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The Daily News 62nd Issue 59th Year Monday June 15 1981 Longview Washington 25 Cents 4 Sections 36 Pages Haig tackles Taiwan arms sale issue in Peking talks In his speech Huang Hua did not mention Taiwan by name But he urged the United States to our differences in a cautious and appropriate manner" He said both countries must have respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity" and "noninterference in each internal affairs" visit was greeted with official polite restraint as the Chinese leaders waited to hear how the Reagan administration intends to handle its relations with Taiwan On the eve of the arrival the Foreign Ministry said US arms sales to Taiwan would provoke a "strong response" It warned Washington not to carry out the Taiwan Relations Act of April 1979 which provides for sale of defensive weapons to the Nationalists was prolonged because matters were discussed thorough and not because of any impasse Afterward the assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs John Holdridge met with Zhang Wenjin a vice foreign minister Haig is to meet Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping paramount leader on Tuesday Haig also discussed economics technical cooperation and trade with Vice Premier Bo Yibo He also met Defense Minister Geng Biao to "exchange views on defense a senior State Department official said meeting was second session with Huang and the first on Sino-American relations since he arrived Sunday Xinhua the official Chinese news agency indicated they disagreed on some global issues in their first meeting Sunday reporting that they met in a and frank atmosphere" This is communist jargon signifying a divergence of views There was no report of specific disagreements but Huang emphasized in a banquet speech Sunday night that China condemns both Israel and South Africa The two agreed however that the main threat to world peace comes from Soviet aggression They said the strategic relationship between China and the United States is essential in opposing Soviet expansion Haig told the banquet that Chinese-American cooperation is vital and President Reagan is committed to steadily strengthening relations A strong and secure China he said is fundamental to global balance and own security PEKING (AP) In a bid to revitalize Chinese-American relations Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr talked for nearly four hours today with Foreign Minister Huang Hua and apparently tackled the major issue the sale of US weapons to Taiwan A State Department official told reporters Haig and Huang covered trade and technological cooperation subjects and there was great deal of agreement on global issues" But he refused to say whether the Nationalist Chinese government on Taiwan was discussed or whether there was any agreement on bilateral issues Haig and Huang were smiling and shook hands as they emerged from the Great Hall of the People US officials said Haig canceled a visit to the Imperial City museum because the talks ran overtime They said the meeting Midsection storms kill at least 20 The Associated Press Hundreds of people were homeless today after storms mauled the midsection in a furious siege of tornadoes flooding and lightning that left at least 20 people dead In Minnesota three twisters raked across the Minneapolis-St Paul area Sunday tossing cars about crushing buildings and uprooting trees Sirens wailed across the Twin Cities as at least 99 people were rushed to a dozen hospitals where 14 were admitted One man who had been trying to clear his yard of debris died of a heart attack while another died of head injuries suffered in the tornado More than 600 residents of the Ohio towns of Ottawa and Findlay were forced from their homes by the surging Blanchard River which was 6 feet above flood stage but receding today Gov James Rhodes put the two towns under a state of emergency after surveying the 50-square-block flood damage Relentless rains poured over Texas at the rate of up to 4 inches an hour causing widespread flooding that killed eight people Two others were missing and presumed dead in the raging waters of the swollen Pedernales River In Glenwood 111 a suburb south of Chicago the body of 11-year-old Dwight Perrota was found Sunday 18 hours after he was swept off his bike in a park submerged in parts by up to six feet of water A 33-year-old Chicago woman drowned in Belmont Harbor 111 when her boat capsized Saturday and authorities reported hundreds of minor injuries across Illinois and northern Indiana as floodwaters caved in basements and sloshed into homes got a mobile boat hospital and taking people out to waiting ambulances on dry said Lansing police Sgt Keith Smith Public Works Department is coordinating the effort but their offices are in the he said guys are answering the phones standing on their A twister claimed livestock in Iowa and hail piled nearly 2 feet deep on some parts of Nebraska Six inches of rain pounded Great Bend Kan Residents in Cardington Ohio surveyed the holocaust left by a tornado that ravaged the tiny community Saturday causing destruction that the governor said was proportionately the worst in state history About 171 homes and 29 businesses were heavily damaged by the storm which left about 50 people homeless in the community of 2000 In Roseville Minn a twister plowed through a shopping center in the suburb just north of St Paul Sunday shattering windows and hurling twisted metal and building insulation across the parking lot New freeway lanes to open Interstate new southbound lanes at Kelso will open Tuesday weather permitting the state Department of Transportation said today The change likely will be made in late morning or early afternoon depending on weather allowing final paving on the Allen Street on-ramp Traffic will be diverted to the new roadway south of the existing Allen Street on-ramp and tie in with the present road again north of the Longview Wye Access to 1-5 southbound from Haussler Road and Grade Street will be available only by traveling south on Kelso Drive to the Longview Wye interchange The only access to Kelso Drive or Grade Street from the new southbound 1-5 will be from the Allen Street or Longview Wye interchanges Fxisting northbound traffic will not bt affected by the changes The new lanes are part of construction to provide a six-lane freeway through the Longview-Kelso area Eventually six lanes will be completed from the Longview Wye to just north of Brynion Street Switching to new northbound lanes at Kelso could take place in three to four weeks the Department of Transportation said Views of the News By Dick Pollock Associate Editor Card table season fPHIS IS the season when people sit behind card tables at the entrances of grocery stores or com- munity events gathering signatures for initiative petitions There are 14 this year They vary from requiring public approval of WPPSS bonds to limiting campaign contributions Those initiative petitions are particularly democratic They allow us to write our own bills and either put them on the ballot or send them to the Legislature They allow us the public to function as a legislature The opposite of an initiative is a referendum in which legislators say is important enough (or controversial enough) that the people themselves must We should see more referendums next year because Congress is still budget cutting Our Washington Legislature barely balances the budget without an increase in general taxes They did it by raising fees affecting everyone who drives drinks hunts fishes or goes to college In balancing the budget the legislators expected that certain federal funds would be forthcoming but not Next January the legislators react to these new realities and at the same time honor their pledge not to increase taxes What they'll probably do is toss the more controversial ones to the public in referendums They say in effect you want to pay for these things you can have them Just vote Fair enough Armageddon closer rTHE GENERAL reaction regar-ding pre-emptive destruction of the Iraqi nuclear plant is undergoing a subtle shift The attack was clearly illegal an act of war It was as illegal as taking American diplomats hostage The UN Security Council is meeting this week to decide how to react However no one (until last week) knew what to do about tinhorn dictators who were getting their hands on atomic bombs and who would use them in a local war that could in- See Page A2 Views Britain cuts its oil prices LONDON (AP) The British government has cut the price of its crude oil by $425 a barrel oil companies said today The reduction lowers the price to $35 and is seen as putting increased pressure on some members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to cut prices British Petroleum Co and Royal Dutch Shell spokesmen said their companies were notified of the cut by the British National Oil Corp which represents the government The cut is effective immediately they said The British government had been under heavy pressure from oil com-panies to reduce its price Earlier this month BNOC told companies it was willing to cut its charge by $2 but the companies rejected that as inadequate A spokesman for British i Petroleum which had publicly call- ed for a $5 reduction said are by the $425 cut A spokesman for BNOC declined to comment However BNOC nor-mally announce its price decisions letting its customers do so instead Britain traditionally prices its oil in line with African members of OPEC but reduction breaks that pattern Those countries principally Algeria Libya and Nigeria now charge up to $41 for a 42-gallon barrel of oil and have been having an increasingly difficult time finding buyers There have been unconfirmed reports that those countries have sold some oil below their official prices but they have so far refused to reduce the prices Pressure for lower oil prices have been growing all year and were accelerated at last OPEC 1 meeting when Saudi Arabia the largest exporter of oil refused to go along with production cuts to eliminate the worldwide oil glut Leslie Winters a Vietnam War veteran feels his illnesses are caused by Agent Orange Agent Orange Rainier vet joins herbicide lawsuit deadly dioxin TCDD Agent Orange was the best known of many defoliants used in Vietnam before the Air Force halted its spraying in 1970 Winters a Redding Calif native spent his first tour in areas southwest of DaNang From October 1968 to October 1969 his elite Special Forces airborne artillery unit was flown to firing zones sprayed with Agent Orange The dead and still living vegetation was removed by hand He also claims the pesticide was dropped accidentally on his position by the Air Force and mixed with water or diesel fuel for use as a mosquito repellent After re-enlisting and serving another tour in Vietnam which ended in February 1971 Winters returned again to California He came home with boils covering his body and an addiction to heroin Winters says he kicked the heroin addiction on his own in 1975 He got divorced and moved to Mount Vernon where he met Kevin Stinger He later moved into a house in Kelso with Stinger and met his common-law wife Janel in 1976 For sister Linda Cafourek little has changed since 1971 He came home then a with his boils and mental problems she recalled in a phone interview from Redding When she last saw him eight months ago Mrs Cafourek said he was calmer but constantly sick The VA she said bitterly helped him think he got a raw she says know about this Agent Orange but they should have taken care of him They just tossed him By Bob Crider The Daily News Spec 4 Leslie Winters spent most of his time in the late 1960s on fire bases in South Vietnam shelling enemy positions while suffering from rot so bad the pads of your feet would crumble fingernails so white come right Since returning home the Rainier resident has tried to put memories of the suffering and death a little box in the back of my But recurring headaches stomach pains and body sores are a constant reminder of the toxic herbicide Agent Orange used in Vietnam Winters 31 is one of 275 Oregon veterans who have filed complaints in a class action suit against five chemical companies which manufactured Agent Orange The suit was filed in US District Court in New York on behalf of the almost 25 million Vietnam veterans and their families He and other veterans have had a longer running dispute with the government They want the Veterans Administration to compensate for ailments they say were caused by Agent Orange Winters is unemployed unable to work because the stress causes stomach and muscle pains he says Other ailments he lists include blood in his urine open sores on hands and feet migraine headaches and sensitivity to sunlight Perched on the edge of a couch in the living room of his rented two-story home hands shake and his jaw quivers as he talks But his speech is steady and unemotional Veterans seeking compensation hare a long wait: Page B1 government give a damn about us he says his gray eyes focusing sharply on his interviewer give a damn about us in Vietnam The whole thing was one big Winters also suffers from severe depression and has tried to commit suicide Several months ago he came close placing a loaded 357 magnum revolver in his mouth Thoughts of his common-law wife Janel and 3-year-old daughter Taney stopped him Winters says Janel needs him makes him feel wanted because she is deaf And he wants to see Taney grow up A friend and neighbor of his Kevin Stinger says health has deteriorated since they first met in 1975 Their conversations have ended when Winters became gripped by pain sometimes vomiting blood can see it (the pain) in his Stinger says eyes will roll back into his head clutch his stomach and boom he falls Winters has received outpatient care in VA hospitals in his home state of California and now in Portland Medication helped he says and he criticizes doctors who believe he was harmed by Agent Orange Winters went to the VA after learning of other veterans complaining of symptoms caused by Agent Orange less than two years ago Agent Orange consists of herbicides 24-D and 245-T the latter of which contains the White's body beaten with a blunt instrument was found in the back yard of the house Mahnke said the boy was interviewed in Pacific County where he is being held for probation violation He added that the probation violation had nothing to do with murder White a butcher at grocery store on Ocean Beach Highway in Longview had lived with his parents in Castle Rock since returning from Pocatello Idaho in 1979 Youth questioned Police say if they have suspects in murder White recently rented a house at 230 23rd Ave where his body was found Mahnke also said that a white 1969 Ford Falcon recovered shortly after midnight last Wednesday at White Pass belonged to White He would not comment whether the car provided any clues to help solve the case Funeral services for White were at 11 am today at Ditlevsen-Moore Funeral Chapel in Kelso with private burial services following at Whittle-Hubbard Cemetery in Castle Rock 1 As funeral services were being held today for Arthur White Longview police reported no new developments in investigating the murder of the 48-year-old man whose body was found in a shallow backyard grave last Wednesday Lt Hal Mahnke said officers have been interviewing people who knew White but he declined to comment whether police had suspects in the case Among those interviewed Mahnke said was a boy who had lived in the house White rented.