Banner Graphic, Volume 16, Number 198, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 March 1986 — Page 2

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Indiana gets 80 cents back for each dollar

it WASHINGTON (AP) the states in per-capita federal dollars received in fiscal 1985 as the state received only 80 cents back for every dollar paid in, according to a Census Bureau study to be released today. The per capita federal expenditure for Hoosiers was $2,614 in the past fiscal year, well below the national average of $3,253. Alaska, at $4,858 per person, ranked first and North Carolina, at $2,399 a resident, finished last. Overall, the federal government provided Indiana state and local governments with nearly $14.4 billion in federal funds in fiscal 1985, the census report found. While Indiana’s per capita return still ranks near the bottom, the state received more in federal expenditures than in previous years. In 1983, Indiana’s per capita share was $2,199, or 75 cents on the dollar. In 1984, the figure was $2,371, or 78 cents on the dollar. Morton J. Marcus, director of Indiana University’s Business Research Center, explained that Indiana’s

Marcos hints bid at return to power

MANILA, Philippines (AP) Fer- < inand E. Marcos today denied charges if corruption, said U.S. officials may have taken part in his ouster and indicated for the first time he may return from exile. “We must war again against the monster who imposes slavery,” the deposed president said in a telephone call taped today in Manila and released to The Associated Press. “Remain united so that we will see each other again,” Marcos also told supporters in his home region in a handwritten postscript to an eight-page letter dated March 21 and addressed to “my beloved Filipino countrymen.” Both the tape of the telephone conversation and the letter were given to the AP’s Manila bureau by a source close to Marcos. The source dealt with reporters on condition of anonymity. The 68-year-old Marcos, who is living in exile in Hawaii, accused President Corazon Aquino of striving for wealth and power, imposing a dictatorship, and allowing her followers to loot his palace and wear his wife Imelda’s dresses. The letter and telephone call were the first lengthy public statements from Marcos since he fled the country Feb. 26 after a pro-Aquino civilian-military revolt backed by the Roman Catholic Church. He told reporters in Honolulu on Easter Sunday that he still considers himself the Philippine president. In the telephone message, Marcos said the “coup d’etat” that toppled him “was apparently helped by some of the elements of the American government,” but did not mention names. In the taped message, he hinted he was misled into leaving the Philippines, saying he had insisted on being taken

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Bar girls storm pickets c. 1986 N.Y. Times News Service ANGELES, Philippines The bar girls who thrive on the business of American servicemen took up the cry “people power!” Sunday as they stormed a workers’ picket line and reopened the gates of Clark Air Base. Shouting and throwing rocks, hundreds of women smashed barricades and freed the servicemen from a weeklong restriction to base that has deprived them of the honky-tonk comforts just beyond the gate. “I win! All the girls win!” said Wanda, an obviously exhilarated dancer from a bar called the Flying Machine, after a crowd of prostitutes, taxi drivers, hotel attendants, bartenders and hostesses put a few hundred pickets to flight in an exchange of insults, shoves, kicks, bottles and rocks. “Give us GIs!” women shouted amid cries of “People power! ” The bar girls, idle since a union of Filipino civilians began picketing here and at Subic Bay Naval Base in Olongapo, said they were innocent victims in the dispute. At Subic Bay the picket lines held firm and the base remained sealed off.

from the palace to his home province of Ilocos Norte. Instead, he said, he was flown to Clark Air Base and later to Guam, and his private belongings were ransacked. U.S. officials said Marcos had 300 crates of jewels, cash and other items when he arrived in Hawaii on a U.S. plane, including $1.2 million in Philippine pesos. Marcos said the pesos were part of his campaign fund and personal money to be taken with him to his home province. Philippine officials maintain Marcos and his associates may have plundered $5 billion to $lO billion from the government. “Today, you see the spectacle of looting by all kinds of groups, some wearing uniforms and the others in civilian clothes...,” Marcos said in the taped message. “There was looting not only by the poor but by the rich and powerful.... The more oustanding ladies in the opposition started fitting and using the dresses of the first lady.” “Today we see, in sadness and tragedy, dictatorship,” Marcos said on the tape. “Now the black foul deed is out. Absolute power, not just decree-making power, but absolute, unlimited power to abuse was after all the final objective.”

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - The Augustine Volcano kept up its steaming and stewing, periodically spitting grit and debris five miles into the air while scientists warily watched winds that could dump the ash on Alaska communities. “It’s in a state of continuous eruption at a moderate level,” Tom Miller of the U.S. Geological Survey, said Sunday. “There’s a continuous eruption column up to 15,000 feet. It varies, it will wax and wane. This is exactly what it was doing Thursday night and Friday.” Augustine, a 4,025-foot peak on an uninhabited island, shook itself awake early Thursday for the first time in a decade. In a flurry of small earthquakes, the volcano fitfully hurled ash and steam 9 miles into the sky. Ash from the eruptions triggered health alerts in southcentral Alaska, sent workers home early and stalled airline traffic. “We did have one big event at about 9 a.m. (Sunday), a bigger eruption that sent a column to 25,000 feet. It was viewed by airliners,” Miller said. “There have been more, but we can’t see them. We don’t have radar now.” The Federal Aviation Administration earlier shut down its Kenai Peninsula radar to protect it from volcanic ash and

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with those states that have shipyards or training facilities,” he said. The federal government likes to distinguish between defense and domestic spending when putting together its annual budget, Marcus said, but most defense spending is really domestic spending because the government spends millions of dollars on weapons contractors and support services, which in turn create thousands of jobs. Indiana ranked 37th in “direct payments for individuals,” a category that includes Social Security, Medicare and the food stamp programs. Such payments to Hoosiers totaled more than $7.4 billion in 1985. Marcus said part of Indiana’s low ranking can be attributed to the state population being younger than average. In 1983, Indiana accounted for 2.34 percent of the nation’s total population, but had only 2.28 percent of those older than 65, the age group most likely to receive Social Security and Medicare, he said.

eruption, which began Thursday, continued at a moderate level over the weekend. (AP laserphoto)

Quake jolts San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An earthquake struck San Francisco early today, rocking skyscrapers in the third temblor in three days to hit the Bay area. The magnitude of the earthquake that hit about 4 a.m. was not immediately determined. It was strong enough, however, to sway the 12-story Fox Plaza office building where the offices of The Associated Press are located. The rocking motion lasted for about five seconds. The quake was felt at least as far away as Stockton, about 75 miles east of San Francisco.

dust. That radar was being used to track eruption columns. Swarms of small earthquakes registering no more than 1.5 on the Richter scale continued to rattle seismographs Sunday, Miller said. Five major eruptions have been recorded since Augustine was discovered in 1778 by Capt. James Cook.

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Western fire crews join battles in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee

By The Associated Press A firefighter has died while battling an Ohio brush fire, and crews were headed to Kentucky from Arizona and New Mexico today to help battle forest fires that continued to blacken hundreds of acres. Forecasters in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, which has more than a dozen fires out of control, said no rain was expected soon. “It’s hot, windy and the humidity is about 25 percent,” said Charles Crail, a spokesman for the Daniel Boone National forest, who reported four fires in the forest Sunday. “We have four ‘hot-shot crews’ from New Mexico and Arizona coming to help,” Crail said. “The crews, trained only to fight fires, include the Ft. Apache crew from Arizona and the others are from New Mexico. A smokejumper crew is also on order and they may come from Idaho.” In Ohio, brush fires charred about 360 acres in the south and 65 acres in the northeastern part of the state Saturday.

Hoosiers warned against danger of brush fires

By The Associated Press While many Hoosiers basked comfortably in the summerlike weather of the Easter weekend, firefighters cautioned the public that dry, breezy conditions can Create runaway blazes. , And Hoosier farmers were warned of a familiar nemesis: early fruit budding that could be devastated by a late freeze. Monticello Fire Chief Robert Hickman said out-of-control trash fires nearly destroyed a barn north of Patton over the weekend. Also, someone playing with firecrackers caused a grass fire that quickly spread to a house, leaving SSOO damage, Hickman said. Monticello Fire Chief Robert Hickman said out-of-control trash fires nearly destroyed a barn north of Patton over the weekend. Also, someone playing with firecrackers caused a grass fire that quickly spread to a house, leaving SSOO damage, Hickman said. Larry Hertz, chief of the Wabash Township Volunteer Fire Department in Tippecanoe County, said an 87-year-old man suffered serious burns when a grass fire he started also ignited his clothes.

Ortega calls Honduran trek 'totally defensive'

WASHINGTON (AP) Nicaragua President Daniel Ortega justified last week’s government attacks against rebel bases across the Honduran-Nicaraguan border as “totally defensive operations” in respoase to rebel forays from Honduran sanctuaries. Ortega also reiterated his government’s willingness to negotiate with the United States, but refused to say whether his government would meet American demands to negotiate with the U.S.backed rebels. “We want a dialogue with the Contras, with the chief of the Contras, which is President Reagan,” Ortega said. Appearing Sunday on the CBS-TV program “Face the Nation,” the Nicaraguan president said, “We have not invaded Honduras we have not committed any act of aggression against Honduras.” Ortega justified last week’s border incursion against rebel bases by saying Honduras had abdicated sovereignty over areas along the border by allowing the rebels to control and operate from the region, which he called a “war zone.” He said military actions in the border area “have been taking place for years now all along the frontier area to attack the counterrevolutionary forces which ... have their bases in Honduras. They are totally defensive operations.” Ortega cast aside suggestions that his government should negotiate with the rebels, saying, “The policy is decided in Washington, so we have to talk to the White House.” The Senate last week passed Reagan’s SIOO million rebel aid request by a sixvote margin. The plan earlier was rejec-

A 57-year-old volunteer firefighter died of an apparent heart attack while fighting a brush fire started by a woman who was burning a pile of old newspapers in the town of Londonderry, Ohio, on Sunday morning. In Tennessee, totals on Sunday’s fires were not available, but on Saturday, 166 fires burned more than 3,500 acres statewide, including 536 acres in southeast Tennessee, officials said. Arsonists are being blamed for a majority of the fires, Tennessee Forestry spokesman Dwight Barnett said. Tennessee usually loses 40,000 to 42,000 acres of land to fires each year, Barnett said. So far this year, 3,450 fires have burned 37.900 acres compared with the average 1.900 fires and 20,000 acres normally lost by the end of March. The Kentucky Division of Forestry directed fire crews Sunday in battles against 89 forest fires and U.S. Forestry officials were trying to contain the fires in the national forest. Nearly all the fires were burning in eastern Kentucky.

Three brush fires were reported in Lafayette Saturday. The Crawfordsville Fire Department was called to a grass fire in northwest Montgomery County. The Frankfort Fire Department also handled three brush fires, two of them caused by trash fires that got out of control. \ “Anybody who burns in this weather is asking for it,” said Howard Garriott, Lafayette’s assistant fire chief. “This is a bad time to start a fire. It’s dry and the wind’s blowing. It’s ridiculous and dangerous. Give your neighbors and your fire department a break.” State Fire Coordinator Steve Creech is warning southern and central Indiana residents to avoid burning brush or grass during dry conditions and high winds. About 800 acres were burned in Crawford County Tuesday when a brush fire flared out of control, he said. “It’s unusual to be so dry at this time of year,” said Jim Allsopp, a forecaster with the National Weather Service office in Indianapolis. “Usually the driest season in Indiana is late summer and early fall. Precipitation for the year (so far) is about an inch below normal. ”

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DANIEL ORTEGA Nicaraguan president

ted by the House. The measure now goes back to the House for a scheduled April 15 vote on compromise proposals. The Nicaraguan leader said that, “as a product of a U.S.-Nicaraguan agreement,” Nicaragua would support the removal of all foreign military advisers from Central America. That is a key component of the Contadora efforts to reach a negotiated settlement in Central America. Also appearing on the program was Elliot Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, who responded to Ortega: “They don’t want to negotiate. He said he doesn’t want to sit down with the Contras. That’s why we’ve come up with a policy of pressure to try to force them to the bargaining table. ”