Daily News Record (Newspaper) - January 6, 1989, Harrisonburg, Virginia Still Helping Caring centenarian 8 Study Meeting planned 1 5 81 Todays Weather 28 Pages 1989 4332702 Mixed Precipitation 25 Cents Dismissals Asked In North Case Associated Press Oliver North WASHINGTON AP The prosecutor sought dismissal Thursday of the two major charges against former White House aide Oliver giving up a strug gle with the Reagan administration over disclosure of some of the nations Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh moved to dismiss conspiracy and theft citing Norths insistence on in classified information in his defense and the Reagan administrations re to release material the judge ruled North would need at North is still confronted with 12 charges that carry prison terms totaling as much as 60 Oliver the fired National Se curity Council aide and focal point of the will lecture at the James Madison University Convocation Center on 26 and the invective is already beginning to Story on Page 15 These include obstructing various congres and presidential inquiries into the affair by preparing false state ments and destroying District Judge Gerhard Gesell scheduled a hearing for Monday to consider Walshs but the judge is expected to dismiss the President returning to the White House from a California said of Walshs It satisfies our which has been concern about national se curity but of course the judge has not responded Were waiting to see what the future is going to Asked whether he was going to pardon Reagan Were waiting for the judicial process to go The president has repeatedly said he has no plans to pardon his former But the head of the liberal group People for the American Way criticized the administrations stance on the classified documents and said Walshs ef forts appear to have been The groups Arthur said the Reagan administration appears deter mined to give Ollie North a pocket pardon as a reward for his Walsh informed Attorney General Dick Thornburgh of his decision to seek dismissal at a meeting the Justice Department said in a The Department of Justice believes that the motion is a constructive step in the han dling of very sensitive national security said the Reagan and Vice President Bush have been subpoenaed by North to testify at the but dropping the two major charges could make it See Page 2 Reagan OKs 50 Percent Pay Raise Yearly Salary Urged For Congress WASHINGTON AP President Reagan has decided to approve a 50 percent pay in crease for top federal in members of and will urge lawmakers to bar outside income such as speaking a spokeswoman for the presi dent said Reagan plans to send members of Con gress a letter today urging them to support the pay deputy press secretary Leslye Arsht said in a statement released by the White Reagan could have modified the proposal made last month by the Commission on Ex Legislative and Judicial Under the unless both the House and Senate vote to head off the pay they will automatically take effect 30 days after the plan is submitted to Congress with the proposed federal budget on The commission recommended that members of Congress and federal district who now make a be paid The House speaker would go majority and minority leaders from to Top officials such as Cabinet members would get raises from their current to The commission also recommended that Congress raise the presidents pay to about from the current which has been fixed since such a hike would not take effect until 1993 because of a constitutional prohibition on raising a presi dents pay during his Earlier a Ralph Nader the National Taxpayers delivered petitions to the White House bear ing the names of people who oppose the The question is whether the month of January will be the month of Reagans massive money Nader said in a tele phone statement Since salary levels for senior federal officials legislators and judges have declined 35 percent in constant dollars while the compensation of workers in the private sector has kept pace with Federal trial judges are currently earn See Page 2 fighters shoot down two Libyan Libyan 18 flew bombing mission on Tripoli from Great Britain fighters shoot down two Libyan bombed Benghazi from carriers Coral Sea and Libyan Says Libya Lied About Jets Photos Reveal Planes Were Armed Associated Press WASHINGTON AP Photographic ev idence shows Libya lied when it claimed the two planes that the United States shot down over the Mediterranean Sea were unarmed reconnaissance the Reagan ad ministration said Citing video footage from one of two Navy jet fighters involved in the con Pentagon spokesman Dan Howard said photos of one of the Li byan fighters showed it carrying four missiles on its fuselage and It tells me that the Libyan ambassador to the is a Thats the first thing it tells Howard told a packed Pentagon news Theyve gone out yesterday and said repeatedly that those were unarmed recon naissance we have the pic tures now that they were not unarmed air They were obviously armed aircraft with obvious hostile We believe that our aircraft commanders behaved in a prudent manner in defending in defen ding their aircraft and in defending their he The United States sent a straightforward message to Libya through diplomatic channels to let them know our point of view on the events over the Mediterranean a State Department official said speaking on condition of No response from the Libyans has been the official The official said West Germany accuses five firms of helping Iraq produce chemical but in a separate inqui ry clears another firm of alleged involvement with a suspected chemical weapons plant in Story on Page 7 the substance of the sent paralleled information in Defense Sec Frank Carluccis public briefing on the incident and included the asserting that the action was taken in self The official said the message was sent through the normal channels used by the United States to contact the Libyans the Belgian which represents in in and the United Arab Emirates Embassy in which represents Libyan interests in the United At the United the Soviet am Alexander told Reporters Thursday gavea warning signal to before the American jet fighters shot down the Libyan to show restraint and not to raise the tension in the He refused to elab We deplore this See Page 7 A Fathers Pride Leads To Starvation Death AP A former unemployed and too proud to ac cept looked to God to provide for his family until the day his teenage son died of On Thursday he was charged with Larry a former SeventhDay Adventist minister who was fired from his job as a truck driver last rejected public assistance and refused to send his children to public where they would have qualified for school breakfast and lunch neighbors and officials His belief was that God would pro said Roy former boss at in Wilkes Authorities on Wednesday found no food in the house in a suburban neighborhood in northeastern where 14yearold died of his wife and daughter were all hospitalized for George Hudock the Luzerne County on Wednesday ruled the teenagers death a Hudock said the teenager had not eaten in at least three weeks and weighed 69 about 80 pounds less than normal for his was listed in fair condition Thursday at Mercy Hospital in Wilkes His and were listed in serious condition at the seated in a wheelchair at Mercy Hospital in was arraigned Thursday on one count of criminal homicide and two counts each of reckless endanger ment and endangering the welfare of his He could face the death penalty if con on the homicide His wife also was scheduled for arraignment on the same charges before District Magistrate Donald who set a preliminary hearing for The face one count each of crim inal homicide and two counts each of recklessly endangering another person and endangering the welfare of their Social service agencies will take custody of the District Attorney Correale See Page 7 Carlucci Approves List WASHINGTON AP Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci approved a plan Thursday to close dozens of military bases around the coun calling it a unique opportunity to save money and saying it was endorsed by military We just have to move ahead and do Carlucci We have not closed a base since And I think that fact speaks for We need to step up to the plate Carlucci appeared at a special Pentagon brief ing to announce he had approved the recommen dations of a government created by Congress last that selected individual bases for Almost three dozen would be closed and more than 100 others would be affected in Only Congress can save the bases targeted for closure and only by rejecting the entire Senate and House leaders have predicted the lawmakers will allow the closures to proceed for that William chairman of the Joint Chiefs of appeared at Carluccis side and said that when it came to closing the uniformed leadership was not going to attack the recommendations on national security In my it makes good sense from the See Page 2 Inside Indictment Coming A federal grand jury in Virginia is expected to announce today the first indictment in a broad investigation of accusations of bribery and fraud involving Pentagon Page 3 Looking Out For 2 State Richard Saslaw of Fairfax joins Northern Virginia automobile dealer Donald Beyer in the race for the Democratic nomina tion for lieutenant Page 18 Obituaries James of Louis of Clara of Mount John of Route Dimitrios of Thaddeus of Route Mount Stanley of Bessie of Route Port Elisabeth of Alan Dorsey has gone from being a key player to a casual bystander in a few short Page 11 Area News Business 17 Classified Ads Comics Crossword Editorials Skyline Sports 6 8 11 Less Educated More Likely To Smoke CHICAGO AP once a flaunted habit of the sophisticated and is more a mark of the poor and less educated almost 25 years after the government first warned of tobaccos researchers Smoking prevalence has declined across all educational but the decline has occurred five times faster among the higher educated compared with the less said researchers at the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlan From 1974 to the proportion of smokers among people who had completed four years of college plummeted by more than a from percent to the researchers reported in todays Journal of the American Medical But the corresponding drop in the smoking rate among people who failed to graduate from high school was only percentage from percent to the researchers A spokesman for the Tobacco In a group representing the tobacco said the study only confirms that people in that segment of society en joy The antismoking forces should not adopt some paternalistic attitude saying these people are less in a position to take information on smoking and health and make a ra tional decision on whether or not they should said Gary Women who did not graduate from college took up the habit in greater See Page 2 Associated Press Dramatic Rescue Firefighter Ross Falzone gasps for air as he is rescued from a attic by other firefighters day in Falzone was hospitalized in satisfactory suffering from smoke
