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18 The Leader-Post Regina. Saskatchewan Friday. July 8. 1983 Samantha begins Russian tour war." Samantha said, and he un ited the girl to the Soviet Union Samantha said slie pictured Andropov as a "grandfather after reading his letter. "We certainly are not experts on disarmament or the arms race, Mrs.

Smith said of her family. "And we are tar from being professional diplomats. But talking is live first step, and if we can do talking even on our level, maybe that can achieve something Smith, noting his daughter's independent spirit, said live United States ill be well-propagandized by Samantha. The Smiths packed mementos from Maine tote bags, college T-shirts, pennants. Footage of Samantha packing her suitcase's was shown on Soviet television.

Samantha also took a stack of letters, "hundreds and hundreds of letters." said her father. They were written by far-flung Russian emigres seeking exit visas for family and others who had some message for Soviet authorities. "At this point we're unsure what tot do with these appeals because Samanthas position as a guest is something we have to consider," her father said. The State Department wished Samantha a good trip" but said nothing more. The Smiths's itinerary, mapped out by Intourist, the Soviet travel agency, takes them to the Black Sea resort area on Sunday.

The family was also going to visit a children's camp that Andropov said Samantha might like to see. On July 14, the Smiths go to Leningrad. where they may see the Winter Palace, the Leningrad Art Museum and war memorials. On July 17. it's back to Moscow, where.

Smith said, the family will visit a circus, a toy store, the Bolshoi Ballet and Lenin's Tomb, among other places. MOSCOW (APt An 11 -var-old American girl who worrit'd that (he Soviet Union might start a nuc lear ar armed in Moscow today with suitcases of souvenirs and a "secret'' present for the man who invited her. Soviet President Yuri Andropov. If Samantha Smith does get to meet the ailing 69-vear-old Andropov, she ll ask him: "Do you promise me the Soviet Union will never start a war? the girl from Manchester. Maine, told a crowd of 50 reporters An her arrival.

Because of a letter she wrote to Andropov. Samantha and her parents were invited on a two-week tour of the Soviet Union. The Soviet government is footing the bill, including about $10,000 for the family's first-class airplane tickets. Ten Soviet boys and girls who belong to the Young Pioneers, a Communist party youth group, greeted her. The boys, in white shirts, red ties and navy shorts, and the girls, in skirts and blouses, gat her bouquets of (lowers.

Then a black Chaika limousine took Samantha and her parents out of Moscow's Sheremyetovo Airport. With a Soviet militia car leading, the Smith motorcade drove to central Moscow. Samantha told reporters at the airport: "The Americans are not going to start a war, either. So why are we still making all these bombs and pointing them at each other? Joan Smith said her daughter is a good example of American youth and it will be good for Russians to get to meet her." Her father, Arthur, said, "Both East and West will enjoy good publicity" from the visit. The Smiths began their trip Thursday in Augusta.

went to Boston, and then Montreal, where they boarded a (light on Aeroflot, the Soviet state airline, for Moscow. Lover admits LOS ANGELES (API Vicki Morgan. the high-school dropout who tried to win a fortune as the former lover of millionaire Allred Bloomingdale, died after a quarrel about money, her lovely model's features shattered by a baseball bat. In September, 1970, the svelte beauty with the translucent eyes and high cheekbones was swept from Sunset Boulevard into the life of Bloomingdale. friend and unofficial adviser to Ronald Reagan.

She said the department store magnate and Diners Club financier kept her for 12 years as his mistress, confidante and kinky-sex partner. Morgan died Thursday at age 30, unemployed, a year after her headlinemaking "palimony" lawsuit. Her fortunes dwindled with Bloomingdale's death from cancer last August and court Caller asks Popes help to free Agca ROME i Reuter The Vatican said Thursday it has heard from someone claiming contact with the kidnappers of the daughter of a Vatican employee who are demanding the release tif the Turk who tried to kill Pope John Paul in 1981. The official Vatican spokesman. Father Romeo Panciroli.

told reporters: It is true that late Tuesday morning a telephone call was received by an office of the Holy See ith a message for the Secretariat of State (Vatican govern menti." Panciroli gave no details, but a man; claiming to represent the kidnappers of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi told the Italian news agency Ansa by telephone Wednesday that they had asked the Pope to press the Italian government to free his would-be killer. Mehmet Ali Agca. 25. was senti need to life imprisonment here in July. 1981, two months after he shot and wounded the Pope in St.

Peter's Square. He is serving the sentence at a jail in Ascoli Piceno, eastern Italy. Panciroli denied press reports that the Vatican had heard from the kid-, nappers before the Pope offered a prayer last Sunday, for the safe return of Emanuela who vanished in central Rome on June 22. The first public word on her fate came when an anonymous caller told Ansa. We have got Emanuela Orlandi.

we shall free her only when Mehmet Ali Agca. the Popes attacker, is freed." He gave a 20-day deadline. Before hanging up, the caller directed the agency to a photocopy, concealed in a Rome garbage can. of documents belonging to the girl, including an enroll-, ment card at a music school where she studied the (lute. Relatives who saw the photocopy all said they thought it was genuine.

Despite receiving their first real lead in the case, police said they were puzzled by the fact that the caller had not identified the group to which he said he belonged or made any political statements. There were no further clues from several telephone calls which Emanuelas father Ercole told investigators he had received in recent days in which apparent recordings of his daughter's voice were played. No ransom demands had been made, he said. Baby slashed by muggers LONDON (API Two muggers accosted a woman on a London street and slashed her eight-month-old baby on the face and leg with broken glass, the mother and police said Thursday. A Scotland Yard spokesman said the attackers stole two rings and a watch worth about $80 in the robbery.

The baby did not require hospital treatment. Julie Boughton, 21, said two youths stopped her in the Walworth district of southeast London, and one said: "Hand over your rings and cash or well mark your baby for life. She said one robber tried to snatch her purse and she hit him with it. The other smashed a buttle against a wall and put the jagged glass to the throat of her daughter, Kelly Marie, who was in a carriage. Boughton said she pleaded with the youth not to hurt her daughter, but he said: "If I do it to the baby.

I'll get what I want. I'm going to cut the baby. Boughton said the attacker then cut the baby twice on the face and once on the leg. and she handed over her jewelry. She said she had no cash.

The mother quoted one robber as saying: "'This is how we earn our living." The Scotland Yard spokesman, who did not want to bo identified, said each cut was about 2.5 centimetres (one inch i long and drew blood, but the baby did not require hospital treatment. Jedi friends Dennis Cantin, 42 Hooper Bay, checks out one of the friends of the Jedi at the Jedi Adventure Centre at the Southland Mall in Regina. The centre, a travelling showcase of the three films of the Star Wars saga, will be at the mall until July 16. (Leader-Post photo by Don Healy). Samanthas father, an English instructor at the University of Maine, said meeting Andropov was "a strong possibility," but no official encounter has been scheduled.

Earlier this year, Mrs. Smith suggested that Samantha write to Andropov after the girl told her mother she worried about nuclear war. So Samantha sent a letter to Andropov. the Soviet Communist party general secretary, asking why he wanted to conquer the world. Andropov wrote back.

"In his letter he promised me that he wouldn't start a baseball bat rulings against her claims. She was killed the day she planned to move to a place where the rent was cheaper. Her boyfriend confessed to the murder and said he and Morgan had an argument about money, police said. Morgan said she received $18,000 a month from Bloomingdale, a man 30 years her senior, before the payments were cut off in June, 1982 at the request of his wife, Betsy. Morgan's subsequent $10-million lawsuit, seeking $5 million for breach of an oral contract for lifetime support and $5 million from his wife for allegedly interfering with the contract, made headlines noticed even in the White House.

God, what a way to go," said lawyer Marvin Mitchelson, after learning of the death of Morgan, who had a 14-year-old son. ed government. Gordon Hanson, NDP government services critic, says the budget means a reduction in service to the consumer, who was hit hard in other areas Thursday as Curtis increased the retail sales tax to seven per cent from six, raised hospital user fees and abolished rent controls effective at midnight Thursday night. The budget leaves British Columbians with the highest sales tax in western Canada, compared with six per cent in Manitoba and Saskatchewan and zero in Alberta. Elsewhere in the country, the rate ranges as high as 12 per cent in Newfoundland.

On top of that, the tax will apply for the first time to restaurant meals, starting at $7 a person, and to long-distance telephone tolls. B.C. raises sales tax figures terms photographers by arriving before midnight Thursday night at the federal penitentiary in Lexington, said a prison supervisor. Robert Parrish. Thompson, who served in Congress for 26 years and chaired the House administration committee, was committed for 90 days of medical testing, although penitentiary spokesman Steve Pontesso said the examination may be completed within 30 days.

Thompson, 64, underwent heart bypass surgery about 10 years ago and has had health problems since. He will be formally sentenced only if doctors determine he can withstand the rigors of prison life. Philadelphia lawyer Howard Criden, who served as an Abscam middleman in arranging meetings between congressmen and the bogus sheiks, reported to the Lexington facility Thursday to begin his six-year sentence, Pontesso said. Angeio Errichetti, a former mayor of Camden, N.J., and a former state senator, surrendered to authorities at the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Conn. Sentenced to six years and fined $40,000, Errichetti blew a kiss to two women who accompanied him in a chauffeured car but did not acknowledge reporters waiting nearby.

Another defendant scheduled to turn himself in there, however, former representative John Murphy obtained a delay through legal Six Abscam start prison By The Associated Press Six major Abscam figures have reported to federal prisons, including one former U.S. congressman who. maintained his innocence up to freedom's end, calling the controversial undercover sting operation a disgrace." Former representative Michael (Oz-ziel Myers one of three former congressmen to surrender Thursday, said he was disappointed the U.S. Supreme Court had not overturned his bribery-conspiracy conviction. I am an honest man and always w'as and always will be," said Myers, a former longshoreman who took $50,000 from an undercover agent posing as a bagman for an Arab sheik.

Abscam is a disgrace to the justice system of this country." Myers, the first member of the House of Representatives to be expelled since the U.S. Civil War, was joined at the Al-lenwood. penal facility by his congressional roommate, former representative Raymond Lederer and former Philadelphia City Council member Louis Johanson. All three have been sentenced to three years and fined $20,000 each. Lederer told reporters that he did nothing wrong when he met with the undercover agents, who posed during Abscam as influence-buying Arab sheiks and their bagmen, paying bribes in return for special immigration legislation or other political favors.

Lederer contended as he had in the past that he was merely trying to arrange financing for a Philadelphia hotel complex. Former representative Frank Thompson Jr. avoided reporters and VICTORIA (CPI The Social Credit government dipped into consumers pockets and went at the public service with a broadaxe Thursday, chopping commissions, programs and jobs in its 1983 budget. Finance Minister Hugh Curtis said the B.C. government will spend $8.4 billion, up about 12 per cent, but its deficit means there can be no wage increase for the province's 44.000 civil servants.

Furthermore, he expects to trim their ranks by 4.000 this year. Those who survive the layoffs may have their wages cut by as much as five per cent and lose job tenure. It was a forceful follow-up to Social Credit's overwhelming May 5 re-election victory in which. Curtis said, the voters went for a tough, restraint-mind- killing Mitchelson. whose first palimony" lawsuit obtained communal property rights for live-in lovers, had helped her file the suit against the Bloomingdales a year ago today.

Morgan later dropped him from the case. Police found her nightgown-dressed body in her bed at a rented Studio City condominium. Her live-in boyfriend. Marvin Pancoast, 33. walked into a police station and said, I just killed someone," police Lieut.

Dan Cooke said. Pancoast was booked for investigation of murder, the officer said. "He waited for her to go to sleep and beat her to death," Cooke said. Morgan had been struck multiple times with a baseball bat in the head," Cooke said. Pancoast told investigators he fought with Morgan on Wednesday night, basically about finances.

Cooke said. Both were unemployed. Last September. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Christian Markey rejected most of Morgans lawsuit in a ruling upheld by the state Supreme Court. The cash she recently raised by selling her Mercedes-Benz was dwindling.

And the owner of her three-bedroom condo, Robert Epstein, said she asked to be released from a lease so she could move in Thursday with friends in Beverly Hills. Movers she hired mentioned less elegant destinations: Burbank or North Hollywood. And Pancoast told police they were evicted. Morgan had sworn under oath that her bizarre sex with Bloomingdale began at their third meeting, when a naked Bloomingdale beat her and two other women bound with neckties. Then she said he made love only to her.

Bloomingdale's will was amended July 25, 1982 17 days after the Morgan lawsuit was filed. He left everything to his wife and children, nothing to Morgan. le.idof-PoM pholo by Patrick Pettit Sentenced to three years in prison. Murphy remained free after filing a re- quest to Supreme Court Justice Tluir-good Marshall for a stay pending an appeal for a new trial. Grants Rebates -Hejwee Loan ACT NOW! Proving 'Sxpires July 3183 thrfllTED TO 5 LOTS AND SAVE ON A LOT IN WHITE CITY Good water Enjoy suburban living on large lots Low taxes approx.

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