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i "5 Zsl 7 I ft. .3 ir BGC seeks tuition rise1 Flyers beat Edmonton1 Stone piles keep secrets1 Today in Good Fests, fairs and field days Local entertainment listings Dining, music, movie reviews tjU 4. Having a fry, Cuban general Key Friday May 29, 1987 FINAL EDITION Partly cloudy High: 84. Low: 65 Details on Page 2A U.S. officials delighted with prospect of 'intelligence coup' Korten, a Justice Department spokesman, said del Pino was the deputy chief of the Cuban Defense Ministry, the No.

2 position in the ministry. Del Pino formerly was chief of the Cuban Air Force, Korten said. Korten said del Pino'jequested asylum when he landed with his wife and three children. U.S. officials privately indicated delight.

"If this guy is who he says he is, this is the biggest intelligence coup since Castro took power," said an administration official who asked not to be identified. Officially, however, the administration said little about the defection. Secretary of State George P. Shultz confirmed late last night that "there has been a defector" but refused to divulge any details, saying there would be more from the State Department today. JOHN BOHN By GEORGE GEDDA The Associated Press WASHINGTON A high-ranking Cuban military officer and his family defected to the United States yesterday, flying a small plane to Key West Naval Air Station in Florida, U.S.

officials said. The officials identified the Cuban as Brig. Gen. Rafael del Pino Diaz. Patrick All abuzz iffy rr Kx i Sirhan loses 9th bid for parole SOLED AD, Calif.

(AP) Sirhan Sirhan lost his ninth bid for freedom yesterday after serving 18 years in prison for the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The panel recommended that Sirhan undergo extensive psychiatric evaluation, that he pursue vocational training, participate in Alcoholics Anonymous sessions, remain free of disciplinary actions, consolidate his college credits into ah associate of arts degree and provide documentation of any job offers. Sirhan will not be considered for parole again until March 1989.

Shooting suspect caught FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) A man accused of shooting to death three workers during a $1,700 robbery at a fast-food restaurant was arrested yesterday in Louisiana, police said. Burnell Hegwood, 18, who worked at the Wendy's restaurant in Fort Lauderdale for 3Vz months prior to Saturday's killings, surrendered peacefully in Hammond, said police Lt. Steve Raacke. Police believe Hegwood, who has no known arrest record, may have robbed the restaurant for drug money.

New bugs are tough WASHINGTON (AP) An aggressive new mosquito species imported into the United States from Asia can survive harsh Midwestern winters, an indication the disease-carrying insect also may establish itself in northern states, scientists said yesterday. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame and the federal Centers for Disease Control said the Asian tiger mosquito can lay eggs that are hardy enough to survive winters in northern Indiana and Ohio. The tiger mosquito, which prefers humans to other hosts as sources of blood, is so named because of the distinct black and white stripes on its legs and a white stripe down the top of its middle section. Man rams 2 stores SOUTH GLENS FALLS (AP) State authorities will be asked to look into taking away the driver's license of a 73-year-old man who has plowed his car into two supermarkets in the last three weeks. Police said that Hugh Sheeran drove his car through the front door of a Grand Union supermarket Saturday, injuring five people and heavily damaging the store.

On May 8, Sheeran also drove his car into the doorway of the Stewart's Bread Butter Shop, one mile north of the Grand Union, said village patrolman Wayne Bruce. The state Commission on Motor Vehicles will be asked to schedule a hearing on whether to revoke Sheeran's license. Reindeer venture ends GRENOBLE, France AP) A bid by three shepherds to raise Finnish reindeer in the French Alps has ended in failure, with most of the animals dead of disease. Twenty-four of the 27 reindeer brought to France in November have died of enterotoxemia, a livestock disease. Marie Claude Davoine, 29, said she, her husband, Jean Marie, and Dominique Charron, 33, had decided they were tired of working as migratory shepherds and hit on the idea of raising reindeer for meat.

Local restaurants had agreed to put reindeer dishes on their menus. State lotteries N.Y. Daily Number: 8-6-2 N.Y.Win4: 9-3-8-7 N.Y.Win-10: 4-12-13-14-22-25-29-30-31-38 -39-41 -42-45-47-53-63-68-70-76 Pa. Daily Lottery: 6-7-5 Pa. Big 4: 9-5-6-8 Page index Bob Kane, a Binghamton beekeeper, removes a swarm of bees from a tree next Hawley Street yesterday.

He placed a hive box under the swarm and shook the burgeoning bee population near the annex forced the removal of some of the bees. to the Binghamton State Office Building annex on branches to get the bees to drop into the box. A Perry Rivkind, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, said the family has been paroled into the United States. A Cuban-American organization in Washington said del Pino was a brigadier general who at one time had been chief of aerial combat instruction for a division of the Cu- See CUBAN Page 4A Woman declared mentally sound By STEVEN N. LEVINE Staff Writer A Johnson City woman who kept her dead husband's body in a garbage-strewn house for more than a.week is scheduled to be released today from the Binghamton Psychiatric Center, sources said yesterday.

Psychiatrists found Anna Lind-er of 40 Burbank Ave. mentally competent after three days of evaluation, sources said. Psychiatric Center Director Louis Dozoretz confirmed Linder was at the facility, but declined to confirm or deny news of her release, citing doctor-patient confidentiality. "She was admitted, and she is here now, but that's really all I can say," Dozoretz said. Linder's release would morally obligate Johnson City and Broome County to ensure she had proper temporary housing, officials said.

County health officials this week declared the house off limits until trash that accumulated inside for more than a decade is hauled away. Village officials ordered the SeeWOMANPage4A PHOTO- within a few days of his being hired to the original faculty of the New York State Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences at Binghamton as an English instructor and basketball coach, at a salary of $2,400. At the end of 1985, Baldwin retired from the faculty, but remained athletic director until Quagliata was hired last summer. He said last night that many factors were involved in his decision. "It particularly concerned me that there no longer is a lot of spectator interest in either the college or the community," he said.

SUNSP0T The lighter side of the newt Seller offers sub for fun or function NEW YORK (AP) It may not be as pretty as Malcolm Forbes' yacht Highlander or as swift as America's Cup winner Stars and Stripes, but if you've got the cash, someone's got a submarine for sale. The unidentified seller said in an ad in the business section of Sunday's New York Times that the sub was for "the discerning buyer." It said the de-armed sub was fully equipped and operational, can carry up to 70 passengers and crew and has a cruising range of 9,000 miles. No price was mentioned, but the sub was called "safe, reliable and excellent for either surface or underwater passage." What to do with your own sub? Well, the ad says, it's "suitable for private or commercial use." "It's not a hoax," said Times spokeswoman Nancy Nielsen. She said the person who placed the ad was checked by a sales representative, a copy checker and someone in advertising acceptability. She said she could not divulge the identity of the advertiser.

Navy officials said don't look at them. "It's not us," said Lt. Commander Bob Prit-chard. He said when the Navy decommissions subs, they often sell them for scrap. BCC's coach Baldwin retiring after 40 years By JOHN W.

FOX Sports Editor The man who has won more collegiate basketball victories than anyone in history is leaving after 40 years of coaching at Broome Community College. Richard E. "Dick" Baldwin, men's basketball coach since the college opened in 1947, announced his retirement in a letter he delivered yesterday to athletic director Tony Quagliata. Replacement decision Is up in the air. Story, Page 1C His teams' 879-290 won-loss record represents the most varsity basketball victories by a coach at any collegiate level.

The 875th victory, which received national attention last February, surpassed the record of 874 held by the late Adolph Rupp of the University of Kentucky. Besides Baldwin and Rupp, no other college coach in history had won more than 771, and no junior-col Defendant admits to charges, but Pa. justice dismisses case Said she felt sorry for SWI lege coach more than 743. Baldwin, 65, of Chenango Bridge, will leave the post on June 14. "I've set this date to give me time to clean out my office, pay one or two outstanding bills from the basketball earned-income account, and because the date coincides with our 40th anniversary wedding date," his letter stated.

He and his wife, Janet, former next-door neighbors in Olean, were married in that city on June 14, 1947. The wedding was Marjory Wheaton Admits prejudice party." At the same time, Shultz said, "If our ships get attacked anywhere, we will defend ourselves that's not going to war with anybody." After hearing from Weinberger and Carlucci, the chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee, Sen. Sam Nunn, said, "I have mixed feelings about whether hostilities are imminent. Certainly hostilities are possible, certainly we're taking on SeeGULFPage4A with the troubles the trash disposal company is having. Marjory Wheaton, district justice in Susquehanna County, dropped the charge against Thomas Goettal, SWTs engineer, on May 22 after Goettal admitted to the harassment claims made against him by a 72-year-old man.

Neighbors, citizens groups and several local governments in New York and Pennsylvania oppose SWTs landfill plan, and Goettal said he thought the man was an opponent trying to make trouble for SWI workers. Goettal, a former Town of Vestal engineer, was charged with speeding behind and cutting off the man's car, charging up to the man and threatening See JUSTICE Page 4A By JAMES M. OOATO Staff Writer i A harassment charge against an employee of Solid Waste Industries Inc. is being refiled after a magistrate dismissed the case because she sympathized U.S. delays protection for Kuwaiti ships Business 12B Opinion 10-11 A Classified 6-1 2C People 1D Comics 4-5D Sports 1C Community 1-88 State 8B Landers 60 Stocks 10-11B Living 1D TV 2D Movies pullout Washington 9A Nation 3A Weather 2A Obituaries 8B World 2A By NORMAN BLACK The Associated Press WASHINGTON With congressional alarm rising, the Reagan administration has put off for several weeks its plan to extend American military protection to Kuwaiti oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, Pentagon officials and a key senator said yesterday.

The plan had raised concerns in Congress that it could draw the United States into the Iran-Iraq war. To dampen these concerns, the administration sent Defense Sec retary Caspar W. Weinberger and national security adviser Frank Carlucci to Capitol Hill for a closed briefing with key figures. Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, in a television interview, said the United States is "looking for trouble" by stepping up its military presence in the gulf. Secretary of State George P.

Shultz, talking to reporters in his office last night, said, "The United States has no intention and will not get directly involved in the Iran-Iraq war. We will not go to war with either Questions or comments? For matters regarding world, national and state news call News Editor Bob Dixon at 798-1184, weekdays after 4 p.m..

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