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AT altera Daily Record Northwest New Jersey Wednesday, November 4, 1987 PageA14 in wm BRIEFS la bor emeu maineta Armed man held In threat on Shultz WASHINGTON An unemployed chemist armed with three guns and at least 600 bullets Chatham native president's choice From staff and wire reports was arrested yesterday after allegedly telling his mother he was going to kill Secretary of State George P. Shultz, authorities said. 21 He added that "she is well-respected and her experience in government will bring a special expertise to the Labor Department." McLaughlin gave up the No. 2 post in the Interior Department, a job she had held for three years, last March following several clashes with Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel.

"When I left your administration earlier this year, I had no idea I would be back so soon," McLaughlin, 45, told Reagan in a White House Rose Garden ceremony announcing her nomination. Neither Reagan nor McLaughlin addressed any issues facing the department, including a large backlog of pending regulations in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. But, if confirmed by the Senate, she can be expected to lead the administration's fight against a broad agenda of legislation being pushed in Congress by labor unions. Among more than a dozen bills moving through Congress are measures to raise the minimum wage, frozen at $3.35 an hour since 1981; to require 60 days advance notice of plant closings and large layoffs and to mandate employer-provided health insurance. As Interior undersecretary, McLaughlin reorganized government coal-leasing programs that had come under severe criticism while James Watt was secretary.

When Hodel became secretary in 1985, he began taking charge of some of the department's more controversial issues himself, such as oil drilling off the California coast. Colleagues said McLaughlin, who had been serving as the department's "chief operating officer" under Hodel's William P. Clark, felt that the scope of her authority was being narrowed. WASHINGTON President Reagan yesterday nominated former Interior Undersecretary Ann Dore McLaughlin, a Chatham, N. native, to succeed William E.

Brock as secretary of labor and bring a woman back into his Cabinet. Reagan called McLaughlin, who also has held senior roles in the Treasury Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, a woman of "uncommon experience and competence who has won my full confidence and support." With only 15 months remaining in the administration, there appears to be little sentiment among Democrats and labor unions for opposing the nomination. "We're going to take a pretty good look at her, but it doesn't seem like she's drawing any serious opposition," said Paul Donovan, a spokesman for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee headed by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.

He added that the panel has not decided when it will hold hearings on the nomination. The former Talmadge Avenue resident attended St. Patrick's School in Chatham and the Academy of St. Elizabeth in Florham Park. She earned a bachelor's degree in 1963 from Marymount College in Tarry-town, N.Y., and also attended the University of London.

She has been an account executive for a New York advertising agency, a consultant and literary agent, and director of alumni relations for Marymount College. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, senior Republicans the Labor and Human Resources Committee, called the choice of McLaughlin "an inspired one. Ann has the ability and background to run the department." President Reagan presents labor secretary nominee Ann Dore McLaughlin to the press.

At the time of her resignation, she reportedly was being courted by the administration to succeed White House spokesman Larry Speakes. That job eventually went to Marlin Fitzwater, an associate of McLaughlin when she held top press relations jobs in the Treasury Department and the Environmental Protection Agency. McLaughlin was communications director for President Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972 and his second inauguration in 1973. Her husband, John McLaughlin, is a well-known conservative political commentator and television talk show host. "If she handled John McLaughlin this long, she can handle anything," Reagan quipped yesterday.

Likely appointments, NationA16 Property auction U.S. Navy reportedly fired on fishing boat 1 A By RICHARD H. PYLE Associated Press Edward Lewis Gallo, 41, of Worcester, who is said to distrust politicians, was taken into custody at a local hotel and charged with making a threat against a public official. A semiautomatic version of an M-16 rifle, two jhotguns and 600 to 700 rounds of ammunition "were removed from Gallo's car. Gallo was taken by police from a hotel in Washington after a brief struggle outside his room at about 7:50 a.m.

Sgt. Michael Vacca of the Worcester Police Department said he was told by members of the Gallo family that the suspect had was "pretty unstable" and had mentioned that Shultz might be a potential target. Iran-Contra investigators given Swiss bank records WASHINGTON Sixty-six pounds of Swiss bank records tracing the flow of money in the Iran-Contra affair that could be a central part of any criminal prosecution in the case were turned over to U.S. investigators in Switzerland yesterday. Investigators for independent counsel Lawrence Walsh were in Bern to collect the documents from the Swiss government, 11 months after the initial request, following a lengthy legal battle in Swiss courts that has delayed a decision by Walsh on whether to seek indictments.

The records, one of the most important pieces of the Iran-Contra puzzle, concern accounts controlled by fired National Security Council aide Oliver North; North's associate, retired Air Force Major Gen. Richard V. Secord; Secord's partner, Iranian-born businessman Albert Ha-, kirn; and arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar. Secord, Hakim and Ghorbanifar had challenged the release of the records Top Nicaraguan officer defects to United States WASHINGTON A top Nicaraguan military officer believed to have access to highly sensitive information has defected to the United States, an administration official said yesterday. The official refused further comment but published reports said the officer was familiar with the Sandinista government's tactics, strategy and intelligence operations.

Maj. Roger Miranda Bengoechea, 34, abruptly left Nicaragua on Oct. 25, the New York Times reported yesterday, quoting diplomats, politi- cians and a Nicaraguan government communique. The Washington Times quoted a well-placed source as saying Miranda had been spying for the United States for some time before he de-' fected, and now is being debriefed. Deaver defense says rival encouraged investigation WASHINGTON -The defense in Michael K.

Deaver's perjury trial suggested yesterday that a rivalry between the former presidential aide and ex-National Security Adviser Richard V. Allen figured in the 1986 investigation of Dea-, Ver's lobbying business. The defense tried to suggest that Allen's ani- mosity toward Deaver, which the former na- tional security adviser denied in an interview, motivated him to promote the congressional investigation of allegations that Deaver violated federal conflict-of-interest laws. The defense also tried to show that the rivalry continued in 1985 when Deaver and Allen repre- sented competing U.S. tobacco companies that were vying to get exclusive contracts to sell cigarettes through the government monopoly in South Korea.

Deaver, among other things, is charged with lying to the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee, when he said he couldn't recall lobbying former Reagan administration colleagues. Pamela G. Bailey, who worked for Michael K. Deaver Associates, testified that Allen's animosity stemmed from Deaver's role in suggesting to President Reagan that Allen be dismissed in 1982 for accepting watches and $1,000 from Japanese journalists. Abortion notification law argued before top court WASHINGTON States must be allowed to protect the right of parents to consult with their young daughters who seek abortions, the Su-.

preme Court was told yesterday. An Illinois law requiring that parents be noti-; fied at least 24 hours before teen-age girls abort their pregnancies should be reinstated, argued Michael J. Hayes, state deputy attorney general. But Colleen Connell, a Chicago lawyer repre- senting doctors who perform abortions, said the law exposes teen-age girls to medical risks in a misguided attempt to promote family unity. Lower courts have blocked the 1983 law from being enforced.

Associated Press 7o 4 AssiKialed Press This 1986 aerial view shows part of the 69-acre property of The Bible Speaks church located in Lenox, that was auctioned yesterday. Elizabeth Dayton Dovydenas, a chain store heiress tricked out of $6.6 million by the church, offered $1.8 million for the estate valued at $6 million and abandoned after she won her claim in federal bankruptcy court. A court-appointed trustee said the offer was too low and insufficient to pay off 250 creditors besides Dovydenas. MANAMA, Bahrain Persian Gulf shipping sources said yesterday a U.S. Navy frigate fired on a' fishing boat last weekend, not a hostile Iranian craft as the Pentagon believed, and killed an Indian member of its crew.

They quoted another crewman as saying the warship fired ma- -chine guns Sunday night even though the fishing boat and two others with it showed lights and were making way for the frigate and a refueling tanker it was es-; corting out of the gulf. The Pentagon identified the Navy ship as the USSCarr. Meanwhile in Kuwait, a small -bomb ripped the side off a police van parked near the Interior Min-' istry yesterday, heightening fears of Iranian sabotage in the rich Persian Gulf sheikdom but causing no casualties. It was the 10th bombing reported this year in Kuwait, all blamed on Shiite Moslem militants who back the fundamentalist Shiite regime of Iran in the 7-year-old war with Iraq. Iran accuses Kuwait of aiding Iraq and fired three missiles into its oil terminal-anchorage com- plex last month, hitting two tankers and a major loading dock.

The shipping sources' account of Sunday's shooting incident, which the Pentagon said occurred at dusk near the Iranian island of Abu Musa, was similar in many respects to that offered earlier by officials in Iran. They denied any -Iranian boats were involved in an encounter with the Navy. In Washington, the Pentagon issued a statement yesterday saying Navy officials in the gulf "have been asked to review the incident" in light of the reports, "but at this point we have no reason to change: our original statement." According to the shipping rl sources, machine-gun fire from the Carr killed one Indian crew member and wounded three. Pentagon spokesmen said Monday the Carr fired .50 caliber ma- chine guns at a "suspected Iranian vessel" that ignored two bursts of warning fire and was racing toward the tanker Patriot. They said the frigate tried to warn the smaller vessels by radio but got no.

reply. U.S. Navy officials in the Gulf reeion could not be reached for Falwell leaves Moral Majority devote himself to preachin; By ROBERT FURLOW Associated Press "Sometimes you get tired of being the lightning rod." Falwell said he continues to favor Vice President George Bush for president but will actively campaign for no one. He also said he would no longer take an active part in lobbying for causes of the religious right, but he made it clear he didn't plan to disappear altogether. John Buchanan, chairman of People for the American Way, a liberal group that has often been at odds with Falwell, said in a statement that "politics is in Jerry Falwell's blood" and that the minister is unlikely to give it up.

The minister said he told his church members in Lynchburg a year ago that he planned to pull back from politics and other non-church efforts. But since that time he was brought in to take over the PTL organization after the sex scandal involving Jim Bakker and a church secretary. Falwell has also left PTL Falwell said his positions as president of the groups will be taken by Jerry Nims, 52, whom he described as "an entrepreneur from Atlanta." WASHINGTON The Rev. Jerry Falwell said yesterday he is quitting as president of the Moral Majority, declaring it is time for someone else to "be the lightning rod." Falwell, who founded the organization of conservative Christians in 1979, said he owed it to his church in Lynchburg, Va, to return to his first love, preaching. "I am now rededicating my life to the preaching of the gospel," he said.

He also said he would devote himself to Liberty University, which he founded, and to other ministries including one he hopes will lead to a national telephone crisis line offering help to pregnant teen-agers, drug addicts and others in need. "At age 54, my first love is back to the pulpit, back to preaching, back to winning souls, back to meeting spiritual needs," he said. "There's no need now for Jerry Falwell to walk point and be the lightning rod," he said. The Rev. Jerry Falwell is returning to his first love, preaching..