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USSR tanker crippled by blast off Nicaragua U.S., Soviets trade charges in incident

WASHINGTON (AP) - The crippling of a Soviet tanker by a mine off Nicaragua’s coast has produced strongly-worded accusations and hostile encounters between senior Soviet and American diplomats here and in Moscow. The two superpowers are holding each other responsible for Tuesday’s incident off Nicaragua’s Pacific Coast, in which the mine planted by American-backed rebels exploded and blew a hole in the hull of the Soviet ship. Five Soviet sailors were injured, prompting the Soviet news agency Tass to say that Moscow may seek compensation. At the heart of the dispute are Soviet concerns over U.S. support for anti-government rebels in leftist Nicaragua and American allegations that the Soviets are to blame for much of the tensions in Central America through their backing for Nicaragua and the in-

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Sub blamed for Sea of Japan collision

WASHINGTON (AP) Pentagon officials say a Soviet attack submarine was to blame for a collision involving the nuclear-powered sub and the 80,000-ton U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk during maneuvers in the Sea of Japan. The mishap Wednesday resulted in no apparent damage to either vessel, officials said. And there were no casualties aboard the Kitty Hawk, the Navy said. It was not known whether any of the submarine’s crewmen were hurt, but the Soviet ship—a 5,200-ton craft of the Victor I class proceeded away from the collision scene under its own power.

surgency in El Salvador. With Tuesday’s episode, a new dimension was added the conflict. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, reacting sharply, summoned U.S. charge d’affairs Warren Zimmerman and handed him a note claiming the United States was responsible for the “grave crime, an act of banditry and piracy,” ac-

Star Wars pipedreams? Experts still arguing over Reagan's space-age defense plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - A year after President Reagan outlined his vision of a spaceage defense against Soviet nuclear attack, scientists are still arguing whether it is a “Star Wars” pipedream leading the world to disaster or to the end of a 30-year-old atomic stalemate. A group of distinguished physicists came to the first conclusion in a report issued Wednesday, arguing that the administration should pursue arms control rather than “this illusion.” The private group, the Union of Concerned Scientists, has been critical of Reagan in past years. But Dr. George Keyworth, Reagan’s science adviser, said recently, “it’s worth pursuing. Our research is at an early Banner-Graphic "!f Waves For All" USPS 142-020 Consolidation of The Dally Banner Established 1850 The Herald The Daily Graphic Established 1883 Telephone 653-5151 Published daily except Sundays and holidays by LuMar Newspapers, Inc. at 100 North Jackson St., Greencastle, Indiana 46135. Entered In the Post Office at Greencastle, Indiana, as 2nd class mail matter under Act of March 7,1878. Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier *1 .00 Per Month, by motor route ‘4.55 Mail Subscription Rates R.R.in Rest of Rest of Putnam County Indiana U.S.A. 3 Months '13.80 '14.15 '17.25 8 Months '27.60 '28.30 '34.50 1 Year '55.20 '56.60 '69.00 Mail subscriptions payable in advance . . . not accepted in town and where motor route service is available. Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republicetion of all the local news printed in this newspaper.

cording to Tass. Tass charged the mine was planted by U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels with “the direct participation of agencies and persons controlled by the U.S. government.” It went on to accuse the United States of conducting a “policy of state terrorism” against Nicaragua. U.S. officials, who asked not

stage and may come to nothing. But if we find something, we (the United States and the Soviet Union) could get away from these loaded guns we’re pointing at each other. ’ ’ Officially, the Pentagon calls the project “Strategic Defense Initiative” and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger bridles when critics call it “Star

Money rolling in backing Hart as Mondale rips administration

By The Associated Press Gary Hart is enjoying a money-raising boom and turning his attention back to friendly New England while Walter F. Mondale, trying to sustain his presidential campaign’s recovery, faces new worries that federal spending limits may soon give his Democratic rival an advantage. Mondale, meanwhile, is unleashing a strong new attack on President Reagan, saying his administration has a “sleaze factor” and a “tawdry record of unethical conduct...” The two leading Democratic presidential hopefuls were campaigning on opposite coasts today Mondale in California after a series of fund-raising events Wednesday night, Hart in New York City and Connecticut. The Rev. Jesse

Grain elevator bill seen as farmers' help

WASHINGTON (AP) - After more than two years of delay, the House has passed legislation aimed at helping farmers when grain elevators go bankrupt, to the praise of the bill’s farm-state backers. “I’ve been frustrated at the slowness of the process ... but I expect now we’re really on our way,” said Rep. Bill Emerson,

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The collision occurred about 150 miles east of the South Korean coast while the huge carrier was taking part in an annual U.S.-South Korean war game called Exercise Team Spirit ’B4, a Pentagon official said. Pentagon officials, who spoke only on condition that they not be identified, asserted that the submarine was traveling without navigation lights. “We think the submarine hit the Kitty Hawk apparently as the sub was coming up through the sea,” said one Navy official. The Kitty Hawk was continuing its normal operations, the Navy said.

to be identified, said they were struck by the tone of the statement. Because Moscow went public with it, the State Department responded in kind, first with a statement by deputy spokesman Alan Romberg and later with a rare public account of a meeting between Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger and Soviet Embassy Minister Counselor Oleg

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Wars” after the popular movie featuring futuristic weapons. However, official Pentagon budget documents recently submitted to Congress show that one part of the research, dealing with a weapon known as the electromagnetic gun, has been named “Project JEDI.” The Jedi Knights, possessors of “the Force,” were the good

Jackson campaigned in Richmond, Va., where he complained that whites haven’t backed his candidacy in large numbers because they don’t view blacks as viable candidates. Hart, who lost to Mondale in crucial Illinois on Tuesday, canceled a money-raising trip to California to spend his time in the Northeast a region where he has already won five state contests. Mondale, stopping in Albuquerque, N.M., on his way West, said his 96-delegate victory in Illinois wasn’t enough to restore the front-runner label. “Delegates are important, but I want the legitimacy of popular support together with delegates at that convention. I want the people to want me to be president,” said the former

R-Mo., in whose district the issue first gained widespread attention three years ago. “It’s not a cure-all, but it’s a step in the right direction.” Stalled for two years, the grain elevator issue finally made it to the House floor because it was seen as a way to attract farm-state votes to a bill extending the life of the nation’s

Sokolov. Romberg suggested the Soviets had no basis for complaining because the mining of certain Nicaraguan ports had been “widely advertised.” While regretting the injuries and damage caused by the incident, Romberg said the dangers in the area were well known. He added that to a great ex-

guys in “Star Wars.” Reagan, in a March 23, 1983 speech, called for scientific research into a defensive shield which change military strategy from offense to defense and could “give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons obsolete.” The existing concept is “deterrence,” the three-decade

vice president. As Mondale was enjoying the company of people who paid up to SI,OOO a ticket to join him at California money-raising receptions, federal reports made public in Washington showed that Hart has been raking in the cash. Hart raised less than half a million dollars during the first two months of this year, but he took in $l.B million in the first 20 days of March immediately after his stunning New Hampshire primary triumph. Mondale’s campaign, which raised $1.2 million during the first two months of 1984, expected to pull in up to $1.3 million during March, according to records filed with the Federal Elections Commission. In the president’s home state and earlier in New Mexico,

bankruptcy courts, said Rep. Dan Glickman, D-Kan., who headed a House Agriculture Committee task force on the issue. The elevator bankruptcy issue gained national attention in 1981, after the James Brothers Elevators in Missouri and Arkansas declared bankruptcy.

President still standing behind Meese

WASHINGTON (AP) - Edwin Meese 111, President Reagan’s nominee to be attorney general, left some interest income off his 1981 and 1982 income tax returns and must file amended returns, a White House official savs. Meese, who has remained in his post as Reagan’s White House counselor, omitted from his returns a sum in the range of S2OO to S3OO, said the official, who asked not to be identified. He stated: “We’re not talking about huge amounts.” Robin Gray, a member of the

tent, “these regional dangers and tensions result from Soviet encouragement of conflict in Central America and the Caribbean, and therefore the Soviets are hardly in a position to blame others for an increase in violence.” But Romberg refused to answer questions about whether the mine was supplied by the United States. He said he was not authorized to comment on allegations about intelligence activities. Hours after Gromyko met with Zimmerman, Eagleburger summoned Sokolov to the State Department. An official statement released afterward said Eagleburger rejected the Soviet protest note in its entirety and said the Soviets should raise the issue with the Nicaraguan government because the incident occurred in that country’s waters.

old doctrine which holds that the nuclear stalemate exists because both know a first strike would not destroy enough weapons to eliminate a devastating counter-attack by the other side. The Union of Concerned Scientists study, written by a group of eminent physicists which included Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, said none of the current defensive systems being studied, such as various types of lasers, will work to make existing weapons useless. The Pentagon has proposed spending about $3 billion in the next fiscal year and the program will cost at least $26 billion through 1989 without any assurance that a deployable system can be developed, Pentagon officials have said.

Mondale blasted Reagan. He listed last year’s turmoil in the Environmental Protection Agency, the current furor over the nomination of presidential counselor Edwin Meese for attorney general, the sale of federal lands at “fire-sale prices,” and CIA director William S. Casey’s muchcriticized ties to Wall Street, and other controversies. “For nearly three years, almost every couple of weeks, another rotten apple is falling out of a tree,” Mondale said. “It’s what I call the sleaze factor. The one thing that’s consistent is nothing but silence from the White House.” Both Hart and Mondale are looking on to the big stake primaries April 3 and 10 in New York and Pennsylvania.

Farmers who needed to sell grain to raise money for planting a new crop were frustrated in efforts to get back their stored produce, and Wayne Cryts, a Puxico, Mo., farmer, barged past federal marshals at the elevator in Ristine, Mo., and hauled away about 33,000 bushels of soybeans he said were his.

White House press office staff, said there would be no official comment on the disclosure. “There are apparent discrepancies,” said the White House official who made the disclosure Wednesday night. “There may be perfectly logical explanations.” Meese has been under growing scrutiny relating to his personal finances as the Senate Judiciary Committee has sought to determine whether he should serve as attorney general. Meese was granted his

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JOAN MON DALE: Primarily a campaigner

'Joan of Art' has more at stake than burning issues WASHINGTON (AP) Joan of Art, Mrs. Walter F. Mondale, campaigned in 34 states last year, traveling three or four days a week, logging over 100,000 miles. Tuesday, she saw her husband for the first time in a week and she did not arrive empty handed. On her arm was an overstuffed orange canvas bag, fillet with clean socks and shirts. Primary day for Joan Mondale began at 6 a.m., shoppin for vegetables for the neighborhood cooperative, and it stre ched past midnight when she and the former vice presiden celebrated victory For Joan Mondale, the 1984 presidential campaign is “far more intense, more focused,” than any other she has weathered and Joan Mondale has been in politics for more than 20 years. “The pace is faster. We’re going five and six days out of seven instead of three or four,” she says. “And the days are longer.” Since January, she has been on the road, appearing for her husband, speaking out on the need for daycare and job training, pay equity, the gender gap. “We knew this would be a tough race,” Mrs. Mondale said in an interview this week. “We just didn’t know which of the other seven candidates would be the toughest contender.” Seated in the back seat of a car winding its way through the daffodil-lined parkway to National Airport, she reflected on the primary season. “We’ve always had long periods of separation,” she said. “When he was attorney general in Minnesota, he was home for dinner only twice a month. Our children have never known anything else. We only dated once a week before we were married.” And they had known each other for 13 weeks. Whatever one’s politics, people who know Mrs. Mondale like her. She is a warm, gracious, unpretentious woman, a talented potter whose dedication to the arts over the years has won her the title, “Joan of Art.” Chatting, she is relaxed, easy, quick to chortle over campaign trail gossip, quicker to criticize the Reagan presidency. “How any intelligent person can vote for Reagan is difficult for me to see,” she said. “He is the cause of all this suffering and pain, farmers losing their farms and 2 1 /z million women sinking into poverty.” Yet ask her about rival Gary Hart, whose surprise primary victories sent the Mondale campaign reeling and she stiffens, offering a stock reply: “What we say is that it doesn’t matter if ideas are old or new, but whether they’re right or wrong. Reaganomics was a new idea, but it was wrong and it didn’t work. We are proud that our ideas are based on the timeless values of the Democratic party.” Ask her about Jimmy Carter, v/hom her husband visited the week before in Georgia. Will Mondale ask Carter to campaign for him? Alongsilence; then, “Idon’tknow.” She is more relaxed talking about her three children, taking pains to explain a point in one of the many news clippings about Mondale kids on the campaign trail that decorate the family kitchen. Ted is 26, a University of Minnesota graduate. William is 22, taking a year off from Brown University, where he is a senior. Eleanor, 24, a St. Lawrence University graduate, is an actress living in Los Angeles, now playing the Yoplait girl in Yoplait yogurt television commercials. “I wish she wore a name tag," her mother says. When Carter and Mondale were defeated in 1980, Mrs. Mondale became a private citizen for the first time since 1964. “We weren’t used to it,” she says. “... It was a good time to reflect, to read and see friends and travel. We didn’t have any duties in private life. We didn’t have to answer any questions.”

request that the committee proceedings be held in abeyance while Attorney General William French Smith determines whether a special prosecutor is needed to further investigate the matter. On Wednesday afternoon, Reagan said “I would not listen" if Meese offered to withdraw as nominee. “I have complete confidence and I’ve known him for a great many years. And I think he’d make an excellent attorney general,” Reagan told a group of reporters.

The latest information on Meese’s finances was discovered by lawyers over the weekend, who were instructed to continue their examination to resolve the apparent discrepancies. At the same time, Meese was said to have been advised to review the matter with the accountant who helped prepare his returns. The White House official said that Meese “hadn’t listed ... forgot to file” interest earned on an account at the White House Credit Union.