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Jury acquits 'patriot' gun owner

Supporters carry gas-station owner from Illinois courtroom

MAYWOOD, 111. (AP) A gas-station owner who fired shots at two armed robbers and was found innocent of violating a community’s ban on handguns “is a patriot,” says a national police group’s president. “I felt like I was finally in America again,” Don Bennett, 43, said after his acquittal Tuesday. “It’s a bad ordinance, totally backwards. “You have to take the guns away from the criminals before you take them away from the good people.” After the verdict, Bennett was carried from the courtroom on the shoulders of Dennis Martin, president of the American Federation of Police, and F.H. Martin, a federation attorney. They carried an American flag between them.

U.S. ready to proceed with arms talks

WASHINGTON (AP) After expelling 55 Soviet diplomats, the Reagan administration is assuring Moscow it plans to go ahead with the attempt to reduce nuclear weapons that began at the Iceland summit. The two sides are in the midst of negotiations in Geneva on weapons cutbacks, and Secretary of State George Shultz is due to resume the summit discussion on arms and human rights with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze in Vienna on Nov. 6. A new U.S. package of proposals to reduce offensive weapons is nearly ready for submission to the Soviets, but is being reviewed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger before it is presented to President Reagan

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“We wanted to demonstrate that Don Bennett is a patriot,” Martin said. “He’s a symbol that the U.S. Constitution still stands for something.” Bennett was charged with possessing a handgun and firing it within the limits of Oak Park in violation of the Chicago suburb’s ordinance. The Cook County Circuit Court jury deliberated about IV2 hours. Bennett could have received up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine. His two-day trial ended Tuesday with testimony by Greg Ginex, a former Cook County state’s attorney who said residents have a legal right to keep a handgun in their homes or businesses. Oak Park’s ordinance “is totally inconsistent with state law,” Ginex said. Bennett testified earlier that he thought “it

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would visit the city about two hours Oct. 29 for a rally at Roberts Stadium and a private reception at either the stadium or Dress Regional Airport. Mclntyre is trying to unseat Democratic Rep. Frank McCloskey, who won re-election over Mclntyre in 1984 in a race marked by three recounts. It was finally decided by a Democratcontrolled House task force.

consulate in San Francisco, five were declared “persona non grata” by the State Department in retaliation for the ordered expulsion last weekend of five U.S. diplomats

OPEC accord likely to hike oil prices

GENEVA (AP) - The OPEC oil cartel ended the longest meeting in its history before dawn today with an agreement to limit production until Dec. 31 a move that its members predict will raise oil prices about $3 a barrel. The agreement capped 17 days of debate within the fractious 13member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the oncemighty cartel that set prices in the 1970 s but later became embroiled in a production war that glutted world markets and drove prices down. Rilwanu Lukman, OPEC’s president and the oil minister of Nigeria, told an early morning news conference that he expected the accord to raise oil prices by about $3 from the current range of sl4 to sl7 a barrel. Private analysts, however, said they did not expect the short-term OPEC agreement to have a significant effect on oil prices the next two months. “In a matter of weeks it won’t do anything for the market,” said Conrad Gerber, an analyst with the Geneva-based consulting firm of Gencor Services. He said he expected prices to hold at about sls a barrel through the end of the year. Lukman said OPEC would work toward assembling a permanent set

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was all over” when one of the robbers forced him to lie on the floor at his service station and stuck a gun in his ear. The station owner was robbed of $1,200 in cash and jewelry, the seventh holdup in 17 years, he said. Bennett followed the gunmen through an alley. The bandits fired the first shot, and he returned fire with his .45-caliber pistol, Assistant Oak Park Village Attorney Bruno Graziano said after the verdict. There were no injuries reported in the March incident. Two days after reporting the crime, Bennett went to the Oak Park police station to view mug shots. He was arrested for violating the handgun ban.

from Moscow. The 50 other Soviets, also given until Nov. 1 to depart, were ordered home to bring the Embassy and consulate “to parity” with the American diplomatic complement in Moscow and Leningrad. Reagan, at a state dinner in honor of West German chancellor Helmut Kohl Tuesday evening, said the ex-‘ plusions were ordered because “we feel that they were connected with intelligence operations the KGB.” “Besides,” added Reagan, “they had more than we did and we just leveled it out.” He referred to the fact that the Soviets have more diplomats in the United States than there are American diplomats in the Soviet Union.

of oil production quotas instead of seeking another extension of its temporary arrangement. Saudi Arabia had entered the Geneva talks, which began Oct. 6, with a demand that the oil ministers work out a new and “scientific” basis for dividing OPEC production For nearly two weeks the ministers and their aides debated various formulas for permanent quotas. Last Friday they abandoned the effort and began an intense round of secretive negotiations to modify the temporary accord they had fashioned last August. The August accord, which took effect Sept. 1 and expires Oct. 31, helped boost oil prices from summertime lows of less than $lO a barrel. The main stumbling block to agreement on extension of a modified version of the August deal was Kuwait’s demand that it be given a bigger share of overall OPEC production. Late Tuesday night the oil ministers reached agreement on a Kuwaiti quota increase, but it took several more hours for them to iron out the details of other quotas. In the end, all members except Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates were given higher quotas.

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REV. PAT ROBERTSON “Attack by liberals"

Robertson claims libel in war stories

WASHINGTON (AP) - Television evangelist Pat Robertson, suing for libel, says liberals are trying to discredit him and his dead father even though he has not yet announced he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1988. Robertson, in separate lawsuits filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, says a former congressman and a current congressman wronged him when they circulated assertions that he tried to avoid combat duty during the Korean conflict in 1951. He said former Rep. Paul “Pete” McCloskey, R-Calif., and Rep. Andrew Jacobs Jr., D-Ind., “willfully, intentionally and maliciously” disseminated untrue statements suggesting Robertson was a coward and that he sought to use the political influence of his father, then-Sen. A. Willis Robertson of Virginia, to avoid combat duty. Robertson said McCloskey sent a letter to Jacobs Aug. 4 in which he said the evangelist, a 2nd lieutenant in the Marine Corps in February 1951, left a troop ship in Japan to telephone his father to request transfer from a group bound for combat in Korea. “This statement is false and defamatory,” he charged. Robertson said Jacobs then gave the letter to newspaper columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, who distributed the material Sept. 5 under the title: “Did Robertson Skip Combat Duty?” Robertson asked the federal court to order a retraction and to award him $35 million from each defendant. In a statement, Robertson said the actions by McCloskey and Jacobs “is an attack by liberals to discredit me because of my support of national defense and our armed forces.” He said he believes McCloskey and Jacobs took their action “to sully my name and reputation for political purposes.”

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“I recently announced that I may become a candidate for president of the United States,” he said in the statement. “It is important that I demonstate the falsehoods of these stories. Otherwise, if I am elected president how could I, as com-mander-in-chief, ever order a young American into combat if the record is not absolutely clear that I never shirked military duty.” McCloskey said from his law offices in Palo Alto, Calif., that he stands by his comments on Robertson. “Since this controversy began, five other lieutenants on that ship have called me and said their recollections are the same as mine,” he said. “Pat can do whatever he likes. I know of no place better to seek the truth than in the court.” Jacobs, at his district office in Indianapolis, said: “I have no doubt that Pete McCloskey told the truth. I understand that other witnesses, other lieutenants, have come forward to corroborate what Pete McCloskey has said.” In the suits, Robertson said Jacobs and McCloskey “intended to and did convey to the community at large the impression that (Robertson) was a coward and sought to use political influence to avoid combat duty, untruthful in his denial of having sought his father’s intervention and a hypocrite in seeking to stand up against the worldwide Communist movement.” Robertson has not denied being pulled off the troop ship to serve temporarily in Japan. But he has denied calling his father to arrange the assignment. “I did not make the call,” he said on Sept. 25. After his service in Japan, Robertson was transferred to Korea and has said he was in combat there, although not on the front lines. “I was not a military hero,” he told reporters in September.