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Heat, lightning help 'sleeping giant' brush fire awaken

By The Associated Press Heat and lightning dealt a one-two punch to firefighters battling hundreds of fires that have torched more than 620,000 acres in nine Western states and Canada and reawakened a “sleeping giant” of a blaze in California. About 1,400 firefighters in Montana on Sunday succeeded in corralling what authorities called “a firestorm” that tripled in size overnight to 10,500 acres in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Fires burned today in California, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming after racing across more than 260,000 acres in just over IV2 weeks, damaging or destroying hundreds of homes and buildings and doing at least S3B million in damage. In British Columbia, flames ravaged 360,620 acres, with 515 blazes out of control and nearly 2,500 firefighters on the lines, according to Canadian Forest Service spokesman Paul Dean. The Montana fire, 3,100 acres until it erupted, was expected to be under control by Wednesday, said U S. Forest Service spokeswoman Jane Weber. “The weather helped us to keep it from spreading Sunday. The humidity was higher, it was a little overcast and the winds didn’t pick up.” Meanwhile officials in California said they feared that state’s largest fire, in Los Padres National Forest near Ojai, 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles, could grow in the hot weather forecast for today. The fire created a gigantic heat cloud that spewed embers into the sky, touching off brush and trees ahead of it as it spread. The blaze was just over 50 percent contained Sunday as it grew to 82,500 acres and burned within 40 miles of President Reagan’s Rancho del Cielo in Santa Barbara County, authorities said. Nature which blessed California firefighters with cool, damp air for three days dealt them a blow Saturday night and Sunday with high temperatures and lightning storms that sparked at least five new fires. Lightning sparked several smaller blazes in Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico, and erratic winds made fires covering 8,500 acres in Idaho difficult to control. More than 24 of the Western fires have been labeled arson. Forest Service spokeswoman Susan Mockenhaupt said the “sleeping giant” of a fire was consuming critical watershed in

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Derailment in Paris kills 15 PARIS (AP) A passenger train carrying hundreds of vacationers smashed into a truck at a crossing on the Le Havre-Paris line today, derailing the train and killing at least 15 people, said the state-run National Railroad Administration. Many other people were reported injured. The impact of the collision, at an automatic crossing, knocked the first five train cars from the tracks, officials said. Gendarmes and firefighters, called in from a 60-mile radius, tried to extricate passengers from the tangled mass of metal, said officials in the state of Eure The train, making a regular run from Le Havre to Paris, was carrying 500 to 600 people, many returning from weekend vacations, said officials of the rail administration. The accident occurred after the train left the station at Saint Pierre du Vauvray, about 50 miles northwest of Paris in Eure, railway officials said.

Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and National Weather Service specialist Stan Massey said temperatures were expected to reach the upper 80s today. The fire was set July 1, briefly forcing evacuation of more than 5,000 people in the Ojai and Carpinteria areas. With 2,600 firefighters on the line, costs surpassed $3.7 million, and flames destroyed 12 homes, damaged seven, leveled 37 outbuildings and charred orchards worth $3 million. The second-largest California fire, a 54,000-acre blaze in San Luis Obispo County 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, was expected to be fully contained Tuesday evening, firefighters said. Lighting Saturday night started five fires along a ridge, burning 800 acres near the blaze, said Department of Forestry spokeswoman Lynne Williams. , In the high Sierra 250 miles north of Los Angeles, a lightning-sparked fire in Onion Valley near Independence grew to 6,000 acres late Sunday

West Germans convicted in Hitler hoax

HAMBURG, West Germany (AP) A Hamburg court today convicted three West Germans in connection with the $3.1 million sale of phony “Hitler Diaries” to Stern newsmagazine, a deal prosecutors called the biggest literary hoax of the century. The court sentenced self-confessed diaries forger Konrad Kujau to four years and six months in prison for a fraud and forgery conviction, while former Stern reporter Gerd Heidemann received four years and eight months imprisonment for fraud in procuring the 60 volumes for the magazine. The five-judge panel gave Kujau’s girlfriend, Edith Lieblang, 44, eight months probation for receiving stolen property some of his earnings from the forgeries. Under the West German legal system, a

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Reagan sounds warning about terrorism

WASHINGTON (AP) With memories still fresh of the hijacking ordeal of 39 Americans, President Reagan is sounding a warning about the growing menace of terrorism and is trying to mobilize support for a strategy to combat it. The subject of terrorism was to be the main theme of Reagan’s address today before the annual convention of the American Bar Association. Speaking privately, White House aides said Reagan’s speech would offer a

10 million melons to be destroyed in California

LOS ANGELES (AP) - All watermelons in California stores as many as 10 million melons will be destroyed because the crop contains a pesticide linked to illnesses of at least 108 people in four states and Canada, authorities say. “All products at the retail level will be destroyed,” California Department of Food and Agriculture spokeswoman Jan Wessell said after state officials reached the decision in an emergency meeting late Sunday. The department also plans to inspect and sample the rest of California’s watermelon crop, which totals about 30 million melons, and will use stickers to mark the melons free of aldicarb, the pesticide. Ms. Wessell said a formal order would be issued to wholesalers and retailers

person found guilty of a crime is sentenced in the same court session, and defendants can be credited for prison time already served. Heidemann, 53, and Kujau, 47, have been held in “investigative custody” for two years. Prosecutors had asked for a sevenyear sentence for Heidemann, six years for Kujau, and a one-year suspended sentence for Ms. Lieblang. Prosecutors claimed during the trio’s 10month trial that Heidemann kept at least $600,000 of the $3.1 million Stern gave him to buy the volumes, and that Kujau got $500,000 of the money. The three defendants claimed to have been duped by one another about the origin of the volumes and of the money paid for them. Both Kujau and Heidemann are allowed

OPEC leaders can't agree

VIENNA, Austria (AP) OPEC oil ministers pledged to stop cheating on oil prices, but failed to agree on steps to prop up sagging oil prices. Some industry analysts called the meeting a failure. Speaking at the end of three days of meetings, Indonesian Oil Minister Subroto, the current OPEC president, said the 13-nation cartel would meet again in Geneva, Switzerland, on July 22 to try to hammer out a formula that would halt declines in world oil prices. He said the Geneva meeting would consider a proposal to introduce a “floating production ceiling” that would be adjusted seasonally to meet changes in demand for oil. Subroto said the ministers had decided "not to quarrel about it now.” Some industry analysts said the outcome of the meeting was unlikely to halt the erosion of oil prices that has eaten away at OPEC’s wealth and influence in the past 3*/2 years.

weekend. The six-mph race with golf carts is all part of Nympsfield 800, a festival celebrating the 800th anniversary of the appointment of Adam the Clerk as the first vicar of Nympsfield. (AP Wirephoto).

detailed description of the threat of terrorism, identify some forces involved in terrorist activities and lay out of series of options for dealing with the problem. One step under consideration in the wake of the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 last month is to offer a large reward for the killers of Navy frogman Robert Dean Stethem. He was shot to death after the aircraft was taken over by two Moslem Shiite militants. The administration says it knows the

today to destroy their watermelons and she urged consumers to throw away any melons they have already bought. “The watermelon crop this season is estimated at about 30 million melons,” she said “One third of these (are) already in the chain of distribution, and will be destroyed ” “A lot of the crop has been consumed,” said the department’s deputy director, George Gomes. “We have no idea how many were consumed prior to July 3.” Gomes said officials were unable to assign a dollar estimate to the loss. The field inspections will be carried out by staffs of the county agricultural commissioners and shipments of approved, untainted, watermelons was expected to resume today, officials said.

to stay out of prison pending appeal, or until a date specified later by the court for the sentence to take effect. Attorneys for both men said they would appeal the sentences, probably within a week. "I won’t get off,” Kujau, a Nazi artifacts collector, told reporters before the sentence. “I wrote the things didn’t I?” Kujau, an East German emigrant, admitted forging the volumes on notebooks he bought in an East German stationery store, but said he did not know Heidemann was buying them for Stern. He alleged Heidemann always knpw who had really written them. Kujau told reporters that during the trial he wrote a 340-page book about the incident, titled “I was Hitler,” which he hopes to publish soon.

Constantine Fliakos, an oil industry analyst for the New York investment firm of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, said of the meeting: “Basically, OPEC has lost its effectiveness. What OPEC needed was a lot more than an expression of resolve.” Said William Randol, an analyst for the New York investment firm of First Boston Corp., “It looks like they failed.” In a telephone interview, Randol said he expected oil prices to fall from the current level of $26 to S2B a barrel to the low 20s in the next 12-24 months But industry analyst Dan Lundberg said in Los Angeles that the collapse in talks was merely a “recess" and any action they take is likely to have little effect on prices at the pump. “It strikes me that it is simply a recess until they meet again on July 22 in Geneva,” the publisher of the petroleumoriented Lundberg Letter said.

Bodies of 26 MlA's to be returned by Hanoi government

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Vietnam has agreed to turn over the bodies of 26 Americans missing in action during the Vietnam War and indicated it wants to resolve the issue of some 2,500 missing Americans within two years, the U.S. State Department said. The department also said the Vietnamese would provide evidence or information on six other missing American servicemen. “We welcome the Vietnamese action,” said the statement. It was issued Sunday in Hong Kong, where Secretary of State George Shultz rested before leaving for Bangkok, the first stop on his tour of Southeast Asia and the Pacific. A spokesman for the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok today said he had no information beyond “that which appeared in the newspapers,” including a handover date. Vietnam has provided the names of the 26 Americans and will release the bodies in six to eight weeks, according to a senior State Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity. He said the names were being withheld until their relatives could be notified. Shultz arrived in the Thai capital this morning for talks with Thai leaders on

identities of the hijackers. Under U.S. law, the government could pay up to $500,000 for each hijacker. Already, the administration says there is a new, widespread sentiment for firmness in dealing with terrorism as a result of the TWA hijacking. Yet, the administration has seemed torn over what to do about terrorism, and how to exact retribution without harming innocent people. At the outset of his presidency, Reagan

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NASA experiment may fizzle as Coke, Pepsi extend 'Cola Wars' to space shuttle

ATLANTA (AP)- Coca-Cola, hoping to boldly go where no soft drink has gone before, says NASA violated an agreement by planning to test experimental cans developed by both Coke and Pepsi aboard space shuttle Challenger this week. THE NATIONAL Aeronautics and Space Administration specified in a written agreement that Coke “would be the only soft drink tested and consumed" during the mission, said Coca-Cola Co. spokesman Mark Preisinger. “As far as we know, we’re waiting for clarification on it from NASA.” "They both probably will be first Both agreements are virtually identical in what they call for us to do." NASA spokesman Charles Redmond said Redmond said NASA has invited all soft drink manufacturers to develop carbonated beverage containers to be tested aboard shuttle flights.

security, trade and refugee problems. There was speculation that the Vietnamese overture was timed to Shultz’s tour. Some Southeast Asian leaders have urged that the United States establish diplomatic relations with its former enemy to help resolve the problem of Vietnam’s continued presence in Cambodia. One of the barriers to normalization of relations is Washington’s insistance that Hanoi is not doing enough about MIAs. Some 1,375 American servicemen are missing in action in Vietnam, and another 1,089 are listed as missing or prisoners of war in other parts of Southeast Asia. The return of the 26 bodies would be the largest such turnover since the war ended 10 years ago. Vietnam has returned the remains of 60 other missing Americans so far, U.S. Ambassador to Indochina John Holdridge said last week. Ann Mills Griffiths, executive director of the League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, told The Associated Press in Washington that the Vietnamese action “is very encouraging and an indication they are making an effort to accelerate their cooperation.” U.S. and Vietnamese technical experts have met three times since January

served notice that the U.S. response to terrorism “will be one of swift and effective retribution. We hear it said that we live in an era of limits to our powers,” Reagan said in early 1981. “Well, let it also be understood, there are limits to our patience.” However, while Reagan has talked tough, there have been no retaliatory strikes by the United States against terrorists for any of the attacks against Americans since the president took office.

He said both Coke and Pepsi appear to have begun work on the experiments within “a reasonable time frame of our initial invitation, but that Coke was the first to discuss the project with NASA’s food technology laboratory at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. INCLUDING PEPSI would prevent charges of favoritism, he said. “It gets us out of the bind of having to say that one or the other was first. ’’ In May, Coca-Cola announced that its special steel can, developed at a cost of more than $250,000 would be carried into orbit this month by the space shuttle. NASA confirmed that announcement last month Last week, NASA said Pepsi’s device, developed by Envir-Spray Systems of Montgomeryville, Pa , will be on the flight Friday if final testing under way in Houston is completed in time for liftoff