Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 295, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 July 1985 — Page 2
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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, July 31,1985
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'Forgotten' hostages' families encouraged
WASHINGTON (AP) Peggy Say, whose brother has been held captive in Lebanon since last March, says she’s encouraged that the U.S. government is laboring to gain freedom for him and six other American hostages. In talks Tuesday with Reagan administration officials and members of Congress, Ms. Say and relatives of other kidnap victims urged the administration to take immediate steps to secure their freedom. “Our frustration level had just about reached the eruption point,” Ms. Say said after meeting with Robert Oakley, head of the State Department’s counterterrorism office. “I think the families finally felt that somebody’s listening to us.” Following a news conference on the plight of the hostages, Ms. Say and the other relatives met in closed-door discussions with Oakley, lawmakers and other administration officials. The State Department subsequently issued a written statement quoting Oakley as having told the familes: “I realize that the absence of visible progress toward the release of the seven Americans can easily be construed as an absence of effort on our part.
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"The only satisfactory evidence that a serious effort is being made is, of course, the return of the hostages. But I can assure you that there is a constant effort at all levels of the administration.” Ms. Say is the sister of Terry Anderson, a correspondent for The Associated Press. Anderson, a native of Lorain, Ohio, and a former resident of Batavia, N.Y., was kidnapped in west Beirut in March. Jeremy Levin, a Cable News Network correspondant who escaped after being held in Lebanon for nearly a year, said the kidnappers are demanding the release of 17 Arabs being held in Kuwait for the 1984 bombings of the American and French embasssies. He accused the administration of failing to share that information with the public, adding that people lack a clear idea of why the hostages are being held. “Without that public expression of concern,” Levin said, “I think it is likely that the government will continue to treat this crisis differently from the (TWA Flight 847) hijacking crisis, and these men will continue to suffer, as I did, in squalid solitary confinement, locked away in a dark room, wrists secured to the wall with a chain too short to permit standing.”
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Eight killed in suicide bombing
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden car near an Israeli patrol in the southern Lebanese town of Arnoun today, and a witness said three soldiers and five Lebanese were killed. However, an Israeli army statement said two soldiers were slightly wounded in the attack and taken to a hospital. It said they were part of a patrol to prevent terrorist activities in the security zone north of the Israeli border. Israeli military sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said preliminary reports indicated that the driver and one other Lebanese were killed in the explosion There was no way immediately to recon-
Faulty heat sensors are blamed for engine woes
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Challenger’s robot arm waved a small science satellite above the spaceship today, ready for launching, while engineers said they were sure that faulty heat sensors caused the shuttle’s chilling engine cutoff The satellite, plucked out of the cargo bay Tuesday night by an astronaut operating the 50-foot arm, was studying a mysterious glow that envelops the shuttle as it speeds through invisible waves of outer space plasma. The satellite, called PDP, for plasma diagnostics package, was scheduled to be released tonight to fly free for several hours to make other readings. While most of the science mission’s 13 experiments were working well, the astronauts and ground specialists were trying to figure out how to correct the main instrument, a S6O-million pointing system intended to focus telescopes on the sun. The device is a key element of four experiments. Mission manager Roy Lester said new computer software and other procedures were being developed and “we’re confident we’ll get the science intended for that instrument.’’
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cile the conflicting casualty reports, and no claim of responsibilty for the blast. A U.N. official said peacekeeping soldiers heard an explosion in the area of Arnoun followed by heavy machine gun fire. Journalists based in the market town of Nabatiyeh near Arnoun said the explosion occurred at 8 a.m. at the public square facing Husseinieh mosque. One injured Lebanese, who was rushed from Arnoun to the hospital in Nabatiyeh told reporters he saw “at least three Israeli soldiers laying dead and two others being treated for wounds.” The injured witness, who spoke on condition he not be identified said at least five Lebanese civilians were killed in the blast.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced late Tuesday that bad sensors and not a broken part caused the engine shutdown Monday. The problem, in which two 5-inch-long sensors indicated fuel pumps were overheating, is not expected to delay the next shuttle launch, of Discovery on Aug. 24. An agency statement said a study of radio data indicated that fuel pumps on the engines performed normally. Computers, receiving the false information from the sensors, ordered one of the three main engines to shut down 5 minutes, 45 seconds after launch while Challenger was still firing toward orbit. A sensor on a second engine also indicated an extreme temperature rise and threatened to shut that off. Mission Control felt the reading was wrong and told shuttle commander Gordon Fullerton to disable the sensors so the remaining engines could continue to burn. Flight director Cleon Lacefield said that if a second engine had been lost Challenger and its seven-member crew would have fallen to Earth, probably on the Greek island of Crete or in the Mediterranean.
Arnoun is near the Crusaders-built medieval castle of Beaufort, four miles from the Israeli frontier. The witness said the suicide bomber, parked at Arnoun’s Barakeh Square, waited until the Israeli foot patrol, accompanied by an armored personnel carrier, was close to his car. Then he detonated the bomb. The bombing occurred at the edge of the security zone the Israeli forces left in a southern Lebanon after withdrawing most of the troops from Lebanon in June. Wednesday’s bombing was the fourth suicide attack this month against Israeli troops and their militia allies of the South Lebanon Army which man the border buffer zone.
Name game
After considering Rambo, Ziggy, Guy chosen 6-month-old tot
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) - Rambo would be topical, said one. Rupert, said another. Ziggy was a third suggestion in a name-the-baby contest that kept this seaside town’s residents busy for six months while a smiling, blond infant grew anonymously older. “It sort of got to be a town joke,” the boy’s father, Kim Rilleau. said Tuesday. “But you would be surprised how many people put energy into this. A day wouldn’t go by when people wouldn’t give us ideas." When the Rilleaus finally decided on a name last week, they hired a plane to skywrite the news over Provincetown as residents cheered. The baby’s first name is Guy “pronounced Guy as in geese. It’s French,” said Rilleau. For a middle name the couple chose Tryon, Rilleau’s mother’s maiden name. “I think the name fits his vibrations,” said Rilleau. “He’s small, compact and muscular, but he also has a certain wiliness about him.” The name ‘Guy’ was suggested by tourists whom Rilleau, a part-time waiter, met at a waterfront
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President would OK sanction bill c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON Administration of ficials predicted Tuesday that President Reagan would sign a bill imposing sane tions on South Africa if the measure’s provisions were not in his view excessive and if it was approved by a large majority in Congress. The officials continued to insist that they were firmly opposed to economic sanctions but said the White House would probably bow to political pressure from Congress. A White House official said the president would sign a sanctions bill only if it became a “fait accompli” on Capitol Hill. The official said the president and his top advisers had made no decision on the bills and had not “waffled” in their opposition to sanctions. He said the administration continued to believe sanctions would harden Pretoria’s apartheid policies and reduce American influence without resolving the problems in that country. “It is premature to judge the president’s position on this issue under various hypothetical situations,” the official said. “Decisions will be taken on the basis of what comes out of Congress. ” A House-Senate conference committee will meet Wednesday to resolve differences between sanctions bills passed by the two chambers. Supporters of sanctions have said they hope to have a bill on Reagan’s desk before Congress adjourns for its August recess. A State Department official said the shape of the bill approved by the conference committee would be a key factor in the president’s decision. “We’ll have to see what the bill looks like,” he said.
restaurant. He also runs a leather shop in the town of 2,900 people. When Guy was born in January, Rilleau and his wife, Lynne, were in no rush to name him They had waited six weeks to name their 2-year-old daughter, Elena, and Rilleau’s parents had waited seven weeks to name him. “1 guess it’s sort of typical of my family anti-establishment,” he said. “I think it’s real important to give a kid a name that fits his personality.” After five months of indecision, the Rilleaus turned to the local weekly newspaper, The Advocate, for help and agreed to take part in a “name this baby contest.” Dozens of suggestions poured in for three weeks. The Rilleaus set a deadline of July 18 the baby would be six months old by then but couldn’t meet it. Two days later, a group of tourists recognized Rilleau from the newspaper and promised him a name by the end of the night. “A couple of hours later they said, ‘We have it the name for your son it’s Guy,”’ recalled Rilleau.