Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 103, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 January 1985 — Page 2

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 3,1985

Errant Soviet training missile hits in Lapland

OSLO, Norway (AP) A low-flying object that appeared to be a Soviet cruise missile passed over northern Norway and landed in Finnish territory in what may have been an errant training shot, the Norwegian military says. Finnish border police today started to search for traces of the projectile in the Lapland region of northern Finland, said an army spokesman in Helsinki. A Stockholm newspaper quoted an “earwitness” report on the alleged missile from a Norwegian resident living about two miles from the Soviet border and six miles from Finnish territory. “I heard an enormous roar, just like a dynamite explosion. The house vibrated and the ground shook,” Wilhelm Hoegre, of the Pasvik Valley in extreme northeastern Norway, told the the Dagens Nyheter newspaper in a telephone interview. Dagens Nyheter said Hoegre telephoned neighbors, police and military and all confirmed they had heard the sound. Norway’s Defense Command spokesman Ole R. Bollmann said Wednesday that the object seemed to have been a Soviet tactical training missile

Rescue mission begins in Andes

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Rescue workers assembled today at the base of an Andes peak to attempt to reach the wreckage of an Eastern Airlines jet embedded on a steep, snow-covered slope. Officials said the 29 passengers and crew, including eight Americans, were presumed dead. “It appears the plane crashed head-on and the shape of a plane is clearly visible,” said Col. Grover Rojas of the Bolivian air force. “The remains of the plane are scattered over a large area. We rule out any possibility of survivors.” Americans and Bolivian air force officers, who led a search involving air force plans and a U.S. aircraft, said the wreckage was sighted Wednesday at about 19,000 feet.

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fired from a vessel in the Barents Sea and that it may have been off its planned course. The object was tracked by Norwegian radar stations last Friday as it flew westward across Rustvatn Lake and the Pasvik River, which forms the border between Norway and Finland at the top of the Scandinavian peninsula. Norwegian radar stations saw the object disappear in the direction of the Lake Inarii in Finland. According to unofficial reports, Finnish radar stations also observed the missile. The Swedish news agency TT quoted a

Among the Americans aboard the Boeing 727 were Marian Davis, wife of U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay Arthur H. Davis, and William Kelly, director of the Peace Corps in Paraguay, according to U.S. and airport officials. Using four-wheel-drive vehicles, an liman Red Cross team today drove to Urana Mine, near the base of Illimani Mountain, which rises nearly 21,000 feet above sea level. The mine is about 35 miles southeast of La Paz. A photograph of the crash clearly showed the outline of a large plane in the snow, with wreckage of the fuselage scattered about. Richard McGraw, an Eastern Airlines senior vice president, said in Miami that the airline was trying to find a high-

Getting their goat

Naval maneuvers to rid uninhabited island of animals

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Navy is facing a last-ditch appeal to cancel a massive goat hunt on an uninhabited Pacific Ocean island it uses for target practice. Rep. Bobbi Fiedler, R-Calif., and Cleveland Amory, head of the Fund for Animals, were to meet today with Navy brass to urge postponement of the weeklong goat hunt, scheduled to start Friday on San Clemente Island. The Navy says a helicopter will spend a week flying over the island carrying civilian hunters who will blaze away with shotguns at an estimated 1,500 andalusian goats. The animals are descended from a herd that reached San Clemente perhaps a century ago. The Navy, which uses the island 65 miles

Norwegian Defense Ministry spokesman as saying: “The missile crashed later into the Lake Inarii or near it. We have information that indicate that the cruise missile must have crashed on Finnish territory.” At the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, there was no immediate official comment. Gen. Frederik Bull-Hanssn, the Norwegian defense chief, said there was no way of knowing for certain whether the missile carried a payload, but neither he nor Bollmann had any reason to believe it did.

altitude helicopter that could reach the crash site, which is on a 45-degree incline. McGraw told a news conference a crew from a local television station flew over the crash site in a light plane and spotted a 9-foot wing section, a section of the tail and a horizontal stabilizer. “They are convinced that the parts are of a (Boeing) 727,” he said. Flight 980, which originated in Asuncion, Paraguay, disappeared 10 minutes before it planned to land at El Alto airport in La Paz on Tuesday night. The flight was en route to Miami. In Miami, Eastern Airlines spokeswoman Paula Musto identified a third American passenger as Jonathan Watson. She did not give his home town.

northwest of San Diego as a shooting range for warships, says the goats are being killed to protect a type of lizard and several species of birds and plants that are on the federal endangered species list. Lt. Cmdr. Bill Harlow, a Navy spokesman at the Pentagon, was not optimistic about the goats’ chances for survival. “I’ve never ruled anything out,” he said, “but I don’t see anything at the moment to indicate we would change course on this one.” He said today’s meeting was merely to brief opponents about the goat hunt. “We have to get all the goats off. We’ve done everything we feel is humanly possible to save them,” said Ken Mitchell, a spokesman for the Naval air station at North Island, Calif.

Oil prices at 5-year low

NEW YORK (AP) - American oil traders doubt that OPEC can keep cartel members from cheating on production and pricing, analysts said after crude oil and refined petroleum prices tumbled to fiveyear lows in futures trading. West Texas intermediate crude oil, the major U.S. grade of oil, closed at $25.92 a barrel Wednesday, its lowest level since 1979. The drop came in the first day of trading since the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries decided at its divisive yearend meeting to keep its benchmark grade of oil at $29 a barrel. “The market doesn’t believe that what OPEC did in Geneva will have any effect and I agree with the market,” said William Randol, an oil industry analyst at the New York securities firm First Boston Corp. “All the dominoes in the pricing system

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Seated on the lap of his mother, Princess Di, Britain's Prince Henry poses for his royal christening photograph. The official photo was

Mitchell says that since 1973, about 16,000 of the brown and black animals have been taken off the island. These goats were rounded up and trapped, but this effort reached a dead end for two reasons, according to Mitchell. The trappers could not pursue fleeing goats into the island’s deep canyons or into the southern end, which is off-limits because of the danger from unexploded shells left over from target practice The second reason, he said, is Mother Nature: “They double their herd size in 18 months. They’re very prolific.” Amory said he finds it ironic that the Navy would kill goats. “The irony, when the goat is the mascot of the Naval Academy, is amazing,” he said.

have already fallen,” Randol said. “The benchmark at $29 looks kind of silly.” At one point Wednesday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, West Texas intermediate slid as low as $25.86 a barrel in contracts for February delivery. The close of $25.92 was down 49 cents from Friday, the last session before the New Year’s break, and was the lowest level for crude oil since late 1979, said exchange spokeswoman Mary Ann Matlock. In other contracts for February delivery, heating oil fell 2.18 cents to close at 71.14 cents a gallon, regular gasoline dropped 1.53 cents to 64.38 cents a gallon, and regular unleaded gasoline fell 1.9 cents to 66.20 cents a gallon all the lowest levels since mid-1979. “Most people in the oil industry are quite disappointed in the lack of progress by OPEC in stabilizing the market,” said Edward Dellamonte, an oil analyst-

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Coleco dumps Adam to feast on SSOO million Cabbage Patch sales

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Coleco Industries abandoned its beleaguered Adam home computer Wednesday, and said it would concentrate on what it seems to do best: selling low-tech Cabbage Patch dolls. The toy manufacturer, based in Hartford, Conn., said it was selling off its inventory of Adam systems, only 18 months ago one of the promising entries in the chaotic home computer industry, and would post a “substantial loss” for the fourth quarter and the year. Analysts speculated Wednesday that the company could take a write-off of as much as sllO million, before taxes; reporting a loss of about $75 million for the quarter, and perhaps $55 million for the year. Nonetheless, Wall Street cheered tte move as overdue, and Coleco’s stock surged on the Big Board in heavy trading. It closed Wednesday at $14,375, up $2.25. Part of the rise was attributed to Coleco’s announcement that sales of its Cabbage Patch Kids, the cuddly dolls whose booming success shocked company executives in both 1983 and 1984 as much as Adam’s failures, topped SSOO million in 1984. Coleco’s action came after months of denials by company officials that they were planning to diecontinue the machine. In late October, when the company lowered the wholesale price of the computer to $475, from $650, in a last-ditch effort to spark consumer interest, Morton E. Handel, the company’s executive vice president, responded sharply to industry speculation that the company was liquidating its inventories and would drop the computer systems after Christmas. “We are definitely not getting out of tte Adam business,” he said then. “We are thereto stay.” But Wednesday, Handel said price cutting, rapidly changing technology and sharp shifts in consumer tastes led to a decision “within the past several days” that “we were not able to incur the cost that was needed to keep Adam competitive.” Thus, the company became the fourth major manufacturer of home computers after Texas Instrument, Mattel, and Timex to pull out of an industry that has lost more than half a

Congress to concentrate on deficits WASHINGTON (AP) As lawmakers gathered on Capitol Hill for today’s start 6f the 99th Congress, a key House Democrat predicted that President Reagan’s second legislative honeymoon will be a short one. “I think the honeymoon is going to be over by February,” said Rep. William H. Gray 111, D-Pa., expected to be named later this week as chairman of the House Budget Committee. The panel will be a key battleground in the fight over ways to cut the nation’s S2OO billion deficit, a problem that tops the agenda of both chambers. “You already see Republican members of the House and Senate backing away from his budget proposals at 1,000 miles per hour. And you see total indecision in the White House,” Gray said in an interview Wednesday. Both the Republican-contolled Senate and the Democratic-led House were to meet at noon today, but Congress is not expected to engage in serious work until Jan. 22 the day after Reagan is sworn in for a second term. Reagan has not offered a specific plan to cut deficits, but has said he wants to do so without either raising taxes or making major cuts in defense spending. His stance has been met with skepticism even from congressional GOP leaders. First order of business for the 435member House of Representatives was election of a speaker for the next two years, a race that the incumbent for the past eight years, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr, already had wrapped up. The House leadership vote the firs! House vote of any Congress always breaks down along party lines. And Democrats, while losing 14 seats in the November elections, enjoy a comfortable 252-183 margin in the House. The Senate, where Republicans lost two seats in November but still control the chamber, now by a 53-47 margin, were to meet today. The return of Congress today marked the first day on the job for the Senate’s new majority leader, Robert Dole of Kansas. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., is continuing as minority leader.

billion dollars in the last two years. The departure leaves only the Atari Corp. and Commodore International Ltd. at the low end of the market, where S3OO will fetch some sort of home computer. Atari was sold by Warner Communications Inc. last year and is heading into more complex, expensive machines. And this Christmas, even Commodore, the leader at the low end, ran into problems. Consumers shifted their attention to more sophisticated home computer offerings, such as the International Business Machines Corp.’s PCjr and Apple Computer Inc.’s Apple II series both priced under SI,OOO for the first time. The company did not disclose to whom it was selling its inventory, saying only that it was “a U.S. retail chain.” Coleco said it would continue to manufacture its Colecovision video game units, which company officials have previously described as “marginally profitable,” and would also produce software that runs on the Adam. But other industry experts predicted that, over time, the software offerings for the machine would dwindle, and purchasers would eventually be left with an obsolete system. Adam’s attractiveness lay in its packaging: It combined disparate parts a computer, a printer, a keyboard, and software in a “bundled system” that sold for about S7OO. By fall, however, the company was running into snags. The first shipments were delayed. Then systems were rushed out the factory door in Amsterdam, N.Y., in time for Christmas, only to be returned by angry consumers who complained of a variety of quality-control problems “The bottom line was that they missed Christmas, and the quality problems gave Adam a bad reputation,” said Jan Lewis, a senior analyst at Infocorp. Adam sales never recovered, even after Coleco solved the quality-control problems and began to offer a variety of software titles for the machine. “I think the sales push came just to late,” Miss Lewis said. “By that time, people were looking at the PCjr,” the home machine that IBM cut to SBOO to S9OO.