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mmU TO LOME A OTM style. INDUSTRY WANTS TO RUN PRISONS Metro DIXON FINALLY BEATS BRISCO-HOOKS Sports Pittsbi Pre FINAL EDITION 25 Cents VOL. 101, No. 241 SATURDAY; FEBRUARY 3, 1985 2-23 The Change, or else, Shultz warns Sandinistas but said he wants the regime "removed" in its prsent form. Tunnerman said the solution of U.S.-Nicaraguan tension is "really simple." It requires that the United States recognize that "the Nicaraguan revolution is rooted in Nicarguan history it is not a copy of the Cuban revolution, and it is not communist or totalitarian." In Managua yesterday, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega accused the Reagan administration of trying to "confuse and manipulate" the American people in an effort to defend a policy of terrorism against Nicaragua.

to the United States warned that if American armed forces attack his country, "It will not be a picnic as in Grenada An American invasion would "run into 1.5 million armed people," said Carlos Tunner-mann in an interview. "The defense of Nicaragua is not based solely on the army but on the people themselves." Tunnermann said remarks of Reagan and Shultz indicate the Reagan administration "has the political will to opt for a military solution." In his Thursday night press conference, Reagan hedged on whether he intended to attempt to overthrow the Sandinista regime resumption of U.S. assistance to the "contra" rebels, asserting they are on "the front line in the struggle for progress, security and freedom in Central America." The administration is seeking $14 million in aid to the resistance movement but is faced with heavy opposition to the proposal, Earticularly in the Democrat-controlled ouse. The rebels have received about $80 million in U.S. assistance beginning in 1981 but a congressional cutoff has been in effect since last May.

Shultz, criticizing congressional critics of the measure with unusually harsh language, said, "Those who would cut off these freedom fighters from the rest of the democratic world are, in effect, consigning Nicaragua to the endless darkness of communist tyranny. And they are leading the United States down a path of great danger." The secretary said that without U.S. pressure, the Sandinistas will continue to build up their military establishment, export revolution and reject democracy. Shultz's remarks came during a speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. A text of the address was made available by the State Department in Washington.

Meanwhile, the Nicaraguan ambassador Combined New Services WASHINGTON Secretary of State George P. Shultz is raising the possibility of eventual direct U.S. involvement in Central America if the administration can't maintain pressure on Nicaragua through support of anti-Sandinista rebels. Unless the "appropriate steps" are taken now to ensure that the Sandinistas change their behavior, "then we may find later, when we can no longer avoid acting, that the stakes will be higher and the costs greater," Shultz said yesterday. Shultz delivered a strong appeal for a i 1 1 i.

CD ST "-k-o, mJJ 3J 111 1 109 flee hijacked jetliner in Beirut 4rfiif aawiMMAABfign jMMMiml.i.:.;..iv;. Marlene KarasThe Pittsburgh Press Butler 8, missing By Mike Hasch The Pittsburgh Press The search continued today for an 8-year-old Butler County girl last reported seen getting off a school bus near her home yesterday afternoon. State police said Cherrie A. Ma-han of Cornplanter Road in Winfield Township, about 12 miles southeast of Butler, got off the bus at 4:10 p.m. with some companions.

Her companions last saw her walking toward her driveway, about 50 feet away, police said. "I heart the bus stop and then leave," said the girl's stepfather, Leroy K. McKinney. "I waited and waited but she didn't come to the door after 10 minutes I got worried and went out to look for her and she wasn't there." McKinney said Cherrie is the only child he and his wife, Janice, have. "We don't know what happened to her," McKinney said.

"The state police think she was picked up by somebody in a van. That's all they know." State police said a blue van was observed following the school bus. The van has transparent mountain scenes in the rear door windows and portal-type side windows. When McKinney failed to find Cherrie, police were called and soon the area was swarming with searchers. "That's pretty rugged country up there, with some pretty good hills, said Glenn Fair, the assistant chief of the Saxonburg Volunteer Fire Department.

"The ground is pretty well snow covered." "We walked along the road, hunting for possible footprints, and others went through the woods." Bloodhounds joined the approximately 100 persons, including police and volunteers, who, Fair said, took part in the search called off shortly after midnight. State police investigators worked throughout the night, following up possible leads and searching both Butler and Armstrong counties. Cherrie, a third-grade student at the Winfield Elementary School in the South Butler School District, is 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 68 pounds. The slender girl has brown, shoulder-length hair and hazel eyes. She was last reported seen wearing a gray coat, blue denim skirt and knee-high blue leg warmers.

She was also wearing beige, ankle-high boots and a pair of Cabbage Patch earmuffs. Grounded after dense fog in Chicago forced cancellation of her flight and stranded about 1,500 passengers at the airport. (Story, Page A2) Hawaii-bound Jennifer Chervenick of Irwin found it hard to be patient at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport yesterday LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) A hijacker today commandeered a Middle East Airlines jet at Beirut airport and forced the crew to fly the plane to Cyprus where it landed safely before taking off for an undisclosed destination, authorities said. The hijacker had threatened to blow up the plane if it landed. All 109 passengers aboard escaped before the Middle East Airlines Flight 203 took off from Beirut International Airport, officials in Beirut said.

Police in Beirut said one police officer and one or more civilians were wounded in a gunbattle on the ground before the plane was airborne. It was not known if any of the passengers were among the wounded. The plane, bound for Paris and London, took off from Beirut with its emergency chutes dangling and its doors open following the gun-fight, said airport officials. The passengers aboard the Boeing 707 escaped down the emergency chutes before takeoff, the officials said. The 10-member crew apparently remained on board.

Two or three of the escaping passengers were sligtly hurt sliding down the chutes, the officials said. The Lebanese airliner landed about an hour later at Larnaca, Cyprus, about 120 miles west of Beirut, and was ringed by armed Cypriot police as it parked at the end of the single runway. After the Boeing 707 was airborne, the hijacker identified himself by radio to the control tower at Beirut International Airport as a Lebanese Druse named Abu Amr and told airport officials: "This is a suicide attack. I don't care and I'm not scared of anyone." He demanded to speak to the airport official in charge of security or to Lebanese President Amin Ge-mayel, and said his demands were in an envelope hidden in the airport. The radio conversation between the hijacker and the control tower was being monitored by reporters.

"If I know that you're trying to make deals, or if there is army or police interfering, I will just blow up the plane," the hijacker said in Arabic. "I am completely independent." Later, the hijacker gave a 15-minute deadline for an airport security official to arrive for negotiations. Airport officials said the pilot told the control tower a bullet fired in the shootout had made a hole in the fuel tank in the left wing. McKeesport man faces 5 charges in sex abuse of retarded children the right hip" of one of the children. Weimer's claims were sharply disputed by Clay Appel, a caseworker for Children and Youth Services, who said he has closely monitored the family.

"Weimer doesn't know what he's talking about. We've been in court with the family several times in the past few years and even have removed the children' from the home for certain periods of time." Appel said he had Mrs. Diamond contact him each time the children came to school with fresh marks on their bodies. "This consisted of bruises, scratches and rashes," Appel said. "I checked into each and every one, and each time the parents had a perfectly logical reason (for the injuries) indicating they had received them during normal activity.

Please see Charges, A4 tact with two of the children. Mrs. Diamond testified that she had observed scratches and bruises on the children on a "regular basis" over the past two years but that those she saw in her Feb. 6 examination, including "fist-like marks" on the chest of one of the girls, were far more severe. Robert J.

Weimer, director of legal affairs for the McKeesport School District, said after the hearing that the Allegheny County Children and Youth Services had done nothing to intervene in the chil-drens' behalf despite repeated complaints by the school district over the past 2 years. He said Ms. Polizzano, in her concern for the children's welfare, had kept a written record of her observations of the children over the past two years. He cited a May 1984 entry in which she noted a "bite on George Washington Elementary School in McKeesport, and Mary Polizzano, a special education teacher, testified they found deep bruises on the thighs and pubic areas of the children on Feb. 6.

Asked who caused the bruises, two of the children said, "Art did it," both women testified. Public Defender Michael Machen told the magistrate that Hoover has "a very low IQ." County Detective James Heyl testified that Hoover was arrested after admitting to "disciplining" after the children were placed in his care by their mother while she was visiting her husband, a County Jail inmate. Heyl described Hoover as a friend of the abused children's parents. During the interrogation, Heyl said, Hoover "spontaneously" told detectives he had made sexual con By Earl Kohnfelder The Pittsburgh Press A McKeesport man has been held for trial for the alleged sexual abuse of three mentally retarded children. Arthur Hoover, 32, of 1835 Flagler was ordered held by Magistrate Howard Lindberg yesterday on charges of simple assault, indecent assault, corrupting minors, corrupting the morals of a minor and endangering the welfare of children.

Bond of $25,000 was continued on Hoover, who was returned to County Jail. The children, 5-year-old and 9-year-old sisters and their 7-year-old brother, were placed in Mclntyre Shelter in Ross after Hoover's arrest Feb. 8. Kathryn Diamond, a nurse at Mother defends boy shot by cop SPORTS STYLE Index FINANCE Suit lost A state Supreme Court tie vote means Bethlehem Steel has lost its appeal of a $100 million lawsuit over Litton Industries' failure to build five giant ore ships. Page A5.

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City Police Superintendent Robert Coll said the officer, Phillip Dacey, 32, has been "relieved from duty, with pay, until further notice." Coll said Dacey, a plainclothes patrolman, shot Hardrick with a snub-nosed .38 revolver at Cantor and Kenwood streets, North Side, about 1:30 a.m. yesterday. An hour and a half earlier, police received a report that a 1983 Cadillac had been stolen from the 3800 block of Brighton Road, Coll said. The report was broadcast over police radio and was heard by the operator of a private tow truck, Coll said. He said the tow truck driver Pleaseisee Shoot.

A4 By Robert Johnson The Pittsburgh Press The mother of a North Side teenager shot by a city policeman while fleeing from a stolen car says her son "didn't deserve what he got." "It's so unfair," Eleanor Hardrick said yesterday. "Policemen are Eeace officers. They're supposed to elp you, not hurt you. I know he (her 16-year-old son Gerard) was in the car, but I don't think he stole it. "He told me he got out of the car and ran because he was scared.

All he heard was the word and then he was shot in the back by the police. Now he's all messed up physically." Young Hardrick of 256 Penfort North Side, is st1. listed in B12 Theaters B8-9 Vital statistics B6 Want ads C4-11 Lottery numbers B3 Press phones A3 Religion B5 Sports Comics Bll Death notices B4 Editorials B2 Finance A5 Gerard Hardrick Shot while fleeing CLOUDY MILDDetails Page A2 -r 1.