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The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 1

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The News Tribunei
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Tacoma, Washington
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RID AY OCTOBER 10 -1986 J- FT MARKET FINAL rl vKVvrs- vi V' Dow Jones average Down 366 Explorers find a spot in searches Accent A-8 Top comics laughing this way TGIF Close: 179316 Volume: 105932400 Final stocks C-11 Weather forecast The Tacoma News Tribune Founded 1883 Our second century of service VwrffLl86 in' acoma Doctor shot at Lakewood Hospital Gunfire in emergency room leaves two hurt suspect held Madigan Army Medical Center where hii condition wu described as-guarded Tlie wounded were identified as Dr Robert Rich 45 and Sally Jacky 45 of Steilacoom They were shot shortly after 8 am in a hallway outside the X-ray room near the emergency room The gunman shot Jacky twice in the chat and twice in the abdo men while she was talking on the telephone outside the X-ray room deputies said Rich a Lakewood radiologist emerged from the X-ray room when he heard gunshot! ami was wounded twice once in the chest and once in the abdomen deputies said The weapon wu a small-caliber handgun deputies said Both Rich and Jacky were re ByDANVOELPEL The Newt Tribune A man suspected of shooting and critically wounding a doctor and a patient inside Lakewood Hospital today was taken into cus Fair cooler Details A-2 a 5-foot-6 white man in his early 30s He wu wearing a dirty denim jacket blue jean and a red-and-blue wool cap He also wu described having a pock-marked face and long brown hair Dolores Biblarz director of Greater Lakes Mental Health Center heard the description on the Continued on back page Summitry stage set for agenda of Gorbachev says world owed peace Democrats accept Reagan plan Page A-6 The Associated Preii REYKJAVIK Iceland Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev promising to search for solution the burning of the world arrived today for a superpower summit hailed by both sides a chance to make progress on arms control and other is- Gorbachev held on to his hat to keep it from being blown away by blustery winds he stepped off his Aeroflot jet with his wife Raisa Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and other officials In brief comments at Keflavik Airport Gorbachev uid have arrived here to start this meeting imbued with a sense of owed to people around the world of course hope that the same sense of responsibility for the destiny of the world is the feeling brought here in the capital of Iceland by the president of the United States" he added He said President Reagan's call Thursday for a successful summit was a good foundation for the meeting Reagan arrived here during a windy storm Thursday and spent the night at the US ambassador's modest home which will be the US headquarters during the three-day stay Reagan's pre-summit day called for several hours of final strategy sessions with Secretary of State George Shultz White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan National Security Adviser Vice Adm John Poindexter and other aides The only public meetings on his agenda were courtesy calls on Icelandic leaders think the president is well-prepared" White House spokesman Larry Speaka told reporters cm the flight from Washington is confident that he is taking the right approach that can lead to a resolution of the problems that divide the two From the airport Gorbachev traveled in a motorcade to his summit headquarters: a cruise ship docked in a Reykjavik bay for Continued on back page 68 PAGES 4 SECTIONS ported in critical but stable condition at Lakewood Hospital after surgery this morning Deputies sealed off a four-block area around the hospital after the shooting and launched a door-to-door search in nearby apartment complexes Canine units sent in to track the gunman behind the hospital lost the scent in the Villa Plaza shopping area The assailant wu described as Nicaragua encouraged Durenberger said in discussing thou behind the mission He pronounced himself that the CIA been trying to keep its hands until congressional conferees agree on terms for the release of 100 million in Contra aid won from Congress by the administration Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams meanwhile insisted that statements by the C-123'a sur- Continued on back page Eastern bloc against the export of many high-technology goods hu often put him at odds with officials in other government agenda well industry executives He added: not the size much the nature of the material involved: top-of-the-line manufacturing technology generic in nature that will enable the Soviets to produce military equipment of very high The investigation wu disclosed Continued on back page Globemaster lands McChord Air Museum on Cloud 9 tody by Pierce County sheriffs deputies after he suffered a drug overdose Deputies found the suspect semiconscious on the living room floor of a home at 10322 Bridgeport Way SW He was transported to gram discrepancy wu typical for such six-month reports he said Dan Hirsch a nuclear expert at the University of California at Santa Crux uid the amount of plutonium necessary to make a nuclear bomb wu classified But he said federal regulation suggest the minimum amount necessary ia two kilograms The federal Department of Energy this week ordered the Rockwell plutonium plants shut down for up to a month following revelations that safety rules were violated last month The rules involved were designed to prevent a runaway nuclear reaction at Rockwell's Plutonium Finishing Plant The nearby Plutonium-Uranium Extraction Plant also wu ordered closed While critics of the nuclear industry worry about safety issues at places like Hanford mining plutonium is a particularly troubling problem It is highly toxic and there are fears Continued on back page retired museum available The effort 140000 it from aircraft The of borrowed an By SUSAN GORDON The News Tribune Force personnel guided the aircraft to its final landing place at McChord The former Detroit Institute of Aeronautics plane flew in about 3:30 pm with its No 1 engine smoking The engine failed jut the pilot CoL Gary Colwell of the 4th Military Airlift Squadron turned the aircraft for its final approach to McChord Colwell who last flew a C-124 20 years ago said the 10W -hour flight wu an otherwise uneventful panorama of farms and mountains Except in the passes he Continued on back page is the last one to fly ever in the said Air Force Brig Gen Hugh Wild chairman of the foundation never fly again but be for all of us to look at and pat and C-124's arrival at McChord culminated a 4-year by museum foundation members They raised to revitalize a 1952 edition of the plane and bring Michigan where it had been used to train future mechanics Wild said plane been flown in 10 years But with a set Pratt Whitney Aircraft Co 4360 engines 11-man crew of active-duty reserve and retired Air One of the airplanes that made worldwide military airlift a reality a Douglas Aircraft Co C-124 Globemaster flew for the last time Thursday on a nostalgic return to McChord Air Force Base following a 17-year absence The plane me of a breed nicknamed Shakey" because of the vibrations caused by their four reciprocating engines wu delivered to McChord to become the centerpiece of the McChord Air Museum Senator says follows plane downed in Plutonium records troubling to experts Killer metal easily concealed they say (D-Vt) lot of questions have been raised and I have the Sen Dave Durenberger (R- Minn) the chairman sounded puzzled and uncertain when asked who wu behind the resupply mission exposed Sunday when the American crew of an American C-123 wu downed in Nicaragua by Sandinista troops using a Soviet surface-to-air missile in the UB government knows who they are and hu Knight-Rldder Newspapers and The Associated Press WASHINGTON Leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee emerged Thursday from a session with Central Intelligence Agency director William Casey ami expressed nervousness about a possible CIA role in efforts to resupply Contra rebels administration has got a real credibility problem on this and is on a thin uid committee vice chairmpn Sen Patrick Leahy Probers question Hanford auditor Page A-12 By JEFF WEATHERSBY The News Tribune Plutonium may be me of the most toxic materials in the world but it can be wrapped in paper or plastic slipped into a pocket and then passed to the eager and lucrative marketplace of nuclear weapons materials according to aeveral nuclear experts That is why they are alarmed at recent reports from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation that officials cannot account for all the plutonium produced at Rockwell Hanford Operations facilities The most recent declassified report for the Rockwell operation shows that nine kilograms of the deadly material was unaccounted for during the six-month period ending Sept 30 1985 said Tom Bauman a US Department of Energy spokesman at Hanford The nine-kilo US technology spirited to Tlw New York Times era high-capacity disk drives and NEW YORK Tracking an elusive trail of missing computer equipment investigaton in the United Statu and Western Europe are unraveling the complex details of what they uy is one of the largest and most damaging diversions of high-technology equipment to the Eastern bloc The case which so far has set off a flurry of legal actions but no indictments centers on at least III million worth of highly sophisticated American-made comput- software that may have been spirited out of Western Europe over the past year Officials who intercepted the tail end of the shipments in June uy that while there is no conclusive evidence they are nearly certain the bulk of the equipment is now in East Germany or the Soviet Union is no question that the case ia among the most serious of recent uid Richard Perle an assistant secretary of defense whose hard-line position i i 4 1 a.

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