Banner Graphic, Volume 13, Number 85, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 December 1982 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 15,1982

Lewises said to have threatened Reagan in letter

(c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO LeAnn Lewis, the wife of suspected Tylenolcase extortionist James W. Lewis, surrendered here Tuesday and was ordered held on a $5 million bond after it was revealed that she and her husband face questioning on a letter sent to the White House that threatened the life of President Reagan. U.S. Attorney Dan K. Webb disclosed the startling information about the letter during a bond hearing before U.S. Magistrate James T. Balog. Lewis, 36, on Monday was ordered held on an identical $5 million bond in New York after his arrest in an annex of the New York Public Library in Manhattan. Webb charged that handwriting in the threatening letter, sent during the first week of October, was that of James Lewis, and that the envelope in which it was sent bore the imprint of a postage meter at a Chicago travel agency where LeAnn Lewis had worked. Webb said the letter mentioned Tylenol—although he didn’t elaborate on that point—and that it “made a threat on the life of' the president of the United States. ” At a news conference, Webb said the threatening letter also mentioned “complaints Mr. Lewis had on policies taken by the president,” but he would not provide details. * Webb said the only outstanding charge against LeAnn Lewis, using a false Social Security number, obviously didn't justify a $5 million bond but that the details he had outlined “substantially increases the likelihood of her fleeing.” - Her husband is accused of sending a letter demanding $1 million from the makers of Tylenol to “stop the killings.” I Webb said before Balog that Lewis “confesses the Tylenol murders” in the extortion note to Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Tylenol. That letter ’ was postmarked Oct. 6. * n

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Task force officials investigating the seven Chicagoarea deaths have said Lewis is considered a suspect in the killings. After Lewis was arrested, Chicago attorney Michael D. Monico set the stage for LeAnn Lewis to fly to Chicago to surrender. Monico arranged for a meeting between Brooklyn attorney Frank A. Lopez and LeAnn Lewis at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York on Monday night, and for her to stay overnight at the U.N. Plaza Hotel before returning to Chicago on Tuesday. Lopez, who represents James Lewis in New York, said LeAnn Lewis, 35, was very apprehensive at the hotel rendezvous Monday night. She knew her husband had been arrested, and said she was "flat broke,” he said. At LeAnn Lewis’ bond hearing, Monico termed the $5 million bond “absurd.” Monico had asked for a $1 million bond, to be secured by a SIOO,OOO cash payment based on the value of LeAnn Lewis’ parents’ home in Kansas City, Mo. The next hearing for her was set for Dec. 22. Meanwhile, James Lewis remained silent Tuesday on all aspects of the weeks he and his wife spent as fugitives. Lewis refused even to identify himself Monday at the New York hearing in which U.S. Magistrate Ruth V. Washington ordered him held on $5 million bond. His silence required the setting of a separate identification hearing Dec. 23. Lewis is being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Lewis’s only remarks since his capture reportedly were derogatory comments about Tylenol-case investigators, including Illinois Attorney General Ty Fahner, the head of the Tylenol task force. Fahner on Monday described Lewis as being ‘‘high on our list” of suspects in the investigation of the deaths of the seven Chicago area people,

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Indian freighter sinking fast

SEATTLE (AP> An Indian freighter with a flooded hold was “rolling terribly” in high winds and heavy seas about 700 miles off the Oregon coast as a merchant vessel tried early today to save 20 crewmen who abandoned ship, the Coast Guard said. Forty-one crew men remained on board the 500-foot Jalamorari, which sent a

'Awfully tough slugging'

More surgery for heart recipient

SALT LAKE CITY (API Barney Clark, in critical but stable condition today after surgery to replace the left side of his mechanical heart, has pneumonia and faces “awfully tough slugging” to recover from his third operation in two weeks, doctors say. “He was in critical before and he’s more critical now,” said Dr. Chase Peterson, University of Utah vice president for health sciences, following an emergency operation Tuesday after a valve broke in Clark’s polyurethane heart. Two hours after surgery was finished, Clark, the first human to receive a permanent

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distress signal at about 7 p.m. Tuesday saying its No. 2 hold was filled with water that was pouring through its hatches, said Coast Guard Petty Officer Chris Couch. A freighter that steamed to its aid. the Timur Lady, radioed just after midnight that the crippled vessel was "rolling terribly,” said Lt. Mark Ashley. The Timur Lady radioed that

mechanical heart, was fully conscious and responding to doctors’ questions by nodding his head, university Medical Center spokesman John Dwan said. The 61-year-old retired dentist from the Seattle area was resting quietly today, a hospital spokeswoman said. A social worker, Margaret Miller, said late Tuesday that she had visited the intensive care unit and found Clark's wife, Una Loy, “very encouraged about his condition." Ms. Miller said those caring for Clark felt he was “more alert than he had been in some time.”

it was attempting to pick up a lifeboat containing 20 people. The Jalamorari, a general cargo vessel from Bombay, was reported to be 700 miles due west of Coos Bay, Ore. Ashley said the Jalamorari was buffeted by winds up to 58 mph and seas of 15 feet. Asked if a rescue would be dangerous. Ashley replied, "absolutely.”

But doctors said they were worried about pneumonia in Clark’s left lung and possible effects of anesthesia from the frequent surgery. “There is no reason why it can’t succeed, but at the same time it will be awfully tough slugging for Dr. Clark,” Peterson said. “He’s a very, very sick man who’s gone through multiple surgeries.” He said the pneumonia, discovered Monday after Clark showed a slight fever, was thought to be limited to the lower portion of the left lung. It was “a serious complication” especially since Clark suffers from mild emphysema but

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'Bipartisan' deal may save MX plan

(c) 1982 Chicago Sun-Times WASHINGTON President Reagan has announced a “bipartisan” agreement to save the MX missile program. But the fate of the compromise remained uncertain in the chaotic final days of the lame duck session of Congress. To pick up support in the Senate, Reagan agreed Tuesday that production funds for the MX would be temporarily frozen to give Congress time to look more closely both at Reagan’s controversial “dense pack” scheme for basing the missile and at alternative deployment ideas that Reagan would be required to submit. The White House said two leading prodefense Democrats, Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia, had endorsed the compromise. However, Rep. Jack Edwards (R-Ala.), an MX supporter and senior Republican on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, said “It would be very hard” to get an MX compromise through the House, which he said “has spoken very loudly” in soundly rejecting production funds for the MX last week. GOP congressional leaders believe the compromise can win approval in the Senate, and they hope the House then may be persuaded to go along. The question arose whether some House Democrats would demand presidential acceptance of some sort of jobs bill in exchange for support for the MX compromise. Announcing the compromise in a brief appearance in the White House press room, Reagan said, “In recent days, it has become apparent that many members of Congress agree with my assessment that production of the Peacekeeper (MX) is in the national security interests of the United States. “At the same time, however, they want to take a closer look at the question of how to base the missile.” The House, spurred by the nuclear freeze movement and concern about massive defense spending at a time of domestic budget cuts, spiralling unemployment and huge budget deficits, decisively rejected funding for production of the MX last week. The White House maintains much of the opposition was to dense pack and not to the

Peterson said it was being treated with antibiotics. Clark’s vital signs and functions of his other organs were normal and in many cases improved since his heart implant Dec. 2, said Peterson, It was the first malfunction in Clark’s air-driven Jarvik-7 heart since the implant. On Dec. 4, Clark underwent surgery to correct air leaks in his lungs, a complication doctors termed minor. In the surgery Tuesday, the entire left ventricle of Clark’s heart was replaced after a broken housing on a valve caused his blood pressure to drop sharply. “This is the mitral valve which is the most serious of any (failure) there could be,” said Dr. Robert Jarvik, the device’s inventor.

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missile itself. For that reason, Reagan has signaled a willingness to consider an alternative to dense pack if one that is reliable and politically acceptable can be devised. The much-ridiculed dense pack plan dubbed “dunce pack” by its opponents calls for bunching 100,10-warhead missiles in hardened silos in a 14-mile-long strip of land in Wyoming. The theory is that if the Soviets tried to wipe out the missile field in a pre-emptive strike, most of their incoming missiles would be destroyed by the explosion of the first to arrive. Thus, th - theory says, most MX missiles would survive to be launched in retaliation. Indirectly conceding that dense pack might not be an ideal basing plan, Reagan said he had - concluded it was the deployment option with “the least warts.” ;■ Reagan’s best and perhaps his only hope for securing funds for the MX may be to get it included in an omnibus government-funding appropriation bill called a “continuing resolution” that would be hard for either house to reject. - • Such a measure also would be difficult for the president to veto, because it would risk a shutdown of the government. But it could contain - not only MX production funds, but at least a portion of a $5.4 billion House Democratic jobs bill that Reagan strongly opposes. After meeting with Reagan, Rep. Silvio O. Conte (R-Mass.) appeared on the House floor and quoted Reagan as saying, “I don’t give a damn whether it’s Friday night and it shuts the whole government down, I will not sign a continuing resolution with a jobs program.” But White House Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speakes said Reagan might be willing to sign a resolution that contained a modified version of the Democratic jobs plan. This stand may reflect the view of White House political strategists that it would be especially damaging to Reagan to veto at Christmastime a bill containing a jobs program, and their hope that they can sell a watered-down jobs plan to Reagan. * A well-placed GOP congressional source said there was virtually “no chance” that Reagan would accept a jobs program even half the size of the Democratic initiative. "Maybe he’d buy a $1 billion program, but if it went much beyond that, I’m sure he’d veto it,” the source said.

Bronx heist take said $9.8 million c. 1982 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Officials of the Bronx armored-car company that was robbed Sunday night by two masked men have revised the amount of the loss to $9.8 million, the police said Tuesday. The loss had previously been placed at $5.3 million. The new estimate, which officials said was subject to further revision, came as members of the joint FBI-Police Department bank robbery task force and Bronx detectives searched for the two men. Deputy Chief Francis M. Sullivan, commander of Bronx detectives, said officials at Sentry had told him the entire loss was covered by federal and private insurance. An employee who answered the phone said no Sentry officials were available to comment. Immediately after the robbery was discovered, Sentry officials told the police it appeared that about $1 million had been stolen. Later, they changed the figure to $8 million and then scaled it back to $5.3 million Monday night before revising it Tuesday to $9.8 million. Police officials said they could not explain the varying estimates, and Sentry officials could not be reached. Joseph Valiquette, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s New York office, said, “We are pursuing a number of solid leads.”

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