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A Ga ST. PETERSBURG TIMES SATURDAY. AUGUST 7. 1982 people I Hillsborough man reported flogged in Saudi Arabia Briefly noted Associated Pra I United Prat International I t.J 5- i mm IV' AM SLIM PICKENS, the slow-talking western actor who has appeared in dozens of movies and television shows, said In San Francisco Friday he will be hospitalized next week for removal of a small brain tumor. Pickens, 63, said he plans to enter the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on Sunday, with surgery scheduled for Tuesday.

Pickens declined to discuss his condition or provide details on the FORMER ASTRO-NAUT James Irwin, who explored the mountains of the moon during the Apollo 15 flight in 1971, says he will lead a 12-man expedition up a mountain in Turkey in search of Noah's ark. Wreckage of a large, barge-like hulk has been sighted by many expeditions over the past century on Mount Ararat, Irwin says. "I feel the vessel is definitely Noah's ark," he said. The expedition plans to leave Colorado Springs, where Irwin lives, today and begin the ascent of the mountain next week. 7 xis-j UPI Elton gets award UPI Burton sees daughter perform Elton John was awarded Madison Square Garden's Platinum Ticket award Thursday night prior to a concert at the New York auditorium.

The award is given to performers who have attracted 250,000 people or more to concerts at the Garden. Richard Burton stands with his daughter Kate, left, and his current companion, Sally Haze, as they leave the Circle in the Square Theater in New York Thursday night. Burton came to see Kate perform with George C. Scott in the new off-Broadway hit Present Laughter, and to introduce his daughter by his first wife, Sybil Christopher, to his latest romantic companion. Jobless Day from 1-A from 1-A BRUCE, Miss.

A former aircraft technician accused of pogsessing wine in a Moslem country said Friday he and a Hillsborough County man were among five Americans who received public floggings in Saudi Arabia last week before being released from prison. Harold Weeks, 33, of Bruce, said the nightmare finally ended Sunday night when he was released after serving seven months in prison. He said he was taken to an airport in handcuffs and left the Middle East. Truett Holcomb of Thonotosassa and the other three Americans were freed two or three days later, he said. Efforts by the St.

Petersburg Times to contact Ho Icomb or any of his relatives were unsuccessful Friday night. The other three men were identified by Weeks as James Phillips of Biloxi, Charles King of Tacoma, Wash, and Frances Welsh, originally from Texas but currently in Thailand. WEEKS, WHO went to Saudia Arabia in 1978 as an aircraft technician, said he and his family lived with fellow Americans in a company compound in Riyadh. He said it was "fairly common" for Westerners to have homemade wines or other alcoholic beverages. He said his troubles began when he let a Greek friend have some homemade wine in December during the Christmas holidays.

The friend was arrested and Weeks said he was stopped by Saudi Arabia police on Jan. 8 as he was leaving the compound. Weeks said he was charged with possession of wine and sentenced to eight months in prison and 90 lashes. The other four were charged with making and drinking alcoholic beverages, he said. He said three of them received sentences of two years each and 210 lashes apiece and the fourth was sentenced to 2'a years and 290 lashes.

"They took us out in front of about 150 people. I was the second one to be flogged," Weeks said in describing the flogging. "They put us up against a wall and took out a cane, about 3 1 a to 4 feet. It was coated with plastic or some kind of fiber glass and was flexible. "I received 45 lashes that day." The other Americans received the same number of lashes, he said.

The procedure was repeated the next day 45 more lashes for each man as part of the punishment for having wine in a Moslem country, Weeks said in a telephone interview. He said the other four Americans received additional floggings before they also were released later in the week. They were granted pardons this summer after a change of rulers in the country in June, Weeks said. ALL FIVE men had been working in Saudi Arabia for the international division of Lockheed Aircraft, Weeks said. He accused the company of doing little or nothing to help them throughout their long ordeal.

He said they also got no help from the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia. A Lockheed spokesman confirmed Friday that Weeks had been employed by Lockheed, but only as a contract, or temporary, employee. David Crowther, vice president of corporate communications for Lockheed, also told the Memphis Commercial Appeal that Weeks had been arrested for making hard liquor in large quantities. Crowther said that Weeks made 25 gallons, which has a street value of $50 to $100 a quart in Saudi Arabia.

Crowther said that Weeks is no longer associated with Lockheed. then, Ms. Ibrahim and her 30-year-old husband Mohsen, a mathematics teacher, have lived with their five children and eight members of his family in the entrance of an apartment building. Their makeshift home is 10 feet by 10 feet, where they sleep crammed on blankets and mats. "We don't (usually) drink this water.

It's salty," she said. "We just use it to wash the children and the clothes. If possible, we take a bath once a week." A family dies The personal bodyguard of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat stood in front of the collapsed building, a pile of twisted masonry since an Israeli aerial bomb hit it with pin-point accuracy Friday. "My family is in there," he said quietly. "My parents, wife, four children.

I brought them here this morning. All dead." Reports said the building housed a PLO security headquarters. Rescue workers used a bulldozer to remove the debris in an effort to. find survivors. The bulldozer uncovered a woman's leg and a piece of black and white dress.

A man ran forward, peered inside the black hole and turned away. "No," he said, "not this one," and went back to the road to stand and wait. papering over the nation's problems and face reality." Labor leaders were particularly bitter in denouncing the new record rate of unemployment. Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of Federal, State and Municipal Employees, one of the largest unions in the AFL-CIO, said the figures "doom economic recovery." Noting Reagan's assertion that the recent 10 percent personal income tax reduction would help people spend the economy out of recession, McEntee that's impossible while they are standing on unemployment lines." The unemployment rate is the percentage of persons without jobs in the total civilian labor force which is comprised both of those with jobs and those who are actively seeking them. The unemployment rate is based on a monthly survey of about 60,000 households and is adjusted to account for seasonal variations in the economy.

Canadian unemployment nears12 OTTAWA The number of Canada's unemployed climbed to a record 1,386,000 in July, pushing" the seasonally adjusted jobless rate to a post-Depression high of 11.8 percent. The number of jobless is up 66 percent from last year and the unemployment rate is up almost a full percentage point from 10.9 percent in June, Statistics Canada reported Friday. It was the 11th consecutive month that the level of employment has declined. Resources Inc. "It now looks like we are going to get 10 percent or higher unemployment in the next few months." Jerry Jasinowsk, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers, said that although the recession had "hit bottom" he expected the rate to go over 10 percent during the next two months and said it would probably remain around 9 percent for the forseeable future.

But Democratic congressmen who attended the usual monthly briefing of the Joint Economic Committee by Janet L. Norwood, commissioner of labor statistics, pointed out that the recession was now a year old. They taunted the President, quoting his remarks in a press conference last month, when he said, "July 1 marks the beginning of brighter days for everyone who works." Sen. Edward Kennedy, noted that since Reagan took office 3-million more persons had lost their jobs. "If those 3-million workers stood in line, they would reach all the way from the White House to the suburbs of Chicago, and if all 10-million now unemployed stood in line, it would span the country from the Potomac River to the Pacific," he declared.

SEN. PAUL SARBANES, quoted Treasury Secretary Donald Regan's economic forecast last February when he predicted the economy would "come roaring back" in the late spring. "At some point," Sarbanes said, "the Reagan administration must stop Nowhere to go Thousands of people are fleeing west Beirut after eight weeks of Israeli shelling and bombing. But the Ariss family is staying. "Where can we asked Issam Ariss, a 34-year-old locksmith.

"We have no relatives in the east, and to rent someplace would be too much." The Lebanese Moslem family lives in a 10-story apartment building within easy artillery range of Israeli positions. The Arisses make bread from flour they have stored. Several blackened holes from shells and machine-gun bullets pockmark their walls. Searching for water Hayat Ibrahim, a 30-year-old Palestinian nurse, trudges the streets each morning, desperately searching for water even if it's salty and filthy. When she finds water usually a trickle from a rubber hose snaking out of a private well she joins the long lineup to fill up plastic buckets and jugs she and her sister-in-law carry back to their family.

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The officials said that if all went according to plan a very big question, they cautioned the PLO evacuation could start by the middle or end of next week. Despite the fact Israel has rejected the essence of the Habib plan the simultaneous deployment of a multinational force and start of the PLO withdrawal Habib is understood to have told the Lebanese negotiators the Reagan administration would throw its full weight behind the evacuation plan if and when a final accord is reached. In Jerusalem, Israeli officials said they had not received any new proposals for a PLO evacuation. Israeli army spokesman Michael Keve-hazi said that it would be difficult for the Israelis to agree to one of the points in the proposal, an overland PLO withdrawal along the Beirut-Damascus highway. "What is to prevent them from joining the Syrian forces once they passed the Israeli lines at Sofar?" asked Kevehazi.

Both the Israeli and the Syrian armies are facing each other along a tenuous cease-fire line at Sofar, 15 miles east of Beirut. The sanctions issue Charging that American efforts to lessen Israeli military pressure on the Palestinian guerrillas trapped inside west Beirut are undermining the chances of a peaceful resolution of the crisis, an Israeli official said that those in the Reagan administration who favor sanctions against Israel seriously misunderstand Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. "It will have a contrary effect and America will lose all of its leverage," he said. "Then what Israel will do is unpredictable but it could make Beirut look like peanuts." The official noted that previous American efforts to exert pressure on Israel produced only verbal responses. "This time we are at war, and there is no doubt the reaction will be on the ground," he warned.

"It will be very painful." It could not be determined which side began the shootout, nor how many casualties were suffered. The mass exodus that began Thursday of Lebanese civilians fleeing West Beirut continued throughout Friday. There was another massive traffic jam at Galerie Semaan, the only crossing into the east still kept open by the Israelis. U.N. resolution U.S.

delegate Charles Lichenstein, who cast the veto of the Soviet resolution calling for an arms embargo against Israel, said Washington rejected the resolution "because it calls for sanctions and because it will not contribute to our goal of achieving a peaceful settlement." Britain, Togo and Zaire abstained from voting and the other 11 council members voted for the resolution. They were China, France, Guyana, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Panama, Poland, Spain, Uganda and the Soviet Union. In Moscow, the government news agency Tass reacted with unusual speed in denouncing the U.S. veto, saying it proved Washington is an "accomplice of Tel Aviv's brazen aggression in Lebanon." The Soviet measure would have had the council say it "strongly condemns Israel" for not implementing previous cease-fire and pullback resolutions and demand that Israel "immediately implement these resolutions fully." The negotiations Senior Lebanese officials, in reporting that the PLO and Habib had agreed on all major points regarding a PLO withdrawal, pointed out, however, that Syria, Jordan and Egypt had yet to agree formally to accept the guerrillas. The officials said Habib hoped to iron out the final details by Sunday, when he wants to convene a meeting of French, American and Lebanese military specialists to set the day the withdrawal would begin.

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and she had the first wide smile I'd seen on her," Mrs. DeBolt said. Now Twe sings and plays the piano. "We find gifts in everything," Mrs. DeBolt said.

Doctors have recommended psychological treatment for Twe and neurological treatment for Ly which the family could not afford. Linda Reynolds, 34, and her husband Allen, 37, in Eaton, adopted twin Vietnamese boys, James and Nathan. James was on the plane that crashed; Nathan had already arrived at the Reynolds home. James received $860,000 in an earlier out-of-court settlement. "We've been able to do a lot of things for James that we never would have been able to do without that mnney," Mrs.

Reynolds said. The pair, now 8 years old, look alike. But James is hyperactive, is on medication, sees a counselor, and has a tutor because his attention span is too short to make good grades in the classroom. Nathan is a calm, easygoing student, his mother said. "We started having problems with James when he was 2, and we didn't know what was wrong.

He was uncontrollable," Mrs. Reynolds said. "Two years passed before we realized it was brain damage." Robert and Dorothy DeBolt of suburban San Francisco adopted two teen-age girls the oldest orphans to survive the crash. Now 21, Ly and Twe are "growing to be fine young adults," DeBolt said in a telephone interview. Both are included in the settlement.

Ly, paralyzed from the waist down before the crash, has had recurring headaches since the crash. Her paralyzed legs were broken in five places. Ly is starting her second year in junior college, majoring in computer science. She wants to become a medical doctor. The settlement money may help her realize that dream.

Twe, blind since birth, was thrown clear of the wreckage. She still remembers the smell of fuel "and the sounds of the injured screaming," DeBolt said. "When she came here she was more like an animal than a child. She had terrible hostility and was very withdrawn." FOR THE FIRST few weeks, Twe sat around the house on her haunches, rocking back and forth with her chin on her chest. One day, when Mrs.

DeBolt was alone in the house with Twe she heard "this sweet, true, perfect voice singing." "I went into the room and Twe was singing a little folk song in perfect French, her head was up appointed guardian for the children's legal interests. "We took a gamble," said Wanda Zimmerly. Her adopted son, Jimmy, won $500,000 in a jury verdict that was set aside last year. Another trial had been scheduled for next year. "We could go back into court, but I think the settlement offer is fair," she said.

"I'll just be glad when it's all over." Jimmy, now 8, has psychological and coordination problems and attends a private school. His family lives in St. Louis where Mrs. Zimmerly works for a home health care agency and her husband, Melvin, is a machinist. Mrs.

Zimmerly said most of the parents who adopted the Vietnamese children aren't wealthy. "They are middle class families. Most of them are Christian people, and it's the love of the child that is the reason we did this." FIFTY-FIVE CHILDREN were adopted by American families, 16 of them in California, seven in New York, five in Colorado and the rest in 16 other states. Families of some children did not file lawsuits. FREE DELIVERY SET-UP AND OLD BEDDING REMOVAL DISCOUNTS TO SENIORS YOU CAN'T GET A BETTER BUY Thurt.

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