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Man threatens to kill Reagan, Shultz

WASHINGTON (AP) An unemployed chemist who allegedly threatened to kill President Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz is being held without bond on federal and state charges and is to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. U.S. Magistrate Jean Dwyer issued the orders Tuesday after Edward Lewis Gallo, 41, of Worcester, Mass., was arrested and charged with transporting a weapon across state lines to carry out a threat against a public official. He also is charged in Massachusetts with threatening a public official. Following his arrest at a Washington motel, investigators searching Gallo’s car found a Colt AR-15 rifle with three fully loaded 30round magazines of ammunition; a Mossberg semi-automatic shotgun; a Remington Model 870 12-gauge pump shotgun with sawed off barrel and stock; and numerous shotgun shells loaded with buckshot. As police were taking Gallo to be booked, he said he was on vacation and planned to do some hunting. Gallo’s mother told a State Department investigator in Massachusetts on Sunday that her son left their home with his guns wrapped in a fatigue jacket, according to court papers. His last words to his mother were “Shultz, you’re dead,” the papers said. Rose Gallo also said her son had told her several days earlier, “Kill, kill Reagan.”

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“It is her belief he is unstable mentally,” assistant U.S. Attorney John Finnigan told the magistrate. He said Gallo “has been hearing voices” for the last two years and said Mrs. Gallo told authorities that the episodes had become more frequent. Gallo, wearing a blue button-down shirt and brown corduroy pants, told the magistrate, “My mother can probably arrange for a lawyer,” but then accepted a court-appointed attorney when told his defense could be expensive. Gallo was laboratory manager at the Upper Blackstone Water Pollution Abatement District in Worcester from 1976 to September 1986 Sgt. Michael Vacca of the Worcester Police Department said he had been told that Gallo spent his time watching television news shows and often became quite upset. “He distrusted politicians in general and said he was going out to kill politicians,” Vacca said. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said the department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security increased its protection of Shultz and launched an investigation after being tipped by police. Gallo was found by District of Columbia police at a motel in the northeast section of the city, several miles from the State Department. He was arrested after a brief struggle in which a police officer suffered a dislocated shoulder, according toD.C. police.

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'Back to winning souls'

Falwell to return to church

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder and leader of the fundamentalist Christian political group Moral Majority, announced Tuesday that he was giving up politics and returning full time to his church and television ministry. “My first love is back to the pulpit, back to preaching, back to winning souls, back to meeting spiritual needs,” said Falwell, who is pastor of the 22,000-member Thomas Road Baptist Chuch in Lynchburg, Va., as well as the host evangelist of the television ministry, “The Old Time Gospel Hour,” which reaches millions of viewers on about 300 stations nationwide. Falwell founded Moral Majority in 1979 to encourage evangelical and fundamentalist Christians to take an active part in electoral politics. He is credited, “or blamed,” as he put it at a news conference at the Willard Hotel here Tuesday, with helping to register and turn out millions of evangelical voters for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and possibly helping defeat several liberal Democratic senators in the process. Although Falwell says he has a mailing list of about six million supporters, Moral Majority is no longer regarded as a political force, having failed to achieve a significant impact

Robertson drug remark irks UAW

LANSING, Mich. (AP) The head of the United Auto Workers responded angrily to Pat Robertson’s claim that a fourth of America’s autoworkers use drugs, saying the presidential hopeful showed “ignorance of the facts and poor political judgment in equal measure.” “A person aspiring to the presidency shouldn’t be tossing around off-the-wall remarks in the area he knows nothing about,” UAW President Owen Bieber said Tuesday. However, Robertson said he wasn’t disparging the workers. “I’m just saying that in industry in general, that it is estimated by certain sources that about one out of every four workers is using some kind of an illicit substance,” the former television evangelist said. “If we took drugs out of the work-

Gulf fisherman says U.S. frigate fired at his boat

c. 1987 N.Y. Times News Service DUBAI, United Arab Emirates The vessel hit by a United States Navy frigate on Sunday night was an unarmed Arab fishing boat, not an Iranian patrol boat, a fisherman who said he was aboard the fishing boat asserted Tuesday. He said a crew member had been killed. The fisherman, Rama Madaro, 24, of Gujurat, India, said Tuesday night that his vessel was stopped in the water when a naval warship opened fire with a machine gun. A local official at a small harbor near here confirmed that Bekwan Kangee, 26, also of Gujurat, was dead with a large'wound to his head when the 30-foot open fishing boat returned to port Sunday night. Madaro’s description of the incident differed from the Pentagon’s account on an important point: whether the fishing boat could have seemed to have been threatening the American ship. According to Madaro, who spoke in Hindi and Arabic through an interpreter, the fishing boat was on its way back to its home port near the town of Sharja when a warship flashed a signal ordering the boat to stop. “We immediately stopped and flashed a signal to tell him that we had stopped and then the shooting started,” Madaro said. In a statement issued Monday, the Pentagon said the guided-missile frigate Carr fired warning shots at a suspected Iranian vessel “when it began an apparently hostile run” toward an American tanker, the Patriot, which the Carr was escorting. Madarooo said he did not hear a warning shot. (In Washington, the Pentagon said Tuesday that Navy officials in the Persian Gulf have been asked to review the details of the shooting incident. But an official, in answer to questions about the reports that a civilian vessel had been involved, said that “we have no reason to change our statements at this point.” The Pentagon reiterated that the boat continued to approach the

REV. JERRY FALWELL Giving up politics

in 1986 congressional elections. However, the man named to succeed Falwell as president of the Moral Majority, Jerry Nims, a Falwell associate who is not a minister, said he intended to intensify grassroots organization. Although Falwell said he would continue to be a member of the board of directors of Moral Majority and would speak out on issues in his television ministry, he said: “I will

place, it would help the other three on the assembly line who don’t take drugs. That’s all,” he said Tuesday during a visit to Lansing. ‘‘lt’s stupid for someone to say something like that, especially a presidential hopeful in the state of Michigan,” said Frank Garrison, president of the 650,000-member Michigan AFL-CIO. “I don’t know what his sources are and I’m not aware of any data to support such a statement,” Garrison added. Robertson said he got the statistic “probably two or three years ago” from the news department of the Christian Broadcasting Network, which he founded. He said he didn’t have the original source “right at the tips of my fingers,” but that he could supply it later. Bieber said the remark indicates “Republicans who still nurture the

Carr despite the warning shots and the Carr’s use of searchlights, and this suggested that the vessel might be preparing to attack.) Madaro said that when the crew members of the fishing boat heard the shooting they dropped to the deck of the boat except Kangee, who was standing in the bow and was shot in the head. None of the bullets struck the boat, according to Madaro and the ship’s owner. There were no radios aboard the fishing boat or two other boats accompanying it. The other boats were at a distance when the shooting took place. There was rough agreement on the location and time of the incident in the accounts given by the Pentagon and Madaro, as well as other fisherman accompanying him. It was about an hour after sunset in waters between the coast of the United Arab Emirates and Abu Musa Island. The island has been used as a base by Iranian Revolutionary Guards to attack shipping from open motorboats similar to the ones used by the Arab fishermen. Navy officials have expressed concern that the Iranians could send a motorboat carrying explosives on a suicide mission against an American ship. A port official in Sharja contacted Western journalists Tuesday to advise them of the incident and to offer interviews with Madaro and others involved. The Iranian press agency reported the incident Tuesday as described by Madaro after first alleging that an Indian boat had been involved. A senior official of the Emirates Ministry of Information said Tuesday night that he unaware of the incident and knew of no public comment on it by the United Arab Emirates government. The Iranian War Information Headquarters issued a statement Tuesday night condemning the United States for attacking a fishing boat, according to the Iranian press agency. It offered assistance to any vessels in the Gulf “if they are attacked by U.S. forces and if they put out an SOS,” theagencv said.

not be stumping for candidates again. I will never work for a candidate as I did for Ronald Reagan. I will not lobby for legislation personally.” Although Falwell conceded that his own television ministry had suffered financially from the fallout of the scandal surrounding his fellow television evangelist, Jim Bakker, Falwell said the major reason for his decision was a desire to return to his major calling as a minister. Falwell had tried to salvage the PTL television ministry of Bakker. “I’m rededicating my life to preaching the Gospel,” he said. Falwell said he did not regret the time he had put into Moral Majority and helping to mold “the religious right” into a cohesive political force. He called it “breaking' the psychological barrier that religion and politics don’t mix” and convincing evangelical and fundamentalist Christians that “it is no sin to vote.” Falwell said he remained a supporter of Vice President George Bush for the Republican nomination for president. He said he believed that Pat Robertson, who gave up his television ministry to run for that nomination, was qualified to be president, but was unlikelv to win the nomination.

dream of winning working people’s votes in Michigan just can’t seem to hide their true anti-worker feelings and continue to fall on their faces at every turn.” Robertson’s remark came as he told reporters that he could appeal to blue-collar workers, such as autoworkers, in Michigan and across the nation, even though they traditionally have been in the Democratic camp. The incident comes one month after Vice President George Bush made an offhand remark praising Soviet tank mechanics, adding if they run out of work “send them to Detroit, because we could use that kind of ability.” That comment also drew fire from Bieber. Bush later apologized for the remark, saying it was a joke that fell flat.