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Tha Morning Nawa, Wilmington, Friday, March 21, 1080 Hostage-holding 'Desperado' gets his song peopte in the news trucker." When it was finished, he -said: "That was for the desperate trucker." The song opens with the verse: "Desperado, why don't you come to your senses? You've been out riding fences, for so long now. Oh you're a hard one, but I know that you've got your reasons." Bolz said that when Rivera "heard it appeared he got very emotional and he said Come to the door, I'm going to give you the Then, Bolz said, Rivera handed -the gun to Ms. Manne and police entered. unharmed, but was taken to St. Clare's Hospital in stable condition for observation and treatment of hysteria, police said.

"He dia this out of desperation," said Capt. Frank Bolz, head of the police's hostage negotiating team. Bolz said Rivera went to the offices of the Los Angeles-based record company because he wanted the Eagles to loan him $2,500. Rivera told Bolz he needed the money to hire a lawyer to prosecute a former friend. According to Rivera, Bolz said, the former friend stole Rivera's truck and "sold it out from under him" while Rivera was hospitalized in January for multiple facial fractures.

During the siege, Rivera fired one shot at the ceiling from his gun, according to Bolz. WPLJ-FM program director Larry Berger said the record was played at 1:50 p.m. "in accordance with instructions from the police." Berger said there was no direct reference on the air to the hostage situation before or after the playing of the song. Disc jockey Jimmy Fink introduced the song by saying: "This is 'Desperado' for the desperate By BETSY KENEDY NEW YORK (AP) A "desperate trucker" demanding to see recording star Jackson Browne or a member of the Eagles rock group held the office manager of Elektra Asylum Records hostage for two hours yesterday before releasing her and surrendering, police said. Police said Joseph Paul Rivera released the woman after a New York radio station met the gunman's demand that the Eagles' song "Desperado" be played on the air.

Office manager Ruth Manne, a diabetic, was described as Sartre in hospital French philosopher and I writer Jean-Paul Sartre, 74, was hospitalized Wednesday night for treatment of pulmo- nary edema, an accumulation of fluid in the lungs, a spokeswoman for his publishers, Editions Gallimard, said yes-; terday. She said that as of mid-yes-t terday, she had been told his condition had not changed, but she had not been informed how serious it was. The French news agency said he was in intensive care at the Broussais Hospital in Paris. It said the hospital would not be issuing medical "reports, at the request of Sartre's family. Child saves family When 5-year-old Christina Lachowlci of Pine Castle, awoke to find her filled with smoke, she remembered her kindergarten fire-safety class and knew 'just what to do.

"If there's smoke, you get on the floor and crawl cause it's hot and the smoke can get vyou," she remembered being taught. So she crawled to her parents' bedroom and alerted them in time for them to grab her younger brother still in the smoke-filled room, call for help and get out. Firemen said her quick thinking enabled the family to escape uninjured from the fire early Wednesday. Artistic protest A Long Island artist was arrested yesterday after he chained himself to the door of the French consulate in New York City to protest the outcome of an exhibit of American painters in Paris four years ago. Richard Corey, 30, of Mas- Jean-Paul Sartre sapequa, N.Y., was given a summons for disorderly conduct after he unlocked the chains that held him for nearly an hour to the front door of the ornate building on Fifth Avenue, police said.

He's lost his spots Prince Andrew has lost his spots, as one of his officers put it, and gets to don the coveted green beret today as a result. The 20-year-old prince, second son of Queen Elizabeth II, survived a nine-day marine commando training course "with flying colors" here at the Lympstone training center in southwest England along with 4,0 others. Book on refugees Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Toshio Sakai has published a 190-page book, Love and Death on the Border," that he hopes will inspire the Japanese to help Indochin-ese refugees. Sakai, 39, is the 1968 recipient of the prize for feature photography for his Vietnam war picture, "Dreams of Better Times." ii wrim SJG HOME FIUTUBE SALE SAVE 10 to 35 DNS' HELD Ready to finish furniture cuts the cost of furnishing your homo. 111 i 'fS lj OIK II II IliN 1 I I I ll i I i FLORIDA PARADE OF HOMES The Mackle Brothers of Florida Invite you to Preview The Good Life Praviaw of 13 nw, exciting, affordabla Mackla-bullt Florida homes featuring now dimensions of styling and struction boing built in 7 Macklo communities.

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