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HoW'tptdress for a disaster Strikers lose to Rowdies, 4-2 -i Peggy Landers, 1D 7777 Rosaforte. 1C Street Edition 25 CENTS THURSDAY, June 10, 1982 Copyright 1982 News and Sun-Senlinei Company All Rights Reserved mMy '5 Reagan attends NATO summit Newt wire services BONN, West Germany President Reagan, mixing Middle East peace-making efforts with NATO summitry, met today with alliance leaders and worked to halt Israel's massive drive into Lebanon and prevent a widening war. Reagan, in his second international summit in a week, joined leaders of 15 other North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries at the one-day session. The Middle East crisis shadowed the NATO meeting, which opened with a ceremony welcoming Spain as the newest member of the Atlantic alliance. Spain took the opportunity to serve notice that it will represent the interests of Latin America in NATO and issue a challenge to Britain to find a "rapid" solution to the dispute over Gibraltar.

Spanish Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo said he wished "to place on record from the start" Spain's Latin American calling. He said this calling was vital, "precisely now, when a military conflict is tearing the Western world apart and threatening to open up a- profound rift of extremely serious political and historic consequences." Please see NATO, 7 A British admit to large loss toiled Press International Britain said it suffered one of its "blackest days" of the Falkland Islands war from an Argentine air attack but Buenos Aires admitted today British forces may have established a second beachhead despite the blow. The British Ministry of Defense would say only that early reports from Tuesday's fierce fighting "indicate a number of killed and injured," but defense sources said they understood casualties were "substantial." In what they termed "one of the blackest days lor the task force" since Britain moved to retake the Argentine-occupied islands in the South Atlantic. 8.000 miles from home, the sources said the 4.470-ton supply ship Sir Galahad was believed sunk. Officials declined to comment on an Independent Television News report in London that 39 of Sir Galahad's 68-man crew were missing.

However, the Defense Ministry said despite the attacks, British troops secured a major new beachhead 'at Fitz Roy. But Argentina paid a high price for its success, with at least seven, and possibly 1 1 Argentine planes shot down, according to news reports. Argentina admitted losing two planes in its first majorair strike in eight days. 'c -'V'v nKt: 1 i 'i '7r-- to Sal nil 1 1 llUtJ hAatoJI 1 AP pholo President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher monitor the opening address of the NATO assembly in Bonn. demands cea ire i'i -t IE1 Hi; ldtJ fiyhi 14 Reagan sending Haig to Mideast he Assuriat- Press President Reagan senl Israel an urgent demand tor a cease-fire in Lebanon and was sending Secretary of State Alexander M.

Haig Jr. to the Middle Easl to back it up. Israel Radio said today. The demand came as Israeli guns blasted the Palestine Liberation Organization nerve center in Beirut and jets dropped leaflets warning of an imminent. Israeli invasion of the Lebanese capital.

Syria's state radio, meanwhile, claimed Israeli jets today strafed convoys of travelers from Lebanon to Syria at a border checkpoint in northern Lebanon, killing 57 travelers of various nationalities and wounding 75. The broadcast said there were 14 Turks among the dead at the Josia checkpoint, but gave no other nationalities. Josia is 35 miles north of Lebanon's northern port city of Tripoli. There was no immediate Israeli comment on the report. If true, it would be the northernmost Israeli penetration reported so far.

Israel Radio said Reagan sent a message to Prime Minister Men-achem Begin demanding the immediate cease-fire. The radio said Reagan was sending Haig to the Middle East Friday to help negotiate an end to the fighting. Israeli Cabinet Secretary Dan Meridor said Begin had received a letter from Reagan written "in a friendly spirit." and had replied to it. Meridor would not say whether the letters concerned a cease-fire There was no immediate comment on the reports from the State Department in Washington or from Reagan's traveling party in Bonn. West Germany.

The radio said Haig would shuttle between Jerusalem and Damascus seeking a cease-fire between Please see MIDEAST. HA AP photo Palestinian suspects are lined up by Israeli soldiers during a raid on the Rashidieh refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Arcade-itis -Hit squad' Video players risk planned war arthritic problems on mob cops "3 Inside today 1-15B Local Vol. 71, No. 172 5 Sections Health 31-33A The Associated Press WASHINGTON Millions of quarter-dropping, fast-fingered video game players who zap, munch and blast regularly in the nation's arcades may be risking future muscle and joint problems with vigorous play, a researcher said today.

Dr. Gary E. Myerson of Atlanta's Emory University, in one of the first studies of its kind-, said he examined 134 players who punched control buttons or swiveled joysticks in the games of skill. And he found that 65 percent had at least one physical complaint, ranging from blisters and callouses to discomfort in the joints, attributed to the games. The researcher said the injuries were attributed to rapid, repetitive and aggressive activity on the part of the players.

While none of these problems is considered serious now, they could be a prelude to future arthritic conditions or muscle problems. Myerson told the Pan-American Congress on Rheumatology, a meeting co-sponsored by the Arthritis Foundation. "I consider arcade games a new sport and. as in most sports, an acute, recurring injury can become a chronic problem," Myerson said. The most common complaint was arthralgia, a soreness or movement difficulty of the joints, in the wrist and fingers.

Thumbs, along with second and third fingers, also suffered, with blisters and callouses frequently reported. Tendonitis, the muscle strains that cause "tennis elbow." showed up in a few hands and elbows. Myerson attributed much of this to games that have a ball embedded in the control panel that must be rolled with the palm of the hand. The median age was 18 years. 85 percent were males and 91 percent were right-handed.

The average participant played for 60 minutes twice a week, and 1 1 percent said they played daily. organized crime operatives in South Florida have in fact been selected (as) targets by the renegades," said Detective Sgt. Ken Kreulen of the Wilton Manors police force. "They are going to hit known organized crime soldiers to show how big and bad they are and how they're going to take over extortion and cocaine" Hunwick was charged in the May 19 abduction-shooting of Alan Chafin, 34, from the Banana Boat Lounge, 2650 State Road 84. Chafin, who police said was owed money from a drug deal, was shot five times and left to die near U.S.

27 and State Road 84. He has since left the hospital, but police don't know where he is. Information he gave police before he disappeared, along with statements from other informants and letters seized in. Hunwick's home and car when he was arrested Tuesday night, implicated Hunwick and several others in as many as 100 homicides nationwide, police said. By Dan Christensen and Jennifer L.

Schenker Suff Writers A "renegade" Mafia member and a Plantation man believed to be the leader of a "hit squad" were planning to take on the mob in a bloody war for control of the extortion rackets in Broward, police said Wednesday. The suspected leader of the execution squad, Bernard Barton "Barry" Hunwick, 37, of 600 SW 101st was arrested without incident Tuesday night by Broward Sheriff's deputies. He was charged with attempted murder, kidnapping and armed robbery. Police said Hunwick was planning to kill an unknown number of Mafia' "soldiers" on instructions from the renegade Mafia member, who officers believe heads a 55-member "mini-mob" outside the I traditional structure of organized crime. "The investigation indicates 1 since May 15 that (Mafia) Movies 10D National 3-15A Newsmakers 2A Sports 1-13C State 17-21 A TV 80 Weather 2A World 22-30A Bernard Barton Hunwick "(Hunwick) is South Florida's answer to Murder, Inc," said an agent for the Florida Division of Alcholic Beverages and Tobacco.

Kreulen said detectives have already linked the "hit squad" to the May 15 murder of Diego "Richard" Messina, 45, of Levittown, N.Y. Messina, whom Kreulen identified as a member of New York's Colombo Mafia family, was found stuffed in the trunk of a car parked at 2020 NE Third Terrace. His throat had been slit. The renegade Mafia member, whom police refused to identify, was said to be a disgruntled member of Chicago's GiancanaAccardo family who now lives in Broward. "He lost a power struggle in Chicago," said the beverage agent.

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