GAZETTE That Allow Limited Travel to Cuba but Impose Trade Restrictions
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Energy Tip of the Day Air conditioners vary consid- Nine-hour hostage ordeal ends; gunman takes life erably in efficiency and hence, BRENTWOOD, N.J. (UPI)--A 24-year- With the students in the amount of energy used. mental treatment. stretched out old man who had been fired on the floor under his gun, Therefore, select equipment on from Wickes also was investigated by wit- his teacher's the basis of energy efficiency aide job shot and the secret service for making nesses said Wickes walked up to ratio (EER). The EER for window killed himself in a Brentwood, New death threats against Secretary Burgos, said, "You know me," and units is calculated by dividing Jersey, junior high school last- of State George Shultz and Defense shot him in the stomach and finger. cooling capacity, expressed in night, after going on a rampage in Secretary Caspar Weinberger. Burgos was listed in stable con- BTU, by the electric power in- which he wounded the principal and School officials said Wickes was dition today at a local hospital. a student $20 a day teachers Principal Steven Howland, who put, expressed in watts. As a and held a classroom of fired from his general rule, an EER of 10 or hostages. aide job after a May 4th fistfight was shot in the face by Wickes, more is excellent. Equipment Police say the gunman, Robert with Louis Burgos, a 15-year-old was treated and released. Wickes, with an EER below 7 should be was carrying a .22-caliber student at the school. The siege ended nine hours after avoided. rifle when he took over a ninth When the armed Wickes barged into it began, when Wickes fired a bul- grade class of 20 yesterday. the classroom, he was quoted as let into his right temple. Wickes' attorney, Gerald Lotto, saying, "I'm not leaving here a- School officials said they had says his client was a paranoid live. You kids messed up my car- not been aware of Wickes' mental News schizophrenic and was undergoing eear ' problems. SDigest WASHINGTON (UPI)--A U.S. Court of .peals says the Treasury Depart- nt can't keep American citizens rom spending money when they visit Cuba. The three-judge panel overturned department regulations GAZETTE that allow limited travel to Cuba but impose trade restrictions. The Guantanamo Bay, Cuba decision effectively blocks im- plementation of the rules, which were formulated last year under a trading with the enemy act. Volume 38 Number 92 Tuesday, May 17, 1983 WASHINGTON (UPI)--A presidential task force says the federal govern- ment could save $5.9 million in three years by running food stamps Israel, Lebanon ink troop withdrawal agreement pact and other public assistance pro- grams more efficiently. To avoid ISRAEL (UPI)--Nearly one year from Lebanon. Despite repeated assertions by inefficiencies, the presidential after the Israeli invasion, and Syrian troops are estimated to Syria that the troop withdrawal cost control survey proposes es- after almost five months of nego- number 40,000 and the Palestinians deal is unacceptable, Gemayel told tablishing a "combined welfare tiations, Lebanon and Israel today about 10,000. the newspaper Syria has not "closed administration" for the aid to signed an agreement to remove So far, neither Syria nor the the door with the United States." families with dependent children, 30,000 Israeli troops from Lebanon. PLO has given any indication they The Times quoted Gemayel as say- medicaid and food stamp programs. Representatives of the two na- will honor the withdrawal pact. ing Shultz "should come back" to tions, with American officials Secretary of State George Shultz the region as soon as possible. WASHINGTON (AP)--The Supreme Court watching, signed the pact this was instrumental in achieving the But a senior State Department waded into a major environmental morning in Lebanon. Another for- Israeli-Lebanese agreement. He official says it's unlikely Shultz confrontation yesterday concerning mal signing is planned later in arranged a tentative accord during will return to the Mideast in the the states' role in Interior Sec- Kiryat Shmona, Israel. a two-week Mideast trip in which near future. reatry James Watt's plan to sell Israel invaded Lebanon last June he shuttled from Beirut to Jeru- The responsibility oil and gas leases off the Cali- 6th to rid its southern region of salem. of dealing with Syria fornia coast. The justices will Palestinian guerrillas Israel A report in today's "New York has been delegated to U.S. hear arguments next term by Watt, blamed for attacks on northern Times" says Lebanese President special envoy Philip Habib. Back in Lebanon, She state of California and oil Israel. Amin Gemayel is anxious to have a cabinet work- ing group ompanies over whether selling a The withdrawal of Israeli sold- Shultz return to the Mideast to has been set up to begin withdrawal talks lease on the outer continental iers hinges on the simultaneous help persuade Syria to leave with the Syrians. shelf makes for a physical change removal of Syrian and PLO fighters Lebanon. that must be approved by state But Gemayel says a formal Leb- officials. anese request for a Syrian pullout ' Times' report links Iran with embassy bombing will be made only at the climax SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)--Doctors at of negoitations. Separate Lebanese a San Francisco hospital say a (UPI)--A news report links Iran Pentagon and State Department negotiations with the PLO will be- 36-year-old man, a diabetic since to last month's bombing of the officials have not confirmed the gin in Tunis this week. age 10, underwent a successful U.S. Embassy in Beirut, but an news report. pancreas and kidney transplant Iranian official denies the charge. A group known as the Islamic last month. A hospital spokesman An Iranian diplomat at the United Struggle Organization has claimed Congress eyes Medicare says Mark Sager will be released Nations rejected a report last responsibility for the embassy this week. The spokesman says the night, by CBS, that American in- bombing. WASHINGTON (UPI)--The White House operation is rare, with fewer than telligence agents had intercepted U.S. officials in Beirut say is touting a proposal for higher 300 performed in the United States cables from Iran to Syria suggest- the group is a radical faction of medicare charges as a way to save and. Europe. ing Tehran involvement. one of many private armies in money, but Congressional budget The bombing killed 63 people, Lebanon. experts dispute that claim. LONDON (UPI)--The rain is not main- including 17 Americans. The At a Senate Finance Subcommittee ly in Spain this year, as grey cables were sent before the April hearing yesterday, an administra- skies brought a soggy spring to 18th ate From the Iranian tio. official said a medicare much of Europe. It rained for the foreign minis in Tehran to the recipient who spends an average 30th straight day in London yes- Iranian Embass in Damascus. 11 days in the hospital would pay terday, weather the "London Times" According to i. -port, one of Baker predicts passage $280 more next year. jokingly blamed on the communists. approve payment of the messages Dr. Robert Rubin, the assistant Southwestern France had its wettest $25,000 for a terrorist attack WASHINGTON (UPI)--Senate Repub- April in 102 years. In Spain, the lican leader Howard Baker pre- secretary of health and human on an unnamed installation in services, says rain was a welcome relief to four dicts the Senate will pass a 1984 the "modest increase Beirut. in patient cost-sharing" years of drought. budget resolution, but he says should encourage people Another cable called for travel it may be, "A budget that will to think twice MEXICO (UPI)--Residents of Mexico help for 12 Iranians who went to displease the president in some before spending an extra day in City are breathing polluted air Beirut just before the bombing, respects or in all respects." the hospital. at is 75 percent above the danger and were seen in Damascus shortly President Reagan is maintaining The plan would enable the na- level set by a government environ- after the blast. his strong opposition to higher tion's 29 million medicare bene- mental commission. The commission taxes, saying they will not solve ficiaries to get protection against blames the pollution on Mexico the nation's hugh deficits. the high costs of catastrophic City's 130,000 industries, 2.9 Phila. mayoral race Moderate Republican Senators illness. million cars and 416,000 trucks want to raise taxes to achieve But officials of the Congress- and buses. PHILADELPHIA (UPI)--A record 80 lower budget deficits, while ional Budget Office disagree about percent turnout of voters is ex- conservative Republicans want the effect of the plan on hospital LOS ANGELES (UPI)--Since February, pected in Philadelphia's Democratic only small tax increases during use. today, with former the Los Angeles public school sys- mayoral primary the next two years. They say some people will use man Frank Rizzo fac- tem has barred students with bad law-and-order Today, the Senate Budget Commit- hospitals less, but others will Goode. grades from participating in ing a black man, Wilson tee is to begin drafting a new simply use their private insurance' extra-curricular activities. The budget plan that can pass the policies to pay for what the to become the first study on the new policy Goode, who seeks Republican-led Senate later this government does not. shows 15.5 percent of the students city's first black mayor, told week. have not been able to participate supporters last night, "We're go- Committee chairman Pete Domenici in sports, theater and other act- ing to win because we stand for says he expects the panel to ap- Retirement ceremony ivities because of grades.