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The Putnam County Banner Graphic, January 10,1986

Ohio senator suggests elimination of Khadafy

U.S. force against terrorism 'may be necessary'

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State George Shultz, faced with a stony European rebuff of sanctions against Libya, says the United States has just about exhausted its economic ammunition and may need to use force against terrorism. “We are prepared to use the measures that are effective and are necessary,” Shultz told a news conference Thursday. “Force is not always the best means, but it may be necessary.” He repeated Reagan administration charges that Libya was sponsoring terrorists, including those who attacked the Rome and Vienna airports in December, and described the U.S. response as “gradually escalating economic sanctions against Libya.” But he added, “I think by this time we’re pretty much at the end of the road and all of the things one can think of economically

Transplant protocol under study INDIANAPOLIS (AP) A state task force will examine organ transplant protocol after surgeons transplanted the heart and liver of an Indiana man exposed to AIDS. “We will have to take measures to make sure this does not occur again,” State Health Commissioner Dr. Woodrow A. Myers, Jr. said Thursday. He said state health officials were “working vigorously” to organize the task force at the request of Gov. Robert D. Orr. The possibility of transplanting organs that might be contaminated with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus is “something we will have to be increasingly concerned with,” said Myers, adding that the health board would support new legislation requiring testing for AIDS or its antibody in all prospective blood, organ and tissue donors. The organs were removed by the organ procurement team of Methodist Hospital, one of three Hoosier hospitals licensed to conduct major organ transplants. The liver was transplanted Sunday into an unidentified recipient in Pittsburgh. Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne said Thursday the heart was transplanted to a woman Saturday. Doctors for both patients said they feel there is little chance the organ recipients will contract AIDS. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette today quoted Dr. Michael H. Schatzlein, director of Lutheran’s transplant team, as saying the patient, Sharon Makley, is not in danger of contracting AIDS. “I’m not worried about my patient,” Schatzlein said. “I’m worried about the effects this is having on her family.” Surgeons at Presbyterian-University Hopital in Pittsburgh, told reporters Thursday the risk of the patient actually developing the disease is “essentially nil.”

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have pretty much been done now. ” Within the Reagan administration, Shultz has been one of the leading advocates of measured and focused military retaliation against terrorism. The Defense Department has stressed the difficulty of using U.S. might in such cases, especially when it might bring the United States into conflict with well-armed nations such as Libya, which has a large air force. Sen. Howard M. Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, a constant critic of the Reagan administration, suggested Thursday that Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy be assassinated, a move that White House spokesman Edward Djerejian quickly called “not a policy option of the United States government. ” Metzenbaum said in a broadcast interview, “Maybe we’re at the point in the world where Mr. Khadafy has to be eliminated.” and said he was using the

‘BS drop largest in decade

Farm population declines 7%

WASHINGTON (AP) Even when survey errors are discounted, 1985 saw one of the sharpest year-to-year declines in the U.S. farm population in a decade, government census experts say. Moreover, the income of farm families continues to lag behind that of city folks, according to a report issued Thursday by the Census Bureau and the Agriculture Department, According to preliminary survey figures for 1985, the farm population declined 7 percent, or 399,000 people, to 5,355,000 from 5,754,000 in 1984. Part of the loss in farm population was blamed on the financial crunch suffered by farmers during recent years, in which thousands of families have been put in jeopardy by huge debts and declining assets. The sharp 1985 drop in population was challenged by one of the report’s overseers, who said much of the year-to-year decline was due to changes and in sampling techniques. Although the report did not include the new farm population estimate for 1985, census officials provided that figure to The Associated Press upon request. The report said the estimated 1984 U.S. farm population of 5,754,000 was down 33,000 from 1983, but that the decline was “not statistically significant.” During the 19705, annual farm population losses averaged 2.9 percent, including a drop of about 7 percent from 1975 to 1976, a period when the U.S. farm economy was on the upswing with record exports and rising land values. The report said the median income of farm families was $18,925 in 1983, the most recent year studied. That was only three-fourths of non-farm family income. Median income

Kodak swamped by calls from instant camera owners

c. 1986 N. Y. Times News Service NEW YORK The Eastman Kodak Co. was flooded on Thursday with calls from owners of its suddenly obsolete instant camera seeking information about a company exchange offer. Kodak, charged by Polaroid with infringing on patents, was barred, beginning Thursday, by a court injunction from

term “literally.” Metzenbaum headed for a charity tennis tournament in Arizona Thursday without amplifying his remark Wednesday night that “a singular action may be justified” against Khadafy. “He is standing by his comments and has nothing further to say,” said his press secretary, Drew Von Bergen. But another aide said Metzenbaum was cheered by workers Thursday for the Khadafy comment during a brief appearance at a United Parcel Service facility in Cleveland. “It’s Ram-baum,” chuckled one Met-zenbaum-watcher. Wisecracking aside, there was serious and mixed reaction to Metzenbaum’s suggestion that a direct hit on Khadafy should be considered if President Reagan is certain that the Libyan strongman is directly involved in recent terrorist acts,

means that half of the families had larger incomes that year, half less. In 1983, one-fifth of all farm families had incomes below the federal poverty level, compared with 12 percent for non-farm families, the report said. The income poverty level in 1983 was $10,178 a year for a family of four. At the Census Bureau, Diana DeAre, one of the report’s authors, called the apparent 7 percent decline in the farm population last year “the most significant change” so far in the 1980 s. But USDA’s Calvin L. Beale, head of population studies in the department’s Economic Research Service, said the figures should not be taken at face value. In 1983, he said in an interview, the census survey showed an increase in the farm population. Then in 1984 the survey showed a decline of 33,000 people, which “struck me as unrealistically low.” “I think there has been a real and actual decline in the farm population, but in my opinion it’s not 7 percent from ’B4 to ’BS, and only half of 1 percent from ’B3 to ’84,” Beale said. “I just feel the ’B4 number was a high bounce, as it were, in the sample. Also, they’ve been changing the sample design during this time.” Beale, who is widely known as a demographer and expert on rural population, said he thought the 1985 figures were sound, but that they should be compared over a longer period and not on a basis of year-to-year. Beale said he thinks the farm population decline will continue in 1986 but not at the 1985 rate.

making any more instant cameras or film. Since film will not be available, the instant cameras already sold become useless. Kodak has sold 16.5 million instant cameras since 1976. No one knows how many are still in use. Moving quickly to appease its customers, Kodak said owners could trade in their instant cameras for a disk camera

Loan defaulters won't get IRS refunds

c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service will withhold any 1985 income tax refunds due to 750,000 people who have defaulted on government loans, the Office of Management and Budget announced Thursday. It is the first attempt by the federal government to intercept tax refunds due borrowers who have failed to repay government loans. The program will apply to people who failed to repay $1.6 billion in loans from five agencies: the Department of Education, the Veterans Administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Agriculture Department and the Small Business Administration. Most of the defaulters are students or former students who have not repaid education loans. Congress gave the revenue service the authority to take such action beginning with the 1985 tax year. “Scofflaw defaulters who think they’ve outwitted and outrun the federal bureaucracy will learn firsthand that federal agencies now have the will and the effective ways of collecting overdue debts,” said Joseph R. Wright, deputy director of the budget office, who an-

and if economic sanctions fail. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio., said he shared “the anger and outrage that led Sen. Metzenbaum to make his comment. ” But Glenn, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he would back the economic retaliation ordered by Reagan for the time being. He did not criticize or second guess Metzenbaum for his strong language. Through a spokesman, Glenn said Khadafy would be “well advised to heed the sense of outrage that is felt not just by Sen. Metzenbaum but by all Americans. “The message we’re sending him and all terrorists around the world is, we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more,” Glenn said. Metzenbaum, a liberal, did not use the term assassinate, nor did he propose that the Central Intelligence Agency carry out a mission. But his meaning, in an in-

and film with a retail value of SSO. Or they could get a book of coupons worth SSO toward purchase of Kodak photography products. Or they could trade their camera in for one share of Kodak stock, which was worth $47.50 on Thursday. Kodak has limited its offer to three cameras per household and advised retailers to remove the instant products

nounced the program. “Government has an obligation to the rest of the taxpayers to use all legal methods of recovering those program funds so they can be re-used by others in need of assistance,” he said. Wright said the program was part of continuing efforts to improve management of the federal government. Other examples he cited were a one-time program to indentify federal employees who had not repaid their student loans and a continuing project in which the names of people delinquent on all kinds of federal loans were made availble to credit reporting agencies. The two-year experimental program involving the revenue service was required under the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984. Among the defaulters whose names were given to the service by the budget office Thursday were 657,894 students and former students who had failed to repay $1.3 billion. A spokesman said it was impossible to estimate how much money would be intercepted by the revenue service because the amount of refunds due the 750,000

terview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer and from exerpts from a WKYC-TV interview in Cleveland, was clear. At some point, he said, “you have to consider whether the person who is eliminating others doesn’t have to be eliminated.” The Transportation Department, meanwhile, said that effective Feb. 1, any airline domestic or foreign would be barred from selling tickets in the United States for trips that include Libya in the itinerary. Khadafy told reporters in Tripoli that the American sanctions, which include a freeze on Libyan assets in the United States, would push him closer to the Soviet Union. Shultz brushed aside such fears, citing an already-close Soviet-Libyan relationship in which the Soviets send arms to Khadafy in return for badly needed cash.

Marble Hill write-off means insolvency. Public Service claims

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Public Service Indiana faces insolvency unless a plan is installed quickly for recovering $2.7 billion invested in the abandoned Marble Hill nuclear plant, utility officials say. “Time is getting short,” Michael M. Sample, director of a PSI task force studying the utility’s financial crisis, said Thursday. The company halted construction of the Marble Hill facility near Madison in December 1983 and has been in financial trouble since. According to Sample, insolvency hinges on whether PSl’s auditors force the utility to write off its Marble Hill debt in a 1985 annual financial report. If the debt must be written off as a complete loss, Sample said, PSI would have on paper a negative net worth. Once a company is declared insolvent, creditors may force it into bankruptcy and, under Indiana law, no dividends may be paid to stockholders. Sample declined to discuss how much a write-off would put the utility in the red. Sources involved in negotiations with the utility have estimated writing off the abandoned plant would give PSI a net worth of minus S4OO million.

Shuttle launch scrubbed a record seventh time

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The launch of remodeled Columbia on its first flight in more than two years was postponed for a record seventh time today as heavy rain belted the shuttle on its launch pad. “I’m sorry,” launch director Gene Thomas told the seven astronauts. “We were hoping for better weather. But it’s just not going to come today, guys. ” “Okay, Gene, thank you,” replied astronaut Robert Gibson, the mission commander. “We feel it was worth the try, but looking out the window, it was clear we weren’t going anywhere today. ” It was the fourth postponement for the

from their shelves. Henry J. Kaska, a Kodak spokesman at the company’s headquarters in Rochester, said that the company’s “800” number at an Omaha phone service company was hopping Thursday and 150 operators had to be augmented with an additional 100 operators as consumers sought information on the exchange program.

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“If you look at the numbers, you have to conclude that a negative net worth is possible,” Sample said. “We have to have the uncertainty of the Marble Hill debt resolved.” A solution to the Marble Hill problem could save the utility from completely writing off the project, Sample said. PSl’s annual report is scheduled to be made public either this month or in February. PSI, the state’s largest utility, has 542,000 customers in 69 Indiana counties. In recent weeks, company officials have met privately with state officials and opponents of its latest bid for a rate increase in an effort to gain theirnsupport for a solution to their financial problems. Michael A. Mullett, attorney for Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, a consumer advocacy group, agrees that the PSI may be headed for insolvency. Mullett said, however, that insolvency will not necessarily mean the utility will go bankrupt He said PSI officials may be using the deadlines, and the threat of bankruptcy, to “blackmail” the state into bailing the firm out of its troubles.

flight in five days. No new launch date was set immediately. Once again, the seven astronauts unstrapped themselves from the spaceship to make the disappointingntrip back to crew quarters to await another day for a flight in which they are to launch a communications satellite and observe Halley’s comet. They had boarded Columbia four times for countdowns that went nowhere. That sets a record for the most times a crew has boarded a shuttle without getting off the ground.

The Kodak offer is available until the end of this year, and company officials stressed that there need be no hurry in calling the special “800” number. They did point out, however, that the instant camera owners seeking to participate in the exchange must call the number - (800) 792-3000 - to initiate the deal before mailing the cameras to Kodak.

defaulters this year was not known. About two-thirds of all filers receive some refund, according to a spokesman for the budget office, who said the average payment is about SBOO. Another factor adding to the uncertainty was that notices threatening revenue service action have been sent to the 750,000 defaulters and have prompted payments totaling sl4 million from 41,000 of them. Wright said one defaulter on a student loan had sold his wife s car and paid his debt upon receiving his final notice. mllhuw a "" aulter ’ a state viator from the Middle West who had refused to pay $2,898 on a student loan, sent a cashier’s check by private overnight earner as soon as he received the final notice, even though it gave him 60 days to pay. Another defaulter, who had rejected a mm™-™ under which he weid have paid not the interest on his loan, drove six and a WMw« to Chicago to pay $1,375 he owed. Wnght did not name the defaulters.