Winchester Star (Newspaper) - January 25, 1984, Winchester, Virginia The Winchester Star 88th Year No. 173 32 SECTIONS VIRGINIA 22601, JANUARY 25, 1984 667-3200 15 CENTS IIS n I n Q To Be Cited By Reagan Slippery Morning Stor Photo iff Scoll A 1 973 Chevrolet ambulance burns after overturning on icy U.S. 522 south of Winchester near Armel about 8 this The ambulance Mike Fultz of and a Steve Saylor of were not The which belongs to F&F Ambulance Services burned for about 10 Related story on Page 2. It Was Pea All Right By The Associated Press Thick fog enveloped much of the eastern United States from Texas to Maine grounding airplanes for hours and snarling traffic with visibility near zero in It also trapped a foul odor over metropolitan New York The caused as warm and moist air passed over ground chilled by a recent cold came on the heels of Tuesday's freezing rain in the Northeast and patches of lingering ice made driving doubly dangerous Travelers advisories were in effect this as a result of the fog across central Fog Traps Fumes in and southern northern New eastern Pennsylvania and southeastern New The National Weather Service in said a pea soup had reduced visibility to a matter of a few feet in some The fog settled in Tuesday afternoon just as motorists who had inched through a slippery ice storm in the morning began heading was by far the worst day of the year for said police Lt. Robert Falzarano of Passaic N.J. The most unusual development was the mysterious likened to rotten garbage or burning that hung over metropolitan New York and northern New Thousands of curious residents called authorities before the smell dispersed early with New York City's emergency 911 number logging 5,000 calls between 5 and 7:30 p.m. New York Fire Department spokesman John Mulligan blamed the stench on a - occurring when the ground is colder than the air - that trapped fumes from the area's petrochemical The which slowed traffic and forced the periodic cancellation of flights at airports in the mid-Atlantic states Tuesday began lift early Temperatures were expected to remain above freezing today throughout most of the A heavy fog also disrupted flights in Atlanta on diverting incoming delaying takeoffs for hours and forcing the cancellation of scores of officials Thousands of stranded passengers crowded the terminals overnight as the airlines to get their schedules back to WASHINGTON - President using his State of the Union speech tonight to raise the curtain on an anticipated re-election will tell the nation it has moved the problems of the to the solutions of the a senior White House official The president will use the address to endorse a manned space station and budget reform the official All but the finishing touches were completed on the speech the president will give from the well of the House of Representatives at 9 p.m. before an audience of members of the the Cabinet and diplomatic as well as a nationwide television and radio audience. The president's aides view the address as a key political document and one of the first salvos he will fire in the 1984 presidential It precedes by four days the five-minute speech he will deliver from the Oval Office Sunday night disclosing his political Even before the day of the State of the Union speech Reagan's policies were drawing renewed and not just from Former President Gerald R. Ford urged Reagan on Tuesday to stretch out the defense and impose new taxes as to stem what he called the ominous of deficits approaching billion for years to In a pre-emptive strike president's Rep. Jim Wright of the House Democratic said that the nation's priorities had grown at the White with spiraling military spending draining human He delivered a virtual campaign platform to reverse Reagan's revive the American to renew the American to rekindle America's faith in our The senior White House speaking on the condition that not be identified by said Reagan would keep the speech free of details about new he will set out themes that are likely to reappear in campaign speeches if he seeks a second theme of consistency is going to be his State of the Union the official mentioning Reagan's continued effort to achieve an economic program of budget and tax a foreign policy aimed at containing the Soviet and a defense policy aimed at building up the nation's cite the from the problems of the to the solutions the official Time Sought For Marines WASHINGTON - President seizing the initiative on a touchy is urging Congress to keep the Marines in Lebanon while Middle East mediator Donald Rumsfeld tries to pry some conciliation from But while Reagan told Republican leaders Tuesday that made genuine Rumsfeld described the Syrians as a stubborn obstacle to arranging a government of national unity for And in a letter Monday to two key House Lee H. Hamilton of Indiana and Les Aspin of said Syria and the Soviet Union were complicating U.S. diplomatic Reagan wrote the letters and visited Capitol Hill before the newly convened second session of 89th Congress could get started on moves to bring the Marines Secretary of State George P. Shultz was following up today with closed briefings for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and is scheduled to swing over to the House side on Congress initially authorized Reagan to keep the Marines in the Beirut area until the spring of 1985. Sloppy Workers Get the Blame For Sending Secrets to Prison WASHINGTON - An openly embarrassed State Department blames on the part of at least three department officers for allowing secret and highly sensitive data to be shipped by mistake last fall to a prison where it circulated among But a department official said all three officials still hold the positions they occupied last year when the occurred and that no disciplinary action has been not sure to what extent anyone is going to be said Robert assistant secretary of state for Lamb refused to give the name or ranks of the people He said a continuing FBI investigation poses the possibility that criminal charges may be apparently under a law that makes gross negligence in the handling of classified data a criminal Lamb said the department's own investigation has uncovered no harm to national security from the in which classified papers were shipped by mistake to the Correctional a prison in suburban Virginia where the District of Columbia houses its Also with the papers were at least two unerased memory typewriters used to compose secret Lamb said U.S. intelligence agencies still have not concluded a on the would have to call this no Lamb found laxity in our U.S. Justice Studies Effort to Revoke Stay Fla. - As the hours ticked away today on Anthony Antone's license to state lawyers awaited word from a U.S. Supreme Court justice on their request to be allowed to electrocute the 66-year-old contract But a new defense effort to block the execution was already pending before an appeals court in Florida Attorney General Jim Smith asked Justice Lewis Powell on Tuesday to revoke a stay issued just six hours before the scheduled 7 a.m. Tuesday execution at Florida State Prison near That stay was to expire at noon but state officials said they were waiting for the Supreme Court to act before taking further steps in the A death warrant for Antone remains in effect until noon believe the time has come to carry out said Gov. Bob who issued the Antone would be the 12th prisoner in the United States and the third in Florida to be put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Andropov Wants Deeds Before Dialogue MOSCOW - Soviet leader Yuri V. responding to President Reagan's call for says the United Stales must first prove its sincerity with the official news agency Tass in statements released offered no new initiatives in making the first official Soviet response to Reagan's speech of Jan. 16. The Soviet president's comments came in an interview to be published today in the Communist party and largely repeated previous Soviet Tass also accused the United States of violating arms treaties and called Reagan's report to Congress that Moscow is cheating on arms control agreements an smear Reagan said Monday that the alleged Soviet violations raise serious doubts that Moscow is a reliable negotiating Andropov repeated the Soviet de- CONCERN 667-0145 - volunteer mand that newly deployed U.S. missiles in Western Europe must be dismantled before Euromissile reduction talks can be He said that is an area where the United States can show through that it was sincere in wanting to be a serious negotiating Although Reagan's speech was considered conciliatory by omission of strong anti-Soviet the president criticized Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and talked of Soviet violations of arms control Reagan also said the United States can best ensure peace if it is militarily and dialogue go he Access Charge Delay Official WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications making good on its promise of last voted today to delay the telephone that consumers and small businesses were to have started paying in The in a unanimous said it had received no public comments over the past week that would prompt it to change its mind on postponing the imposition of the fees until The FCC had tentatively decided to take that step Jan. 19. Telephone customers had been scheduled to begin paying the new access fees in with residential users paying a month and business customers up to a month to their local phone Under today's only large businesses - those with more than one line - will begin paying the fees in By its vote the commission committed itself to making a final decision on the fate of access charges late this year after conducting new studies on whether the fees pose any threat to universal telephone Assuming the agency sticks to that the earliest that access charges could be implemented would be during the late spring or summer of 1985. The decision was something of a mixed blessing for consumers because it also means an end to any major reduction in long-distance The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. had been to reduce its long-distance rates by more than 10.5 percent before the delay was Before the FCC decided to delay the local phone companies had expected to receive roughly billion in monthly access payments in 1984 from residential and business The payments by large businesses are expected to generate about billion to is no need to convince us of the usefulness and expedience of This is our But the dialogue should be conducted on an equal footing and not from a position of as it is proposed by Ronald He said dialogue should not be conducted the sake of but should be conducted honestly without using it for He then asked rhetorically whether the United States was prepared to its negative he has not The president's speech does not contain a single new any new proposals either on the question of limiting nuclear arms in Europe or on other There is no sign of this in the American he all signs indicate Reagan has not abandoned his of threats and Andropov criticized U.S. policy in the Middle Central America and and said Washington was the prime villain in the breakdown of the Geneva talks which the Soviets walked out of in For the Soviets to resume those he only one - the missile Frederick Obituaries TV Mostly Sunny Page 2
