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February thaw9 welcome respite for winter weary, B1 GREATER RED BANK EATONTOWN U.S. finds some silver Extortion probe LONG BRANCH Brother, sister win FBI presses its probe silver skating medal. in Rumson ransom case. Today's Forecast: Foggy, partly cloudy Page B2 Page B1 Complete weather on A2 The Daily Register VOL. 106 NO. 189 YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER . SINCE 1878 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1984. 25 CENTS Cake mix with pesticide is recalled TRENTON (AP) - Procter * Deluxe Devil's Food Cake Mix baking mixes and that a maximum 150 parts per billion is the accep- products as a prudent protection to There have been no documented Gamble Co. will call stores through- bearing the lot number 3116C2A in of 2 percent of all Duncan Hines table level for foods which need to the public's health, and advising the human deaths from cancer as- out the state today to remove one lot New Jersey. baking mixes could be voluntarily be cooked, such as flour, hot public not to eat these foods," sociated with EDB consumption. of a cake mix from the shelves after The affected lot was sold in New withdrawn starting today. cereals, and cake mixes. Goldstein said. Golden said. Gov. Thomas H. Kean announced Jersey and possibly bordering Kean's order came after tests State officials said tests are EDB, which stands for ethylene Other states also have recalls test results showing the product states, but If products from the lot conducted on a sample of the continuing on other food products. dibromide, is a pesticide used on under way of products suspected of contained levels of the pesticide should surface elsewhere in the product with that lot number, taken "One would have to consume grains, fruits and vegetables. It has containing high levels of EDB EDP more than three times the country they also will be withdrawn, from a supermarket In the Trenton EDB years, perhaps a lifetime, for caused cancer, birth defects and Maine has ordered groceries to yank acceptable standard. said Hayes. area, found levels of EDB up to 470 ill effects to be felt," said state sterility in laboratory animals ex- 18 suspect food items off their "Our sales folks will start track- "To my knowledge, the lot is not parts per billion, said Carl Golden, Health Commissioner Dr. J. Rich- posed to high doses, officials said. It shelves, and New York ordered the the governor's spokesman. ing it down in the morning," Patrick available any place outside of New ard Goldstein, whom Kean ordered was used for more than 30 years to recall of 105.000 pounds of possibly fumigate crops and soil until the Hayes, a Procter & Gamble spokes- Jersey," said Hayes. According to standards issued to carry out the recall in New tainted rice. man, said yesterday after Kean Haynes said the Cincinnati-based earlier this month by the federal Jersey. EPA banned it for that purpose last ordered the recall of Duncan Hines firm was conducting tests of all its Environmental Protection Agency, "However, I am recalling these September. See Cake, page B8 Three-way talks slated on Mideast WASHINGTON (AP) - President rule out they could return later. ment that Washington helped nego- ' Reagan, seeking to devise new Other officials say a return is tiate between Israel and Lebanon. strategies for dealing with the unlikely, however. But if they want to change it, "we deteriorating situation in Lebanon, White House spokesman Larry are not going to stand in the way," is holding back-to-back meetings Speakes said the administration he said. with Jordan's King Hussein and might explore replacing the Ameri- Hussein and Mubarak, both Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak can troops with a United Nations leaders of moderate Arab nations It was clear from statements by force, although Undersecretary of friendly to Washington, met for administration officials yesterday State Lawrence Eagleburger said he dinner at a Washington hotel last that there was considerable con- didn't think Uuup» from other night. It was the first time the fusion about Washington's next nations should "to go into that leaders of Jordan and Egypt have move following the setbacks to maelstrom to get shot at." met since before Egypt was os- administration policy in Lebanon Eagleburger said he didn't think a tracized by the rest of the Arab last week. U.N. force could be arranged until world (or signing the 1978 Camp Secretary of Defense Caspar the situation in Lebanon "is David peace accords with Israel. Weinberger said he favored the stabilized." The two leaders embraced when withdrawal of all of the 1.600 He also said the administration Mubarak arrived at the Four American Marines in Lebanon continues to stand behind the May Seasons Hotel to greet Hussein within 30 days, but said he doesn't 17, 1983, troop withdrawal agree- See Three, page B8 Soviet plenum may pick THE CHINESE CONNECTION — U.S. Customs assistant commissioner ot the New York area, looks Special Agent Arthur Stiflel, right, fields reporters' ' on. On the table are transverse wave tube amplifiers questions in New York as Patrick T. O'Brien, similar to thosb seized by customs agents. Andropov successor today MOSCOW (AP) - The Com- mourners by the thousands lined up munist Party Central Committee is to pay their respects at Andropov's expected to convene a plenum today casket for a second day in the red- Lincrof t man accused that could name a new party chief and black-draped Soviet House of to succeed Yuri V. Andropov. The Unions. late president's body lay. in state The column snaked through north- Sunday near the Kremlin and Sov- central Moscow, weaving back and iets lined up for miles in 10-degree forth across the wide avenues for in high-tech export plot weather to pay their respects. miles under sunny skies, with the There was no announcement by temperature at 10 degrees Fahren- NEW YORK (AP) - A Lincroft, of Flushing, Queens, a computer arranged to sell 100 transverse wave late last night of who the new heit. N.J., engineer is one of five persons programmer with the Chase Man- tube amplifiers to the five for general secretary would be. Atten- Police and soldiers flanked the arrested Saturday by U.S. Customs hattan Bank. Lin, Yeung and Tsai $12,500 each. The devices have tion still focused on Konstantin U queue and kept it moving at a brisk officials and charged with shipping are naturalized American citizens. military uses only, he said. Chernenko. the 72-year-old Poli- pace. Tens of thousands of citizens $1 million in restricted high-tech- All face charges of conspiracy and The agent, who was not identified, tburo member who has played the were expected to view the body, in nology equipment to to China. violation of the Arms Control Ex- enticed the two Hong Kong residents most visible role during the period an open coffin atop a bier of flowers The arrests, made in Marlboro, port Act, and if convicted could be to the United States last week by of mourning, as well as some of the and medals, before it is buried Saturday night, culminated a two- sentenced to seven years in prison, promising to get them other equip- younger members of the ruling Tuesday in Red Square among the year investigation during which a he said. ment, and "a conspiracy was body. heros of Soviet history. customs agent posing as a high- Lin and Tsai ran a "front busi- finalized in which they gave us a These included Grigori V. Andropov's wife, Tatyana, his technology broker, infiltrated the ness," Eastar Corp., which shipped specific order and specific arrange- Romanov, the 61-year-old head of diplomat son Igor and daughter ring. .— the equipment, Stiffel said, adding ments for payment and a shipping the party disciplinary body, and Irina returned for a second day to sit The arrests of four men and a that Zheng and Zhang, both natives route," Stiffersaid. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, a 52 year-old in wooden chairs beside the bier woman were disclosed here yester- of China, ran a business in Hong Meetings at various locations in technocrat whose power is said to Dozens of wreaths wrought fi day by Arthur Stiffel, a customs Kong through which the equipment Marlboro were secretly videotaped, have increased significantly under KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO pine branches and carnations were special agent in New Jersey. was routed to China. He said Zheng Stiffel said, and agents arrested the Andropov. carried into the building, across a The Lincroft engineer has been made monthly trips to the People's five at 6:30 p.m. Saturday as they The late evening news program on respondents in the Soviet capital huge square from the Kremlin. identified as Kuang-Shin Lin, 37, an Republic of China. entered a car in Marlboro after a Soviet television did not mention that the plenum would be convened A half-mile to the southeast, electrical engineer employed at The arrests were part of "Oper- final meeting. when the plenum would be held. this morning in time for the ex- dozens of official cars were parked AT&T Information Systems, Middle- ation Exodus," a two-year effort by "They were in shock," Stiffel sid. But Andropov is to be buried pected afternoon arrival of most outside the Central Committee of- town. the Customs Service to stop high- "They just could not believe that tomorrow, with dozens of foreign foreign dignitaries fices. Other cars bustled in and out Two others arrested are residents technology equipment from reach- they had been taken in." heads of state and government Japan's Kyodo News Service of the parking lot and driveway.

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