The News Tribune from Tacoma, Washington • 1

Soviets speed work on SSI-powered carrier Page A-2 The Tacoma Hew Market Final Tacoma Washington Wednesday August 8 1984 102nd Year No 124 25 1884 'Tacoma's Centennial Year 1984 DokeDy a hoax Column One Striedinger said the officers believe the confessions were for the purpose id effecting an escape But we want documentation to prove definitely that they were lying We think it is a hoax and we are looking at it as such But we are continuing to investigate trying to tie down all loose ends to make absolutely sure they were lying We have to keep going until 100 percent Green River Task Force investigators Paul Smith Randy Mulll-nax and Striedinger held a news conference late this morning in San Francisco at which they disclosed that Robert Matthias one id the prisoners had told them the confessions were a hoax In Seattle information officer Fae Brooks said the San Francisco prisoners lied about their involvement as part of an elaborate escape scheme and Hid the task force is ready to drop them as suspects She uid Matthias 25 said the hoax waa a plot dreamed up by a fellow San Francisco prisoner Richard Carbone 32 so the two could be taken to the crime scenes and try to escape Matthias told King County officers that if the escape did not work the men hoped to convince authorities they were crazy so they could be sent to a mental hospital from which escape would be easier than from prison Brooks said officers became suspicious when the related by the men included no information that couldn't have been obtained from reading newspaper stories or by watching television Checks into their criminal records showed that the men probably met only after the two were incarcerated recently in the San Francisco Jail Public Defender Jeff Brown who represents Matthias Mid Matthias has been in prison con tinuously since 1978 except for six weeks he was on parole between July 7 and Sept 10 1983 During that period he was under supervision in San Francisco six days a week so it was doubtful he could have been in the Seattle area during any of the 1982 and 1983 Green River slayings prison record showed that he was in San Quentin from September 1981 through June 1982 then was transferred to the Vacaville mental facility where he stayed until July 1982 so he also had little opportunity to commit any of the murders The National Centers for Disease Control reported earlier that nurly 3000 injuria occurred on water slides in the country lat year It uid 2941 of the injuria required emergency room treatment Enchanted Wild water slides which range from 350 to 500 feet are not yet open Because of trouble with filters in other attractions the wave pool was the only ride opened Saturday Wa Betts park operations manager uid the problems appear to be solved One slide goes underground and has special lighting and music For me the wave pool wu enough to take up my whole day As I soaked up the sun debating whether to get a caramel apple I remembered my bon told me not to spend three hours just playing around Looking at my watch I realized I had been there for two hours and 58 minutes Well another hard day at the office By JACK PYLE The Newt Tribune The King County Green River Task Force said it is on the verge id dropping its investigation into two San Francisco JaU inmate who to some id the 26 known aerial slayings known as the Green River murders "It looks like a hoax" Mid Detective Ed Striedinger of the task force in a telephone interview from San Francisco if the slightest chance that the confessions were legit got to go ahead with the investigation" Iran claims US Israel are behind sea mining Charges contradict earlier statements Related stories and map Page A-3 The Associated -Press Iran today accused the United States and Israel of orchestrating a mine-laying campaign in the Red Sea as part of a "new designed to discredit the Tehran government The statement by Foreign Ministry appeared to contradict a government radio report Tuesday that the extremist anti-Western Islamic Jihad (Islamic Holy War) organization was responsible for the explosions Tehran radio applauded the apparent minings and said they were directed agrtnst the United States Britain and France Today the Foreign Ministry wm quoted in a dispatch by the official Islamic Republic News Agency as Hying that international organizations should the agents behind these moves so that security would return to the international The statement Hid the recent explosions in the Red Sea and their attribution to were a reflection of the and Israeli in Lebanon it was clear that in order to retaliate for their defeats and failure of their political and military schemes in the Persian Gulf they would resort to such a the statement said At least IS vessels have been damaged by explosions in the Red Sea in the past month five in the Gulf of Sues the northern end of the 1450-mile-long sea and the rest Mar the North Yemeni coast at the southern tip of the waterway Egyptian and Western diplomatic sources in Cairo laid praise of the explosions approached an admission of complicity Last week an anonymous caller claiming to represent Islamic Jihad told London news agenda that 190 mines had been planted in the Red Sea However Prime Minister Hussein Musavi in a statement quoted Tuesday by the official news agency said: has not been involved in this inue in any way" IRNA monitored in Nicosia Cyprus quoted Muuvi as saying at a Tehran news conference that Islamic is unknown to the Iranian government" IRNA also reported that Muuvi alw uid two Iranian ships had been stopped and searched in the Suez Canal Late news Military jeep (lips snarls traffic on 1-5 At least one person was injured and northbound freeway traffic was brought almost to a halt when a Jeep from a military convoy flipped on Interstate near the Tacoma Dome exit this afternoon the State Patrol reported Two people were pinned under a Jeep and a medical aid vehicle was on the scene a State Patrol spokeswoman said Traffic on the northbound lanes was backed up to the Street overpass and the several units of a military convoy involving a number of trucks came to a halt alongside the freeway spokespersons from the Army and the State Patrol said The military convoy was en route from Fort Lewis to Yakima for training exercises when the accident occurred at about 11:19 pm Inside Economics affects affirmative action When layoffs hit a company efforts to hire women and minorities usually receive a setback because seniority rules mean hired first fired" says Kaiser Jane Tomasovic Fourth in a series on affirmative action Dimension Page D-4 Tracking lightning by computer When lightning strikes in Western Washington it takes less than a second for the US Forest electronic lightning detection system to pinpoint the location of the hit and map it on a computer screen Page B-1 The market The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials as id 1:15 pm PDT today was 119010 down 851 points Big Board volume: 122431500 shares Final New York stocks on Pago C-10l Sunny cooler Fair tonight with southwest-' erly winds 5 to 15 mph Mostly sunny and a little colder tomorrow after morning low clouds High: upper 70 low: upper 50s Weather summary Pago A-2 Index 64 PAGES 4 SECTIONS Jack Anderson A-11 Erma Bom beck D-3 Business Plus C-9-11 Classified Ads B-6-16 Comics D-8 Dimension 01-6 Editorials A-14 Entertainment 012-13 Funeral Notices A-12 MacGougan B-1 Nashville Sound 012 Obituaries A-12 People C-13 Sports C1-8 Take Time C-14 Teen D-15 Television 015 Vital Statistics A-10 The surf definitely is up staff photo by WARREN ANDERSON new Wild Waves water park near Federal Way Slapi Splat! up in Federal Way You can ride ride ride the Wild Waves if you can hang onto your raft as this youngster found at the jut like being in the ocean You just glide on the Gliding for me however was not as easy as it was for the boy I went unexperienced into the pod on a raft I floated into the middle of the pod bobbing with the waves and hoping I wouldn't get seasick Sometima the distractions were overwhelming and I occasionally turned my head to admire an attractive "surferette" passing by But the wava quickly regained my attention by briskly slapping my face I waited with others for a wave to gain momentum Timing my launch I kicked and paddled with a fury only to have the wave overrun me I waited for another wave Then she paddled by again Oh shoot! The wave knocked me into the water Finally a bystander who felt sorry for me told me to try to ride on the bottom of the wava instead of the top Trying again I caught a wave Rome but and rode to shoe I knew then I was born to be a surfer always fun to be someplace where everyone is having so much uid Ralph King King who had body surfed in Hawaii uid he thought the park was great for the community He added anything that keeps children out of trouble is a service to the community But people of all agu were enjoying the pool Nine lifeguards patrol the pool At om point during the day the waves were turned off and a lifeguard dived into the pool trying to save an apparent drowning victim was a simulated test for uid an assistant manager at the park do that to test a new group of lifeguards She did aU water slide facilitia often have unsafe reputations park manager Terri Read uid Enchanted Wild Wava was making special efforts to ensure By JOHN SONG Tho Nows Trlbuno FEDERAL WAY Surfers floating on air rafts tried to time their launches to catch a ride on the waves The experienced surfers had no problem and floated gracefully into shore Others like me kept missing We were more concerned about staying on the rafts than with riding the wild waves No matter It was just fun being in the water under the hot beaming sun Ah yes the sun the waves and the tan scenery no better way to spend a working day Yesterday the 24000-square-foot wave pod at Enchanted Wild Wava water park which opened Saturday attracted hundreds of visitors Wava as high as five feet caused by a complex micro-computer system gave many Northwest residents their first surfing esperienca think the pod is uid 15-year-old Glenn Haegeie Hijacker surrenders in may have slipped away passengers who were taken to the airport infirmary He uid among the children were several infants and airport workers were seen carrying four packs of disposable diapers to the infirmary Ctempino Airport used mainly for charter and military flights wu closed and surrounded by security forca shortly after the blue and white pteM touched down at 12:40 pm (3 am PDT) About 400 American tourists were stranded for seders! hours at the airport hut later transferred by bus to Rome's Leonardo Da Vinci Airport for a flight to New York left Tehran on Tuesday with about 280 Moslems going to the annual pilgrimmage in the holy citia in Saudi Arabia The au-thoritia uid the passengers told than the hijaciwrs were armed with a pistol and a grenade Initial reports from Cairo where the pteM stopped for fiwl after an lnttel refueling stop in Bahrain had said there were many 18 hijackers on board Among thou released earlier in the day were 44 children are fine they are only the airport official said of the 129 released ROME (AP) The lone hijacker of an Iran Air jetliner that left Tehran carrying more than 300 people freed his hostaga today and surrendered to police Rome Police Chief Giuseppe Porpora announced Porpora said the hijacker claimed to be a member of the People's Mqjahedeen a group opposed to Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and that he had asked fir charts to Paris Frankfurt London and Geneva The Italian new agency ANSA however reported minutes after announcement that the hijacker may have disguised himself om of the passengers and slipped off tho pteM without being arrested The conflict between the ANSA report and statement could not be immediately resolved Police searched fir expteeiva aboard the plane and crew members remained on board according to reporters monitoring by radio the conversations with the airport control tower Italian author! tia had quoted some of the 129 paarengen freed earlier today uying there were at least two hijackers on the plane which Iran's news agency said At.