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Two men being questioned

London airport bomb injures 22

LONDON (AP) A bomb explosion that left 22 injured People “lying all over the floor like dolls” at London’s Heathrow Airport may be linked to similar attacks on Libyan dissidents in Britain last jnonth, a police official said today. Two men were being questioned about Friday’s blast, which wrecked the customs area at a terminal used by foreign airlines flying between European and Middle East points, said Cmdr. Bill Hucklesby, chief of Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist squad. Hucklesby declined to identify the men or to say whether the bombing might be connected to the standoff at the Libyan Embassy across town Police today maintained their siege of the embassy, which started after a gunman in an embassy window sprayed sub-machine-gun fire on a crowd of

No progress seen in embassy standoff

British get secret Libyan note

By BARNABY J. FEDER c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service LONDON The government .said Friday that it had received a secret Libyan response to its conditions for ending the four-day-old police siege of the Libyan Embassy here. It said the British ambassador in Libya was being instructed on how to pursue negotiations. But officials here and reports from Libya gave no indication that there had been progress toward an agreement. Talks Thursday and Friday in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, between Ambassador Oliver Miles and Ali Abdel Salam Turayki, head of Libya’s Foregin Liaison Office, were described by the Foreign Office as “constructive and friendly.” In a BBC radio interview Friday Miles depicted both sides as eager for relations to return to normal. Publicly, neither side has

Panicky porker gets policeman's attention, escapes barbecue NEW YORK (AP) A pig who was upset at being cooped up in a car trunk escaped an even worse fate being barbecued at a softball party when she attracted a police officer’s attention by rocking the car and oinking. Officer William Terry was on patrol in Brooklyn Thursday when he noticed an empty car rocking back and forth, the New York Post reported Friday. “I thought it might be a person locked in the trunk until I got closer,” he said. “That’s when I heard oinking noises.” An emergency service unit broke open the trunk and tranquilized the sow, who was then put on a leash. The still disgruntled pig “was going crazy,” Terry said. The car owner, who was not identified, told police his softball team had raised SIOO to buy the sow for a barbecue Saturday. The newspaper said he was issued a summons for having a pig in the city without an agricultural license. The porker, meanwhile, was given to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, plans to send it to a farm.

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JOHN DeLOREAN Tried to get out?

18-inch snowfall buries Rockies states

By The Associated Press A huge storm blasted much of the nation today with 18-inch snows halting Easter travel in the Rockies, thunderstorms spewing hail and tornadoes f ro m west Texas to Arkansas and heavy rain trapping people in their cars in Missouri. A tornado killed a camper and injured at least four other

Libyan dissidents Tuesday, killing a British policewoman and wounding 11 demonstrators. Hucklesby said he saw “similarities” between the airport bomb, containing 2 pounds of “commercial or possibly military explosives” and six devices planted in London on March 10. Twenty-three people were injured in the earlier bombings. All the bombs contained similar amounts of explosives and each was detonated by a timer, he said. Police have said the March 10 bombs apparently were aimed at Libyan exiles opposed to the regime of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafy. At least 11 Libyan dissidents have been killed in Britain, West Germany, Greece and Lebanon and scores wounded since Khadafy warned exiles in 1980 they would be “liquidated”

budged substantially from its position in the deadlock that developed quickly Tuesday morning after what witnesses described as machine-gun fire from the embassy wounded 10 people in a crowd of Libyans demonstrating against the government of Col. Moammar Khadafy and killed Constable Yvonne Fletcher. The police immediately surrounded the building with marksmen and cordoned off St. James’ Square in front it. The government demanded that Libya allow it to question the 20 to 30 Libyans inside and to empty the building so it could be searched for arms and ammunition. In his only public statement on the dispute, Khadafy said Wednesday that the incident was the result of an attack on the embassy by the police and

Jurors hear recording of De Lorean in drug deal

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jurors in John Z. De Lorean’s drug trial heard tapes Friday of the automaker trying to back out of a drug deal, then resuming negotiations and reluctantly agreeing to bring his fashion model wife to a meeting with a drug dealer. The disclosures involving De Lorean’s wife, Cristina Ferrare, came on tapes played Friday in a packed, hushed courtroom as the couple listened and exchanged pained smiles. The tape was the first to offer support for De Lorean’s theory of the case that he was

people in Lake Canton, Okla., on Friday, and an 8-year-old girl was left sitting in a field where a mobile home had been when a twister ripped through Valley View, Texas. In Colorado, where ranchers unable to reach young livestock predicted heavy losses of lambs and calves, up to 2 feet of snow was expected before skies

if they did not return to their North African homeland. None of those injured in Friday’s bombing were believed to be Libyan. Hucklesby described the airport device as “a professional bomb and we suspect from the Middle East. The persons responsible could still be here or could have flown out to Libya or any other of the flights that took off from here.” The bomb was hidden in an unclaimed suitcase, one of six taken off a Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 that landed at Heathrow 4Vfe hours earlier, airport workers said. It took off for Tripoli, the Libyan capital, an hour before the blast. Hucklesby noted, however, there had been 80 flights in and out of Europe’s busiest airport in the hours preceding the explosion. Most of the passengers in Terminal 2 when the bomb detonated were believed to have

“groups from the Middle East” that were not Libyan. He has demanded that the police withdraw and allow the occupants of the People’s Bureau, as Libya calls its embassy, to come and go freely. “I am not optimistic and I am certainly not pessimistic,” Miles said in a television interview shown Friday evening. The British Embassy is being guarded by about 25 Libyan soldiers. The 8,000 British citizens in Libya, most of them oilmen and construction workers, were advised to remain unobtrusive. The police here have established telephone links with those in the embassy and have arrangements described as cordial for allowing two men associated with it to convey messages and bring in food. The scene was quiet Friday as the Libyans observed the weekly

Passengers robbed, assaulted

Police rush subway train, arrest gang of 22 youths

c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Twenty-five transit police officers moved aboard a subway train that pulled into the Delancey Street station in Manhattan early Friday with its horn blasting for help and arrested 22 youths on charges of robbing and terrorizing riders. The transit police, who had responded to a radio call for help from an officer aboard the train, described their intervention as “posse-like” and “so instantaneous” that none of the dozens of riders were injured and none of the suspects escaped. The officers lined up everyone who had been on the train against the station wall and sorted out, from nearly 100 youths, those accused of having taken part in the robberies. “That’s the one, he took my money,” a rider shouted at one youth. “He’s the kid, he’s the one who did it,” said another. “He’s the one who slapped me.” a third said. With each accusation, the identified youth was plucked from the wall and taken away. Sgt. Louis Croce said some of the youths used “strongarm methods.” “They went through the car relieving people of their money,” he said. “It became a rat pack.” The police said the youths were arrested on assault, riot, and

frightened and tried to escape involvement with drug dealers by fabricating an explanation of why he couldn’t get his hands on the money. The audio tape was recorded Sept. 15, 1982, a few days after De Lorean had apparently agreed to go along with a nar-cotics-based financial deal by an FBI undercover agent posing as a banker. “We have, ah, a problem and I think it‘s pretty serious,” De Lorean said in the Sept. 15 phone conversation. Creating an elaborate ruse, De Lorean told the agent, Benedict Tisa, the Irish

began to clear Sunday. But southern Texas was roasting in record heat that hit 106 Friday in Del Rio. “It’s crazy,” Bill Sammler, of the National Severe Storms Forecast Center in Kansas City, Mo., said this morning. He called it “a vicious storm” that "spanned the seasons.” Flash flood warnings were up

come off an Air Italia jet from Rome.

The bomb exploded in the baggage claim area on the first floor of the terminal, police said. About 60 passengers and airport staff were in the area. The blast blew out partitions, brought down the ceiling and buckled metal beams. It fractured water pipes, sending fountains of spray over the crumpled, bloodstained casualties. “It was complete carnage,” said an airport worker who was in the terminal. “There was blood splattered on the floor ... and people screaming ... lying all over the floor like dolls.” Passengers in other parts of the terminal ran screaming with luggage-laden trolleys. A metal baggage carousel “took most of the blast and shielded the rest of the hall,” I said Gary May, a British Airports Authority spokesman.

Islamic day of worship. Beyond the square, onlookers wandered by from nearby Piccadilly Circus and the high-priced shops of Mayfair to peer past the police barricades. Buskers and street preachers lent an almost festive air to the scene at times. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher returned as scheduled Friday morning from a state visit to Portugal. She went directly to the country estate of Chequers for the Easter weekend, leaving on-the-scene monitoring responsibilities to Leon Brittan, the Home Secretary. Brittan, whose job includes responsibility for Britain’s police, has been head of the special group ofofficials working on the confrontation since it began. He went to Chequers Friday afternoon with Richard Luce, a Foreign Office official, to brief Mrs. Thatcher.

Republican Army, which was to back him with money for the drug deal, had fouled up his plans. He said his IRA contact, Robin Bailie, had taken the $2 million earmarked for drugs and deposited it with the receiver for De Lorean Motor Co. in Belfast to save the car plant from being shuttered. Chief defense attorney Howard Weitzman said later that Robin Bailie is actually the name of a lawyer in Northern Ireland whom De Lorean knew. But he said Bailie, a onetime politician, had nothing to do with the IRA or with the De

today in Kansas and Missouri as the storm’s center moved eastward from central Oklahoma. By early today the rain covered half of Illinois and was spreading into Kentucky and western Indiana. Nebraska had 8 inches of snow at Big Spring, and up to 5 inches had fallen in western Kansas.

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Battlelines are drawn over the Alamo's future Tourists pose in front of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, where controversy is brewing over an Illinois man's proposal to refurbish the aging fort. Gary L. Foreman, 33, wants to define and perhaps restore the original grounds of the Alamo and perhaps stage recreations of the battle in which 187 Americans died holding off 5,000 Mexican troops for 13 days. Foreman's plans are opposed by Mrs. T. Kellis Dibrell (right), chairman of the Alamo Committee of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, who says the Alamo is a shrine that should not be commercialized. The Daughters of the Republic of Texas are empowered by state law to oversee maintenance of the Alamo. Foreman says he will appeal to private citizens, as well as Texas civic groups and politicians, in a bid to wrest control of the Alamo from the Daughters. (N.Y. Times photos)

robbery charges and were between 13 and 20 years old. They said no weapons had been recovered. One rider suffering from chest pains was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, where his condition was not regarded as serious. According to Sgt. James Duffy, the train, an F train, left Continental Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens, shortly after 1 a.m. and headed toward Manhattan with about 20 riders, most of them in the two middle cars of the 10-car train. Also on board was Officer Richard King, as part of the Transit Authority’s new crime control program that includes placing an officer on every subway train between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. A major objective of the new program is to have the police move quickly, particularly when crowds of youths enter stations or board trains. At the 74th Street station in Jackson Heights, Queens, the police said, about 100 youths who had been roller skating at a nearby rink, got on the F train. According to the police, trouble broke out when the train arrived at the West 4th Street station in Manhattan just as King was being relieved by Officer Henry McCauley. As the train pulled out, McCauley, moving toward the center of the train, saw two passengers shouting at three of the youths from the roller rink. He then saw other passengers being harassed, and

Lorean case. “So it’s, ah, sitting there right now and I honestly don’t know what to do about it,” said De Lorean. The agent replied, “You really put me in a bad spot now ... You just screwed up a hell of a deal.” “I know that,” said De Lorean, “but it is, ah, it wasn’t a matter of choice.” The agent continued to express disappointment and finally asked, “So, what do you want to do? Do you want me to kill this deal?” “I don’t see any alternative right now unless you’ve got

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some other idea,” said De Lorean. Tisa testified that he believed the deal was still alive, in spite of De Lorean’s statements. “I realized I had myself slipped up and given Mr. De Lorean a chance to delay,” he testified. “But there was no doubt in my mind he wanted to continue.” De Lorean, 59, is charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine. He faces a maximum sentence of 72 years in prison if convicted on all charges. Agents said he wanted to sell the cocaine to save his failing auto company.

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radioed for help. His call was received by the Transit Authority’s communications Center on Jay Street in Brooklyn. When such a call is received, all available officers in the immediate vicinity are alerted and dispatched in this case to Delancey Street, three stations away from West 4th. A tactical force of nine officers was nearby, conducting sweeps of several stations. They were dispatched to Delancey Street station along with other transit officers on anti-drug teams in the Lower East Side and several city police officers. The group converged on the station as the train pulled in. “It was all handled very swiftly, instantly,” said Croce. He said some of the riders immediately came foward and started identifying assailants. One officer said, “It was like the movie ‘Pelham One, Two, Three,’ only this time we took the train.” According to Duffy, after the subway station identifications were completed, the remaining youths were released and the train was allowed to proceed to Brooklyn. He said 25 suspects were taken to the 7th Precinct station house on Pitt Street, where seven passengers swore out complaints against 22 of them. The three other youths were released. There were other victims who could not make positive identifications of their assailants, the police said.

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