Banner Graphic, Volume 18, Number 75, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 December 1987 — Page 2

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Reagan remarks ‘Contra’-dictory

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan says he never viewed the Iran arms-sale initiative as an arms-for-hostages swap, contrary to some explanations he’s offered before. Reagan’s comments, made in a televised interview Thursday, appeared to contradict his own previous statement that the Iran policy had deteriorated into a trade of arms for hostages. “Never at any time did we view this as trading, ever, weapons for hostages,” Reagan told the interviewers. REAGAN ALSO declined to say whether he would pardon his former national security adviser, Rear Adm. John M. Poindexter, and a National Security Council aide, Lt. Col. Oliver L. North, who have

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been under investigation for their role in the affair. In a televised speech on March 4, the president said, “What began as a strategic opening to Iran deteriorated in its implementation into trading arms for hostages.” On Aug. 12, he said he allowed his preoccupation with American hostages in Lebanon to “intrude into areas where it didn’t belong.” “This was a mistake,” Reagan said in the same speech. In a radio address on March 14, the president said Secretary of State George R Shultz and former Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger “were right and I was wrong” when they tried to argue him out of the policy. In the Thursday interview, Reagan defended his ties with Iran,

11-day Atlanta stand-off ends

ATLANTA (AP) Freed hostages streamed out of a prison here today, shaking hands with former captors and hugging relatives as the 11-day Cuban-inmate uprising ended in a pact providing a moratorium on deportations of all Mariel detainees. “Feels great!” said former hostage Basil T. “Buddy” Levens, the first of the 89 hostages in line, as he moved toward his 11 family members. The former hostages, all prison workers, generally were in good shape and all declined medical treatment, said Justice Department spokesman Tom Stewart. Levens, a 44-year-old hospital administrator, walked out shortly

saying he had chosen to deal with non-governmental elements seeking to establish “the kind of government that we once were closely allied to in Iran.” REAGAN SAID HE refused to believe that “it was a scandal for me” to “accept a request from individuals not in the government, or not government forces of Iran, to discuss the possibilities of a future government of Iran having a better relationship with the United States.” When one of his interviewers Thursday pointed out that the deal went further than that, and involved allegations that profits from the arms sales were siphoned off to aid the Contra rebels Nicaragua, he retorted sharply, “I’m the one who told all of you that there was

after 1 a.m. as a cheer went up from waiting relatives and others who had been at the penitentiary throughout the siege, one of the longest in U.S. prison history. THE EX-HOSTAGES stepped into vans for a short trip to the warden’s residence, tearful reunions and debriefings by the FBI. Freedom came after Cuban detainee representatives and government negotiators signed an eight-point agreement that includes an indefinite moratorium on the return of any of the Cubans who arrived in this country during the 1980 boatlift from the Cuban port of Mariel. “Everyone will have a full, fair and equitable review,” attorney

Reagan gets dollar dilemma backward

WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan and Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 111 appeared to be talking at cross purposes on the U.S. dollar until a presidential spokesman said Reagan had gotten things backwards. In an interview with four television networks broadcast Thursday night, Reagan temporarily baffled economists and probably Baker as well by appearing to blame declines in the value of the dollar on recent interest-rate cuts by U.S. trading partners. SAID REAGAN “A sudden surge of cutting interest rates in some of our trading allies abroad did have the effect of again making the dollar fall, but that was their doing, not ours.” White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said afterward that Reagan didn’t mean to say the dollar had fallen further when in fact on Thursday it had actually strengthened. “It should be (making the dollar rise) rise,” Fitzwater said. “He meant to say rise.” Reagan commented after being

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money diverted.” The president said the operation was covert “because we didn’t want to cause the death of the people who had wanted to talk to us.” Reagan said that after the Iranians “asked for a token shipment of arms ... we turned around and cited that we didn’t go along with governments that supported terrorism.” “THEY MADE IT pretty plain they didn’t support terrorism either,” he said. At that point, the president told the interviewers, “I said, ‘Well, all right, let them prove their good faith, if we do this, in using whatever influence they have to see if they could get those terrorists to release our hostages.’”

Gary Leshaw, who advised the inmates, said on ABC-TV’s “Nightline” today. THE TWO-PAGE agreement is similar to one that ended the siege by Cuban inmates in Louisiana on Sunday. Both grant permission for some inmates to go to any third country willing to accept them. They also guarantee medical treatment for inmates who need it and grant immunity from prosecution for damage at the prisons during the rioting. Only the Atlanta agreement mentions U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese Ill’s proposed moratorium on deportations. Six representatives of the 1,105

reminded by an interviewer that the dollar had fallen even after he suggested last month that it had dropped enough. Reagan’s comments came the same day that the West German Bundesbank and six other European central banks agreed to lower key lending rates. The move drew high praise from Baker. BAKER HAS contended that lower interest rates abroad would stimulate demand for more U.S. goods and ease the U.S. trade deficit while also helping to stabilize the dollar. International currency traders said the interest rate cuts helped fuel a dollar rally in exchange markets, particularly in Europe the opposite effect from that suggested by Reagan. After Reagan’s remarks in the television interview, David Wyss, senior economist for Data Resources Inc. said: “What he said doesn’t make sense. The administration wanted the other countries to lower their rates. Maybe he means that they waited too long to do it. ... I just can’t understand what he means.”

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PRESIDENT REAGAN No arms-for-hostages

Cuban detainees and federal goveftiment negotiators signed the pact in a ceremony broadcast live nationally. Attending were Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman of Miami, a Cuban-born priest who was instrumental in ending the Oakdale, La., uprising, and Leshaw, who read the pact before it was signed. Roman was flown here by U.S. officials from Miami. The federal prisons here and in Louisiana were overrun by Cuban inmates fearing deportation under a new immigration pact in which 2,500 Cubans considered undesirable by the U.S. government would be returned to Cuba.

Study says married cancer victims have better survival hope

CHICAGO (AP) Evidence that married people have a better chance of surviving cancer than do singles means that the unmarried might be good targets for cancer-prevention and earlydetection programs, doctors reported today. Married people with cancer had a 23 percent higher overall survival rate than the unmarried, but researchers aren’t sure why, according to the study in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers found that being married led to an increase in survival time “comparable with being ... 10 years younger,” the study said. Dr. James S. Goodwin, the lead researcher, speculated that married people receive stronger emotional support in dealing with stressful events, such as a major illness. “IF YOU ASK most physicians, most of us would agree on the importance of social support and psychological health on physical health,” Goodwin said. Married people also are generally better off financially, making it easier for them to afford medical care, Goodwin said Wednesday. Researchers also found that divorced people had a greater risk of death from cancer than patients who were widowed or had never married. THE STUDY’S findings suggest unmarried persons would be good targets for cancer screening and other early warning programs, Goodwin said. Doctors have known for the past century that married people

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Franklin picked by Japanese FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) A Japanese company will build a $24 million shock absorber plant that will create 100 jobs in this Johnson County city, Gov. Robert D. Orr said today. Production is scheduled to begin in early 1989 at the new KYB Industries plant east of U.S. 31 on the north side of Franklin. The plant, a joint venture of Kayaba Industry Co. of Japan and its American sales organization, KYB Corp. of America, will supply shock absorbers to Japanese auto assembly factories in the Midwest. ORR SAID THE company made its decision to locate in Indiana after he visited with Kayaba officials three times in the last two years during his trade missions to the Far East. “KYB is one of approximately 75 domestic and foreign autorelated firms which have chosen to call Indiana home,” he said. AT LEAST TWO other companies visited by Orr recently are expected to announce Indiana sites soon, the governor’s office said. Another automotive parts supplier will announce its plant, also set for central Indiana, in January, Orr’s press secretary, Dollyne Pettingill said. The third company, which told Orr it had chosen Indiana, is still selecting a specific location within the state, Ms. Pettingill said. It manufactures household paper products.

live longer, but the relationship between marital status and cancer cases had never been studied, said Goodwin, vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The study was performed by Goodwin and colleagues at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque using data from the New Mexico Tumor Registry, which collects data on every cancer case in the state. Researchers examined 27,779 cancer cases among 25,706 New Mexicans between 1969 and 1982, according to Goodwill,and identified three major trends: Married people tend to get diagnosed at an earlier stage of the disease when the cancer is still curable. Married cancer patients more frequently received a “definitive or potentially curative” treatment for the disease. Unmarried cancer patients' were more likely to go without any treatment at all and after adjusting for the stage of the disease, age and gender percent of them were less likely to receive a potentially curative; treatment. Even after researchers isolated the influence of the first two factors, they found married people “still had a better overall survival.” “For that, we have no explanation,” Goodwin said. “But presumably there were some other beneficial effects of being married beyond getting diagnosed earlier and treated.”