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American kidnap victim in Beirut seen in videotape

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON One of five Americans apparently kidnapped in Lebanon over the last 10 months was seen Monday in a 56second videotape in which he called on the United States to “take action for our release quickly.” However, the American, William Buckley, political officer in the American Embassy in Beirut, did not specify what Washington had to do to free the five. On the videotape, Buckley said that he and two other missing Americans were well. He identified them as Jeremy Levin, Beirut bureau chief for the Cable News Network, and the Rev. Benjamin M. Weir, a Presbyterian minister. He made no mention of the two most recent missing Americans in Beirut Peter Kilbum, a librarian at the American University, who failed to report to work last Dec. 3 and is presumed kidnapped, and the Rev. Martin Lawrence Jenco, a Roman Catholic priest who headed the Catholic Relief Services office, who was seized Jan. 8. The videotape, initially released Monday by a private, London-based television news agency, appeared to been made by Buckley’s captors in the last week. The videotape did not clear up the uncertainty over who is holding the Americans, where they are, whether all five are being held by the same group, and what the conditions are for their release. It was learned from non-government sources Monday that another videotape was sent secretly to the State Department last July, and that that tape may provide a clue to the “action” referred to by Buckley. The earlier videotape, the existence of which was confirmed by Reagan administration officials, showed Levin, Weir and Buckley, with Levin making a statement calling for the release of prisoners held by Kuwait. That Arab state arrested 17 Shiite Moslems in connection with explosions at the American and French embassies and at Kuwait government buildings in December 1983. The release of those prisoners was also

Bloody Monday: Domestic violence incidents leave seven dead in two states

By STEVE ELLWANGER Associated Press Writer An Oklahoma man killed his ex-wife and two other women then wounded himself when his divorce became final, while an unemployed father in Mississippi shot his estranged wife, fatally stabbed their three young daughters then killed himself, police said. Authorities said welder Floyd Ware’s shotgun spree in Wynona, Okla., was aimed at the women who had testified at a hearing Monday in which his divorce became final. Perry Lawrence of Vicksburg, Miss., was apparently distraught after losing his job when he wounded his estranged wife

Senators calling for military spending cuts

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Several Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee Monday joined the call in Congress for President Reagan to reduce his military spending proposal. But Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said that Pentagon programs had been cut enough. Sen. Bob Packwood, chairman of the Finance Committee, said Monday that he thought even some of those who support the president’s plan for a military buildup were telling Reagan: “Mr. President, we have one of two choices. Either we can have the military cuts you want, but in that case we cannot get a spending cut program, or the military has to take what is perceived to be a fair share of cuts. If so, we can get a whale of a spending cut program.’”

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the demand made by the hijackers who forced a Kuwaiti airliner to fly to Tehran last month. The hijackers, who killed two American officials aboard the plane before eventually being seized by Iranian security forces, failed to win the release of the prisoners. A senior State Department official said, however, it was not definite that the abductors were demanding the release of the prisoners in Kuwait as the condition for freeing the Americans. Recent telephone calls to news agencies in Beirut have demanded that all Americans leave Lebanon. State Department officials said Monday that American officials had not publicized the original videotape in order to make it easier to pursue quiet diplomatic efforts through Syrian and other intermediaries. President Reagan, commenting Monday, said he could not reveal details of American diplomatic efforts, but added: “Believe me, this is very much on our minds.” A State Department official said: “We honestly don’t know for sure who we are dealing with, or where the prisoners are, or how many there are, or what we are supposed to do to get them released. ” In the tape, Buckley, 56, was wearing a brown jacket, and standing before a blank wall. He held up the Jan. 22 issue of the French-language Beirut newspaper, L’Orient-LeJour. “Today, the twenty-second of January 1985, I am well and my friends Benjamin Weir and Jeremy Levin are also well,” Buckley said. “We ask that our government take action for our release quickly.” Levin’s wife, Lucille, said in an interview on “Today’ that she thought the tape was “a very good sign.” She said it was a signal for negotiations, but she pointed out that Buckley had mispronounced the name of her husband as Le-VEEN instead of LEV-in. “Apparently they are not being iield in the same room,” she said. “Two men who’ve been held together for a year would at least get their last names correct.”

and fatally stabbed their daughters Sunday, police said. Ware, 50, who had served as a Wynona councilman and sometimes as city marshal, was in critical condition today at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa with a gunshot wound to the head, said nursing supervisor Linda Burns. He was divorced Monday from Lilly Belle Ware at a hearing in Osage County District Court in Pawhuska. Wynona, a community of 780, is about 30 miles northwest of Tulsa. "Apparently, he just decided to get a gun and take care of all those who testified against him in the hearing,” said Osage County Undersheriff Bill Mitchell.

But Weinberger, in a new effort Monday to argue against cuts in military growth beyond the $8.7 billion he has volunteered for the next fiscal year, said, “I think it’s a mistake to believe that defense alone, or defense primarily, can get this S2OO billion deficit down.” He appeared on the ABC television program "Good Morning America.” Packwood’s comments, and Weinberger’s, were part of an ongoing struggle over how to reduce the federal def jit, now running at more than S2OO billion a year. Senate majority leader Bob Dole warned Friday that it would be difficult to achieve some cuts in popular domestic programs, unless the president agreed to cut back military spending. But in an interview broadcast Saturday Reagan rejected that view, calling further reductions in the growth of military spending “very risky.”

'Dressed in dirty rags'

Children found locked in rusted bus that had been inspected by state

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) - An ex-crement-strewn bus where police found three shoeless, nearly savage children dressed in dirty rags was inspected last summer by welfare officials and cleared for limited migrant housing, authorities said. The children, ages 8 months, 3 years and 4 years, were removed from the bus, examined and put in state custody after they were discovered locked inside the rusted-out vehicle with several dogs, said State Trooper Larry Krieger. Their parents, Donald and Eva Monk, were arraigned Monday on three counts of child abuse and neglect. Monk posted $3,000 bail and was released, but his wife remained in custody early today. Social services workers told police the family was living in the bus last summer

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Man arrested at Reagans" table

DENVER (AP) A man who said he wanted to see the inauguration was arrested after he wandered through the White House and was found sitting at a table in President Reagan’s private dining room, a published report said Tuesday. Robert Latta told aides to Rep. Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., that he was unable to obtain a ticket to tour the White House, so he entered in the company of the Marine Band before the president’s private swearing-in ceremony, the Rocky Mountain News said in Tuesday’s editions. Latta, of Denver, wandered freely through the building, according to the account, until he was discovered sitting at the dining room table in the Reagans’ second-floor family quarters. Anthony Tansimore, a staff member in Schroeder’s Washington office, said Monday that Latta’s attorney confirmed the account, the newspaper said. Secret Service spokesman Mike Tarr

Ware’s attorney, Jay Byers, said his client was “involved and fixated” in the divorce proceeding. “He was exceedingly wrapped up in the case. ’ ’ In Mississippi, Lawrence, 24, had argued with his estranged wife shortly before unleashing his violence on her and their children in Vicksburg, about 40 miles west of Jackson. Authorities said Lawrence had been fired from his job last week because he and his wife, who worked at the same location, had argued. Detective Capt. Phil Solomon said Lawrence went to a club Sunday night and ordered his wife, Laverne Jones Lawrence, 24, to leave. “She told him she would

The budget that Reagan is preparing projects a $l7B billion deficit for the next fiscal year, if some ssl billion in spending cuts can be achieved. The administration had earlier estimated that SSO billion would have to be cut. The figures were confirmed by administration officials Monday after the budget director, David A. Stockman, reportedly used them in a private White House briefing for business executives. Reagan’s budget for the fiscal year 1986, which starts Oct. 1, is scheduled to go to Congress on Feb. 4. The economic forecast to be presented with the budget includes significantly lower inflation this year than had been predicted as recently as a month ago, according to economists who helped prepare it. The administration’s expectations on

but that their living conditions apparently had worsened considerably since. When he children were found Sunday, they were “dressed in dirty rags,” said State Police Sgt. Larry Seman. “They are nearly feral children with practically no communication skills and no knowledge of eating utensils.” Their parents were away pruning fruit trees when the children were found, police said. Seman said the bus offered little protection from the elements and was “full of human and animal fecal material generated (by the family) and their two dogs.” Wes Bowerman, a spokesman for the state Department of Social Services, said the bus, parked 500 yards off a road near abandoned shacks in the community of

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told the newspaper that Latta was arrested by the service's uniformed division for ‘unlawful entry into the White House” on Jan. 20, the day of Reagan’s swearing-in ceremony. Latta entered the complex through its eastern entrance, Tarr said. “I am not going to get into how it happened and any more of the particulars,” Tarr said. “This case is pending further judicial action, and these details are more

not and he drug her out,’’ Solomon said. “He then knocked her to the ground and opened fire. Witnesses said he fired at her five times from point blank range,” Solomon said. Mrs. Lawrence was in stable condition today at Vicksburg Hospital, said a night supervisor who would not give her name. Lawrence then picked his children up from his parents’ house and drove them to Mrs. Lawrence’s parents’ house, where the stabbings occurred, Solomon said. “The older girl apparently broke away from Lawrence and made it to the front door of her grandparent’s home,” said Solomon. “A child inside the house heard her screaming and looked through a win-

growth and unemployment remained constant. Under the administration projections, the deficit would be held to $l4O billion in fiscal 1988, nearly S4O billion more than Mr. Reagan estimated recently. After a White House meeting with Reagan and his top economic advisers, the Finance Committee members said that rigid opposition to further reductions in the administration’s military spending proposals could jeopardize congressional support for other elements in t<ie ssl billion savings package. The senators, who were joined at the White House by Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee, advised Reagan to proceed first with spending cuts before seeking a simplication of the federal tax code.

Berrien Springs, had running water and that its windows were intact when it was inspected last summer. There also was a toilet outside and the department declared the vehicle suitable for summertime migrant housing, Bowerman said. “The children were clean at the time, well-dressedßowerman said. But when people on a sleigh ride spotted a child’s face in one of the bus windows on Sunday, the bus’ windows were broken. It had electricity and a space heater, but the family had been using a can for a toilet, said State Police Sgt. James Uebler. Bowerman said Monk told the department that he and his family had planned to drive the bus to Florida for the winter. In September, Bowerman said, workers confirmed with Monk that he was making

for courtroom testimony than for my comment.” Neither the White House nor the Secret Service announced Latta’s intrusion when it occurred. * Monday, Latta returned to Schroeder’s office and said he had spent the last eight days in jail and had been released on a bond of SI,OOO that morning, the News reported.

dow and saw the stabbing on the front porch.” The dead children were identified by family members as Carswayle Jones, 6, Millicerit Lawrence, 4, and April Lawrence, 2. As Lawrence’s description was being broadcast to police units, officers received word of a shooting at a nearby shopping center parking lot. “Officers found Perry Lawrence laying in the parking lot with one gunshot wound to the right temple and witnesses at the scene said the shot was self-inflicted,” Solomon said. Lawrence died Monday afternoon at the University Medical Center in Jackson.

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CASPAR WEINBERGER Enough is enough

preparations to leave before cold weather set in. Krieger said Monk told him he originally was from Florida and his wife was from Kentucky. Monk gave conflicting statements about his age, saying that he was 64 years old, born on Jan. 17,1920. Krieger said Monk appeared to be in his 30s, and his wife said she was 32. Monk told Krieger that he and his family lived in the bus because they did not want to accept welfare. Monk, who called himself a “self-taught reader,” said he had lived in Berrien County off and on for about 10 years, and worked in fruit orchards, according to Krieger. Preliminary examinations for the Monks have been set for Feb. 7. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison and a $3,000 fine.

It's no honeymoon at Niagara Falls, N.Y., this time of year. Frozen snow and ice fill the Niagara gorge at the base of Horseshoe Falls. The ice stretches across the gorge between the United States and Canada. (AP Wirephoto).

FCC nixes commercial detector WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Communications Commission has rejected a proposal that would let parents install electronic boxes on their TV sets to delete commercials aimed at children. The FCC denied a request from two activist groups to require TV stations to broadcast special signals before and after the commercials that would trigger the electronic boxes. The device would decode the electronic signal and make the TV screen go blank while the ad is running. The FCC decided to leave the ads alone because “advertising supports children’s programming,” Freda Lippert Thyden, a commission attorney who worked on the case, said Monday after the decision was announced. Deleting TV ads aimed at children would prompt sponsors to spend their money elsewhere in an effort to reach the young consumers of toys, cereals and hamburgers. And if the shows didn’t have sponsors, they wouldn’t last long, a commission statement said. Peggy Charren, founder and president of Action for Children’s Television, said the ruling did not surprise her “since we lost on every other bright idea we’ve brought before the commission in the last three or four years.” But Ms. Thyden said the decision did not necessarily reflect the FCC’s current philosophy that favors deregulation. “This is the kind of thing we never would have done even in the liberal heyday when they were making a lot of regulations,” she said. Ms. Charren said the decision proves that “neither the industry nor the FCC means it when they say the option should be in the hands of the parent.” Nevertheless, Ms. Charren said she had no plans to appeal the commission’s decision in federal court. The traditional argument has it that a TV has an on-off switch and parents are welcome to use it if there is something they don’t think their children should watch. Ms. Charren said her proposal would have made the off switch automatic. The FCC, with Reaganappointee Mark S. Fowler as chairman, has depended on parents and the marketplace to make sure there is a varied menu of programs available for children. Before 1983, TV stations were required to present children’s programming that was informative, directed at a specific age level and scheduled throughout the week, not just on weekends. The commission decided in 1983 to alter those guidelines and give commercial stations more leeway in scheduling shows for kids. Defending the changes recently in court, the FCC said expansion of children’s programming on cable and public television means it is no longer necessary for government to specify programming requirements for commercial broadcasters. Action for Children’s Television, which filed the detector signal request along with Public Advocates, Inc., has other children’s TV issues before the commission. One petition asks the FCC to rule that shows featuring cartoon characters like Masters of the Universe are actually program-length commercials for toy action figures that should be banned.