Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 87, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 December 1983 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 16,1983

Blizzard burying Plains By DANA FIELDS Associated Press Writer After dumping snow on Colorado for 34 straight days, the stormy autumn of ’B3 turned its fury on Texas and Oklahoma today with a half-foot of high-way-slicking snow and clutched the Midwest with wind-chilled temperatures down to 43 below zero. A stubborn storm in the Great Lakes, meanwhile, turned into a snow machine, with a foot of snow that fell Thursday at Marquette, Mich., topped by 4 more inches today. The 3.9 inches that hit Minneapolis and St. Paul on Thursday brought the year’s total to a record 95.1 inches; in Omaha, Neb., the total stood at a record 64.1 inches; and 21 inches of new snow at the Alta ski resort near Salt Lake City set a new record for November and December of 284 inches. The death toll from the past few days’ weather rose to 10, including a woman found apparently frozen to death less than 20 feet from a mobile home in Mandan, N.D., and two people who drowned in central Pennsylvania in flood-causing rain that finally subsided Thursday. To the north, it snowed today in all or parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania and western New York. Even light snow was treacherous in wind that swept across the Plains and whipped it into “a good old-fashioned ground blizzard,” said Mike Bender, a National Weather Service forecaster in Fargo, N.D. This morning’s official low was 23 below zero at Bismarck, N.D. But the wind chill made it feel like minus 43 at Mason City, lowa, and Fairmont, Minn., minus 35 at Des Moines and minus 20 in the Twin Cities, while piling the snow into 6-foot drifts that forced road crews off highways in southwestern Minnesota.

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Saying his goodbyes to fellow members of the 82nd Airborne Army unit in Grenada, Maj. Gen. Jack B. Farris Jr. (right) awaits boarding of a transport plane at Point Saline. Farris and the last 190 men under his command left Grenada Thursday. Some 300 non-combat soldiers will now support CariDbean peacekeeping forces. (AP Wirephoto).

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Air Illinois grounds its entire fleet

CARBONDALE, 111. (AP) - Pressured to halt its 120 daily flights because of federal inspectors’ questions about maintenance and record-keeping practices, Air Illinois has temporarily grounded its entire 13plane fleet until at least early January. The action came Thursday, 65 days after an Air Illinois commuter plane crashed near Pinkneyville in Southern Illinois, killing all seven passengers and three crew members. The groundings prompted Air Illinois president Roger Street to defend his 14-year-old airline at a news conference. He said

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c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada The last 190 men from the U.S. combat force in Grenada, along with their commanding general, flew home Thursday leaving approximately 300 noncombat soldiers to support Caribbean peacekeeping forces here. “We leave with a great deal of confidence that things are going to be good in Grenada,” said Maj. Gen. Jack B. Farris before trotting across the Cuban-built airstrip at Point Saline to join his men aboard the C-141 transport plane. “We wouldn’t be leaving if we didn’t think the security situation was good.” The aircraft took off in a light drizzle at 10:24 a.m. It was headed for Polk Air Force Base, near Fort Bragg, N.C. The last elements of “U.S. Forces, Grenada,” which at its

“The astronauts all come back from these flights and they all say, ‘Gee whiz, we have these pictures and they look beautiful but they don’t near do justice to what we saw.’ “So we’d kind of like to send people up there who can translate the experience of what they see in space into real terms for the public. That implies artists and journalists and writers and what have you.” Beggs said civilian passengers would be assigned to minor tasks on a mission. “I think we’ll try to make practical use of them in assisting the astronauts,” he said. “I don’t think we’ll give them a major role like an astronaut. But they will be assigned from time to time to tend the galley or do things like that.”

he believes “there’s no question” the Federal Aviation Administration is making an example of his company to the industry. “We were not running an unsafe airline,” he said, “and we will never run an unsafe airline.” “We’ll start flying as soon as we have everything in place and it satisfies the FAA,” Street said. Federal hearings on the Oct. 11 crash disclosed that pilots often failed to record malfunctions in airplane flight logs. The testimony prompted the FAA to put an inspector on every Air Illinois flight, beginning Dec. 3.

peak reached more than 7,000 men, included technicians, administration personnel and other support elements, according to a spokesman, Capt. William H. Mastin. Mastin said the detachment remaining behind, designated “U.S. Military Support Element, Grenada,” half of whom are military policemen, had the non-combat mission of aiding local forces. The departing troops left behind one liaison officer, Col. E.V. Parker, who said he would spend about a day completing the transition of authority to the commander of the remaining non-combat force, Lt. Col. Arthur Graves. In an interview on the eve of his departure, Farris, 48, said that 150 of the remaining troops would be military policemen with jeeps mounted with 40

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Economy best in two decades WASHINGTON (AP) Spurred by November’s 0.2 percent drop, the first in eight months, inflation at the wholesale level is running at just 0.3 percent for the year, the government said today. Food prices last month plummeted 1 percent, their steepest fall since July 1982. The new report virtually ensures that, for all of 1983, wholesale price inflation will be less than 1 percent, which would mark the economy’s best performance in nearly two decades. Even in advance of today’s annualized 11-month calculation, showing an even smaller inflationary gain than had been expected, economists were cheering the year’s anticipated results. “Fantastic,” exclaimed Edward Yardeni, chief economist for Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. And Michael Evans, an economic consultant here, said, “It’s amazing considering where we were three years ago” when wholesale prices had surged 11.8 percent. Prices rose 7.1 percent in 1981 and 3.7 percent last year. Not since 1964, when the gain was 0.5 percent, have wholesale prices risen at a rate below 1 percent. Prices had risen 0.2 percent in September and 0.3 percent in October of this year.

Air Illinois serves 15 airports in six states: lowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri. FAA sources who requested anonymity said Thursday the agency would have withdrawn the airline’s operating certificate if it had not grounded itself. “We’re looking at the whole operation,” one source said. “There are just all sorts of discrepancies there.” Street said the airline “certainly” felt FAA pressure to ground its fleet, which consists of two jets and 11 turboprops and propellers. But he denied the agency threatened to pull the airline’s operating license.

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machine guns. Six helicopters were also remaining, he said. The other 150 men, he said, “are logistics, medical support and that kind of thing. ” He said the military police would be patrolling in jeeps and on foot in combined patrols with the Caribbean police force and the Grenada police, “checking the forests and setting up ambushes in case people are moving with weapons at night.” Two Jamaican special service units will also be stationed here, he said. Farris said he believed Gov. Gen. Sir Paul Scoon plans to request other British Commonwealth countries to contribute civilian police officers “to serve as role models to the Grenadian police.” As the American soldiers, carrying their packs and M-16 assault rifles, boarded the tran-

Street said the airline, which had about 257,000 passengers last year, voluntarily grounded the planes because it was overwhelmed by “very stringent” FAA requests for improvements. The grounding, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, was “a direct result of serious questions over the air-worthiness of the airline’s operations.” In Washington, she said FAA inspectors had found recordkeeping problems that kept them from determining if Air Illinois met federal safety standards.

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sport plane, one of them waved a small American flag above his head. Another, who said he was from Indiana, said, “We enjoyed the stay, we enjoyed the people, and we hope we did some good for them.” Farris, speaking to a Grenadian journalist who had come to see him off, said, “I think the Grenadian people ought to lead the kind of life they’ve always led, and enjoy themselves, have their Christmas at midnight, have their parties and their gatherings and go back to the way Grenada always was.” “He’s a darling, we love him,” said a Grenadian woman who was standing nearby. Gen. Hudson Austin was the military commander in the coup d’etat in which Prime Minister Maurice Bishop was killed Oct. 19. Bishop had taken

Israelis mount 4th naval attack against Arafat

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Israel today mounted its fourth naval attack in a week against PLO chairman Yasser Arafat’s loyalists in Tripoli while a new cease-fire agreement stilled the fighting in this war-torn capital. The cease-fire was proclaimed Thursday night after representatives of the Lebanese army, Islamic Druse and Shiite anti-government militias met in Damascus with Foreign Minister Abdul-Halim Khaddam of Syria. In Damascus, the antigovernment National Salvation Front announced today a threepoint agreement to stabilize the cease-fire was reached with the Lebanese army. The agreement called for no more shelling of populated areas and public utilities, reopening the Beirut International Airport to normal air traffic after a 17-day shutdown, and “complete respect of the cease-fire by all parties concerned.” The front, which groups seven Syrian-backed opposition groups, said the agreement was to go into effect at midday (5 a.m. EST) but there no immediate confirmation from the Lebanese government or the various factions involved in the civil war. The Israeli naval shelling came as arrangements entered their final phase to evacuate Arafat and his 4,000 loyalists from the northern Lebanese port city of half a million inhabitants on Greek ships flying the United Nations flag. The five ships, which were to leave Greece to take Arafat and his fighters from their last Middle East redoubt Monday, are to be escorted by U.S. and French warships, the Greek government said. Although Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s Israeli government said it would not attack the evacuation vessels, the new shelling showed Israel was

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power in a coup in 1979 to topple Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy. U.S. troops, combined with a small force of Caribbean allies, invaded Grenada on Oct. 25, six days after Bishop was killed. The American troop strength on that first day was 4,647, according to Farris. It reached its peak of 7,355 on Oct. 31. He said Tuesday that final figures showed 18 American soldiers killed and 115 wounded in action along with 36 noncombat injuries. Revised figures showed 45 Grenadian civilians killed, and 25 bodies accepted by the Cubans. Withdrawals began within a week after the invasion, and the White House announced five days ago that the remaining 915 combat troops would be leaving. They have been departing since then in daily groups.

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determined to keep hitting at Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization loyalists until they leave the besieged city. Arafat’s men lowered their anti-aircraft guns and returned fire at the gunboats, which had slipped with lights out into firing positions near Tripoli’s Rabbit Island, about one-half mile from the harbor, according to the radios. In Beirut, meantime, the lull in fighting followed an upsurge of violence Thursday that involved the U.S., British and French contingents serving with the multinational peacekeeping force along with Lebanese troops, Christian, Druse and Shiite Moslem militiamen plus the USS New Jersey, the world’s only battleship. The battleship’s barrage of about 40 rounds of five-inch shells shortly after nightfall silenced Druse gunners who shelled the vulnerable U.S. Marine base at Beirut’s airport for about two hours. “Everything quieted down very rapidly” after the naval bombardment, said Marine spokesman Capt. Wayne Jones, 40, of Cape Girardeau, Mo.

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