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INSIDE Dc0jlloincs mister Des Moines, Iowa Thursday Morning, September 9, 1982 CLASSIFIEDS SECTION FBI agent is a man of actioe, not words i I i "T1 UST1R6S ii i i mmimm mmwmKwmmKmm mesff" ww- LU'" --mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmnii By NICK LAMBERTO Rvftitor Staff Witter At age 45, Herb Hawkins still looks But as special agent in charge of fit enough to fight a war or have a the Omaha office of the Federal shootout with an armed fugitive Bureau of Investigation, whose IOWA DOY both of which he has survived with domain includes all of Nebraska'and physical and mental scars as Iowa and stretches 700 miles from reminders. Scottsbluff to Keokuk, Hawkins has to Herbert H. Hawkins as he is do a certain amount of public formally known, is a taciturn man relations work by speaking to civic who doesn't like to talk about his and police groups in both states. feats on the battlefield or in the Seldom does he talk about the time pursuit of criminals. he shot the gun out of a criminal's REGISTER PHOTO BY BOB NANDELL Well, it was a novel idea Folks, when I opened the Bad Taste Bureau here to consult with you when you are doing tacky things, I never dreamed I'd have to be issuing weekly advisories.

Unfortunately, the Bad Taste Hotline has been humming. Business is brisk. Hence, another little scolding today. It's a tradition that each fall, the athletic departments at big colleges put out colorful posters that have some action photographs, maybe a portrait of this year's big star or new coach and the schedules for the coming season. You've seen them around the barbershops, I'm sure.

A lot of fans collect them. Some, 20,000 of this year's Iowa Hawkeye posters are now arriving at the barbershops, as well as at the homes of donors and boosters like me. Warning: This poster may be, nay, will be, hazardous to your mental health. it I lwV Sit extremely apprehensive, but we all know we have a job to do and fear never overwhelms you. You overcome and suppress it." Hawkins also admitted that on at least one occasion he told an armed wanted man, "Don't do it," and the man obeyed and dropped the weapon.

"One of the keys is to always have sufficient manpower to overwhelm the situation," he said. Son of Marine Hawkins, the son of a 30-year career U.S. Marine, was born in New York City and attended schools there and in Virginia and California before graduating from high school in 1951 at Camp LeJeune, N.C. Hawkins then studied pre-dentistry and Latin American cultures at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1959. He had a three-year obligation for service in the Marine Corps and ended up serving 10 years and attaining the rank of major.

During 18 months in Vietnam, Hawkins, sometimes armed with a Tommy gun and pistol, commanded a rifle company in heavy fighting in the DMZ area. He received numerous medals, including the bronze star, Navy commendation and two purple hearts for wounds. Hawkins tired of life in the Marines and planned to study law. Instead, he joined the FBI in August 1969 and has served at various places and in different types of assignment He is divorced and the father of six children. Tanned and Trim Hawkins stands 5 feet 9 inches and weighs about 160 pounds.

He is tanned and trim and has thinning brown hair. His piercing brown eyes at times reveal his no-nonsense approach to his job as boss of some 100 FBI employees in Iowa and Nebraska. Hawkins apparently views being interviewed by a reporter with the same enthusiasm usually reserved for an emergency visit to a dentist. But his humor comes through when he says smiling, "I suppose when I get through with this, the Russians will have a complete dossier on me." machine was wheeled into a hotel building, along with a three-page $3 million extortion demand. The bomb was detonated Aug.

27, the next day, and no one was injured, but it caused $12 million in damage. The biggest FBI probe ever into a property crime concluded after almost a year's investigation of 6,300 people, a review of 120,000 records, a list of 517 suspects and the arrests of John Waldo Birges 60, and Ella Joan Williams, 47, of Clovis, with whom Birges lived; and Terry Lee Hall, 26, and Willis "Bill" Brown, 51, both of Fresno, Calif. Court documents show that Birges' sons John 21, and James, 19 told investigators many of the details of the plot and also helped the FBI locate a buried cache of dynamite. The elder Birges is described in various news articles as a former German Luftwaffe pilot, a Hungarian freedom fighter and a captive in a Soviet labor camp for eight years. He was a landscapes restaurateur and heavy gambler when arrested a year ago.

Witness for Prosecution Birges' trial is scheduled to start Oct. 6 at Las Vegas, and Hawkins is scheduled to be one of the prosecution witnesses. Though he knows enough about the two cases to write several scenarios for TV shows, Hawkins won't discuss them now. Nor will he talk about the time he faced a cornered fugitive and shot the gun out of his hand. Only in generalities will Hawkins discuss such shootouts.

"Over 85 percent of the gun battles involving the FBI occur at a distance of 12 feet or less," Hawkins said in a recent Interview in the Des Moines FBI office. Fear also lurks in the background, whether in armed combat in Vietnam or chasing fugitives, Hawkins conceded, but a trained person overcomes it. "When you kick a door down, you never know who is on the other side, or if he has a weapon," Hawkins said. "But you don't really have time to be afraid. I'm sure everyone is hand; nor does he talk because of a court order about two of the biggest investigations he worked on during 13 years as an FBI agent.

Those two big cases, still before the courts, are the murder of U.S. Judge John H. "Maximum John" Wood 63, on May 29, 1979, in San Antonio, Texas, and the $15 million extortion-bombing at Harvey's Resort-Hotel Casino Aug. 26-27, 1980, in Stateline, Nev. Cost $4.7 Million The investigation into the death of Wood, the first sitting federal judge to be murdered in this century, cost $4.7 million and was the most extensive since the assassination of John Kennedy in 1963, officials said.

FBI Director William Webster, once a federal judge himself, said 214,000 separate items relating to the case were fed into a computer and that at one time 70 FBI agents were working exclusively on the case. Hawkins was one of the leaders, but he won't talk about it. Last April 15, a federal grand jury at San Antonio indicted five people, including three members of an El Paso family with ties to international drug trafficking. The grand jury said Judge Wood, noted for his stiff sentences for convicted drug dealers, was the victim of a conspiracy aimed at keeping him from presiding over the narcotics trial of Jamiel "Jimmy" Chagra, 37. The indictment charged that Chagra arranged to pay Charles Voyde Harrelson, 43, a convicted hit man, $250,000 to murder Judge Wood.

Rifle Traced Also charged with conspiracy to murder were Chagra's younger brother, lawyer Joseph Salim Chagra, 35; Jimmy Chagra's wife, Elizabeth Nichols Chagra, 28; and Harrelson's wife, Jo Ann Starr Harrelson, 43. The biggest breakthrough in the nearly three-year investigation came when the purchase of a rifle of the type used to kill Wood was traced to her. Hawkins was senior agent in charge of the investigation of the 1980 extortion-bombing In which a bomb disguised as an office copying It has two sides, one for football, one for basketball. Down low on each side, there is a schedule of games and six or seven little pictures of Hawkeye athletes in action. Thats fine, just fine.

But the upper half of the poster, both sides, is given over to a nearly life-size drawing of "Hawkeye," that Daniel Boone-like character from James Fenimore Cooper's novel, "The Last of the Mohicans." An ex planatory note holds that Hawkeye was a "straight-shooting, trailblazing tower of strength," presumably just Wt liters" lpQ 1 1 vt it 1 like the of I jocks. Ghastly, huh? Well there's more. In this drawing, Hawkeye is wearing what appears to be a white, furry stocking cap. As you go up higher on his head, the white fur turns into the feathered head of a hawk. The overall effect is that this guy Hawkeye seems to have a bird growing right out of his skull.

This leaves him looking a little like a hood ANNE KLEIN ornament on an old Pontiac. Makes you think immediately of Big Ten football, huh? And the earring, oh my goodness! He is wearing a dangling, FBI's Herb Hawkins: taciturn man in charge. round bauble the size of a half-dollar with the Tiger Hawk emblem on it. Let's see, we have a 1760s character wearing jewelry with a 1960s logo This thing is as bad as if you rolled into one bie lumn: (1) the expression "Scratch Where It Itches," (2) Bob IR'SLIMRS Brooks, the former co-host of the i Hayden Fry show, and (3) that 57-0 loss to Nebraska two years ago. And I Long, Lean and Luxe! Charge it may be understating it.

Who's responsible? An attornev for the widow of It is the work of design artist Bill Alfred Bloomingdale asked a judge in Los Angeles Wednesday to throw out a lawsuit by the millionaire mistress, claiming her alleged Colbert, printer Chuck Edwards and i Three Arts advertising agency, all of Cedar Rapids. They donated the poster to the athletic department, which is distributing it as "a good will gesture toward our fans," said Jim contracts for him to support her were The best ANNE KLEIN collection ever! From DONNA KARAN and LOUIS DELL 'OLIO. really contracts for prostitution, in the suit, Vicki Morgan, 30, says she was Bloomingdale's lover and companion for 12 years and seeks $5 1 White, athletic promotions director. "I think generally, it's a high-oual million in lifetime support, it was filed orieinallv aeainst Bloomingdale, itv niece of art work," White said "But personally, I think I'd like to see co-founder of the Diner's Club, but Refined, sophisticated American Sportswear. Assertively tailored! In luxurious cashmeres, wool flannels, wool crepes and silks.

Sizes 2 to 14. a larger area of the poster dedicated to game action shots. I think that's later named his wife, Betsy, as a co-defendant, claiming she wrongly interfered with a legal contract when primarily what our fans are interest Three's a charm Singer David Crosby has been arrested for the third time in six months, this time on a warrant accusing him of failing to appear for sentencing on a misdemeanor count of disturbing the peace, officials said. The 40-year-old rock star posted $25,000 bail and was released early Tuesday in Culver City, Calif. He was arrested Monday night at Irvine Meadows auditorium, where his rock group Crosby, Stills and Nash gave a concert.

Crosby was arrested March 30 in Costa Mesa for investigation of illegally carrying a loaded pistol and arrested April 13 in Dallas for investigation of possessing cocaine and a gun, officials said. Close call Tom Snyder is back in the anchor chair, and he almost blew his last line on opening night. Snyder, a former NBC newsperson and host for eight years on the "Tomorrow" show, took over Tuesday as sole anchor on New York television station ABC's 11 p.m. newscast. He closed the broadcast by beginning to call his new employer NBC.

"I almost said the other letters," he said. Heart disease Representative Adam Benjamin ed in." That's White's suggestion for next i vear. she broke up the affair between ner husband and Morgan and cut off the mistress's $18,000 a month payments. Betsy Bloomingdale's attorney, Hillel Chodos, argued: "Miss Morgan claims she has a greater right as a mistress than the law would give her as a wife. I have my own.

I suggest next year instead of some mangy old trapper like this character Hawkeye, they Shown: Grey wool crepe battle jacket, 280.00 Silk jacquard blouse, 270.00 Wool flannel wrap skirt, 190.00 should feature "E.T.," the lovable little twirn of recent movie fame. The most solemn contract known to law is marriage. Yet if two people get a divorce, his obligation to support her terminates after his death. Miss Then there could be this explanatory note: "This poster, like the one of a year ago, is coming to you from outer Morgan claims a mistress is entitled to suDDort for life, although she has sDace. remarried twice and he has died." ANNE KLEIN Chuck Offeriburger Gone dry vv mil FUR COLLECTION mi THREE ARTS INC.

Georgia State Senator Julian Bond i If 12 4 con MirwAPI FORREST FURS says he's abandoning a bid for Congress for lack of money, "the II ft It I i the 47-year-old Indiana Democrat whose body was found in his Capitol Hill apartment Tuesday, died from heart disease, the District of mother's milk of politics." Bona, a black civil rights activist who helped reapportion the 5th Congressional District to include a 65 percent black f7 i With i 1 vlM i 'ti 4 Fabulously styled fursexquisite in every detail. Columbia medical examiner's office A l.iil ruled Wednesday. Dr. Douglas Dixon, majority, said Tuesday ne naa lanea to win enough financial support to campaign for a special Democratic i i '-mm who conducted an autopsy, said death was caused by occlusive coronary artery disease, commonly known as hardening of the arteries. m.

GRAND OPENING TODAY VALLEY WEST MALL Playing cowboy On Friday, mounted drill teams, a staeecoach display, rodeo queens and primary Nov. 2. Playing mommy Diana, princess of Wales, will stay out of the limelight for the rest of the year, partly to spend more time with her infant son, Buckingham Palace said Wednesday. Her next public engagement is Oct. 26, when she will accompany her husband, Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, at a concert in London.

a good portion of Utah's Republican Kn v. a a Partv workers will" greet President SNUB lower Hawtoeyvs Reagan at a picnic in the northern Utah community of Hooper near Ogden and about 30 miles north of I Salt Lake City..