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.1 OB Daily Times, St. Cloud, Minn. July 1 3, 1 985 Localstate Three victims in car-truck crash identified -rx A j- fey tlx hv f- fa wfn Showtime on the mall Osakis men and a Glendale, Ariz. have been identitifed as fatalities in an early-morning accident Friday on Minnesota Highway 23 west of Waite Park. St.

Cloud Hospital listed the victims as Joseph DeCann, 19, and Tom 22, Osakis, and Michael Ha-burn, 19, Glendale. DeCann and Ha-burn were dead at the scene, and Walter died in the emergency room at St. Cloud Hospital, according to a 'spokesman for the Minnesota State Patrol. They died as a result of head-on collision at 1:33 a.m. on Minnesota High way 23, a mile north of Interstate 94.

Injured in the accident were Rodney Kaeter, 21, Cold Spring, and James Walter, 22, Osakis, brother of Tom Walter. James Walter was in the intensive care unit at St. Cloud Hospital after surgery Friday. Kaeter was treated for minor injuries at the hospital and released. Kaeter was driving a Mack truck that crashed into a Dodge Charger driven by DeCann, according to the State Patrol spokesman.

Haburn and the Walters were passengers in the DeCann vehicle. Kaeter was traveling alone, the spokesman said. Karr pleads guilty in Iowa MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) Earl Thirteen charges are pending Steven Karr, the man accused of plac- against Karr in Stearns County. Some ing more than 20 pipe bombs in four are expected to be dropped, but Karr is i states last summer, pleaded guilty to numerous weapons and explosives counts Friday and told a judge that he placed the bombs because the states were out to get him. "Why I did it, I don't know," Karr told Cerro Gordo District Judge Gilbert vard.

Karr was arrested June 8, 1984, shortly after he was injured when his I rented automobile exploded in a Mason City parking lot. Police say he was try-; ing to assemble a pipe bomb when the accident occurred. Karr, 25, pleaded guilty May 9 to a felony charge of possession of an explo- sive device in Minnesota, and he has i agreed to plead guilty to a total of 27 additional charges in Minnesota, Iowa, i Wisconsin and Illinois. He will then be sentenced to a total of 15 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation. expected to plead guilty to the others.

He has been held at Minnesota Security Hospital, St. Peter, since last summer. "I couldn't stop what I was doing," said Karr, appearing calm and coherent during Friday's 45-minute hearing. In Iowa, Karr was charged with 25 counts, but in the plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to eight counts of unauthorized possession of offensive weapons, one of possession of an explosive and one of carrying a concealed weapon. "Your conduct is viewed by this court as being totally reprehensible," said Judge Bovard.

"It is a terroristic act and terroristic acts do not follow logic It can only hope that (psychiatric treatment) will serve some beneficial purpose for you." A day-long bill of performers sponsored by the Downtown Association entertained shoppers on the Mall Germain Friday as a part of the Wheels, Wings Water Festival. (Left) Juggler Tony Phillips, one half of the magic and comedy team of Tony and David Phillips, watches the spinning pins during his act Friday noon. (Above) Kathy Kampa leads a group of children and adults in a chorus of "If you're happy and you know it" Friday afternoon. Kampa's show, "Whims'n Wishes," includes songs and dances for children. Times photo by Mike Knaak nesota Highway 27 was Dora May Benson, Route 2, Onamia.

Her granddaughter, Amanda Marie Benson, 4, Route 2, Onamia, was taken to St. Cloud Hospital, where she was reported in serious condition Friday night. Critically injured in the crash was a passenger in the other car, Douglas Hubert Loch, 32, Litchfield, who was hospitalized at North Memorial Medical Center, Robbinsdale. The driver of that vehicle, Richard Michael Otto, 30, Dawson, was treated for minor injuries. A second passenger, Vernon Christopher Loch, 58, Route 1, Watkins, was taken to St.

Cloud Hospital where he was reported in fair condition Friday night. The accident happened at 1:09 p.m. Onamia woman dies in two-car accident A 76-year-old Onamia woman was killed, and her granddaughter was seriously injured in a two-car accident Friday afternoon in Onamia. Killed in the head-on collision at the junction of U.S Highway 169 and Min- His coumiry's agony i Former Afghan official tells of Soviet takeover This week only! KJoWlr IT REG. PRICE Butterick 3207 iJBJLlCT said he was able to help private businesses while flaunting Marxist regulations.

When Hafizullah Amin assumed presidency of the country in 1979, Shams went with him as a personal adviser. His advice, he recounts, was that communism worked against the best interests of the Afghans. Amin expelled a Soviet ambassador and four Soviet advisers, Shams said, and Shams helped him restructure provincial government to bring in leaders with more public service experience but less Communist Party experience. The Soviet government agreed to provide Afghanistan with $1.6 million in military aid during a July 1979 meeting in Moscow between Amin and then-Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, Shams said. At the same meeting, Soviet leaders said they considered their relationship with the Afghanistan people as one of brotherhood.

But a short time later, Shams said, the Soviets blocked foreign trade to Afghanistan "because of Amin's reforms in the government." On Dec. 24, 1979, Shams woke up to the noise of Soviet planes. He said a Soviet adviser told Amin that the planes were delivering the promised military goods. The deliveries ended on Dec. 27, 1979, and the Afghanistan government honored 1,200 Soviet officers with a banquet that evening.

"At exactly 7:10 (p.m.), they took out their pistols and pointed them at all of us," Shams said, and escorted Amin, Shams and others to trucks waiting outside. Amin and 16,000 others were killed that night, he said. Later, Shams was blindfolded and handcuffed en route to his execution site. "Suddenly, I heard a big noise. It was a bomb that exploded.

I do not remember what happened. I was unconscious. I remember waking up with pain in my arms and legs. I asked whether I was alive or dead. They said, No, you are SUSAN MATTSON HALENA TlmM Staff Writer ALBANY A former leader in the Afghanistan government says the United States shouldn't aid, trade or negotiate with the Soviet Union "because all their negotiations and policies 'are based on trickery and treason." Abdul Shams says the Soviets com-'mitted "shameful treason" when in $1979 they used a military aid agree-.

with Afghanistan as a reason to 'suddenly bring military tanks and artillery into the country Shams spoke Friday night in Albany as part of a nationwide tour sponsored iby the John Birch Society. Shams said he worked in departments of public health, commerce and foreign trade in Afghanistan before the iSoviets invaded the country. He was imprisoned after the invasion and or-Jdered to be executed for what the So-Jviets alleged was Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) involvement. 3 He credits Afghan "freedom fighters" iwith saving his life as he was being taken from a prison to a military garri- 4 son for execution. In 1981, he said, he came to the United States with his wife i and seven children.

I Now a northern California resident i in his 70s, Shams says he has no choice but to reveal atrocities of communist factivity. "I owe my life to the freedom fighters and the (Afghan) countrymen," Shams I said in an interview, "If Afghanistan falls today to the communists, there is no place immune from communism and Marxism," he I said. Shams said he continues to receive information from freedom fighters. He said they tell him that nearly half a 1 million children in Afghanistan have been maimed after picking up toy-like bombs that are dropped from Soviet I Six million Afghans have become ref-t ugees in the wake of the Soviet activity, I with 2 million in Iran, 3 million in Paki- NOTIONS Stitch Witchery AN Coats Clark Thread All White Elastic All Scissors: Farr Fiskars, Marks Wissw flf Afghanistan falls today to the communists, there is no place immune from communism and Marxism. Abdul Shams stan and 1 million scattered in other parts of the world, he said.

Afghanistan nationals maintain control in 90 percent of the country, Shams said. Shams traces what he calls a "holocaust" back to the 1950s, when the Soviet Union first sent military aid and advisers to Afghanistan. Communist Party involvement was laced throughout the government by 1978, when Shams agreed to leave his career as a representative for an American pharmaceutical company and joined Afghanistan's public health ministry. Shams described himself as a nationalist and said he balked at joining the government. At one point, he tried to resign.

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The plant was closed, he added, because of a shortage of turkeys. He said that the company's Willmar and Melrose plants will not be affected by the turkey shortage. About 700 people are employed by the company in Willmar and an additional 300 people work in the Melrose plant. Litchfield city officials say they hope that the closing is only temporary. "Jennie-O's president wrote us a letter saying it will be closed for at least one year," Carlson said.

"We assume it will open in July of 1986." Sewing machines available at starred () locations below, or by special order through all other stores. a to accommodate Jennie-O, the city's largest utility user, Carlson said. Jenny -O is a very heavy user of water and electricity," iCarslon explained, adding that the plant uses 60 to 65 percent of the city's water. s-mvii We made the commitment to neip tnem, Sanson sam. However, with Jennie-O-Foods now closed, the plant will be using very little water, Carlson said.

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