings and Dean’s claim is circumstantial, the magazine said in this week’s issue. Dean’s guess on the identity

to Johnson & Johnson, makers of Tylenol, demanded that the ransom be put in one of McCahey’s former accounts at the Continental Bank of Chicago. Investigators ruled out complicity on McCahey’s part, but pointed out that LeAnn Lewis, while employed at the now defunct Lakeside Travel, could have gained knowledge of the account number. McCahey’s lawyer, Thomas A. Foran, said Sunday his client had voluntarily taken a lie detector test, which cleared him of misdeeds with respect to the Tylenol case. Lewis said in his most recent letter that he had been trying to convince the FBI to investigate McCahey. But Foran scoffed at that, saying “all he had to do was walk, into the Federal Building and tell the FBI anything he might know of a criminal nature about my client.” Foran called Lewis’ letter “a diversionary tactic.” Investigators said Lewis’ most recent letter contained no information that could lead to charges in the Tylenol murders or to his whereabouts.

of “Deep Throat” is at least the third one he has made. Time questioned Dean's latest claim in part because of “the inherent implausibility of the ultra-dignified and instantly recognizable Haig skulking around Washington garages undetected at 2 am.” Woodward, reached at his Washington home Sunday evening, declined comment on Dean’s supposition. “I just don’t have anything to say about it,’’ he said, chuckling “Thanks for calling.” “This is the first I’ve heard

1. He supports continued property tax relief. 2. He believes in holding down government spending. 3. He actively supports better roads. 4. He supports both the rights of teachers and continued control of schools by the school board. 5. He has not been absent a day in the legislature since he was first elected. 6. He has attained high leadership responsibility in the legislature. 7. He keeps his word. 8. He gets things done. k-oktJOHN THOMAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE

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about it,” said Haig. “It’s absurd and probably commercially motivated.” Dean’s book, “Lost Honor,” to be published in November, said Haig was one of only a handful of people who were in a position to know that White House tapes contained deliberate erasures. Haig, who was a No. 2 aide to Henry Kissinger and later Nixon’s chief of staff, had access to all the other information that “Deep Throat” fed or confirmed to Woodward, Dean claimed.

Sugar decreases top lower prices

By The Associated Press October brought the third straight monthly decline in supermarket prices, according to an Associated Press survey which shows a-drop of just under one-tenth of 1 percent. Last month’s decline meant that prices at the start of November were 3.9 percent higher than they were at the start of the year. The drop was due mainly to lower prices for sugar, along with some decreases in the cost of meat and eggs. Overall, about half the items priced by the AP were unchanged last month, and increases and decreases among remaining items just about balanced each other out. The AP survey is based on a randomly selected list of 14 commonly purchased food and non-food items. The items were priced at one supermarket in

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each of 13 cities on March 1, 1973 and have been repriced on or about the start of each succeeding month. Among the highlights of the latest survey: —The marketbasket bill increased last month at the survey store in four cities and declined in nine cities. Overall, there was an average decrease of 0.07 percent in the marketbasket bills at the checklist stores. During September, the marketbasket bill went up at the checklist store in six cities and down in seven cities, for an overall drop of 0.6 percent. Prices dropped by 0.01 percent in August. —Comparing today’s prices with those 10 months earlier, the AP found that the marketbasket bill was up at the checklist store in 10 cities and down in three cities.

Democrat gains may fall short of their hopes

WASHINGTON (AP) - The 1982 midterm campaign is closing with an echo of familiar themes and a widespread expectation that Democrats will pick up seats in Congress but probably fall short of what they need to claim a public repudiation of President Reagan's economic policies. In the final day before voters decide, Republican and Democratic campaigners are flooding the airwaves with political ads and gearing up plans for getting their partisans to the polls on Tuesday. The economy and Social Security remained the issues that turned up in all sections of the nation, but it also was clear many races would hinge on local issues and on the personalities of the candidates. Another issue to be dealt with on its own as a statewide referendum question in nine states was the nuclear freeze. Leaders of organizations on both sides of that debate were predicting victory for the non-binding proposals which call for a U.S.-Soviet freeze on production, deployment and development of nuclear weapons. The final days of campaigning saw many races tighten and Democrats began to talk about a remote chance of picking up the five Senate seats that would restore the majority they lost in the 1980 Republican landslide. Reagan, meanwhile, was on national television in a commercial accusing the Democrats of “playing on people’s fears” by suggesting that Republicans would support cuts in Social Security. “As long as I am president, we will protect the solvency of Social Security,” Reagan said. “And we will protect the benefits of those who depend on it.” At a news conference Sunday, Democratic Party chairman Charles T. Manatt said possible cuts in Social Security were part of “the hidden agenda” the Republicans have in mind for after the election. “I challenge President Reagan to make a specific commitment not to cut Social Security benefits for any American currently on Social Security or those millions that will be going on Social Security in the very, very near future,” said Manatt. A flurry of predictions came over the

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Contradiction in massacre probe

JERUSALEM (AP) - The Israeli commander in Lebanon contradicted Defense Minister Ariel Sharon in telling a panel investigating the Beirut massacre of fears among Israelis that Christian militiamen sent on an antiguerrilla sweep might slaughter Palestinians. The commission reconvened today to hear testimony from foreign doctors and a nurse working in the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps during the Sept. 16-18 rampage. Maj. Gen. Amir Drory told the investigators Sunday that every Israeli involved in planning the purge of Palestinian guerrilla diehards from the camps had the fear of a bloodbath “somewhere in his mind,” Sharon told the panel last week that fears of a massacre “never entered the mind” of any of the Israelis involved in planning the mop-up. The three-man commission, including two Supreme Court justices, is in its second week of hearings into allegations that Israel should have known a massacre was possible, and should have acted sooner to halt the killing. The Red Cross estimates at least 340

weekend from partisans in both parties and a majority were predicting the Democrats woulc add around 20 seats to their majority in th< House and pick up several governorships. At stake in the Tuesday balloting, two years after Reagan’s landslide, is 33 Senate seats anc 425 in the House. Voters in 36 states will elecl governors and in 46 they will select state legislators. There will be only 425 House races in 49 states on Tuesday because Louisiana already has elected its eight members and two Georgia races have been delayed until later in the month. Republicans control the Senate with 54 seats to 45 Democrats and one independent. The House lineup is 241 Democrats, 192 Republicans and two vacanies. In the states electing governors, 20 are held by Democrats and 16 by Republicans. Two years ago, Republicans captured the White House and control of the Senate and also gained 33 House seats. That triumph staggered the Democrats and encouraged Republican leaders to predict 1982 would be a watershed election that could defy historical trends and possibly give the GOP control of the House. The party holding the White House has lost House seats in every midterm election this century except one of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. Since World War 11, the average loss suffered by the *party of newly elected presidents in midterm elections was 19 seats. But with 11 million Americans out of work for an unemployment rate of 10.1 percent, the highest in more than 40 years, such optimism on the part of Republicans has vanished. The theme of the Republican campaign became “Stay the Course,” an appeal to voters to give the president’s program more time. Reagan campaigned in 13 states and cited progress in lowering taxes, inflation and interest rates. He blamed the economic ills on the Democrats and said his opponents were “quick to criticize, but offer no real alternative.” Appearing on ABC’s “This Week With David Brinkley,” Lyn Nofziger, former Reagan political aide, said he expects the Democrats to gain between 20 and 25 seats.

New look for old U.S. investment

By The Associated Press The familiar U.S. savings bond has suddenly gotten a lot more complicated. Buyers won’t know exactly how much interest they’ll earn until they actually cash in the bonds. The rate will go up and down, depending on other interest rates. There is no limit as to how high it can go, but there will be a minimum of 7.5 percent. President Reagan announced the changes on Thursday, in line with legislation passed earlier this year by Congress. The new rate applies to all series EE bonds sold starting today. The interest rate on existing bonds was a flat 9 percent, as long as the bonds were held to their full maturity of eight years. The rate on new EE bonds

Palestinians were murdered ii the west Beirut camps. Drory’s testimony also con flicted with Sharon’s on th< decision to use Phalangis militiamen in the sweep. Sharon said he opposed sen ding Israeli troops into the cam ps in fear of heavy losses. Drory said he would havt preferred using his own men,- oi having the Lebanese arnl> carry out the cleanup, because he doubted the Christian militiamen had “the fighting capability to do the job. ” Drory claimed Lebanon's Moslem prime minister, Shafik Wazzan, ordered the army to refuse Israel’s repeated appeals to take on the task. Testifying in public, as did Sharon, Drory said Israel finally authorized and helped plan the militia operation after sternly warning them not to harm innocent civilians. He said he told the Christian commanders “to act like human beings” and not harm women, children or the elderly. The general said at least one officer, whom he identified only as Reuven, “raised the possibility” of a massacre just before 100-150 militiamen entered the camps.

held for at least five years will be linked to the market interest rate on U.S. Treasury notes and bonds, but will not go below the 7.5 percent floor. “You get the flexibility to get high rates when there are high rates in the market, which you never had before,” said Steve Meyerhardt of the Treasury Department. Meyerhardt conceded that the 7.5 percent floor is lower than the 9 percent now guaranteed, but said consumers must hold existing EE bonds for a full eight years in order to get the 9 percent. If you hold the bonds for less than eight years, you get paid less interest. Meyerhardt said the new system could mean lower earnings for consumers only “if you assume that interest rates over the long haul are going to be less than 9 percent in the market.”