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LWeather Today: Sunny, mild-Tonight: Cloudy Tomorrow: Chance of rain Details: Page 2 A II 7 IK kTI In IfkM 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 lltCJinTt 1 1 1 1 Mileage rule debated? 3A )( Flyers lose, 76eis win: IB Philadelphia, Delaware Valley news: Page 5C A GANNETT NEWSPAPER SERVING SOUTH JERSEY SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1986 25 CENTS 8 Reagan growths removed IMtoflDseH0 to neiMSifiim lit ff jfflSL lip Iti? 1 0 :.,) 1 'I By TERENCE HUNT Associated Press WASHINGTON-Doctorsremoved three "very small" growths from President Reagan's colon yesterday, but said they thought the specimens were "clinically benign," the White House announced. A White House statement issued about two hours after Reagan left Bethesda Naval Hospital for Camp David, Md. said that the growths, removed through a non-surgical procedure, would be tested for cancerous tissue. In addition, it said, a sample was taken of a small bump on the right side of Reagan's face which will be tested. The bump initially was judged to be benign or non-cancerous.

"Final results of these tests will be released assoon as they areavailable," the White House said. "All indications are that when the lab results are in they will confirm the president to be in excellent health." After six hours of tests at the military hospital, Reagan emerged with his wife Nancy, flashed a thumbs-up sign and said, "Everything's fine," hen asked whether doctors had found any more cancerous growths. Asked whether he had named a successor to departing Agriculture Secretary John Block, he said, "Not yet." Reagan, 74, had gone to the hospital for the first examination of his colon since his successful cancer surgery six monthsago, i Associated Press Hospital bound President Reagan, holding a stuffed teddy White House yesterday before heading to bear and mug, talks to reporters at the Bethesda Naval Hospital, Maryland. were based on "racial prejudice." Artis was released on parole in 1981. Sarokin ruled that Carter "has already spend almost 20 years in confinement based in part upon a conviction which I have found to be so constitutionally flawed." Carter, 49, and Artis were convicted of killing three white people in a Pater-son bar in 1966.

Prosecutors said they acted in revenge for the slaying six hours earlier of a black tavern owner. The New Jersey Supreme Court dismissed their initial conviction and they were convicted in 1977 after a second trial. Sarokin ruled there was no evidence to support prosecutors' claim that "racial revenge" was behind the killings and said he found the prosecution had improperly concealed evidence that could have hurt the credibility of a key witness. In arguing that Carter be returned to custody, Assistant Passaic County Prosecutor Ronald Marmo submitted to the appeals court records of prison incidents and a reputed assault Carter carried out on a woman while he was free in 1976. Carter's cause was forwarded in the mid-1970s by various celebrities, including Bob Dylan and Muhammad Ali.

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA A federal appeals court yesterday denied New Jerseyprosecutors'requestthatRubin "Hurricane" Carter be returned to prison while they continue to appeal a lower court's dismissal of his 1977 triple murder conviction. The Passaic County prosecutor's office maintained that Carter, who was released in November after serving 18 years in prison, remains "dangerous" and should undergo a psychiatric exam and be placed in custody pending its appeal of the ruling that freed him. A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia denied the request and allowed Carter to remain free, though it did not outright reject prosecutors' claims that Carter remains dangerous. The judges ruled that the proper forum for the dispute is in the state and not federal court system because Carter stood trial in state court.

U.S. District Judge H. Lee Sarokin, sitting in Newark, granted Carter a writ of habeas corpus Nov. 8 and ordered his release, saying the convictions of former middleweight boxing contenderandco-defendantJohnArtis He also underwent blood tests, X-rays and a CAT scan, which can provide highly detailed and accurate pictures of the brain, lungs, pancreas, kidneys and other organs. The three growths discovered in Reagan's colon were polyps, one to two millimeters in size.

The vast ma jority of polyps which are fleshy growths are benign, but some become cancerous. Aside from the samples sent for biopsies, all other test results and examinations were normal and revealed no evidence of any disease, the White House said. The test, called a colonoscopy, was administered as a routine follow-up to surgery Reagan had last summer to remove a cancerous tumor from his colon. The examination, an uncomfortable but rarely dangerous procedure, was the first thorough scrutiny of Reagan's colon since the removal of a cancerous tumor six months ago. The president had to go without food Thursday as he awaited the examination.

Cancer specialists recommend that people who have had colon cancer should have colonoscopies every six months thereafter to guard against the growth of new, potentially cancerous lesions. Reagan's examination was seen as in keeping with that routine post-surgical advice. For the examination, doctors use a moderndeviceknownasacolonoscope to check the full length of the 5-foot large bowel. With this equipment phys- Please see THREE, Page 2A Federal cuts, dwindling surplus strain state budget budget Director Richard Keevey said yesterday. On Feb.

10, Kean is scheduled to present his latest state spending outline to the Legislature, which by la is required to enact its own balanced budget by the end of June. The package is expected to reflect a surplus substantially lower than the nearly $800 million nest egg available to the state last spring. Much of that surplus was plowed into various programs and modest tax cuts. The governor and his staff have given no indication whether they plan any significant spending adjustments in anticipation of cutbacks under the Gramm-Rudman measure. According to preliminary data collected by New Jersey's lobbying bureau in Washington and by the of ice of U.S.

Rep. Robert G. Torricelli, the federal aid reductions would involve these key areas: General Revenue Sharing: Counted on heavily by municipalities, New Jersey's overall share of this broad-Please see FEDERAL, Page 8A termsofthecongressionalGramm-RudmanActtoslashthe federal deficit. The measure calls for at least $6 billion in automatic, nationwide domestic spending cuts an overall reduction of about 4.3 percent for 1986 alone if Congress fails to meet deficit-lowering targets. The law is designed to carve a similar amount from federal military outlays.

"If some of these (cuts) are going to pan out, not only this year but in 1987, we're going to have to make some choices, and we're going to have some problems," deputy state ByLEESEGLEM Gannett News Service TRENTON Kean administration budget officials, faced with a sharply lower state surplus this year, are now grappling with the added prospect of federal cuts that could costNewJerseymillionsof dollars in aid for municipalities, social services, education, mass transit and job-training. The main focus of concern as the deadline nears for a new state budget proposal is the potential impact of domestic spendingreductionsrequiredoverthenextfiveyearsunder First of two new TV stations set to begin broadcasting Engle is president of South Jersey Television an investment group that is pro viding the money for the television enterprise. His wife, Sandra, of Buena Vista, is listed as owner of the television license, according to FCC records. Although the studio currently is operating out of makeshift quarters on Fairview Avenue in Hammonton, Engle said he hopes to make settlement "very soon" on an abandoned bank building on the Black Horse Pike in Monroe and relocate. Thepropertystillwouldneedaboutthreemonths worth of construction to convert it into a production studio.

Please see FIRST, Page 8A By EILEEN STILWELL Ot the Courier-Post SouthJersey television viewerscouldbeinforaprogram-ming bonanza with the advent of two new television stations. On Monday, W08CC, a low-power VHF station located in Atlantic County, is expected to begin 24-hour broadcasting. And a Wilmington, Del-based UHF station that still has not settled with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on a set of call letters, is expected to air March 3. "I'm a nobody with very little money and the opportunity of W08CC-TV, Channel 8. tef 'lliS'l4k mi.

44 A -if A Associated Press Leftist forces repelled JV.Y. Lotto payoff $30 million and growing as sales boom A Lebanese army soldier (left) stands watch pro-Syrian Christian and Moslem militias, against Syrian-backed leftist militiamen in including Druse forces (right) driving President Amin Gemayel's hometown of through the Chouf mountains to rejoin their Bikfaya yesterday. Gemayel's forces routed allies. (Story: Page 3A) SOUTH JERSEY Police notebook: Page 5C Section A State-Nation-World Section Sports-Money Section Local-Classified Associated Press NEW YORK Spiraling sales figures boosted the Lotto 48 jackpot to $30 million yesterday with the chance it couldclimbhigher-as potential millionairesqueuedupat outlets statewide for a $1 shot at the pot of gold. "Where else would people line up to give you their money?" asked state Lottery Director John Quinn.

He said New Yorkers were grabbing tickets at the rate of 19,000 per minute and projections indicated the jackpot could rise still higher than the $30 million it reached after 4.23 millionticketswerepurchased Thursday. Thatnumber of sales was surpassed before noon yesterday, when Quinn reported more than 4.5 million tickets sold. "The prize could go higher, but it won't go lower," Quinn said after the jackpot climbed from $28 million. According to Quinn, Lotto agents could be peddling more tickets but their machines simply can't handle the business from the 3,600 ticket brokers around the state. Ticket sales yesterday lagged only slightly behind those for the North American record $41 million Lotto in August 1985, when sales hit 20,000 per minute.

"Right now, they're working at full capacity," he said. "We're limited as far as that goes." Quinn had predicted long lines on Thursday a prophecy uf illed yesterday at outlets across the city Lotto play ers at the World Trade Center faced a two-hour wait, he said, and long lines snaked through the Port Authority Bus Terminal. "Istill ha ven't heard of lines like we had for the $4 1 million prize," said Quinn. "We heard reports of three-hour lines then, although we have heard of 2 to -hour lines today." Please see N.Y.,' Page 8 A Case dropped Page 1 A family complaint against the Haddon Twp. mayor has been dismissed.

Missing PageSC Camden woman who is four months pregnant is reported missing. New rules Page 9C State agency adopts regulations on reinvestment of casino taxes. Trying again Page 1 Nearly 2,000 bills were refiled in the new Legislature's first days. Seaman honored Page 1C A Pitman sailor who circled the globe without modern instruments earns award. Suicide program Page 1C Gloucester County agency will train school officials in teen suicide prevention.

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