Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 382, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 October 1985 — Page 2

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Monet, Renoir works taken in Paris heist

c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service PARIS At least five armed gunmen entered the Marmottan Museum on Sunday and stole nine of its major Impressionist paintings, including Claude Monet’s celebrated “Impression, Sunrise’’ and Pierre Auguste Renoir’s “Bathers.” Two of the robbers, who had bought tickets and entered the museum as ordinary visitors, held some nine unarmed museum guards and 40 visitors at gunpoint, while three other thieves pulled the fragile paintings from the walls and broke into a glass case that contained two other works. The gunmen then placed the masterpieces five Monets, two Renoirs, and paintings by Berthe Morisot and Naruse in the trunk of a gray car, double-parked in front of the museum, and fled, eyewitnesses said. The holdup, at 10:15 Sunday morning Paris time, lasted about five minutes. The art theft was one of the largest and most audacious of the century in France, police and art historians said. Yves Brayer, the curator who oversees the Marmottan, said that this was the first time in his memory that museum artworks in France were stolen at gunpoint, “like a bank robbery.” Brayer estimated the value of the loss at a minimum of $12.5 million. Maurice Rheims, an art expert of

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l’Academie Francaise, declined to value the masterpieces, calling them “invaluable and unsellable.” A spokesman for the Interior Ministry called the robbery “a sacrilege,” and compared it with the theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” from the Louvre in 1911. That celebrated painting was subsequently returned by the thief, Giovanni Peruggia, in 1913. Prominent art historians said there had been six major art thefts in the last 10 years in France. The most important occurred in January 1976, when 118 paintings by Pablo Picasso were stolen from the Palais des Papes in Avignon. All the paintings were found in October. Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise,” gave its name to the Impressionst movement in art, which was born and flourished in France at the end of the 19th century. This painting alone was worth at least $4.75 million, said Josette Tavera, a curator at the museum. “These guys were real connoisseurs,” she said. “They chose the museum’s best works, the most expensive, without wasting any time. They knew exactly what they were looking for.” Brayer said that such celebrated masterpieces were almost impossible to sell. “So it must have been a special-order theft,” he said.

Farm policy, money issues slated

WASHINGTON (AP) Congress grapples with farm policy and money issues this week, including a plan to force the swollen federal budget into balance by 1991. The Senate is resuming work on the 1985 farm bill, a four-year plan for food and agriculture policy that is being criticized by the Reagan administration as a budgetbuster that helps wealthy farmers along with those in financial trouble. “I’m hopeful that somewhere in this chamber we can put together a majority (for a bill) that will not be vetoed by the president,” said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kan. Dole and other Republicans planned a series of controversial amendments aimed at paring back the cost of the bill, estimated by the Agriculture Department

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at S2O billion or more annually for the foreseeable future. High on the list were proposals to scale back the four-year freeze on income subsidies for wheat, corn, cotton and rice farmers to just one year, and to slash the current $50,000-per-farmer subsidy payment limit in half. But Democrats, who largely controlled the writing of the bill in the Senate Agriculture Committee, predicted they would be able to head off most efforts to cut the bill on the Senate floor Sen. Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb., said he expected Democrats would get help from between seven and 10 Republicans, particularly Midwestern senators feeling reelection pressure:' The House already has endorsed its own version of the farm bill. Senate con-

Assembly lines rolling again

Chrysler strikers go back to work

DETROIT (AP) The assembly lines were rolling again today at Chrysler Corp., where 70,000 workers began returning to their jobs after ratifying what a United Auto Workers official said was “the best contract we’ve negotiated in 25 or 30 years.” The three-year pact, which brings Chrysler workers wage and benefit parity with General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. hourly employees, was approved by about 87 percent of those who voted, UAW Vice President Marc Stepp said Sunday. “We expected ratification,” said Bob Kruger, president of UAW Local 1268 at Belvidere, 111. “There’s a lot of up-front money. We’re right back on track with Ford and GM. That’s what the leadership

Rajneesh arrested while trying to flee country

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was arrested late Sunday trying to flee the country by federal customs agents in North Carolina, a federal immigration official said. Carl Houseman, regional director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Portland, said Rajneesh and a group of his followers were arrested at the Charlotte-Douglass International Airport in Charlotte.

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sideration is expected to take at least a week, followed by a House-Senate conference to work out differences between the two versions. House and Senate conferees also were scheduled to meet all week in an effort to draft a compromise version of the Senatepassed plan to force a balanced federal budget by 1991. Another major money matter, a package of budget savings that cleared the House last week, is stalled in the Senate because of an attempt to attach a textile trade relief bill and a host of other amendments. After dealing with a few relatively minor bills today, the House was scheduled to take up a controversial compromise bill setting out programs for the Department of Defense.

wanted. That’s what the rank-and-file wanted.” Third-shift employees began returning to work late Sunday night at the Belvidere assembly plant and other Chrysler operations nationwide. Results of the voting, conducted Sunday and Saturday, were tallied Sunday night. “This contract brings to a close the era of concessions,” Stepp said at UAW headquarters in Detroit. “That’s why the members are very happy. “A number of veteran UAW staffers and former board members called me ... and they said this is the best contract we’ve negotiated in 25 or 30 yea rs. ” The contract includes an average 2.25 percent increase in base wages the first

Houseman said Rajneesh was named in indictments handed down Thursday by a federal grand jury in Portland. He said the guru was charged with conspiracy to make false statements to federal immigration officers and with harboring aliens illegally in the U.S. Rajneesh is the spiritual leader of a sect that claims up to 500,000 adherents, mainly in the United States, Western Europe and Australia.

Reagan, hostages' families meeting

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the first time in their lengthy ordeal, relatives of the six Americans believed held hostage in Lebanon have been invited to meet with President Reagan at the White House. “The meeting will provide the opportunity for the president to bring the families up to date on our efforts to secure the release of their relatives,” White House spokesman Mark Weinberg said Sunday of the session, scheduled for late this afternoon. Reagan, returning to the White House from his weekend at his Camp David, Md., retreat, refused to answer reporters’ questions about the session. Since Feb. 10,1984, nine Americans have been kidnapped in Lebanon, and the meeting marks the first time that Reagan has scheduled a White House meeting with a relative of one of the victims. Three of the kidnapped men have been freed. Family members of at least four of the six hostages still believed held are expected to attend the White House meeting, said Peggy Say. Ms. Say is the sister of Terry A. Anderson, 38, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, who was kidnapped on March 16.

year, a lump-sum payment of 2.25 percent in the second and a 3 percent wage increase the last year. Chrysler workers now receive $13.23 per hour. It also offers Chrysler workers immediate cash bonuses of $2,120 each for concessions granted when the automaker was battling bankruptcy in the late 19705. “Our demand for parity was nothing less than a demand for justice,” UAW President Owen Bieber and Stepp said in a statement. “The fact that this contract achieves every single parity goal in addition to compensating UAW-Chrysler workers and retirees for their past sacrifices represents justice.” Union spokesman Bob Barbee said Sunday that specific vote totals would not be

His central Oregon commune, known as Rajneeshpuram, has been in turmoil for more than a month, since the guru’s top aides fled to Europe. In Rajneeshpuram, spokeswoman Ma Prem Isabel, asked about the arrests, said, “Rumor has it. I don’t know myself.” A Portland television station, KGW, reported on its late news program Sunday that Rajneesh had apparently left the com-

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Oars dipping through the sparkling waters of the Charles River in Cambridge Mass., 71 -year-old R. Cutler rows his way into competition in the men's veteran singles division of the Head-of-the-Charles Regatta. The sun and sparkling water combine to give an eerie effect to an eight-man crew passing in the background (at top). (AP Wirephoto).

Some family members have tried to meet with Reagan for more than a year, and do not know why the White House has suddenly granted their request, Ms. Say said. Ms. Say said the relatives intend to ask Reagan to take action to help end their loved ones’ ordeal. “It would certainly help the cause if he’d give his blessing,” said Ms. Say. The other Americans still missing are: —William Buckley, 57, Medford, Mass., U.S. Embassy political officer in Beirut, kidnapped March 16, 1984. Earlier this month, a message and photograph that indicated Buckley had been killed were purportedly issued by the Islamic Jihad. —Peter Kilburn, 60, San Francisco, Calif., librarian at the American University of Beirut, missing since Dec. 3,1984. —The Rev. Lawrence Jenco, 50, Joliet, 111., Roman Catholic priest, kidnapped Jan. 8,1985. —David Jacobsen, 54, Huntington Beach, Calif., director of the American University Hospital, kidnapped May 28. 1985. —Thomas Sutherland, 54, Scottish-born, dean of agriculture at American University of Beirut, kidnapped June 9,1985.

available until at least today because one unit in one of the UAW’s 50 Chrysler locals had not reported its tally. But Stepp said the contract was approved by 87 percent of Chrysler’s production and maintenance workers, who make up 90 percent of the automaker’s UAWrepresented workforce. Smaller units also approved the pact by margins ranging from 81 percent to 90 percent. “It’s the best thing that’s happened in many, many years. It’s brought the union together,” said John Coyne, president of UAW Local 212, which represents 2,800 workers at a Chrysler trim plant in Detroit. Typical workers will earn $5,650 extra during the pact’s three years,

mune by air. Houseman said it was unclear whether the airplane carrying Rajneesh had landed in Charlotte to refuel or to meet a larger aircraft. A state grand jury, meeting in The Dalles, has been investigating charges of criminal wrongdoing leveled by Rajneesh at his former aides in the wake of the upheavals at the commune.