Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - October 20, 1986, Oelwein, Iowa PER COPY 354 In Our 2nd Century of Publishing THE OELWEIN DAILY REGISTER OELWEIN IOWA 50662 VOL 270 Monday October 201986 Mozambique leader dies in crash kills walker DES MOINES AP Polk County sheriffs officers are looking for the driver of a ear that struck and killed a Des Moines woman as she and a companion were walking along a street A Lost Nation teenager died in a accident near Maquoketa in the only other weekend highway death in the state Teresa Fulton 30 of Des struck at about pm Saturday when a car swerved onto the shoulder of a street north of Des Moines She was pronounced dead at the scene Her companion Malissa Cooper 20 of Pleasant Hill was treated and released at a Des Moines hospital for minor in juries Sheriffs officers said the women were walking south when a car approaching from the north swerved and hit them before swerving back onto the road The vehicle was described as a small lightcolored car with primer spots The Iowa Highway Patrol said Karen Welch 16 of Lost Nation was killed Sunday evening when the car she was riding in ap lost control on a curve and hit a tree on Lakehurst Road just outside Maquoketa The driver of the car James William Carter of Maquoketa was treated for minor cuts at Jackson County hospital and released Four other passengers were not seriously hurt authorities said Iowa Extended Wednesday through Friday A chance of showers each day Highs in the 50s and 60s Lows in the 40s Lotto jackpot claimed DBS MOINES AP A central Iowa woman is the latest Iowa Lotto jackpot winner claiming by correctly picking all six numbers drawn Saturday Opal Tomlinson of rural Bondurant said she picked the numbers based on the birthdays of her children She said she doesnt know yet what shell do with the money Lottery officials an Sunday that a computer check showed only one Lotto ticket had all six winning numbers and that the winning ticket was purchased at Caseys General Store in Bondurant The six winning numbers were 05 06141525 and 30 JOHANNESBURG South Africa AP President Samora Machel of Mozambique a guerrilla commander who led his country to independence died in an overnight plane crash the presidents of South Africa and Kenya said today By midafternoon Machels death had not been announced in Mozambique In Maputo the capital state radio reported the plane carrying the Marxist president home from Zambia was long overdue and that a plane crash near the borders of South Africa Mozambique and Swaziland was being in The Radio Mozambique an was accompanied by solemn music A statement from the office of South African President PW Botha said Dotha expressed deep regret and profound shock at the death of President Samora Machel Machel 53 had been president of Mozambique since its independence from Portugal in 1975 Before taking up arms against colonial forces in 1964 he had been a nurse at a hospital Congress free at last WASHINGTON AP at last members of the just completed Congress have gone home crowing to voters about their accomplishments but frustrated at their failure to do more to combat federal red ink The second session of the Congress ended two weeks and a day behind schedule as first the Senate and then the House adjourned Saturday night pm The 100th Congress con venes Jan 6 1987 This Congress in all probability will be remembered for tax reform balancing our defense needs against the demands for fiscal restraint and for its inability to find a successful formula to solve the continuing problem of our national deficit said Senate Democratic Leader Robert C Byrd of West Virginia Time and effort and some frustration produced several milestones that many of the members and many congressional observers never thought possible House Speaker Thomas P ONeill Jr DMass said in a farewell statement marking his retirement from Congress Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole RKan used a single word to describe Congress Productive From modest measures to begin Daylight Savings Time three weeks earlier and designate the rose as the national flower to the most sweeping tax code revision in a generation and the biggest spending in history the Congress compiled a record of staggering scope It also may have set an unofficial record for con Even on the final day Tribunal hears Hasenfus case MANAGUA Nicaragua AP Eugene Hasenfus goes on trial today before a Peoples Tribunal where according to a Nicaraguan human rights ac the burden will be on the captured American to prove his innocence Nicaraguan authorities have charged Hasenfus with violating laws governing public order and security but detailed charges were to be made public for the first time at todays opening session Hasenfus 45 of Marinette Wis was captured Oct 6 in southern Nicaragua after Sandinista troops shot down the cargo plane in which he was bringing supplies to the US backed Contra rebels Two other Americans died in the crash In an interview on the CBS program 60 Minutes broadcast Sunday Hasenfus said he believed he was working for the US government in supplying although he said no one told him directly that he was purportedly working for the CIA He said he was hired by the pilot killed in the crash William J Cooper the same man he said had hired him to work for a CIA owned airline in Southeast Asia Hasenfus said the man who reportedly coordinated the supply drops Max Gomez worked with the CIA before and through his dealings with the CIA himself and Mr George Bush were friends That was all I was told Congress has prohibited the CIA from aiding the rebels and President Reagan Vice President Bush and other ad ministration officials deny any government involvement in the Contra supply flights In the trial most of the evidence against Hasenfus will be drawn from documents and objects found in the military transport plane that was shot down according to Justice Reyes Prisoners usually appear without counsel in the first session of the trial and no an has been made on who will represent Hasenfus in the later stages of the proceedings Saturday with attendance dwindling to almost nothing adjournment was delayed for hours as stubborn legislators in each chamber bickered over the last remaining legislative crumbs including authorization for a new space shuttle to replace the destroyed Challenger and a that would allow US pharmaceutical companies to export drugs not yet approved for use in this country But Congress let die a billion fiveyear funds for federal highway and mass transit programs Among the major sticking points on the was a provision allowing states to raise the speed limit to 65 mph on rural interstates and provisions relating to billboard removal on roads Senate President Pro k em pore Strom Thurmond RSC a veteran wore a button pleading Free the Congress Not every policy dilemma was resolved and some of our answers are less than com plete Dole said For instance the exact impact of the tax changes and a rewrite of the nations immigration laws will take years to determine But at some points this Congress divided between a House of Representatives and a Senate in Republicans hands seemed like it would never do anything It was only in the past several months that Congress began moving in the capital The South African an said Machel was among 38 people aboard a Tupolev jet that crashed in eastern South Africa during the night en route from Zambia to Maputo South African Foreign Minister RF Botha said earlier that four people had survived the crash were being treated for injuries In Nairobi Kenya President Daniel arap Moi speaking at a Kenyan holiday ceremony interrupted his speech to an leave S Africa DETROIT AP General Motors Corp will withdraw from South Africa and sell its operations to a group headed by management there GM Chairman Roger B Smith said today Decisions about our in vestment in South Africa have depended on an assessment of the economic social and political environment in that area Earlier a GM spokesman in South Africa said the automaker was reassessing its position in view of the economic recession United Way Total FORKED MARSHMALLOWS Karen Pont 5 watches her two brown over a grill in Fontana Park near Hazleton Karen the daughter of Chris Pont and other children and adults in the Volunteers for Youth program took a nature hike Sunday in the park and had a cookout Photo bv Tom Franklin Machels death I just received this message a minute ago said Moi who asked the audience attending the ceremony to stand for a minute of silence A senior Mozambican jour based in Johannesburg said interim leadership of Mozambique would likely be exercised by Prime Minister Mario Machungo and Marcelino dos Santos the No 2 man in the ruling FRELIMO party after Machel Constitutionally the president of the party is also president of Mozambique Speculation on a possible successor to Machel centered on Foreign Minister Joaquim Chissano 47 said the journalist who spoke on condition of anonymity In March 1984 Machel signed a peace treaty with South Africa long enemy to the dismay of some black African leaders The accord did not end the debilitating conflict with anti Marxist guerrillas whose campaign increased hardships and famine in the countryside After a brief honeymoon with South Africa relations deteriorated and Mozambican officials said they believed South Africa still was aiding the rebels whose attacks intensified In recent weeks Mozambican journalists suggested publicly that South Africa might want to However there was no im mediate indication of anv foul play in the plane crash A South African civilian aviation specialist who spoke on condition of anonymity said the plane appeared to have been far off course when it crashed about 45 miles west of Maputo just inside the South African border He said any flight from Zambia to Maputo normally would have approached Maputo directly from the north The weather was bad Sunday night with thunderstorms in the area and low clouds and twin engine turboprops like the one that crashed are poorly for such weather conditions the expert said The crash site miles south of the South African border town of Komatipoort close to the borders with Mozambique and Swaziland at a village called air traffic officials said Machel went to Zambia for a meeting with other leaders of the socalled Front Line States nations of southern Africa that are neighbors of South Africa but that oppose its apartheid racial segregation system expulsions may cool ties Shamir takes over in Israel JERUSALEM AP Parliament today gave Yitzhak Shamir and his proposed 25 member Cabinet an over whelming vote of confidence and he was sworn in as Israels ninth prime minister The vote was passed by a show of hands with 82 legislators voting in favor 17 against and three abstaining Shamir 71 took over from caretaker prime minister Shimon Peres in keeping with an unprecedented accord between right wing Likud bloc and the left leaning Labor Party Before the vote Shamir said in a speech before the Knesset or parliament that as prime minister he would prevent Palestinian gangs from en trenching themselves in Lebanon and establishing bases there He also said he would promote Israeli settlement in the occupied territories Shamir said he would make Middle East peace a priority but added that Israel and Jordan would not reach the negotiating table unless the neighboring Arab kingdom gave up its demand for an international peace conference No international forum can serve as a substitute for direct negotiations Shamir said We will not be able to achieve peace without free direct face discussion Shamir who was prime minister for a year in 198384 said he would make Jewish settlement of the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip with a population of about 14 million Palestinians a top priority The government will seek an economy that will be based not only on solid economic principles but aiso on the Zionist principles which must be our guide among them the supreme value of settlement throughout the land of Israel Shamir said Peres who resigned as prime minister Oct 10 in keeping with the September 1964 coalition agreement took the podium after speech shook his hand and wished him luck Peres succeeds Shamir as foreign minister under the agreement forged after neither party won enough votes in national elections to rule on its own MOSCOW AP A spokesman for the Kremlin which ordered five US envoys expelled after the State Department sent 25 Soviet UN diplomats packing said further measures could make superpower relations cool down to zero But in Washington Secretary of State George P Shultz responded to Sundays expulsion orders by saying We will protest and we will take some action The official Tass news agency Tass said four US diplomats in Moscow and one in Leningrad had been ordered to leave after the Foreign Ministry deter mined they had engaged in impermissible activities The term is a diplomatic catch phrase for espionage The five are Jack Roberts of the US consulate in Leningrad and four diplomats from the US Embassy in Moscow William Norville a first secretary Charles Ehrenfried a third secretary and attaches Gary Lonnquist and David Harris Tass did not say when the five must leave US Embassy spokesman Jaroslav Verner when asked about a date said We really dont know The Tass announcement did not mention the US expulsions of the Soviet diplomats from the United Nations but Georgy a chief Kremlin spokesman indicated that the Soviets were retaliating spoke in a satellite interview from Moscow on the program Face the to determine what action to take The president will consult and he will decide Shultz said Nation The Americans will see that Mr Gorbachev is a very forthcoming man if he has good partners But if you behave in T L such a way he becomes very In September two days before tough said referring Minister Eduard to Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev It can cool down to zero in both countries if you go on this way of retaliation after retaliation said State Cliff fall Shultz appearing on the NBC TV program Meet the Press said it is up to President Reagan A Shevardnadze arrived in the United States for talks with Reagan and Shultz Washington issued a specific list of 25 Soviets it accused of using their UN s talus as a cover for spying It ordered them to leave but the deadlines were extended several times ELKADER AP John Stephen 26 of Iowa City has died from injuries suffered in a fall five miles southeast of Elkader the Clayton County Sheriffs Department reports Officers said had been camping near the Turkey River and apparently lost his footing and fell off a cliff early Sunday A companion Joe Martin 23 of Cedar Rapids found at the fool of the cliff gave first aid and went to a farm house to call for help was pronounced dead at Central Community Hospital in Elkader News in brief Liver transplant Sharp attack AMES AP Democrat Lowell Junkins spent the weekend working to fire up his partys activists launching his sharpest attack to date on incumbent Republican Gov Terry Branstad In addition Junkins rejected what he called the conventional wisdom that hes trailing Branstad in the race for governor In one of his sharpest attacks of the campaign Junkins accused Branstad Saturday of trying to buy the election and said the governor lies as a regular part of politicking Junkins ac Branstad of campaign tactics and running an allout negative Despite that Junkins declared This election is a horse race A race that we will win But the Des Moines Sunday Registers copyright Iowa Poll showed Branstad leading Junkins 5335 percent with 12 percent undecided Pot fields DES MOINES AP Marijuana appears to be leveling off in Iowa this year after falling sharply since 1983 according to state and federal figures The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration which ranked Iowa in the nation in marijuana production last year said 8550 plants were seized in the state in the first nine months of 1986 In 1983 when a nationwide effort to eradicate marijuana plants was launched state and local officers seized 39616 plants in Iowa with an estimated value of million according to figures compiled by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation That dropped to 8859 plants with an estimated value of million last year Arrests for illegal growing of marijuana dropped from 57 in 1983 to 10 each in 1984 and 1985 Authorities say that stepped up enforcement including offers of rewards for information on illegal growers have forced marijuana fanners to switch cultivation to small patches from larger fields DES MOINES AP The first kidney transplant ever in Des Moines was successfully performed Sunday on a Knoxville woman by doctors from Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines and University Hospitals in Iowa City Rita K Schlotterbach 39 was in stable condition after the surgery which began at am Sunday at Iowa Methodist There are no signs of rejection and her kidney function has improved significantly since transplantation said Dr Prem KG Chandran an Iowa Methodist nephrologist and coleader of the transplant team Ms diabetes and had required insulin therapy for 23 years Law building IOWA CITY AP US Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry A Blackmun has set high goals for a new million University of Iowa law building May its use and its con to the law be as bright as the present promise it has Blackmun said Saturday at the buildings dedication Blackmun told about 500 people gathered for the dedication that fine bricks and mortar dont guarantee a good legal education A structure such as the circular building overlooking the Iowa River does not account for the in tangibles Such things as tarent ethics ideals principals devotion and dreams Blackmun said Buildings of this kind do provide an incentive he said It makes a good law school even better A broken steam pipe at the University steam plant provided a hissing background to many of the speeches praising the architecture of the new building and the quality of the Iowa law schools construction 88 interest AMES AP Missouri Democratic Rep Richard Gephardt insisted his trip to Iowa last weekend was to focus on 1986 but some friends who came along clearly were more interested in 1988 We think Dick Gephardt would be one great president of the United States said Rep Tony Coelho who heads the Democratic Congressional Campaign Com Once I am no longer campaign chair I will be devoting a lot of my time to helping Dick get that message out around the coun try he said Coelho brought along representatives from Tennessee Illinois Florida and Oklahoma who also back Gephardt Gephardt was the keynote speaker for the Iowa Democratic Partys annual Day Dinner National An Pacific quake WELLINGTON New Zealand AP earthquake said by US seismologists to be the most powerful in more than a year struck the Kermadec Islands in the South Pacific today but officials had no immediate report of damage or injuries In Golden Colo the US Geological Survey reported the pm am EOT quake at 81 magnitude on the Richter scale a reading that would make it a great quake capable of causing tremendous damage Several monitoring stations in the Pacific basin reported it at 8 on the Richter scale The Kermadec Islands administered by New Zealand are located some 750 miles northeast of New North Island and south of Tonga Polish heart BROWNS MILLS NJ AP A old Polish boy with a hole in his heart has arrived for lifesaving surgery thanks to a businessman who intends to aid children from around the world a hospital spokeswoman said today Jakub Cieciura has an ventricular septal defect or a hole between the two lower chambers of his heart said Roberta Gould spokeswoman for the Deborah Heart and Lung Center She said he was in good condition today and is to undergo surgery Wednesday Jakub might have been able to receive treatment in Poland but theres such a long waiting list that the child might die before it was his turn Ms Gould said The boy and his mother Margaret arrived Friday from Poland at the expense of Cherry Hill businessman Earl Waxman Ms Gould said Waxman whose infant daughter died in 1974 founded the Harbor Healthcare Foundation to help ailing children around the world Banff guns Textbooks HARRISBURG 111 AP Mention a gun in most banks and tellers get edgy But bankers in this southern Illinois town say they are scaring up millions of dollars in deposits by giving guns as interest For three years First Bank Trust of Harrisburg has been providing a set of revolvers in lieu of interest on special certificates of deposit Recently it switched to a twogun set of automatic weapons It was daring for the bank to do this said ad executive David England of Car who came up with the idea But it has paid off he said Friday Its brought hun dreds of depositors from all over Bay of Pigs MIAMI AP The last veteran of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion to be freed from Cuba says he will continue to fight communism and work for the release of political prisoners in his native land Thats the only firm thing have in mind for now Ramon Conte Hernandez said Sunday I dont want to say that fight is over Cuba is not free Conte 56 imprisoned since he was captured in the failed US backed invasion of Cuba 25 years ago arrived Saturday at Miami International Airport on a flight from Havana with his mother Maria Hernandez Ojeda He was released Friday from the Combinado del Este prison outside Havana Im very grateful to be in the land of freedom Conte said upon his arrival I thank the Americans for all theyve done and Ill continue to be a soldier of freedom here and everywhere NEW YORK AP Most Americans welcome textbooks that expose students to varied religious beliefs and do not think schools need to provide alternative books for children whose parents object to textbooks on religious grounds according to a Media General Associated Press poll Threequarters of the 1464 adult Americans in the nationwide telephone poll said school children should be exposed to religious beliefs that may not necessarily be those of their families And 72 International OPEC meeting GENEVA AP The longest OPEC meeting ever has moved to within a step of clinching a shortterm agreement that could nudge oil prices higher helping oil producers worldwide but bringing a potential rise in gasoline prices The final hurdle was Kuwaits demand for a bigger share of total oil production Iran was leading the opposition to Kuwaits request according to sources speaking on condition of anonymity A final agreement appeared within reach today as the 13 oil ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries entered their 15th day of deliberations The longest OPEC meeting prior to the Geneva conference was 14 days in March 1983 The key breakthrough in the conference came Saturday when Saudi Arabia the dominant oil producer in OPEC its opposition to renewing a cartel accord that was to expire Oct 31
