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dZjmsIDEC DOWN EASJf President of Renault shot to death In Paris Pago 4 Tiny balloons open heart valves Industrial operating rate at 3-year Pago 14 low ps 20 Georges Besse MAINE'S LARGEST DAILY 1 VOL 08-NO 32 BANGOR MAINE TUESOAY NOVEMBER 18 1988 30 30 CENTS Reagan says he has to sell more weapons to Iran Speakes says Iranian contacts paid cash for arms WASHINGTON API President Reagan said Monday he has "absolutely no plans" to send more arms to Iran although his spokesman said the president's authorization for the weapons snipmetjta technically remains In effect As he posed for pictures at the start of a meeting with Argentine President Raul Alfonsin Reagan was asked if there would be more arms shipments to Iran like those he confirmed last week after numerous published reports of secret US-Iran-ian dealings "We have absolutely no plans to do any such thing" Reagan told reporters Nor he said would he be firing Secretary of State George Shultz or any other top foreign policy advisers as a result of public controversy over tne covert operation Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes meanwhile said Rea- gan had told him there would be no further arms shipments but that the "intelligence finding" a Jan 17 document authorizing the weapons and spare parts sales is technically "still in effect" because it carried no time limit and has not been rescinded Speakes also said the Iranians paid cash for the military supplies they received under Reagan's order although neither the amount the precise weaponry supplied has been disclosed The Iranians long have been seeking a variety of weapons and spare parts for their US-made planes and equipment ordered and paid for during the reign of the Shah of Iran but whose delivery was blocked when the Embassy in Tehran was seized and Americans were taken hostage Speakes said that despite the halt In further srms shipments which Reagan has said were intended to establish credibility with Iranians the United States was trying to court verbal efforts to improve relations with moderate Iranian leaders may continue See SHULTZ oo Page 3 i Korea i president reported shot dead SEOUL South Korea (AP) A South Korean announcement of reports that archenemy President Kim II Sung of North Korea was shot dead brought strong denials from his overseas envoys Monday but only silence from his communist nation Pyongyang the North Korean capital was said to be calm After a weekend of rumors the South Korean Defense Ministry announced Monday that North Korean loudspeakers along the 151-mile demilitarized zone separating the two countries had broadcast statements that Kim was shot to death Defense Minister Lee Ki-Baek later went to the National Assembly where he said to lawmakers "Judging from all such circumstances it is believed £vat Kim has died or a serious internal power struggle is going tin According to reports in Seoul Kim had set into motion plans to relinquish power to his 44-year-old 'son Kim Jong II creating the first Communist dynasty The reports said senior military commanders in the north opposed the succession The elder Kim 74 came to power in 1948 with the backing of the Soviet Union after thepeninsula was divided at the end of World War II The 1950-53 Korean war deepened the acrimony between the two Koreas and 40000 American soldiers are based in South Korea to prevent a resumption of fighting Leader chose son as successor Korea President Kim II Sung death neither confirmed nor denied Kim known as "The Great Father Leader" has created a nearly closed society No Western reporters are known to be based in Pyongyang the capital the scheduled visit of a high-level delegation from Mongolia to Pyongyang Tuesday could help clear the mystery surrounding fate official Xinhua News Agency said Monday night in a dispatch from Pyongyang that preparations were going ahead for the arrival of the delegation headed By Zhambyn Batmonkh chairman of the Mongolian Council of Ministers See COMMUNIST PRESIDENT on Page 3 Task more difficult Waite says LONDON (AP) Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite flanked by three American former hostages said Monday that news of secret US arms supplies to Iran and arguments over it complicated his efforts to free other captives in Lebanon Waite addressed a crowded news conference after a meeting with the ex-hostages and with five American representatives from the Episcopal Presbyterian and Baptist churches He denied he has been a tool of the US administration and said he had been shuttling to and from the Middle East on hostage-release missions unaware of the arms supplies in the churches stand clearly together to continue our work no matter what comes our way" Waite said "But the revelation of that fact (arms supplies to Iran) has at this point made the job of a mediator such as myself complicated" Waite acted in hostage negotiations as personal envoy of Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie Runcie accompanied him at the news conference Waite spoke before a crucifix in a library at the 13th century Lambeth Palace residence of the head of the Anglican Church The three ex-ho6tages the Rev Benjamin Weir the Rev Lawrence Martin Jenco and David Jacobsen former head of the American University Hospital in Beirut paid tribute to Waite and prayed for the release of remaining captives The meeting appeared mainly an attempt to refocus attention on humanitarian release efforts which have been overshadowed by President acknowledgment last week after days of speculation that he sent arms supplies to Iran Reagan denied the arms were a trade for hostages Waite said "the speculations of the past week" surrounding disclosure mean that this point onward the task See RELEASED HOSTAGES on Page 3 chum out millions of words in his praise Heroic statues of Kim have been erected around the country including one 65 feet tall in Pyongyang the capital Portraits of him hang in nearly every household and public building Even the word has been changed to thought of Kim II Sung" and the national anthem is "The Song of Gen Kim II Sung" The official biography says Kim II Sung was bom Kim Sung Chu on April 15 1912 in Nakyung-dae a village near Pyongyang that North Koreans revere as "the Cradle of the World See KIM IL SUNG on Page 3 TOKYO (AP) Kim II Sung came to power in North Korea in 1948 the year the Korean peninsula was divided into North and South and has never let go He has created a nearly closed society and made himself fhe object of a slavish personality cult Kim also reportedly has set into motion plans to hand over leadership of North 19 million people to his 44-year-old son Kim Jong II establishing the first communist dynasty The mystery surrounding reports of his slaying illustrate how little is known of the 74-year-old leader who is called Great Father and Sun of the Nation" by propagandists who FORMER HOSTAGES (from left) David Jacobsen the Rev Lawrence Jenco and the Rev Benjamin Weir meet in Lambeth Palace on Monday (AP Photo) Trustee panel grappling with location of office the trustee who spearheaded the effort to make Augusta the permanent home At press time the meeting was still in session The subcommittee was assigned last August to make a recommenda-' tion on the issue to the 15-member board of trustees The matter was brought up after the appointment as chancellor of Robert Woodbury then president of the University of Southern Maine failed to reach closure on the matter during a heated debate Sept 28 when Brown said he felt by three trustees Beliveau Flanagan and Monaghan who stridently pounded home their views that the office should be moved Brown bemoaned the absence of trustee" Richardson who could not attend the Sept 28 meeting Richardson vowed he would attend the meeting Monday night At a Sept 29 trustees meeting Monaghan accused people who per years or be moved to Augusta A final decision on the location is- sue was not expected to come from the meeting however any recommendation from the subcommittee would be expected to carry weight when the full board of trustees takes a final vote on the issue Monday Nov 24 at-Farmington Trustee Severin Beliveau was not expected to attend the 7 pm meeting Monday due to a business conflict according to a secretary in his law firm Beliveau reportedly was- ceive hidden motives in the proposed move as of the mentality of those who see shadows on the wallThose of us who work every day have got better things to do than conspire against the people of Bangor" Monaghan said In September the full board of trustees postponed a decision on the office matter until their Nov 24 meeting after they were faced with an argument that moving costs could amount to one-seventh of See TRUSTEES on Page 3 Estimated costs of the move which could include up to 16 staff members ranged from $93400 a year if a building were rented to $676400 a year to construct a building to house the chancellor and staff members A study completed in 1982 estimat- ed it would cost $1 million to $5 million to move the chancellor and entire offices to Augusta The committee Francis Brown Beliveau Harrison Richardson David Flanagan and Thomas Mona- By Nancy Garland Of the NEWS Staff Four University of Maine trustees came to Bangor by airplane and auto Monday night catching commuter flights after work from Augusta and Portland and driving three hours from Calais to meet at the Bangor Civic Center On tap was a discussion on the controversial issue of whether the office should remain in Bangor as it has for the past 12 Selectmen to discuss Bad Little Falls project At last new bridge is open for business By Herb Cleaves Down East Bureau MACHIAS The Bad Little Falls Access Project a four-phase program designed to make the Machias tidal basin accessible to residents and tourists will be discussed by the Board of Selectmen at 7 pm Tuesday Dec 2 at the town officej Linda Pagels director of community development said Monday that plans were being made to construct an at the site of the former Grain Mill a landmark that was razed in the early 1970s The overlook an area restricted to pedestrian traffic would be built with money from a $20000 grant the town expects to receive from the Maine Coastal Program In July town officials were noti ced that Machias would receive $20000 from the grant program to apply to its Waterfront Improvement Project Town planners applied for $50000 the maximum amount of money provided under the grant program The Maine Coastal Program is supported by the US Department of Commerce Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management Pagels said that if a new grant proposal were approved by the Maine Coastal Program money would be made available to start Phase II of the waterfront project construction of a footbridge over the foot of Bad Little Falls That proposal will be delivered to the State Planning Office before Dec 6 she said See SELECTMEN on Page 8 By TJ Tremble Of the NEWS Staff The first ticket was issued to a vehicle on Interstate 395 Monday morning the first day that the new roadway was open to traffic Brewer Police Chief David Roman said one of officers issued a parking ticket to a vehicle stopped on 1-395 between Parkway South and US Route 1A The Police Department been notified by the owner or operator of the car that it was having mechanical problems Koman said he believed the tor of the car was hunting in the woods near the interstate when the officer placed the ticket on the windshield Koman said the car had Maine registration plates on it Aside from the single parking ticket the first day of traffic on the Veterans Remembrance Bridge was a relatively quiet one An estimated 15 cars were lined up at each of the entrances to 1-395 Monday morning as the drivers waited for the barricades to be removed Koman was one of the first people to drive across' the Veterans Remembrance Bridge after it officially opened at 10 am Monday War veterans representing each of the past four conflicts involving US troops took part in the brief ceremony before the barricades were re- moved from the bridge Cruisers from the Bangor and See TICKET on Page 3 THE BARRICADES COME DOWN as officials wait to cross the new Bangor-Brewer bridge Monday (NEWS Photo by Carroll Hall) Supreme Court to examine internment of Japanese-Americans OMOI Qdiooq Dpwn East Edition Sunny today High 40 Cloudy tonight Lows in teens Clearing Wednesday High 30 Details on Page 2 Some spent as long as four years in the camps Such action was authorized by President Franklin Roosevelt after the loyalty of Japanese-Americans was questioned The Roosevelt administration decided to end the internment program in late 1944 but the Supreme Court earlier that year had upheld the program ruling it was a constitutionally acceptable military necessity Government documents discovered since 1980 however indicate there was in fact no military necessity and that government lawyers knew as much when offering that justification to the Supreme Court In 1983 19 people prison camp survivors and descendants of those interned sued the government The suit was thrown out by a federal judge but partially reinstated by the US Circuit Court of Appeals here last January The appeals court dismissed See US SUPREME on Page 2 A federal appeals court said the must defend itself at trial against claims for compnsation of property losses suffered by those interned The losses are estimated in the billions of dollars The internment case has its roots in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 The federal government forcibly removed from their homes citizens and resident aliens living in California and parts of Arizona Oregon and Washington WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court 42 years after it condoned the mass detention of Japanese-Americans in World War II prison camps said Monday it will re-examine that episode in American history The court agreed to study a Reagan administration attempt to kill a lawsuit stemming from the taking 120000 US citizens and resident aliens from their homes and placing them in the camps Yesterday's 1378 1 2345.