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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 13,1983
Less-busty Barbie big hit in Japan TOKYO (AP) A Japanese toymaker says his sales of the ever-popular “Barbie” doll have skyrocketed since an American company agreed to let him reduce her bosom, turn her blue eyes to brown and darken her blonde hair. Shusuke Kubota, of Takara Co., which recently expanded its production and marketing agreement with the Mattel, Inc., today cited his success in selling the modified doll as a lesson for Americans trying to penetrate Japan’s markets. Barbie has been around Japan’s toy shops for decades, but sales have been poor in recent years a fact Kubota credited to Barbara s Western-style features. “We told Mattel that their product just didn’t meet the needs of Japanese buyers, and three years ago they agreed to let us have a try,” Kubota said. The result was a slightly smaller Barbie, less curvaceous and busty, with brown rather than blue eyes and less vividly blonde hair. Kubota said that in two years, sales of the doll blossomed from near zero to two million. Wise Men's gifts now worth S4OO NEW YORK (AP) Gold would be the most expensive item on the Christmas shopping list of the Three Wise Men if they were buying gifts this year for the infant Jesus as described in the Bible. According to the Biblical account, the Three Wise Men came to Bethlehem bearing gold, frankincense and myrrh. Gold was quoted at $391 a troy ounce in New York on Monday. Frankincense cost about $2.40 a pound and myrrh $1.75 a pound.
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French soldier wounded; Gemayel heads to Britain
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on a French peacekeeping patrol on a crowded west Beirut thoroughfare today. The French Defense Ministry said one paratrooper was killed. The ambush came as President Amin Gemayel called the Lebanese Cabinet into special session to discuss security conditions in Lebanon before departing on a two-day visit to Britain. He was expected to encourage British leaders not to remove their contingent from the multinational peacekeeping force. In Tripoli, PLO chief Yasser Arafat awaited word as to whether Saudi Arabia and Syria would provide protection for his fighters during their evacuation of the port city. In Beirut, Lt. Col. Phillipe de Longeaux, spokesman for the French contingent of the peacekeeping force, said four or five attackers fired from a car as the French patrol moved along the Corniche Mazraa during morning rush hour. The “Voice of Lebanon” radio station said the gunmen, in a light grey Mercedes 200 without
license plates, sped from the scene of the attack through a narrow side lane. -The Defense Minsitry in Paris said the paratrooper died of wounds received in the attack. It did not identify the soldier and no other information was immediately available. French fighter-bombers raided a base of Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Shiite Moslem Lebanese extremists allied with them in east Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley on Nov. 17. The air strike was in retaliation for the twin truck bombing attacks that killed 240 American and 58 French peacekeeping troops on Oct. 23. The bombings were believed to be engineered by Shiite extremists loyal to Iran’s revolutionary patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait Monday and at five other sites in the Persian Gulf nation were also claimed by a group calling itself Islamic Holy War, a shadowy group with allegiance to the Iranian revolution. President Reagan reiterated in a published interview today
Suicide technique unstoppable?
State Dept, concerned by terrorist tactics
WASHINGTON (AP) - The bombing at ‘he U.S. Embassy in Kuwait is causing concern among State Department officials that determined terrorist groups have come up with a weapon that even the most stringent security precautions cannot deter. The newest type of terrorism American diplomats face is one where practitioners are willing to sacrifice their own lives to make a political statement. A decade ago, terrorist incidents directed at American
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that his administration believes there are 1,000 terrorists assembled in the Middle East to conduct such suicide attacks. Defense Department sources say the Pentagon has compiled a list of targets to be bombed in Lebanon in the event of another terrorist attack against U.S. installations. The sources said the targets include Syrian-manned anti-aircraft missiles sites and areas populated by Iranianconnected terrorist groups. CBS News reported Monday night that Pentagon officials are convinced that none of the recent suicide bombings in Lebanon could have taken place without the assistance of Syria. Syria, which has an estimated 50,000 soldiers in Lebanon, backs leftist Druse and Shiite Moslem militias fighting the Lebanese army. President Reagan, in an interview with the New York Daily News, said the Marines would stay in Lebanon despite attacks. Local radio stations quoted Gemayel as telling a group of British reporters on the eve of his departure that he will argue with British leaders against withdrawing Britain’s force.
diplomatic personnel were limited largely to kidnappings and occasional assassinations of individuals. Officials acknowledge those tactics seem almost tame in comparison to the new methods. “It’s definitely a new direction in terrorism ... and very difficult for us to act,” said Michael LaFranchi, chief of physical security for the U.S. Agency for International Development, in an interview published today. “It’s hard to imagine any
Security measures increasingly more common at White House
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Reagan’s motorcade sped along Pennsylvania Avenue and gradually slowed in front of the White House. Then, as heavy iron gates swung open, his armored limousine turned in. But rather than pull up to the front door at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the Secret Service driver drove along a side driveway and pulled the automobile alongside a sunken basement delivery entrance where the president and Mrs. Reagan slipped inside their residence. That quiet return from a Christmas concert Sunday night exemplified the safety measures that are becoming increasingly common at the White House, where security of-
kind of complete guarantees no matter what we do,” said Dennis Hays, president of the American Foreign Service Association, the organization of career diplomats. The suicide technique was used against the United States again Monday in Kuwait. The truck bombing was similar to that used last April when 63 died in an explosion at the American Embassy in Beirut and last October when 240 U S. servicemen and 56 French paratroopers died in attacks on their
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ficials are constantly devising new ways to protect the president. According to one source, such efforts have gone so far as to give the Secret Service the ability to use ground-to-air missiles to protect Reagan from an attacking aircraft taking off from National Airport, three miles to the south and across the Potomac River, but about one minute away by jet airplane. According to the source, who spoke on the condition that he would not be identified by name, Secret Service agents working in a command center in the Old Executive Office Building next door to the White House monitor aircraft flying in and out of National Airport.
headquarters in Beirut. In each case, the attack was carried out by the Islamic Jihad, which claims allegiance to the Iranian revolution. The U.S. embassies in Kuwait and other Middle East countries have undergone tightened security since the bombing at the Marine headquarters in Beirut seven weeks ago. However, Hays said, “I don’t believe suicide missions can be prevented.” He said he is worried about embassies becoming like ar-
brings rain, snow
By CYNTHIA GREEN Associated Press Writer A chain of storms from New England to the Pacific brought rain, sleet and snow today after a grab bag of weather surprises left snow on the Plains, an icy sheen over the Northeast and $2 million in tornado damage in Florida. Heavy rain and fog followed a warm front into the Northeast today, with freezing rain falling across northern New England. Flash flood warnings were in effect in Delaware and Pennsylvania, and travelers’ advisories were issued for Maine,
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The Defense Department has refused to discuss the White House security arrangements. However, the Army uses two types of portable, shoulderfired, anti-aircraft missiles that might be suitable for defending the White House. One is the Stinger, a five-foot-long weapon with a range of a little more than three miles and an ability to reach targets at altitudes just below three miles. The Stinger is a heat-seeking missile with a fragmentation warhead that is designed for a soldier to defend against lowaltitude jets, propeller-driven planes or helicopters. The Redeye, about four feet long, has a range of up to about two miles and can hit targets at altitudes of about 8,000 feet.
med camps, preventing American diplomats from carrying out their tasks. “For us to be able to do our jobs, there really is a limit as to how much we can do to protect ourselves,” he said in a telephone interview. He said the United States has adopted security measures at a number of foreign embassies to guard against the type of hostage-taking that occurred at the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979.
New Hampshire, Vermont and northern New York. Another, developing storm, coupled with single-digit temperatures, was dumping snow on the Dakotas and Minnesota, with up to 5 inches reported in some locations. And a third storm in the Northwest was bringing rain to the Pacific Coast and snow to the northern Rockies. The widespread precipitation follows a day of violent weather in the East, with the severity catching forecasters off guard. Six people were injured Monday when three tornadoes ripped across southwest Florida, uprooting citrus trees, overturning a truck and tearing the roof off a house. The worst twister hit a mobile home park in Arcadia, Fla., injuring four people, destroying three mobile homes and blowing down several bams. Officials estimated the damage at $2 million. Two people were injured when a funnel cloud passed through two trailer parks between Englewood Beach and Boca Grande on the Gulf Coast. In the Northeast a sudden morning ice storm sent cars skidding off freeways from New York City to southern Maine, and scores of minor accidents were reported to police.