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Hie World The Messenger Ap! 3, 1985 Page 2 Around the Nation Strange reorganize as Minnesota Women of Today, Barbara Fish, president of the organization, said Tuesday night. Fined ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) After recanting a rape accusation against a former boyfriend in a case that sent him to jail for 13 months, a 19-year-old woman has been fined $150 and ordered to help rape victims for 1,000 hours. Kathryn Hargis Tucci, of Laurel, was directed by Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Robert H. Heller, Jr.

to perform community service work, preferably at the countys Rape Crisis Center. Pastor ALLISON PARK, Pa. (AP) -Lutheran church officials who forced a militant pastor froip his pulpit because of his outspoken views on unemployment are looking to oust another minister who also advocates help for the jobless. A church investigative committee recommended Tuesday that the Rev. Daniel N.

Solberg step down as pastor of Nativity Lutheran Church in this suburb north of Pittsburgh. LOS ANGELES (AP) All Michael Lewis had bargained for was a one-hour connecting flight to Oakland, but less than 10 minutes after takeoff be realized he was mi a 12-hour flight instead to Auckland, New Zealand. The Sacramento college student had settled back in his seat, thinking he was on the last, 400-mile leg of a trip home from Europe. But the pilot came onto the public-address system shortly after the plane left Los Angeles on Monday and thanked the passengers for taking the flight to New Zealand. Lewis, 21, said he bolted out of his chair when he realized he was taking a side trip to the South Pacific on Air New Zealand.

I got all panicky and told the stewardess, who didnt believe me at first, he said Tuesday after returning to California. Then they figured out that because they (New Zealanders) pronounce Auckland like Oakland, I probably got a boarding pass without them checking, he said. Lewis began his odyssey Sunday on a World Airways jet from Frankfurt, West Germany, with a stop in London. He said he got off the plane in Los Angeles to transfer for the trip to Oakland on another World Airways flight, although he said it was difficult to decipher the name of the airline on the ticket. Lewis said he heard a flight announced on Air New Zealand for what he thought was Oakland, and two Air New Zealand agents directed him to a departure lounge.

After a short delay, he said, he was issued a boarding pass and got on the plane without anyone checking his ticket. But the roundabout trip home proved to be pleasant enough. Lewis stopped in Tahiti and spent about eight hours in Auckland, where he took a bus tour of the city and did a little shopping. Then he got back on a flight to Los Angeles. It (Auckland) is a really nice city.

I wish I could have stayed a week or so, he said. I made some friends on the flight who offered me an opportunity to stay with them, but I ran the risk of having to pay for my flight. The whole experience, which would have cost a regular passenger $1,032, cost Lewis nothing but time. Dan Mortensen, airport services manager for Air New Zealand, said, We understood him to say Auckland when he said Oakland so we accepted the responsibility for the ticket. Lewis said he called his parents home in Sacramento and ended up telling his story to his uncle who didnt believe him.

Maybe it was because it was April Fools Day, I dont know, he said. make bankers reluctant to lend to farmers by preventing them from liquidating collateral. The state Senate has twice passed legislation to impose a one-year moratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures, but the bill was overwhelminly defeated by a House committee. Damaged CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) A broken cable linkage resulting from a design defect caused a work platform to fall from a malfunctioning crane, breaking a workmans leg and damaging space shuttle Discovery, reliable sources say.

The sources, who spoke (Mi condition that they not be identified, said Tuesday that a notice, warning of defective operation, had been posted on the crane system, but it was not easily visible and may have fallen off. Jets collide WOLFEBORO, N.H. (AP) -Two F-106 fighter planes collided in flight Tuesday night, and one pilot ejected unharmed while the other landed safely at Pease Air Forse Base, authorities said. The plane crashed about a half-mile from Route 28 north of Wolfeboro about 8:50 p.m., and the unidentified pilot walked out safely from the woods, state police said. The other pilot, also unidentified, landed at Pease, about 50 miles southeast of the crash site.

Takeover moves NEW YORK (AP) Broadcast magnate Ted Turner is-pre-paring a move to fake over CBS Inc. and has received financial commitments of $100 million from a communications group and a former Cabinet member, The New York Times reported today. Unidentified industry sources told the Times that Turner was in Washington recently and in New York City this week arranging financing for the move. Quake SANTA PAULA, Calif. (AP) A moderate earthquake that hit like a sonic boom was felt in cities 100 miles apart Tuesday night, but caused no injuries or damage, authorities said.

The temblor, measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, struck at 8:05 p.m., two miles north of this Ventura County town, said Dennis Meredith, spokesman for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Santa Paula is 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Cocaine plane AGLL' MOUNTAIN, Calif. (AP)' A disabled twin-engine plane carrying cocaine worth up to $25' million landed near a remote desert pumping station Tuesday, and its crew abandoned the aircraft, officials said. The Cessna 414 contained more than 450 pounds of co caine, said Bobby Sheppard, intelligence supervisor for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Los Angeles.

The cocaine was worth up to $25 million, depending on its purity, he said. Shootings SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A murder suspect who should have been shackled so tight he could hardly breathe was hospitalized under heavy guard today after an escape attempt in which he killed an attorney and wounded a bailiff, officials said. Ronnie Lee Gardner was being taken to the Metropolitan Hall of Justice for a hearing on a first-degree murder charge when the states key witness walked up and handed him a gun, said Salt Lake County Sheriff Pete Hayward. Gardner, 23, was shot in the shoulder by a prison guard before he opened fire and was surrounded and captured moments later in front Of the downtown 'Metropolitan Hall of Justice, Hayward said. Separation FERGUS FALLS, Minn.

(AP) A Jaycees womens auxiliary that organized after a 10-year battle and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling has become disenchanted with the male-dominated Jaycees and will break away, an official said. The 5,000 Minnesota Jaycee Women voted overwhelmingly in a mail ballot to disaffiliate from the Jaycees and Fasting ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) As 19 Democratic lawmakers fasted to dramatize the need for a moratorium on farm foreclosures, others said the ban Would In Kentucky Th Forecast for 7 p.m.

EST, Apr 3, 50 ,40 60 Attorney's suit MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) -City council members accused in a lawsuit by City Attorney Tommy Roberts of defaming him have responded in court documents that they were truthful in calling him incompetent. Roberts suit, filed Feb. 15 in Bell Circuit Court, said he was exposed to public wrath, hatred, contempt and ridicule because of statements a year earlier in a news conference by council members opposing Mayor Chester Wolfe and by their attorney, Karen Greene. The news conference was conducted Feb.

17, 1984, during the heated political struggle that ensued after members of the Time For a Change slate won a majority on the council. The Change council members called on Roberts to step down. High Temperatures According te a release from the U.S. Attorneys office, Glass allegedly received money illegally from businesses, including a massage parlor. Glass, 46, also allegedly received money from three tavern owners and the San Antonio Inn.

a downtown adult motel, according to the release. Transplant LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Doctors transplanted a heart into an Indiana teen-ager who had been kept alive for five days by two temporary plastic pumps assisting his diseased heart, officials said. Michael C. Jones, 16, was in critical condition today after the pumps, known as ventricular assist devices, were removed and the donor heart began beating on its own, said David Fleming, a spokesman for Jewish Hospital.

Jones had been near death since an unidentified virus attacked his heart two weeks ago and caused five cardiac arrests. The VADs were attached to his heart Thursday to pump his blood. Jo chance of survival, even with the new heart, is only 20 percent, Fleming said. Rampage MORGANFIELD, Ky. (AP) Federal Job Corps officials say the staff at the Earle C.

Clements Center responded appropriately to a weekend disturbance that resulted in the expulsion of about 40 trainees. The youths were locked into a jail at the center and then sent home after a rampage in which trainees looted, threw rocks and overturned a car, officials said. Damage figures were still being compiled, Rucker said. The disturbance was handled by the centers private security force, said spokeswoman Vicki Woodruff. Backed out? LOUISVILLE, Ky.

(AP) Rep. Larry Hopkins, R-6th District, has charged that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has refused to permit a group of American lawmakers to make an unrestricted visit to military installations in the nation. Hopkins and 18 other con gressmen wrote the Nicaraguan government, saying they wanted to be included in a congressional visit. The Nicaraguan government had invited House Speaker Thomas P. ONeill and Senate Ma jority Leader RobertDofetd visit the country and look at its armed services.

Thaft imitation was later expanded to include a bipartisan delegation appointed by the two leaders. Fetus death CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) A Fort Campbell, soldier has been indicted on vehicular homicide charges for a traffic accident that killed a 7-month-old fetus. Spec. 4 Glenn A.

Evans, 21, was indicted on the charge Monday and on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and aggravated assault. Police said Evans was driving east in the westbound lane of Interstate 24 on March 1 when his car collided head-on with one carrying Becky Sue Thompson, 21, of Murray, Ky. She was seven months pregnant at the time of the accident and suffered a miscarriage. FRONTS: Warm -wOCokt-v-v. Occluded -ww Stationary Showers Rain Flurries Snow National Weather Service NOAA.

US Oeot of Commerce Showers are predicted by the National Weather Service in the Northeast and in Wyoming, South Dakota and Nebraska. Snow flurries are in the northern Rockies. (AP Laserphoto) Indicted LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted former Louisville official Earl Glass on six counts of extortion. Glass was director of the Office of Licenses and Permits.

Worldview an died and her daughter was wounded in an unprovoked police attack on her home. A spokesman at police headquarters in Pretoria said the fatal clash occurred Tuesday in Motherwell, one of five black townships in eastern Cape Province caught up in sporadic rioting during the day. Ireland bomb NEWRY, Northern Ireland (AP) A bomb exploded today in a car parked outside a courthouse in Newry, near the border with the Irish Republic. One person was killed and nine others were injured, authorities said. The blast went off just as police officers arrived at the building in a all-terrain vehicle, said police spokeswoman Isobel Uprichard.

Local Forecast Today will be sunny, windy and warm with highs in the upper 60s. Tonight will be partly 1 cloudy and seasonably cool with towS in the mid 40s. Thursday will be mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and highs will be near 70. Yesterdays high was 56 and low was 42. Sunrise Thursday 5:31 a.m.

Sunset 6:16 p.m. Kentucky Forecast The sprinkles that fell this morning in some parts of Kentucky are predicted to be followed by more substantial rain by Thursday, the National Weather Service reported today. Forecaster Barbara Thomas said the sprinkles were triggered by the passage of a weak cold. Our next chances of rain will occur on Thursday, she said. Low pressure is expected to develop on the lee side of the rockies and track southeast into the Texas panhandle.

The circulation around the low will send a moist southerly flow from the Gulf of Mexico into the Ohio Valley, increasing our chances for cloudy skies and rain. Extended Forecast Friday through Sunday The extended forecast for Friday through Sunday calls for a chance of rain Friday and Saturday. Partly cloudy Sunday. Mild with the low mostly in the 40s and the high in the 60s. Nations Weather A spring heat wave continued breaking temperature records in the West today and the mercury in Great Falls, topped that in Jacksonville, as readings in the South took an unusual dip.

Meanwhile, snow was scattered across Michigan, where up to 3 inches could pile up through tonight, and from eastern New York to northern New England. Rain spread across the wes- tern Great Lakes and showers dampened the Washington coast as clear or fair skies were reported across much of the nation and clouds moved into southern California and Arizona and from the northern Pacific Coast to the northern Plains. Early-morning temperatures were in the upper 30s as far south as central Alabama and northern Georgia. Great Falls had 50 degrees at 1 a.m. and Jacksonville had 47.

High-temperature records continued to fall in California on Tuesday. Los Angeles civic center reported 96 degrees, topping a 1960 record of 90. Some other records: Oakland, 86, breaking a 1977 record of 73; Sacramento, 88, breaking a 1966 record of 83; San Francisco, 88, topping 82 set in 1933. Temperatures rose into the 70s across southern Washington state, southern Idaho and parts of Montana. The low Tuesday in West Palm Beach, was 54.

Todays forecast called for rain scattered across northern Washington, the western Dakao-tas and from the Great Lakes across the upper Ohio Valley. Rain and snow was predicted in Montana and scattered snow in New England Sunny skies were forecast for the southern half of the nation. Higus will be in the 40s to 50s from Washington across much of the Northeast and in the 80s to low 90s from southern.Califarnia across the southern Plains. Temperatures around the nation at 2 a.m. EST ranged from 22 degrees at Philipsburg, to 72 at Los Angeles jority of the 60 assembly seats and 262 mayoral posts, giving his moderates an edge in the assembly for the first time since the presidential election last May.

Cambodia BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -Khmer Rouge guerrillas said Tuesday that they killed 362 Vietnamese soldiers and wounded 339 in repulsing a Vietnamese attack in western Cambodia near the Thai border. A Thai military source confirmed the battle in Battambang province took place but said the claimed casualties appeared high. Arms talks GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) U.S. and Soviet negotiators met for 2 hours today in their second session on strategic nuclear weapons since the superpower arms talks divided into three working groups last week. Hie meeting took place at the Soviet mission, a brief U.S.

statement said. Under a confidentiality rule agreed to by both sides, the U.S. statement gave no further details. Former Sen. John G.

Tower leads the U.S. negotiating team on strategic weapons, while Viktor P. Karpov heads up the Soviet side. Toxic cloud FREIBURG, West Germany (AP) Several cars rammed two trucks on an autobahn today, killing three people. More than 100 people received medical attention after inhaling toxic chemical fumes released by an overturned truck, officials said.

Firemen fought an blaze for 12 hours after the early morning pileup on a superhighway between the southern West German city of Freiburg and Basel, Switzerland, state police headquarters in Freiburg said. Police said three people were killed when their car rammed into the trucks shortly after they had crashed on the autobahn. One truck tipped over and spilled barrels of chemicals, which caught fire. The Hoechst chemical company in Frankfurt, which produced the chemicals, said the truck had been carrying six tons of dry chlorine-anil used in paint and seven tons of yellow Novo-perm, used in the manufacture of dyes. South Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) Police opened fire on rioters setting up burning blockades near Port Elizabeth, killing a black woman and wounding a youth, police said today.

Witnesses claimed a wom trict, said a police official who spoke on condition he not be identified. He said a weapon that appeared to be a bazooka also was found outside the building. Trade reaction TOKYO (AP) Japan reacted sharply today to growing pressure in the U.S. Congress for retaliatory trade legislation, charging that a Senate committee vote for tariffs and quotas was discriminatory, and hastily dispatching a senior official to Washington. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Na-kasone was quoted by the Kyodo news agency as saying Tuesdays vote in the Senate Finance Committee was very severe, and that Japan must make efforts to prevent the United States from taking stern measures against Japan.

Election fraud? SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) A leader of the rightist opposition to President Jose Napoleon Duarte has demanded that results of this weeks election be thrown out, saying some ballot boxes were stuffed and other votes were missing. Official have announced no result yet from Sundays election, but Duartes Christian Democrats claim to have won a ma- Embassy shelled ROME (AP) A shell launched from what police believe was a bazooka ripped out a large part of a wall in the building housing the Jordanian Embassy today, police said. No injuries were reported. Embassy guards immediately apprehended a man of Middle East appearance outside the building in Romes dis i.

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