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Deaths of 3 agents mar queen's trip T.ofrv Snoalroa YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (UPI) A head-on car crash Saturday killed three Secret Service agents assigned to protect Queen Elizabeth II as the royal party headed into the snowy Sierra for the weekend. The queen and Prince Philip went to Yosemite National Park to relax after hosting a wedding anniversary dinner that turned into an intimate late-night champagne party for President and Mrs. Reagan on the royal yacht in San Francisco Bay. The dead agents were part of the detail assigned to protect the queen and Prince Philip during a weekend in the national park.

The accident, however, did not involve the royal motorcade, which passed through the area about 30 minutes later, the California Highway Patrol reported. The crash occurred at 12:50 p.m. CST about 120 miles east of San Francisco and about 25 miles west of the entrance to Yosemite. The agents "were en route from castle Air Force Base to assume protective duties for the queen in Yosemite," Secret Service headquarters in Washington said. The three agents killed were George P.

Labarge, 41, of Dayton, Ohio; Donald W. Robinson, 38, of Newark, N.J.; and Donald A. Bejcek, 29, of Chicago, the Secret Service said. A highway patrol spokesman said a Mariposa County sheriff's patrol car sideswiped a Secret Service car on Queen Elizabeth and Ronald Reagan leave the Britannia. state highway 132 between La Grange and Coulterville, then continued down the road and crashed head-on into another Secret Service car.

The highway patrol spokesman said it was believed the royal motorcade detoured around the crash site and the queen did not see the wreck. The royal couple went by air and car to Yosemite after giving a party Friday night on their yacht Britannia HIGH-WIRE THRILLS John Lemoine and his daughter, Michelle, performers with a visiting circus in San Juan, Puerto Rico, do a high-wire act to publicize their show. The UPI Photo act, done without a net, was performed about 100 yards from the spot where Karl Wal- lenda, famed high-wire artist, fell to Vs death about five years agi Steve, Cyndy Garvey strikeout LOS ANGELES (UPI) San Diego Padres first baseman Steve Garvey has filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years, Cyndy. Garvey, 34, cited irreconcilable differences in the Superior Court suit. He is seeking joint legal and physical custody of the couple's two children, Krisha Lee, 8, and Whitney Alyse, 6.

Property rights are to be determined. The couple own houses in Malibu and Calabasas. Garvey left the Los Angeles Dodgers after 27 years in which he rose from batboy to All-Star record holder. After failing to settle on terms with the club, he signed a five-year contract in December with the Padres that will pay him at least $6.6 million a year and as much as $8.5 million. Rumors of the Garveys' split made headlines in 1981 when Inside Sports magazine ran an article titled "Trouble in Paradise." The Garveys filed a suit against the magazine, claiming the story was untrue.

But later that year they separated. Mrs. Garvey quit her job as hostess of the "A.M. Los Angeles" show on the city's ABC affiliate and took the two children to live in New York, where she was linked with composer Marvin Hamlisch. She recently signed for a similar job on the "Good Morning New York" show.

Ford on better footing nowadays AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) Former President Gerald Ford, whose athletic blunders were widely publicized during his presidency, strayed from a serious discussion of the New Deal to comment on his alleged clumsiness. The news media often published photographs and showed film clips of Ford taking skiing tumbles, bumping his head on helicopter doorways and striking spectators with golf balls during the former Michigan football star's two-and-a-half year presidency. "Since retiring, I have had more time and as a result I fall down less on the snowy slopes of Colorado and my friends in the press pay less attention to me," Ford said Friday, generating guffaws from a audience attending a symposium on the New Deal. "But more importantly, on the golf course, I am hitting a lot less spectators." Neil Young battles flu, angry fans LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) Flu-stricken musician Neil Young ended his concert early Friday night and passed out in his dressing room while fans jeered and threw chairs.

Three people were arrested. Police said there were no injuries. Those taken into custody were charged with inciting a riot, wanton endangerment, criminal mischief and criminal attempted assault. Police restored ordered in about an hour at the state-owned Commonwealth Convention Center, where about 5,500 people paid 110.50 and $12.50 for the concert. Dr.

Richard Greathouse of Louisville, a pediatrician and elected Jefferson County coroner, announced to the crowd that Young had become ill and was unable to continue the performance. The announcement prompted jeers by the crowd. Some people threw cups of beer and tossed chairs. Police estimated damage at the downtown convention hall at A spokesman for Sunshine Productions, the agency that booked the concert, said Young has been suffering from the flu for several days. "He's very sick," Sunshine spokesman Steve Cohen said.

"The rigors of the road are not an easy thing and an illness doesn't make it any better." Ford celebrating the Reagans' 31st wedding anniversary, which lasted into the wee hours Saturday morning. At a reception for 200 following dinner on the yacht Britannia, the Royal Marine Band played "The Anniversary Waltz" from the pier. Afterward, a group of about 30 stayed behind with the royal couple, the president and the first lady, said Deputy White House Press Secretary Salvadorcms release American journalist SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (UPI) American journalist Michael Luhan, who said he was held captive by leftist guerrillas for 19 days, was released Saturday by government soldiers and taken to the U.S. Embassy, officials said. Luhan, a freelance writer for the Dallas Morning News, told rebels "he couldn't walk anymore" and was left at an unidentified village Friday, where the army picked him up, a U.S.

Embassy spokesman said. The spokesman said Luhan, 30, was not interrogated by the army. The journalist was released from army high command headquarters and taken to the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador, without speaking to reporters. Embassy officials said Luhan, of Bloomington, would stay in a safe house one.

night and leave the country today. Larry Speakes. Champagne flowed at the intimate party after the reception for about two hours. Deputy White House Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, wearing a Royal Navy cap he got from a crewman, played the piano and sang "True Love" for the Reagans. The Britannia's crew presented the Reagans with a large anniversary card with a cartoon showing the crewmen trying to pull a horse for the Reagans onto the yacht.

The cook brought in a cake with one candle and the Reagans blew it out. Reagan told the group that when he married Nancy, he promised her "a lot of things, but not this." He kissed her as the party broke up. The Reagans spent the night aboard the Britannia, in the suite Princesses Anne and Margaret used on honeymoon voyages, but got to bed late. "It was a short night," commented Speakes. He said the president told him he slept "exceptionally well, but not long enough they were knocking on the door early in the morning." The Reagans said goodbye to the royal couple in the rain at San Francisco International Airport Saturday morning after playing host to Elizabeth and Philip at affairs in Los Angeles, San Francisco and the president's mountaintop ranch for the past week.

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