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Nicaragua denies Saturday, Dec. 7,. 1985 The Sun A 3 Cubans in combat! Mews mi Bsrleff 844 with 37 abstentions. The United States, Gambia, Grenada ai)d Israel opposed the resolution co-sponsored by Nicaragua, Algeria, Mexico and Peru. In Washington, Secretary of State George Shultz told a news conference Friday the United States may take "further steps" to assist Nicaraguan rebels, known as Contras.

He said there was increasing Soviet and Cuban military involvement in Nicaragua. Shultz said a Cuban pilot and co-pilot were on the helicopter. He said the rebels were right to shoot it down, adding, "if I were thepi I'd certainly want to." Shultz called Soviet and Cuban presence in the region "a cancer," and said: "The Soviet and Cuban materiel is being used against the Nicaraguan people. Thank heavens they got hold of these kinds of weapons that could knock these choppers down. "There may be further steps that are possible." who insisted on anonymity for security reasons, said four of the troopers aboard the downed helicopter were Cuban citizens.

A government communique at the time said the aircraft was ferrying soldiers to a combat zone. The Managua demonstration was in front of the U.S. Embassy and lasted for about two hours. Police placed metal barriers in front of the embassy and then cordoned off the building and no violence was reported. U.S.

Marines dressed in camouflage uniforms, carrying M-16 rifles pointed upward, stood on the patio in front of the embassy, about 15 yards from the street where the crowd was gathered. Ortega accused the United States of "supporting and officializing terrorist actions" and said the delivery of anti-aircraft missiles could lead to "the proliferation on the continent of the use of this type of weapons in the hands of irregular military forces. "Every time an escalation of terrorism is launched against Nicaragua, the United States has resorted to the presumed presence of Cuban soldiers in Nicaragua," Ortega added. "We do not deny there are military advisers in the country, but not in the number the United States says." U.S. officials have said 2,500 Cuban military advisers are stationed in Nicaragua, while Ortega earlier this year placed the number at 800.

At the United Nations, spokesman Francois Giuliani said Nicaragua's mission was seeking a meeting of the Security Council to complain about increased activity by U.S.-supported guerrillas in the Central American nation. The session was expected early next week. Earlier in the day, the General Assembly's economic committee approved a resolution calling for an end to the U.S. trade embargo against Nicaragua. The vote was $.

day that two bodies had been recovered, but he provided no identities. "We're going to keep digging until we're satisfied there are no more bodies in there," Kirschner said. One person who was trapped, the son of the owner of the restaurant, was freed 4Vz hours after the explosion as the fire continued to burn, said Derby Fire Chief James Butler. The blaze was still burning as of midnight. Michael Ippolito, 30, was semiconscious when he was rescued and taken to a hospital, where he MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) President Daniel Ortega said Friday the United States is "mining the airspace of Central America and the continent" by providing Nicaraguan rebels with anti-aircraft missiles.

Ortega, speaking at a news conference, did not answer when he was asked about reports Cubans were among the 14 military personnel killed when the rebels shot down a Soviet-made helicopter Monday. In other developments, an estimated 30,000 people staged an anti-American demonstration in Managua and Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco denied that Cuban military advisers were taking part in combat against the rebels. He said the United States was making that allegation as an excuse to increase its aid to the insurgents. Nicaraguan military sources, Palestinians, Briton admit killing Israelis NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) A Briton and two Palestinians admitted in court Friday they murdered three Israelis on a yacht in September. They claimed their victims were spies responsible for the deaths of many Palestinians.

Israel says the murder victims were tourists, members of a Haifa yacht club. The confessions came on the fifth day of the trial, in which each defendant faces three separate murder charges for the killings Sept. 25 in the marina at Lar-naca, Cyprus. The triple slaying triggered a cycle of retaliatory violence. Israel, blaming the Palestine Liberation Organization for the Cyprus killings, sent its warplanes to bomb PLO headquarters in Tunisia Oct.

1. About 60 people were killed. One week later, Palestinian guerrillas hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. An American passenger was shot to death and thrown overboard before the hijackers surrendered. At the Nicosia trial, a Palestinian defendant whose Syrian passport identifies him as Khaled Ab-del-Kader el-Khatib, 28, said: "We killed the Israelis because they ran a spy ring in Cyprus and were responsible for the arrest of many of our comrades as well as the murder of many women and Speaking in Arabic, through an interpreter, he added: "They also killed my former boss, Ali Hassan Salama Abu Hassan." Ali Hassan Salama, known by his code name Abu Hassan, was a senior PLO intelligence officer.

He was generally regarded as the mastermind of several attacks in the 1970s, including the killing of Israeli sportsmen at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Abu Hassan was killed by Israeli agents in Beirut in 1979. 7 1 I v. Firefighters battle the remaining flames Friday in the rubble of what once was the River Restaurant in downtown Derby, before an explosion leveled it. Explosion destroys restaurant in Connecticut; two killed, 17 hurt Moves in Beirut to free French hostages gain Sun News Services BEIRUT, Lebanon Negotiations to free two French hostages appeared to be gathering momentum Friday, but Church of England envoy Terry Waite's mission to release American captives appeared to be slowing down.

"I am certain that the two Frenchmen, Jean-Paul Kauf mann and Michel Seurat, will be released once all detainees in Israel's Atlit detention camp are back home," said Justice Minister Nabih Berri. Berri, leader of the Shiite Amal militia, spoke to reporters after one of two missing men that Shiites claimed were still held by Israel, 20-year-old Tony Abi Ghanem, was unexpectedly freed Thursday. Ghanem turned up in the southern port of Tyre after 15 months' captivity. The fate of the second missing man, Nehme Hashem, is a mystery. Hashem disappeared last March when an Israeli force stormed the village of Zrariya in south Lebanon during a search for anti-Israeli guerrillas.

Waite's mission to free the American captives appeared to have run into trouble this week after the Kuwaiti government refused him a visa to visit the Persian Gulf emirate. Islamic Jihad has said it will free the Americans when Kuwait releases 17 terrorists convicted of bombing the U.S. and French embassies in December, 1983, a demand Kuwait has always refused. Waite, now in London, declined comment on Kuwait's refusal to talk to him. Teenager convicted in actor's death SAN DIEGO A Mexican teenager was found guilty Friday of first degree murder in the stabbing death of stage actor David Huffman.

Genaro Villanueva, 17, dabbed his eyes as the verdict was read by Superior Court Judge Norbert Ehrenfreund. Villanueva, an illegal alien, faces a maximum penalty of 25 years to life when he is sentenced Feb. 5. Villanueva was found guilty of five counts. In addition to the murder charge, the jury of eight women and four men returned guilty verdicts on two counts of burglary, one count of attempted burglary and one count of resisting a citizen's arrest.

The jury deliberated for about hours. Huffman, 40, was appearing in the Old Globe Theatre production "Of Mice and Men" at the time of his death Feb. 27. According to police accounts, Huffman had witnessed Villanueva try to break into a motorhome parked near the theater and chased Villanueva into a canyon. Curb holds dinner, raises 600,000 BEVERLY HILLS Former Lt.

Gov. Mike Curb raised $600,000 at a political comeback dinner to help fund a campaign to regain his old job and serve under one-time opponent Gov. George Deukmejian. "You're making my decision very, very easy to make, because in one night you've raised $600,000 and I just don't know what to say," Curb, 40, told the audience attending the dinner. Curb, lieutenant governor under Democratic Gov.

Edmund G. Brown Jr. from 1979 to 1983, waged a bitter fight for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1982 against present Gov. George Deukemejian. "I'm sure maybe I was a little overly aggressive at times," he said at the dinner Wednesday night.

He also praised the governor, saying he hopes to serve as lieutenant governor under Deukmejian and "work with him to create more accomplishments." Actress remains in critical condition NEW YORK Actress Anne Baxter remained hospitalized in critical condition Friday, three days after collapsing on the street from a cerebral hemorrhage, her spokeswoman said. Joyce Wagner, Baxter's Los Angeles publicist, said doctors were running tests on the 62-year-old actress at Lenox Hill Hospital, where she is listed in critical condition. Study says quakes are Utah threat WASHINGTON Earthquakes could threaten up to 900,000 people in Utah, with severe damage possible in Provo, Salt Lake City and Ogden, according to a government study released Friday. A significant ground-shaking hazard exists along the Wasatch front, which extends south from Idaho through Utah's major cities, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Although no serious quakes have been felt in the area since 1850, the report says "the Wasatch fault zone has the potential for generating moderate to large earthquakes which could cause serious social and economic disruption to approximately 900,000 people." That portion of Utah shares a problem with Mexico City, where quakes in September killed 6,000 people and left a trail of destruction. Like the Mexican capital, Salt Lake City, Provo and Ogden are built in former lakebeds, where the soil has dried but remains unconsolidated. This type of soil tends to magnify tremors when earthquakes occur, geologists point out, and sets up vibrations which cause buildings to sway and then fall. Comic Relief gifts reach $41,000 NEW YORK About $41,000 in donations has been received thus far as a result of the Thanksgiving Day effort by comic-strip artists to promote the issue of world hunger, a spokeswoman said Friday. Miriam Alexander, a spokeswoman for USA for Africa, said her organization had received about 850 checks in the days since more than 175 cartoonists broached the subject of hunger in their strips.

Earlier in the week, David Stanford, who helped coordinate the effort dubbed Comic Relief called the project "an artistic success." Stanford said he was disappointed in the number of newspapers that carried the USA for Africa ads that accompanied the comics. He said 200 to 300 papers had pledged to used the ads, but he had hoped more would follow suit. Creator of 'The Shadow' dies at 88 KINGSTON, N.Y. Walter B. Gibson, a magician and pulp novel writer who created the mysterious caped crime fighter "The Shadow," died Friday at Benedictine Hospital.

He was 88. Gibson, who had suffered a stroke on Nov. 7, died about 5 a.m., according to his wife, Litzka. He wrote 283 "Shadow" novels under the pen name "Maxwell Grant" during the height of the popularity of pulp novels and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. The character gained fame and a cult-like following when it was adapted for radio, helped by Orson Welles reading of the ominous introduction to each program: "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows." Although Gibson was a consultant for the radio broadcasts, he did not write any "Shadow" radio scripts.

Television puppeteer found dead PALM SPRINGS Burr Tillstrom, the unseen puppeteer who created the long-running, live television show "Kukla, Fran Ollie," died Friday. He was 68. Tillstrom was found dead by his swimming pool shortly before noon, said police Lt. George Neesan. The cause of death was not known, but appeared to be natural causes, said Rene Galvin, spokeswoman for the Riverside County coroner's office.

A Chicago native, Tillstrom was regarded as a television pioneer because of the puppet program, which ran from 1947 to 1957. He worked backstage, manipulating the puppets, while Fran Allison starred with Oliver J. Dragon and Kukla. Malta identifies surviving jet hijacker as Palestinian inn. Hftii AP wlrvphoto was treated for burns and possible spinal-cord injuries.

Firefighters from seven communities battled the fire in the burning rubble of the three-story building that had housed the popular Italian restaurant and some apartments. A three-block area was evacuated as authorities feared more explosions. A construction crew had been digging near natural gas lines in the area, and officials said the smell of natural gas was very heavy, but authorities weren't sure what caused the explosion. RUSS LACKNER and LES NIELSEN Tierras Altas Christmas Tree Ranch has fresh," fragrant "Choose Cut Christmas Trees" Church St. near BaseLine in East Highland.

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The anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, air raid will be marked today by the National Park Service and the U.S. Navy with ceremonies aboard the USS Arizona Memorial. The ceremonies will recall the day when Japanese bombers pierced the early morning clouds and dropped explosives on Pearl Harbor, other military bases and scattered portions of Honolulu, killing 2,341 American servicemen and 68 civilians and bringing the United States into World War II. All of Honolulu's 300-member police force and its 125 reservists were called out after the attack, and several of the officers, in recent interviews, recalled their duty.

Ronald D. Sagum, 71, was sent from house to house to destroy amateur radio transmitters owned by a Japanese or an American of Japanese ancestry. The FBI had provided police with the names and addresses of those who owned transmitters. Sagum said he destroyed them "smashing each transmitter onto the nearest sidewalk or driveway. I didn't know any other way to do it," he said.

DERBY, Conn, (AP) An, explosion leveled the downtown River Restaurant on Friday, killing two people and injuring an estimated total of 17, while sparking a fire that spewed thick smoke several hundred feet into the air. State police Lt. Kenneth Kirschner said some people remained buried in the rubble. He said authorities decided to stop guessing how many were trapped. Earlier estimates said at least three people were trapped, and one man was pulled out alive.

Kirschner said at 12:45 a.m. to can died then, and an Israeli woman died later of her wounds. The surviving suspect was shot when Egyptian commandos stormed the airliner that night. Fifty-eight people, including at least two hijackers, died in the assault. Mifsud said the suspect still was in the intensive care unit at St.

Luke's Hospital, where his condition was improving. Maltese officials at first said the suspect was the "alleged leader" of the hijackers, but later said it was unclear who gave orders. Mifsud said the suspect has told police little but insists there were only two other hijackers. The captain told investigators he thought there were five hijackers, while most passengers said there were three. Mifsud reiterated the suspect would not be extradited to Egypt and would stand trial in Malta.

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