Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 288, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 July 1985 — Page 2
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No conflict with Regan, Reagan Bush sees post defined by 8-hour duty
c. 1885 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Vice President George Bush said Tuesday that he felt the burden of his own responsibility more heavily when President Reagan went into surgery July 13 than he did when the president was shot in 1981. In the first interview he has granted since being acting president for eight hours on the day of Reagan’s surgery, Bush said his sense of his responsibility was heightened by the “more defined” role he played that day. Before the surgery, Reagan signed a letter that temporarily turned power over to Bush. Speaking in a calm and relaxed voice, Bush suggested that the lack of an element of surprise, which was present when Reagan was shot four years ago, had also allowed him more time to reflect on the gravity of the situation while Reagan was hospitalized last week. The vice president strongly denied that he had been shunted aside by Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, and said that the most difficult moment of the period was the “uncertainty” when it was unclear how Reagan’s operation to remove a colon polyp would go or what would be found. That feeling eased, the vice president said, as Reagan’s doctors began providing encouraging news. While Reagan was under anesthesia at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md , the transfer of power temporarily made Bush the acting president, according to White House officials. In a letter on presidential power, Reagan wrote, “I have
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determined, and it is my intention and direction, that Vice President George Bush shall discharge these powers and duties in my stead comencing with the administration of anesthesia to me.” The president signed another letter that evening reclaiming those powers. Bush said Tuesday that he had spent the time relaxing at his official residence at the Naval Observatory here. He spent the time, he said, engaged in the same sort of activities that occupy Reagan in weekends
Israelis free Lebanese prisoners
ATLIT, Israel (AP) A group of 100 Lebanese prisoners freed from an Israeli military jail today crossed the border into Lebanon to return to their homes, U.N. officials said. The prisoners, mostly Shiite Moslems, were among hundreds whose release had been demanded by Shiite extremists who hijacked a TWA plane last month, killed a U.S. Navy man and held 39 Americans hostage for 17 days. Traveling in three Israeli buses, the prisoners crossed the border at Rosh Hanikra and were driven up the Mediterranean coastal highway, according to U.N. officials contacted at Naqoura, headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping force in South Lebanon. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
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at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md.: playing tennis, reading and talking on the telephone. Bush said he felt the gravity of his role more so than in 1981 because of the letter Reagan signed authorizing the shift of power. The president did not sign such a letter when he had surgery after being shot in an assassination attempt March 30, 1981. Asked if he felt his obligations more heavily in the most recent health crisis, Bush said, “I think it’s probably a little more so than the other, after the shooting thing, because it was more how to describe it more defined.” He noted that there were fewer “question marks” about the president’s health in the most recent surgery, but added, “With the actual transferring of power there was somewhat of a different feeling.” Speaking of his role in the eight-day period that Reagan was away from the White House for the colon surgery, Bush said that he had attempted to balance what he perceived as appropriate behavior for the vice president with emotions with which he felt comfortable. “I pride myself on having a reasonable good sense of how to act in this situation,” Bush said. “I was not concerned that I was stepping into the limelight, nor I was I concerned that I was being elbowed out of the limelight. Nor was I fascinated by the speculation on whether I was in it too much or out of it, because I really just think from the way it worked out, it worked pretty well.”
Israel radio reported that the Red Cross, as was the case in previous prisoner releases, was overseeing the operation as the freed men boarded buses to carry them back to their towns and villages. Israeli military sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified, said most of those freed today were members of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God group, which is engaged in a internal power struggle with the mainstream Shiite militia Amal headed by Nabih Berri. Davar, an Israeli newspaper, reported that the estimated 330 inmates remaining at the prison would be released in three groups at two-week intervals. Israeli sources said the next group probably would be freed in about two weeks. Prisoners, dressed in blue-and-white
More than 120 arrested in federal drug raids
CHICAGO (AP) More than 600 federal and local agents fanned out to arrest residents of at least seven states, Puerto Rico and Mexico in a drug crackdown focusing on the operations of a multimillion-dollar Mexican heroin ring, authorities said. More than 120 of 134 people named in recent indictments were apprehended in Tuesday’s raids, and the FBI said only that millions of dollars worth of drugs were seized. Nearly 50 pieces of residential and commercial property in the Chicago area also were seized during the raids. The names of some of those indicted or arrested were withheld because of security reasons, said U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas of the Northern District of Illinois. “There would be blood spilled if the names of the individuals in the undercover operation were revealed,” Valukas said.
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“You’ve got to do what comes natural and you’ve got to do what you feel is appropriate,” he added. “For better or for worst, I hope I found the proper balance between those two positions. ” Bush, who spoke in his West Wing office down the hall from the president’s Oval office, said that throughout much of last week he and the White House operated in a manner similar to that in the period when the president was hospitalized in 1981. “I’m not sure that scheduling-wise, and the way people performed, there wasn’t much difference,” Bush said. “And I think that most people around the country felt that things went along smoothly.” The relationship between the vice president and Regan, the chief of staff, has been the subject of some speculation since Regan assumed responsibility for the day-to-day operations of the White House during the president’s convalesence. Bush said that there was “no sense of tension” between himself and Regan. He acknowledged, however, that there had been a disagreement over whether he should return to Washington from Maine the day of Reagan’s operation. Bush had gone to his summer house in Kennebunkport, Me., for the weekend but decided on the day of Reagan’s surgery to return to Washington. “There was a difference in coming back,” he said. “But I never had the feeling that somebody was trying to say that ‘don’t come back because we want you off on sidelines.’ There was nothing like that. It’s very unfair to Don Regan, absolutely unfair.”
track suits, boarded three buses at the prison 50 miles north of Tel Aviv on the Mediterannean coast. They were among 1,200 Lebanese and Palestinians who had been transferred to Israel from the Ansar prison camp in southern Lebanon in April. Arab and Western governments, including the United States, as well as the International Red Cross, protested the move, claiming it violated the Geneva Conventions against transferring prisoners of war across international borders. Israel maintained that the detainees were not prisr iors of war, saying that Israel and Lebanon were not in a declared state of war when the prisoners were taken.
“It’s a dangerous expedition and the largest of its kind in the history of the U.S. attorney’s office.” One of those arrested was Jesus Herrera-Diaz, described as “a chieftain of the Herrera organization in Chicago,” which authorities have long considered part of a heroin ring involving thousands of people in Mexico and the United States. Many of those arrested in Indiana were reportedly members of the Zambrana family, which is allegedly closely allied with the Herreras. Valukas said 99 people were charged in eight indictments alleging six distribution networks involving heroin, cocaine and marijuana operating in the Chicago area. Another 35 were named in three separate indictments in Indiana. Those charged were residents of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, Colorado, Florida, California, Puerto Rico and
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ABC photo shows terrorist at cockpit window
Justice Dept, eyes TV networks in probe for hijacking evidence
WASHINGTON (AP) - During last month’s 17-day hijack-hostage crisis, American television networks devoted hours to coverage of the Beirut drama. Now the government is looking for a rerun, in what may be a bid to bring the hijackers to justice. ABC, CBS and NBC were served Tuesday with subpoenas, personally approved by Attorney General Edwin Meese, seeking all material, aired and unaired, about the June 14 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the hostage ordeal that followed. Two of the networks, ABC and CBS, reported that they were told the Justice Department wanted to use their videotapes, audio tapes, film and still photos in a federal grand jury investigation of the hijacking. NBC quoted sources as saying the FBI wants to show the tapes to the crew of the Trans World Airlines plane to help identify one of the hijackers. The government of Lebanon has ordered a judicial probe to identify and arrest the Shiite Moslem hijackers who commandeered the jet on the
Mexico, authorities said. The New York Times reported that arrests also occurred in New York state, and the Chicago Sun-Times listed New Mexico as an arrest site. But federal authorities were unavailable to confirm those reports late Tuesday. Authorities either declined further comment late Tuesday, said they did not know or could not be reached by telephone. The charges in the indictments include conspiracy to violate drug-trafficking laws, use of telephones to commit narcotics offenses, interstate travel in aid of racketeering and the distribution and sale of heroin, cocaine and marijuana. A document filed in the case alleged that the Herrera family, headed by Jaime Herrera-Nevarez, operates its drugtrafficking ring from Los Herreras, Durango, Mexico. Herrera-Nevarez was not named in the indictment.
Mine owner charged in Italian dam collapse
TRENTO, Italy (AP) Authorities arrested an owner of the mine whose dam collapsed last week, wiping out an alpine resort, and charged him with involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of more than 200 tourists and villagers, prosecutors said today. Meanwhile, two provincial officials, among 60 wanted for questioning in connection with the disaster, resigned their posts. Giulio Rota, one of two brothers who own the Prealpi Mining Co., was arrested Tuesday night and was being interrogated, Trento Prosecutor Francesco Simeoni told The Associated Press. Rota turned himself in to authorities Tuesday night after an arrest warrant was issued, Andrea Di Francia and Aldolfo De Bertolini, the arrested man’s lawyers, also told the AP in Trento, the provincial capital. Simeoni said the charges were involuntary multiple manslaughter and involuntarily causing a disaster. The prosecutor on Saturday questioned Rota for several hours as part of efforts to see if negligence caused the earthen dam to give way at noontime last Friday, unleashing a torrent of mud, water and debris onto the hamlet of Stava in northeastern Italy. More than 60 other people, many of them
Athens-to-Rome flight, terrorized the passengers and forced the crew to crisscross the Mediterranean. The hijackers killed a U.S. Navy serviceman. The Justice Department would not confirm that a grand jury probe was planned, or discuss any legal steps the United States might try to take against the hijackers, such as extradition and indictment. “We decided it would be important to look at some of the footage of these events,” said Justice Department spokesman Terry Eastland, adding: “You can draw your own inferences.” He refused in a telephone interview to elaborate on the department’s plans, citing “the obviously sensitive nature of the whole thing.” The subpoenaed networks were not saying Tuesday whether they would cooperate with the Justice Department. All said their lawyers were looking over the subpoenas. Eastland suggested the networks had been approached earlier about turning over material.
Valukas said properties and businesses allegedly used by some of those charged were seized under a law that allows confiscation of property used to facilitate a drug felony. The 47 properties seized in the Chicago area included residences, taverns, jewelry shops, florists, restaurants, hot dog and taco stands, a candy store and two service stations. Valukas declined to speculate on the value of drugs seized but said in one raid agents found 10 pounds of heroin. Police in Lake County, Ind., said one unidentified man was arrested in what they called a Gary warehouse containing $8 million worth of drugs. The indictment alleged the Herrera organization imports its drugs primarily from Mexico through El Paso, Texas. A number of Herrera family members were named in the indictments.
Diplomat shot to death in Turkey ANKARA, Turkey (AP) An unidentified gunman today shot and killed the first secretary of the Jordanian Embassy as he drove to work from his home on a main street in Ankara’s Cankaya Hill residential district, police said. Police identified the dead man as Ziad J. Sati, and said he was killed a short distance from his home. They said he had been shot in the head four times. local government officials, have been given official notices by the prosecutor that they are wanted for questioning. Two of them resigned their provincial government posts. Gianni Bazzanella, who heads the department of industry, told reporters after handing in his resignation: “A politician cannot remain in his post if there is even the slightest shadow over his job.” Provincial authorities said Remo lori, chief of the forest service, also resigned. Rota can be held in jail for 40 days while authorities determine the next step in the criminal process.