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A4 The Daily Olympian Monday October 22 1979 Carter Crowing Over followed by his formal campaign anouncement But last week there were these favorable developments for the Carter forces: Associated Press-NBC News poll reflecting a turnaround in the past month found half of the nation's Democrats say they would like Carter to try for re-election supports won a nearly Mo-1 victory at the Florida caucuses at which delegates were picked for a state party convention that will take a straw poll next month Mayor Jane Byrne a Kennedy family friend and also an important political figure in minds where a key primary election will be held in March appeared to give Carter her support for a second term figures released Friday showed a rebound in economic growth to a 24 percent annual rate leading to some speculation that the recession that was feared to have begun in mid-summer may not have occurred after all Justice Department special counsel after a six-month investigation of the Carter peanut warehouse operations announced he could find no evidence of criminal wrongdoing So flying from Boston mn Saturday for a weekend at Camp David Bid where he stayed until today the president had good reason to be in an expansive mood going to be a long and pleasant he told the four reporters (Mi the Mg Air Force jet In his Boston speech the president used an anecdote from a John Kennedy news conference in a joking suggestion that Edward Kennedy might be well advised to shy away from seeking the presidency During the trip home Carter said of that remark was a typical excerpt from a press conference which is almost always classifiable as a He described his reception by the Kennedys in Boston as very warm and friendly HAROLD MANN AIMS RIFLE AT CONGREGATION OF ST ALBANS WVA CHURCH OF GOD Ha Gava Up Tha Siege After Short Radio Broadcast In Which He Blasted The Government (Photo By Sob Gay of lha ChorioMon Dolly Mail) Broadcast Ends Hostage Drama WASHINGTON (AP) Winding up one of his most politically upbeat weeks since taking office President Carter was in such an ebullient mood it seemed he literally sit still The fact that Air Force One was about to glide onto the runway at Andrews Air Force Base deter him from standing in the aisle to hold forth on his first "victory" of ohe 1980 presidential sweepstakes It was unusual for a president who rarely chats with reporters cm his airplane anytime let alone while it is landing For two consecutive weekends Carter and Sen Edward Kennedy have been in competition of sorts first in the Florida caucuses and then at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library dedication in Boston This is the week Kennedy is expected to announce the formation of a committee to explore his presidential campaign prospects a step that is all but certain to be Mrs Oswald COLUMBUS Ohio (AP) The 72-year-old mother of Lee Harvey Oswald says she has refused to cooperate with a British author who believes a Soviet agent rests in the Texas grave identified as that of her son In an interview at her Fort Worth Texas home with Columbus radio station WOOL Mrs Marguerite Oswald said Saturday that the exhumation of the body would not help determine who killed President John Kennedy an asinine said Mrs Oswald go into it? a waste of time open the grave and just say not Lee Harvey Oswald How are you going to prove who it Mrs Oswald said wmm rence Lore one of the hostages said afterward I felt sorry to the man because he is so another hostage 58-year-old Kitty Bukant added As officers blocked off the highway in front of the church troopers trained rifles at the building The church is located in a residential area about 10 miles west of Charleston the state capital Among the first on the scene was Mann's wife a paramedic who was on duty at the time She told officers her husband a hell of a migraine for three or four Officers said the couple lived next door to the church and have three children father said his son had attributed the migraine headaches to his experiences in Vietnam but it was not dear whether he had suffered an injury or an illness Hostages said Mann first released the children who were with their parents Inside the church and later began releasing older members of the congregation Those hostages who left were replaced with reporters who volunteered to go inside thought I wss going to said Mrs Bobby Murphy 37 of Charleston who was in the church with her husband and two sons let the children out first and then started letting the older people Mrs Murphy said started to pass out you know faintan By JACK A SEAMONDS Gannett News Service ST ALBANS Va A Vietnam veteran angry at the government for failing to cure his war-related injury held nearly 30 people hostage at gunpoint to more than two hours in a tiny church here Sunday After being permitted to make a 10-minute broadcast on a radio station he surrendered Police had surrounded the building while 31-year-old Harold Lee Mann of St Albans demanded live coverage of the event by Charleston area television and radio reporters Mann appearing dazed was whisked away by police after he gave up and released his hostages unharmed He was charged with kidnapping and taken to an area hospital for evaluation Members of the congregation said about 45 people were inside the SL Albans Church of Christ worshipping when the rifle-carrying Mann stormed through the doors shortly after 11 am and shouted just slammed through the frontdoors" said Russell Hirst 42 of St Albans a lay member of the congregation who was speaking when Mann walked in "He yelled freeze nobody move' Hirst continued obviously shaken by the ordeal stood in the back of the church and aimed the gun at members of the congregation He said want the press the news media in I tried to continue speaking but he let believe he had any intention of hurting Law- Mann demanded live news coverage and told police he wanted radios and television sets brought to the church so he could be sure his message was being broadcast In his brief statement Mann said fed up with it I want the people to hear this I want to save the goddamn kids from going off into the next Mann accused the federal government of favoring dodgers and in hiring He also accused the government of bringing aliens into the country keeping Americans out of work He sniffled throughout the incident and complained of constant headaches that he said required him to take narcotics He also said he was going Mind in one eye He said he wanted to make his statement before going Mind or else he would have to shoot someone He then released all the remaining hostages except seven reporters He sent one reporter outside and had an unarmed police officer enter the building Mann gave up his gun and was handcuffed Begins Today TMI Cleanup MIDDLETOWN Pa (AP) -The first step in afour-year $400 million effort to dean up the nuclear debris on Three MUe Island is scheduled to begin Monday Massive organic resin filters are set up to remove radioactive cesium and strontium particles from 400000 gallons of water stored in an auxiliary building at the nuclear power plant situated near here Observers from the state De- SPECIAL WEEKEND RATES FAIRMONT Wagon 29 3 Days 100 Milas FREE BOONE FORDi 943-9300M DEAN SECURITIES partment of Environmental Resources and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission will monitor the operation Planned future steps in the mopping-up process include the decontamination of another 600000 gallons of highly radioactive water in the reador containment building and the removal of 100 tons of mangleduranium from the reactor ewe During the weekend technicians at the plant were to run clear water through filtering equipment and check plumbing and instruments After processing 6000 gallons expected to take a few hours filtering equipment is to be shut down with all monitoring data reviewed before the operation is restarted in about two days according to plant spokesman Sandy Polon It is expected to take three or four months to purify the initial 400000 gallons of water On Thursday a three-judge federal appeals court refused to grant an injunction against beginning the cleanup The injunction had been sought the Susquehanna Valley Alliance an environmental group concerned about the Met cleanup plans INVITES QUERIES FOR SUPER 8 MOTEL ASSOCIATES LACEY WASHINGTON Limited Partnership Interests 72 Room Motel Lacey 1-5 (206) 352-9660 THE OLYMPIAN BY THE PARK.