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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 18,1985

Angry protesters fail to plow under consigned farm sale in lowa

SIGOURNEY, lowa (AP) Angry protesters jeered an auctioneer as he sold on a farmer’s machinery after it was seized by a bank, while thousands of farmers from three states rallied in Sioux ity to demand a boost in commodity prices. Roger Escher’s two tractors were the last to go Thursday, while more than 200 people crowded at the auctioneer’s lot. “I have nothing left. No sir, they left nothing,” said Escher, 38. “I started with nothing 16 years ago and I’ve got nothing today.” The tractors and 14 other items went in less than two hours, despite protests by dozens of farmers wearing adhesive tape crosses on the backs of their coveralls and shouting “No sale! No sale!” “Anbody that’s here today who’ll tell you

Eastern crew tricks gas-carrying hijacker into mistaking Cuba

By WILLIAM CORMIER Associated Press Writer ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) A man who threatened to ignite a can of gasoline aboard an Eastern Airlines jet unless he was taken to Cuba was apprehended when the plane landed here today and he was told he was in Havana, authorities said. No one among the 120 other passengers and nine crew members was injured aboard Eastern Flight 403, which left Newark, N.J., at 10:30 p.m. Thursday en route to Miami, said airline spokeswoman Paula Musto. The hijacker, identified as Lazordo Hernandez, 30, of Passaic, N.J., was arrested by Orlando police after Flight 403 was forced to make an unscheduled landing, said Carolyn Fennell, a spokeswoman for Orlando International Airport. The A3OO Eastern jet made an emergency landing here at 1:14 a.m. today, and “by

Broader dialogue is sought

World trouble spots seen as topics for new talks

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Reagan administration, seeking a broader dialogue with the Soviet Union, intends to propose talks on Central America and other unstable areas of the world now that it has a new agreement to exchange views on the Middle East, according to U.S. officials. “To the extent that we can clarify positions, it makes the world a little less dangerous place,” an official who spoke on condition of anonymity said Thursday. In the Nixon and Ford administrations, the United States tried to reach an accommodation with the Soviet Union to lessen tensions around the world. Ronald Reagan, campaigning for the presidency,

Bill would re-establish vehicle inspections

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The sponsor of a bill to reinstate vehicle inspection in Indiana says the state police need to have the authority to act when they discover unsafe vehicle conditions. Sen. Elmer MacDonald, R-Fort Wayne, introduced a measure Thursday that would establish an inspection program administered by the Indiana State Police. The program would begin in April 1986. The state had an inspection program, run by a division of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, from 1967 to 1980. MacDonald said people will take the vehicle inspection program more seriously if it is administered by the state police. “When the state police stop cars now for other violations, they see some pretty ragged things out there and can’t do anything about it,” said MacDonald. Under the bill, inspections would be conducted at state-licensed, privately owned facilities such as gas stations. Inspectors would look at a vehicle’s brakes, lights,

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they don’t have a problem isn’t farming,” said Joanne Neuzil, who with husband, Paul, runs a farm southwest of lowa City. “We’ve got farmers here who were millionaires a couple of years ago.” In Sioux City, 4,000 farmers from lowa, Nebraska and South Dakota jammed an auditorium to demand a 1985 Farm Bill that would shore up commodity prices and rescue farmers in financial distress. “Let’s send a message very loud and clear there’s one thing we need in agriculture today, and that’s a decent price for our product. That will cure everything,” Sen. James Exon. D-Neb., told the crowd. The rally was organized by the Emerson, Neb.-based Farm Crisis Committee, whose leaders said the Rev. Billy Graham has promised to deliver a petition against

1:50, it was all over,” said Roger Myers, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta.“ The passengers were taken off the aircraft and the hijacker was taken into custody.” Upon landing at the airport, 2nd Officer Dennis Lawrence spoke with Hernandez, who had been holding a package and a cigarette lighter, said Ms. Fennell. “Lawrence indicated to the potential hijacker that he had landed in Cuba, at which instant (Hernandez) handed his lighter to the second officer and dropped the substance that he was holding and was apprehended by the Orlando Police Department,” she said. Passengers were taken to a holding area in the airport and the jet was refueled, said Ms. Fennell. ItleftOrlandoat3:32a.m. for Miami with all the other passengers on board, she said.

led a charge by conservatives against detente. And in his first three years in the White House, he followed the same hard line, denouncing the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.” But Reagan signaled a shift in a speech last Jan. 16. “We must and will engage the Soviet Union in a dialogue that will serve to promote peace in the troubled regions of the world,” he said. Then, in a U.N. speech Sept. 24, he called for a “better working relationship” that included talks at the expert level. The agreement reached Jan. 8 in Geneva to resume talks on reducing nuclear weapons reopened the dialogue on an issue

horn, steering mechanism, windshield wipers, tires, rearview mirror, exhaust system, glass and pollution control devices. The owner of a vehicle found unsafe would have 30 days to have specified repairs completed. A bill introduced by Sens. Lawrence M. Borst, R-Indianapolis, and Joseph V. Corcoran, R-Seymour, would strengthen the state’s ability to collect tax revenue on gasoline sales. The measure would require dealers to have sealable gallon totalers on their metered pumps. The requirement is aimed at preventing unrecorded sales on which taxes would not be paid. State officials estimate that Indiana loses from S2O million to S3O million annually in taxes not paid on fuel sales. Sen. Morris H. Mills, R-Indianapolis, introduced a bill that would give the Public Service Commission guidelines in telephone cases.

'Justice and retribution' That's what New Yorkers see in Goetz' act

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Sen. Alfonse M. D’Amato said Thursday that New York’s subways were so dangerous, riders need an armed guard. And in bfesjjonse to a question, the Republicdh senator from New York said that if Bernhard H. Goetz was tried on charges that he tried to murder four youths on the subway, he would be willing to testify as a witness on subway crime. The senator said at a hearing of the advisory Congressional Crime Caucus that he did not travel on the subways unless accompanied by a guard carrying Chemical Mace. The hearing was called to underscore urban crime problems and to warn people against taking the law into their own hands, according to the caucus co-chairman.

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the proposed 1985 farm bill to President Reagan during his inauguration. For Escher, the auction was the end of years of work raising livestock, corn and soybeans on a 300-acre farm in Kalona that he said once was valued at $850,000.

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As part of a weeklong visit to China, U.S. Gen. John W. Vessey Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reviews honor guard in Peking. Vessey, who concludes

that is central to U.S.-Soviet relations. It also cleared the way for talks on other topics, although the agreement on the Middle East actually had been reached earlier. It surfaced when Mark Palmer, a State Department official, briefed the Israeli government on the Geneva meeting a few days later. The time and place for the Mideast talks have not been set, although Washington and Moscow are likely sites. Richard W. Murphy, a former U.S. ambasador to Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and now assistant secretary of state for the Near East, probably will represent the United States.

The bill endorses measured service rates for telephone users, provided that local telephone service can be measured accurately and the technology for measurement doesn’t appreciably increase the cost of service. Under the current system, most residential phone customers pay a flat monthly fee for local service. The measure also states that if higher local rates force people to give up their phones, the PSC should recommend legislation that would encourage universal service. Operators of day-care centers could receive certain information about the criminal histories of prospective employees under a bill introduced by Sens. Virginia M. Blankenbaker, RIndianapolis, and James Jontz, DBrookston. The measure would also ban people convicted of certain sexual offenses from operating or working in day-care centers.

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. D’Amato, a member of the bipartisan panel, expressed sympathy for Goetz, the 37-year old electronics expert accused of shooting the youths, who had approached him and asked him for money. Responding to a question from Joseph Kellner, a lawyer for Goetz, D’Amato said he would answer a subpoena to testify at the Goetz trial on conditions in the subways. Kellner asked, “Would you be willing to testify as an expert that a person should have protection when he rides the subway and if he can’t get it, that is a factor in his conduct to protect himself?” D’Amato answered, “I think so.” Kellner said he might call on D’Amato as a witness, to which the senator responded, “You can.”

“His equipment was taken up for nonpayment of loan, in this case more than $300,000 he owed the bank,” said President Allen Kloess from the United Central Bank & Trust Co. in Kalona. “This is my machinery. It belongs to me.

his tour Saturday, is making the first visit to China by a Joint Chiefs chairman since Communists took control of the country in 1949. (AP Wirephoto).

However, Secretary of State George P Shultz may take on the assignment if he makes a trip to Moscow after the arms control talks open “We’d be happy to chat with them about any number of different regions,” a U.S. official, who declined to be identified, said “This (the Middle East) is the only one where there is an agreement of principle thus far. We have offered to talk about a number of other regions as well. We’d be happy to have that.” The U.S. decision to hold new talks with Moscow appeared to unsettle Israel since the Soviets usually support the Arabs and are the main arms supplier for Syria. U.S.

Reps. Richard D. Bray, R-Martinsville, and Lee Clingan, D-Covington, introduced a bill that would restrict prosecution of people who have been targets of but were not indicted by grand juries. A prosecutor would have to add new evidence to information introduced to the grand jury in order to support a charge against a person the grand jury didn’t indict. Other bills introduced Thursday would: —Require establishment of a manifest system for tracking the shipment and disposal of hazardous wastes. —Provide financial assistance for Indiana public television stations. —Let school corporations adopt teacher salary schedules with increased entrancelevel salaries and a shortened time requirement for reaching the top of the pay scale. —Establish a teacher corps scholarship fund to assist education majors at public and private colleges.

“I’ve been on the subway,” D’Amato said, “when these young thugs come in there and they don’t even have to approach you. Three, four, five come and they start their messing around and they are menacing people by their very presence.” Kellner said he had not yet decided whether to seek testimony from D’Amato. Edward J. Martin, a spokesman for the senator, said that D’Amato rode the subway more than a dozen times a year. In his prepared statement for the hearing, D’Amato condemned vigilante actions and said a jury would determine whether Goetz had “gone too far.” He also said New York’s courts had failed to punish criminals. “Then people look at Bernhard Goetz, and what do they see? Most people see justice and retribution.”

It’s still in the courts. It has not been decided whose it is. I ask you to refrain from bidding,” Escher shouted. Frank Cordaro, a deacon intern at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Corning, shouted to auctioneer Robert Mallinger: “You don’t need to sell the equipment. You don’t need to sell it. Give the farmer a break. You don’t need this blood money, sir!” “It’s not blood money. I’ll tell you what, fellows: You’ve had your say. It’s been consigned here ... and I’m going to sell it now,” Mallinger replied. “I feel sorry for everybody that loses stuff,” he said before the sale. “It’s an unfortunate circumstance, but he’s not the only one.” Forced farm sales have prompted many

officials offered assurances, however, that they would not “cut a deal” with the Soviets at Israel’s expense. And, in Jerusalem, David Kimche, the director general of the Israeli foreign ministry, said “if the Soviets want to play a positive role we will welcome that. ” Administration officials here stressed, meanwhile, that the talks probably would range beyond the Arab-Israeli dispute to include the Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war. In Central America, the Reagan administration’s policy is aimed at containing two Soviet allies, Cuba and Nicaragua.

For this Yogi, it's life that's never over until it's over...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sitting quietly, just five blocks from the White House, one of the world’s most famous wise men proclaims a simple solution for any military, economic or other troubles the nation might face in President Reagan’s second term. In fact, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi says his plan could turn world chaos into pure coherence, creating a literal “heaven on earth.” All he needs, he says, is 7,000 good men and women, trained in the advanced principles of his already widely practised Transcendental Meditation, blending their mental efforts a few minutes every day all together in one place, Washington, DC. The diminutive, gray-bearded maharishi, going strong nearly two decades after his meetings with pop music’s Beatles multiplied his cult fame, was in Washington the past week to officially open a new university in the nation’s capital. Maharishi Vedic University will join Maharishi International University College of Natural Law, which already has several hundred students in Washington. In a news release from his Continental Capital of the Age of Enlightenment, a converted hotel in downtown Washington, the mission of the new university was described as providing a center for studying the ancient knowledge of India, “which maharishi said makes the mind familiar with the most basic laws of nature, the unified field of natural law, and trains it to function from this level.” One basic law the maharishi says he’s discovered is that 7,000 minds

farming coalitions to urge Gov. Terry Branstad to declare a state of emergency, which would invoke a Depression-era law temporarily banning foreclosures. In Des Moines on Thursday, the state Senate passed a resolution, 46-3, calling for immediate federal aid to farmers. But the legislators stopped short of urging Branstad to invoke a state of emergency, which lowa bankers oppose. Since 1981, lowa farmers have lost millions of dollars in assets as land values have declined by as much as 40 percent, according to Branstad. Devalued assets also mean that many existing loans no longer have full collateral behind them. It is estimated that up to 30 percent of lowa’s farmers will soon face significant financial difficulties.

Vandiver to receive death wish INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A Hammond man convicted of the mutilation slaying of his father-in-law has persuaded the Indiana Supreme Court to remove one of the remaining obstacles to his execution. Following a hearing Thursday, the justices granted William Vandiver’s request to forfeit the right to appeal his conviction for the March 1983 murder of retired Hammond construction worker Paul Komyatti Sr. “I’m going to die there whether it’s die in the electric chair or die of old age,” Vandiver said. “To me, it would be less than getting a tooth pulled. My family wouldn’t have to suffer no more.” The high court still must review the propriety of the death penalty in Vandiver’s case. Vandiver, 36, of Hammond, was convicted Dec. 18, 1983 of killing Komyatti, dismembering his body and burying the body parts in shallow graves near the Lake Michigan shore. Vandiver’s mother-in-law, Rosemary Komyatti, and his bi other-in-law, Paul Jr., also were convicted in the case. Under heavy security, Vandiver was brought down from death row in the state prison at Michigan City to appear before the Supreme Court so the justices could determine whether he was sincere in wanting to give up his right to challenge any errors that might have occurred in his trial before Lake Superior Court Judge James Letsinger. Vandiver and his attorney, Martin H. Kinney of Merrillville, were questioned for a half hour before the justices retired to deliberate Vandiver’s request. The Statehouse courtroom was packed with observers who had to undergo state police frisking before they were allowed to be seated. Vandiver, who said he has been in prison for 12-13 years all told, said he wanted to give up his appeal rights because he was going to die in prison anyway.

meditating together on such a level the number represents the square root of 1 percent of the world’s population can, simply, make everything better. U.S. capitalism, Russian communism, democracy, dictatorship, it just doesn’t matter. He says every system of economics and politics “can begin to bring satisfaction to all people” if such a relatively small group can concentrate its mental and spiritual efforts daily in “this capital of the most creative country of the world, where the destiny of the world is designed day and night.” To be sure, the maharishi and his followers have made similarly bright contentions about the potential for groups of 7,000 elsewhere, most recently in Europe, the Philippines and Brazil. But the United States is special, he told reporters at a news conference, because of its influence as a world leader. Still, he added, the nation suffers “a fundamental weakness, a nonalliance with natural law” shown in the small thanks the United States gets for help it sends other countries and in the fact that “little, little countries challenge it.” His followers include men and women with scientific degrees from widely recognized universities. And they and he say experiments the past several years have proven the effectiveness of his “technology of the unified field," the idea that mass meditation can fix world problems. Simply the presence of hundreds of practitioners in Washington has helped the economic revival in the United States the past two years, the maharishi said.