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TIP O'NEILL Believes president
O'Neill tip: President not aware INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Former House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill says he believes President Reagan was not fully aware of the details of the IranContra affair. “I truly believe the president when he says he had no knowledge of the fact that on the sale of spare parts and ammunition and things of that nature to Iran a profit was made and from that profit equipment was transferred” to the rebel forces in Nicaragua, O’Neill said Thursday night. “I haven’t any reason to disbelieve him,” the Massachusetts Democrat said. “The reason I believe him is that I have been in so many meetings with him and truly he hasn’t understood the consequences of the dialogue and the debates that have been going on. “He has a tendency to daze or a tendency to stray so I can understand it very, very well.” O’Neill, who retired this year after 10 years as speaker and 34 years in the House, commented on U.S. foreign policy during a news conference in Indianapolis. He was in Indiana to attend a fund-raiser for Bth District Rep. Frank McClcskey in Bloomington. O’Neill called the May 17 bombing of the USS Stark in the Persian Gulf “one of these things that happens.” The bomb dropped from an Iraqi fighter jet killed 37 American sailors. “I think a full investigation should be made,” said O’Neill. “I think we should get access to the pilot. Was he upset by the fact that we had given some arms and spare parts to the Iranians?” He disagreed with Reagan’s reaction, which included ensuring the safety of ships in the Persian Gulf. The United States should not expose its fleet to danger in that area unless American sailors are prepared to respond to attacks and have the support of other nations, O’Neill said. “We shouldn’t be floating around there as a flotilla by ourselves just to show our strength.”
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Kuwaiti tanker protection slated
WASHINGTON (AP) The Reagan administration and congressional leaders have reached an agreement under which the administration will be free to put Kuwaiti oil tankers under U.S. protection and then report to Congress, an administration official said today. The official, speaking on condition he not be identified, said the agreement was worked out Thursday in meetings held by Frank C. Carlucci, President Reagan’s national security adviser; Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, DW.Va., and Speaker of the House Jim Wriggt, D-Texas. Arrangements are proceeding to place Kuwaiti tankers under the American flag, probably in the first week in June, with military escort ships to be provided soon afterward, the official said. He said the agreement called for the Senate and House to pass resolutions calling for a report on the reflagging and escorting. The report would be due within seven days after enactment of the resolution, he said. However, the resolution would not require that the report be made before the reflagging and escorting could be done. The administration official spoke as Reagan met at the White House with his national security advisers to discuss plans to protect the Kuwaiti
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Small plane creates stir on Red Square
MOSCOW (AP) About 300 Muscovites milling about Red Square were awestruck when a single-engine plane circled three times, buzzed Lenin’s mausoleum and touched down not far from the Kremlin wall, a witness said. Also shocked by the aircraft that dropped from the sky Thursday evening were a handful of militiamen and Kremlin guards. The plane, which appeared to be a U.S.-made Cessna, was flown by a man who told a quickly gathering crowd he was an engineer from West Germany, the witness said. Before he and his female companion were arrested, the pilot managed to hand out a few autographed pieces of paper before being arrested along with his female companion, the witness said. The white plane had swooped over
Oklahoma only 29 days short of Noah's mark
By The Associated Press^ An 11th straight day of rain in Oklahoma today kept up to 1,000 people from their homes as a ribbon of thunderstorms blamed for two deaths caused tens of millions of dollars in damage in the Midwest. A state of emergency remained in effect in Oklahoma, where 6 to 9 inches of rain fell in the central part of the state Thursday, after moist air from the Gulf of Mexico clashed with cool northern and western air along
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tankers from Iranian attacks. The Washington Post said the aides were expected to give Reagan a plan that envisions a convoy of three or four tankers being escorted under U.S. naval protection every 10 days or so. The newspaper, quoting administration sources, said the necessary air protection would come from U.S. planes based on carriers outside the gulf. At the same time, Assistant Secretary of State Richard W. Murphy assured the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that plans to protect Kuwaiti tankers would not go forward until “the president is satisfied that we will be able to do it properly and until the Congress has been fully consulted.” Sen. Claiborne Pell, D-R.1., chairman of the Senate panel, said that “no one should have any doubt that we are operating in a war zone, where imminent involvement in hostilities is a clear possibility.” Murphy repeated the administration concern that Iranian attack on neutral shipping in the gulf could impede the flow of oil to the United States and its allies, and also expressed concern about growing Soviet influence in the Persian Gulf. One member of the Senate committee, Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., said earlier that the U.S. goals “are to keep the Russians out” of the gulf “and the Iranian presence lower.”
the mausoleum where Lenin is entombed before landing at about 7:30 p.m. about 100 feet from the Kremlin wall, said the witness, who requested anonymity. “It flew within about a meter (yard) of the mausoleum,” he said. “After it landed, people ran everywhere. They didn’t know what happened.” “After a few minutes, they (the man and woman) got out of the plane and everyone crowded around at first,” the witness said. “The pilot started handing out papers to people with his signature,” said the witness, who did not manage to get the pilot’s name. Militiamen quickly dispersed the crowd. Aircraft of any kind are rarely seen flying over central Moscow, and there are no known reports of an
a 1,000-mile front. Thunderstorms in Texas on Thursday spawned eight tornadoes as well as baseball-size hail at Knickerbocker and 70 mph wind gusts at Wills Point, while in Wisconsin lightning hit at least 10 people, seriously injuring several of them. The rain was so heavy in a Dallas suburb Thursday night that it sent the roof crashing down on an office party, injuring six people. Three were hospitalized.
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Fire forces 9,000t0 evacuate
WOODBURN, Ind. (AP) A chemical fire at a farm supply company forced up to 9,000 people to evacuate a 6-8 square-mile area, officials said today. The fire destroyed the Maumee Valley Seeds Inc. warehouse Thursday night at Indiana 101 and U.S. 24, two miles from the Indiana-Ohio border. Seven people suffered minor injuries as a result of the fire, said Indiana State Police Cpl. Gary Robbins. Officials decided to let the fire burn itself out because of potentially poisonous material in the air. They anticipated it will burn until at least noon today. Evacuees will not be permitted to return to their homes until later today. When they do, they will have to wash walls, floors, plates, silverware and other implements, said Garry Marquardt, a safety officer with the Allen County Hazardous Materials Team and an Adams County firefighter.
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Queens of bee Nation's top four spellers are girls
WASHINGTON (AP) Girls ruled the 60th National Spelling Bee with a 13-year-old junior wordsmith capturing the coveted title in a contest that in the end was all female. The trend became obvious in the seventh round when girls outnumbered the boys nine to six. After that fray, in which “meerschaum” and “polysemous” did some of the boys in, only four female spellers remained. The new national spelling champion is Stephanie Petit, a darkhaired, eighth-grader from Bethel Park, Pa., who successfully spelled “dyscalculia” and “staphylococci.” The runner-up, Rachel E. Nussbaum, 14, of Ithaca, N.Y., credited the female success to a theory that girls are more adept than boys in certain fields. “Some people say girls are just smarter, but I think that’s not true,” said the daughter erf two college
aircraft ever landing on Red Square. Uniformed militiamen and plainclothes agents set up barricades to keep passers-by away from the aircraft. The letters ECJB were visible on the fuselage, but a West German flag the witness said he saw on the tail had been blotted out with gold paint by 2 a.m. today. Until it was taken away two hours later, the plane remained under guard and authorities chased away Western reporters attempting to ask about the incident. ‘‘Nothing happened,” a militiamen told an Associated Press correspondent who saw the plane parked near St. Basil’s cathedral on the famed cobblestoned square in central Moscow at 2 a.m. “You can learn about it tomorrow from the Foreign Ministry press center.” Two U.S. television crewmen were
“We have been on the edge of a very potent situation for about a week,” said Skip Ely, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Fort Worth, Texas. “Late-May storms are real juicy, like this one.” Some roads and bridges remained closed in Oklahoma, where a 2-year-old girl died Thursday when her family’s car was washed off a road, and a 14-year-old boy drowned in a flooded creek Wednesday. In central and southwest
The injured, including three firefighters and a conservation officer, were taken to hospitals and were being examined early today. At least one person fainted. Dozens of firefighters went to Fort Wayne’s Parkview Memorial Hospital and Defiance County hospitals for decontamination showers. Marquardt said the land immediately around the warehouse was contaminated. Firefighters dug a reservoir to hold the water used to fight the fire so the tainted water would not flow into the Maumee River. He said the water will be hauled away. Police asked thousands of people to leave their homes late Thursday in Woodburn and the Ohio towns of Hicksville and Mark Center. “I’d say 98 percent of the population is gone,” Hicksville fire Chief Robert Stotler said early this morning. Police Chief Frank Bewak estimated that 4,000 to 4,200 Hicksville residents were evacuated
professors. “Maybe girls are a little smarter at things that have to do with languages, like spelling.” For her victory, Stephanie earned a gold trophy cup, $1,500 plus prizes and a national television appearance. She and the other 184 spellers were meeting today with President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, following a White House tour. “I can’t believe this is me,” Stephanie told reporters as they mobbed the stage to get her reaction to the triumph. Stephanie, a straight-A student who enjoys tennis and plays violin and piano, said she studied spelling every day, including six hours each Saturday and Sunday. But after the win, she said: “This is it. I’m done with spelling.” The championship came down to the correct spelling of two medical terms.
forced back into their car early today when they attempted to film the parked plane and three reporters were prevented from taking pictures and ordered to leave. An hour or so before dawn, French journalists saw it hauled away by a flatbed truck escorted by six militia cars with their lights flashing, heading toward Sherefetyevo airport outside Moscow past blocked streets. The pilot told onlookers he was an engineer from Hamburg, West Germany, but was not able to explain why or how he flew there, the witness said. - The witness, a 24-year-old Muscovite, said the aircraft flew from the south over the Moscow River and circled Red Square three times before landing near the ornate cathedral.
Oklahoma, muddy water from swollen rivers and creeks drove about 1,000 residents from their homes. The forecast called for 2 more inches of rain today. “It won’t be as heavy as we have had in the past few days,” said meteorologist John Victory. “But even light rain will hurt.” State Civil Defense Director Norris Price said damage in Oklahoma could rise as high as S2O million.
from their homes Thursday night and this morning. He said officials were waiting for federal and Indiana environmental officials to arrive at the warehouse to determine whether there are any toxic fumes in air. Woodburn Fire Chief Kenneth Rekeweg said the evacuations were ordered because of smoke from the burning chemicals, including pesticides, insecticides and herbicides. Officials from the Allen County Hazardous Materials team estimated that 7,500 to 9,000 people were told to leave their homes. David Mau, general manager of Maumee Valley Seeds, said hundreds of chemicals were on fire, but he could not give specifics because he wasn’t allowed to get close to the burning warehouse. Ray Yoder, Hicksville assistant fire chief, said school buses were used to transport evacuees to shelters in Auburn, Ind., about 15 miles from Hicksville.
Nattily suited up in pin stripes and diaper, two-year-old Rod "Bubba” Golding Jr., White Lake, Mich., shows off his hitting form with a solid line drive in the backyard of his Michigan home. With the dog days of summer apparently materializing in May, a few big leaguers would probably like to adopt Bubba's cool uniform. (AP Wirephoto).
Rachel incorrectly spelled “dyscalculia,” meaning an impairment of mathematical ability due to an organic brain condition. She began the word with the letters “di.” Stephanie corrected Rachel’s error, prompting shrieks from the dozens of spellers sitting crosslegged on the hotel ballroom floor. She then spelled the winning word, which is the name of a bacterium infecting the skin and mucous membranes. It was the 877th word of the contest. Stephanie, who represented The Pittsburgh Press, said she knew she had won when Dr. Alex J. Cameron, an associate professor of English at the University of Dayton in Ohio and the official word pronouncer, intoned the final word. “I did a science project in microbiology this year, so I knew it,” she said.
Insects don't bug PU prof WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) There are a lot of misconceptions about insects, says Purdue University entomology professor Tom Turpin. So Turpin tries to set the record straight in the more than 100 talks he gives each year to audiences of all ages. “There’s nothing dirty about a roach,” he says, with some degree of confidence. Turpin knows that about one of every 10 people harbors a fear of insects. “People look at insects like they should be slimy and you shouldn’t enjoy holding them,” he says. Turpin not only enjoys holding insects, he lets them crawl on him. One of his favorite tricks is to slip a few Madagascar cockroaches the jumbo variety into his pocket right before beginning his presentation. It doesn’t take long for the roaches to begin crawling out erf the pocket, and Turpin moves closer to his audience so they can’t miss the show. “The kids say, ‘Look what’s in your pocket,’” Turpin said, gleefully. Another trick is to place a Purdue pennant into a holder on the back of a cockroach. “One of my interests is to make entomology interesting, and we try to decorate them up,” he admitted. Turpin often gives his lectures while wearing a pith helmet. “I think we all take ourselves too seriously,” he said of educators. “I start from the idea there’s a stereotypic image of an entomologist. My idea is that you build on that, then go on and talk about other things. “Many college professors work to make things not interesting. We don’t want to lower ourselves to make things interesting,” he said. “I don’t think learning must be complicated and complex.” In his presentations, Turpin uses literature and music to increase students knowledge of the insect world. When he talks about insects as food, he wears an apron and a chef’s hat and fries a mess of meal worms for his audience.