122nd Year, Number 282 Eugene, Oregon, Tuesday, August I, J 989 • 25 Cents Militants kill hostage, threaten 2 more Group says tape shows body of Higgins Bush faces worst crisis
By NICK WILLIAMS JR. "The American spy washan ged at J p.m (5 a m PDT Los Angeles Times Monday) 10 make him a lesson," a statement passed wflh a a e a e e e a e the videot pe to West rn news g ncy In B irut said "L t of the new presidency NICOSIA. Cyprus - Isl mic militants in B irut said Amenca and Israel shoulder the whole respons1b1hty" Monday that they had hanged Manne Lt Col. W1Jham Hig a a e e a e e a a e e e a gins. n Americ n hostag . rn r tali tion for th lsra h The t pe w s d hver d two hours aft r the r dical B ROBIN WRIGHT abducuoo of a Shute Moslem clenc ,n southern Lebanon. A deadline for the release of Obeid passedwith the sheik sun losAogtlHTimes �ALYSii] second group threatened to kJII another U.S. hostage, Jo in Israeli custody. On Fnday. lsraeh commandos seized 0 a e a l e a e n e seph C1c1pp1 . by a m PDT tod y unless th clenc 1s Obeid, who maint ins c os lies to lr n,an-back d Hezbol For six mo ths sinc laking the e ea e la a e 1 t e e oath or olflce, George Bush had care lairs dunng th R gan pr sidency freed h radic ls,from his hom in J beh1 , L banon Th Organ- a a a 1 e Earth a n "The rrJSes in China nd P nam e a a ea e za11on or the Oppress d on JS a Hezboll h faction fully neuvered lo dista ce himself e a An anonymous call r ,n Nicosi lsolllr ten d the l1le n wer not as <.enous. nd Amencan e a e a from Jhe JSSue or terron m. but o l e of Bru1sh hostage T rry W ,1e. the Anghcan Church envoy, No 1mmed1at conf,rm hon of Higgins' dealll could be n Mond y he was plunged i to the worst ives "· re not at stake This 1s a g a obtained, althOugh se"eral viewers or the grainy, pollr'By HARRY ESTEVE Th(Register-Guard Athletes from around the world line up to buy shoes at The Nike Store in the Fifth Street Pubhc Market, but one floor below only a spon_,;;;ored ,;;tudy - ba,ed on a nation smattering or tables are occup,ed in the outdoor ''-'lde household "Uf\t') of 1-i."'Hresp,,n 1,,ting1rt:a dents - concluded that cocaine add1v And while the Eugene Mall appears busier Hon ha.1;,grown �ub,tanttal\v e�petJ;,ill Ulan normal for a e among the) oung and unemploy d Be· Monday. thanks lo n tween \985 a d \9�b. the number f knots of men and e e p ople who used cocaine one a w ek women in foreign or more Jumped from 6�7,0UO to weal suits. shop e a a �6�.0110, a one-third ,ncr ase lll t N ke.epers stand be uonal Drug Polley D1rec1or W1l11am hind ,Jent cash re e g Bennett call d - h ekin and unac gisters. waiting for ceptable" customers, � a t /'!WOHLD r The tudy also eslJm ted hat \1/tth a few ex 484,1100 people used crack, tile highly \'ETERA 'S 1 e t C(ptions. the add1c1 ve cocain denvat,ve hat can World Veterans· CH-\MJ'JO'\;SHIPS be smoked. at least once a month and 1 e Champ1onsh1ps ha that 2 4 m1ll on had tned the drug onc en e 0 e e e v 't prov d 1 b • Athletes in th ir hv s These figures represent a a e e a e Ult fin nci l demand more th f1rst governm nt e«llm tes on th a a a e a bonanza th t m ny pre\ l nfe of crack - a drug th t e events 10 e e local m rchants barely e,et d three iears arher expected when the previous urvey was lalten e e e e e In contrast to pr d1cllons befor the games The urv y findings r flect d e a ee e began, vacancies abound in local hot ls and mo , trends that h ve b n r ported for a a a e tels, empty t bles are commonpl ce in rest u ome lim . particularlythe growing i.o a a a e e al t a e a e e r nts t n1ghl nd sal s ar norm o slow t lnleranc nf m ny m1ddl uf'"ll A week ago most other downtown business l a <1gn1flcan1 ,mp lc lions for federal n- e Rangi hamsher ,Singh,an a.thlet from India, moves along a food line at the Carson H.all cafeteria at the University of Oregon Turn to GAMES, Page 4A 11-drug pohcymakers. some omc,als Turn to DRUG, Page 4A Army brought in to fight wildfires Fires in Eastern Oregon
By ROGER PETTERSON More than 9,700 firelighters worked e t e TheAs1ocla1td Prrs 9, 700 firefighters on lines in W the lines on the two dozen biggest blaz s The Armv wa, called out \londav to in Oregon. Idaho and Cahlorn,a Washing n n help ballle tires raging out of conlroi on \ly husband left in shorts and no Io state hnd an 850-acre r,re. a d Mon e n lhousands of acr sin thell'est,and crews h1rt, · said 70-year-old Daisy Ohver. ta a had several small hres e a a e e t a 1,000-acre backfire in n ll mpt lo whose mobil home at Lowman was re e hall a Cahfornia blaze that destroyed ev e e That m ant manpower in the West duc d to blackened metal scrap "W e n e was almosl complel ly mob1hzed. a d n homes d1do't get anything. Just what we had on n g ln n a a a ea e e g ma a ers at the Boise (Idaho) terage a1,on l Gu rdsmen lr dy were on our backs I don't know wher w 'll o e e e cy Fire C nter, th nallon's f,re command duly in Idaho and Or gon from here " Post. called on the Army and crews from Res,denlS were allowed to reJurn lo Hundr eds of hres. most started by other regions for help a a a e n Lowman, Id ho. sm ll r sort town that lightning last week. had blacke ed more e e e l e t a n n Hundreds of fir fighters wer b ing waslar ge y destroyed by a hr s orm lh l than ll0,000 acres i five slates si ce a e e had ch rr d 10,000 acr Wed nesday Turn to FIRES, Page 4A
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More arrests in Cuba voices doubt by working MEXICO CITY - Reports lrom Cuba on Monday said r,ve senior oflicers were arrested, including a rormer intenor minister, and r,ve LUTHER. Texas - A woman says her demoted one rank and retired lor alleged negli about actor two turkeys need not worry about winding up on a Thanksgiving platter this year, because gence or complicity in Cuba's drug scandal Fn,m newsservlcereporu h blg birds earn their living guarding chock- MaJ Gen Arnaldo Ochoa and three other olll � � cers were tned lor drug smuggling and olher School board members in Los Angeles aren't sure they . crimes and executed July 13. Another 10 tried want actor Rob Lowe giving anti-drug lectures In classrooms Lacy Robinson said her Iwo turkey gob at the same tome were sent to priSon lor terms under a court--0rderedcommunity-service sentence blers are the match of any watchdogs as they ranging rrom IO to 30 years. The latest reports guarantee for the parents keep a close eye on 4,500 egg-layers. indicated lhe Communist Party's Central Com "We w,11 want a of our children said Los Angeles mittee, headed by by President Fidel Castro, thal children are protected," Unllied School "They make a ruckus when anyone Jackie Goldberg app ordered the new crackdown Dostnct board President "It ears on the comes around, and when they ltnd a snake, surface he has. at m,mmum, duboous Judgment." they keep on gobbhn' 'Ill someone comes to Jungle fires blacken Yucatan Lowe. 2S, w as accused or sexual explo1tatlon or a minor see what's happening." she saidrecently. CANCUN. Mexico - Low. creeping Jungle after he allegedly videotaped sexual encounters with a 16- Robinson says the two birds already are lores led by debris lrom Hurricane Gilbert have year--0ld girl on an Atlanta hotel room in 1988 survivors. They were among 10 her husband charred hundreds of moles or the Yucatan Pen On Friday. the actor agreed with the Fulton County court bought three years ago insula, but the beaches have been spared "We on Georgia to perform 20 hoursof community service, warning "People kept wanting them, so I'd say, need Jwo or three days or continual ram to put high school students of the dangers of drugs. 'Catch what you want, down to two - I want 11 out We need another hurricane. but a benev The agreement - made under a special progra them lor my Thanksgiving and Christmas olent one," said Jose Angel Lona. the Agricul m ror orrenders - spares lhe star of "St. Elmo dinners." ture Department's top orroc,al on Quintana Rao young t,,.;t 's Fore" olher movies or being charged in the case,and oe state. Prevailing winds lrom the sea pushed lhe and he d sn't "Well, I got so busy that there JUst weren't adm1t gu111 r,res and smoke away lrom the plush resort or enough hours in the day - what with strip Cancun, where they started in March on the Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton suggested ping cotton, feeding cows and chickens - city's western lnnges, and lrom a strong or that Lowe speak on high schools in Los Angeles, where be that I Just bought turkeys (to cook)_ The same to"ns dotting the coast. The lores have burned 1,ves. and in Ohio, hos home state lhing happened the next two years, so I guess 370,000 acres or lores! in a 70-m,Je stnp down Rob Lowe: 'He has .. . dubious judgment' they're sale now." Eugene Fodor Jr., the famed voolm1st who was arrest the Yucatan ed last week on drug possession and breaking and entering spaced--0ut back then " Salv,ulo recalled was more ' ke , "It .I Profits are droppings BBC airs Rushdie show charges. was released on hos own recognizance Monday Fo Woodstock This is like a Sunday on lhe park in companson dor. 39. ,s an internat,onally acclaimed mus,c,an who has won AUGUSTA, Ga. - He's been laughed al LONDON - The British Broadcashng Corp both the Tchaikovsky and Paganini violin compe!lllons He James Galway, the lnsh naullstm. offered a reward lor using J1mmmy Cricket's droppings for presented a tele\'os1on program Monday about also has performed at the White House Maids at the Vineyard Monday for the return of five stolen gold flutes,three of which fertilizer, but Bill Bncker gets tbe last laugh Salman Rushdie's no\el "The Satanic Verses·· Harbor Hotel on Martha's \ meyard discovered Fodor on an when he hoists his three-pound tomatoes to despite a Church or England obJecllon that 11 are studded with diamonds. The mus1c1an said he hopes the unoccupied motel room Thursday He was later arraigned on thief will have trouble selling the d1stinc11ve instruments, promote his Kncket Krap. m,ghl ollend Moslems "The Blasphemers' Ban charges of breaking and entenng with intent to commu a quet:· a io-m,nute play shown on the BBC na which disappeared Wednesday from a railway station on Lu The retired Army colonel invents organic felon\'. tralflck1ng on cocaine and pos..sess,on or cocaine with cerne. sw,tzerland. along uonaJ network. had actors portraying h1stoncal with luggage he was unloading. "!l's fertilizers hke Kncket Krap, which he sells ,nteni to dostnbute. possession of a hypOderm,c needle; posses Joke somebody trying to sell a Formula One car," Galway said from his IO-acre !arm along the Savannah blasphemers around a restaurant table in north· sion of heroin. and po_session of a dangerous weapon - a em Bradford recot,ng their "ntings Portrayed "Of course, ,t can be sold, but you have lo find somebOdy who Rover near Augusta dagger is not going to dnve in the Ind1anapolls 500. olherw,se 11 would were Volla,re. Mollere. Omar Khayyam and "It's what the name says - cricket dropp be spotted 1mmed1ately." Four of the flutes were 14-carat gold, Lord Bvron. but Rushdie's chair "as empty ings," Brocker said "I don't know why people The Bee Gees want respect Twelve years afler their one was 9-carat gold and three had diamonds in the end \1oslem·religious authont,es consider Rushdie's chart-topping album "Salurday Night Fever" made them kings never thought or 1t before. Crickets eat 25 no\'el blasphemous to Islam The author has or the disco era. the brothers Robin. Barryand Maunce Gibb Mary Xinh Nguyen may be Revlon's Most t.:nlorgett percent protein - that's better than you or I been in hiding since the late Iranian spintual are hoping to put their wh1te-su1ted. gold chain-wearing days able Woman of the Year. but the 19-year--0ld Amerasian says eat" leader. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged behind them as they embark on their lorst t; S tour in a she wants to be remembered for something other than beauty \1oslernsto k11lh1m Once a month, Brocker buys about six tons decade this week ··we·ve spent too many years on the defen In an es.say for the cosmetics company telling why she was of droppings from two local cnckel farms, sive. and now that we·re on the attack. 11 reels a damn sight unforgenable. the Boston Un1ve,.;1ty student wrote about her where the insects areraised as bail and their better." Barry said "This band hasbeen around for JU years. memories of \,etnam. where she was nd,culed as "a child or droppings collected with a huge vacuum sou·s a hllle unfair to tag us with the disco label Paul McCart Jhe dusr· because her falher. whom she has never met, was an cleaner ney made disco records Rod Stewart did Even Ethel \1er American GI "I also wrote that I was going to be �nforgett He bags the droppings and sells them man. which shows you how outrageous the limes were " The able alter my beauty pha.se because I wan! to be a woman of tour will promote the Bee Gees new album. ·one " accomplishment," Nguyen said. Revlon pocked her lrom a around lhe country through hos mall order service. group or none finalists - most of whom were mOdels or plan Pete Seeger ,s back Th1rt1 years alter he helped to be She won $2S.OOU. a photo session and a spol on a Revlon Brocker said he also wants to educate lbe launch the °'e"port Folk Fesuval. the 7ll-year--0ld performer ad-e11osemenl South about lhe values of organic larmmg. returned to lead fans ,n singing h1> familiar repertoire of folk But ,rs also a m1lhon-� THEW THER REPORT 50 percent of showers today Houses \4ere flattened in l\1anila Philippines tornado kills 5
MA'-ILA Ph1hpp1nes - A tornado swept r J Todl) The. folhiwmg repre<-entsthe average. through a shanty d1stnct early Monday. killing ...,1� 1��� �·���1 ·��,a��n�1 i�:i�:�/�,� � High Lo" numbtr or polltn grainsand mold spo res mph A Ju percenl chance of 'ihO\\t'T'tn· 1154p m ".'4fl "'Ola.11-1 4!t countedlromthemon1tonngstat1on onthe at least t,,e people, as monsoon rains and nightEugene-Springfield with I0\1,, 30.35 and J lll pt>rfen t Sim,law River tide, Pollen-mold count strong winds bulleted \1an,la and the main Ph1l- , 1 29 pm tntt 64Kp.m 22ft fltlh'-lory roof atfi77 E 12th Avenue Data ch.infe11r-.ho"e"" \l ttJnesdJ� "'1th p,1rt1al 1s reponedeach \1onda).Wedne-<.day.and 1ppme island or Luzon. olllc1als said At least six aflemMn (le rm� Wanner "'Ith high<. in Fnday and publL<.hed each Tuesday, other people were m1ured when the cyclone the uppn71"" Thursda) and�turda).whenava1lable swept through the suburb or \1alabon. blowing P1rtltles do"n "alls and nppmg rools orr shanties. the per Cubic Office or Covil Defense reported In San Fernan \1oslly cloud\tod,1\\\tlh9"1dely-..ca1 Yard tt'rt'd ,ho"A-er.·v.e-.1 v.1nd..-. tu I� mpb tReadlngsat'latlonalWeather5enic", do. 110 moles north of Manila. ofloc,als issued H1ghs.1ntheOregonm1d-1o upperM..., Coast Cloudyto M1hlonS ....et"I Airport. l� � flood warningsfor residents along the Agno rov n1gh1 "'1th de