Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 131, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 January 1985 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, January 31,1985
It may look like babies on parade in California, but it's really just women at work. Students of the American Nanny Plan wheel their charges around the grounds of the Claremont (Calif.) Tennis Club as part of the daily training. (N.Y. Times photo).
Walters expected to succeed Kirkpatrick
WASHINGTON (AP) Presidential troubleshooter and onetime spymaster Vernon Walters is expected to be nominated to succeed Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, who is ending her sometimes stormy tenure as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. A high-level administration official, insisting on anonymity, said Wednesday that Walters would likely be picked for the U.N. job being vacated soon by the outspoken Mrs. Kirkpatrick. A former deputy director of the CIA, the multilingual Walters now is a roving ambassador who has traveled widely on delicate presidential missions. The former Army general was tapped by President Reagan for a secret trip to Havana early in the administration for
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UFO-Soviet style
MOSCOW (AP) Amazed crew and passengers on a Soviet airliner say they saw a star-like UFO beam a thin ray on the ground, suddenly turn its dazzling light on the aircraft and just as abruptly become a green cloud that “escorted” the plane, a newspaper reports. Gennady Lazurin, co-pilot of the Aeroflot flight, told an air controller in Minsk about the sighting and was told at first that nothing could be seen on ground radar, the newspaper Trud reported Wednesday. “Oh well, they’ll be saying we’re not normal,” Lazurin was quoted as saying. But then, ground control “registered splashes on its screens in the same part of air space,” Trud said. The date of the
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Russian airline crew, passengers 'escorted' by object
After meeting privately with Reagan on Wednesday, Mrs. Kirkpatrick ended months of speculation about her future, revealed she is quitting the administration and said she will continue to speak out on foreign policy as she returns to a career of
flight was not given. Nikolai Zheltukhin, a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and deputy chairman of a state commission on unexplained phenomena, told Trud the occurrence “is indeed of interest, although the commission already knows of similar cases. “That the object reversed course instantaneously and reached the ground with a ray of light of unusual intensity from a very high altitude is undoubtedly abnormal,” Zheltukhin was quoted as saying. The plane was flying northwest from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi to Tallinn in Estonia and was approaching Minsk when
50,000 acres devoured in rampage
Brush fires latest Florida woes
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) More than 46 brush fires, many of them set by arsonists, rampaged across Florida today after killing a rookie firefighter and devouring nearly 50,000 acres of woodland dried by cold weather, authorities said. One man was arrested on arson charges in connection with one of the fires, and was a suspect in the blaze that killed 26-year-old firefighter Marco A. Miranda on Wednesday as he operated a tractor, authorities said. “The fire just rolled over the top of him,” said Larry Amison, a Division of Forestry spokesman. “It was moving fast, not because of natural winds ... but the fire itself was generating additional winds.” About 50,000 acres of woodland have burned since Jan. 23, said Division of Forestry spokeswoman Jodi Chase. A combination of seasonally dry weather, last week’s vegetation-drying freezes, illegal trash fires and arson have been responsible for the fires, authorities said. Forty fires, set by an unknown arsonist Wednesday night in a 1,200-to 1,500-acre
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Downturn in December
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The government’s main gauge of future economic activity edged down in December, turning in a disappointing performance despite a variety of positive signals throughout most of the economy. The Commerce Department reported today that its Index of Leading Economic Indicators dropped 0.2 percent last month. In addition, the department revised the November gain to just 0.6 percent. It had originally reported that the index had risen more than twice that amount percent in November. The December decline had not been expected by most analysts, many of whom were predicting an increase of about 0.5 percent. Private economists were basing this expectation on a variety of business barometers all pointing to an economy that rebounded sharply late last year from a four-month slump. The decline in the index came despite the fact that the government last week
writing, teaching and lecturing. Mrs. Kirkpatrick said, “I now feel that I can best serve the president and our shared objectives for the United States and the world by returning to teaching and writing. “In private life, perhaps even more than in public life, I can speak out clearly on behalf of shared foreign policy objectives, such as restoring and preserving American strength, supporting democracy and independence in the hemisphere, defending our friends, our principles and our interests in the Middle East and elsewhere.” Reagan had said he wanted to keep her in the administration and, as recently as last week, said he had a job in mind to offer hef\ somewhere outside the White House.
“what appeared to be a large, unblinking star suddenly shed a thin ray of light which fell plumb down on the ground” from an altitude of 25 to 30 miles, the newspaper said. All four crew members reported that they “could see distinctly everything down in the sector of the ground illuminated by the cone-shaped shaft of light —the houses and the roads,” the newspaper said. It said the ray suddenly focused on the plane. “The pilots saw a dazzling white spot surrounded by concentric colored rings,” Trud said. The UFO then reportedly came toward the airliner “at flashing speed,” leaving a
area south of Lakeland in central Florida, continued to burn today, but firefighters believed they would be controlled quickly, Ms. Chase said. Another continuing blaze near Naples destroyed at least 8,000 acres and burned six homes near Golden Gate Boulevard, she said. About 75 residents were evacuated to shelters Wednesday. “When I left, the flames were across the street from my house,” Kurt Blomberg said of his Golden Gate neighborhood. “I watered my roof and my grass and then they (firefighters) threw me out.” Blomberg escaped with his dog, a television set, clothing, farming tools and a cooler of beer. Golden Gate is an area near Alligator Alley, a road that runs through the Everglades from Fort Lauderdale on the Atlantic Ocean to Naples on the Gulf. Meanwhile, a fire in the Everglades in northwestern Broward County grew to 16,000 acres after it began late Tuesday. Another fire, involving about 2,000 acres
boosted its estimate of overall growth. The increase in the gross national product the total output of goods and services was put at a rate of 3.9 percent for the final three months of the year. This represented a sharp increase from the original estimate and was also more than twice the rate of growth during the July-September period, when the economy grew at a sluggish 1.6 percent. The GNP was not the only economic indicator pointing to a sharp rebound in the economy in the final months of the year. Factory production registered its sharpest gain in five months in December and Americans’ personal income rose a strong 0.5 percent in December. But the Commerce Department said that the elements that go into making up its Leading Economic Index turned in a weak peformance. The index is made up of a dozen measurements selected because of their ability to signal future trends in economic activity. Economic growth, as measured by the gross national product, raced ahead at a
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green cloud in its wake and hovered next to the plane at an altitude of 33,000 feet for the rest of the flight “like an honorary escort,” the newspaper quoted one of the pilots as saying. Nervous passengers asked the flight attendant what was happening. “Tell them it is some sort of cloud,” the captain, Igor Cherkashin, reportedly replied. “Say the yellow thing is a reflection of city lights, the green thing of polar lights.” In 1967, the Soviet Union established a special air force commission to investigate UFO sightings, but few details of its work have been released.
and of suspicious origin, was under control near North Port Charlotte, midway between Tampa and Naples on the west coast, authorities said. The Everglades blaze began as a 1,000acre sawgrass fire but was expected to claim 30,000 acres of wilderness before it could be controlled, officials said. The North Port Charlotte fire consumed about 125 acres, crossed a 40-foot canal and burned about 2,000 acres before being brought under control, fire officials said. Two-other firefighters were injured in the latest spate of fires. Eddie Richardson, 34, of Naples, was arrested on charges of arson, aggravated assault and destruction of county property stemming from a Naples-area blaze near Interstate 75, said Collier County Sheriff’s Cpl. Kevin Nelson. Richardson also is a suspect in the fire that killed Miranda, Nelson said. Richardson had been free on bond after being charged with manslaughter in another case, according to police records.
Playboy centerfolds to soon shed staple in their navels
c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service CHICAGO-Playboy magazine officials have invented a cure for an uncommon, yet monthly affliction: Staples in the navel. The Chicago-based magazine, the brainchild of Hugh Hefner, began publishing in the middle 19505, featuring color photographs of women in various stages of undress. Particularly popular for more than three decades has been the Playboy monthly centerfold, a three-page-long photograph that unfolds to reveal the nude Playmate of the month. For a third of a century, college students, garage mechanics and shopworkers seeking eye-catching, seasonal wall decorations found that the trio of staples holding the
rate of 8.6 percent in the first half of the year only to slow to a pace of 1.6 percent from July through September. Analysts began to talk of a growth recession a period when expansion is so anemic that unemployment begins to rise. Since November, however, the economy has shown renewed signs of strength. The upturn has been so good, in fact, that last week the government issued a sharply revised estimate for economic activity in the final three months of the year, putting growth at 3.9 percent more than double the July through September rate. All talk of a growth recession has evaporated. Analysts have given much of the credit for the rebound to the Federal Reserve Board. Since August, the nation’s central bank has embarked on a significant easing of controls. “The GNP data for the fourth quarter of 1984 show an economy that came back strong to cap a year of super growth,” said Allen Sinai, chief economist for Shearson Lehman-American Express. “The pause in economic growth is over.”
Meese's standards questioned WASHINGTON (AP) - The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee says Edwin Meese 111 is lawful and ethical, but unwilling to rise to the “higher standard” expected of an attorney general. In an emotional expression of doubt about Meese’s nomination, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. said that if the White House counselor were genuinely contrite about past questionable practices, he would give up his commission as an Army Reserve colonel and renounce some of his other actions. Biden told Meese his concern “relates tc a higher standard that you have demonstrated to me in your responses you are not willing to step up to, even though you’re ethical, and even though you have not violated any law inadvertently or advertently.” The harsh questioning of Meese’s fitness to serve came as the committee prepared to hear testimony today from David H. Martin, director of the Office of Government Ethics. Martin has acknowledged that while Meese violated no ethics rules, he “created the appearances” of conflict of interest. Meese, confronted with Biden’s doubts toward the end of a second day of grueling confirmation hearings Wednesday, responded that if confirmed, he would devote “every ounce of my energy and every moment of my time” to setting a high ethical standard in the Cabinet post. But that assertion failed to convince Biden, D-Del., or Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, who accused the presidential counselor of having “a chronic recall” problem concerning many questions about past events. “I don’t know if it would have changed my vote, but it would have made me think a lot more,” if Meese had shown a greater willingness to admit past mistakes, Metzenbaum said. Meese said he had encountered “hundreds of people” each week in his White House job and said “ . . . I think, by and large, the ability to recall has been pretty good.” Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., jumping to Meese’s defense, said, “If you were not a man of the right character, you’d be a millionaire. You can hardly make the payments on your house.” Both Biden and Metzenbaum maintained that in his answers to questions about his business and other dealings, Meese has too often raised technical points to explain his behavior. “It’s an attitude,” Biden told Meese. “Why is it so difficult for you to go back and say in hindsight, it was wrong to do such and such? Why do you stick to technicalities?” “If I haven’t answered that, I don’t know what I’ve said here,” replied Meese.
magazine together always seemed to come right about navel-level on the centerfold subject. Well, starting with Miss October 1985, there will be no more Playboy staples. Seeking a classier image and a mechanically simpler assembly process, the magazine is going to be bound more like a book. According to a prototype fall issue, the top of the centerfold will appear in the middle of the magazine. That page may be perforated there to ease removal of the photograph for reference or safekeeping. Trivia enthusiasts will know that the very first victim of Centerfoldum Stapla Umbilicus was Marilyn Monroe, whose career was not known to have suffered as a result.