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A 4 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, FRiDAY, JULY 10, 1987 MEUJS BRIEFS EDITED BY JAKE VOREIS Grenade attack by Iranian gunboat Hindu tstrik damages U.S.-operated oil tanker giihiSiS58 NATIONAL fears another try on life Supertanker RA) attacked by Iran STRAIT I V-v OF HORMUZ KUWAITV BAHRAIN A AN Q. QATAR j) tV SAUDI ARABIA OMAN .200 MILES i it ixy i -A. 1 I HOUSTON A former model who was awarded J28.6 million in civil damages says she's still afraid of her ex-lover, who she alleged hired men to kill her. Richard Minns, a health spa owner, was ordered to pay Barbra Piotrowski the judgment by State Family District Judge Bill Elliott. Piotrowski, 32, was shot in the back, paralyzing her below the waist, outside a Houston doughnut shop in 1980.

Her lawsuit claimed Minns hired the gunmen. Minns, in his 50s and living in Switzerland, has never been charged. However, four men are serving prison terms in the case. Minns never responded to orders to appear for a deposition in the civil case. A lawyer for Piotrowski said he will ask the judge to require Minns to The gunboat caught up to the tanker and "just opened fire," a crew member said in an interview by ship-to-shore radio.

"He gave no warning, no questions about where we were bound or where we were from." Lloyd's Shipping Intelligence in London said the tanker headed toward Bahrain, under its own power and escorted by tugs. There was no explanation of why the tanker turned away from its destination. Texaco Inc. in White Plains, N. said that the Peconic was under 20-year charter to its subsidiary Texaco Panama Inc.

and that there were no Americans among the crew. It said the ship was not loaded with oil when attacked. The Peconic is owned by Gray Shipping Co. of Monrovia, which is operated and managed by New York-based Universe Tankships Inc. of Delaware.

It was bound for Kuwait to load 60,000 tons of crude oil. Tension in the gulf helped boost oil prices past the key level of $21 a barrel yesterday. Contracts for August delivery of West Texas Intermediate, the U.S. benchmark crude oil, climbed to $21.23 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up 35 cents from Wednesday. Associated Press MANAMA, Bahrain An Iranian gunboat sped alongside a U.S.-operated supertanker in the Persian Gulf and attacked without warning yesterday, starting a fire with rocket-propelled grenades.

No casualties were reported. In Washington, Reagan administration officials said the United States will not retaliate for the attack on the Peconic, which sails under the Liberian flag. But they said the attack underscored the need to put Kuwaiti tankers under U.S. flags and have American warships escort them. The attack "shows the risk involved to unescorted ships in the area," Defense Department spokesman Robert Sims said.

"It is certainly less likely that ships would be attacked if they are under military escort than if they are not." Jane's Defense Weekly, an authoritative magazine published in London, said in its edition yesterday that Iran has responded to U.S. activity in the gulf with a huge naval buildup and may wage seaborne guerrilla war with fast boats and suicide attacks. In Tehran, Iran's official radio said that if the United States puts Associated Press i NEW DELHI, India Strikers shut down New Delhi and 21 other cities yesterday to protest the massacre of 72 Hindu bus passengers by Sikh separatists. Police said Sikhs also killed eight people yesterday in Punjab state, including local Communist Party leader Sukhminder Singh, his three children, a relative and a bodyguard, the United News of India reported. In New Delhi, Hindu mobs set fire to a Sikh shrine and Sikh homes, businesses and vehicles.

Police arrested 236 people, almost all Hindus. Officers fired tear gas to disperse mobs, recovered a crude bomb and ordered 300,000 residents to stay home under a curfew. The strikes shut down most businesses, shops, movie houses and restaurants. Government offices were nearly empty. Authorities closed schools and suspended bus service.

More than 18,000 police and an unspecified number of federal paramilitary troops were deployed in New Delhi to prevent Hindu backlash against the Sikhs. Indian army units in full battle dress were standing by at four spots in the capital where anti-Sikh violence has broken out in the past. Two policemen were reported injured. In Punjab, five Sikh gunmen raided Chungawan village in Faridkot district and sprayed bullets Singh's family, who were sleeping on the terrace. ASSOCIATED PRESS MAP Kuwaiti tankers under protection of the U.S.

flag, it will need more flags "to decorate the boxes containing the corpses of American military personnel who enter this perilous place." Eighteen rocket-propelled grenades hit the Peconic 60 miles southeast of Kuwait's Al-Ahmadi oil terminal, its destination at the gulfs northern end, the ship's owners said. Iran began regular attacks last September on ships serving Kuwait which supports Iraq in its e-year-old war with Iran. Barbra Piotrowski Senate divided over reflagging plan list his assets. If Minns refuses, he could be arrested if he returns to the United States. "I am still very much afraid of Richard Minns," Piotrowski said.

"He has a tremendous amount of money and political Slovik's body misplaced WASHINGTON The body of Pvt Eddie Slovik, the only one of 21,000 convicted U.S. deserters to face a firing squad during World War II, has been exhumed from a grave in France and was to be returned to his native Detroit, the Army said yesterday. But the remains weren't aboard the flight that was supposed to bring them home, TWA said last night. Airline officials said the remains most likely were mistakenly unloaded at Flight 769's stop in New York, and began a search. Burial had been planned for tomorrow morning next to Slovik's wife, Antoinette, at a cemetery in southwest Detroit.

Slovik's wife died in 1979 after years of unsuccessful efforts to clear his name. The exhumation culminated efforts begun in 1981 by a Polish-American Army veteran, Bernard Calka. Calka, a retired firefighter, spent more than $5,000 to return Slovik's body to Detroit No hard time for striking teachers JERSEY CITY, N.J. A state appeals court panel yesterday overturned jail terms for 110 teachers and other school employees sentenced for defying a back-to-work order during a six-day strike in March. The judges instead ordered the defendants to perform community service work.

In overturning the controversial two- and three-day sentences, Judges Lawrence Bilder and Neil Deighan said they were "assessing the proper sanctions" against the Lyndhurst school employees. They told Superior Court Judge Paul Huot, who imposed the jail terms, to decide the type of community service. Tighter rein on Marcos asked DO YOU NEED AIR CONDITIONING? drawn into the Iran-Iraq war because Kuwait has aided Iraq. But Democrats said they would try again, both to win a cloture vote and to seek a compromise that Republicans can support. The Senate vote came a day after the Democratic-controlled House voted 222-184 to require a 90-day delay in Reagan's plan.

White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater criticized House members who voted for the delay. "The House wants a continued free flow of oil, they want to end the war, they want peace and stability, they want the cooperation of our friends and allies, but they don't want to take responsibility," he said. until mid-August well beyond the mid-July date tentatively set for Reagan's policy to begin. But Sen. Dale Bumpers, said the measure should be approved anyway to make clear Senate opposition to the policy.

Bumpers was the chief author of the 90-day delay and the 56-42 vote came on his motion to table his own bill. He said he made the motion because he wanted to test Senate sentiment about Reagan's policy. Reagan plans to put U.S. flags and captains aboard 11 Kuwaiti oil tankers and have Navy warships escort the vessels through the war-torn Persian Gulf. Some Congressmen fear that the United States may be Associated Press WASHINGTON A Senate divided over President Reagan's Persian Gulf security plan refused yesterday to end a Republican filibuster blocking a resolution that seeks a postponement of the program.

But it then declined to kill a separate measure seeking a 90-day delay. The Democratic-controlled Senate, splitting generally along party lines, voted 57-42 against ending the GOP filibuster votes short of the 60 required for cloture. Hours later, the chamber voted 56-42 against killing another measure that would have delayed Reagan's plan for at least 90 days after the bill became law. Sen. John Warner, said the attempt to win a 90-day delay was futile because it couldn't take effect FREE ESTIMATES YEARS TO PAY PRUDENTIAL HEATING AND AIR CONDITIONING SINCE 1947 368-5813 WASHINGTON Indignant lawmakers, reacting to tape-recorded plotting by deposed Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, yesterday demanded stronger U.S.

measures to restrain him. State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, who warned Marcos Monday in Honolulu to stop seeking to disrupt the government of President Corazon Aquino and placed him under severe travel restrictions, said Marcos could wind up in an Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center if he continues plotting from VS. soil. The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific heard tape Indictment charges safety, effects of drug misrepresented Associated Press JULY 9 -11 Li. Jb Ferdinand Marcos recordings of Marcos' plans to mount a military operation to regain power and take Aquino hostage.

Richard Hirschfeld and Robert Chastain, who are employed by the Philippine government to try to locate wealth taken illegally by Marcos, said they secretly made the tapes while talking with Marcos at his Honolulu home. The good times are up, up and away at 84 WHASOutlets Ltd. Mall's Hot Air Balloon Extravaganza, July 9 through July 11, all to benefit Cystic Fibrosis. Watch as a host of hot air balloons compete in two colorful races and take advantage of better than sale prices being offered by Outlets Ltd. Mall stores during their Sunrise Sale! INTERNATIONAL 84 tam stereo: TO BENEFIT THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: 7:30 AM 10 AM 10 AM-12 NOON 2:00 PM WASHINGTON A federal grand jury in St Louis yesterday charged a drug manufacturer, a distributor and three individuals with misrepresenting the safety and effectiveness of a drug used in treating premature infants.

The indictment alleged that the drug company received reports that "several infants" treated with the drug died from symptoms associated with the product's use. Amy Brown, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said she could not confirm that infants had died. It also alleged that the manufacturer, Carter-Glogau Laboratories, and O'Neal, Jones and Feld-man the distributor of E-Ferol Aqueous Solution, knew the drug was potentially dangerous to infants and had not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. It said they marketed the drug without any scientific testing to determine if it was safe. Despite the lack of testing, Carter-Glogau and O'Neal, Jones indicated to physicians specializing in the care of premature infants that E-Ferol could be used to treat retro-lental fibroplasia, a disease that can cause blindness in premature infants.

The indictment alleged that O'Neal, Jones sales representatives were told to say that E-Ferol was approved by the FDA. Between November 1983 and April 1984, Carter-Glogau manufactured and shipped to O'Neal, Jones about 40,000 vials of E-Ferol, about 26,000 of which were distributed. Until April 1984, the drug manufacturer and distributor continued to say that E-Ferol was safe and did not disclose the severe adverse reactions and deaths which had been reported to them, the indictment said. Adverse reactions included excessive weight gain, abdominal enlargement and liver problems. The indictment further alleged that the defendants knew by Dec.

19, 1983, that researchers were questioning the effectiveness of the drug. Carter-Glogau voluntarily recalled the drug in April 1984, Brown said. Charges include conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud through letters mailed to hospitals and through phone conversations with medical professionals. They also are charged with violating the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for marketing a new drug without FDA approval. Efforts to reach the defendants were unsuccessful.

Saturday, July 11 (cont.) SUNRISE SALE Outlets Ltd. Mall stores will be open early with better than sale prices. SHAPE UP FOR CF Marathon exercise session with Shapenastics to benefit CF. BALLOON DROP -(Second of the Day). Over 200 balloons will descend on eager participants.

More store savings in each balloon and one additional free hot air balloon ride in the 7 PM race will be hidden in the balloons. DUSK RACE The balloons will begin their launch for the second Hare and Hound race. Lucky winners from the balloon drops will be aboard two of the balloons Don't forget to bring your South African whites, blacks meet DAKAR, Senegal Fifty prominent white South Africans, defying their government, opened three days of talks with the outlawed African National Congress yesterday on a strategy to end apartheid and establish a democratic system for their country. Frederik von Zyl Slabbert, leader of the white delegation, said the meeting would discuss "alternatives to the brutal catastrophe unfolding inside our common fatherland." Flood derails Indian train; 53 dead NEW DELHI, India A flood triggered by monsoon rains derailed a train on a bridge yesterday, killing at least 53 passengers. Fourteen cars of the New Delhi-bound South Express left the tracks in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, and two were swept into the Gangaeragadi River, All India Radio reported.

An undetermined number of passengers were still missing. Departures of Russian Jews up WASHINGTON Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union through mid-1987 totaled 3,092, far surpassing the 914 allowed to leave in all of 1986, the National Conference on Soviet Jewry reported yesterday. But the "relatively meager results" were contrasted with 1979, when 51,320 Jews arrived in Vienna from the Soviet Union. The report said almost all the Jews allowed to leave this year were on a list of 11,000 so-called refuseniks, or Jews who had been denied permission in the past "Very few new applicants are being approved, or even processed," the report said. San Salvador sees strikes, protests SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador Thousands of workers, students and peasants staged strikes and demonstrations in the capital yesterday to demand higher pay and protest a police crackdown on a Wednesday disturbance in which 65 people were hurt.

The National Unity of Salvadoran Workers, a loose coalition of anti-government unions, organized the protests and an eight-hour strike at 26 privately owned and state companies. The stoppage was planned before Wednesday's disturbance, when police fired wildly, mostly into the air, inside the Social Security building after striking workers forced their way in. Most of the injuries were caused by pushing and stick-swinging. He disliked mixing news, condiment LONDON Thomas Corlett, 58, a civil servant, is accused of killing his wife Erika, 63, because she put a pot of mustard and a newspaper on the wrong sides of his plate at dinner. He has pleaded innocent "It was her fault," Corlett said in an alleged statement to police recounting the Dec.

12, 1985 incident. "I always placed my newspaper on one side of my plate, the mustard on the other. But she moved my paper and put the mustard in its place instead, saying, 'That's where I want it and that's where I will put She started shouting and kept on and on about the paper. She raised her hand, I thought she was going to hit me. I Just grabbed her by the throat and we fell to the floor." Thursday, July 9 6 9 PM FREE TETHERED RIDES IN HOT AIR BALLOON (with $1 donation to CF).

Wind and weather permitting. Friday, July 10 7:00 PM PRESS RACE Hot air balloons will take off for the benefit of local media representatives. Saturday, July 11 6:30 AM "LIGHTER THAN AIR" PANCAKE BREAKFAST Benefits Cystic Fibrosis. 7:00 AM DAWN RACE Hot air balloons will inflate and take off in the day's first Hare and Hound race. 7:30 AM BALLOON DROP-(First of Two).

Hundreds of balloons filled with discounts will descend on eager participants. Inside every balloon will be extra savings from each store. Plus, a free balloon ride for the 7 PM evening race. 7:00 PM Rising Conquer cp Better Than Sale Prices! OUTLETS 1-64, Exit 15, Bluegrass Parkway Take Hurstbourne Lane to Bluegrass Industrial follow signs from the Ramada Inn. As LTD.

MALL Mall Hours: Monday-Saturday 10a.m. Sunday 12 For Information Call: 502-267-1111 a Special Thanks to Hampton Inn, 1902 Embassy Square Blvd..