Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 69, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 November 1983 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, November 25,1983
PLO truce agreement is reported in Tripoli
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) PLO mutineers and loyalists reached agreement today on a plan to end their three-week-old battle and evacuate both forces from the Tripoli area within two weeks, the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Syria announced. There was no immediate confirmation by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat or his opponents of the announcement, which came shortly after loyalists and Syrian-backed guerilla mutineers clashed with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns in this northern Lebanese port. The agreement was announced at a joint news conference in Damascus by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal and his Syrian counterpart, Abdul-Halim Khaddam. The accord, read to reporters by Khaddam, calls for a permanent cease-fire in and around Tripoli, a negotiated settlement of the PLO’s internal
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differences and departure of all Palestinian fighters from the Tripoli area. Prior to the announcement, there was a 90-minute exchange of mortar and machine gun fire between the rival forces in Tripoli which Arafat’s aides described as “probing attacks” by the rebels to test loyalist defenses in the city. Shells fell in a seaside shantytown and the Azmi commercial district during the exchanges. One or two shells landed in the city center and the harbor. Arafat had been reported ready to bow to the rebels’ demands and leave his last Middle East stronghold to avert a bloodbath, provided he got sufficient guarantees for the safety of loyalists and local militia allies he would leave behind. In Beirut, 50 miles south of Tripoli,warplanes flew low runs over the city early today as Lebanese troops and Shiite Moslem militiamen battled near the Marine base at the in-
In reaction to 'possible bomb threats'
Trucks block White House entrances
WASHINGTON (AP) - In a move that appeared to be designed to foil any Beirut-style bombing, the Secret Service tightened security around the White House during the Thanksgiving holiday by parking seven sand-laden dump trucks at five metal-gate entrances. White House press secretary Larry Speakes said the move was “not in response to a specific threat,” but security also was tightened at the State Department six blocks away, where spokeswoman Anita
ternational airport. Marine spokesman Maj. Robert Jordan said three shots were fired into the Marine base but caused no casualties. He said the shooting stopped when Marines fired a few rounds in return. Asked whether the incoming rounds were deliberately aimed at the Marines, Jordan said: “They were probably fired in their direction.” Arafat gained the release Thursday by Israel of 4,600 Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in exchange for six Israeli soldiers captured by PLO fighters in September 1982. But his aides said the exchange was not directly linked to Arafat’s predicament in Tripoli. Hundreds of people in Tripoli and in two nearby refugee camps have been killed in weeks of warfare between Arafat’s forces and the rebels who want to oust him from leadership of the PLO.
Stockman said authorities were reacting to “possible bomb threats.” President Reagan and his family were at Reagan’s ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., for a five-day Thanksgiving vacation, ending Sunday. At the State Department, five entrances were blocked by cars or vans and police cars blocked part of a street that leads to a sixth. Ms. Stockman said “extra security has been taken and will be in effect until we can evaluate this possible or potential threat.” The State Depart-
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ment security measures were implemented Wednesday, while the trucks were moved around the White House on Thursday. The parked trucks at the entrances to the White House grounds were the latest episode in a series of increasingly stringent security measures prompted by a late-night bomb blast at the Capitol on Nov. 7 and the attack on the Marine headquarters in Beirut. The Oct. 23 Beirut bombing, which killed 239 servicemen, occurred when a dynamite-laden truck with a suicide driver at the
wheel rammed the Marine barracks. Last week, in reaction to the Capitol bombing, guards began to use dogs to sniff all cars and trucks entering the White House grounds for explosives. Guards also searched the handbags and briefcases carried by reporters, normally exempt from such measures, in what was described as a spot check. On Thursday, three dump trucks were parked at the southwest gate across the entrance to the closed-off street separating the White House
Confiscated drugs source of revenue?
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Confiscated illegal drugs could become a source of revenue to help pay police officers, a Republican legislator suggests. State Rep. Paul E. Burkley of Speedway says the drugs could be sold to pharmaceutical firms and the money used to help pay police salaries and pensions. “There’s no sense in destroying that stuff if it can be used for medicinal purposes,” Burkley says. Burkley says he’s considering filing a bill in the 1984 session of the General Assembly to authorize the transactions. A spokesman for Eli Lilly and Co., the Indianapolis-based pharmaceutical firm, was cool to the idea. And a state police spokesman said he didn’t think any company would buy street drugs for their use.
Little progress in slaying probe
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - Fort Wayne police are awaiting an FBI crime profile that may offer a clue to the unsolved slayings of a Fort Wayne newspaperman, his wife and son. “The profile can possibly help us estabish a motive,” Deputy Police Chief Ernest A. Walter said. “It will tell us the type of person involved and maybe give us some insight into the reasoning of the murderer.” On Sept. 19, Dan Osborne, 35, editorial page editor of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel; his wife,
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from the Old Executive Office building next door. Those trucks were outside the fence surrounding the White House. Another truck was parked on that same street inside the northwest gate; two more were inside gates leading off 17th Street into the Old Executive Office Building and a seventh was on East Executive Avenue, a public walkway on the other side of the building All the lights on the south lawn of the White House were lighted, which is unusual when the mansion is not in use.
Lilly spokeman Fritz Frommeyer points out the firm buys its cocaine and other raw materials for legal, prescription medication “from known suppliers ... which have known qualities.” Even if confiscated street drugs were tested, Lilly would put little faith in their purity, he said. Frommeyer also pointed out that controlled drugs are regulated by the federal government, which would have something to say about the proposal. The suggestion for a source of new funding would be welcomed by policemen, said Lt. Kenneth L. Hollingsworth. But the state police spokesman added he didn’t believe any company would purchase the drugs since they might contain dangerous substances.
Jane, 34; and their son, Benjamin, 11 were found beaten to death in their home. The Osbornes’ 2-year-old daughter, Caroline, was found beaten and sexually molested, police said. She now lives with relatives in Kansas. Police in the state’s secondlargest city say they still lack a motive, suspect or major clue. “I don’t know if this is a case where someone did a good job of destroying evidence or was just lucky,” Walter said. “We’ve talked to many people trying to find a reason for these
New storms trails dying snow system
By DANA FIELDS Associated Press Writer A “good strong cold front” sped toward the Rocky Mountains today after knocking out power to more than 100,000 people, as the death toll rose to 27 from an earlier storm that dumped up to 2 feet of snow on the Great Plains before lumbering into Canada. Nearly 4 inches of rain soaked the San Francisco Bay area Thursday, unleashing a mudslide that blocked U.S. 50 near Placerville for several hours. The moisture turned to snow as winds gusted to 70 mph in the mountains, causing blizzard conditions at Alpine Meadows ski resort and dropping half a foot of snow at Norden, 45 miles northwest of Lake Tahoe. About 130,000 people in western Washington many with half-roasted Thanksgiving turkeys still in the oven lost power Thursday morning as the new storm blew in and drenched the West as far inland as
Bird in engine | puts jetliner on | ground in Chicago | (c) 1983 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO An Air Florida jet with 124 passengers aboard was forced to return to Midway Airport moments after takeoff Thursday when a bird was sucked into one of its engines. Though the engine was shut down as a precaution, Air Florida Flight 3 landed safely with the remaining engine, said a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman. The Boeing 737 plane, bound for Miami and West Palm Beach, took off at 7:35 a.m. when the bird apparently flew into the engine. The pilot turned the plane and carefully landed at7:s7a.m. Passengers were bused to O’Hare Airport where they caught other flights to Miami. An Air Florida spokeswoman said the plane would remain on the runway until Friday morning when repair work would be completed. “The passengers landed safely without incident,” the spokeswoman said. “But unfortunately, the bird was not so lucky.”
slayings,” he said. “Maybe these interviews will give us a good lead, but right now all we’ve been able to determine is that the Osbornes were basically a good family,” Walter said. Three detectives are still working on the case fulltime. “As long as we don’t come to a dead end, we remain optimistic the crime can be solved,” he said. Fort Wayne police have been in contact with police in
With smoke rising from a burning oil refinery in the background, PLO rebels examine a tank that they destroyed in fighting with pro-Arafat forces in the Baddawi Palestinian camp near Tripoli. A truce agreement between PLO mutineers and loyalists, meanwhile, was reportedly reached Friday. (AP Wirephoto).
Idaho, where visibility was down to 100 feet in mixed rain and snow. While the new storm “doesn’t have quite as big a windup” as the system that howled out of the Rockies last Sunday, “it’s still a good strong cold front that will bring snow and wind to the Plateau and Rockies today,” said meteorologist Nolan Duke at the National Weather Service’s Severe Storm Center in Kansas Citv. Duke said it was expected to spread from Montana to northern Arizona, covering territory still digging out from the earlier storm blamed for the deaths of 15 people on roads, 10 in small planes and two elderly Minnesota men who died Wednesday and Thursday shovelling snow. The snow in Minnesota. tapered off to flurries early' Thursday, after dumping .aJ record 19.7 inches on Dull and 11.4 inches on Minneap* and St. Paul.
Bloomington, 111., where another multiple murder occured recently, although they believe the multiple slayings are not related. Police have also questioned the young Osborne girl. “I think we’ve obtained everything we can from her at this time,” Walter said: “You’ve got to realize she is only two and it’s difficult to question her because of what she went through.”